Jenny was among the dozens of men, women, and children enslaved by members of the seafaring Malbone family on their 3,240-acre estate in Windham County, Connecticut. Her name first appears on a list of “Stock and Negroes” in a 1764 quit-claim deed from the Newport, RI-based Godfrey Malbone, Sr. to his sons, Godfrey Malbone, Jr. and John Malbone. In the deed, the senior Malbone gives his sons the Connecticut property along with “eighty cows, forty-five oxen, thirty stears, forty two year-olds, twenty yearlings, and thirty-nine calves, six horses, six hundred sheep, one hundred and eighty goats and  all the poultry, and one hundred and fifty hogs.” Also included were: “Twenty-seven Negroes (viz) Prince. Harry. Pero. Dick. Tom. Peter [Rick?]. Peter Virginia. Domino. Caddy. Adam and Christopher all negro men. Dinah, Venus, Rose, Miriam, Jenny and Rose Park, all Negro women, and three children. Primus Christopher Sias Sharper and Little Pero, all Negro boys and also all the farming tools utensils, grain Household goods and all other things of every nature given and granted.” 

The next time Jenny’s name appears in the record is in a 1779 letter from Godfrey, Jr. to his brother, John. By this time, the Loyalist Malbones had had a change of fortune, due in part to their political stance during the war and in part to changing fortunes affecting many in the seafaring trade. “We are 12 in Family at Blank Hall,” Godfrey Malbone, Jr. wrote to John from present-day Brooklyn, CT, where he oversaw the family’s property and farm. He then described the others in the household: “The Chaplain and the Nieces; the Madame and the Squire. The servants are Piero, Gads, Joe, Jack , Mag, and old Quam; the last of whom the Doctor, lately, turned upon our Hands. We took with us only Venus, Dante, Jenny & Little Hab of the females; but Jenny, poor, excellent creature!, was carried to her grave the last Sunday.” It is not clear how old Jenny was when she died or where she was buried. However, it is possible she was laid to rest in the churchyard surrounding Old Trinity Church, said to have been built by individuals enslaved by the Malbones. If that was her final resting place, there is no inscribed marker to identify the site.