R. L S.
SARANAC, OCT., 1887.
CHAPTER I.
The Jenkins of Stowting - Fleeming's grandfather - Mrs. Buckner's
fortune - Fleeming's father; goes to sea; at St. Helena; meets King
Tom; service in the West Indies; end of his career - The Campbell-
Jacksons - Fleeming's mother - Fleeming's uncle John.
IN the reign of Henry VIII., a family of the name of Jenkin,
claiming to come from York, and bearing the arms of Jenkin ap
Philip of St. Melans, are found reputably settled in the county of
Kent. Persons of strong genealogical pinion pass from William
Jenkin, Mayor of Folkestone in 1555, to his contemporary 'John
Jenkin, of the Citie of York, Receiver General of the County,' and
thence, by way of Jenkin ap Philip, to the proper summit of any
Cambrian pedigree - a prince; 'Guaith Voeth, Lord of Cardigan,' the
name and style of him. It may suffice, however, for the present,
that these Kentish Jenkins must have undoubtedly derived from
Wales, and being a stock of some efficiency, they struck root and
grew to wealth and consequence in their new home.
Of their consequence we have proof enough in the fact that not only
was William Jenkin (as already mentioned) Mayor of Folkestone in
1555, but no less than twenty-three times in the succeeding century
and a half, a Jenkin (William, Thomas, Henry, or Robert) sat in the
same place of humble honour.
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