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My wife’s great-great-grandfather, William M. Garretson (also mis-spelled Garrison) lived in Fauquier Co., VA in 1810, 1820, 1830 and 1840. We believe his daughter, Permelia Francis Garretson, my wife’s great-grandmother, married the great-grandfather, James Penn, in 1841 or 1842 in Virginia (their first child was born 14 March 1843). The only Penn in the 1840 census in proximity is a Thomas Penn, his wife and son under 5 in Page County. Also in the household is another male 20 to 30 years old - the right age bracket for our James Penn. On 30 November 1841, a James W. Penn signed the marriage bond for Presley Carter’s marriage to Elizabeth Jane Garretson, Permelia’s older sister in Fauquier Co., VA.
There were other Penns in the “Northern Neck” in 1820 and 1830 (Spotsylvania Co.) but by 1840 the Thomas Penn (and his brother?) is the only one left and he is in Page Co., at least according to the United States Census. All the other Penns were in the central and southern parts of Virginia and in other states. Does anyone have information on where this Thomas Penn came from? Is he the son of Thomas Penn of Spotsylvania Co.? In looking back to the 1820 United States Census, Thomas Penn has 3 males under the age of 10 in his house. Seems a likely candidate but really unsure. Does anyone have anything on this James (or James W.) Penn? I am thinking he is off everyone’s radar and if so he may be the individual I’ve been looking for.
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