♂George Kenniston

George Kenniston (died 14 March 1717-18) was the father of Bridget Keniston, the second wife of Jonathan Smith of Exeter, in the Province of New Hampshire^W. He was the seventh great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his daughter Bridget Keniston.

Greenland

Almost everything known of him comes from a genealogical dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire families published between 1928 and 1939, which places him at Greenland, New Hampshire. The dictionary records that, accused of theft from Joseph Hall’s wife, Thomas Pickering and others, he fled the jurisdiction, and that in 1678 he was living at Newbury with Joshua Brown, a shoemaker. He was taxed in Greenland in 1690 and 1691, and in 1697, when he was over forty, he was the tenant of the Hall-Packer farm. The same dictionary makes him one of the six sons of John Kenniston of Greenland, who was killed by Indians in 1677, and his wife Agnes.

Death and family

George Kenniston died on 14 March 1717-18, according to the dictionary. An inventory of his estate, taken by Samuel King and Daniel Allen, came to £89 7s 8d, and letters of administration^W on his estate were granted on 10 November 1718 to his widow, Bridget. She was taxed in 1718 and 1719, and in 1720 she complained that Jonathan Weeks, Tucker Cate, Jeremiah Lary and Abraham Sanborn had stopped her three sons while they were raising a house frame. The dictionary names the couple’s children as John, George, Samuel and Bridget, who married Jonathan Smith on 11 August 1719, and probably Mary, who was over sixteen in 1696.