The record-union., 1894-02-03

the branches from William Penn, the
follows:
l. First after William there were George
Penn and Thomas Penn.
,. In the next generation there were
John, Robert, Mary and Phoebe Penn.
3. John Penn, of the last named gener-
alton, had children: William, Eliza,
Sarah and Amanda Penn, of whom Eliza
is the only one living, and she is IS years
Of age, and resides at Elizabeth, n. j.,
her marriage name being Sorrell.
3. Robert Penn, of the same genera
ten, had children: Thomas, John, Joseph,
stephen, Robert, Mary.
3. PnRbe, OF the same generation, had
children: Joseph, Robert, Sarah, Gather
ins and Mary.
4. Eliza, OF the generation marked "3."
has had children, Mary, Martha, Harriet.
Eliza, Daniel, Thomas, Henry.
4. John. Of the generation marked 49,"
a son Of Robert had children: William,
David, John, Charles, Susan and Mary.
4. Roberts son Robert, of the genera
tiOn marked 49," had one son, Edward.
5. William Penn, of the generation
marked '4'' married his second cousin,
Harriet, daughter Of Eliza and they are
living to-day at Newark, and their chill
dren are Ann, Eliza, John, William,
Harriet and Lucy.
8. Williams brother, David, is alive
and has children: Laura, Louis, Francis
and David.
8. Williams brother, John, died re-
Gently, leaving to represent him one child,
Mary Rosina.
). Charles is living with his children,
Sarah, Alice, Charles and George.
.. Susan is living with her children,
Harriet, Laura, Helen and James.
5. Mary is dead, leaving to represent
her AMMO, Teresa and William.
rod Nl1cy y0d
o.. with Stephen and Eliza, are declared
to be the living defendants of the Penn
family.
Eliza lives at Elizabeth; William, the
upholsterer, and Harriet live at so Thir-
teenth avenue, Newark: David is a
painter at Montclair; Charles is shoe
maker in Brooklyn; Susan is married to
James Tyrrell OF Orange; John, who died
recently, was Brooklyn merchant,
Robert is farmer.
The Penn heirs claim that the fortune
must by law be divided in four parts
represented by Eliza and Stephen, who
are living, and the representatives of j ohm
and Robert, deceased.
WHY THEY CLAIM $4,000, 200.
The evidence on which they base their
demand for $4,000, 900 against the Bank
of England is alleged to be an old bank
book which has been mysteriously passed
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this great fortune from history in some
way. This bank book is declared to be
wrongfully in the possession of Stephen
Penn.
One of the Penn family said Stephen
was in London and was a broker. He is
accused of having obtained wrongful pos
session of the bank book in 1871, and TO
have wrongfully drawn $500,000 interest
on the deposit since that time. He OBJ
tained the book from Mary Vyon, Penn
who married Frenchman of that name,
have come to Eliza Penn of Elizabeth,
n. j., though by what process of law the
claimants do not pretend to explain.
For want of such details in the story
William asserted that Ibis lawyers
wouldn't-and you know no good law
yers would-tell all that was being DONE"
and asked about the address and business
Of Stephen Penn, in London, William
Penn said: "Thats what l do not want
to tell.'
The only other piece OF evidence which
William Penn puts forward as basis of
their claim is curious old book, which
speaks its own genuinenesS, having been
written by William Penn while impris-
oned in the Tower Of London. The pos
session of this book is alleged TO be neces-
sary to prove the real descendants of
Penn. The book is said to have been
carried to London several times in con-
nection with the litigation against the
Bank of England, and to compel Stephen
Penn to account for the wrongly taken
interest. The fact that such heavy litiga-
ton could have escaped publicity did not
seem to diSabuse the minds of the Penn
heirs. When this was suggested TO them
they said that the matter had been
worked along very quietly. They mem