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John Penn was born near Port Royal in Caroline County, Virginia, on May 17, 1741. He was the only child of Moses and Catherine Penn. Moses was a moderately successful planter who died in 1759 when John was 18 years old. Though his father had the means, John never received a formal education and had received only a few years of tutoring at home ...
Jul 4, 2004 · Penn was born in 1740 or 1741 in Caroline County, Va. His father was a well-to-do farmer, and his mother the daughter of a prominent county judge. Despite the family's social position, Penn received only a few years of formal schooling. At the age of 18, when his father died, he inherited a sizable estate.
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Sep 14, 2016 · On September 14, 1788 , John Penn died in Granville County at age 47. With nothing more than a very basic education, Penn rose through legal and political circles to become one of three North Carolinians who signed the Declaration of Independence.
May 6, 2016 · “John Penn was born on May 17, 1741, at Port Royal, Caroline County, Virginia, the only child of Moses Penn and Catherine (Taylor) Penn. Penn’s grandfather, also named John Penn, was born about 1690 and died in 1741, but it is not known when the Penn family came to America.
He died at the age of forty-eight on September 14, 1788. John Penn was a native of the county of Caroline, in the province of Virginia, where he was born on the seventeenth day of May in 1741. He was the only child of his parents, Moses and Catharine Penn.
Jun 12, 2018 · John Penn (1729 - 1795) GovernorJohn Penn. Born 14 Jul 1729 in England. Ancestors. Son of Richard Penn Sr. and Hannah (Lardner) Penn. Brother of Hannah (Penn) Clayton, Richard Penn and William Penn. Husband of Anne (Allen) Penn — married [date unknown] [location unknown] [children unknown] Died 9 Feb 1795at age 65 in Pennsylvania.
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- July 14, 1729
- Anne (Allen) Penn
- February 9, 1795
John Penn. Law Practice in Virginia, 1762; Accepted to the North Carolina Bar, 1774; Member of Continental Congress, 1775-77, 1779-80; Member of the Board of War, 1780. John Penn was born in Caroline County, Virginia, to a family of means. His father died when he was eighteen years old, and though he had received only a rudimentary education at ...
