Penelope Rankin

Disputed husband

Evidence needed to support John Higgins as husband of Penelope Rankin (daughter of Augustine Hull)

Penelope Hull

• Gender: Female
• Born: Aft 1657 Place: Westmoreland County, Virginia
• Died: Aft 1705 Place: Richmond County, Virginia
• Buried: Place:
• Father: Augustine Hull (Abt 1624 - Aft 1665)
• Mother: Female MNU Hull (Bef 1631 - Bef 1662)
• Spouse: John Overton (Bef 1663 - 1 Jul 1691) - Married: Bef 1687 Place: North Farnham Parish, Old Rappahannock County, Virginia
• Spouse: John Rankin (Bef 1670 - Aft 1711) - Married: Bef 5 May 1692 Place: Richmond County, Virginia

Children:

1. Elizabeth Overton (Bef 1689 - Aft 1705)
2. Edmond Overton (Bef 1689 - 4 Jun 1712)
3. John Overton (Bef 1689 - )
4. Anne Overton (Bef 1689 - )

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Notes

• 1692-1694 Richmond County, Virginia Order Book 1 [Antient Press]; Page 10)
• Richmond County Court 5th of May 1692
• - It is ordered that JOHN RANKIN, as Marrying the Exrx. of JOHN OVERTON, doe appeare at the next Cort & give an ac cot: of the Estate of ye sd OVERTON & security for the same

Origins

(Apparently Anne (Sturman) Hull was her stepmother, but is called "daughter" in her will)

• 1654-1800 Westmoreland County, Virginia Wills [Augusta B. Fothergill]; Page 12
• HULL, ANNE, 3 March 1670; 31 July 1671.
• To daus. Anne, Winifrett and Penelope Hull a bed and what goes with it, wearing clothes each.
• To son Thomas Ewell {sic Youell} my biggest brass kettle ;
• to son Richard Ewell one great iron pott ;
• grand daus. Anne, Winifrett and Penelope Ewell tobacco to buy one cow and calf each.
• Witnesses; Joseph E. Smith, John How.

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1670-1674 Westmoreland County, Virginia Deeds-Wills No. 1, Part 2; [John Frederick Dorman];

• Page 123. Will of Ann Hull, widdow, being sick and weake in body, dated 3 May 1670.
• Unto my loveing daughters Ann Hull, Wenifritt Hull and Penelopy Hull each a bed and what shall belong to it and a parcell of new pewter equally.
• Unto my eldest daughter Ann my best suite of wearing apparrell and to my daughter Wenifritt my second best suite wearing apparrell and my daughter Penelopy my two stuff peticoates and my gould ring, and all the rest off my wearing apparrell linnen and wollen made and unmade to be equally devided among my said three daughters.
• Unto my sonne Thomas Ewell my biggest brass kitle.
• Unto my sonne Rich: Ewell one greate iron pott and one brass possnitt [?].
• To my daughter Ann one brass skillett.
• To my three grandchildren Ann Ewell, Whenefritt Ewell and Penelopy Ewell soe much tobacco as shall buy each of them a cow calfe.
• In case my daughter Ann shall happen to marry then shee take to her my other two daughters to looke after them provided that her husband be of abelity and putt in sufficient security for the security of the two children's estates when they come of age.
• What the thirds of my estate amounts to above what legacies I have already given shall be equally devided amongst my three daughters.
• Unto my daughter Ann my trunk and the trunck Ann has now to my daughter Wenifritt.
• To my daughter Penelopy a little black trunck.
• To my son Richard his father in lawe's chest.
• To my sonne Tho: one little red trunck.
• My two sons Tho: and Richard Ewell executors.
• Anne Hull
• Wit: Joseph (I) Smith, John How.
• 31 July 1672. Proved by the witnesses.

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References

1. https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I7458... shows Penelope Hull, daughter of Augustine Hull & his wife, as married 1) John Overton bef 1687 2) John Rankin bef 1692, not to John Higgins (d. 1711)
2. https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I7036... shows John Higgins as married 1) unknown 2) Eleanor Spencer (widow of John Minor) 3) Elizabeth (unknown)
3. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hull-931 (no sources)
4. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Higgins-6120 (biographical data)
5. Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jan 29 2025, 23:37:33 UTC
6. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LCCX-SWZ
7. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/LCCX-3QV