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At age eighteen, he inherited an ample estate from his father, Moses, and began the study of law under his kinsmen and neighbor, Edmund Pendleton. After admission to the bar, Penn practiced law in Caroline County for twelve years. In 1763 he married a North Carolinian, Susannah Lyme, and the couple moved in 1774 to her home county of Granville. The following year Penn was elected to the Third Provincial Congress, which met in 1775 at Hillsborough. Shortly thereafter, Penn was elected to succeed Richard Caswell as delegate to the Continental Congress. He continued in that office until 1780. Early in 1776, Penn, along with the other North Carolina delegates, believed that independence from Great Britain was inevitable. On July 2, Penn, along with Joseph Hewes, cast North Carolina's vote for independence and subsequently signed the Declaration.  When the state's first General Assembly met in April of 1777, Penn was chosen by the Assembly to return as delegate to the Continental Congress. A firm advocate of permanent union, Penn was one of three representatives of North Carolina who ratified in 1778 the Articles of Confederation. Two years later, the British victory at Camden, South Carolina made North Carolina dangerously vulnerable. Governor Nash appointed Penn to a three-man Board of War. In the frequent absence of the other members, Penn acted alone much of the time in coordinating military activities and in equipping and supplying the state militia and General Nathanael Greene's army in North Carolina. Following the board's termination in 1781, Penn was elected to the Governor's Council and served as its president during the last months of the war. In 1783 Penn lost reelection to the council and ceased to be active in public life. 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