Rowland Jenkins ⁴⁹⁰

  General Notes:

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Rowland Jenkins appears with Robert Moore, Joseph Cunningham Hugh Cunnigham in the Davidson County area.

Rowland Jenkins to provide evidence for the King in a case vs. a man charged with petty larceny.

Bettye Heinreich believes that Roland and Jane also had a daughter Mary who married Joseph Tomkins and a daughter Rachel, from whom she is descended.

Roland son Hugh was married in Carter County, February 1795

Shows as an old man living with his son Emmanuel in 1830 Carter County,Tn census aged 80-89, this is a possibility.

Record of 211 acres on Abbots Crk "including his own improvements" this indicates he was living on the land prior to August 5, 1778 and before he had legal claim.

Conveyed to William Cunningham for $200.00; Deed Book A, p261 witnessed by Hugh Jenkins.

Is this William the son of Jane's brother Joseph Cunningham?

By an act of the legislature,Elizabethon was incorporated and its first commissioners included Rowland Jenkins,William Cunningham,Reuben Thorton and Samuel Tipton.

These men were given powers "to establish the necessary regulations for ...government" of the newly laid out town.

Washington County was originally in the Northwest corner of NC. in 1784, it became part of the provisional state of Franklin. In 1790the state of Franklin was abolished and NC ceded its western territory to TN, making Washington County a part of TN.

Received NC grant #893 on Nov 17, 1790 for 248 acres on Roan's creek, Washington Co. TN(present day Johnson Co. TN)

  Noted events in his life were:

• Event: Tax Reed Rowan County, NC, 1772. ⁴⁹⁰

• Event: Tax Reed 248 acres Washington County, NC, 1790. ⁴⁹⁰

• Event: Tax Reed Washington County, NC, 1791. ⁴⁹⁰

• Event: Migrated from Rowan County, NC to Carter Co., TN, Bef 1795. ⁴⁹⁰

• Event: Tax Reed Washington Co. NC, 1795. ⁴⁹⁰

• Event: Land Dvst 139 Acres, Carter Co., TN, 26 May 1796. ⁴⁹⁰

• Event: Civic in Carter County, Tennessee, 1799. ⁴⁹⁰

Rowland married Jane Cunningham, daughter of Joseph Cunningham I and Unknown, on 20 Sep 1769 in Trinity Luther Church Records Of Lancaster, PA Pg. 176.⁴⁹⁰ (Jane Cunningham was born about 1750 ⁴⁹⁰.)

  Marriage Notes:

Reference:
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"After several publications Rowland Jenkins and Jane Cunningham of Lancaster County,single Persons Cunningham Stood Surity."

Jane is listed as "Jane Cunningham" on June 6, 1769 and as Rowland Jenkins and Jane his wife" on March 7, 1770.