Edward Penington

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Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1726

Birth Place: Unknown

Death Date: 1796

Death Place: Unknown

Affiliations: Society of Friends

Notes: Phila. Quaker merchant. Son of Isaac Penington and Ann Biles Penington; m. Sarah Shoemaker at Bank Mtg. (1754). Member, Pa. Assembly (1761); judge, Court of Common Pleas (1761); member, Am. Philosophical Soc. (1768); manager, Pa. Hospital (1773-79); city councillor (1790). Exiled to Va. (1777).

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