Person:John Penn (17)

Name	John Penn
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	17 May 1741	Port Royal, Caroline County, Virginia
Marriage	28 Jul 1763	to Susannah Lyne
Death^[1]	14 Sep 1788	Granville County, North Carolina
Reference Number`^?`		Q530037^?

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John Penn (May 17, 1741 September 14, 1788) was a Founding Father of the United States who signed both the United States Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation as a delegate of North Carolina.

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References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Goodrich, Charles A. Lives of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence. (New York: William Reed & Co., 1829)
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Jacobs, Moira Ann. Profiles of Patriots: A Biographical Reference of American Revolutionary War. (El Palo Alto, California: AuthorHouse, 2013).

Edmund Taylor's sister, Catherine, married Moses Penn. Their only child, John Penn, born in 1741 was an attorney in Caroline and later moved to Granville County, North Carolina. He served in the Continental Congress for six years and signed the Declaration of Independence from North Carolina. Edmund's brother James married Anne Pollard and they were the parents of Lt. Col. John Taylor "of Caroline", a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, a U.S. Senator, writer and ally of Thomas Jefferson. Lt. Col. John Taylor married John Penn's daughter Lucy. Both Penn and Lt. Col. John Taylor had studied law under Edmund Pendleton.

Signers of U.S. Declaration of Independence

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Signers of the U.S. Articles of Confederation

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