Dear Cousins, I've just loaded a Baltimore County, MD locality and family summary. It is centered around Penningtons, but my desire is to describe relationships with with the other families found there. Some of the Baltimore county families are from Pennsylvania, and many many migrated down into Virginia and the Carolinas. This page seeks to provide another link in the chain. It is always amazing to me to rediscover how mobile these families were. The migrations to Virginia began in the 1720's when the "Crossroads" were little more than wild animal paths the Indians first followed. Imagine taking one's family into such wilderness. Baltimore county itself was little developed itself at the beginning of the 18th century. There are several early tax compilations for Baltimore, however, and I have been checking the ones between 1701 and 1706 when several Penningtons first appear there who do not seem to be linked to various known Pennington families of the time. My own family seems to be one which springs from a Henry Pemberton. Later, remnants of these Pembertons seem to be listed as Pennington, and by the time my ancestor served in the War of 1812, most of the ones in what would become Carroll County in the 1830's (The Upper Delaware Hundred) were using that spelling, while others who had moved eastward toward Baltimore into Soldier's Delight Hundred still retained Pemberton. This Pennington/Pemberton family had connections to Randalls, Choates, Odells, Owings, Bakers, etc., who moved to the Virginia Southside beginning in Lunenburg county. These same families are also found in North Carolina. Other Penningtons migrated first west into Pennsylvania or Maryland and then into the Valley of Virginia -- just as most of the early migrants did, especially the Quakers. You may want to recheck the Virginia Migrations pages. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Migrations/virginia.ht ml Next page up will return to Levi Pennington, the Quaker, as an example of how to employ the various "new methodologies" as a means of examining and determining identity. The Baltimore County page is at: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Balto/famsum.html There also two contemporary paintings of Josias Pennington's Mill and Plantation by Francis Guy. These are a part of the wonderful historic paintings owned by the State of Maryland, and viewable online through the Maryland Archives. The paintings are a lovely means to try and gain better understanding of everyday facets of colonial life. These are http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Balto/page2.html http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Balto/page3.html Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= --- Visit American Crossroads ---