Penninah Small (1792)

Ancestors

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Biography

Penninah was a Friend (Quaker)

Penninah was born in 1792. She is the daughter of Benjamin Small and Elizabeth Sawyer.^[1][2]

Life Line

• Penninah Small was born on the 28th of October, 1792 to Benjamin Small and Elizabeth Sawyer.^[3]
• On the 25th of July 1794, Penninah's sister, Abigail Small, was born.^[3]
• On the 7th of October 1796, Penninah's sister, Mary Small, was born.^[3]
• On the 8th of October 1798, Penninah's sister, Miriam Small, was born.^[3]
• On the 28th of July 1800, Penninah's brother, Aaron Small, was born.^[3]
• On the 19th of March 1802, Penninah's brother, Abner Small, was born.^[3]
• On the 27th of February 1804, Penninah's brother, Jesse Small, was born.^[3]
• The women's minutes of the Mt. Pleasant Monthly Meeting, on the 25th of August, 1804, indicate that Benjamin Small requested membership among the friends for his four minor daughters. The men's minutes are lost, and so one can only conjecture that he had also asked for membership for his three minor son's, Aaron, Abner and Jesse. (One question remains, what of his wife, Elizabeth?)^[4]
• On the 6th of March 1807, Penninah's sister, Sarah Small, was born.^[3]
• In 1807 Benjamin and Elizabeth moved their family from Mt Pleasant Monthly Meeting, Grayson County, Virginia to West Branch Monthly Meeting, Ohio.^[1][2]
• On the 21st of October, 1809, Penninah's brother, Ephraim Small, was born.^[3]
• Subsequently, Penninah moved with her family to Whitewater Monthly Meeting. Wayne County, Indiana.^[1][2]
• Penninah's brother, Aaron, died on the 20st of August 1821.^[5]
• Penninah's father died on the 7th March, 1826 in Wayne County, Indiana.^[6][7]

Research Notes

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Ladd, R. K. (1974): View 142.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Ladd, Ruth Klein. One Ladd's Family, Revisited. Naperville, Ill. Ladd. 2002, Benjamin Small, Vol. 1 View 285 (608-6).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8} Religious Society of Friends, Whitewater Monthly Meeting (Wayne County, Indiana), "Birth and Death, Book A ," p. 7, Family of Benjamin and Elizabeth Small, Indiana Yearly Meeting Records, Friends Collection and Earlham College Archives, Earlham College, Richmond Indiana; "U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935," digital images Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com : 19 Dec 2019), Indiana> Wayne> Whitewater Monthly Meeting> Births and Deaths (To 1858), image 23 of 132.
4. ↑ Religious Society of Friends, Mt. Pleasant Monthly Meeting (Grayson County, Virginia), "Women's Minutes, 1802 - 1825," 25 Aug 1804, p. 36, Benjamin Small and daughters, North Carolina Yearly Meeting Minutes, Hege Friends Historical Library, Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina; "U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935," digital images Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com : 19 Dec 2019), Virginia> Carroll> Mount Pleasant (Chestnut Creek) Monthly Meeting> Women´s Minutes, 1802-1825, image 22 of 161.
5. ↑ Religious Society of Friends, Whitewater Monthly Meeting (Wayne County, Indiana), "Birth and Death, Book A ," p. 134, Aaron Small, Indiana Yearly Meeting Records, Friends Collection and Earlham College Archives, Earlham College, Richmond Indiana; "U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935," digital images Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com : 19 Dec 2019), Indiana> Wayne> Whitewater Monthly Meeting> Births and Deaths (To 1858), image 108 of 132.
6. ↑ Religious Society of Friends, Whitewater Monthly Meeting (Wayne County, Indiana), "Birth and Death, Book A ," p. 137, Benjamin Small, Indiana Yearly Meeting Records, Friends Collection and Earlham College Archives, Earlham College, Richmond Indiana; "U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935," digital images Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com : 19 Dec 2019), Indiana> Wayne> Whitewater Monthly Meeting> Births and Deaths (To 1858), image 111 of 132.
7. ↑ Indiana Circuit Court (Wayne County), "Record of Wills," Vol. 1, p. 118, Benjamin Small, Wayne County, Indiana; "Indiana, Wills and Probate Records," digital image Ancestry (https://Www.ancestry.com : 20 Dec 2019) Wayne> Will Records, Vol 1-4, 1812-1865, image 74 of 914.

Also see:

• Religious Society of Friends, Pasquotank Monthly Meeting (Pasquotank County, North Carolina), "Records, Births, and Deaths, Vol 01, 1679-1813," North Carolina Yearly Meeting Minutes, Hege Friends Historical Library, Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina.
• Religious Society of Friends, Mt. Pleasant Monthly Meeting (Grayson County, Virginia), "Women's Minutes, 1802 - 1825," North Carolina Yearly Meeting Minutes, Hege Friends Historical Library, Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina.
• Religious Society of Friends, Whitewater Monthly Meeting (Wayne County, Indiana), "Birth and Death, Book A ," Indiana Yearly Meeting Records, Friends Collection and Earlham College Archives, Earlham College, Richmond Indiana.
• Indiana Circuit Court (Wayne County), "Record of Wills," Wayne County, Indiana.
• Ladd, Ruth Kline, One Ladd's Family including Cousins near and far (Naperville, Ill., Ladd, 1974).
• Ladd, Ruth Kline. One Ladd's Family, Revisited. Naperville, Ill. Ladd. 2002.