William Pennington : diary and commission, 1780-1781.
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Huntington, Samuel, 1731-1796
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Samuel Huntington (July 16, 1731 [O.S. July 5, 1731] – January 5, 1796) was a Founding Father of the United States and a jurist, statesman, and Patriot in the American Revolution from Connecticut. As a delegate to the Continental Congress, he signed the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. He also served as President of the Continental Congress from 1779 to 1781, President of the United States in Congress Assembled in 1781, chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court...
Pennington, William S. (William Sandford), 1757-1826
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William Sanford Pennington, the sixth of the nine children of Mary Sanford (1725-1805) and Samuel Pennington (1725-1791), was born in 1757 in Newark, New Jersey. He was probably trained as a hatter, but at the outbreak of the Revolution joined the Continental Army and became in 1777 a sergeant in the 2nd Regiment of Artillery under Colonel John Lamb and Major General Henry Knox. He advanced to the rank of 2nd lieutenant in 1780, and at the end of the war was brevetted Captain by a s...
