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PENN, WILLIAM, son of William Penn, and Mary, dau. of Charles Jones, Bristol, merchant ; grandson of William Penn, founder, proprietor and first Governor of Pennsylvania, North America ; b. 21 March 1702/3 ; at school under Knipe and/or Freind ; inherited the Penn family estates in Co.Cork, Ireland ; of Ballyphehane, co.Cork ; a member of the Society of Friends ; correspondence exchanged between him and Robert Clayton (Min.Can.1710, qv) on the subject of baptism between January 1738/9 and May 1739 includes a statement by Clayton, at that time Bishop of Cork, in a letter dated 12 March 1738/9, that “your education at Westminster School will enable you to take the force of this argument [on the meaning of the words ‘eis to onoma” in St.Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians, i, 13] which would be lost on almost all your fraternity” (Letters which passed between the Right Reverend Robert Lord Bishop of Corke, now Lord Bishop of Clogher, and Mr.William Penn, concerning Baptism, 1756, 27) ; m.1st, 7 Dec 1732 Christian, dau. of Alexander Forbes, London, merchant ; m.2nd, 13 Feb 1736/7 Isabella, dau. of Isaac Vaux, London ; d. 6 Feb 1746/7.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2022.