Ann Dudley

Ann Fleming

• Gender Female
• Birth: 1706 Jamestown, James City County, Virginia
• Death: Bef 21 Jul 1794 Amherst County, Virginia
• Marriage Bet 1733 and 1734 to George Penn, of Caroline Co., VA
• Marriage Bef 8 Jan 1756 to Thomas Dudley

Children

1. Frances Penn (1734/35 - 1812)
2. George Penn, Jr. (1737 - 1796)
3. Phillip Penn (1738/39 - )
4. Col. Gabriel Penn, of Amherst Co., VA (1741 - 1798)
5. Col. Abraham Penn, Sr. (1743 - 1801)
6. William Penn (1746 - 1777)
7. Moses Penn (1747/48 - 1774)

Will Abstract

• 185. Ann Dudley (Penn)
• 3:302. May 6, 1794; July 21, 1794.
• Wit: David S. Garland and Geo. Dillard.
• Daughter, Frances Tucker; sons, Geo., Phillip; Gabl. and Abraham Penn.
• Exrs: Son Geo. Penn & friend Jas. Calloway.
• AB is 3:304. Geo. Penn & Jas. Calloway; prob. date.
• Bondsman: Lindsey Coleman

Notes

The will of George Penn was destroyed but there is a record of his widow, Ann, presenting it for probate in Caroline County, VA on September 8, 1749. Ann, his widow, remarried to Thomas Dudley and this caused a second court proceeding on Jan 8, 1756. Moses Penn was named one of the executors.

Ann died in 1764. [s/b 1794] Her will was dated May 5, 1764 [1794] and probated in Amherst County, VA July 21, 1764. [s/b 1794, not 1764] Ann Dudley named five children in her will: Frances Tucker, George Penn, Phillip Penn, Gabriel Penn and Abraham Penn.

Her son William Penn never married. He enlisted into the Continental Army in 1776 and was a Lieutenant. He died in 1777. Before he entered the army he made a will which was probated in Amherst County on July 7, 1777. In it he names his brothers, George Penn, Philip Penn, Gabriel Penn and Abraham Penn. His brothers were to share equally if he did not return. William received 2,666.66 acres of land in Kentucky for his service.

Another brother, Moses Penn, had died in 1774. He wrote a will Aug 3, 1774 and it was probated Oct 3, 1774 in Amherst County. In it Moses names: brother Phillip Penn, Parmelia Penn daughter of his brother Gabriel Penn, George Penn son of his brother George Penn and his brother William Penn. He loaned William a slave for his journey through some of the southern states. Moses Penn also named his nephews Frank and Richard Lee and niece Nancy Lee. He also mentioned a John Conner "for waiting on me in my sickness."

Abraham Penn was a Colonel in the Henry County Militia. He was very influential during the was and there is now an Abram Penn Chapter of the DAR. Abraham died June 26, 1801 in Patrick County, VA. William Hannah was witness to the inventory. William Hannah was the son-in-law of his brother Phillip Penn.

Both George Penn and Gabriel Penn also served in the Revolution until the surrender at Yorktown.

Disputed origins

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Ann_Unknown_(624)

It has been noted here in the past that her parents were Charles Fleming and Susanna Tarleton. This is incorrect. Charles would have been born between 1692-1700. His parents, Alexander Fleming and Sarah Kennedy married in 1690. He was mentioned in his father's will in 1720 and given land. Ann Fleming Penn was born about 1706 making it impossible to be a daughter of Charles Fleming and Susanna Tarleton. Charles and Susanna did have a daughter named Anna, but she married Josias Payne.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83825214/ann-penn

https://www.ericjames.org/html/fam/fam46453.htm

Her surname is disputed but there is some evidence that suggests she is a Fleming:

U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900

• Name: Ann Fleming Gender: Female
• Spouse Name: George Penn
• Marriage State: of VA
• Number Pages: 2

Notes

• Source: "Our Kin" Bedford County Virginia Families: by Ackerly & Parker - printed C. J. Carrier Company, Harrisonburg, VA. 1999. page 183-184: "no surname given" for Ann
• The attached Penn Family document states that she is a descendant of Sir Thomas Fleming
• She was part of Geni's imported DNA trees of 2016 where she was listed as the daughter a Fleming

References

• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Ann_Unknown_(624) Cites
  • https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~brookefamily/genealogy/penngeorge.html
  • https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83825214/ann-penn