Collection #
SC 0871
BV 0738

JENCKES FAMILY PAPERS
1829-1841

Collection Information
Biographical Sketch
Scope and Content
Cataloging Information

Processed by :
Charles Latham
18 March 1993
Updated 24 June 2004

Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269

www.indianahistory.org

COLLECTION INFORMATION

VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 2 folders, 1 bound volume

COLLECTION DATES: 1829-1841

PRVENANCE: Symmachus Trading Co., Boston MA, December 1950 and January 1951; Sycamore Books, Brownsburg IN, March 1974

REPRODUCTION RIGHTS: Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from the Indiana Historical Society

ACCESSION NUMBERS: 50.1205; 51.0105; 51.0106; 74.0311

NOTE: Letter from James L. Cathcart, part of 74.0311, removed and catalogued as SC 0183

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Four brothers, Jerathmel B., John, Daniel, and Joseph S. Jenckes, probably from Rhode Island, were all early settlers of Vigo County, Indiana. They all borrowed money from Providence banker and philanthropist Nicholas Brown (1769-1841), who gave his name to Brown University. They all dealt in land in Vigo County, and about 1830 were running a distillery. Joseph and Jerathmel were stockholders in the State Bank of Indiana in 1835.

Jerathmel Jenckes, who operated somewhat independently of his brothers, was appointed Justice of the Peace in Lost Creek Township in 1832, and held the office until at least 1841.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

This collection consists of the ledger (1832-1841) of Jerathmel Jenckes as Justice of the Peace, of notes taken from between the pages of the ledger, and of letters (1829-1830) from three of the Jenckes brothers to Nicholas Brown.

In Folder 1 are letters from John, Joseph, and Jerathmel

Jenckes to Nicholas Brown, about the status of his loans.

The ledger (BV 0738) records the various cases decided by Jerathmel Jenckes as Justice of the Peace. Material in

Folder 2 amplifies this record.

CATALOGING INFORMATION

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