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Rh and discussions. He edited the " Rural Poetry of the English Language " (Boston, 1856). — William's grandson, Henry Fitch, clergyman, son of John H. Jenks, b. in Boston, 17 Oct., 1842, was gradu- ated at Harvard in 1863, and at the divinity-school in 1866. In 1867 he became pastor of the Unita- rian church in Fitchburg, Mass., and has since been pastor of churches in Charleston, S. C., and Lawrence and Canton, Mass. He has been actively connected with the management of many of the organized charities of Boston, is a member of the American oriental society, the Massachusetts his- torical society, and many similar associations, and has published a " Catalogue of the Boston Public Ijatin-School, 1635-1885," with notes and an intro- ductory historical sketch (Boston, 1885).

JENNESS, Benning Wentworth, senator, b. in Deerfield, N. H, 14 July, 1806 ; d. in Cleveland, Ohio, 16 Nov., 1879. He received a good educa- tion at Bradford academy, Mass., and in 1823 moved to Strafford, N. H., and entered into mer- cantile business, which he successfully pursued for thirty years. He was postmaster fifteen years, and repeatedly represented his adopted town in the lower branch of the New Hampshire legislature. He held the office of sheriff of Strafford county five years, and was judge of probate for the same county five years. Mr. Jenness received appoint- ment to fill a vacancy in the U. S. senate from No- vember, 1845, till June, 1846, occasioned by the promotion of Levi Woodbury to the U. S. supreme court. He was defeated as a candidate for elec- tion to the seat, and in 1846 was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for congress. In 1850 he was a member of the convention to revise the con- stitution of New Hampshire. In 1852 he was a member of the Democratic national convention that nominated Franklin Pierce. In 1861 he was nominated for governor, but withdrew in favor of Gen. George Starke. Judge Jenness moved to Cleveland, Ohio, to attend to large financial and lumber interests in that state and in Michigan, and there spent his remaining years.

JENNINGS, Jonathan, statesman, b. in Hun- terdon county, N. J., about 1776 ; d. near Charles- town, Clarke co., Ind., 26 July, 1834. He emigrated to the northwest, and was the first delegate from Indiana territory to congress, serving from 1809 till 1816. On the admission of that territory as a state in December, 1816, he was elected its first gov- ernor, remaining in office till 1822. He was ap- pointed Indian commissioner in 1818, and from 1822 till 1831 was again a member of congress.

JENNINGS, Samuel, Quaker preacher, b. in England; d. in Burlington, N. J., in 1708. He came from Bucks county, England, in 1680, and settled at Burlington, N. J. Shortly after his ar- rival he was appointed by Byllynge the first depu- ty-governor of West Jersey, in which office he served until 1683, when he was chosen governor by the provincial assembly. Byllynge denied the right of the assembly to so elect, and removed Jen- nings from office. At a later date he took up his residence in Philadelphia, where, in 1690-3, he was justice of the quorum and judge of the county court. He became involved, on the Quaker side, in the controversy provoked by George Keith, Thomas Budd, and others. Out of this controversy grew the historical pamphlet " The Plea of the Innocent," issued by Keith and Budd (1692), in which Jennings was charged with "being too high and imperi- ous in worldly courts," and was called " an impu- dent, presumptuous, and insolent man." Keith and Budd were arrested, charged with " defaming- ly accusing " Jennings, on which charge they were indicted, tried, convicted, and fined, and for the fmnting of the pamphlet, among others of a simi- ar character, William Bradford^ press was seized by the authorities. In 1694 Jennings went to London, where, in the famous trial, lasting six days, before the London yearly meeting, on the appal of Keith from the action of the Philadel- phia Quakers, he appeared in person on behalf of the latter, and ably confuted the statements and arguments of Keith. While in London he wrote and published "The Case Stated." Soon after- ward he returned to this country and resumed his residence at Burlington, where he subsequently served in the provincial assembly and the council of West Jersey, under Lord Cornbury. He was chosen speaker of the assembly, and in this body fearless- ly opposed the arbitrary rule of Cornbury, and wrote the address to the crown which led to the governor's removal. He did more than any of his contemporaries in organizing the civil government of West Jersey. He was a noted preacher among the Quakers, both in England and in this country, and in his work made many pilgrimages to Massa- chusetts, Long Island, New York, and Maryland.

JENNINGS, Samuel Kennedy, preacher, b. in Essex county, N. J., 6 June, 1771 ; d. in Baltimore, Md., 19 Oct., 1854. He was graduated at Rutgers in 1790, studied and practised medicine in Penn- sylvania, and in 1794 became an itinerant minister in the Methodist church, being ordained elder in 1814. He removed to Baltimore in 1817, was one of the prime movers in the introduction of lay rep- resentation in the conferences of the Methodist Episcopal church, and finally was expelled from this connection and organized a new body known as " The Methodist Protestant church." He was distinguished as a pulpit orator and evangelist.

JENNINGS, Thomas Reed, physician, b. in Steubenville, Ohio, in 1805 ; d. in Narragansett, R. I., 7 July, 1874. He was graduated at Washing- ton college. Pa., in 1823, received his medical edu- cation in Baltimore, removed to Tennessee in 1828, and during the Asiatic cholera epidemic of 1833 established a large practice. In 1838 he opened dissecting-rooms in Nashville, and was the first teacher of anatomy in the state. He served in the state senate, declined a nomination to congress, in 1854 became professor of the institutes of medi- cine and of clinical medicine in the University of Nashville, and in 1856 filled the chair of anatomy.

JENNISON, Samuel, antiquary, b. in Brook- field, Mass., 24 Feb., 1788; d. in Worcester, Mass., 1 March, 1860. He went to reside with his uncle in Worcester in 1800, and was connected with the Worcester bank, first as accountant, and until 1846 as cashier. He was also treasurer of the Worcester county savings institution from 1828 till 1853. Mr. Jennison was for many years con- nected with the American antiquarian society as librarian and corresponding secretary, and was also town-clerk of Worcester and treasurer of the state lunatic asylum from 1847 till 1857. He wrote both in prose and verse, and collected a large mass of valuable biographical material, which is incor- porated in the second edition of Dr. William Al- len's " Biographical Dictionarv " (Boston, 1832).

JEQUITINHONHA, Francisco Gé Acaiaba de Montesuma (hay-ke-tin-yon'-yah), Viscount of, Brazilian statesman, b. in Bahia, 23 March, 1794; d. in Rio Janeiro in 1870. His father intended him to enter the religious order of St. Francis, and sent him to the convent in 1810, but he abandoned the cloister six months afterward and proceeded to Portugal, where he entered the University of Coimbra, and was graduated as a lawyer in 1820. In