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From: "H.R. Worthington" <>
Subject: Re: To 14 PENNELL Cousins
Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 01:39:53 -0400


Since there have been a number of Queries / Posts on the Pennell
Surname:

>From The History of Chester County, PA, page 679:

PENNELL, Robert, with Hannah, his wife, from Balderton, in
Nottinghamshire, settled in Middletown as early as 1686, and the next
year he was appointed constable for the township. They were both active
members of the meeting. Hannah died 12, 4, 1711, aged seventy-one years,
and Robert about the year 1728. Their children were Ann , m. 2, 17,
1689, Benjamin Mendenhall; EIizabeth, m. in 1690, Josiah Taylor; Hannah,
b. 7, 23, 1673, m. 9, 23, 1692, John Sharples; Joseph, b. 10, 12, 1674;
James, b. 9, 11, 1676; Jane, b. 5, 13, 1678, m. Samuel Garrett; William,
b. 8, 11, 1681, m. 8, 26, 1710, Mary Mercer, daughter of Thomas and
Mary.

Joseph Pennell married, in 1701, Alice, daughter of William Garrett, of
Darby, and settled in Edgemont. His children were Hannah, b. 11, 4,
1702, m. Joseph Jackson; Robertm b. 6, 20, 1704; Joseph, b. 6. 3, 1706;
Alice, b. 8, 2, 1709; Ann, b. 8, 2, 1711, m. Cadwalader Evans.

The children of William and Mary Pennell, of Middletown, were Thomas, b.
9, 3, 1712, d. 2, 14, 1745; Hannah, b. 7, 9, 1714, m. Thomas Holcomb;
James, b. 6, 21, 1717, m. Jerima Matlack; Phebe, b. 6, 7, 1719; Ann, b.
11, 26, 1721; Robert, b. 9, 16, 1723; William, b. 11, 27, 1725-6, d. 9,
5, 1783.

John Pennell was in the country as early as 1689; was probably then
quite a young man, and resided in the neighborhood of Darby. In 1703 he
married Mary Morgan, of Dublin Monthly Meeting, and settled in Aston
township. But little is known of John, but Mary became eminent as a
minister among Friends. She was born in Radnorshire, Wales, and was
educated in the Church of England, but at the early age of thirteen
years was covenced of the truth of the doctrines of Quakerism. When
she emigrated to Pennsylvania, and united self with Friends, sad in 1722
became a minister, and subsequently traveled much in the exercise of her
calling. She visited the New England colonies, and on one occasion Great
Britain and Ireland.

John's mother, Mary Pennell, a widow, was married, in 1690, to Edward
Walter, and again, in 1699, to Robert Fletcher. Isebell Pennell, who
married, 2, 28, 1709, James King, of Concord, was probably a daughter.
She and her husband removed to West Nottingham, and afterwards to
Little Britain, Lancaster Co. Of the children of John and Mary Pennell,
Caleb married, 8, 26, 1727, Sarah Whitaker, and removed to the
Susquehanna, near the Maryland line; Joshua removed to Newtown, and
married Hannah Lewis, 2, 20, 1726; Mary married, 11, 9, 1727, Daniel
Pyle, and 7, 29, 1742, to Samuel Jackson; Hannah married Phinebas Lewis,
8, 22, 1730; John married, 4, 12, 1740, Martha Martin.

In 1759, John Pennell and wife, Mary, removed to East Caln with their
granddaughter, Mary Jackson. Mary Pennell died 5, 10, 1764, and her
husband not long before.

Hope this is helpful. Enjoy
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Russ

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