HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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land 8 mo. 24, 1676, married Mary Bridg- 

 man, daughter of Walter and Blanche 

 (Constalile) Bridgman. of T^Iiddletovvn. 

 Bucks coimty, — both the latter being na- 

 tives of England and among the earliest 

 arrivals in Bucks county. John ]\Iartin- 

 dale, son of John and Mary (Bridgman) 

 Martindale, born 6 mo. 22, 1719, married 

 2 mo. 9, 1746, Mary Strickland, and had 

 twleve children, of whom Amos, above 

 mentioned, was born 8 mo. 10, 1761, and 

 married, in 1789, Martha Merrick, daugh- 

 ter of Thomas Merrick, of Upper Make- 

 field, Bucks county, and Tacy Martin- 

 dale, born 2 mo. 21, 1792, was the sec- 

 ond of their ten children. Thomas Mer- 

 rick was a- descendant of John Mer- 

 rick, who came from Bedfordshire 

 al)out 1699 and settled in Lower Dublin, 

 Philadelphia county, from whence his 

 son John, who married Hannah Hulme, 

 came to Upper Makefield. where he has 

 left numerous descendants. Joseph 

 Jenkins died December 19. 1862. in his 

 seventy-eighth year, and Tacy, his wife, 

 died August 10, 1857, in her sixty-sixth 

 year. 



The children of Joseph and Tacy 

 (Martindale) Jenkins were Martha M., 

 who married John Erwin and had six 

 children — Joseph J., of Spokane. Wash. ; 

 B. Franklin, of Philadelphia; Preston, 

 of Westport. Missouri; Tacy, widow of 

 the late Williarri Sutton, of Philadel- 

 phia; James and Charles, also of Phila- 

 delphia — ^lahala. who never married ; and 

 John, the father of the subject of this 

 sketch. 



John Jenkins was born in Philadelphia 

 INIay i.^. 1822. He was a farmer, miller 

 and millwright in Bucks and Montgom- 

 ery counties prior to i860, when he 

 moved with his family to Frr.iiklir; 

 county, Ohio. In 1861 he enlisted in 

 Company A. Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer 

 Infantry. While his regiment was on the 

 march to Philippi. West Virginia, he 

 was injured internally and was honor- 

 ably discharged. In 1862 he removed, 

 with his family, to Wilmington, Dela- 

 ware, where he followed his trade of 

 jiiiller and millwright for a short time. 

 Being an excellent mechanic he secured 

 employment in a shipyard, and thor- 

 oughly mastered the trade of ship car- 

 penter cis well as that of ship joiner and 

 car builder. He was practically a self- 

 educated man and was noted for his abil- 

 ity as a mathematician and for his re- 

 markable memory. He married Martha 

 M. Erwin, daughter of Joseph and Han- 

 nah (Morrison) Erwin. of Montgomery 

 county, and granddaughter of John and 

 Susan (Tomlinson) Erwin, of Bucks 

 county. Her father. Joseph Erwin. was 

 born December 2,^. 1792, and died Octo- 

 ber 8. 1870. and her grandfather. John 

 Erwin. was born in 1770 and died Feb- 

 ruary 7. 182,3. On the maternal side 

 Martha ]\T. (Erwin) Jenkins was a great- 

 granddaughter of John Morrison, who 



came' from the north of Ireland and set- 

 tled on the Brandywine about 1760. His 

 son John (born 1769, died in North- 

 ampton township, Bucks county, March 

 17. 1858), married Hannah Yerkes (born 

 June 29. 1772, died February 12, 1844), 

 daughter of Elias Yerkes, and grand- 

 daughter of Silas and Hannah (Dun- 

 gan) Yerkes, of Southampton, Silas be- 

 ing a son of Herman and Elizabeth 

 (Watts) Yerkes, and grandson of An- 

 thony Yerkes, one of the first burgesses 

 of Germantown. Hannah (Morrison) 

 Erwin, mother of Martha M. (Erwin) 

 Jenkins, was the second child of John 

 and Hannah (Yerkes) Morrison, and 

 was born February 10, 1796, and died 

 December 10, i860, She was a sister to 

 Joseph Morrison, who was county com- 

 missioner, county treasurer, recorder of 

 deeds, and associate judge , of Bucks 

 county, as well as holding every com- 

 missioned office in the Bucks county mi- 

 litia, from captain to brigadier-general. 

 John Jenkins died .September 18, 1898, 

 in his seventy-sixth year, and his wife, 

 ]\Iartha M., died July 6, 1892, in her six- 

 ty-seventh year. Of their nine children 

 only two lived to the age of maturity — ■ 

 Zachary T. and Joseph Erwin. The lat- 

 ter was born October 9, 1855, at Long's 

 rnill in Warwick township, Bucks coun- 

 ty, and is now carrying on the business 

 of plumbing and gas fitting at Wilming- 

 ton, Delaware. He married Ella Far- 

 ren, of that city, and has three children, 

 — Howard, Gilbert, and Joseph. 



Z. T. Jenkins, the subject of this eketch, 

 was born on a small farm, whereon his 

 parents and paternal grandparents then 

 resided, adjoining the farm known as 

 "Brown's Folly," in Warrington town- 

 ship, Bucks county, February 17, 1853. 

 After six years' residence in Bucks and 

 Montgomery counties, his parents 

 moved to Franklin county, Ohio, and 

 about two years later to Wilmington, 

 Delaware. He became an apprentice to 

 the printer's trade in the office of the 

 "Evening Commercial," published in 

 Wilmington, by the late Howard M. 

 Jenkins and Wilmer M. Atkinson, but 

 finished his trade in Philadelphia, and 

 soon after the establishment of the 

 "Philadelphia Times" secured a position 

 as compositor on' that paper, where he 

 remained until the fall of 1889, when he 

 resigned to accept a position in the gov- 

 ernment printing office at Washington, 

 D. C, where he is now employed as a 

 proof-reader. He is a past master of 

 Myron M. Parker Lodge. No. 27. F. A. 

 A. M.; a member of Capitol Chapter, 

 No II. R. A. M.; of Amaranth Lodge, 

 No. 28'. K. of P.; of Northeast Wash- 

 ington Council, No. 755. National Union; 

 of Columbia Typographical Union. No. 

 loi. all of the citv of Washington. D. C, 

 and of the Bucks County Historical Society. 

 Mr. Jenkins married, September 27, 



