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Descendants of William De Jeanne

Generation No. 1

1. William¹ De Jeanne was born January 25, 1618 in Bristol, Somerset, England, and died March 24, 1714 in Setauket, Suffolk, New York, USA. He married (1) Perkins in England. She died Unknown. He married (2) Anna Beigs June 10, 1675 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. She was born 1653, and died 1682 in Setauket, Suffolk, New York, USA. He married (3) Ann Jennings 1683 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. She was born 1653, and died 1692 in Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York, USA. He married (4) Mehitable Jenkins 1694 in New York, USA. She was born 1658, and died April 21, 1727 in Southold, Livingston, New York, USA.

Notes for William De Jeanne:
Guido de Jeanne was a French general in the service of the French Confeder ation In 1154 he was assigned to escort Henry the second to England a nd to secure Henry on the throne. For this service Guido de Jeanne was kni ghted by Henry and given the manor of Kirkling in Cambridge shire.

Guido's grandson, Geoffrey de Jeanne, took up arms about 1200 or 1204 wi th Baldwin, count of Flanders, in a successful effort to obtain Jerusal em and contributed to install Baldwin king of Jerusalem. Geoffrey later ma de three pilgrimages to the Holy Land with his son Guy, or Guido. Hence t he scallop shells in the coat of arms, which commemorate those events. Bef ore his death Geoffrey acquired the lands of Botalock in Cornwall throu gh his wife the heiress of Sir Richard Penruddock.

A descendant was Henry de Jeanne, alleged by some genealogists to be a gra duate of Oxford University and a lecturer there on Theology and Divinit y. However, researcher Milton Bush on a Genealogy.com message board refut es this and I quote "Henry de Jeanne did not attend Oxford. I wrote to t he Oxford Library on that, and reviewed the whole Oxford alumni series (ab out 20 volumes). He did not matriculate there under any of the possible na me spellings, and did not lecture there. Neither did an ancestor, nor chil d. Dear Beniah Gustin Jayne just made it up about 120 years ago. He may ha ve intended it as a joke, or as a test who would rely on secondary materia ls."

According to notes in the Genealogy Section of the Suffolk County Historic al Society in Riverhead, New York, the father of Henry1 Jayne was Rodger J ayne. No further info found yet.

William (De Jeanne) Jayne,(Henry') born 25 January 1618, in Bristol, Glous tershire, England and died 24 March 1714 in Setauket, Suffolk Co., LI, N ew York2 and is buried in the Setauket Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Accor ding to some genealogists, William arrived in America with the John Davenp ort Colony3. He lived near Boston for 8 months & then settled in New Have n, CT. He came to Brookhaven by 1675. He was a cooper making casks and bar rels. William married his fourth wife, Mehitable Jenkins, in 1694 in New Y ork. She was born in 1658 and died 21 May 1727. According to the "Recor ds of the Town of Brookhaven" Book C (1687-1789) William was a trust ee of the town of Brookhaven in 1701.

Children of William De Jeanne and Anna Beigs are:

+	2	i.	Anna² Jayne, born 1676 in Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York, USA; died 1742.
+	3	ii.	William Jayne, born June 04, 1678 in Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York, USA; died October 10, 1756 in Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York, USA.
+	4	iii.	John J. Jayne, born March 03, 1680 in Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York, USA; died May 11, 1729 in Setauket, Suffolk, New York, USA.
	5	iv.	Elizabeth B. Jayne, born March 23, 1682 in Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York, USA; died 1753. She married George Davis; born 1682; died Unknown in Y/.

Children of William De Jeanne and Ann Jennings are:

+	6	i.	James² Jayne, born 1683 in Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York, USA; died 1781 in South Haven, New York.
+	7	ii.	Matthias Jayne, born November 11, 1686 in Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York, USA; died 1758.
+	8	iii.	Samual Jayne, born 1690 in Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York, USA; died 1765 in Orange, New York, USA.

Child of William De Jeanne and Mehitable Jenkins is:

Stephen² Jayne, born April 15, 1700 in Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York, USA; died November 12, 1774 in Setauket, Suffolk, New York, USA.

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