James Penniman

Bef 1599 - 1664  (> 65 years)

• Name	James Penniman  [1, 2]
  Birth	Bef 29 Jul 1599  [3, 4]
  Baptism	29 Jul 1599	Chipping Ongar, Essex, England   [3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	26 Dec 1664	Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [3, 4, 5]
  Person ID	I42579	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	31 Aug 2025

  
  

  Father	James Pennyman,   b. Abt 1570   d. Bef 23 Apr 1626 (Age < 56 years)
  Mother	Annis Wilcock   d. Bef 27 Nov 1638
  Marriage	19 Sep 1596	Chipping Ongar, Essex, England   [4]
  Family ID	F24902	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lydia Eliot,   b. Bef 1 Jul 1610   d. Bef 19 Jul 1676 (Age ~ 66 years)
  Marriage	26 Jul 1631	High Laver, Essex, England   [3, 4, 5]
  Children	+ 1. Lydia Penniman,   b. Bef 22 Feb 1635   d. 3 Mar 1676, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age > 41 years)
  Family ID	F24901	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Aug 2025

  
  

• Notes

  He arrived in 1631 on the second voyage of the Lyon and settled at Boston, then Braintree. He could write, and his inventory included books. He was one of the Boston men disarmed in the Wheelwright controversy.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3015] Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England and Braintree, Mass.: His English Ancestry and Some of His Descendants by J. Gardner Bartlett. New York, 1927. [S7376] The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1636-1638, volume 1, by Ian Watson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2024. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S8252] Clifford L. Stott, "The English Origin of James1 Penniman, of Boston and Braintree, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist71:12, 1996. [S1660] William Wyman Fiske, "Ancestry of Bennet Eliot of Nazeing, Essex, Father of Seven Great Migration Immigrants to Massachusetts." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 161:85, 161:186, 161:250 (2007), 162:65, and 162:128 (2008).