Biography
Pennington was born in 1757 to Mary Sanford and Samuel Pennington in Newark, New Jersey. He joined the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. In 1777 he was promoted to a sergeant in the Second Regiment of Artillery. He was promoted to second lieutenant in 1780. At the end of the war he was brevetted a captain by an Act of Congress.
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