Micajah JENKINS 
Micajah was born about 1770 in Falls Church, Fairfax Co., VA.. Micajah's father was Thomas JENKINS Sr. and his mother was Jemima WILLIAMS. His paternal grandparents were Ezekiel JENKINS Sr. and Mary GUNNELL. He had two brothers and three sisters, and also a sibling of unknown gender, named Owen, Thomas, Jemima, Ann Williams, Elizabeth and Keziah. He had six half-brothers and five half-sisters, named Benjamin, Chapley Ross, Hiram Henson, John, Lemuel, Abner, Ruth, Permelia, Catherine, Mary and Caroline. He died on January 15th, 1814 in Greenville Co., S. C..General Notes
1800 census Greenville Co., S. C.
MICAJAH JENKINS & FAMILY
Free white males 0-0-0-1-0
Free white females 0-0-1-0-0
All other free persons except Indians 0
Slaves 3
1810 census Greenville Co., S. C.
M. Jenkins
Free white males 0-0-0-1-0
Free white females 0-0-0-1-0
All other free persons except Indians 0
Slaves 5
Greenville Co. South Carolina
Will Book A, page 229
Written 2 January 1814
Transcript of Last Will and Testament of
Micajah Jenkins
Will of Micajah Jenkins -- Greenville Co., South Carolina, In the name of God amen.
I Micajah Jenkins of Greenville District in State of South Carolina, being weak of body and a perfect mind and memory thanks be to God for it and calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for man once to die I make constitute and ordain this my last Will and Testament Principally and first of all I recommend my body to the Earth to be buried in a decent Christian Burial at the Direction of my Executors and as for such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me with in this life I give Devise and Bequeath in manner and form following...
In premise I give and bequeath unto Scissals Jenkins my well beloved wife all the whole of my Estate both real and personal for her freely to enjoy and posess without hindrance or molestation during her whole life and at her decease my Will is that what Negroes may remain living of my Estate to be Equally divided among my Lawful Brother Owen Jenkins' Children Lawfully begotten of his body and my will further is that my plantation and Land to be given to my well beloved Brother Owen Jenkins for him freely to possess and as for the rest of my personal Estate I leave to the discretion of Scissala Jenkins my well beloved wife for her to distribute of the same as she may think proper. I also constitute and appoint Scissala Jenkins my well beloved wife my executrix with my well beloved brother Owen Jenkins my Executor of this my last Will and Testament, and I do hereby disallow revoke and disannul all former Wills Legacies and Bequeaths heretofore willed or Bequeathed Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament witness my hand and seal this second day of January Eighteen Hundred and fourteen...
Signed, sealed and Published, Pronounced
In the presence of us
John H. Hammond
Jonas Edwards
signed:
Micajah Jenkins [seal]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b. in Purleigh, Malden District, Essex County, England d.~28 Feb 1631 in Purleigh, Malden District, Essex County, England
- b.1623 in Purleigh, Malden District, Essex County, England d.Nov 1673 in Westmoreland County, Virginia
- b. in England d. in Purleigh, Malden District, Essex County, England
- b.1656 in Westmoreland County, Virginia d.~ 1717 in Westmoreland County, Virginia
- b.1628 in England d.< 1677 in Virginia
- b.~ 1702 in Richmond Co., VA. d.~Jun 1750 in Fairfax Co., VA.
- b.1676 in Westmoreland Co., VA. d.~ 1752 in Westmoreland Co., VA.
- b.1745 in Fairfax Co., VA. d.> 1817 in Bedford Co., TN.
- b.~ 1703 in Westmoreland Co., VA. d. in Loudoun Co., VA.
- b.~ 1770 in Falls Church, Fairfax Co., VA. d.15 Jan 1814 in Greenville Co., S. C.
- b.~ 1740 in Falls Church, Fairfax Co., VA. d.< 1800 in Greenville, Co., S. C.
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Details of Micajah's family with Cicely HENDERSON
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