Person:James Pennington (5)

!RESIDENCES:

           (    -    ) Liverpool, Lancashire, England. 
           (    -    ) NY? or MA? 
Rev. War { ( -1779-  ) Easttown Gaol/Jail, Easttown Township, Chester Co, PA. 
 "    "  { ( -1780-  ) Reading Gaol/Jail, Berks Co, PA. 
 "    "  { ( -1782-  ) Lancaster, Lancaster Co, PA. 
           (    -    ) Saint John, NB 
           (1783-    ) Queensbury Parish, York Co, NB. 
    ( -1800-1807/1808) Bear Island, Queensbury Parish, York Co, NB. 

!BIOGRAPHY: James Pennington was a soldier in the Queen's Rangers which was organized in NY, CT and VA and arrived in NB in 1783. By 1800 James had settled at Bear Island, Queensbury Parish, York, NB where he owned & operated a grist mill.

!BIOGRAPHY: Genealogical notes made by Sadie (Grant) Stevens (1891-1975), with information supplied in 1920 by Henry Pennington (1857-1936); 1775-1920; ; ; Rick Crume's file #G 041; NOTE: "James Pennington came to America in own ship from England, settled in Mass., built a mill at Bear Creek, N.B."

!BIOGRAPHY: Letter from James L. Pennington (1869-abt 1960), Bridgewater, ME, to Helen (Crume) Generes (1920-1983), Redding, CA; 1850-1960; letter dtd 22 Mar 1960; ; Rick Crume's file #G 042; NOTE: "My grandfather the Rev William Pennington['s] father [James Pennington] "came from England. He Married a Miss Price from Boston."

!BIOGRAPHY: Sarah (Pennington) Uhler, "Pennington Personalities: James Pennington, Minnesota Pioneer": 1779-1975; Nov 1956, reprinted in PENNINGTON PEDIGREES, vol. 3 (1971), no. 1; NOTE: Sarah (Pennington) Uhler (1887-1959) was a granddaughter of James Pennington (1799-1888); Rick Crume's file #P 038, C 040; NOTE: "John Pennington came to St. John, New Brunswick from Liverpool, England in 1779. His family were in the pottery and china business in England." Should this be James, rather than John, Pennington? Or, was there a John Pennington, born about 1758, who was the father of James Pennington? This according to a chart, probably prepared by Lillian (Pennington) Beebe, daughter of James Pennington (1835-1895). Rick Crume's file #P 39, P 71.

!MILITARY: British Military & Naval Records; 1778-1779; "C" Series (RG8); vol 1865 pp 32, 60, 90, vol 1863 p 73, vol 1864 pp 10, 23; Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Roll #C-4217; NOTE: Murray's Company 1: James Pennington taken prisoner 20 Jul 1778; Muster rolls of Capt James Kerr's Company, Queens Rangers: James Pennington on roll of 25 Apr - 24 Jun 1779, deserted 11 Jul 1779; Vol 1864 p 10, James Pennington, #2, Corporal, E[ngland]; Muster Roll of Capt. John Whitlock's Company, Queens Rangers, 25 Jun - 24 Aug 1778 shows James Pennington, #2, Corporal, E[ngland]; Rick Crume's file #P 080, P 084.

!MILITARY: Jonas Howe, "A Sergeant of the Queen's Rangers"; 1780; NEW BRUNSWICK MAGAZINE, Saint John, NB, Vol III, No. 2 (Aug 1899); pp. 87-93; Rick Crume's file #P 064; NOTE: This article includes a letter dated 27 Jul 1780 from Reading (PA) Gaol to Lt. Matheson, Quartermaster, Queen's Rangers, NY, signed by Morris Haycock, Sergeant, Queen's Rangers, Capt. Dunlop's company: "Sir: I take this opportunity of informing you by Col. Van Heimel that I with Jerry Ownings, John Stephens and James Pennington are here Prisoners of War greatly distressed for want of Necessaries and as here are a number of Hessians who are to be supply'd with Cloathing &c., we beg that such things as you may think suitable may be sent along with theirs for to be Prisoners is distressing and to be without Cloaths or money makes it still worse so we hope you will use your best endeavors to supply us with a little of both." Sgt. Haycock was born 24 Dec 1756, Long Island, NY. The group with Sgt. Haycock was taken prisoner early in the summer of 1780 and released (exchanged) in Dec 1780, to rejoin their regiment, only to be taken prisoner again at the fall of Yorktown to Gen. Washington in Oct 1781.

!MILITARY: British Military & Naval Records; 1781-1782; "C" Series (RG8); vol 1865 pp 11, 36, 55; Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Roll #C-4218; NOTE: Muster Rolls of Capt. John Whitlock's Company, the Queens Rangers, Lancaster, PA, 23 Apr 1782; James Pennington, #2, Corporal, taken prisoner 19 Oct 1781; Prisoners of war from 25 Apr to 24 Jun 1782 & from 21 Jun to 24 Aug 1782: #2, Corporal, James Pennington; Rick Crume's file # P 080, P 084.

!LAND-MILITARY: Esther Clark Wright, THE LOYALISTS OF NEW BRUNSWICK; 1785; 1985, Sentinel Printing, Yarmouth, NS; p 318; Rick Crume's file # P 038; NOTE: "James Pennington, Queens Rangers, received a grant of land in Saint John, then known as Parrtown P695, before coming to York County."

!LAND: Land petition of Isaac Attwood; 1785; PANB RS108 land petitions; York County, film #F1024; Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, Fredericton (Rick Crume's file #P 459, 468); NOTE: James Pennington is one of the signers.

!LAND: Land petition of Zenas Lincoln; 1802; PANB RS108 land petitions; York County, film #F1042; Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, Fredericton (Rick Crume's file #P 459, 469); NOTE: "James Pennington took administration on the personal estate of James Traynor."

!LAND: Petitions by James Pennington to the Governor of New Brunswick for lots of land in Queensbury Parish, York, NB as compensation for James' service in the Queen's Rangers; 1803; York Co., N.B. petitions #208 & 696; both dated 12 May 1803; Provincial Archives of NB, Fredericton, Rick Crume's file #C 040, P 018, P 038.

!CHILD: Obituary of Mary Pennington, NEW BRUNSWICK COURIER; Saint John, N.B.; 1864; ; Sat, 1 Oct 1864; New Brunswick Museum, Saint John; NOTE: "Died at Penobsquis [Kings Co., NB], on 4th ultimo, of consumption, Mary, wife of John Pennington of Liverpool, England, age 63."; Was John Pennington of Liverpool a son of James Pennington (1758-1808)? Rick Crume's file #P 013, P 086.

!RELATIONSHIP: ; 1758-1800; PENNINGTON PEDIGREES, fourth quarter, 1976; p 8; ; NOTE: Article on a Charles Pennington of PA. Was a Baptist minister & had a twin brother, Edmund. Both born about 1758. Edmund and his father were Loyalists. Rick Crume's file #P 047.

!RELATIONSHIP: Letter from Mrs. Helen Humble, St. Catharines Ontario, to Vacil Kalinoff, Stillwater, MN; 1752-1832; Letter dtd 4 Dec 1979; ; Rick Crume's file #P 077, P 104; NOTE: A George Pennington was a Lieut. in the 44th Regiment (British) in the Revolutionary War and was in Canada in 1755. Could he have been the father of James Pennington and of an Elizabeth "Alice" Pennington (b. 1752 England; d. 1832 New Carlisle, Quebec) who married Robert Flowers in 1775? Alice and Robert's son, James Flowers, may have lived in NB.

!PROBATE: York Co., N.B. probates; 1794-1826; vol 1; pp 77-78; FHL film 0,851,192; Rick Crume's file #G 362, P 463.

!PROBATE: R Wallace Hale, EARLY NEW BRUNSWICK PROBATE RECORDS 1785-1815; 1785-1835; Heritage Books, Bowie, MD, 1989; p 351; Book in poss of Rick Crume, Glyndon, MN; NOTE: James Pennington. No residence cited, York Co. Intestate. Administration granted 19 Feb 1808 to Mary Pennington, widow. Fellow bondsmen John Price and Jacob D Blaicher, all of York County.

!BURIAL: Letter from Murray S Thomson, Saint John, NB, to Rick Crume, Glyndon, MN; 1808; Letter dtd 19 Oct 1988; ; Rick Crume's file #P 146, P 153.

1. ↑ British military records, "C" Series, 1757-1899, located at the National Archives of Canada. (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah).