Birth
| Date | July 5, 1854 |
| Place | Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States |
Narrative
Births Registered in Boston, 1854
page 100, number 4494
James Jenkins, July 5, 1854, at 144 Purchase Street
father: Charles, a mariner, born in New Jersey
mother: Mary, born in Ireland
both parents living on Purchase Street
"Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FXWS-7Q8 : accessed 7 February 2016), James Jenkins, 05 Jul 1854; citing Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, reference 100, Massachusetts Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 1,428,235.
The 1854 City Directory says that Purchase ran from Summer to Broad Streets downtown Boston
