Squire Benjamin Jennings and Elizabeth Stockdale

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Husband Squire Benjamin Jennings ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1779 - New Jersey 1
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           Died: 1861 - ? Waynesburg, Greene Co, PA 1
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         Father: Jacob Jennings (      -      ) 3
         Mother: 

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   Other Spouse: Dorcas Fleninken (      -      ) 3

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Wife Elizabeth Stockdale ²

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         Father: James Stockdale (Abt 1754-1840) 4 5
         Mother: Mary Weir (      -1823) 6

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Children

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1 M Col. James S. Jennings ¹

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           Born: 22 Aug 1829 - Waynesburg, Greene Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Laura E. Weethee (      -      ) 7
           Marr: 1858 1

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General Notes: Husband - Squire Benjamin Jennings

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He was a native of New Jersey, in his youth he removed and located near Carmichaels, Greene County, Pennsylvania. In the year 1800 he removed to and settled in Waynesburg, where he remained until his death, which occurred in the year 1861. He was a carpenter by trade, and many of the early erected buildings in Waynesburg and near-by were the results of his industry and skill. He was for many years a justice of the peace in Waynesburg, and served one term as county commissioner.

He learned the trade of a carpenter, and went to Waynesburg, the county seat of Greene County, Pennsylvania, which had previously been taken from Washington County. The town at that time did not contain a dozen houses. He assisted in building the first courthouse of that county, which was constructed of logs, and within it court was held until replaced with a new brick building. In this all the offices necessary for public business were included, and connected therewith was that very necessary appendage for a back-woods town: a county jail. When he married his first wife he could find no house in Waynesburg in which to live save a small one of logs that stood on the farm from which the town was laid out. He purchased two lots on Main street and built two frame houses, a portion of the timber therein being cut from the main street of the town and the remainder from what was later called the Park, then known as the "Common."

1 Samuel P. Bates, History of Greene County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Nelson, Rishforth & Co., 1888), Pg 675.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 393.

3 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 274.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 393, 767.

5 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 655.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 262.

7 Samuel P. Bates, History of Greene County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Nelson, Rishforth & Co., 1888), Pg 676.