Georgia
On November 17, 1795, Jacob sold his land in South Carolina for 120 pounds of sterling. He received a land grant for 750 acres of land in Franklin County, Georgia, in the northeast corner of the state and moved there with his family. Six years later, in 1796, Jacob and Mary’s fifth son, David, was born. From 1785 through 1820, it was the policy of the Governors of Georgia and issue passports to certain people, authorizing them to travel through the Indian Nation to the west. The request for passports were recommended by neighbors, friends, justices of the peace, or other honest and decent people who vouched for the industry, sobriety, and good character of the persons desiring to go through the Indian Nation. One such passport was issued on Thursday, October 29, 1807:On the recommendation of a number of respectable inhabitants of the county of Hancock and Richmond - Ordered: That passports through the creek nation be prepared for Benjamin Parker and William Pennington. William Pennington was one of Jacob’s sons (David’s brother). William would have been 19 years old, and a tall man who would have been able to cope with the wilderness, so he may have been on a scouting expedition to seek out new land for the Penningtons. Jacob’s first grandchild was born was he lived in Georgia. His son, Abraham had married Susanna Proctor while living in Georgia and their son, Jacob H. Pennington, was born there. The Penningtons stayed in Georgia a relatively short time, only about 17 years. Soon they felt that urge that so many others in that day felt . . . the urge to move west.
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