Hi, What was it that you did not find in the 1787 tax list? That wasn't clear from your posting. However, the Abram/Abraham PENNINGTON in the records you cite is the progenitor of PRA Group 8. Isaac PENNINGTON was one of his sons. I don't know who the other PENNINGTONs mentioned were. Best regards, Rod At 05:25 PM 11/14/99 EST, you wrote: >Thought I would pass this along. Hope it helps somesone out there. > >Did not find any in the 1787 Tax List. BUT I DID FIND SOME ON THE JEFFERSON >CO EXPLORER CD!!!!!! > >>>From a book called Gleamings of Old Frederick County Courts: >Nov. 11, 1743 >The next minute -- "Abram Pennington in open court acknowledged his Deed of >Lease for land to Christopher Beeller" -- no such names in Frederick at this >date. > >>>From a book-- James Rumsey Inventor by Jeanne Mosier >John Fitch solicited a certification from an Edward Pennington who on Oct, >11, 1787 swore that he too had seen Rumsey demonstrate a model boat at Bath >in September 1784 and "that there was not any steam engine to work said >boat, nor did I ever hear the said James Rumsey mention anything about a >boat being worked by means of steam." > >>>From a book by Norris, J. E. History of the Lower Shenandoah Valley: > >The first deed placed upon the records of Frederick County was one from >Abraham Penington to Christopher Beeler, of 500 acres of land "on the west >side of the Shenandoe River, a portion of a grant obtained by Penington in >1734." Beeler paid 90 pounds current money of Virginia for his farm. > > >May 11, 1744, the first grand jury was impaneled, consisting of John Hardin, >foreman, Robert Allan, George Hobson, James Vance, John Willcocks, Peter >Woolf, Isaac Pennington, David Logan, Robert Worth, Joshua Hedges, Robert >Willson, Samuel Morris, Hugh Parrell, James Hoge, Jacob Niswanger, Charles >McDowell, Morgan Bryant and Colvert Anderson. > >G. W. Fairfax owned lands on Long Marsh. Adjoined lands of Pennington, >Johnston and John Cozens, 1748. March 15, 1748, had surveyed for 3,023 >acres on Long Marsh. > >>>From Pioneers of the Shenandoah Valley and their decendents by T.K. >Cartmell: >"The Council has not time to attend to that business, in the present >alarming Crisis." "Exiles in Virginia" give interesting incidents >concerning the Quaker prisoners, from which we take the following: "On the >11th of Ninth Month 1777, the prisoners started on their march by Waggon >train seventeen being quakers, three being persons suspected of treason." >The list is given at this point, though it may include the names of some >already given; >James Pemberton, Edward Pennington, Henry Drinker, Mrs. Fisher, Wm. Drewet >Smith, Elijah Brown, Samuel Pleasants, Charles Eddy, Wm. Smith (broker), >Thos. Gilpin, Israel Pemberton, Thos. Wharton, Samuel R. Fisher, John Hunt, >Charles Jarvis, Owen Jones Jr., Thos. Pike, Thos. Afflick, John Pemberton, >Thos. Fisher. > > >I also have the list of Land Holders for Frederick County 1750 and Isaac >Pennington is listed. > >The counties covered on most of these books were Frederick, Berkeley, >Jefferson. Keep in mind that this area was all Frederick County until about >1777. From 1777 the Berkeley Jefferson area were all Berkeley County and in >1801 Jefferson became a county. ===================================================== Rod Pennington [email protected] Leader-PRA Group 8 Pennington Research Association: http://www.penningtonresearch.org/ Group 8 webpage: http://www.iquest.net/~rodpenn/pennington.htm Lee webpage: http://members.tripod.com/~rodpenn/index.html