Background
Lady Juliana was born in 1729, at Easton Neston, Northamptonshire, the fourth daughter of Thomas Fermor, 1st Earl of Pomfret and Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys.
Lady Juliana was born in 1729, at Easton Neston, Northamptonshire, the fourth daughter of Thomas Fermor, 1st Earl of Pomfret and Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys.
She corresponded with John Adams and other leaders of the early United States. Juliana Fermor and Thomas Penn married August 22, 1751. Lady Juliana was almost thirty years her husband"s junior.
The Penns lived at Stoke Park, Buckinghamshire.
She corresponded with Governor John Penn and other colonial officials, including discussing maps and other materials of administration. In March 1775, Lady Juliana was widowed, and was appointed co-executor of her husband"s personal estate.
Soon after, events of the American Revolutionary War complicated her family"s fortunes, and she wrote frequently to American leaders such as Henry Laurens and John Adams about "the cause of an Innocent and Suffering Family." Lady Juliana and her co-executor William Baker also took an active interest in the survey of Susquehanna Land Company holdings in the Wyoming Valley, and wrote to James Tilghman expressing their hopes for a favorable outcome. John Jay wrote to Lady Juliana from the Treaty of Paris (1783) negotiations, to keep her apprised of their progress.
Lady Juliana Penn died in 1801, age 72, at her house in Surrey.
Lady Juliana sat for three portraits with Sir Joshua Reynolds, in 1755, 1764, and 1767. A 1752 portrait of Lady Juliana by Arthur Devis is held by the Philadelphia Museum of Artist The Juliana Library Company of Lancaster, Pennsylvania was named in 1763 for Lady Juliana Penn, because she donated books to the subscription library"s collections.
