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Surname: JENNISON
Source: Walpole As It Was and As It Is by George Aldrich, 
        The Claremont Manufacturing Co., Claremont, N.H., 1880, pages 293-296

JENNISON, ROBERT, came to this country with his brother William, and settled in Watertown, 
Mass., at an early date: William subsequently returned to England from whence he came; but Robert 
remained, and from him have descended all the numerous Jennison families in this country. John 
Jennison was the fourth son of Samuel, and Mary (Stearns) Jennison, and was born in Watertown, Feb. 
19, 1710. He married Mary Hubbard, of Groton, Mass., born Apr. 12, 1725. She was the daughter of 
Maj. Jonathan and Rebecca (Brown) Hubbard. He, (Jona.) died in Lunenburg in 1751, and his widow, 
(Mary,) married Col. Benjamin Bellows, of Walpole. She had six children that came to Walpole with 
her, viz. 1st. Mary, b. Nov. 12, 1741; m. Josiah Willard, of Keene. 2d. John, b. June 15, 1744, known 
as Capt. John; married 1st Keziah, dau. of Josiah and Catharine Spring, of Ashford, Conn.; b. Oct. 21, 
1745; d. April 10, 1771. His children were,
I. Josiah, b. Nov. 1, 1767; married in Savannah, Ga., Apr. 22, 1792, Ann Chamberlain.
II. Samuel, b. Aug. 29, 1769; m. Ruth Porter Steele.
Capt. John married for his second wife, Sybil Bishop, of Woodstock, Conn.; ch.
III. John, jr., b. Feb. 7, 1773, and m. Polly, dau. of Asa Gage, in 1794.
IV. Rebecca, b. Aug. 13, 1774; m. Elijah Kilburn. (See Kilburn.)
V. Mary, b. Dec. 7, 1777; m. Solomon Godfrey, Sep. 20, 1801, and bore him several children.
VI. William, b. Dec. 29, 1798; m. Phebe Fields, an estimable woman, Dec. 14, 1804, one of 
twenty-one children by the same father. Ch. 1st. Edwin, b. Aug. 26, 1805; m. Mary B. 
Shannon, by whom he had four children, two of whom survived; (1) Edwin Shannon, who is 
deputy collector of customs in Charleston, S.C. (2) Helen, who m. ---- Adams, a cotton 
manufacturer, and lives in Conway, Mass. Edwin Jennison graduated at Dartmouth, and 
became a Congregational clergyman; but his health became impaired and he had to relinquish 
his profession, and resort to a farm in Winchester, N.H., where he now lives. (See history of 
ch.) 2d, Orville, b. Mar. 17, 1808; m. Lucy M. Field, of Danville, Vt., who bore him three 
daughters. He now lives in Iowa, a widower. 3d, Eliza Emma, b. Apr. 11, 1814; m. Charles G. 
Livermore, and had four ch.--three sons and one daughter. She now lives in Worcester, Mass. 
4th, Phebe Augusta, b. July, 1820; lives in Worcester, unm. William Jennison had two children 
who died in infancy.
VII. Lucinda, b. Sep. 3, 1780; m. Prosper Booth, Nov.3, 1809.
VIII. Levi, b. Dec. 13, 1781; m. first, Prudence, dau. of James Fuller, Sep. 27, 1813: and 
second, Eliza A. Howard, of Alstead; he lived and died in Alstead. The number of his children is 
not obtained.
Capt. John Jennison, the progenitor of the foregoing race died Oct. 16, 1804, aged 61; his wife, Sybil, 
d. Mar. 16, 1819, aged 75. He was the recipient of Col. Bellows’ bounty to the extent of fifty acres of 
land, comprising a portion of the farm now owned by William T. Ramsey. Previous to the time John 
Jennison occupied the farm, it had been leased to Timothy Messer, who had cleared a considerable 
portion of it. Col. Bellows wanted it for his stepson John, and Messer was forced, reluctantly, to leave. 
Mr. Jennison spent his days there, when it was occupied by his son William, where he spent the greater 
portion of his life in sheep husbandry. There are none of the foregoing family remaining in town. William 
Jennison died July 2, 1855; his wife May 13, 1860, aged 77.
The third child of Mary (Jennison) Bellows died in infancy. The fourth, Rebecca, b. 1748, d. Feb. 5, 
1771. The fifth d. in infancy, and the sixth, Jonathan, b. Dec. 25, 1751, m. Rhoda Ashley of Hartland, 
Vt. Col. Bellows gave Jonathan fifty acres of land which was the nucleus of the farm now owned by 
Edwin Hosmer, our townsman; there he settled and remained till 1784-5 when he sold it to Deacon 
Jonas Hosmer, and removed farther south, on to the farm now owned by Chas. A. Watkins, where he 
lived till he died, when it was occupied by his son Thomas, and then by Thomas’s son John, and lastly 
by John jr. Jonathan was the progenitor of all persons bearing the name of Jennison remaining in town 
today (1879.) Jonathan’s children were,
I. A girl named Nabby.
II. Another girl named Nabby
III. Jonathan jr., b. 1775, m. Danae Dunham. Ch. 1st, Harry, b. Nov. 28, 1800; m. Harriet Fay, of 
this town, and had children, one of whom, Josiah, is living in town, (See Ap.) 2d, Levi Durham, 
b. Aug. 11, 1802. 3d, Luraney, b. Apr. 27, 1807; m., late in life, David 0. Thompson. 4th, 
Rhoda, b. Dec. 23, 1808. 5th, Horace Allen, b. Jan. 11, 1801.
IV. Thomas b. 1776, m. Martha Moore. Ch. 1st, Thomas Moore, b. Nov. 18, 1805; m. Fanny A. 
Dixon, Feb. 21, 1839. 2d, John, b. June 14, 1807; m. Elvira, dau. of Thomas Russell. Ch. (1) 
Geo. R., b. Jan. 13, 1834, m. Emily, twin dau. of Leo. Sparhawk, and resides in town. (2) 
Wm. White, b. Aug. 31, 1835, died early. (3) John jr., b. Oct. 4, 1837; m. Mary E. Grout of 
Westminster, Vt.; died Nov. 29, 1875. (4) David A., b. Jan. 28, 1838; m. Laura Brockway, of 
Rockingham, Vt. (5) Charles H., b. Aug. 28, 1839. He was in the war of the Rebellion, lives at 
the West. (6) Mary E., b. Mar. 3, 1842; m. Frank George, of Bellows Falls. Vt. (7) Warren 
H., m. Mar. 28, 1848. (8) Frank R., b. Dec. 31, 1847; m. Lydia Mills and lives at the West.
V. Nabby, b. Mar. 22, 1778; she lived in town, unmarried, to old age, and d. Jan. 28, 1870.
VI. Martin, b. June 30, 1799; went south
VII. Rhoda, b. Sep. 3, 1780, m. Pliny Bliss, June 4, 1812, and moved west.
VIII. Daniel, b. Nov. 3, 1782; he was a physician and settled in Hartland, Vt.
IX. Charles, b. a year or two later, what be came of him is not known.
3d, Daniel Ashley, b. Sep. 3, 1808; went to the state of New York. 4th, Mary Holland, b. June 5, 
1813, m. Oct. 21, 1838, John W. Lovejoy, of Littleton, N.H., and is still living. 5th, George Charles, b. 
Oct. 4, 1818; still living in Philadelphia, Penn. There was a Mary that died July 28, 1811, aged 1 year. 
Jonathan Jennison sen., d. Sep. 11, 1835, aged 84.