Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Christopher PENNOCK
Pennock, Christopher. Philadelphia. Bardmaker. April 15, 1701. Wife Mary. Son Joseph P. and daughter Hannah Goslin living in Ireland. Granddaughter Hannah Galloway. Executors: James Atkinson, William Southeby and Richard Sutton.
"31st of llth mo. of 1700 Christopher Pennock, of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, presented a paper Requesting this meeting to give him a certificate of his conversation to send to the six weeks meeting at Cork in Ireland."
"28th of 12th mo. of 1700 The friends appointed to Enquire into Christopher Pennock's clearness, Report that they cannot understand but he hath been of a good life and conversation, whereupon Samuel Carpenter and Thomas Storey are desired to get a Certificate drawn for him."
Genealogical Data From The Pennsylvania Chronicle 1716-1774
by Kenneth Scott, 1971
PENNOCK, Christopher, the ancestor of the Pennock family, married, prior, to 1675, Mary, daughter of George Collett, of Clonmell, county of Tipperary, Ireland. After residing there and in Cornwall, England, for some time, he emigrated to Pennsylvania about 1685. (He was an officer in the service of King William of Orange, and was at the battle of Boyne, 1690) SEE MY NOTE BELOW. He died in Philadelphia in 1701.
!Source: The Christopher Pennock Genealogy 1685 by Historical Society of Delaware Compiled by Charles A. Rudolph
!Source: Immigration of the Irish Quakers page 280
Christopher Pennock was married prior to 1675 to Mary Collett , daughter of George Collett, of Clonmell, County of Tipperary, Ireland. After residing there and in Cornwall, England, for some time, he emigrated to Philadelphia about 1685,and died in that city in 1701. A son, Joseph, born at Killhouse, near Clonmell, Ireland, 18 Nov. 1677, was a merchant in Philadelphia until about 1714, when he removed to West Marlborough Twp., Chester Co., and settled on a large tract of land, which he became proprietor by virtue of a grant from William Penn to George Collett, his grandfather. In 1738 he erected a mansion, "Primitive Hall," in which he died 27 Mar. 1771. (see pages 144-6) By his wife Mary Levis, he had twelve children, and account of whom may be seen in History of Chester County, p. 680.
According to Bess's Sufferings of the Quakers, in 1660 (II., 467), 1666 (II., 475) Christopher Pennock, of Cork, Ireland, was imprisoned for attendance at Friends' meetings, and in 1670, for the same reason, he had 49 yards of "stuff" worth #2, 9s., taken from him, (II., 478). In William Stockdale's Sufferings (p.12), printed in 1683, he is mentioned as having 6s. taken from him for maintenance of a"Priest." In 1675, in Cork the "Priest" took seven shillings out of his "shop-box."Stockdale, 60. In Cork, in 1676, Mary Pennock for keeping shop open on Christmas day was imprisoned for one night. -- Stockdale, A Great Cry of Oppression, 231. In the summer of 1900, the writer saw the original MS. of Dr.John Rutty's Rise and Progress of the Quakers in Ireland (in possession of John Pim, J.P., , a Friend, of Bonaven, Antrim Road, Belfast), bound in a piece of old parchment, which on a hasty inspection seemed to be a seventeenth century deed, containing the names of Christopher Pennock and George Collett, both of Cork. In 1680, George Collett, of Clonmell, had seized for tithes six "Pewter Dishes and a Pewter Candlestick," valued at #1. --Stockdale, 165.
The following extract from a letter, dated 7 Feb. 1685, addressed to Christopher Pennock, doubtless refers to George Collett: "Dear Brother Pennock, Myne and my wife's affectionate love is to Thee, and we are heartily glad it is in Athy wife's hart to be with Thee, and that the way is made for her father's condescension and willingness thereto." (Pennock Papers, belonging to Mrs.William H. Miller, of Media, Pa.)
I firmly believe that the note on the service during the Battle of Boyne is refering to another Christopher Pennock who came to Bethel Twp.
My reasoning is that as early as 1660, according to Bess's Sufferings of the Quakers, he is imprisoned for practicing his belief. It is well known that any Quaker that took up arms would be disciplined. If he was in America in 1685, I do not think that he would make the 3 month trip back to Ireland in order to fight in a war that he did not believe in. This is one of those facts that is attributed to him in order to make his life seem more spectacular.
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