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William Henry Jennings

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William Henry Jennings

Birth
Tennessee, USA
Death
7 Jun 1890 (aged 80)
Burial
Martindale, Caldwell County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Saturday Evening Post - 9/6/1913 - (Editor's Note) The 1st Americn Jennings, it appears, was William, a brother to Sir Humphrey Jennings. Once an official at the court of George III and later a founder of the English iron trade and the unconscious cause of that chancery suit which Dickens made immortal in Jarndyce vs Jarndyce. William Jennings was supercargo to a trading vessel owned by his brother. Just before the Revolution some insult of the government turned him against Great Britain. He sailed forth on the high seas and began to prey on British commerce. The colonies, when hostilities broke out, gave him a commission and rewarded him when the war was over by a land grant in the valley of Virginia. He was great-great-grandfather to Al Jennings.
Saturday Evening Post - 9/6/1913 - (Editor's Note) The 1st Americn Jennings, it appears, was William, a brother to Sir Humphrey Jennings. Once an official at the court of George III and later a founder of the English iron trade and the unconscious cause of that chancery suit which Dickens made immortal in Jarndyce vs Jarndyce. William Jennings was supercargo to a trading vessel owned by his brother. Just before the Revolution some insult of the government turned him against Great Britain. He sailed forth on the high seas and began to prey on British commerce. The colonies, when hostilities broke out, gave him a commission and rewarded him when the war was over by a land grant in the valley of Virginia. He was great-great-grandfather to Al Jennings.

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