Phillip Pennywit Telegram

Collection

Identifier: MS L34 Pennywit

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Scope and Content Note

Telegraph agent's delivery copy of telegram dated at Van Buren, Arkansas March 19, 1861, from Van Buren merchant Pennywit to convention delegates Jesse Turner and Hugh F. Thomason, Little Rock, Arkansas, approving the action of the Arkansas Secession Convention and the "immortal thirty nine who...voted down the ordinance of Secession."

Dates

1861

Creator

Pennywit, Phillip (Person)

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

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Use Information

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Biographical Note

Captain Phillip Pennywit was known for captaining steamboats along Arkansas rivers, reportedly the first to navigate the White River via steamboat. Pennywit was born in Virginia in 1793 and moved west as a young man. He spent decades piloting keel-boats and later steamboats on the Mississippi River and later the White River and other Arkansas rivers. He retired from steamboating in 1847 and became a merchant in Van Buren, Arkansas. He passed away on January 9, 1868 in Little Rock, Arkansas.