Christopher
Pennock
1650-1707
| BORN: | 1650, Clonmell, Tipperary, Ireland. |
| MOTHER: | |
| FATHER: | John Pennock |
| WIFE: | Firstly, Dorothy Harwood and secondly, Mary Collett |
| MARRIED: | To Dorothy Harwood, about 1664.....To Mary Collett June, 1672 |
| LOCATION: | To Dorothy Harwood, Cork,
Ireland
To Mary Collett, Clonmell, Tipperary, Ireland. |
| CHILDREN: | By Dorothy Harwood: John Pennock, Hanna
Pennock and Sarah Pennock
By Mary Collett: Mary Pennock, Joseph Pennock, Ann Pennock, Elizabeth Pennock, Nathaniel Pennock |
| DIED: | 1701 in Philadelphia, PA |
| SUMMARY: | Christopher Pennock was born in 1650 into a family of Quakers. He married Mary Cullet, daughter of George Collett of Clonmell, in the county of Tipperary, Ireland. They had 5 children, one of which was Joseph Pennock. Joseph built Primitive Hall in 1738. Tradition says that Christopher Pennock was in the military service of William of Orange. He was in the service of King William at the Battle of the Boyne, 1690. He immigrated to Cornwall, England. Prior to 1685 he immigrated to Pennsylvania in the Americas. He bought 5,000 acres of land from William Penn and came to Philadelphia 1681-1683. He died in Philadelphia in 1701. |
Primitive Hall, built by Christopher Pennock's son, Joseph Pennock in 1738.