The Robinsons and their kin folk . ed and fifty of his followers were disarmed, James Penni-man among them. Savage in his Winthrop says : In nopart of the history of any of the United States perhaps can aparallel be found for this act of disarming. And Dr. Patteein his History of Old Braiutree adds : This high handed THE PENNIMAN FAMILY. 41 injustice left them without any protection to themselves or theirfamilies from the scalping knife or the horrors of Indian massa-cre. Shall we not feel proud that in those early days, whenit cost so much, we find our ancestors daring to think for them-selve
The Robinsons and their kin folk . ed and fifty of his followers were disarmed, James Penni-man among them. Savage in his Winthrop says : In nopart of the history of any of the United States perhaps can aparallel be found for this act of disarming. And Dr. Patteein his History of Old Braiutree adds : This high handed THE PENNIMAN FAMILY. 41 injustice left them without any protection to themselves or theirfamilies from the scalping knife or the horrors of Indian massa-cre. Shall we not feel proud that in those early days, whenit cost so much, we find our ancestors daring to think for them-selves ? Soon after this, in response to the petition of James Penni-man and others, the town of Braintree was incorporated May 13,1640. James Pennimans is the first name on Braintree records,being the first in a list of six men deputed for town is also said to have built the first house in Braintree. Justwhere that house was I do not know. But it was very likely notfar from the location of what are now called the Adams cot-. PENNIMAN-ADAMS COTTAGES AT QUINCY. tages, the birthplaces respectively of Presidents John and JohnQuincy Adams. In 1720 James Penniman, who must have beengrandson of the immigrant James, sold this property to JohnAdams, father of President John Adams. A brick in the chimneyjamb of the older house indicates that it was built in 1686, and inthe other house bears the date 1716. I will speak of this Penniman died in 1664, and his widow married ThomasWight of Medfield. James and Lydia Eliot Penniman had nine children as indi-cated on Boston and Braintree records, but undoubtedly therewere ten. 1. The eldest was James2, baptized in Boston, 1633, spokenof in will as an educated man. He was a felt-makerand lived in Boston on the road to Roxbury, probably on or nearSummer Street, where his son, grandson, and great grandson 42 THE AN I AM 11. Y. lived after him, his son being called M surgeon, bis grandson eordwainer, and his gr
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