Family:John Penn and Lucy Granville (1)

There is a commonly repeated story that Joseph Penn who married Mary Taylor and his suspected brothers, John, George and Moses Penn, were the sons of John Penn, born circa 1650 and Lucy Granville, the daughter of Sir Beverly Granville and Lady Jane Wyche (daughter of Phillip Wyche). The is no apparent documentation which establishes the existence of a John Penn who married Lucy Granville or anybody by the name of Lucy. It says that this John Penn lived in Rappahannock and Westmoreland Counties, VA and died about 1721 and was the father of George, Joseph, John and Moses Penn. There is a 1721 Westmoreland Co., VA reference of a lawsuit of Joseph Taylor against the estate of John Penn, but the relationships are not established. Perhaps this is the John Penn who married Lucy Granville but there does not seem to be any proof the the existence of a John Penn who married Lucy Granville. Perhaps this John Penn who died in 1721 or before is the father or uncle to the John Penn who died in 1741 but there appears to be no proof of any relationship between the two John Penns.

If any researcher can provide sources to prove there was a John Penn, d. 1721, please feel free to list those sources below: