Brief Life History of John Granville
When John Granville Penn was born on 17 May 1741, in Port Royal, Caroline, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Moses Penn, was 29 and his mother, Catherine Taylor, was 21. He married Susannah Lyne on 28 July 1763, in Granville, North Carolina, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 14 September 1788, in Granville, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina, United States.
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- John Penn, "BillionGraves Index"
- John Penn, "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783"
- John Penn, "Find A Grave Index"
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1775
Patrick Henry made his "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" speech in Richmond Virginia.
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1781 · The First Constitution
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from either of two places called Penn (in Buckinghamshire and Staffordshire), both of which are named with Brittonic penn ‘head’, often used in hill-names.
English: topographic name or metonymic occupational name from Middle English pen(n) ‘enclosure, animal pen, fold’ (Old English penn), for someone who lived by or worked at a fold. Examples of this surname are formally difficult to distinguish from those in 1 above.
English: from a pet form of the female personal name Pernel, see Parnell .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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John Penn Born May 17, 1841; died age 48 -Age 36 at Signing of the declaration of Independence. -His father died when he was eighteen leaving him a fortune. Barely educated, he read a lot and bec …
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