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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



first jury under the Proprietary Gov- 

 ernment, He was a Friend and refused 

 to take an oath before Uphind Court 

 in 1G78, but he was not an active 

 member of that Society. He came 

 from the vicinity of Loudon where he 

 had suffered persecution for attending 

 the meetings of the Quakers. 



Pennick, John, was an early settler 

 in Bethel. His wife was Frances, the 

 sister of Edward Beazer. He was a 

 man in very moderate circumstances, 

 but lived in unity with Friends. In 

 1695 he purchased land in Bethel, ad- 

 joining the south line of Concord. His 

 children were Joshua, Edward, Ruth, 

 Lydia, Mary, Rachel, Sarah and Han- 

 nah. 



Pknniok, Edward and Christopher, 

 two brothers, and brothers of the above 

 John Pennick. They resided in Bethel; 

 and both died in 1732, leaving no chil- 

 dren. The three brothers probably 

 came from Cork, in Ireland, but when 

 they immigrated is not known. 



Pennell, Robert, with his wife, 

 Hannah, and family, settled in Middle- 

 town as early as 1G86. In 1687 he was 

 appointed constable for that township. 

 His wife died in 1711, aged seventy-one 

 years, while he was still living. Their 

 children, so far as is known, were 

 Hannah, who married John Sharp- 

 less of Ridley; Joseph, who married 

 Alice, daughter of "William Garrett of 

 Darby ; Ann, who married Benjamin 

 Mendenhall of Concord, and William, 

 who married Mary, daughter of Thomas 

 and Mary Mercer of Thornbury. They 

 were all Friends in good standing. 



Pennell, John, 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 Con- 

 cord 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 convinced of the truth of the doc- 

 trines of Quakerism. When sixteen, 

 she emigrated to Pennsylvania and 

 united herself with Friends, and in 



1722 became a minister, and subse- 

 quently travelled much in the exercise 

 of her calling. She visited the New 

 England colonies, and on one occasion 

 Great Britain and Ireland. 



Pennock, Joseph, was the son of 

 Christopher Pennock, who, on the au- 

 thority of tradition, was an officer in 

 the military service of William of 

 Orange, emigrated to Cornwall, Eng- 

 land, and subsequently married Marj , 

 the daughter of George Collett of Clon- 

 mel, in the County of Tipperary, Ireland. 

 After residing there and in England for 

 some time, he, prior to the year 1685, 

 removed to Pennsylvania, but being in 

 the service of King William, was in the 

 battle of Boyne in 1690. By trade he 

 was a cardmaker. He died in Phila- 

 delphia in 1701. His children were 

 Nathaniel, who died young, and Joseph, 

 the subject of this notice, who was 

 born at or near Clonmel in 1677. 

 Joseph, in one of his passages to this 

 country, under a Letter of Marque, was 

 captured by a French ship of war and 

 carried to France, where he was re- 

 tained as a prisoner upwards of a year, 

 and suffered many hardships. In 1702 

 he settled in Philadelphia, and engaged 

 in the mercantile business. In 1705 

 he was a resident of Springfield town- 

 ship, (perhaps only temporarily so,) 

 and was that year married to Mary, 

 the daughter of Samuel Levis of that 

 township. Joseph was not in member- 

 ship with Friends, but Mary being the 

 daughter of one standing high in that 

 Society, the marriage was effected at 

 the residence of the Ijride.'s father, after 

 the manner of Friends, before two Jus- 

 tices of the Court, and a suitable num- 

 ber of witnesses. In 1714, Joseph, 

 with his family, removed to West Marl- 

 borough, Chester County, and settled 

 on a large tract of land. Here, in 1738, 

 he erected a large mansion, which he 

 called " Primitive Hall," and in which 

 he died in 1771. His wife died in 1748. 

 Their children were Elizabeth, Samuel, 

 William, Mary, Joscpli, Nathaniel, Ann, 

 Sarah, Joseph, (2) Hannah, Levis and 

 Susanna. 



Joseph Pennock was a man of ability, 

 public spirit and indomitable energy. 

 He represented the County of Chester 

 twelve years in the Provincial Assem- 

 bly, being first elected to that office in 

 1716. At first, his Marlborough resi- 



