Person:Moses Penn (4)

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4. Moses Penn, born in 1712, in Westmoreland County, VA., died November 4, 1759, in Caroline County, VA., married Catherine Taylor, daughter of John Taylor and his wife, Catherine Pendleton, and sister of Mary (Elizabeth) Taylor (see below). She was born December 30, 1717 or 1719, died November 4, 1774. Moses and Catherine were parents of John Penn.

1. John Penn, born May 17, 1741, in Port Royal, Caroline County, VA., died September 14, 1788, in Granville County, NC., buried near Island Creek, remains moved in 1894 to Guilford Battle Ground, married in July 1763 in Granville, NC., Susannah Lynne. He was a lawyer. John Penn was the signer of the Declaration of Independence representing the Virginia Colony. They had at least two children:

1. Lucy Penn, married Col. John Taylor.

2. William Penn.

1.   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.