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Family Group 5
Rev. Charles, 1758 PA;
1845, IL
The Rev. Charles Pennington was b. in New Britain Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on 6 Jun 1758 according to his Revolutionary War papers. Charles's wife was Cassandra Swartzlander. The only known children of this couple were John and Effie. Using his pension papers as the source, we find Charles moving to Rowan County, North Carolina, and on to Grayson County, Virginia where he lived for seventeen years. From there he moved to Clinch Mountain, Virginia, where he lived about five years. Charles next moved to White County, Tennessee where his son, John and wife, Nancy Harris, lived and raised a large family. In later moves, Charles and Cassandra went to Lawrence County, Indiana, and finally to Coles County, Illinois, where Casandra d. 25 Oct. 1834 and Charles d. 5 Sept. 1845, age 87. Their daughter, Effie P Connelly, had also moved to Coles County where she left many descendants.
James F. Perkins spent decades working on the Rev. Charles line and contributed many articles sharing his research, including an early one in Pennington Pedigrees 1-3, pp. 33-36. Mrs. Ruth Johnson Jackel also contributed an article on this line in 5-2, pp. 3193. David Coy later contributed an article giving the line of Effie Pennington Connelly in 6-1, pp. 31-52. Virginia Lang has also researched this line.
The parentage of Rev. Charles Pennington remains unknown.
Copyright © 2000 Jeanne Thomas, Family Group 5 Leader, 9/15/00.
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