Lady Juliana Penn was the English wife of Thomas Penn, and she assisted him in the administration of the Colony of Pennsylvania in his later years. She corresponded with John Adams and other leaders of the early United States.
"Lady Juliana Penn (née Fermor)" (1752) by Arthur Devis, from the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Beaufort House, Ham Street, Ham, where Lady Juliana lived and died
Funeral hatchment in Church of St Giles, Stoke Poges
Thomas Penn was an English landowner and mercer who was the chief proprietor of Pennsylvania from 1746 to 1775. He was one of 17 children of William Penn, the founder of the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania in British America. In 1737, Thomas Penn negotiated the Walking Purchase, a contested land cession treaty he negotiated with Lenape chief Lappawinsoe that transferred control over 1,200,000 acres (4,860 km2) of territory in the present-day Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania regions of Pennsylvania and a portion of West Jersey in colonial New Jersey from the Lenape tribe to the Province of Pennsylvania.
Thomas Penn depicted in a 1752 portrait
A 1751 portrait of Lady Juliana Fermor, Thomas Penn's wife, by Arthur Devis
Funeral hatchment in Church of St Giles, Stoke Poges