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Sheryl Ware Tuck asks about some of her family members which include the Peniger family. I have no knowledge that her Penigers are the same as the Germanna Pinnegar family, but I will recite some information on the Pinnegars. On 12 Aug 1778, Peter Pinnegar purchased 275 acres of John Deer and wife Catherine of Culpeper Co., VA, in the Gourd Vine Fork of the Rappahannock River, part of a grant to Francis Brown in 1749. Peter moved to Stokes Co., North Carolina, before 1793, in company with the Finchums, Zimmermans, and Ziglars, where they lived together and intermarried.
William Pinnegar and Elizabeth Pinnegar were apparently the son and daughter-in-law of Peter. They were witnesses to the will of Richard Ship of Culpeper Co. in 1781. Elizabeth was the daughter of John Zimmerman (Jr.) and a granddaughter of John and Ursula (Blankenbaker) Zimmerman.
The German origins of Peter Benninger of Epfenbach (Kreis Sinsheim) are given in Don Yoder's "Rhineland Emigrants." He was permitted to emigrate in 1751 with his wife and four children. In the previous year, Johann Leonhardt Ziegler, blacksmith, of Sinsheim, was denied permission to emigrate to Pennsylvania. The coupling of the names, Pinnegar and Ziegler, in Germany, and in Virginia, increases the chances that these German families are the Virginia families. Epfenbach is about 15 miles north of Gemmingen and Schwaigern, the homes of many Germanna families.
The variation in spelling, substituting a P for a B, is very acceptable. Probably the Benningers and the Zieglers immigrated to Pennsylvania, and later moved down to Virginia before going on to North Carolina. Researching the families may cover a lot of geography. I reiterate that I have no data that the Germanna Pinnegars are the Penigars of Sheryl Tuck.
Information on the Germanna Tanners has been added to Leatrice and Gene Wagners' web page. Many Germanna names are indexed. I have cross referenced the Wagner's home page on my Germanna web page. Leatrice Wagner was the author of "Robert Tanner and His Descendants." The URL for the Wagners' page is http://www.germanna.net .
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