I decided to retackle the problem of connection FG 1/FG 20 and the North Carolina Penningtons. I am working my way through the counties that ran along the great wagon road from Philadelphia down through the Great Valley of Virginia. I found a few Penningtons that I am putting forward for perusal, if anyone recognizes them or has already gone over them please let me know. I am sure there are other things out there, these are just my first stab. Let me know what you think. Mandy Colgan FG 20 First: In York Co. PA there is an Capt. Ephraim Pennington 1st Battalion York Co. Milita Rev. War. His children were baptized at Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church in York, the only church there for a while and then the main church in the county. I have postulated him as Ephraim the son of Timothy of Mendham NJ. He is the right age and doesn't seem to be connected anywhere else. York County Will Abstracts 1749-1819 Pennington, Ephraim. York Borough. January 26, 1815 February 1, 1815 Executor: George Haller. Wife: Lydia Pennington. Children: Timothy, Mary m. John Stoner, Elizabeth m. Joseph Wampler, Susanna m. George Haller, and Lydia m. Robert Hay Second: Abraham and Issac Pennington of Old Frederick Co. VA. Old Frederick Co. represents or includes 12 present-day counties, 7 of which are now in West Virginia. They are to the west of the Great Wagon Road and north of Old Augusta Co. VA. This Abraham and Issac are of an age where they could be brothers to Timothy of Mendham NJ - they both received land grants in the 1730's which is the same time that Timothy is having children in NJ. Issac appears in the tax rolls in 1759. Isaac and John Vanmetre Land Grant assignees, 1730/1734, Frederick Co., VA USGenWeb Land Grant from William Gooch, Lieutenant Governour and Commander in Chief of Virginia Colony, to Isaac and John Vanmetre dated 17 June 1730. Assignees of 42,289 acres in 1734 to: 3 October 1734 Isaac Pennington, 500 acres. Abraham Pennington, 600 acres Virginia Census, 1800-90 [database on-line]. Ancestry.com Issac Penington Virginia Frederick Rent Rolls 1759 Third: There is a Timothy Pennington who married in Rockbridge Co. VA just a touch farther south on the Wagon Road. I have not yet found him elsewhere but will continue to look. A possible son of either Abraham or Issac of Frederick Co. VA? Named after his grandfather? Virginia Marriages to 1800 [database on-line]. Ancestry.com Timothy Pennington, Mary Fulton, 23 Feb 1785 Rockbridge Virginia