Pennington Documents

Some scanned documents from my personal collection of family letters and other items are posted here. Please be aware that these images are quite large, to provide optimal resolution. You will need to have the (free) Adobe Acrobat Reader version 3.01 or higher to open these files.

•  Letter from Robert Elijah Pennington to Jonnie Mae Hackworth, 1941

1.3 MB. This letter contains the names of Riggs Pennington's children, and some background about Riggs' life and origins. However, I believe Mr. Pennington was mistaken about the place of birth he gives for Riggs' father, Timothy. It is possible that he was simply recounting family tradition that the Penningtons came from England without realizing that was several generations back (if indeed that was the case.) There are no civil records available to prove where Timothy was born, but we believe he was from eastern Pennsylvania, and that his father, Ephraim, was from New Jersey. My theory, which is shared by some other Pennington researchers, is that Ephraim was one of the descendants of Ephraim of Connecticut, who was a New Haven Colonist.