Mary (Hadley) Pennock (1759 - 1840)

Born 12 Jul 1759 in Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle, DE

Ancestors

Wife of Samuel Pennock — married 6 May 1779 in New Garden MM, Chester Co., Pa.

Descendants

Died 4 Aug 1840 at age 81 in Pennsylvania, USA

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Biography

Mary was born on 12 July 1759. She was the daughter of John Hadley and Margaret (Morton) Hadley.^[1][2]

When Mary was 19 she married Samuel Pennock on 6 May 1779.^[3] They had nine children.

Mary died at the age of 81 on 4 August 1840.^[2][4]

Mary's granddaughter Edith Pennock said, "My father's mother, Mary Hadley Pennock, was 'a plump dumpling of a woman.' A good household manager. — Tidy and neat in person and thro' her house. Quick-tempered, generous, kind, sympathetic. She liked to see young folks marry. She married at twenty. She liked to help young mothers when the little ones came. Had skill in that way. Might have been a good doctor. Pity she had not the chance. She dressed as did the plainest of Friends and believed in their doctrine of 'plainness,' but her native instincts and feelings favored the warm, comfortable, 'cushiony' aspects of life. Very social. Did like visiting and receiving visits. To give up a visit or a sociable time that se had arranged for and set her heart on was hardly to be tho't of."^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Birth: North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, Book Title: Proceedings of the sesqui-centennial gathering of the descendants of Isaac and Ann Jackson : at Harmony Grove, Chester Co., Pa., eighth month, twenty-fifth, 1875 : together with the family genealogy.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Mary Hadley Pennock Find A Grave: Memorial #140580951 (accessed 17 April 2022)
3. ↑ Marriage: U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935. Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Births and Burials; Collection: Quaker Meeting Records; Call Number: MR Ph:336.
4. ↑ Died: U.S., Hinshaw Index to Selected Quaker Records, 1680-1940.
5. ↑ Died: A photocopy of unpublished handwritten notes about her ancestry written by Edith Pennock, daughter of Moses Pennock and Mary Jones Lamborn, around 1910. This copy is in the possession of Dick Pennock.