Brockville, Ontario was called Elizabethtown. The area was first settled by English speakers in 1785, when Americans who had remained loyal to the crown fled to Canada after the American Revolution.
Brockville
1840
also spelled Penock
William Pennock was born about 1720 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. He was the son of Samuel Pennock and Mary Wilson.
William died in 1782 in Strafford, Orange County, Vermont.
United Empire Loyalists were Americans who remained loyal to King George III and the British Empire. They moved to Canada after the American Revolution.
Samuel Pennock was born on March 29, 1741 in Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut.
He married Mercy Chapman on September 22, 1763 in East Haddam Connecticut. Mercy was born on May 18, 1738 in East Haddam, Connecticut. Her parents were David Chapman and Abigail Lee.
Philemon Pennock (1764, married Hamutel Morey and Sarah Gardiner Morey),
David Pennock
Isaac Pennock (1766),
Jesse Pennock
Samuel Pennock
Mercy Pennock
James Pennock
Rhoda Pennock (1774, married Daniel Root),
Alva Pennock (1769).
Samuel was a lieutenant in Colonel John Peter's Strafford Militia and was in the first company of John Peter's Queen's Rangers.
After the war, they settled in Elizabethtown, Leeds County, Ontario.
In 1830 Samuel Pennock was in Brockville (was Elizabethtown).
Philemon Pennock was born in 1764 in Goshen, Litchfield County, Connecticut. He was the son of Samuel Pennock and Mercy Chapman.
Philemon married Hamutel Morey.
Betsy Pennock (1785)
Chapman Pennock (1787, married Irena Deming),
Elizabeth Pennock (1788)
William Pennock (1790, married Mary Pennock daughter of Oliver)
Samuel Pennock (1792, married Catherine Coleman),
Mary Pennock (1795)
,
John Pennock (1797), and
Philemon Pennock, Jr. (1800).
At one time, Chapman Pennock and a relative, Henry Herrick, were passing through the woods, when they came upon two young bears; Pennock ran after them, and soon had them up a tree. At this juncture, the old bear made her appearance. Herrick took to his heels, but Pennock faced his antagonist, which at once rose on his hind legs and attempted to embrace him. Taking his hat off, he struck the bear in the face, at the same time shouting and backing up, not forgetting to dodge the blows from the bear s paws; Herrick, who had reached a place of safety, at the same time shouting, " Run, Chapman, run! " The bear, becoming frightened, decamped, just as Pennock fell back wards over some brush. Herrick ran to the house, brought a gun, and the cubs were shot.
(from History of Leeds and Grenville)
Philemon passed away in 1824 in Elizabethtown, Leeds, Ontario, Canada.
The first European settlements in Ontario were after the American Revolution when 5,000 loyalists left the new United States.
Sarah Pennock (1795),
David Pennock (1797),
Abigail Pennock (1799),
Rhoda Pennock (1801),
Nelson Pennock (1803),
Daniel Pennock (1805),
Keziah Pennock (1808, married Peter Purvis, Jr.),
Betsey Pennock (1810, married Archibald McLean, Jr.),
Oliver Pennock was born in 1757 in Litchfield. He was the son of James Pennock and Thankful Boardman.
Aaron Pennock (married Elizabeth Pennock, daughter of Philomon, Sr.),
Lucy Pennock (married John Keeler),
Mary Pennock (married William Pennock, son of Philemon),
Hannah Pennock (married H. Herrick),
Olive Pennock (married Joseph McNish), and
Julia Pennock (married Smith Coleman).
