I don't seem to have it on this computer,but I found someplace several years ago a shareware search engine called BOOL.EXE that would search "WITHIN" the files stored on my own computer's hard drive. The search engine provided with Windows only searches file names,but BOOL.EXE searches within the files. I DOWNLOAD much data.
Dear Cousins, I am going over many records I've accumulated over time and have organized in some fashion, but not brought together with a lot of new information. I have tons of notebooks of things I've collected and I paw through the notebooks trying to find what I want. My files on two computers are about the same -- I forget what I've named something and what directory I put it in. ANYWAY, I am going over old records. My disordered organization is a good reason to review things I've taken for granted. Have you've ever had the experience of walking into a room looking for something and going 'round in circles and not finding it, and then turning to go out of the room, you spot it because your view has been altered? Well, I find that is often the case with my old information. One thing I've been doing is re-examining records for the Delaware Upper Hundred and Soldier's Delight Hundred in Baltimore County, Maryland where my Pennington/Pembertons lived. I've been taking each census record and examining the entire hundred for the years. Here are some funny things that remind me that life is not linear, but circular. First, I lived in this same area myself before I knew my ancestors had lived here in the mid -1700's. I am an Oregonian, and returned there. My first ex-husband's ancestors seem to be there too. He was a Californian. My middle daughter's husband's surname is found there. He's an Australian. I built a house for this daughter nearby. Some of the people living near my Penningtons were named Woolery. There is a large old historic Victorian house built in the next town down the road from me here in Oregon by the Woolery family. There's a Boring, Maryland and a Boring, Oregon, named for the same family, no doubt. E-Mail doesn't permit me to go into all the hows of proving the Penningtons (who lived in Delaware Upper Hundred and the Pembertons who were first there, and moved down the road to Soldiers Delight are the same family, but it comes down to comparing all possible records, and also for the neighbors surrounding them in each locality. Now what I am doing is re-examining the census images for the Delaware Upper Hundred, and instead of copying down how many people were in each household for each Pennington or Pemberton, I am copying information about the people who lived around them, who are also found in other localities where I have found my target family. After the War of 1812 my Penningtons are found in Belmont, Guernsey and Harrison County, OH. The Frizzels/Frizzle, etc. family are found in both. So are the Davises. So are the Bakers. The Hardin/Hardings/Harbins. My great-Uncle's name was Lloyd Lucas Pennington: there are both Lucas and Lloyd names. Now, the problem with my family is that they vanish from the records for a prolonged time, in the mid to late 1700's, so I am working the Delaware Hundred and Soldiers' Delight Hundred names backward as well. Christopher Gist lived here! He formed his Rangers from here! These are names of the same families who trekked into the Valley of Virginia, down to the NW/SW Perimeter, along the Blue Ridge, and peple who went into the Southside, east of the Blue Ridge. Remember that maxim I like to repeat: Some stayed and some rode on! I now have something to add to that: Some came back! I think maybe my Penningtons went south and then came back to Baltimore county. I'm not sure, so that's where this interweaving of families comes into play again. I'm taking another look as I turn 'round to walk out the door. Families found with the Pembertons in Soldiers' Delight are Odell (connected to Clifford Odell, I'm sure), Choate/Shoat, Dimmett/Demmitt, found in the Southside, and in SW VA. Names In the Delaware Upper Hundred found in Virginia, WVA and beyond: Lawrence Logsden; George Ogg (I think this name may be Hogg/Hoge in Frederick County, VA) Dorsey Peddicord; Elisha Lane; John Lindsay; Pool; Manning; Chapman; Goodwin; Major; Stevenson; Hammond. There are lots of others that are too ubiquitious to include. Also, some names here are linked to Pennington families (supposedly) other than mine: Sweeting and McAllister. What do you think, with this second look?? Jim Pennington wrote me that some of the Pennington DNA results show a probability that several of the Pennington groups not previously thought to be linked (by Others) are likely related. I've been saying it for years! We are all part of one another! We are all part of a giant circle, and for infinitely small specks of time we pause at various Crossroads, and time, like fireflies, is captured in a bottle, or sometimes by a census taker. Love, Your Cousin who goes round in Circles, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@centurytel.net ========================================= --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads --- Visit Backcountry Crossroads --- http://www.backcountrycrossroads.com
Dear Cousins, One of the most interesting illusions I have blown away with internet research is the notion that colonials were fairly happily ensconced wherever they landed along the Mid-Atlantic seaboard and remained that way for about a hundred years. It has proved to be a great fallacy in my thinking. The Colonials were moving about, even back and forth between the old country and their new digs in the New World. They were an enormously commercial and mercantile oriented society: that focus having been the first priority of the colonization efforts. The second priority was religion, and in the Pennsylvania Colony, the two pursuits joined in prosperous movement with great Quaker zeal and enterprise. The Quakers were canny businesspeople and their religious ferfour was nearly boundless. It produced movement back and forth, up and down wherever they were. Some of the Quaker movement was for missionary activity, some for business opportunity, and some to follow other allied families. The Monthly Meetings carefully investigated potential marriages, ensuring that prospective candidates were not too closely related, and so this requirement also produced journeys to other locales as young Quaker men sought out proper brides. Other young men were often apprenticed to former friends and relatives. And so, just when you think you've pinned down a Quaker locale for some particular family, off they go again! for myriad reasons. This is greatly to our benefit despite having to constantly dig around to discover the new locales. The movement of the Delaware Valley people was constant from the time of the initial settlements of the Swede/Finns, with the great river as the means for ease of such movement. After Penn's colony got underway these families were greatly influenced by the Quakers, after they began arriving in the early 1680's (some few arriving a little before). Many of the meetings' records are included in Hinshaw's Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy Volume two, but some very important ones are not found there. Neither Duck Creek Monthly Meeting in New Castle County, nor Deer Creek MM in Harford County, MD, nor Gunpowder MM in Baltimore County, nor Nottingham MM, which straddled the PA/MD border is included. Records for these three important meetings can be found in bibliographies I'm making available at the new booksite. I'm also including records from all of these as I create new pages at American Crossroads. The Beeson family was one of the important Quaker families involved in the outward migration from the Philadelphia Perimeter; another is the Beal family. Edward Beeson founded the Nottingham tract, and the Beesons and the Beals, Littlers, Richardsons, other Quaker families who joined him there can be found in most of the other migrating families -- Quaker or not. It is terribly tempting to simply copy down these lineages which are very prevalent on the internet, and not worry about the research . . . but it would be wrong! (As I think a famous Quaker Somebody once said.) The first reason it would be wrong is almost everybody got the beginning of the lineages wrong, and if those are goofed, and unreferenced, can what follows be any different or more trustworthy? Nay, nay, say I. Rachel Pennington was not the daughter of Cousin Jim's Isaac the Quaker Pennington ancestor. Isaac had no daughter Rachel. There! Check out Cousin Jim's ancestry on our pages: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Isaac/isaac.html The Quaker Beals too, have been distorted, mixing it up with the non-Quaker Bealls in Maryland in a most unpacific manner. Or at least it leaves me feeling most unpacific when I see these mistakes that have been inflicted on the genealogy. One Beeson website has re-created itself, or is beginning to, at least, and I am happy to be able to recommend it. As to the others, with Rachel Pennington as daughter of Isaac and Mary (Proude) Pennington -- Let the Buyer Beware! http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~beeson/index.html So, who was Rachel Beeson, wife of Edward Beeson, if not daughter of Isaac the Quaker, who had no daughter Rachel? I think if she actually was a Pennington, her most likely identity could be as a sister to Abraham The Trader and John Pennington who lived nearby Nottingham, along the Susquehanna and North East Rivers. You can see the plat of lots and owners at Nottingham at Quaker Corner. http://www.rootsweb.com/~quakers/notting.htm Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@centurytel.net ========================================= --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads --- Visit Backcountry Crossroads --- http://www.backcountrycrossroads.com
Dear Cousins on the List; Please join with me to hold our Cousin Kay Comin's husband Bob in your thoughts and prayers as he faces some troubling recurring symptoms that may be related to a previous tumor and stroke. The causes are unknown, and of course, fearful. Our love and best wishes go to Kay and Bob and their family. Family, connection and the concentration of love and good will are positive and beneficial in every circumstance and we hope that spirit of family concern will radiate around Bob and Kay as they face these new health problems. I have just received a great gift from Bill Trott in the form of information from the book, "James Start of Stafford COunty Virginia and his descendants," by Mary Kathryn Harris and Mary Iva Jean Jorgensen. St. Patrick's Day is full upon us, a big deal here in Morrow County, Oregon, and I have not looked this over in detail, but the previous information Bill shared with the list indicates this will be very helpful as we track and reclaim families from the Philadelphia Perimeter. THANKS BILL! More on this the first of the week, but already I believe the Grays are ones who are mentioned in early Cecil County records, where the Penningtons originated. The Williams are undoubtedly connected, and one of my Williams families had both Jeremiahs and Josephs, sooooo I feel this will provide some excellent clues for the Northern Virginia families of the Potomac Perimeter, and especially many of those who ventured into SC and TN. MORE thanks, Bill! Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@centurytel.net ========================================= --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads --- Visit Backcountry Crossroads --- http://www.backcountrycrossroads.com
The Indian trader,Col Evan Shelby,Jr's 1st wife was the Swede,Letitia Cox,with Cecil Co up-bringing. Their son was 1st gov of Ky,after having the surveyor with the originial party to 1775 Boonesboro,Ky. Evan Jr moved abt 1771 from Hancock,W MD\Pa line to the Va-Tn line near Kingsport,Tn. There were other Evan's among his brother 's sons. One was an original lot owner in 1789 Cincinnati.
Dear Cousins on the List: Beej, thanks for your postings, they are very appreciated. The Wyandot Levi record is in regard to one of Elijah Pennington's family. Elijah came from Maryland, went to Hampshire county, (W)VA and then into Ohio. His origins have switched directions so many times I don't know where the final resting place was, but I believe that as we get going with the Great Abraham Pennington Magical Mystery Tour we may tie him up and drag him home. We're going to do the same with your John Burton! Now, for others of you to ponder, here's an interesting deed from my Abstracts of Volume 1, Cecil County Land records: 1705 CECIL County PETER CLAWSSON to HENRY and MARY GUILDER I, 72 L PETER CLAWSSON of CC, carpenter for love and affection unto well beloved son and daughter Henry Guilder and Mary his wife of CC, all moiety of half part of land on John Coosinos Creek running to St. Johns Mannour being on W. side of Elk River on E side of the creek. The uppermost moiety. 13 Dec 1705 Peter (h.m.) Clawsson, SSDip Francis Maulden, Tho.s. (h.m.) Johnsson, M.V.Heyden, Will Dare. Rec. 9 Jan 1705 Jno. Dowdall Any comments?? Next, I hope you found the Washington county ownerships interesting. Moving right along into the French and Indian War, we find one of those names from Washington County, MD, Evan Shelby, moving down the frontier from Western Maryland into what is another of those nebulous areas that didn't know if it was Virginia, North Carolina or Tennessee. Called "Squabble State," it is under interpretation by the TNGenWeb Land History Project. The reason, once again, that we can't track folks is that other folks kept changing their names! Shelby may have been Selby sometimes, and since my Pennington folks were allied with Selbys from Maryland in Ohio and Iowa, I am very interested in Evan Shelby, and the Marylanders who also went into the NWSW Perimeter. The site has Fred Smoot's marvelous map collection to back it up along with great references. Remember that the Holsten River was named for Steven Holsten, gone out from among those very Swede/Finns we've been watching. http://www.tngenweb.org/tnland/squabble/ The Potomac Perimeter is up. Did I tell you that before? I'm still working on the Books pages for the Bibliographies, but despite that, I have received the first book order from Cousin John O. Pennington. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Potomac/potomac.html Dear Cousins! I am so excited over the continued progress of these pages thanks to all of you and your interest and support. Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@centurytel.net ========================================= --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads --- Visit Backcountry Crossroads --- http://www.backcountrycrossroads.com
Carolyn and list members of AMXROADS In my research I do not have Pennington however I have severl persons that when I see a surname they are researching I will send them the URL so since I am with this group of people and I receive help I will send what I find to you listers on surnames I see that has been mentioned here. If you have this info please excuse and delete. Beej in AZ Levi Pennington b. 24 Oct. 1811 native of Hanpshire County, VA son of Elijah and Elizabeth Pennington, native of Delaware and Virginia. A Levi M. Pennington, also a Peter Pennngton in this site. If you have these Pennington please excuse me if not I hope I have helped someong out with these names. Beej in AZ <A HREF="http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Wyandot/Wsyca02.htm">WYANDOT COUNTY, OHIO - 1884 HISTORY - SYCAMORE TOWNSHIP - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES</A> http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Wyandot/Wsyca02.htm
Carolyn; I found an Elias Pennington born 1795 in Md who was living in 1850 in Little Britain Township, Lancaster County Pa (just north of Rising Sun MD) who married a Jane Grubb and sold land to John Benedict Pennington, married to Ann Mercer, in/Abt 1860, the year both of them died. Elias is Buried in the Little Britain Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Could he be your Harford County Elias? John Orr Pennington
Actually, Edward Penington and Gulielma Maria Springett were half-sibs- same mother, different fathers. Gulielma married Wm. Penn Jim Cookman, Adelita Chirino wrote: > > If the "E Penington, surveyor" records are between the dates of 1698 and > 1701, that is Edward Penington, son of Isaac "The Quaker" Penington, and > grandson of Sir Isaac Penington, who died in the Tower of London, "of > ill-usage" for his part in the regicide parliament. > > There is some confusion as to the number of "n's" in > Penington/Pennington in this family line. Sir Isaac seemed to have used > two in the records I have seen, and Isaac the Quaker only one. Isaac > Jr. had quite a bit of trouble with the supporters of Charles II (land > siezures, bogus arrests, etc) because of his father's friendship with > Cromwell, and also his blossoming Quaker faith, and may have dropped an > "n" in hopes of being less recognized. (My conjecture.) > > Edward was the step-brother-in-law of William Penn, and appointed his > surveyor general. Poor Edward got here in 1698, did some surveying, got > married, fathered a child, and died in 1701. His son Isaacwas raised in > Bucks County and moved to Philadelphia, and there the family stayed for > many generations. The name died out as a surname in the late 1800's, > but persists as a first or middle name in my family- for example my aunt > Frances Pennington Xxxxxx, (living.) > > In fact, there seems to be a naming convention of using surnames for > given names and "middle names:" My grandfather- Wharton Griffitts > Cookman, his brother, Rodney Pennington Cookman; a lot of my cousins the > same. I escaped that, but am named for my paternal great-grandfather. > > There is a transcription of a newspaper article about this line of > Penningtons on the AMXROADS website. A very interesting bunch. > > Regards, > Jim Cookman > > HFAGLEY@aol.com wrote: > > > > I'm on many nights at 4 am [when the garbage truck convoy goes west towards > > eastern Cincinnati. But I'm Eastern Standard Time, and you're something > > further west. 11 years,24 hours a day,7 days aweek,I nursed my aged > > parent[s]. Almost always had a wet bed to change around 4am. The Internet is > > really quick then. > > 20+ years I've been interested in Honor Grimes=Grayham Crawford > > Stephen,and her sons,and grandsons,but I'm just seeing hints near the > > Pennington's where they came from. > > www,ancestry.com has 'Early Pa Land Records" mentionig a surveyor named E > > Penington. Surveying and indian trading sometimes went together-re Honor's > > son,Col Wm Crawford,tortured 1782,as an example. Surveying a new country was > > a back woods job-read the young George Washington. Indian trading and iron > > work skills went together. After whiskey,and maybe blankets,ax and gun > > smithing were high on the list of things Indians traded for. Samuel > > Walker,VestaL,Stephenson are some on > > O'Dell's map 3 and 6 involved in iron. And Cecil Co had Prinicpo Furnace,and > > Iron Hill,where the Pecander Welsh mined,and John Ball's 1722 furnace on > > White Clay,nw NEW CASTLE,Del,and more. Hollingsworth. Anyway, Pem Brook > > is the sometimes translation of the nw Cecil Pennington lands,sayeth O'Dell > > or the Pennington web page. Wm Penn,himself,had Welsh ties. Were the > > Pennington's from Pembrookshire,Wales? > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237
Hulbert Footner's "Rivers of the Eastern Shore" 1944 -17 Md Rivers I have hunted this book to review the Sassafras and Bohemia Rivers,and to retrieve Footner's quote,page 358. "I have determined to omit the Elk [River] because people of that neighborhood have little connection with the Eastern Shore." Footner's says Head of the Elk was on the main route between north and South, and devoloped a difdferent culrute than the Eastern shore,which is remote,on a side way. Henry Bennington m a Harris lived just west of the Susquehanna in Harford Co. Indeed, my wife's Alexander Hill and Jacob Giles posted his 1740 estate bond. Jacob Giles owned,among others,"Brotherly Love". Dick Mattson will tell you how his Wm Loftin,and a Wm Logsdon, owned a tract named "Brotherly Love'. 1751,O'DELL,ON 212,says a Wm Loftan adjoined Abraham Pennington,near Berryville,Md. Pg 124 O'dell, Wm Loftan gave Moses Teague power of attorney to sell land on the Chesapeake in OLD Baltimore Co,Md . 1750's? Wm Teague,of Baltimore Co,MD SOLD ,171`4,ABRAHAM, PENNINGTON ,OF CECIL CO,160 A AT HEAD OF A BRANCH OF cONEWINGO EAST OF THE SUSQUHANNA. P 125 O'dell.
If the "E Penington, surveyor" records are between the dates of 1698 and 1701, that is Edward Penington, son of Isaac "The Quaker" Penington, and grandson of Sir Isaac Penington, who died in the Tower of London, "of ill-usage" for his part in the regicide parliament. There is some confusion as to the number of "n's" in Penington/Pennington in this family line. Sir Isaac seemed to have used two in the records I have seen, and Isaac the Quaker only one. Isaac Jr. had quite a bit of trouble with the supporters of Charles II (land siezures, bogus arrests, etc) because of his father's friendship with Cromwell, and also his blossoming Quaker faith, and may have dropped an "n" in hopes of being less recognized. (My conjecture.) Edward was the step-brother-in-law of William Penn, and appointed his surveyor general. Poor Edward got here in 1698, did some surveying, got married, fathered a child, and died in 1701. His son Isaacwas raised in Bucks County and moved to Philadelphia, and there the family stayed for many generations. The name died out as a surname in the late 1800's, but persists as a first or middle name in my family- for example my aunt Frances Pennington Xxxxxx, (living.) In fact, there seems to be a naming convention of using surnames for given names and "middle names:" My grandfather- Wharton Griffitts Cookman, his brother, Rodney Pennington Cookman; a lot of my cousins the same. I escaped that, but am named for my paternal great-grandfather. There is a transcription of a newspaper article about this line of Penningtons on the AMXROADS website. A very interesting bunch. Regards, Jim Cookman HFAGLEY@aol.com wrote: > > I'm on many nights at 4 am [when the garbage truck convoy goes west towards > eastern Cincinnati. But I'm Eastern Standard Time, and you're something > further west. 11 years,24 hours a day,7 days aweek,I nursed my aged > parent[s]. Almost always had a wet bed to change around 4am. The Internet is > really quick then. > 20+ years I've been interested in Honor Grimes=Grayham Crawford > Stephen,and her sons,and grandsons,but I'm just seeing hints near the > Pennington's where they came from. > www,ancestry.com has 'Early Pa Land Records" mentionig a surveyor named E > Penington. Surveying and indian trading sometimes went together-re Honor's > son,Col Wm Crawford,tortured 1782,as an example. Surveying a new country was > a back woods job-read the young George Washington. Indian trading and iron > work skills went together. After whiskey,and maybe blankets,ax and gun > smithing were high on the list of things Indians traded for. Samuel > Walker,VestaL,Stephenson are some on > O'Dell's map 3 and 6 involved in iron. And Cecil Co had Prinicpo Furnace,and > Iron Hill,where the Pecander Welsh mined,and John Ball's 1722 furnace on > White Clay,nw NEW CASTLE,Del,and more. Hollingsworth. Anyway, Pem Brook > is the sometimes translation of the nw Cecil Pennington lands,sayeth O'Dell > or the Pennington web page. Wm Penn,himself,had Welsh ties. Were the > Pennington's from Pembrookshire,Wales? > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237
I'm on many nights at 4 am [when the garbage truck convoy goes west towards eastern Cincinnati. But I'm Eastern Standard Time, and you're something further west. 11 years,24 hours a day,7 days aweek,I nursed my aged parent[s]. Almost always had a wet bed to change around 4am. The Internet is really quick then. 20+ years I've been interested in Honor Grimes=Grayham Crawford Stephen,and her sons,and grandsons,but I'm just seeing hints near the Pennington's where they came from. www,ancestry.com has 'Early Pa Land Records" mentionig a surveyor named E Penington. Surveying and indian trading sometimes went together-re Honor's son,Col Wm Crawford,tortured 1782,as an example. Surveying a new country was a back woods job-read the young George Washington. Indian trading and iron work skills went together. After whiskey,and maybe blankets,ax and gun smithing were high on the list of things Indians traded for. Samuel Walker,VestaL,Stephenson are some on O'Dell's map 3 and 6 involved in iron. And Cecil Co had Prinicpo Furnace,and Iron Hill,where the Pecander Welsh mined,and John Ball's 1722 furnace on White Clay,nw NEW CASTLE,Del,and more. Hollingsworth. Anyway, Pem Brook is the sometimes translation of the nw Cecil Pennington lands,sayeth O'Dell or the Pennington web page. Wm Penn,himself,had Welsh ties. Were the Pennington's from Pembrookshire,Wales?
I had already guessed while rereading map 3 and map 6 people in O'DELL, that Sargent likely was Largent. Cecil O'DELL,Dr Kerns,Dr Peter Craig ,and every author make errors. Hard to say,and I'm not a Pennington researcher,that the Pennington's were "not" from Pa,when Cecil Co,Md had a disputed northern boundry,and a disputed eastern boundry,with Pa, and when both Pa [Nottingham lots and Welsh Tract] and Md [ New Munster] located colonies on the disputed line. I see Robert Pennington in St Stephens parish in 1703. That's in southern Cecil [?]. O'dell gives Pennington locations in very nw Cecil,I think,1730's. I've studied indian traders many years,and made a partial collection of their names. Capt Johan Hance Steelman, [and others?] based their trade from the disputed Cecil Co,Md area to avoid Pa's license fees and regulations of Indian traders. They also were at the head of the area ocean going ships could sail up Chesapeake bay. I' ve only see the Susquehanna River from the bridge between Lancaster and York counties,and at Harrisburg,but it's wide,and shallow there. Are there know Pennington ties to Honor Grimes [Grayham] Crawford m 2nd Richard Stephenson. Are there Pennington ties to their 1703 ST STEPHENS Sappington's,of the Sassafras?
Hi All, Is anyone out there working on the Penningtons in Center and Clearfield Counties in PA? If you are out there, I would like to hear from you. I am looking for the ancestors of Jacob Pennington, Sr., d. 1823 in Potter Twp. (I understand there exists a will of his somewhere?) I have only documented back to his grandson Isaac, b. 1837, d. 1916 m. Salina McMasters. I would like to know if anyone has proof of their relationship, and how much has been done to find Jacob Srs. birth place. I am wondering if anyone has been able to tie into any of the PRA groups. I have contacted the PRA, and haven't had much luck getting any help from them. Thanks in advance for all replies. Becky Miller Reston, VA
This may be repetitive information, but here goes: From the James Stark of Stafford County Virginia and his Descendants books: Pennington Family The Pennington Family also were early settlers in the Frederick/Clarke Co VA area. Orange Co VA Deed Bk 2, p427 shows Abraham Pennington of Orange Co VA conveying to Jacob Pennington 600 acres on west side of Shanandoah River part of a patent granted Abraham Pennington Oct 3, 1734. Catherine Pennington, wife of Abraham, relinquished her dower. Some sources state that the wife of Abraham Pennington was named Catherine Williams. Abraham Pennington appears in the Frederick Co VA Deed Books in 1743. In 1749 he appears in the Fairfax Co VA Court Minutes, p. 44, involved in a suit between John Lindsey and Josiah Clapham. His last appearance in Frederick Co was in Deed Bk 2, p 492, Aug. 4, 1752. Feb. 4, 1752 in South Carolina he portioned for 100 acres already claimed by him and a warrant for 200 additional acres. He stated that he had a wife and 2 children for who no land had been granted. He desired land on Indian Creek (SC Council Journal No. 20, p 13). The will of Abraham Pennington is found in the Charleston Will Books in 1755. He named wife Catherine, sons Isaac, Abraham, Jacob and John, and daughter Abigail. The Penningtons were among the earliest of the settlers in Newberry Co. The History of Newberry Co SC states that in 1759 small forts were built by settlers between the Broad and Saluda including 2 forts built by the Penningtons. Apparently the earliest member of the Pennington family to migrate to Newberry Co SC was Jacob Pennington, son of Abraham. Jacob Pennington appeared in 1747 in Frederick Co VA Deed Bk 1, p293 in a deed involving John Hardin and again in 1747 (Frederick Co Deed Bk 1, p 94), a power of attorney from Jacob Pennington to Isaac Pennington. He appeared in one Fairfax Co Minutes record in 1749 when he was plaintiff in a suit with Joseph West and John Hardin. In 1748 Jacob Pennington bought land from John Rasher and wife Elizabeth on the low grounds of the Conger (Charleston Deed Bk B-3 p 80). Apparently deciding to settle in the Newberry Co SC area, in 1749 he petitioned for a change of Location in his grant and stated that he was from VA. (SC Council Journal No. 17, p 696). In 1755 Jacob Pennington bought 200 Acre from John Fairchild and wife Rachel (Charleston Deed Bk B-3, p 89.) (Rest of paragraph is SC information BTrott) Skip ahead to Isaac Pennington. Isaac Pennington, son of Abraham, appeared in a Frederick Co VA deed in 1744, Bk 1, p 94, involving Thomas Colson. He was still a resident of Frederick Co VA as late as 1751 reporting on a road from court house to Williams Gap (Snickers Gap) In the same year Isaac Pennington of the Province of VA, Blacksmith, purchased from George Whiles and wife Elizabeth 350 acres in the fork of Broad and Saluda Rivers on a branch of Broad River called Pennington Creek. (Charleston Deed Bk L-3, p 466) Also in 1751 Isaac Pennington gave a power of attorney to Samuel Isaac, beloved and trusted friend in Frederick Co VA Deed Bk 2, p 367. The will of Samuel Isaac in 1760 Frederick Co VA Will Bk 2, p376 mentioned land from Capt John Lindsey. Another record in Frederick Co VA, Deed Bk 12, p 16, showed Godfrey Isaac (son of Samuel) conveying to David Ashby, and the witnesses were John Lindsay, Henry Wells, James Lindsey and Abigail Wells. These records further show the close association between the Pennington, Lindsey and Wells families in VA. In another SC record in 1754 Isaac Pennington petitioned that he had a wife for whom no land had been granted and requested 50 acres on or near the waters of Santee (Council journal No. 23, p 169). The last record for Isaac Pennington in VA was Frederick Co VA Deed Bk 3, p35, 1754 in which Isaac Pennington conveyed to John Hite et al. (Rest of paragraph is SC information BTrott) I sent information on the Lindseys Other families with connections to Frederick Co VA .. Speake (actually Charles Co MD & Fairfax Co VA), Wells, William Calmes Sr., Wadlington, Babb, Reeder, Philemon Waters, and others. How much of these records would you like? I might try my luck at scanning to TextBridge and sending you files. Im not much typist. Bill Trott
Hi,Dick. Rev Garrard Riley,of Ninian, came here to Bethel,Oh. Ninian went from Rock Creek,,n Wash D.C. to Surrey Co,NC,to s Lexington,Ky. Rev Jerry [Gerrard ] Moore converted Ninian to Baptist. A Riley Moore,of St Barnabus, found his way into O'DELL'S book in Shenadoah Co,Va/ I have Foulke blood,at Gwynedd-N.Wales, nnw Phila. One of the Foulkes m James Boone,uncle of Daniel Boone,who went from Berks,Pa to Old Rowan,NC after 1 1748 -49 winter long hunting the Blue Ridge of Rockingham Co,Va. Were the Pennington's from Pembrookshire,Wales? Col Evan Shelby ,Jr was an important indian trader. His 1st wife,Letitia Cox,grew up in Cecil Co. -SWEDE-kin of the Friend's,Enoch's,Nicholas',Tussey's,Husbands. Harmon Husbands fled from old Rowan,NC to Col Isaac Cox's beaver trapping cabin in,now,Somerset Co,Pa near where the Sept 11th flight wrecked.Husbands was sentanced to death in NC as a Regulator leader,and no WESTERN NC history of the REV WAR era,can be understood without knowing of the oaths to King George III forced on the defeated Regulators after their defeat at Allimance in [?] 1771 or 1773. Those oaths led to one of the colonies biggest Loyalist settlements,in 1776,and bitter ,bro vs bro warfare,in NC,and KY-.TN.
From "James Stark of Stafford County Virginia and His Descendants" JOHN LINDSEY FAMILY John Lindsey, born before 1720, was a contemporary of Thomas2 Stark. He apparently lived in the part of Frederick Co VA that is now Clarke Co VA. He was closely associated with the Humphrey Wells, Thomas Speake and Pennington families in VA as well as in SC. Probably all of these families lived in what is now Clarke Co rather than Frederick Co. They lived across the Blue Ridge from Thomas Stark who was living in southwestern Loudoun Co VA during this time period. According to the History of Clarke Co VA by Gold, the earliest settlement in Clarke Co was about 1740 when John and James Lindsey settled on Long Marsh. In 1740 Frederick Co VA was Orange Co. Orange Co Deed Bk 5,p 140, Mar 2, 1741/42, shows a deed from Isaac Pennington of Orange Co VA to John Linsey of same for part of a tract patented to Isaac Pennington in 1734. John Lindsey appeared in many Frederick Co VA deeds from 1748 until 1777 when in Frederick Co VA Deed Bk 17, p244, he said he was late of Frederick Co VA now of Berkley Co SC.
Forgot to add my Wells line which followed this bunch also Zorobabel, was in Talbot then Queen Ann. Humphrey, g-grandson of Zorobabel, who married Abigal Lindsey also shows, as married in Frederick Co and according to the Spry Genealogy was in Hampshire Co VA in 1762 or shortly thereafter. He was in Spartanburg Co SC in 1873 and and died in Richmond Co GA ca. 1782. I will check out all the Lindseys in the Stark books. Bill Trott
Please add John Gaskins,of Md and Berryville. My wife has a Bartholmew Gaskins sons in the sw Ohio neighborhood of Edmund Lindsey [SC] and Hezekiah Lindsey [sw Pa]. Bartholomew Anderson might [?] be a namesake. O'DELL,pg 220 puts Isaac and Jacob Pennington,John Gaskins,of Md, John Lindsey, Gilbert Guilder, [Hukill] Samuel Isaacs,John Parker together I have 4-5 of Dr Peter Craig's works. I've known him 20 years,I guess,though not had much contact the past 10 years. My wife also has Daugherty ties-likely with Cecil Co roots,on her Kirkpatrick-McCalmont -Findley side. Edmund Lindsey Jr sold to Samuel Mount [Andersson?] in 1765. page 216 O'dell Edmund Lindsey,Sr said he moved to Va in 1733. [Does that fit with the Stafford Co,Va resource mentioned in the Lindsey records posted earlier today.[pg 214 O'Dell] Osborn and Jasper Ball interest me.
Carolyn, Hermon, Bill et al, I read these posts with great interest (as Hermon knows) as some others of us , in various ways have tussled with the early migration of our important names! In my case it does include other early comers to Frederick , Berkeley, Hampshire and nearby areas. from Cecil and Old Baltimore (Harford) Counties primarily. My families include Loftin/on (Logsdon var.) Indian traders. Teagues(Lofton Pennington marryins), Penningtons(Lofton-Teague marryin), Friends (Mattsson), Corzines, Smiths, Ives and a handful of others not usually mentioned as having gone West from the Mouth of the Susquehanna. My wife's Alexander Lowrey was further up the Susquehanna in Lancaster Co. PA. Somewhere about 1730 or so, Penningtons, Loftons, Corzines, Smiths, Friends and others broke with the Land in MD and started West staying some time in PA and then on to the Potomac river which was then available - esp. for Indian Traders. My wife's Lowreys (PA)also went that way as did her Foukes and Chaplines and Rileys((PG County MD). Not too much new for most of you folks, but I am just fresh from lots of events and places and people new to me!! Dick Matteson College Park, MD PS. When the Loftons , Teagues, Corzines, Lindseys and others left for NC - Old Rowan County they can be found residing within a few miles of each other before the Rev. War. They harassed the British troops in that area and several found their names on posted lists as, "wanted - dead or alive!! On Sun, 4 Mar 2001 14:45:26 -0800 "Carolyn McDaniel" <cmacdee@centurytel.net> writes: > > Dear HFAGLEY, Bill Trott and Cousins on the List, > NOW we're getting somewhere! I haven't done the genealogy > on > the Lindsay's and the Andersons, but I am very interested in them > because of their proximity to Abraham Pennington. Just yesterday > I > started a webpage to interpret these very people, AND Nathanial > Dougherty, AND Christopher Beelor. Add in the Teagues, Thomas > Johnson > (who is likely connected to my Watts and Markham families), George > and > John Hardin, and attempt to unscramble the Multiple Williams, > Bakers, > and Davises, and we will have a Beginning! > Charles Anderson (and/or a variety of Andersons who seem to > be > of him) figured prominently in the Pennington family after they > moved > to South Carolina, where they had a fort in the vicinity of the > Enoree > and Tyger rivers. I think it is likely that Charles Anderson was > of > the Swedish family of Christopher Mounce/Mounts Anderson, who is > one > of those who broke out of the patronymic system, but in doing so, > confused things even more. Some of the descendants used Mounce or > Mounts, and some used Anderson without the qualifying name in the > middle. I think Mounce/Mounts was (like Hance) the interpretation > of > Mons or Mans (with the little o over the vowel.) Go back to your > well-worn copy of PSC's "Swedes on the Delaware," and check out his > information on the Mounce's etc.; he doesn't get into the Anderson > connection with Christopher. > There are good records at Maryland Archives (online) on > Naturalizations, and I have a page that maybe someday I will find > the > time to get put up on all of them, and their connections. Axel > Stille, Otho Othoson, Mathias Mathiason (als Freeman) Hendrickson, > etc., -- many many of the Swede/Finns and others. Often an Old > Country location is given, and sometimes a birthplace. > Bill, this is a real good book and wonderful information > you've come up with. I need to study what you've written and do > some > comparisons. I'm just getting ready to do a beginning study on > Abraham the Trader. > > Keep it coming! Great work! Go Team! > > Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn > > > -----Original Message----- > From: HFAGLEY@aol.com <HFAGLEY@aol.com> > To: AMXROADS-L@rootsweb.com <AMXROADS-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 6:24 AM > Subject: Re: [AMXROADS] Re: Abe Pennington+Lindsey's+Andersson's > > > >I'm looking at my well worn copy of Cecil O'Dell's "Pioneers of > Old > >Frederick Co,Va" at Abraham Pennington,of the Berryville,Va area, > >"and" his neighbors. The names of several of his neighbors have > been > >mentioned an AMXROADS-L recently. Let me ask about 2 other > neighbors > >who also migrated to SC . The Lindsey's,and the Anderson's. A dear > friend is > >from > >an Edmund Lindsey,who was paret of a SC->SW Ohio COLONY. Edmund > married > >Barbara,of my own Fisher's. Edmund settled near Hezekiah > Lindsey,who > migrated > >via > >sw of Pittsburg,Pa to sw Oh. Hez's daus m Elijah Mattox,Jesse > Swem,Jousha > >Brown,and Barbara Fisher's brother,John. > >2nd,my wife's from John Anderson,of Charles. I think Berkley Co+ > Cecil > >Co,Md's indian trader,Charles Anderson, was father of Charles > Anderson,of > >very sw Pa > > > > > >============================== > >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >