MARY3 QUINBY  d/o JOHN2 QUINBY

PG. 79 -SEE LIST OF CHILDREN FOR JOHN2 [WILLIAM1]

MARY3 [JOHN2, WILLIAM1] QUINBY  married one John PENNEY and had quite an ordeal, see following transcript  for full explanation and pg. 124 detail for Mary3 Quinby for further family connection.

Oct. 10, 1720 - To Governor Chas. Eden, Gov. in Chief, North Carolina from
Mayor and Aldermen and principal inhabitants of the borough and town of West
Chester in the Province of New York, "having been informed by a letter from
your Excellency to the Revd. Mr. John BARTOW, our Minister, and also several
letters sent from Elizabeth MARTEN, alias PENY (sic) of Bath Town, in your
Government to the said Mr. Bartow and to Mary Penny whose maiden name was QUINBY,
the wife of John PENNY, a woolcomber, to whom she was married by the said Mr.
BARTOW on the 7th of September, 1709. That he the said PENNY (supposed to the
above-mentioned) denied his marriage to the said Mary QUINBY, and was married
to the above mentioned Elizabeth MARTEN; we did thereupon as desired, send
certificates, under the Seal of our Corporation, but they not coming to hand
us, we are now informed by the above Elisabeth MARTEN, alias PENNY, who is come
here in person to be certified of the marriage of aforesaid John PENNY to the
said Mary QUINBY". Certified that said John PENNY was married to said Mary
QUINBY on September 7, 1709. Certify also "that said Elizabeth MARTEN, alias
PENNY, has given to us a particular account of several things which she received
of said John PENNY, which are known to have been the goods of Mary QUINBY before
her marriage to the said John PENNY...a silver buckle for a girdle marked M.Q.,
but the Q has been defaced since PENNY has had it, and also for further testimony
the bearer hereof has received a Certificate of the above said Marriage of the
said PENNY and QUINBY signed by the Rev'd Mr. BARTOW, above mentioned, and those
Persons who were actually at the solemnization of the same." "Now in behalf of
above said Mary PENNY, who is a woman of a good life and conversation, and
generally well respected by her neighbors, but has been very ill and cruelly used
by the above said PENNY, and PENNY, and he has taken away almost all she had to
subsist on, which was considerable, by which loss she is impoverished and likely
to become a Parish Charge, being grown in years, and not long able to get her
living, tis our humble request to your Excellency, that we are informed the above
said John PENNY is worth a considerable value in lands and you would favor us with
your assistance in procuring a maintenance for the said Mary PENNY from her
husband the said John PENNY."
Signed: Caleb HEATHCOK, Mayor; William WELLET, Deputy Judge; Josiah HURST,
Deputy Mayor; Joseph HURST, Alderman; John BARTOW, Rector; James CROMWELL,
Alderman; Miles OAKLEY, Alderman; John OAKLEY, Alderman; John OAKLEY, Alderman
p. 253
Oct. 10, 1720 - John BARTOW, Rector of West Chester, County of Wester, Province
of New York, by authority granted in behalf of late Rt. Revd. Father in God Henry
Lord Bishop of London, did marry John PENNY and May QUEENBY (sic)
September 7, 1709 in the Parish of West Chester.
Marriage as above said was solemnized in presence of: Thos. HADDON, Jno. WILLIAMS
Oct. 11. 1720 - Appeared before Joseph HUNT, Esq., one of his Majesties Justices
of the Peace, County of West Chester, Thomas HADDEN and John WILLIAMS to
acknowledge they were present and saw Doctor BARTOW, Minister of the Parish of
West Chester marry the said Mary QUINBY of West Chester and John PENNY "and did
pronounce them lawful man and wife."Signed: Joseph HUNT, Justice
p. 252
Oct. 10, 1720 - To Governor Chas. Eden, Gov. in Chief, North Carolina from
Mayor and Aldermen and principal inhabitants of the borough and town of West
Chester in the Province of New York, "having been informed by a letter from
your Excellency to the Revd. Mr. John BARTOW, our Minister, and also several
letters sent from Elizabeth MARTEN, alias PENY (sic) of Bath Town, in your
Government to the said Mr. Bartow and to Mary Penny whose maiden name was QUINBY,
the wife of John PENNY, a woolcomber, to whom she was married by the said Mr.
BARTOW on the 7th of September, 1709. That he the said PENNY (supposed to the
above-mentioned) denied his marriage to the said Mary QUINBY, and was married
to the above mentioned Elizabeth MARTEN; we did thereupon as desired, send
certificates, under the Seal of our Corporation, but they not coming to hand
us, we are now informed by the above Elisabeth MARTEN, alias PENNY, who is come
here in person to be certified of the marriage of aforesaid John PENNY to the
said Mary QUINBY". Certified that said John PENNY was married to said Mary
QUINBY on September 7, 1709. Certify also "that said Elizabeth MARTEN, alias
PENNY, has given to us a particular account of several things which she received
of said John PENNY, which are known to have been the goods of Mary QUINBY before
her marriage to the said John PENNY...a silver buckle for a girdle marked M.Q.,
but the Q has been defaced since PENNY has had it, and also for further testimony
the bearer hereof has received a Certificate of the above said Marriage of the
said PENNY and QUINBY signed by the Rev'd Mr. BARTOW, above mentioned, and those
Persons who were actually at the solemnization of the same." "Now in behalf of
above said Mary PENNY, who is a woman of a good life and conversation, and
generally well respected by her neighbors, but has been very ill and cruelly used
by the above said PENNY, and PENNY, and he has taken away almost all she had to
subsist on, which was considerable, by which loss she is impoverished and likely
to become a Parish Charge, being grown in years, and not long able to get her
living, tis our humble request to your Excellency, that we are informed the above
said John PENNY is worth a considerable value in lands and you would favor us with
your assistance in procuring a maintenance for the said Mary PENNY from her
husband the said John PENNY."
Signed: Caleb HEATHCOK, Mayor; William WELLET, Deputy Judge; Josiah HURST,
Deputy Mayor; Joseph HURST, Alderman; John BARTOW, Rector; James CROMWELL,
Alderman; Miles OAKLEY, Alderman; John OAKLEY, Alderman; John OAKLEY, Alderman
p. 253
Oct. 10, 1720 - John BARTOW, Rector of West Chester, County of Wester, Province
of New York, by authority granted in behalf of late Rt. Revd. Father in God Henry
Lord Bishop of London, did marry John PENNY and May QUEENBY (sic)
September 7, 1709 in the Parish of West Chester.
Marriage as above said was solemnized in presence of: Thos. HADDON, Jno. WILLIAMS
Oct. 11. 1720 - Appeared before Joseph HUNT, Esq., one of his Majesties Justices
of the Peace, County of West Chester, Thomas HADDEN and John WILLIAMS to
acknowledge they were present and saw Doctor BARTOW, Minister of the Parish of
West Chester marry the said Mary QUINBY of West Chester and John PENNY "and did
pronounce them lawful man and wife."Signed: Joseph HUNT, Justice

Beaufort County, NC - Land & Deed Records
File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Janice Tripp Gurganus
Re-typed by Janice Gurganus, Brenda Stocks, Carol Martoccia, Sloan
Mason and Martha Marble BEAUFORT COUNTY DEED BOOK 1 - part 1
p. 269
Oct. 24, 1715 - Will of Joel MARTEN, Bath Co.: Devised to:
Son - John MARTEN - 220 acres lying North side Matchapongo Creek; 1 horse with
ears cropt, 1 bed and bolster, 1 gun already given him. After decease of wife,
cattle and hogs equally divided between said John MARTEN and daughter, Elizabeth
PENNY, son William MARTEN and daughter, Ann MARTEN.
Son - William MARTEN - 340 acres in Newport Sound, carpenter's tools, sword and
cane, small gun that was his brother's Joels. After decease of his mother, give
him "My old buccaneer Gun". All cattle of his own proper mark - a crop and slit
and underkeel in right ear and a hole in the left. "My best suit of clothes."
Daughter - Ann MARTEN - 1 bed, bolster and covering, 1 cow and calf, yearling
heifer to be marked for her next spring. First mare foal my old mare brings to
be delivered day of marriage or decease of "my wife".
Grandson - Joel MARTEN - 250 acres in Newport Sound on condition that if said
grandson Joel MARTEN, when age 21 years shall "acknowledge and make over to
grandson, John WOODARD, son of Henry WOODARD in Virginia, 400 acres, one-half
part of tract of 800 acres included in a patent which was in my son, Joel MARTEN's
name, said part omitted to be acknowledged by my son, Joel MARTEN, and if same is
acknowledged by said grandson, Joel MARTEN, then aforesaid 250 acres, "I give
unto him, his heirs. . . ., but in case he shall refuse to acknowledge same, and
that part especially which joins on Thomas WORSLEY, then I give and bequest the
aforesaid 250 acres to grandson, John WOODARD..."
Grandson - John WOODARD - 250 acres
Grandson - Joel MARTEN - Cattle that was his father's - proper mark being a crop
and two slits in the right ear, and a swallow fork in left, 2 Ewes with their
increase, 2 racks, pr. Of tongs, spit and 2 flesh forks, horses and mares that
belonged to his father. "Debts owed by son Joel MARTEN paid out of his estate"
Daughter - Elizabeth PENNY - part of tract lying in mouth of White Oak River,
320 acres, the whole as by Patent of 540 acres, and remaining part to daughter,
Ann MARTIN, daughter, Elizabeth PENNY making her first choice.
Daughter - Elizabeth PENNY - one bed and bolster, one Ewe, 1 mare branded with
IP on near side, 1 iron pot about 4 gal., all cattle of certain mark, being a
crop and overkeel in the left ear and hole in the right.
John PENNY, husband of my daughter, Elizabeth PENNY to have no interest direct
or indirect in said land and if claims any right, that John PORTER to take land
in his possession for daughter's use. Also John PENNY to not molest daughter,
Elizabeth PENNY.
Grandson - Joel MARTEN - to remain with my dau. Elizabeth PENNY at plantation I
now live on until he reaches 18 years, "she learning him to read and write". If
wife dies before Grandson Joel MARTEN is 18 years, dau. Elizabeth PENNY to live
on Plantation I now live on until grandson, Joel MARTEN 18.
Wife - Elizabeth MARTEN - remainder of estate Dau. - Mary WOODARD - 1 shilling
After decease of wife, Elizabeth MARTEN, personal estate - hogs, cattle and
household goods, be equally divided between my daughters, Elizabeth PENNY, my
son, Wm MARTEN, and my daughter, Ann MARTEN. Only son, John MARTEN, to have
part of sheep and cattle. Executors - Daughter, Elizabeth PENNY, Mr. John PORTER
Wit: John ODEON, Henry SMITH, Jno. DRINKWATER
Proved July 8, 1716, Court held at Bath Page 270 Missing
Page 290
Aug. 22, 1718 - Ellizabeth PENNY, Bath Co., N. C., appoints "dear and loving
brother, John MARTIN, same, Power of Attorney.Wit: Willm. WRAGG, John HATTON

STYLE : Gardner & Uxr. vs Martin PLAINTIFF(s) : Anthony Gardner; Caty Gardner
DEFENDANT(s) : John Martin; John Penny
DEPONENT(s) : Wm. Bartlett Sr.; Joseph Brock (71); Joseph Willoughby (69);
Joseph Herndon (62); Edward Herndon ; Benjamin Haley (73); Henry Gatewood(81)
PLACES MENTIONED : Spotsylvania; King & Queen
REMARK(s) : Courses for Augustine Garnett to Neil McCoull deed -
Spotsylvania - 1774Deed - Hugh Saunders to Lewis Craig - Spotsylvania - 1776 @
Deed - James Gardner to Anthony Gardner - King & Queen - 1783
Deed - Lewis: Elizabeth Craig to John Mitchell - Spotsylvania - 1781 @
Grant - James Garnett - 2180 ac. - Spotsylvania - 1727
Grant - Parmenas Bowker - 500 ac - Spotsylvania - 1733
Marriage ref. - Thomas Rowe -mr- Elizabeth Gardner, dau. of James Gardner

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Patent & Plat - 1000 acres - Hugh Saunders - Spotsylvania - 1727
Plat - land in dispute - 1796
Slaves - Booker (blacksmith), Amos, Armistead, George, Lewis, Jerry
Slaves - Daniel, Acchilles, Sampson, Lodowick, Phill, Alice, Lucy
Slaves - Hannah, Silvia, Oney, Lucy - prop. of James Gardner
Slaves - Kit, Wapping, Pheboe, Bette, Humphrey, Adam
Will - James Gardner - King & Queen - 1784/1788
CITATION : Gardner & Uxr. vs Martin / 1799 / CR-DC-L / 559-26

Records of Hanover County; Wm. and Mary Qrtly., Vol. 23, No. 2

July 21, 1790 - John Tinsley, of Hanover, to Peter Christian 100 a. called
"Bear Garden" in St. Paul, adj. on North Wm. Tinsley, Jas. Cross, Henry Cross,
John Penny, Richard Glazebrook. Witness Robt. Priddy, Wm Tinsley, Chas. Tinsley.

Oct. 2, 1786 - Paul Woolfolk, executor of Paul Thilman, decd. to John Penny.