The Robinsons and their kin folk . y Americanancestral names, but not aRobinson do I find among them. It is clear that, notwithstand-ing all the achievements of that distinguished family, they havesignally failed at one point, in not fixing things so that theycould claim me as a descendant. So most of what I shall say toyou to-day will be as an outsider. But I am happy on the otherhand to see that by going back a little farther we can claim acommon Penniman ancestry. All the Pennimans in America appear to be descended froma single pair of emigrants. It is not three brothers with is not f
The Robinsons and their kin folk . y Americanancestral names, but not aRobinson do I find among them. It is clear that, notwithstand-ing all the achievements of that distinguished family, they havesignally failed at one point, in not fixing things so that theycould claim me as a descendant. So most of what I shall say toyou to-day will be as an outsider. But I am happy on the otherhand to see that by going back a little farther we can claim acommon Penniman ancestry. All the Pennimans in America appear to be descended froma single pair of emigrants. It is not three brothers with is not from several progenitors here and there that our familysprings, making it an endless task to hunt them up and dis-tinguish them ; but its from James and Lydia (Eliot) Pennimanthat we all derive. We have reason to be proud of our Eliot connection. OfLydias brother John, the Apostle to the Indians, Hon. D. has recently said : Of Eliot it is truth to say, nosaintlier figure has adorned mankind since the star of Bethlehem. THE PENNIMAN FAMILY. 39 came and stood over where the young child lay. Eydia Eliotwas baptized in Nazing, County Essex, England, 1610, daughterof Bennett Eliot, and that is as far back as we can go in deter-mining our Eliot ancestry. Where James Penniman came from we do not know. Ithought once I knew, but I find I was mistaken. There is nopositive evidence of his origin. All we know is purely there are certain probabilities which are interesting. Burkesays the family is of Saxon origin and first settled in Kent, thatthe name was originally Pen-na-man, meaning head chiefman ; so you see the Pennimans must have been at the headonce, however it may be now. There is now, so far as I canlearn (aside from one or two American Pennimans temporarily
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