Person:William Pannill (2)

Information on William Pannill

From "Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches, Embracing the History of Campbell County, Virginia, 1782-1926", by R. H. Early, 1927:

Samuel Pannill was descended from William Pannill, of Richmond county, who married Frances Prows, and their son, William, m., in 1735, Sarah Bailey, and son, William (third in line), born 1738, married Ann Morton. This last William served in the Orange county Committee of Safety, of which James Madison was a member, in 1774; he had been sheriff of Orange and as that officer, made the proclamation from the court-house steps of the accession of George III to the throne of England. Wm. Pannill died in 1790; his son, Samuel, born 1770, moved to Pittsylvania, married Judith Boughton in 1795, and two years later bought the Fuqua land upon which he located his home. In 1800, through Richard Stith, trustee, he acquired 100 additional acres of the same tract. A ferry had been operated from Joseph Echols' land in Halifax across the Staunton to Fuqua's opposite bank, but it had fallen into disuse because managers of Echols* estate had let the boat drift away, and though appeal had been made for ferry re-establishment in 1793, there was still no provision made for it in 1797 when Pannill settled there; therefore petitions for it again were sent from Campbell, Halifax and Pittsylvania, urging the necessity. The ferry then established was later replaced by Pannill with a toll-bridge.

1. ↑ International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008).