The Family of William Penn: A Collated Record

& & a§p.mmummomma_ammam &q mO The Pennsylvania N g g IQ b3 t= GENEALOGICAL 1 Magazine N gggMgMgng63g63g63M2M3ggggggg63gMg The Family of William Penn A Collated Record* W ITH the approach, in 1968, of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the death of William Penn, the Founder of Pennsylvania, the time is appropriate for a capsulization within these pages of the basic genealogical information which has been recovered on his ancestry and descendants. New information uncovered in recent years, which adds to or corrects certain aspects of the family history, has appeared in various publications over the years. The aim of the present study, therefore, is to present in one record an up-to-date collation of this new material and the still valid genealogical data. In only a minor sense is this study the result of original research since the greater part of it has been taken from the work of others. It incorporates a brief mention of pertinent material drawn from the English researches of Brigadier Oliver F. G. Hogg, a descendant of William Penn. In his monograph, Further Light on the Ancestry of William Penn, published by the Society of Genealogists in London in 1964, he has extended the Founder's ancestry one generation farther back in the sixteenth century, and has uncovered new data on the generations immediately preceding the Founder himself. Specific items relating to the Founder's relatives and progeny which have been uncovered by Francis James Dallett, a Fellow of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania presently residing in England, are included in brief, extracted, with his permission, from his "Further Gleanings" which are presented separately in full in other pages of this issue. His findings supplement the "Genealogical Gleanings, Contributory to a History of the Family of Penn," by the late J. Henry Lea of Fairhaven, Collected mcl arranged by the Uttar. 69 70 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Massachusetts, which appeared in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography in Volumes XIV (1890), XVI (1892), XVII (1893), and in The New England Historic and Genealogical Register, Volume 54 (1900). They also supply various records missing from the late Howard M. Jenkins' The Family of William Penn, Founder of Pennsylvania: Ancestry and Descendants (Philadelphia and London, 1899), which first appeared serially in The Pennsylvania Magazine in Volume XX (1896) through Volume XXII (1898). These sources, with the addition of the recent findings of genealogical import by Henry J. Cadbury, which have appeared in the same publication, provide the basic framework for the present study. For the benefit of those unfamiliar with the Founder's progeny, it should be noted that he was twice married and was the father of sixteen children. However, by his first wife, Gulielma Maria Springett, only his eldest surviving son, William Penn, Jr., has known descendants living today. They stem from the latter's granddaughter, Christiana Gulielma Penn who married Peter Gaskell. An account of their progeny appears in a separate paper in this issue. By the Founder's second wife, Hannah Callowhill, only their second son, Thomas Penn, has descendants living. They stem from Thomas's youngest daughter, Sophia Margaretta Juliana Penn who married William Stuart, Archbishop of Armagh. As Brigadier Hogg, of this branch of the family, has compiled an extended account of their progeny, the present record is limited to a brief account of their children and grandchildren. If possible, his complete record will appear in full in a subsequent issue of this Magazine. All of the other children of the Founder either died unmarried, had no issue or, leaving issue, were the progenitors of lines which so far as is known became extinct within one or two generations. Thus, none of his living descendants bear the single surname of Penn, since they all stem from female lines. In his monograph on William Penn's ancestry, Brigadier Hogg has established beyond question that JOHN PENNE of Minety, then in the county of Gloucester and hundred of Crowthorne and Minety, is the Founder's earliest proven progenitor. Minety, which takes its name from "mint stream," in the sixteenth century administratively belonged to Gloucestershire, but physically was completely surrounded by Wiltshire.' The first Subsidy Roll recording the surname of Penn in the Minety lies about seven miles due south of Cirencester in Gloucester, four or five miles northeast of Malmesbury in Wiltshire, and eight or nine miles west of Swindown, the nearest industrial town, also in Wiltshire. Brigadier Hogg no. (p. 15), in the monograph cited in the text, that through shifts in population from country to town, Minety has become a small Wiltshire village with a population of about 705 The Family of William Penn 71 hundreds of Minety and Cirencester is that of 14-15 Henry VIII. It shows that in 1522, John Penne of Minety paid a tax of six shillings eight pence on his chattels. A quarter of a century later in 1550, the Subsidy Roll of 3 Edward VI shows that he paid six shillings tax on movable goods worth six pounds. After that his name no longer appears on the rolls, and he is presumed to have died shortly thereafter.' During his lifetime, however, his undoubted son 1. WILLIAM PENNE of Minety, was also listed. On the Gloucester Lay Subsidy Rolls of 36 and 37 Henry VIII he was assessed thirteen shillings in 1544-46. 3 Then on 5 February 1547/8, one Richard Andrewes of Hales, in Gloucestershire, granted to "William Penne, yoman" of Minety, a messuage, about forty acres of land in Minety, and the moiety of a croft, as well as one acre, three roods of land in the tenure of one John Rydeler. In addition to this holding, he was taxed six shillings on personalty worth six pounds on the Subsidy Roll of 2-3 Edward VI for 1548-1550. Ten years later the roll of 2 Elizabeth I listed him as being taxed in 1560 on goods now worth eight pounds. By 1594, on the next extant roll for Minety of 3 537 Elizabeth I, the name of Penn is missing, bearing out his death 12 March 1591/2! He was buried before the altar in Minety Church where a monumental stone, no longer extant, recorded his death. In his will, dated 1 May 1590, and proved 21 April 1592, he called himself "Willm Penne of Myntie in the County of Glouc, yeoman." To the children of his deceased son 2. William Penn, whom he named as Giles, William, Maria, Sara and Susanna Penn, he bequeathed twenty pounds apiece when they came of age, or at the time of their marriage. To Margaret Penn, widow of his son William Penn, he left an annuity of ten pounds so long as she "keep herself sole and chaste and unmarried." If she married again or led an unchaste life, she was to receive twenty pounds, "a good Bed with all manner of Furniture thereunto belonging and so she quietly [was then] to depart." As heir and sole executor he named his grandson George Penn, eldest son of his deceased son William; he was to receive, after debts and legacies were paid, the residue of his estate, "moveable and unmoveable." As overseers he named Robert George of Cirencester, Richard Lawrence of Withington, Glos., and Francis Bradshaw of Wokely, Wilts., with power to see that all his testamentary instructions were carried out. To his daughter Ann Greene and her daughter Elizabeth Greene he gave each a heifer. To Richard 2 Hogg, Further Light, 12, 42. 3. 3 Henry Lea, .Genealogical Gleanings . . . ," Tbe Neu , England Historic and Genealogical Register 54 (1900), 326. Brigadier Hogg does not include this item in his account. A pedigree chart preceding Mr. Lea's record of the Penn family begins with William Penne of Minety. (NEHGR). °Hogg, Further Light, 12, 42. 72 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Bidle he gave one cow, to his daughter Katherine Bidle a heifer, to William Mallibroke a yearling heifer, and to Alice Thermor his "old white mare." Witnesses to the will included Francis Bradshaw, William Taylor, and Richard Munden.' Issue of 1. William Penne of Minety: 2. i. WILLIAM PENN of Malmesbury, d. ca. 1158 , of whom further. ii. ANN GREENE, living in 1590; rn. one GREENE, possibly Marmaduke Greene of Ballincham, as suggested by J. Henry Lea in his pedigree chart of the Penn family. Known issue: 1. ELIZABETH GREENE, living and named in her grandfather's will in 1590. Mr. Lea suggests that Robert Green, apprenticed 13 April 1602, to Giles Penn of Bristol, draper, was also a son. He also notes a Marmaduke Green who d. abroad unmarried, administration on whose estate was granted 3 October 1623, to his sister Ann Sympson.° 2. WILLIAM PENN, son of William Penne of Minety and grandson of John Penne of the same place, was apprenticed as a law-clerk to the counsellor-at-law, Christopher George of Bawnton, near Cirencester, eventually becoming his chief clerk. He was married by 1570 to MARGARET RasTALL., daughter of John Rastall, Alderman of Gloucester, and his wife Anne George, a sister of the above Christopher. William and Margaret Penn apparently settled in Malmesbury, four or five miles southwest of Minety. In the Malmesbury Subtidy Rolls of 1570-71, 13 Elizabeth I, William was taxed six shillings on his movable goods, and was taxed there again ten years later. According to Brigadier Hogg, he was not listed in the Subsidy Roll for 1586-87, but in the 1 587 Lay Subsidy Roll for Malmesbury borough in the Public Record Office is the entry for "Willms Pene goods iij li--viij d," as cited by Mr. Lea.' It is apparent, however, that William Penn was deceased by 1588, and that in 1590 his widow and six children were living in Minety with the elder William Penne. Issue of 2. William Penn of Malmesbury and his wife Margaret Rastall: i. GEORGE PENN, b. perhaps ca. 1571; d. intestate in Brinkworth, Wiltshire, and was bur, at Minety 5 urn 1632; m. probably before 1600, ELIZABETH, who survived him, and was administratrix of his estate.° He proved his grandfather's will in 1592, and as his heir was taxed on the Minety property at least through 1604, as shown on the Subsidy Rolls of 40 Elizabeth I 5 A transcript of the will is in ;bid., 37-39, and also in I. Henry Lea, "Genealogical Gleanings . The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (PMHB), XIV (1890), 57-61. h NEHGR, 54, 325. PMHB, XIV, 291. This last entry is not cited by Brigadier Hogg. The record of letters of adminiscration on the estate of "George Penn late of Brinkworch, co. Wilts, decd;' is in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1631-33, So. 138b, as cited in PMHB, XIV, 171, and noted on Mr. Los's pedigree chart. The Family of William Penn 73 (1598-98), 42 Elizabeth I (1599-1600), and I James I (1603-1604). He was a churchwarden in Minety in 1608, but by 1621 had removed to Brink- worth, a few miles south of Mine ty and east of Malmesbury, where he became one of the "Preservators, Keepers and Officers of the forest of Braydon." Letters of administration on his estate were granted Elizabeth Penn, his relict, 1$ December 1632, Known issue: I. WILLIAM PENN, d. testate cos. April, 1676, at Kinsale, Ireland. Sometimes termed Ensign, by 1667 he was Clerk of the Cheque at Kinsale, and on corresponding terms with his cousin Admiral Sir William Penn who mentioned him in his 1669 will.. Other issue'. of George Penn possibly include: (2.) ELIZABETH PENN, m. at St. Thomas, Bristol, 18 September 1620, GEORGE JONES of Grittenham, Wilts., when he wrote his will 20 February 1629, in which he named his presumed father-in-law, George Penn, as overseer. The will was proved 7 October 1629. (3.) ... MARGERY PENN, spinster of Brinkworth, m. at Brinkworth by license 17 October 1622, JOHN SHERER. (4.) SUSANNA PENN, spinster of Brinkworth, m. at Brinkworth by license 2 August 1633, RICHARD CUSSE, mercer of Watson Bassett, Wilts. (5.) ELEANOR PENN, bapt. at Cirencester 27 October 1611; m. by license 12 May 1635, EDWARD KEENE, b. 02. 1608, yeoman of Blackbourton, Oxon. At the time of marriage she was aged 24, and he aged 27. She was called cousin in Admiral Penn's will. (6.) CHRISTIAN PENN, d. intestate 25 Christian Tucke of Charlton, Wilts., before 1630/31, when letters of administration on her estate were granted to George Penn. 3. if. GILES PENN, b. ca. 1573; dec'd by 25 February 1656, of whom further. iii. WILLIAM PENN, apprenticed as 'Webs Penne," son of William "de Myntye . . . defunct," 6 August 1596, to John Aldworth, merchant of Bristol; admitted as "marchaunt" to the Liberties of Bristol 5 June 1607; deed by August 1628; m. before 1610 to MARGERY, who survived her husband and was living in 1628. Brigadier Hogg establishes that William Penn was in business with his elder brother Giles in Bristol; by 1618 they had suffered severe financial losses "to their utter ruin," and were hoping for employment abroad, as suggested by some of their creditors, in order to pay their debts and recover their estates. Known issue: I. CATHERINE PENN, bapt. at St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, 23 December 1610, 2. MARTHA PENN, bur. at St. Mary Redcliffe 12 August 1628, as daughter of Margery Penn, widow. iv. MARIA PENN, named in her grandfather's 1590 will. OM. Jackson Crispin, "Captain William Crispin," PMHB, LID (1929), 122-124, adds some slight information on "Ensign Penn" to that furnished by Brigadier Hogg. His will a entered in Cork and Row Wills, 1676. A copy of a podium chart of 37 pages, from the Virginia State Library, reported to be a record of his descendants, but without documental°, is in the Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. The list of possible daughters of George Penn of Biinkworth in the text above follows neither Mr. Lea nor Brigadier Hogg in all respects, but is the present arranger's own list, based on an evaluation of the evidence they presented. Mr- Lea listed Elizabeth, Eleanor and Christian as George's daughters, but considered Susanna, who m. Richard Cane, a daughter of William of Malmcsbury and sister of George. In view of her residence at Brinkworth when she married, that contention seems unlikely. Margery, who m. John Sherer, if a daughter of George, eras perhaps named for her aunt, wife of George's brother William. Certainly Eleanor, baps. at Cirencester, who m. Edward Keene, and was called "cousin" by Admiral Penn, was more likely George'e daughter than a nine, as suggested by Brigadier Hogg (p. 271• Her marriage allegation is given by Mr. Lea in PMHB, XVI (1892), 316, taken front the Diocesan Regutry. Sarum, Wilts. 74 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine v. SARA PENN, named in her grandfather's 1590 will. vi. SUSANNA PENN, named m her grandfather's 1590 will. 3. GILES PENN, son of William Penn, the law clerk of Malmesbury, and his wife Margaret Rastall, was born perhaps about 1573. Brigadier Hogg suggests that he may have been named for Giles, Lord Chandos who, in 1573, became lord of the manor of Minety. He was apprenticed, as "Egidius Penne, filius Willi Penne nup. de Myntie . . defunct," to the linen draper, John Horte of Bristol, and Juliane his wife, on 1 May 1593, a year after his grandfather's will was offered for probate. It was as "Gylles Penne, draper," that he was admitted to the "Liberties" of Bristol on 3 April 1600, "because he was Prentice of Mr. John Horte, Alderman, Deceased." ' The following 5 November 1600, he married at St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, JOAN GILBEART (Gilbert), of a family originally from Yorkshire. From draper Giles Penn progressed to merchant with his younger brother William, and by 1618 had been overtaken with financial losses. In 1630 records show that he was travelling between England and the Barbary Coast, importing and selling assorted goods. Styled Captain Penn in 1631, he was in London in 1636, and the following year, when he was appointed resident consul for Charles I at Sallee (Sale in Morocco), he was described as "a man well-experienced in the language and custom of the said country." He was deceased, probably overseas, by 1656, when a new consul was appointed at Sallee." Issue of 3. Giles Penn and his wife Joan Gilbeart: i. GEORGE PENN, bapt. at St. Mary Port, Bristol, 1 October 1602; d. in England, July-August 1664; m. in Antwerp a Spanish lady and settled at San Lucar, having followed his father's profession and prospered. Is, 1643, he was arrested by the officers of the Inquisition and imprisoned in Seville for three years until under torture he abjured the Protutant faith. His property had been siezed, his wife divorced from him (she was a Roman Catholic), and he was expelled from Spain. No known issue." GILES PENN, bapt. at St. Nicholas, Bristol, 4 October 1603; probably died in infancy. HENRY PENN, bapt. at Christ Church, Bristol, 26 January 1604; d. unmarried beyond the sea, with administration on his estate granted to his father George on 7 June 1632." (iv.) ELIZABETH PENN, said to have been a sister of the Admiral, b. perhaps ca. 1605; d. in Boston, Mass., 1640; m. before 1621 in London, 'WILLIAM 5lThe apprenticeship and citizenship records cited in the text above are from NEHGR, 54, 326-327. "For a snore extended account of Gles Perm's activities, see Hogg, Further Light, 27-31. 'George Penn's baptism is in NEHGR, 54, 328, his death in Jenkins, The Family of William Penn, 17, cited in the text, and quoted from Pepys' Diary. Brigadier Hogg elaborates (p. 31-321 the details of his life more extensively than Jenkins. " Henry Penn's dates are given 00 Mr. Lea's pedigree chart. The Family of William Penn 75 HAMMOND, d. in London before 1634. With her son and daughters she came to Boston on the ship Griffin, arriving 16 September 1634, in company with the Rev. Mr. Lothrop. Issue: 1. BENJAMIN HAMMOND, b. in London 1621; d. in Rochester in 1703, or. 82; m. in Sandwich in 1650, MARY YIN-. CENT, b. in England in 1633. 2. ELIZABETH HAMMOND. 3. MARTHA HAMMOND. 4. RACHEL HAMMOND?' v. RACHEL PENN, "daughter of Gyles Penn," bapt. at St. Mary Radcliffe, Bristol, 24 February 1607; m. by license 26 October 1630, at St. Gregory by St. Paul, London, RALPH BRADSHAW, b. ca. 1611, son of Lawrence Bradshaw and his wife Sarah Hinchman; his will was probated 31 January 1667/8, Issue: 1. ROBERT BRADSHAW, d. without issue. 2. WILLIAM BRADSHAW, d. in infancy. 3. James Bradshaw, b. ca. 1646; d. 1691 in New Castle on the Delaware River; m, MARY, who survived him. 4. JOHN BRADSHAW, b. ca. 1651. 5. REBECCA BRADSHAW, d. ca. 1664-1665; m. at St. Dunstan's, Stepney, Middlesex, 28 September 1652, as his first wife, WILLIAM CiusmAr, bapt. 3 October 1627; d. beyond the sea en route to Pennsylvania 1681/2. Letters of administration on his estate were granted in Ireland 7 July 1682. His cousin William Penn, the Founder, had intended him to be Chief Justice in the new province. 6. SARAH BRADSHAW, d. in infancy. 7, MARY BR.Ansrmw, d. in infancy. 8. ANNE BIUDSHAW. 9. FRANCES BRADSHAW, In. after 1664, WILLIAM ASSHETON, attorney - atlaw, coroner of Lancashire, and a Deputy Herald of Arms. They were the progenitors of the Philadelphia Assheton (Ashton, etc.) family." vi. ELEANOR PENN, bapt. at St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, 26 May 1610; bur. there 24 November 1612. vii. A Daughter, name unknown, who possibly married WILLIAM MARKHAM of 011erton, Notts. Issue, called nephews by Admiral Penn: I. WILLIAM MARKHAM, b. perhaps ca. 1635; d. testate in Philadelphia 12 4m (June) 1704; m. 1st, according to the entry in Pepys' Diary of 0 August 1666, ANN- (NAN) WRIGHT; m. 2nd, ca. January 1683/4, MRS. JOANNA JOBSON, Widow of Capt. Eben Jobson; she was living in New York in 1726. William Markham preceded his cousin, the Founder, to Philadelphia, as Deputy Governor of Pennsylvania.. 2, GEORGE MARKHAM. "'This record of a possible daughter of Giles Penn is included in Jenkins, 253, but was first published in NEGHR, 30 (1876), 29, and was put of an extended family record. The pertinent part of the record was reported to have been from an account first made in 1700 by Benjamin Hammond's son John. There were many Hammond families in London; a starch of the published church records has failed to substantiate the record, but inasmuch as the fasnily appears to have been dissenters, there probably would be no church entries referring to them. In Rachel (Penn) Bradshaw's family data is extracted from Francis James Dull., "Further Gleanings," published in the present issue of this Magazine, to which the reader is referred. ss William Marlshsnis origins are suggested in The Dictionary of American Biography. The seal be is said to have used was that of the Marlthams of Sedgebrooke, Notts. from which the 011erton branch descended: Azure on a thief Or, a demi-lion rampant issu. In John F. Watson, 'Annals of Philadelphia - • , (Philadelphia, 1927), III, 55, Markharn's age was said to have been twenty-one when he was commissioned Deputy Governor by William Penn in 1681. It hardly seems likely his cousin would have intrusted the initiation of his governmmt to so young a man. In Watson, I, 23, it is also stated that Markham WO aged fifty-four when he diod in 16941 The correct death date is given in Edward Armstrong, ed., Correspondence Between William Penn and Lames Logan . • • , (Philadelphia, 1870), II, 294, 307. His will, dated Is December 1701, and proved 3 July 1704, is recorded ha Philadelphia Will Book B, 364, #137,1704. He reported his second marriage to William Pmn in a letter dated 27 Match 1684, Markham to Penn, Society Autograph Collection, Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP). 76 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine viii. ANN PENN, bapt. at St. Thomas, Bristol, 21 January 1618; bur. at St. Mary Redclifle, Bristol, 23 February 1651, apparently unmarried. 4. ix. WILLIAM PENN, the Admiral, bapt. at St. Thomas, Bristol, 23 April 1621; ci testate at Wanstead, Essex, 16 September 1670; bur. at Sc. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, 3 October 1670, of whom further. The life of 4. WILLIAM PENN, youngest child of Giles Penn and his wife Joan Gilbeart, is stated succinctly on the monument erected to his memory by his widow and son in the church of St. Mary Redcliffe." Trained for the sea service under his father with whom he served as a lad on numerous mercantile voyages, the monument states he became a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and in 1642 (at the age of twenty-one) was appointed a captain. The following year on 6 January 1642/3, at the church of St. Martin, Ludgate, London, he married a young widow, MARGARET (JASPER) VAN DER SCHUREN, daughter of Johann Jasper, a merchant of Rotterdam and Ballycase, County Clare, Ireland, and widow of Nicasius Van der Schuren of Kilconry, parish of Kilruth, County Clare." They established a household in London on Tower Hill in the parish of St. Catherine. In 1645, when he was twenty-three, he was appointed Rear Admiral; in 1647, Vice Admiral of Ireland; in 1650, Admiral of the "Streights;" in 1652, Vice Admiral of England. In 1613, at the age of thirty-two, he was a general in "the first Dutch Warres;" and on 4 December 1654, by order of Cromwell, was granted lands in County Cork in Ireland "in consideration of the great losses sustained by General Penn and his wife by the rebellion in Ireland." Upon the Restoration he was knighted by Charles II on 9 June 1660, made Admiral of the Navy, Governor of the town and fort of Kinsale and, in 1664, was chosen Captain Commander under the king in the successful fight against the Dutch. In 1669, he retired from active affairs to Wanstead in Essex, where he died testate 16 September 1670, aged forty-nine years and four months. He was interred "In Led" in St. Mary Redcliffe the following 3 October." In his will, dated 4 April 1669, and proved in London 6 October 1670, he devised £300 and all his jewels not otherwise bequeathed to his wife Dame Margaret Penn, as well as the life use of half of his plate and household goods, coaches, coach-horses and mares, and cows. During his The best transcript of the inscription oath, Admiral's monument is in Hogg, Further Light, 31, The transcripts given by Jenkms in PMHB, XX, 15, and in The Family of William Pews, vary considerably in form, but only slightly in wording. 10 Their marriage record is extracted from Mr. Dalletes "Further Gleanings .' in this issue, to which the reader is referred. 20 His burial date has uniformly been given as 30 September 1670, but the register of St. Mary Redeliffe indicates otherwise, for which see PMHB. XIV, 296. Possibly a funeral service was held at Vanstead m the thirtieth, after which the funeral cortege proceeded to Bristol foe interrment. The Family of William Penn 77 minority his younger son Richard was to have E120 yearly out of the personal estate for his maintenance and, when he came of age, £4000 sterling, with the Admiral's favorite diamond ring, all his swords, guns and pistols. To his granddaughter, Margaret Lowther, he left E100, to his nephews, James Bradshaw and William Markham, and to his cousin William Penn, son of George Penn "late of the forest of Braydon, deceased," each ten pounds. To his nephews, John Bradshaw and George Markham, he left five pounds apiece, and to his cousin "Elianore" Keene six pounds, to be paid her yearly in quarterly installments. His servant, William Bradshaw, was to have forty shillings for a ring; his servant, John Whrenn, five pounds, and the poor of the parishes of Redcliffe and St. Thomas in Bristol, each twenty pounds. To his eldest son William Penn, whom he named sole executor, he left his gold chain and medal, the other half of his plate and household goods, directing him to provide out of the personal estate suitable mourning for Dame Margaret, for his son Richard, for his daughter Margaret and her husband Anthony Lowther, for Dr. Whister and his wife, and for such servants as Dame Margaret should nominate. Sir William Coventry, of the parish of St. Martin in the Fields, was to act as mediator in the event of any differences between Dame Margaret and his son William. Witnesses were R. Langhorn, John Radford, and William Markham, probably the nephew." Dame Margaret Penn survived her husband twelve years, dying a year after her son obtained his charter for Pennsylvania from King Charles. Letters of administration on the estate of Margaret Penn, late of "Waltham Stow," Essex, were granted 13 March 1681/2, to her son, the Founder of Pennsylvania." Issue of 4. Admiral Sir William Penn and his wife Margaret (Jasper) Van der Schuren: 5. i. WILLIAM PENN, the Founder, b. in London 14 October 1644; d. at Ruscomlx, Berks., 30 f m (July) 1718, bur. at Jordan, Friends' Meeting ground near Chalfont, Bucks., of whom further. it. MARGARET PENN, b. ca. 1645; d. 5 December 1718, ae. 73,2 bur. at '3%1 21 A transcript of his will, given in Hogg, Further light, 39-41, and an abstract of it ha PMHB, XIV, 171. Cimd in ibid., 150, from Administration Act Book, So. 31, Prerogative Court of Canterbury. In Mr. Dollen', "Further Gleanings" in diis issue, her death date is given as 5 December 1719, but in a letter of Hannah Penn, dated 9 In, (May) 1720, she is reported to have died her months after her brother William, the Founder. It seems evident that the tranactipt of the monumental inscription which Mr. Dallett quotes is in error. For the letter, see Jelahns, The Panfily of William Peng, 116, or PMHB, XXI (1897), 17. The list of their children, however, is extracted from Mr. Dalletes ...script, to which the reader is referred; their birth dams are ma -mly conjectural. See also Henry 3. Cadbury, "Intercepted Comespondts“ of William Penn, 1670," PMHB, LXX (1946), 362n. 78 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine thamstow, Essex; m. at Clapham, Surrey, by license 14 February 1666/7, ANTHONY LOWTHER, b. cc 1640; d. 27 January 1692, ae. 52, bur. at Walthamstow in the church of St. Mary the Virgin, son of Robert Lowther of Maske, Yorkshire. Anthony Lowther was M.P. for Appleby in 1678 and 1679. Issue: 1. MARGARET LOWTHER, b. 8 February 1667/8; d. cc 17191720; m. BENJAMIN POOLE, Esq." 2. WILLIAM LowTHER, d. ca. 1669, at. 6 months, bur. at Walthamstow. 3. ELIZABETH LOWTHER, b. ca. July 1670; prob. d. before 1681. 4. ROBERT LOWTHER, b. ca. 1672; d. ca. 1693, "a Gent, of great hopes and learning;" bur. at Walthamstow. 8. WILLIAM Lownim (2nd), b. ca. 1674, created Baronet in 1697; d. in April 1704; m. Catherine Preston, daughter of Thomas Preston of Holker, Lane. 6. ANN CHARLOTTE LOWTHER, b. ca. 1676; d. after 1681, in childhood. 7. ANTHONY LOWTHER, JR., b. ca. 1678; d. at. 1 year and 8 months, bur. at Waltharnstow. 8. JOHN LOWTHER, b. ca. 1680; m. by 1720, and living in 1731.. 9. ANTHONY LOWTHER (2nd), b. ca. 1682; d. ea. 1702, ae. 20 years, bur- at Walthamstow. iii. RICHARD PENN, b. ca. 1648. Described by Samuel Pepys in 1664/5, as "a notable stout, witty boy," he probably was destined for sea-service by his father, and was in Italy in 1670, but d. testate unmarried and was bur. at Walthamstow 9 April 1673. In his will, dated 4 April 1673, and proved 11 April following, he devised £10 to the poor of Walthamstow where he directed he was to be buried; left £40 yearly to his mother for her life, £50 to his sister Margaret Lowther and £30 to her husband, as well as two guns and a pair of pistols to be selected by his brother William; to his sister-inlaw Gulielma Maria Penn £50 "in token of love," and £10 to his servant George Haman. He named his mother executrix.. 5. WILLIAM PENN, eldest son of 4. Admiral Sir William Penn, and his wife Margaret ( Jasper) Van der Schuren, was baptized at Allhallows Church, Barking, London, on 23 October 1644. Since his numerous biographers have covered the varied aspects of his life in extenso, this present record includes only basic vital statistics and is restricted to brief references to his residence in Pennsylvania. 24 In John Burke and John Bernard Burke, eds., A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland assd Scotland (London, 1141). 419, Benjamin Poole is stated to have d. in January 1656, son of James Poole, Esq. of Poole. Cheshire, by his wife Mary. sister of Sir Edward Mostyn. The death date is an obvious impossibility, but the further note that Benjamin, "by his wife Margaret, daughter of Anthony Lowther, .q. of Cleveland," had a daughter and heir who in. John Nichol, esq. of Minchendon, Middlesex, is corroborated by the recital in Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Seri., I, 34, in which the daughter's name is given as Margaret, and states that the Nichols were living in 1731. Margaret (Lowther) Poole's death is noted in the 1720 letter from Hannah Penn, cited above. 25 John Lowther, his elder sisters Margaret and Ann Charlotte, and his elder brother William (2nd), were granted lands by William Penn in 1681, to be laid out in Pennsylvania. Their safe in 1731 is recited in Pennsylvania Archtves, 3rd Series, I, 34. John'. marriage is noted in the 1720 letter from Hannah Penn, cited above. 20 An abstract of Richard's will Is in PMHB, XIV, 171. When Richard was in Italy in the 1670's, he was described as "my cousin Richard Penn," in a letter to Admiral Penn from Captain William Poole (later Sir William Poole?). The connection with the family of Benjamin Poole is unknown, as is the exact relationship of Sir Richard Rooth, another commander in the English navy, who also appears to have had some relationship to Admiral Penn, according to allusions in Granville Memorial, as cited by Jenkins in The Family of William Pent, 210. The Family of William Penn 79 He entered Christ Church College, Oxford, as a "gentleman commoner," 26 October 1660, but remained less than two years. It was during this period, as he recalled twenty years later, that he "had an opening of joy, as to these parts" — culminating in his charter from the king and the founding of Pennsylvania. He married first, at King's Chorleywood, parish of Rickmansworth, Herts., 4 2m (April) 1672, GULIELMA MARIA SPRINGETT. Born "a few weeks after the death of her father," Sir William Springett, who had died 3 February 1643/4, she is named on his mural monument in the church at Ringmer, Sussex, as "Gulielma Maria Posthuma Springett." Her mother was Sir William Springett's first wife, Mary, only daughter of Sir John Proude.' Penn was in his thirty-seventh year when he received the charter for Pennsylvania in March, 1681. He was just past his thirty-eighth birthday when, having left his pregnant wife and small children in England, he landed at New Castle on the Delaware River in October, 1682. He remained in his province of Pennsylvania until mid-August, 1684, when he returned to England on the Ketch Endeavour. During the next ten years he suffered imprisonment, the temporary loss of his government, and the loss of his wife Gulielma Maria, who died 23 12m (February) 1693/4, six months before Pennsylvania was restored to him. She was buried at Jordans, aged fifty years. Heretofore the number of their children has been thought to be seven. It is now known that they had eight. Of these only three lived beyond infancy. Issue of 5. William Penn, the Founder, by his 1st wife Gulielma Maria SPringett: i. GULIELMA MARIA PENN, b. at Rickmansworth, Herts., 23 urn (January) 1672/3; d. 17 1m (March) 1672/3, bur. at Jordan, WILLIAM PENN, b. at Rickmansworth, 28 Ilm (January) 1673/4; d. 15 3m (May) 1674, bur. at Jordans. MARIA MARGARET PENN (twin), b. at Rickmanswortb, 28 I 1m 1673/4; d. 24 12m (February) 1674/5. iv. SPRINGETT PENN, b. at Walthamstow, Essex, 25 Ilm (January) 1675/6i d. at Lewes, Sussex, 10 2m (April) 1696. v. LETITIA PENN, b. at Warminghurst, Sussex, 6 1m (March) 1678/9; d. testate and was bur. at Jordans 6 April 1746; m. at Horsham, Sussex, 20 August 1702, WILLIAM AUBREY, son of William and Elizabeth Aubrey; bur, at Jordans 23 May 1731. No issue. She came to Philadelphia with her father and stepmother in 1699, and returned with them in 1701. In her will, dated at Christ Church, Spitalfields, 20 July 1744, she left to her nephew 9. William Penn, son of her brother 6. William Penn, a silver cup and salver, silver teakettle and other items. She left bequests to her greatnieces and grand-nephew: £50 to Mary Margaretta Fell, £40 to Gulielrna 27 For the inscription me, M. Atherton Leach, "Guliehna Maria Springett, First Wife of William PMHB, LVII (1935), 103- 80 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Maria Frances Fell, and £40 to Robert Edward Fell. To her nephew 9. William Perm, she devised all her American estate for life, and then to his daughter Christiana Gulielma Penn, who later m. Peter Gaskell. To the poor women of Devonshire House Friends' Meeting in Bishopsgate Street, London, she left £00, and named her nephew 9. William and his daughter Christiana Gulielma her residuary legatees. 6. vi. WILLIAM PENN, JR., b. at Warminghurst, 14 lm (March) 1680/1; reported to have d. in Belgium 23 June 1720, of whom further. vii. A Daughter, unnamed, b. at Warminghurst, 1m (March) 1682/3, while her father was in Pennsylvania; d. in infancy." GULIELMA MARIA PENN (2nd), b. at Warminghurst, 17 9m (November) 1685; d. at Hammersmith, Middlesex, 20 9m 1689, bur. at Jordans. Just over two years after the death of his first wife, 5. William Penn married secondly at Bristol on 5 Im (March) 1695/6, HANNAH CALLows-JILL, born 11 12m (February) 1670/1, °' daughter of Thomas Callowhill, linen draper of Bristol, and his wife Hannah Hollister. Three years later on 3 September 1699, accompanied by his second wife and daughter Letitia, Penn sailed on the Canterbury for Pennsylvania, arriving at Philadelphia the following 3 December. 6. William Penn, Jr., the only surviving son of the first marriage, remained in England, having been married only the previous January. The Founder's stay in Pennsylvania on this second and last visit was only slightly longer than his first; he had stayed twenty-two months the first time, twenty-three months the second time. He and his wife and daughter left on the Dolrnahoy 3 November 1701, arriving in England early in December of the same year. For a time the Penns lived at Bristol, although Penn occasionally took lodgings in London when he had business there, or a house in the suburbs. From 1710 until his death, the family home was at Ruscombe in Berkshire near Twyford and about six miles from Reading. It was at London, however, that Penn suffered his first stroke early in 1712, and then a second one at Bristol the following October. A third stroke in February, 1712/13, at Ruscombe, so shattered his physical strength and disabled his mental powers that he never recovered. He died testate at Ruscombe 30 July 1718, aged seventy-four years, and was buried at Jordans the following 5 August. 28 See Henry J. Cadbury, "Another Child to William and Gulielma Penn," PMH13, LXX1V (1950), 111. It should be noted that Mr. Cadbury hoe translated the dates from Friends' reckoning to modern reckoning. See also Marion Balderston, sd. J onas Claypool,', Loiter Book . . . 1681-1684, (1967), 198, 203. Mrs. Balderston ha, pointed out that although Penn himself wrote "Wommaghurst" as he heard it pronounced, the place then, ,,now, is properly spelled "Warminghurst." 29 sp. Henry J. Cadbury, "Hannah Callowhill and Penn's Second Marriage," PMHB, LXXXI (1957), 77, which corrects earlier 2d...2 of her birth. The Family of William Penn 81 In his will, written at London when he was recovering from his first stroke, he noted that since his eldest son 6. William was amply provided for by a settlement of "his Mothers and my gathers Estate," he was devising the government of his province to English trustees, but neglected to specify the nature of the trust. To other trustees, of which his wife, his father-in-law Thomas Callowhill, and his sister Margaret Lowther were three, he left all his lands in Pennsylvania and America, with power to sell so much as would be sufficient to pay his debts. They were then to convey to his daughter Letitia Aubrey, and to the three children of his son, 6. William — Gulielma Maria, Springett, and William Penn, 3rd, or their heirs — each 10,000 acres to be laid out in Pennsylvania. The rest of his lands were to be conveyed by the trustees to and among the children of his second marriage. All his personal estate and arrears of rent due him he left to his wife Hannah for the benefit of herself and her children. Out of the rents she was to have £300 yearly for life. He hoped at least some of his children would settle "in America where I leave them so good an Interest to be for their Inheritance from Generacon to Generacon. . . ." A codicil, dated 27 3m (May) 1712, in which he affirmed these provisions to have been his will and desire, was witnessed, among others, by Eliz: Penn and Tho: Penn, believed to have been Negro servants." Penn's will was offered for probate by his widow Hannah, whom he had named sole executrix, at Doctors' Commons 4 November 1718. A fortnight later she executed a "deed poll of appointment" in which she assigned half of Pennsylvania and the Lower Counties of Delaware to her eldest son John, and divided the other half of those lands among her three younger sons, Thomas, Richard and Dennis Penn. After the death in 1720 of the Founder's eldest son, 6. William Penn, Jr., Springett Penn, the latter's eldest son, attempted to claim the Proprietary right to the government of Pennsylvania as heir-at-law by right of primogeniture. As a result, on 23 October 1721, Hannah Penn began a suit in the Court of Exchequer to establish the validity of her husband's will and the bequests in it, but died before it was settled. She had survived her husband eight years, dying 20 10m (December) 1726, aged fifty-six, and was buried at Jordans. The suit was settled finally on 4 July 1727, in favor of the younger branch of the family, barring the elder branch from the government and limiting it to the specific bequests in the Founder's will. On 5 July following, a family deed sextipartite confirmed the deed poll of assignment made in 1718, except for certain parts no longer valid. It was agreed 80 A transcript of Pones will PMHB, XIVe 174 - 17C 82 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine that a cash settlement and annuity was to be set up for Margaret Freame, Hannah's only surviving daughter, which was to be paid by John Penn, the eldest son. He was to retain the life interest in half of the Pennsylvania and Delaware lands, but since Dennis Penn had died, the other half was to be vested for life in Thomas and Richard Penn as tenants in common." The three surviving sons were thereby confirmed as joint proprietors of the Province of Pennsylvania. Issue of S. 'William Penn, the Founder, by his 2nd wife Hannah Callowhilli is. A Child, unnamed, b. or d. 1697." a. JOHN PENN, the American, b. at Philadelphia 29 Ilm (January) 1699/1700; d. testate and unmarried at 1-litcham, Bucks., 25 October 1746, bur. at Jordan,. He was apprenticed 17 August 1715, to Brice Webb, draper of Bristol and, until the duties of the Proprietorship devolved on him, may have followed that business. Holding a one-half interest under the seatipartite deed, he was chief Proprietor, and in September, 1734, came to Pennsylvania with his sister Margaret and her son, young Thomas Freame, Jr., to join his brother Thomas. John appears to have left much of the proprietary business to him, and remained in Philadelphia only a year, returning to England in September, 1735, to attend litigation over the Maryland boundary. In his will, dated 20 October 1746, he left his share of the Manor of Perkasie in Bucks County, of Liberty Land and of High Street lots to his nephew John, son of his brother Richard, to whom he devised his half of the New Jersey property. To his brother Thomas he left his half of the Pennsylvania and Delaware land, as well as "the Franchise of Gov" for life, with remainder entailed on Thomas' sons in succession, then to his brother Richard and his sons in succession. In default of male heirs, the "remainder" was to go to Thomas' heirs." xi. THOMAS PENN, b. at Bristol 9 1m (March) 1701/2; d. at London 21 March 7, 1775, of whom further. xii. HANNAH MARGARITTA PENN, b. at Bristol 30 5m (July) 1703; d. at Bristol by lm (March) 1707/8. xiii. MARGARET PENN, b. at Bristol 7 9m (November) 1704; bur. at Jordans 12 February 1750/51; m. at London 6 Stn (July) 1727, THOMAS FREAME, citizen and grocer of London, son of Robert Freame and his wife Alice Vice; d. ca. March, 1741. He came to Philadelphia, probably with his brother-in-law Thomas Penn, in 1732, and was joined by his wife and young son in 1734, when they arrived with John Penn, the American. At the outbreak of the War of Jenkins' Ear, he "turned soldier," and was cap33 See William Brooke Rawle, "The General Title of the Penn Family to Pennsylvania," PMHB, (1899), 64-68, 224-226, and "The Breviate," Pennsylvotio Archives, 2a Sencs, XVI, 439-444. The complicated entailment established over the years by the Penn family has been reduced to its hams elements for the present record, since in the main it is only of general imerest from a genealogical point of view. Not having legal training, the present compiler begs the reader's indulgence for any errors which may be detectedi This child is noted by Mr. Cadbury in PMHB, LXXXI, 79. As he points out, Penn had e'ight children by his first wife, end eight by his second, not seven by each as has hitherto been uniformly believed. PMHB, XXIII, 237-240, which recites John Penn's will. The Family of William Penn 83 tam of a company in Colonel Gooch's Regiment, stationed at Chester in July, 1740. Sailing with the regiment that fall, he participated in the abortive attack on Cartagena in Spanish South America. After being "at the Siege of all the fortifications and in particular at Boccha Chico Castle" where he behaved gallantly, he was excused from further duty during the siege. A few days later he was siezed with a fever and died within 24 hours, apparently in March, 1741. His will was proved in Philadelphia 10 July following, and in London 4 September 1744. Margaret Freame and her children returned to England with Thomas Penn in the fall of 1741, arriving in November of that year. Issue: 1. THOMAS FREAME, J., b. ca. 1730; bur. at Jordans 2 6m (August) 1746. 2. PHILADELPHIA HANNAH FREAME, b. in Philadelphia 1740-1741; d. in London without surviving issue 14 April 1825, bur. at Stoke Poges; m. 8 May 1770, THOMAS pawSON, Baron Dartrey, later Viscount Cremome of Castle Dawson, County Monaghan, Ireland; d. 1813.. S. xiv. RICHARD PENN, b. at Bristol 17 lien (January) 1705/6; d. testate 4 February 1771, of whom further. xv. DENNIS PENN, b. at Ealing, Essex, 26 12m (February) 1706/7; d. unmar• tied 6 urn (January) 1722/3, bur. at Jordans. xvi. HANNAH PENN, b. in Ludgate Parish, London, 5 7m (September) 1708; d. at Kensington, 24 1Im (January) 1708/9, bur. at Tring, Herts. 6. WILLIAM PENN, JR., sixth child of the Founder by his first wife, Gulielma Maria Springett, was born at Warminghurst 14 lm (March) 1680/1, ten days after his father's grant from Charles II. He was not quite eighteen when he married at Bristol, according to Friends' ceremony, on 12 urn (January) 1698/9, MARY JONES, born 11 1 lm (January) 1676/7, daughter of Charles Jones, Jr. of Bristol, and his wife Martha Wathers. As a marriage settlement, William Penn, Sr. apparently made over to young William the Irish estate of Shanagarry in Cork, entailing it on his male heirs. In 1666, the estate reputedly was worth £1000 a year. On his mother's death in 1694, Warrninghurst in Sussex had become his by inheritance from her, and on young William's marriage, he and his wife appear to have taken up residence there, his father and stepmother moving to Bristol. William Penn, Jr. came to Philadelphia without his wife, arriving 2 February 1703/4, with John Evans, commissioned Lieutenant Governor by the Founder. His stay was not a success and was brief. After disposing of some of the Pennsylvania land given him by his father, he was back in England by mid-January, 1704/5. He and his wife lived at R. Biographical data on Thomas Freame, amplifying what little NM known to Mr. Jenkins, comes from several sources. His presence at Chester in 1740 is from Pennsylvania Gazette, 24 July 1740; his war service and death is in Richard Heckler to John Wragg, 15 June 1741, as quoted in PMHB, XXVII (1903), 422423; an abstract of his will Is in Lothrop Withington, "Pennsylvania Gleanings in England," PMFIB, XXXIV (1910), 191. The death of his daughter, Lady Cremorne, is extracted from Mr. Dalletes "Further Gleanings" in this issue, to which the reader is referred for more details. 84 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Warminghurst until it was sold in 1707, then apparently rented properties until his father's death in 1718. He unsuccessfully essayed a political career in seeking a seat in Parliament, and appears to have left the upbringing and expenses of his children to his stepmother. In 1719, he made an unsuccessful attempt to get the Pennsylvania Assembly to acknowledge his claim as chief Proprietor and heir-at-law. Irresponsible and unstable, he apparently died in Liege, Belgium 23 June 1720, reputedly of a consumption. His widow Mary Jones was buried at Jordans 5 10m (December) 1733. Issue of 6. William Penn, Jr. and his wife Mary Jones: i. GULIELMA MARIA PENN, b. at Warminghurst 10 9m (November) 1699; d. probably in London, 17 Ilm (January) 1739/40, bur. 22 January 1739/ 40, at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster; m. 1st, at St. Mary Magdalen Church, Fish Street, London, 14 February 1720," AUBREY THOMAS, b. in Pennsylvania 30 1 lm (January) 1694, son of Rees and Martha Thomas; d. before 1724. Issue: 1. WILLIAM PENN THOMAS, d. unmarried ca. 1742. She m. 2nd, CHARLES FELL, d. at Windsor 1 October 1748, son of Charles Fell; administration on his estate was granted in London 17 October 1748, to his son Robert. Issue: 2. MARY MARGARETTA FELL, bapt. 23 August 1724; dee'd by 1769; m. JOHN BARRON of Leeds, Yorkshire who, in 1774 was of Philadelphia." 3. GULIELMA MARIA FRANCES FELL, bapt. 10 Aug gust 1725; living in Shrewsbury, County Salop, in March, 1769; m. by 26 May 1750, jrnix NEWCOMB of Leir, Glos.; dec'd by March, 1769. 4. ROBERT Enwwan FELL, bapt. 29 November 1726; d. testate in Bordentown, N. J., in November, 1786. 5 t Both Robert Fell and John Barron came to Philadelphia about 1769 to take up and sell holdings which had descended to Gulielma Mars (Penn) Fell under the will of her grandfather. SPRINGETT PENN, b. at Warminghurst 10 12m (February) 1700/1; said to have d. in Dublin, Ireland, either 30 December 1730, or 8 February 1731, unmarried and without issue. By his father's death he considered himself heir - at - law of the American estates of his grandfather and of the Proprietorship, and unsuccessfully challenged both the will and the apportionment made by his stepmother Hannah Penn, as noted previously. 9. iii. WILLIAM PENN, 3rd, b. at Warminghurst 21 1m (March) 1702/3; d. at Shanagarry, Ireland, 6 12m (February) 1746/7, of whom further. 7. THOMAS PENN was born at Bristol 9 lm (March) 1701/2, the eleventh child of the Founder and the third of his second wife, Hannah Callowhill. He was apprenticed in 1716 to Michael Russell, a mercer in White Hart Court, Gracechurch Street, London, under whose tutelage he 85 The marriage is exwacted from Mr. Dallett's "Further Gleanings," cited above. 00 1Ie may be the John Barron who died intestate in Philadelphia 3 November 1794, and was buried at St. Peter's P. E. Church, as noted in the registers of Christ Church, Philadelphia. The will of a John Barron, jr., proved 26 November 1804, in Philadelphia, names his mother as Martha Johnston. a' The administratiOn on the estate of Charles Fell, and will of Robert Edward Fell, are extracted front Mr. Deflates "Further Gleanings," to which the reader is referred The Family of 'William Penn 85 no doubt acquired his aptitude for business. Under the sextipartite deed of 5 July 1727, Thomas was vested in a life interest in one quarter of the Pennsylvania property. In September, 1731, he was a party to a further settlement. Under this agreement, 9. William Penn, 3rd, Letitia Aubrey, and Charles Fell and his wife, Gulielma Maria Penn, agreed to relinquish their claims in the province and government to John, Thomas and Richard Penn for £5500 payable to William, 3rd, now heir of the eldest branch of the family. Excepted and reserved to William was "the Palace of Pennsbury" with 4000 acres contiguous to it; the individual 10,000-acre tracts devised to Letitia Aubrey, and to William, 3rd, and Gulielma Maria under the will of the Founder, and any other lands deeded, granted or patented to them by the Founder. Richard's one-quarter share, however, was to be held in trust by John and Thomas, apparently because of some disapproval of his recent marriage. The following May of 1732, the descent of the Pennsylvania property was established between the three brothers. In the event of the death of any one of them, his share was to go to his eldest son in tail male with remainder to his second, third and other sons successively." With these matters settled, Thomas, accompanied by his brother-inlaw Thomas Freame, sailed for Pennsylvania, arriving at Chester 11 August 1732. During his nine-year stay in Philadelphia, Thomas had a small house built on the Springettsberry Manor lands adjoining the city, near the present Twentieth and Hamilton Streets, and embellished the grounds with a great variety of plants and trees. His elder brother John, and his sister Margaret Freame and her young son joined him, arriving 19 September 1734. John remained only a year, but Margaret Freame stayed until the news of her husband's death in the late spring of 1741. She and her brother Thomas then returned to England, arriving at Plymouth late the following November. On the death of John Penn, the American, in 1746, his half-interest was left to Thomas who thus became the principal Proprietor by virtue of holding a three-quarters right. With the improvement of his financial situation, by 1747 he was established in a town house in New Street, Spring Gardens, near Charing Cross, which continued to be his town residence until his death. In 1750, Thomas and Richard mutually agreed to an alteration in such of the provisions of the May, 1732, settlement as were no longer applicable, and in August, 1751, eight days before Thomas's marriage, the entailment of the Proprietary estate was reestablished in a marriage settlement. The estate was to descend in tail male to his eldest son by his prospective bride, with remainder to suc38 Recited in PMHB, XXIII, 233-236. Annuities for the widows were also settled. The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 86 cessive sons. Failing that, to first and successive sons by any other wife of Thomas, then in tail male to his brother Richard Penn, then to his nephew John Penn, son of Richard; then to the nephew John's eldest son and every other son successively; then to Richard, second son of Richard and Thomas's nephew, and to his sons in order of birth. If these all failed, as it did in 1869, the property was to descend to Thomas's heirs "in tail general." ' At the Church of St. George, Hanover Square, London, on 22 August 1751, Thomas Penn married LADY JULIANA FERMOR, born in 1729, daughter of Thomas, Earl of Pomfret. They entertained some thoughts of coming to Pennsylvania the following year, but the birth of their first child In 1752 prevented it, and they never came to the province. In 1760, Thomas Penn acquired the country estate of Stoke Poges in Buckinghamshire which he made his principal home. About 1771, he suffered a stroke of palsy from which he never fully recovered. He died on 21 March 1775, in London where he had gone in failing health to spend the winter. His widow survived him twenty-six years, dying at Ham, Surrey, 20 November 1801, in her seventy-third year. Both are buried in the church at Stoke Poges. Issue of 7. Thomas Penn and his wife Lady Juliana Fermor: I. WILLIAM PENN, b. 21 June 1752; d. 14 February 1753, or. 7 months, bur. at Penn, Bucks. ii. JULIANA PENN, b. 19 May 1753; d. 23 April 1772, bur. at Stoke Poges; m. 23 May 1771, WILLIAM BAKER of Bayfordbury, Herts. Issue: 1. JULIANA BARER, b. ca. 1772; d. 11 September 1849, at Gunter, Grove, Stoke Courcy, Somerset; 311. 18 January 1803, JOHN FAWSET HERBERT RAWLINS. They had no Issue. THOMAS PENN, Jx., b. 17 July 1754; d. 5 September 1757, bur. at Penn. iv. WILLIAM PENN (2nd), b. 22 July 1756; d. 24 April 1760, bur. at Penn. v. LOUISA HANNAH PENN (twin), b. 22 July 1756; d. 10 June 1766, bur. at Penn. vi. JOHN PENN, called "the Younger," b. in London 23 February 1760, bapt. 21 March 1760, at St. Martin's in the Fields; d. unmarried at Stoke Park 21 June 1834, bur. at Stoke Park. He was still a minor when he succeeded to the Pennsylvania property and Stoke Pages upon the death of his father. Entering Clare Hall, Cambridge, as a nobleman by virtue of his mother's position, he received his MA. in 1779, the year the Pennsylvania Assembly on 29 November divested the Perm family of its Proprietorship and title to the land, except for their private holdings. In recompense the Assembly agreed to a settlement of £130,000, payable in annual installments not to exceed £15,000, to the heirs of Thomas and Richard Penn. In 1783, John Penn came to Pennsylvania to look after the family's remaining property. The next year he bought 15 acres on the west bank of 30 Ibid., 333-338. The marriage settlement itself is in HS?. The Family of William Penn 87 the Schuylkill, and began the erection of Solitude, now within the grounds of the Zoological Society. In the city he lived at the northeast corner of Sixth and Chestnut Streets." After his return to England in 1788, Parliament voted the family an annual pension of £4000, in recompense for their losses in America. Stoke Pages being in sad repair, he demolished part of it, and erected a new home which he called Stoke Park. In the ensuing years he participated in politics in a gentlemanly way: was Sheriff of Bucks in 1798, was in Parliament in 1802, was made governor of the Island of Portland in Dorset in 1805, and about 1815, erected Portland Castle in that place. In 1811, the year Cambridge awarded him the degree of LL.D., the College of Arms sent him a pedigree on vellum under the common seal of the College, "shewing and certifying Mr. Penn's descent from The Blood Royal of England." The charge was £13 165. 8d." vii. GRANVILLE PENN, b. in London 9 December 1761; d. at Stoke, 28 September 1844, bur. at Stoke Park. He matriculated from Magdalen College, Oxford, 11 November 1780, but took no degree, and became an assistant clerk in the war department. In the years following his Oxford schooling, he appears to have formed an irregular attachment with an unknown woman, by whom he had issue: WILLIAM GRANVILLE, b. ca. 1785; d. January 1864, in Bath, or. 79, bur. at Stoke Park. He lived in Ceylon from 1805 to 1821; m. and had several daughters and one son, Wu..mod Tunwoun GRANVILLE, Lieutenant of the 8th Regiment of Foot in 1842, who retired as a captain about 1850 or 1851. William Granville appears to have been an intimate friend of his half brother Granville John Penn." On 24 June 1791, GRANVILLE PENN m. ISABELLA FORBES, b. 1771; d. 1847, bur. at Stoke Park, eldest daughter of General Gordon Forbes and his wife Mary Sullivan of Cork. They settled In London, but when his elder brother John Penn, the Younger, died in 1834, Granville Perm inherited Stoke Park and Portland Castle. In 1838, the College of Arms granted him an "Augmentation to the Armorial Ensigns used by his Family," permitting him and "the other descendants of his Grandfather the said William Penn," to "henceforth bear and use the Armorial Ensigns following, that is to say, A Fess charged with three Plates, and, on a Canton of honourable Augmentation, a Crown, representing the Royal Crown of King Charles the Second, and, for the Crest, A Demi-Lion, gorged with a Collar charged with three Plates, and above, An Escroll, thereon the Word 'Pennsylvania.'" Signed by Queen Victoria, the grant was accompanied by a painting in full color showing the augmentation on the achievement of arms." "Owned by Justice John Lawrence, the house had recently been vacated by Robert R. Livingston, first Secretary for Foreign Affairs under the Confederation. It was a relatively new dwelling, having been built by Lawrence after he acquired the ground in 1771. The site of the house is now within the bounds of Ladependence Sure Mall " A letter from Sir Isaac Heard, Garter, dated 27 June 1811, advising him the pedigree had been wan, is in Case 41, Penn Papers, HSP. The pedigree itself is not among the papers. The Dictionary of National Biography calls Granville Penn's son "Colonel" Granville, apparently confusing bins with the grandson, Captain William Turnout Granville. See also Nicholas B. Wainwright, .The Penn Collusion," PMHB, LXXXVII (1963), 413-414. The grant was dated 31 July 1838, and recorded in the College of Amu 7 August 1538. The total COSI to Granville Penn waa 6123 ILF. 6(1. The bill, the grant and the illustration of the arms are in Case 41, Penn Papers, HSP, The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 88 Issue by Isabella Forbes: 1. SOPHIA PENN, b. 1793; d. without issue, 1827; m. 1818, Sta 'WILLIAM MAYNARD GOMM, who eventually purchased the Perm mansion in New Street. He m. 2nd, Elizabeth, daughter of Robhere Kerr, but died childless. 2. LOUISA EMILY PENN, b. 1795; d. unmarried 27 May 1841, bur. at Stoke Poges. 3. ISABELLA MARY PENN (twin?), b. 1795; d. unmarried 28 January 1856, bur. at Stoke Poges. 4. HENRIETTA ANN PENN, b. 1797; d. unmarried 13 June 1855, bur. at Stoke Poges. 5. JoHN Wn.ruovt PENN, d. in childhood; bur. at Stoke Poges 18 December 1802. 6. WILLIAM PENN, b. ca. 1800; d. unmarried at Brighton, 7 January 1848, bur. at Stoke Poges. Matriculating at Christ Church, Oxford, 5 June 1818, as. 18 years, he received his B.A. in 1833, and M.A. in 1837, at which time he was of Semoure Hall, Norfolk. In 1844, he was a barrister-at-law of Lincoln's Inn. 7. JULIANA MARGARET PENN, d. in infancy; bur. at Stoke Poges, 21 March 1804. 8. GRANVILLE JOHN PENN, b. November 1802; d. unmarried intestate 29 March 1867, bur. at Stoke Pages. He studied at Christ Church College and received his KA, there, then became a barrister-at-law. Inheriting Stoke Park and Portland Castle on the death of his father in 1844, he found he was unable to maintain Stoke financially, and it was sold in 1848, after the death of his mother. He eventually settled at Portland Castle. He visited Pennsylvania twice, in 1852 and in 1857. 9. TRoNtas GORDON PENN, b. 1803; d. of unsound mind unmarried 10 September 1869, bur. at Stoke Pages. He studied at Christ Church College, receiving his M.A., then took holy orders in the Anglican Church. When the entailed Proprietary estate fell to him upon the death of his brother Granville John Penn, it was held in Chancery until his death since he was judged incapable of managing it. As the last male Penn, the estates then passed to the heirs of his aunt, Sophia, wife of Archbishop William Stuart, for when see below... 10. viii. SOPHIA MARGARETTA JULIANA PENN, b. 25 December 1764; d. 29 April 1847, of whom further. 8. RICHARD PENN, fourteenth child of the Founder and sixth of Hannah Callowhill, was born at Bristol 17 1.1rn ( January) 1705/6, at the house of his grandfather, Thomas Callowhill. He was apprenticed to business in London, and married there by license dated 26 October 1728, apparently in St. Saviour's Church, Southwark, HANNAH LARDNER, born about 1709, daughter of Dr. John Lardner, deceased, late of Gracechurch Street, London." Apparently because of the marriage, the following January, 1729, Richard's one-quarter interest in the American estates was vested in his brothers John and Thomas Penn in trust for Richard. And although nominally he was one of the three joint Proprietors, he was the only one of them who never came to America, even after his brother John left him his half of what remained of the Founder's 44 For the dispersion of the Penn memorabilia and papers, see Note 42. PMHB, LXXXVII, 406-419, eiud in 66 Their marriage allegation is exuacted from Mr. Dalletes "Further Gleanings" in this issue, to which the reader is directed. The Family of William Penn 89 East and West Jersey property, and named Richard his sole executor of that part of his estate. Richard and his wife had their principal residence at Stanwell, Middlesex, a suburb of London, but in his will, written 21 March 1750, he said he was then possessed "of a house called Batavia House, in the parish of Sunbury, in the County of Middlesex," and in a codicil he left a house in Cavendish Square to his wife. He had also devised in his will all his "private & particular rights to any Manors Tracts Lands Tenere or Hered" and his proprietary rights in New Jersey and arrears of rents to his American executors, Lynford Lardner, his wife's brother, and Richard Peters, in trust to sell, collect and remit the proceeds to his English executors. By his last codicil he made his son Richard residuary legatee and devised the New Jersey land in fee to him, John, the elder son, having been left the one-quarter right in the Province. He died 4 February 1771, and was buried at Stoke Church where he directed a family vault was to be erected. His widow Hannah survived him fourteen years, dying at Laleham, Middlesex, according to The Gentleman's Magazine, 20 April 1785. Issue of 8. Richard Penn and his wife Hannah Lardner: i. JOHN PENN, called the Elder, b. 14 July 1729; d. testate 9 February 1795, sac. 66 years, bur. at Christ Church, Philadelphia; m. 1st, ca. 1747, probably GRACE COX, d. 17 March 1760, daughter of James Cox; m. 2nd, at Christ Church, Philadelphia, 31 May 1766, ANN ALLEN, cl. in Upper George Street, London, 4 July 1830, daughter of Chief Justice William Allen of Philadelphia. No issue by either wife. John Penn's first marriage at the age of eighteen was disapproved of by his uncle Thomas Penn, and he was sent to the Continent with a tutor to oversee his studies abroad. After Thomas's marriage in 1751, John agreed to come to Pennsylvania, and arrived in Philadelphia 1 December 1752." During his stay he was a member of the Provincial Council and one of the commissioners attending the Albany Conference in 1754. He returned to England in the late autumn of 1755. Three years after the death of his first wife, his uncle Thomas Penn and his father Richard commissioned him Lieutenant Governor of the Province, and he returned to Philadelphia, arriving on the Pennsylvania Packet 29 October 1763, with his brother Richard Penn. 47 Upon the death of their father Richard in 1771, his one-fourth interest in the Proprietary estate became vested in John as the eldest son, and he returned to England with his American wife. Sailing on the Ship &Otani', S May, they arrived in England 4 June 1771." Two years later they were back in Philadelphia, having come from New York, where they landed, and were met at Bristol on 29 55555 the is., ill the Pennsylvania Gazette, 7 December 1752, reporting his arrival. 45 Ibid., 3 November 1763; Minutes of the Provincial Canna of Pennsylvania . . . , (Harrisburg, 1852), 1X, 71 Pennsylvania Journal, 9 May, 1 August 1771. 90 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine August 1773, by "a great number of Gentlemen and ladies who accompanied them to town."" Once more commissioned Lieutenant Governor in place of his brother Richard, he acquired the property in the upper part of Blockley Township on the west side of the Schuylkill which became known as Lansdowne. When the British approached Philadelphia in the fall of 1777, John Penn and his wife were taken into military custody and sent to the Union Iron Works in New Jersey under parole until the British evacuated the city. Hoping to prevent confiscation of his whole property, he had taken the oath of allegiance to the Commonwealth and the United States by 15 July 1778, 5° but the following year the family was divested of its Proprietorship and the land, with the exception of their private estates, by Act of Assembly. In the ensuing years he was occupied in the management of the private estates not sequestered by the Commonwealth, and in achieving the settlement of indemnity of £130,000 granted the family. In 1787, he and his brother Richard came to an agreement resulting from the "so great alteration in the affairs and estate of the Proprietary family." Out of the share John would receive, Richard, as younger brother was to have one-third, John retaining two-thirds." In the spring of 1788, John Penn and his wife went back to England, leasing Lansdowne to William Bingham, who occupied it until 1792, when once more the Penns returned to Philadelphia 50 where John died in 1790. By his will, probated in Philadelphia 18 February 1795, he left his one-quarter right to the Manor of Springettsberry in Philadelphia County to Ins brother Richard for life, with remainder to Richard's son William in tail male, then to Richard's second son Richard, Jr. in tail male, with residue to his wife Ann (Allen) Penn. ii. HANNAH PENN, b. ca. 1731; d. testate at Cavendish Square, London, bur. at Stoke Poges 2 October 1791; m. 19 July 1774, JAMES CLAYTON, late of Sunbury, Middlesex; bur. at Stoke Poges 23 January 1790. No issue. By her will, proved 21 October 1791, Hannah (Penn) Clayton left her estates to her brothers John and Richard Penn, and to Richard's children. RICHARD PENN, b. ca. 1736; d. testate at his house in Richmond, 27 May 1811, in his 76th year; m. at Christ Church, Philadelphia, 21 May 1772, MARY MASTERS, b. 3 March 1756, daughter of William Masters and his wife Mary Lawrence; d. 16 August 1829, or. 73 years, at the house of her younger son Richard, Jr., in Great George Street, London. Richard Penn first came to Philadelphia in 1763 with his elder brother John, as noted above, and remained until October, 1768, when he returned to England. When John went to England in 1771, on the death of their father, Richard was sent over as Lieutenant Governor during his brother's absence, arriving 16 October 1771." On his brother's resuming the governorship in 1773, 4, Pennsylvania Gazette, 1 September 1773. 88 Reolted "Ihe Diary of James Allen," PMHB, 1X (1885), 440. Recited in PMHB, XXIII, 354-355. 62 Nntuylvania Packet, In April 17881 Margaret L. Brown, "Mr. and Mrs. William Bingham of Philadelphia," PM-1B, LXI (1937), 305. John Penn, the Eder, spent more tirne in America than any other member of the Penn family. He ram in the province thirty of his siaty-six years. 55 Pennsylvaxio Gazette, 17 October 1771. The Family of William Penn 91 there was considerable coolness between them for a time, heightened by a dispute between them over the interpretation of provisions in their father's will. The dispute was settled in 1774, when Richard released to John the fourth part of his fathers lands devised him for life. The following year he purchased the property in the Northern Liberties, known as Peel Hall, where Girard College now stands." That same year Richard and his wife carried the "Olive Branch" petition of the Continental Congress for presentation to the King. They remained in England during the Revolution, and Richard was elected to the House of Commons early in 1784, for the borough of Appleby, Westmoreland. He was still representing it when he and his wife came back to Philadelphia, having arrived at New York on the Speedy Packet 17 September 1786," to join his brother in pressing their claims to Pennsylvania property. After the agreement of 1787, noted before, relating to the portions of income he and his brother John would receive from the sale of lands, Richard went back to England where he continued to represent various constituencies in Parliament. From 1796 to 1802, he sat for the city of Lancaster. In 1807, he paid another visit to Philadelphia with members of his family, residing on Chestnut Street between Eighth and Ninth, but stayed only about a year. He appears to have been the most popular and well-liked member of the Penn family to visit Philadelphia since the death of his grandfather, the Founder." Issue: 1. Wn.malvt PENN, b. 23 June 1776; d. in Nelson Square, Southwark, London, 17 September 1845, bur. at St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol; m. by Dr. James Abercrombie of Christ Church, Philadelphia, 7 August 1807, CATHARINE JULIA (or JULIANA CATHARINE ) PALAHREGA, b. 13 March 1785, baps. at Christ Church, daughter of Jacob and Mary Balabrega; d. after 1812. No known issue. William Penn was entered at St. John's College, Oxford, but took no degree, though he had remarkable abilities and was an excellent classical scholar. He came to Philadelphia with his father in 1807, and remained until at least 1812, living in various parts of the State. On his father's death in 1811, his Uncle John's life-interest in the fourth part of the general estate, and the one-third part of the sales of their private estate were vested in him, but his extravagance and lack of restraint brought him into debt, and after his return to England he appears to have spent much of the remainder of his life in or about the debtors' prison in London. 2. HANNAH PENN, d. unmarried at Richmond, Surrey, 16 July 1856. She Pi On Richard Penn's marriage in 1772, his wife was given by her mother the house and lot on the moth side of Market Street between Fifth and Sixth, the site of which is now within the bounds of the first block of Independence State Mall. After it burned in 1780, it was sold to Robert Morris, The Penns occupied it as their town house until they left for England in 177$. Peel Hall was sold in 1779, by their attorney, Tench Francis, to Owen Biddle for E9387 in inflated Pennsylvania currency, as recited in Henry D. Biddle, "Onus Bichlle," PMHB, XVI, 316 - 317. Richard's quarrel with his brother John was settled by the agreement of 17 May 1774, cited in ibid., XXIII, 353-554. "NdePendent Gazette, 23 September 1786. His presence in Philadelphia was noted by Jacob Hilt ...helmet in his entry for 14 October 1786, for which see P18E113, XVI, 171. MI After his brother John's death in 1795, Richard Penn, by his attornies in Philadelphia, instituted a suit against his brother's executors over the division of payment coming to Richard from sales of Pennsylvania land under the 1787 agreement. A decision, handed down by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court m 1800, was for the defendants, John's executors, for which see PAM& XXIII, 313 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 92 had accompanied her father and brother to Philadelphia in 1807. 3. RICHARD PENN, b. ca. 1784; d. unmarried at his house in Richmond, Surrey, 21 April 1863, sac. 79 years. For many years he was in the Colonial Department of the English government, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1824. Upon the death of his brother William in 1845, the life use of his grandf other Richard's fourth of the Pennsylvania rights were vested in him, but on his own death in 1863 without issue, the right pound to his second cousin, Granville John Penn, in accordance with the limitations of the family entail. 4. MARY PENN, b. 11 April 1785; d. 26 March 1863; m. 1821, as his second wife, SAMUEL PAYNTER who d. 24 July 1844. Of Richmond, he was a J.P. for Surrey and Middlesex, and was High Sheriff of Smrey in 1838. No issue. I. A Daughter, unnamed, d. 17 June 1790, presumably in infancy. iv. WILLIAM PENN, b. ca. August 1747; d. 4 February 1760, sic. 12 years, 8 months, bur. at Penn Church, Bucks, 9. WILLIAM PENN, 3rd, grandson of the Founder, was born at Warminghurst 21 lm (March) 1702/3, the youngest child of 6. William Penn, Jr., and his wife Mary Jones, and was only seventeen when his father died in 1720. By the death of his elder, unmarried brother Springett Penn, in 1730/1, he inherited the remaining estates settled upon his father by the Founder, including the Irish property of Shanagarry in Cork, and The Rocks in Surrey, presumed to have been part of the estate of his grandmother, Gulielma Maria (Springett) Penn. As noted previously in the account of 7. Thomas Penn, in 1731 William released for £5300 the claim, instituted by his brother Springett, to the general right of the elder branch of the family in the soil and government of Pennsylvania, to the younger branch, represented by his uncles John, Thomas and Richard Penn." On 7 10m (December) 1732, William married by Friends' ceremony at Wandsworth, Surrey, CHRISTIAN FORBES, born about 1715, daughter of Alexander Forbes and his wife Jane Barclay. The marriage was lamentably brief, however, for she died, following the birth of her first and only child, on 1 November 1733, and was buried at Jordans on the seventh of the month. Issue of 9. William Penn, 3rd, by his 1st wife Christian Forbes: i. CHRISTIANA GULIELMA PENN, b. 22 October 1733; d. in London 24 March 1803, ae. 69 years, at her home in Thornhaughstreet; m. in London 14 August 1761, PETER GASRELL of Bath, b. ca. 1730; d. in Bath in January, 1785. From her great-aunt Letitia Aubrey, she inherited lots in Philadelphia, and land in the Manor of Mount Joy in Upper Merion Township, and in Fagg's Manor. Neither she nor her husband ever came to Philadelphia, but one of her sons did, settling in Delaware County. An extended account IT Ibid., 229-231. The Family of William Penn 93 of him, and of Christlana's other issue and their progeny follows in "The Penn-Gaskell Family," in the present issue of this Magazine. Three years after the death of Christian Forbes, 9. William Penn, 3rd, married again. At St. Paul's Cathedral, William Penn, then of '07ithyan, Sussex, widower, by license dated 7 November 1736, was united in marriage with ANN VAUX, of the parish of St. Diones, Backchurch, London, and daughter of Isaac Vaux of London. They removed to Ireland and in 1738 were living in Ballyphechane in the South Liberties of Cork. The marriage was not a success, however, for by 1742 she had left him and returned to England and William, then living in Dublin, had instituted a suit for divorce in Doctors' Commons. In April, 1746, he was back in Cork, concerned about the inventory of his aunt Letitia Aubrey's goods and the provisions of her will under which his thirteenyear-old daughter, Christiana Gulielma, was residuary legatee. Less than a year later he himself was dead, dying at Shanagarry of a dropsy 6 February 1746/7. In his will, dated 17 1 Om (December) 1743, he appointed his uncles John and Thomas Penn guardians of his two children during the minority of his son Springett. When he came of age he was to become executor. To his wife, who apparently had blocked the divorce proceedings, he left one shilling on the advice of counsel since she had "eloped" from him and thereby forfeited her dower rights and thirds. Issue of 9. William Penn, 3rd, by his 2nd wife Ann Vaux: SPRINGETT PENN, b. at Cork, Ireland, 1 1m (March) 1738/9; d. of consumption testate, unmarried and without issue at Dublin, in November, 1766. Until he came of age, Sptingett was under the supervision of his great-uncle Thomas Penn, but subsequently appears to have been under the influence of his mother. In his will, dated 21 December 1762, he left her all that part of the Penn estates in Ireland and America coming to him from his father. In February, 1767, three months after Springett's death, his mother married, as his third wife, Alexander Durcfm, a Dublin attorney. She died testate the following 13 April 1767. In the interval between her second marriage and death, she had drawn her own will in which she devised to Durdin all the estate left her by her son. As a result of her bequest, a long-drawn-out lawsuit followed between Durdin and Christiana Gulielma (Penn) Gaskell, Springett's half-sister, as she tried to establish her claim to her father's property. The suit in Chancery did not terminate until 1800, at which time the Shanagarry estate was divided between the heirs-at-law of Peter Gaskell and Alexander Durdin. 10. SOPHIA MARGARETTA JULIANA PENN, eighth child of 7. Thomas Penn and his wife, Lady Juliana Fermor, was born 25 December 1764. She married 3 May 1796, WILLIAM STUART, born in March, 1755, youngest son of John, third Earl of Bute. Destined for the church, he studied The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 94 at St. John's College, Cambridge, received his M.A. in 1774, obtained a Fellowship, and later received the vicarage of Luton, Bedfordshire, which he held for fourteen years. Taking the degree of D.D. in 1789, four years later he became Canon of Windsor, then Bishop of St. David's, and in 1800 was made Archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland. Said to have been a man with "a strong taste for humor, and strong feelings of indignation," he died in London 6 May 1822, after the inadvertent consumption of a dose of laudanum and camphorated spirits. His widow survived him twenty-five years, dying 29 April 1847. She was buried at Luton, Bedfordshire, in the Stuart family vault. Because their descendant, Brigadier Oliver F. G. Hogg, has compiled an extended record of all their descendants, a condensed account of only their children and grandchildren is given here. Issue of 10. Sophia Margaretta Juliana Penn and her husband William Stuart: 1. MARY JULIANA STUART, b. 3 April 1797; d. 10 July 1866; m. 28 February 1815, THOMAS KNOX, Viscount Northland, of terwards 2nd Earl of Ranfurly of Dungannon Park, County Tyrone, Ireland; d. 26 April 1840. Issue:" 1. Thonuts Knox, 3rd Earl, b. 13 November 1816; d. 20 May 1858, leaving issue; m. 10 October 1848, HARRIET Rimincvon, d. 16 March 1891, daughter of James Runington of Broomhead Hall, Yorkshire. Their second son, Sir Uchter John Mark Knox, 5th Earl and Governor of New Zealand, visited Philadelphia in 1904." His daughter, Lady Constance Harriet Stuart Knox, who m. Major Evelyn Milnes Gaskell, visited Philadelphia in 1933, and subsequently was made an honorary member of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. 2. MARY STUART Knox, d. 14 May 1903, leaving issue; m. 20 September 1854, JOHN PAGE READE Of Sutton, Suffolk; d. 28 September 1880. 3. LOUISA jor-tolvo Knox, d. 31 March 1896, leaving issue; m. 14 August 1839, HENRY ALEXANDER of Forkhill, Armagh; d. 1 December 1877. The Major Dudley Alexander who accompanied the 5th Earl of Ranfurly to Philadelphia in 1904 as his private secretary, appears to have been their son. 4. EuzAituvx HENRIETTA Knox, d. unmarried 28 January 1909. 5. Juustnit CAROLINE FRANCES Knox, d. II December 1906, leaving issue; M. 15 October 1862, GENERAL SIR EDWARD FORESTIER-WALKER, K.C.B.; d. 27 July 1881. 6. WILLIAM STUART Knox, b. 11 March 1826; d. 15 February 1900, leaving issue; al. 26 August 1896, GEORGINA FOOPER, d. 4 November 1926, daughter of John Bonfoy Rooper of Abbots Ripton, 1,8 Mary Juliana Stuart's birth and death dates are taken from the account in the London Illustrated News of July, 1866, as given in the Penn-Logan CorresPondence, I, inixiv, cited in Note 17. This account also gives the death of her husband Thomas Knox as in April 1840, rather than 21 March 1858, as given in Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Rnightege (London, 1897), under "Ron. Early," which was followed by Mr. Jenkins. Snce birth dates for daughters are not given in Burke's Peerege, the order of births for Mary Juliana Stuart's children is purely conjectural. Some death dams have been taken from the 1959 edition of the Peerage, edited by 1. G. Pine. Others are from A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1898), and from the 1958 edition of the Peerage. 59 See PMHB, xxvrn (1904), 510. The Family of William Penn 95 Hunts. A member of Parliament for Dungannon, 1851-1874, he was a major in the 51st Foot and Honorary Colonel of Mid-Ulster Artillery. 7. FLORA SOPHIA ANNE PENN KNOX, d. unmarried 27 February 1905. 8. GRANVILLE HENRY JOHN KNox, b. 1 August 1829; drowned in the River Tamar in southwestern England 18 August 1845. 9. ADELAIDE HENRIETTA LOUISA HORTENSE KNOX, d. 28 August 1911, leaving issue; m. 26 September 1850, JOSEPH GOFF of Hale Park, Hants.; d. 26 December 1872, WILLIAM STUART of Tempsford Hall, Beds., and Aldenham Abbey, Herts., b. 31 October 1798; d. 7 July 1874; m. 1st, 8 August 1821, HENRIETTA MARIA SARAH POLE, d. 26 July 1853, eldest daughter of Admiral Sir Charles Morice Pole, Bt. William Stuart was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, receiving his MA. in 1820. A member of Parliament for Armagh from 1820 to 1826, he sat for Bedfordshire from 1830 to 1834, and in 1846 was high sheriff of that county. On the death of the Rev. Thomas Gordon Penn in 1869, he became the "tenant in tail general" of all the remaining property entailed in Pennsylvania by John, Thomas and Richard Perm. The following year by indentures of 5 August and 2 September 1870, he "barred the entail," and on 11 November 1870, confirmed all Penn conveyances previously made in Pennsylvania.. In 1965, their descendant, Dr. Rosalind Esme Pole Stuart, was in Philadelphia, and in October of that year attended the dedication at Harrisburg of the William Penn Memorial Museum and Archives Building. Issue of William Stuart: M 1. MARY POLE STUART, d. 25 January 1852, leaving issue; m. 1 August 1843, JONATHAN RASHLEIGH of Menabilly, Cornwall; d. 12 April 1905. 2. HENRIETTA POLE STUART, d. 13 February 1887, leaving issue; m. 4 September 1845, REGINALD THISTLETHWAYTE CocItS. 3. WILLIAM STUART, b. in London at the house of his grandmother, widow of Archbishop Stuart, in Hill Street, 7 March 1825; d. 21 December 1893, leaving issue; m. 13 September 1859, KATHERINE NICHOLSON, d. 16 October 1881, eldest daughter of John Armytage Nicholson of Balrath, County Meath, Ireland. 4. CHARLES POLE STUART of Sandyrnount House, Woburn Sands, Beds., barrister-at-law, b. 7 May 1826; d. 26 August 1896, leaving issue; m. 20 March 1860, ANNE Sbirrx, d. 19 October 1918, eldest daughter of Robert Smyth of Gaybrook, County West Meath, Ireland. 5. CLARENCE ESME STUART, MA. Cambridge, b. 29 May 1827; d. without issue 8 January 1903; m. 16 April 1853, CATHERINE CUNINGHAME; d. 10 March 1901, daughter of the late Colonel Cuninghame of Caddell and Thornton, County Ayr, Scotland, 6. LOUISA POLE Sruit.wr, d. 5 January 1858, leaving issue; m. 3 August 1852, the Reverend OLIVER MATTHEW RIDLEY; d. 10 January 1907, O. To bar the entail he had granted all the Pennsylvania estate to William Levi Bull in trust to reconvey it to hi,,, in fee simple, .clear and discharged of and from all limitations, conditions, covenants and restrictions" previously entered into and agreed upon by his ancestors. In 1574, Stuares widow released any dower right which she might be thought to have in the estate. The order of their births is coniectural, based on data from Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1898), and from Burlier Perm& for 1W, under -Bute," trona which death dates have been taken. 96 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine William Stuart, following the death of his first wife Henrietta, m 2nd, 31 August 1854, Georgina Adelaide Forestier-Walker, daughter of General Foresner-Walker, who survived him. She m. 2nd, 15 December 1875, the 9th Earl of &afield. iii. LOUISA STUART, b. ca. 1801; d. unmarried 20 December 1823, or. 22 years." iv. HENRY STUART, b. 1804; d. unmarried 26 October 1854. The death date for Louisa is given on the memorial tablet uected to the memory of her father, as quoted in the Penn-Logos Correlportelmsce, I, rasiii, and varies from the account in Jenkins, The Family of William Pena, 191. The former account says she was buried in the f amity vault at Sutton, whereas Mr. Jenkins scam the vault was at Luton. He gives her date of death as 29 September 1823. Lady Constance Milnes Gaskell 1885-1964 L ADY CONSTANCE MILNES GASKELL, an Honorary Member of this Society for over twenty years, died on 29 April 1964. Second daughter of the fifth Earl of Ranfurly, and great-great-great-great granddaughter of William Penn, Founder of Pennsylvania, she was born 21 April 1885. Educated privately, she married in 1905, Major Evelyn Mikes Gaskell, D.L., J.P. They had two children, the only son being killed in service with the Coldstream Guards in World War II. From 1937, until Her Majesty's death in 1953, Lady Constance was Lady-in-Waiting to the late Queen Mary. Instituted a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1953, in that year she became Lady-inWaiting to H.R.H. Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, an appointment she retained until her death. She was a member of the Lansdowne Club and the Over-Seas League and lived at St. Milburga, Much Wenlock, Shropshire. A daughter and seven grandsons survive. Francis James Dallett