Dirk Pennybacker

M, (1 January 1736 - 14 June 1799)
     Dirk Pennybacker was born on 1 January 1736 at Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He married, at age 20, Hannah DeHaven, age 18, daughter of Abraham DeHaven and Rebecca Pawling, on Wednesday, 3 March 1756 at Province of Pennsylvania, America. Dirk Pennybacker died on 14 June 1799 at Pine Forge, Shenandoah County, Virginia, at age 63 years, 5 months and 13 days.
     The following document names the nine children and heirs of Dirck Pennybacker and Hannah Dehaven:

Shenandoah Co., Virginia Deeds, Bk. Q, p. 358, Shenandoah County, Virginia County Clerk's Office.

This indenture made this 6th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight between Benjamin Pennybaker and Sarah his wife, George Mayberry and Rebecca his wife, Abraham Pennybaker and Elizabeth his wife, Isaac Samuels and Elizabeth his wife, John Pennybaker and Phebe his wife, Mounce Byrd and Hannah his wife, Catherine Pennybaker, Mary Pennybaker, Derrick Pennybaker (of which Benjamin, Rebecca, Abraham, Elizabeth, John, Hannah, Catherine, Mary, and Derrick are children heirs and devisees of Derrick Pennybaker deceased and Hannah Pennybaker widow and relict of the said Derrick...

The accidental death of Dirck Pennbyacker occurred on Monday evening, 15 Feb 1802. His obituary, in the Winchester, Virginia newspaper, WINCHESTER GAZETTE, issued Wednesday, March 3, 1802 is as follows:

"On the evening of Monday the 15th ult. Derrick Pennybacker, Esq. of Shenandoah County, was casually killed by a fall from his horse. The day following the remains were decently interred on his own premises, attended by a very numerous concourse of relatives and friends."
[Ult or Ultima is Latin for last month.]." Wed, March 3, 1802

Isaac Samuels Pennybacker (b. 3 Sept. 1805 at Pine Forge, Shenandoah Co., VA, d. 12 Jan 1847, Washington, D.C., while serving in the U.S. Congress) was the grandson of Dirck Pennybacker and his wife Hannah Dehaven. He was the son of their eldest son Benjamin Pennybacker and his wife Sarah Margaret Samuels. He was named for his uncle Isaac Samuels (brother of Sarah Margaret Samuels) who married Benjamin Pennybacker's sister Elizabeth. Benjamin Pennybacker b. 29 Sept. 1760, was the oldest child of Dirck and Hannah Pennybacker. Derrick Pennybacker, Jr. b. abt 1780 was their youngest and died in Nov. 1817, in New Orleans of yellow fever after a trip to Cuba as a grain speculator.

Children of Dirk Pennybacker and Hannah DeHaven

Last Edited=12 Mar 2007