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.....There is no record found of Hannah's birth. She was very likely the daughter of Ephraim Landers and Elizabeth Burgess, who were married in Dartmouth about 3 years before she was born. After her first child, the next 4 were named Phebe, Elizabeth, Ephraim and Henry. Phebe and Henry were Abner's parents' names, so it's quite reasonable that the other two were named for Ephraim and Elizabeth Landers. Their first child was Luther and their last Jethro. Elizabeth Burgess had a brother Luther and Henry Jenne had a brother Jethro. Elizabeth (Burgess) Landers was a widow by 1774, and she may have been the older woman in Abner and Hannah's household when it was enumerated for the 1800 census.
.....Hannah was admitted to the First Congregational Church in what is now Fairhaven, Massachusetts, on 29 July 1801.(1) The following October her three surviving children, Phebe, Luther and Elizabeth were baptized.
First Congregational Church, Fairhaven, records, vol. 1, © New Bedford Whaling Museum, Inc.
.....Hannah and Abner's marriage was likely not a happy one for her. It came to an end when Abner left Fairhaven, apparently with a mistress, and settled in Batavia, NY, in 1808. Hannah filed for divorce, citing his adulterous behavior throughout their marriage. She was probably the Hannah Jenne in the 1810 census of New Bedford, but evidently in the part that would become Fairhaven, who had a boy and girl who could have been Elizabeth and Jethro. There was also another woman over 45 living with them, perhaps her mother Elizabeth (Burgess) Landers. The 1820 and 1830 censuses suggest that she was the older woman living with her daughter Phebe in Fairhaven. She is buried next to her children Ephriam and Henry in Nasketucket Cemetery, callled the wife of Abner. Her divorce petition hasn't been seen yet, and may not have been finalized.
children of Abner and Hannah (Landers) Jenne/Jennings:
i. Phebe, b. abt 1787
ii. Luther, b. abt. 1789
iii. Elizabeth b. abt 1792
iv. Ephraim, b. June 1796, d. 3 October 1798
v. Henry, b. June 1800, d. 11 March 1801
vi. Jethro b. abt June 1803 (bap. 30 June 1803)
vital records sources: There is no record found of Hannah's birth. Her marriage intentions are from the Dartmouth vital records. Her death was found on her gravestone, Nasketucket Cemetery, Fairhaven, MA.
1. First Congregational Church, Fairhaven, records, vol. 1, p. 13 (modern pagination), New Bedford Whaling Museum, Inc.
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