Notes on William Penn's Relatives

Notes on William Penn's Relatives HANNAH BENNER ROACH, F.G.S.P., F.A.S.G. ILLIAM PENN, "son of George Penn late of the fforest of Brayden in the County of Wilts gent Deceased," was bequeathed 0 in the 1670 will of Admiral Sir William Penn.' He was the Admiral's first cousin, son of the Admiral's uncle George Penn who was a brother of Giles Penn, the Admiral's father. William Penn, son of George, died testate in Ireland in 1676. His will appears to have been lost when the Public Record Office in Dublin was burned in 1922. But among the Albert Cook Myers Papers on deposit in the Chester County Historical Society at West Chester, Pa., fortunately is a short abstract of the will, made by Mr. Myers before the first World War. His abstract follows: -W Will of William Penn of Kingsalle, Co. Cork, Ireland, "taken Slake in Boddey" [dated] 27 April 1676 . . . "to Amey Penne my dafter" £20 "and on Bed" & [forthture?] & 2 plates to be paid within 3 months of her day of marriage. To Margret Penn, "my dafter £20 & I Bed & 2 pewter plates" 3 months before marriage. "To James Prone my son" £10 "To William Penn my son" £50 "which is due mee from the Treasury office in London ffor Sallery & £60 more due from the office of Ordinance we' was disbursed by met ffor his Mailes youse fine [illegible] rest at Kinsalle." To sd W P "2 shuts of clothes" & "my Buffe Dublett" & "all such money as is due to mm from William Penn Escr & "a Bode Bellt wth silver Buckels & one Swords & on Scarfs of sillke with gould & silver" [illegible] & "2 pair of sillke stockings" & "my silver watch" 2 fowling pieces a case of small pistols, "on cloke & a longe coate & on hatte" etc. Rest of goods to "Joane Penn my wide" [my] extrx. Witt: Willi Bishop Probated 21 July 1676 /s/ Wm Penn This will adds a new dimension to the Founder William Penn's relatives, but Mr. Myers found only one other item. In the Public Record Office in Dublin, among the Marriage License Bonds for the Diocese of For a full transcript of the Admiral's will see Brigadier Oliver F. G. Hogg, "Further Light on the Ancestry of Willian Fenn," published by the Society of Genealogists in London in 1964. An abstract is in 5. Henry Lea, "Genealogical Gleanings, Contributory to a History of the Family of Peen," in The Pennaylvania Magazine of Hannay and Biography, XIV (18901, 171. a Portions of this abstrxt are not legible, and his use of quotation marks is erratic, but is presented in the text above as he wrote is see Albert Cook Myers Collection, XLIX, 136. 238 Notes on William Penn's Relatives 239 Cork and Ross, he noted the entry: Amy Penn and Richard Clarkson, 1681. Admiral Sir William Penn also bequeathed money to other relatives, among them his nephew William Markham, to whom he left £10 sterling, his nephew George Markham, to whom he devised £5 sterling, and to his "Cosin Elianore Keene The yearly summe of six pounds sterling to be paid unto her yearly during her life . . . by quarterly payments." Among the Penn Papers at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, is a Cash Book kept by William Penn's steward, Philip Ford, which lists itemized expenses of his employer during the years 1672 to 1680. Among the items in this book are entries of payments made in accordance with the Admiral's will, and of miscellaneous payments to other relatives: 9m [Nov.] 1672 To Cads pd will Markeharn in full a legacy left his son Geo: per Sr W P £5 7 3m [May] 1673 To Cash pd Eli£: Jones. per order £1 22 3m 1673 To Cash pd will Markham per ordr 10s. 20 4m [June] 1673 To Cash pd will Markeham in pr R Penns ace' £2 10s. 16 7m [Sept.] 1673 To Cash pd will Markeham in full £2 10s. 9 51w [Jan.] 1678[/9] To Cash pd will Browne in full £3 due Elliner Keene 7 12rn [Feb.] 1678/9 To Cash pd Rich Vicridge on Ellmr Keene, Acct £4 11 7m. [Sept.] 1679 To Cash pd thy Cousen a Markham £6 17 Ilrn [Jan.] 1679/80 To Cash pd Richard Vickeridge for Widdow Keene £8 6 Little is known of George Markham, legatee under the will of the Admiral, and brother of William Markham who became Penn's lieutenant governor in America. There is a distinct possibility, however, that George may have come over in 1699 when the Proprietor, accompanied by his new secretary, James Logan, arrived in Philadelphia for his second visit. Immediately after their arrival, Logan opened a Cash Book of the Proprietor's expenses and moneys received. In this Cash Book, now at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, are entries showing payments to George Markham: O This entry provides indisputable proof of the father of George arid h. brother William Markham. An earlier item, among the Admiral's papers in the Penn Manuscripts, Private Correspondence, I, 7, in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP), also refers to the elder William Markham: 1668 July 22 paid Wm Markham in/. It is probable that Elizabeth Jones was the sister of William Penn of Kinsale, and widow of George Jones of Grittenham, Wilts. See The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine (PGM), XXV, (1967), 73. She was the Admiral's "Cosin" who had married Edward Keene in 1635, and like Elizabeth Jones, was a first cousin once removed of the Founder. Undoubtedly this was the Pounder', own first cousin, later his deputy governor ha Pennsylvania. 240 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 22 4m [June] 1700 By Geo: Markham Exp on r Barge &c 14$. 24 4m 1700 By Gear Markham for his vor to Penrob 7 125. 16 5m [July] 1700 To G. Markham laid out on r Barge 6s. 6d. 3 10m [Dec.] 1700 By Boatswain Markham in pt £5 12 urn [Jan.] 1700/01 By Boatswain Markham 15 No further entries in his name appear in the Cash Book, and no other record of him in Pennsylvania has been found; it is probable that he left the province. Another "relation" of the Proprietor was Martha Durant who was also a "cousin" of Robert Assheton. To supplement the brief account of her, given in this Magazine in Volume XXV (1967), 127, may now be added the following information. It seems that after the death of her husband, John Durant, which apparently occurred prior to March 1702,' she promptly married a man named Joyce or Joice who was deceased by December 1712. ° She herself was dead by 4 9m (November) 1713, for James Logan on that date made the following entry in his account book: 9 The Prop. prof Ace Dr to Cash £1.8.4 paid towards r funeral charges of his Kinswoman Martha Joyce (formerly Durant) Viz: Given her daughter Martha to buy sundries 6/3; pc, Gm: Painter for 3 Gallons of wine at 3/9 & 6" of Sugar at 7" is 14/9. paid the woman that laid her out and attended the funeral & for ale 7/4, in all £1.8.4. ', "Minutes of the Board of Property," Pettmsylvatsio Archives, 2nd Series, XDC, 283. 8 A survey of land in Charlestown Tue., Chester Co., for "M. Durant als Joice," was returned into the Surveyor General's office 12 I Im (Jan.) 1702/3, for which see Taylor Papers, /X, 1870, 1871, its FISP; Pertruylvatiia Archives, and Series, XDC, 541. Pennsylvania Journal, 1712-1732, Penn Manuscripts, HOP. NOTICE is hereby given to the Heirs of HERMAN SHOEMAKER and MATTHIAS SHOEMAKER, who left Holland about 60 or 70 years ago, that by applying to the Printers of this Paper, they may be informed of something to their advantage. Pettnaylva,tta Gazette, 17 November 1784