England: 1620 - 1650
Centuries pass … In September of 1620, a group of English men, women and children, the Pilgrims, set sail on the Mayflower, bound for the New World. On November 21, 1620, they reached Plymouth, Massachusetts. With little more than courage, perseverance and hard work they built themselves a home in this wild new place. Meanwhile back in England, maybe somewhere in Cumbria, lived a young boy . This young boy was a Pennington. He grew up, married and in about 1632, he and his wife had a son, Henry Pennington. When Henry was only a toddler, he probably wasn't aware that Lord Baltimore of England, Cecilius Calvert, had sent colonists to Maryland on two ships, the Ark and the Dove. In 1634, the two ships anchored off St. Clements Island in the Potomac River. The colonists established St. Mary’s City near the southern tip of the Western Shore. Henry's parents, though, may have been mindful of that now well-known voyage which brought the first colonists to Maryland. But did they know that in a few short years, Henry would leave his home in England to travel to Maryland in the New World?
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