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The George Washington
Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741 - 1799
Joanne Pennington,
Group Leader for Group 29, has provided Pennington
researchers with an excellent resource. In
the October 1, 2000 issue of several newspapers,
there was an article stating that George
Washington's diaries are available online at the
Library of Congress Web Site.
Joanne pointed out that
there have been several articles written in
Pennington Pedigrees about Pennington
participation in the early days of our nation and
she thought it would be good to get the
information as it was written exactly in his
diary. I could not agree more.
I visited the web site
and conducted a search for
"Pennington". There were a total
of 9 documents in this collection that contained
the name Pennington.
Here some abstractions
from those 9 documents.
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- "He was 16 when
he encountered the vicissitudes of frontier
life at a tavern called Pennington's on March
15, 1748, on his first surveying trip to the
lower Shenandoah Valley. "I not being so
good a Woodsman as the rest of my Company
striped my self very orderly & went in to
the Bed as they call'd it when to my surprise
I found it to be nothing but a Little
Straw-Matted together without sheets or
anything else but only one Thread Bear blanket
with double its Weight of Vermin such as Lice
Fleas etc.". He wrote."
- " ...Pennington
road ..."
- "... a tavern
keeper in Pennington ..."
- "...that the Body
of the Enemy which lay at Pennington, under
Lord Cornwallis, moved this morning back
towards Princetown ..."
- "...Cornwallis
then took post at Pennington ..."
- ".. Monday 14th.
We sent our Baggage to Capt. Hites (near
Frederick Town) went ourselves down the River
about 16 Miles to Capt. Isaac Penningtons (the
Land exceeding Rich & Fertile all the way
produces abundance of Grain Hemp Tobacco
&c.) in order to Lay of some Lands on
Cates Marsh & Long Marsh. .."
- ".. Isaac
Pennington came to the Shenandoah Valley,
probably from New Jersey, about 1734 and
settled a tract of some 600 acres on the south
bank of Buck Marsh Run, near present-day
Berryville, Va. He was a member of the first
grand jury empaneled in Frederick County in
May 1744 (CARTMELL, 23). In 1750 GW surveyed a
tract of land for him in Frederick County
(survey for Pennington, 23 Oct. 1750, NN:
George Washington Newspaper and Catalogue
Clippings Box). Pennington sold his holdings
in Frederick County, including most of the
site of Berryville, to Gabriel Jones of
Augusta County and John Hite of Frederick
County in 1754 and moved to South Carolina in
the fall of that year (CHAPPELEAR [1],
17--18). .."
- ".. Tuesday 15th.
We set out early with Intent to Run round the
sd. Land but being taken in a Rain & it
Increasing very fast obliged us to return. It
clearing about one oClock & our time being
too Precious to Loose we a second time
ventured out & Worked hard till Night
& then returnd to Penningtons we got our
Suppers & was Lighted in to a Room & I
not being so good a Woodsman as the rest of my
Company striped my self very orderly ..."
- ".. Society for
Promoting Agriculture, 5:174, 242surveying:
early experience and training, 1:1, 4--5;
surveying diary, 1:6--23; for George Neville,
1:6; for Isaac Pennington ..."
The web site is titled The George Washington Papers at
the Library of Congress, 1741-1799.
Click on the above title to go to the web
site. Once there, click on the "Search
by Keyword" link. Then enter
"Pennington" in the "Search"
area and you will find a listing for all of the
documents containing "Pennington".
See the table below for a list of the document
titles I found.
Return to Top of Page Here are the 9 documents
containing the name of Pennington.
| 1 |
George
Washington to Israel Putnam, December 25,
1776 |
| 2 |
The Diaries of
George Washington. Vol. 1. Donald Jackson,
ed.; Dorothy Twohig, assoc. ed. The Papers
of George Washington. Charlottesville:
University Press of Virginia, 1976.--O--R |
| 3 |
George
Washington to William Livingston, March 3,
1777 |
| 4 |
George
Washington to Pennsylvania Safety Council,
December 15, 1776 |
| 5 |
George
Washington to Charles Lee, December 10,
1776 |
| 6 |
The Diaries of
George Washington. Vol. 1. Donald Jackson,
ed.; Dorothy Twohig, assoc. ed. The Papers
of George Washington. Charlottesville:
University Press of Virginia, 1976.--A
Journal of my Journey over the Mountains
began Fryday the 11th. of March 1747/8 |
| 7 |
George
Washington to Continental Congress,
December 27, 1776 |
| 8 |
The Diaries of
George Washington. Vol. 6. Donald Jackson,
and Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Papers of
George Washington. Charlottesville:
University Press of Virginia, 1979.--P |
| 9 |
The Diaries of
George Washington. Vol. 6. Donald Jackson,
and Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Papers of
George Washington. Charlottesville:
University Press of Virginia, 1979.--W |
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