Origins of the Shippen Surname in Yorkshire

ORIGINS OF THE SHIPPEN SURNAME IN YORKSHIRE George Redmonds, PhD* E dward Shippen has been identified in several American and English sources as an emigrant from Yorkshire, who left England in 1668 and settled initially in Boston. He lived there for over twenty years and became a successful merchant. After his marriage in 1678 to a Friend, he converted to Quakerism. He first acquired interests in Philadelphia in 1686; in 1689 he married second a wealthy widow with substantial property in Pennsylvania; in 1690 he was given the opportunity to buy land in Philadelphia, an offer to which he agreed in late 1690. He purchased additional property in Philadelphia in April 1693 and by May 1694 had left Quaker-unfriendly Boston for Philadelphia. He was prominent in Pennsylvania, becoming a member of the Assembly and the Provincial Council, and was named in Philadelphia’s 1701 charter as its mayor, although his later life was marred by scandal over his third marriage. When he died in 1712, he left three sons, one of whom had male descendants to carry on the surname in America.1 Details of his Methley, Yorkshire, origins were published in 1904.2 William Shippen and Mary Nunnes, who married in Methley, were parents of six children baptized between 1627 and 1640 (see Genealogical Summary). Their youngest son, Edward, emigrated to America. William’s name is on the Oath of Protestation there in 1642,3 he served as overseer of the poor that year, and in 1656 he was the overseer of the highways.4 The history of Shippen in Methley can be traced to the early part of the seventeenth century. The first mention of the surname in connection * gredmonds@aol.com. He is the author of books on several aspects of name studies. Those on surnames include: [Surnames in] Yorkshire, West Riding; [Surnames in] Huddersfield and District; Surnames and Genealogy: A New Approach; Names and History: People, Places, and Things; and (with David Hey) Yorkshire Surnames and the Hearth Tax Returns of 1672—73. 1 For extensive biographic details see Craig W. Horle and Marianne S. Wockek, Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991), 1:666—73. 2 Thomas Willing Balch, “The English Ancestors of the Shippen Family and Edward Shippen, of Philadelphia,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography [PMHB] 28(1904): 385—402. It is generally undocumented and dates are missing or incomplete. 3 This document is in the record office of the House of Lords; available on FHL #919,511, items 5 and 7. 4 G. D. Lumb, The Registers of the Parish Church of Methley from 1560 to 1812 in Thoresby Society 12(1903):80 (footnote). Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Vol. 45 (2008) Final copy 28 October, 2008 303 304 Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Vol. 45 with Methley is in the 1612 will of Francis Laburne, yeoman of Methley. Among the bequests was a debt owed him of £11, which he gave to: William Shippone of Hillom, in the p[ar]ish of Munkfrieston, and also my mynde is that my brother[s] John laborne and Oswould Laborne shall have the custodie & putting forth of the foresaid some of xjli to the best use & profitt of the children till they shall accomplish the age of xxjth yeares. . . .5 The wording and the other bequests (he left most of his estate to his siblings) suggest that William’s wife was deceased and a sister of Francis Laburne. This may have been the William Shipne who was buried in Methley 1 December 1629, possibly the grandfather of the immigrant.6 In the 1712 will of Edward Shippen, Sr, merchant of Philadelphia, the immigrant left his estate at “Hilham in Yorkshire” to his son Edward.7 A 1741 letter written by Edward3 (Joseph2) Shippen, grandson of the immigrant, has additional details: . . . a small estate in Hillam at Yorkshire (which I have been told has been in our family five hundred years). It is a copy hold. I have heard it yields ten or fifteen pounds per an[num]. My Grandfather who reaped the benefit of it many years, gave it by will to my Uncle Edwd Shippen. . . . some short time afterwards my Uncle died & leaving but one child & heir viz: the abovementioned Margaret gave it by will to my father J. S. & the male heirs of his body.8 In the Yorkshire parish of Monk Fryston, the surname Shippen is present in the registers from 1539 to 1624 (but not thereafter), sometimes identified as being of Hillam or of Milford.9 Of particular interest are four entries for William Shippen: July 1547. C[hristening]: Will’m Shippen xped the third day July 1604. C[hristening]: Richard Shippen, son of Will’m of Hillom, xped viij° die [8th day] 1606: Wm Shippen signed register as a churchwarden January 1622/3. B[urial]: Mary the wief of Will’m Shippen buried eodem die [1 January]10 THE MEANING OF THE SHIPPEN SURNAME–SURNAME DICTIONARIES Many surname dictionaries do not include the surname Shippen, and much that is available is unsatisfactory. 5 Lumb, Methley (note 4), 72 (quoted in footnote). 6 Lumb, Methley (note 4), 79. 7 Abstracts of Philadelphia County Wills, 1682—1726 (Westminster, Md.: Family Line Publications, 1995), 135. 8 Balch, “English Ancestors” (note 2), PMHB 28:386—87 (quoted in footnote). 9 J. D. Hemsworth, The Registers of Monk Fryston, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, volume 5 of the Parish Register Society (London: Parish Register Society, 1896), 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 13, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24, 27, 30—35, 37, 39, 40, 51, 53, 56, 69, 73, 75. 10 Hemsworth, Monk Fryston (note 9) 8, 53, 56, 73. Final copy 28 October, 2008 2008 Origins of the Shippen Surname in Yorkshire 305 1958. Reaney defined Shippen as “scypen ‘cattle-shed,’ either from residence at a place name from such, as in [below] or from employment there, ‘cattle-man, cowman,’ ” and provided several scattered examples of Shippen as a by-name,11 and named places in Essex (Shapens), Devon (Shippen), Berkshire (Shippon), and Yorkshire (Shippen) as possible sources. The by-names he had found were in documents relating to Kent (William Shepene, 1317) and Worcester (Adam atte Shupene, 1327; Henry ate Shypene, 1341).12 However, there is no evidence that any of these survived as hereditary surnames, and neither area has strong associations with the surname. 1967. In The Origin of English Surnames, Reaney went so far as to say that the occupational nature of the surname is “self-evident.” 13 1967. Cottle gave no examples at all, but repeated Reaney’s three possible place-name sources: he also noted that the “early settler in USA was from Methley, West Yorkshire.”14 1988. Smith explains Shippen rather abruptly as: “One who came from Shippen (cow shed), in the West Riding of Yorkshire,” which is accurate as far as the etymology of the dialect word “shippon” is concerned, but does not explain the meaning of the surname.15 2003. Hanks describes Shippen as a “habitational name,” meaning cattle shed, that derived “from any of various places” in England, including Shippen in the West Riding and Shippon in Berkshire. It is evident that he saw it as a surname likely to have several family origins and more than one meaning, for he also said that it might be “a topographic name derived directly from the vocabulary word,” or even metonymic for a person who worked in a cattle shed–occupational in other words.16 As shown below, the surname Shippen in Yorkshire derives from a place-name. The place-name likely derived from a cow shed at that location, but the Shippen surname is not occupational nor is it connected to that cow shed. THE SHIPPEN SURNAME IN 1881 One of the keys to the origin and meaning of any surname is its historic distribution. A good starting point for the researcher is the statistical data in the national census return of 1881. From this it is clear that Shippen 11 The term by-name is used for those second names found in early medieval sources that had not stabilized as surnames. One person might have more than one by-name. Some passed from father to son but were discarded when circumstances changed. 12 Patrick H. Reaney, A Dictionary of British Surnames (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1958), 294. 13 Patrick H. Reaney, The Origin of English Surnames (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967), 57. 14 Basil Cottle, The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967), 257. 15 Elsdon C. Smith, New Dictionary of American Family Names (New York: Gramercy Publishing Company, 1988), 466. 16 Patrick Hanks, Dictionary of American Family Names, 3 volumes (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 3:339. Final copy 28 October, 2008 306 Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Vol. 45 and its variants were uncommon surnames at that time in Britain. In 1881 the totals for all those who bore the name–men, women, and children– were Shippen (155), Shippin (63), Shippon (8), and Shippan (4). Over 40% of these (97) were in Yorkshire, with a marked concentration in and around Leeds. The only other significant clusters were in Durham and Northumberland, counties to the north of Yorkshire.17 We cannot rule out the possibility that a few of these Shippen families had no connection with Yorkshire, particularly those who were living in Devon and Berkshire where there are places named Shippon and Shippen. However, the numbers in these cases are very small, and the statistics are consistent with an origin in the West Riding of Yorkshire, one that has also been responsible for the main expansion of the surname.18 If we concentrate on the Yorkshire evidence, the records show that the surname Shippen has a history in the county that goes back approximately seven hundred years, establishing a clear connection between the surname and a small locality called Shippen in the parish of Barwick-in-Elmet.19 THE SURNAME SHIPPEN IN YORKSHIRE, CIRCA 1200 TO 1360 The evidence of the Shippen family is largely confined to the Leeds area as late as the 1600s. The first examples of this surname, possibly by-names rather than hereditary surnames, occur in undated charters of the 1200s. There are transcriptions of these in a history of the parish of Barwick that was written just one hundred years ago, with a footnote sketching out a rough pedigree of three generations, starting with Jordan de Sypena about 1200. One charter, which links the surname directly to the placename, is the confirmation of a grant of land to Robert de Staynton about 1300. It included the “windmill and wood in Schypen” but made an exception of the messuage (dwelling house) that was in the possession of Roger, the son of Elyas of Schypen. 20 Unfortunately, the evidence now available does not allow us to link these individuals with the family of the same name recorded in deeds half a century later, although such a connection is possible.21 The later documents relate to a tenancy in Barnbow (a minor territory in the parish of Barwick), and the property referred to was “a messuage and two bovates 17 Stephen Archer, The British 19th Century Surname Atlas (2003). This CD-ROM displays maps for any British surname in 1881. 18 Some of the name dispersion is from the migrations of the family of William, 1 brother of Edward , which indicates how quickly a surname could spread to other parts of England and even overseas to Spain through a single branch of a family. 19 Barwick-in-Elmet is a parish in the West Riding of Yorkshire, directly east of Leeds. Methley is a short distance to the south of Barwick-in-Elmet, and Monk Fryston (location of the hamlet of Hillam) is a short distance to the east of Methley. 20 F. S. Colman, A History of the Parish of Barwick-in-Elmet in Thoresby Society 17(1908): charters at 193–207, pedigree at 200. 21 The problem is that the surname is missing from Barwick rentals of 1322 and 1341. These are printed in Colman, Barwick-in-Elmet (note 20). Final copy 28 October, 2008 2008 Origins of the Shippen Surname in Yorkshire 307 of land in Shepyn” in the possession of William, son of Loukok, and Christiana his wife. In 1358 the lands were described as having “formerly belonged to Christiana de Shepyn.” In view of the later evidence it seems reasonable to assume that Shippen was hereditary as a surname from this time, especially as it was a period when many other Yorkshire surnames began to stabilize. This was one of the side effects of the so-called Black Death of 1348—50, the plague that brought about great changes in social and economic conditions throughout Europe. THE SHIPPEN PLACE-NAME It is important at this stage to look more closely into the status and early history of the place-name. Shippen, or Shippen House as it is now called, is a locality in Barwick-in-Elmet with a long history. It is named in a wide variety of documentary sources. The earliest of these is the entry in the 1086 Domesday Book where it is spelled Scipene. The locality had a period of relative importance in the Middle Ages but then declined, possibly as a result of the Black Death. Colman described it in his history of the parish as “the shrunken settlement of Shippen,” saying that there had been a house there of some importance in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In his day, though, it consisted of a farm and just one or two cottages.22 More recently, Michelmore sought to identify Shippen House “with the territory of the later hamlet of Barnbow, in which it lies,” but acknowledged that his theory is not capable of proof.23 Shippen also had a complicated tenurial history, being described first as a vill and then as a hamlet, both terms implying administrative independence. At different times it was linked with the neighbouring territories of Hillam, Scholes, and Parlington, and it may eventually have become a sub-manor of Parlington, a territory that shared a common boundary with Barwick. This changing status undoubtedly complicates the history of the surname, and the surname’s identification is made more difficult by spelling changes that reflect those of the place-name. Some of the variations have already been mentioned and others, such as Chipene and Skipen, are listed in a West Yorkshire place-name dictionary.24 THE SURNAME IN AND AROUND BARWICK, 1360—1690 Shippen was a rare surname, and it is hardly surprising that its earliest history, even in Barwick itself, is sketchily documented. However, it is 22 Colman, Barwick-in-Elmet (note 20), Thoresby Society 17:199. 23 D. J. H. Michelmore, “Township and Tenure,” West Yorkshire: An Archaeological Survey to A.D. 1500, 3 volumes (Wakefield, Yorkshire: West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council, 1981) 2:319. 24 A. H. Smith, The Place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Part 4 in Survey of English Placenames 33(1961):109. Final copy 28 October, 2008 308 Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Vol. 45 likely to have been hereditary there from before 1358 when, as we have seen, Christiana de Shepyn held land in Shippen. William Schepyn, a married man, was taxed four pence in Barwick in 1379,25 and he was probably the ancestor of Thomas Shypyn of Barwick, taxed in 1545.26 In both cases these are the only examples of the surname in the rolls, and all the evidence points to it as an infrequent name well into the 1600s. Although no references have been found in the parish between 1379 and 1545, its apparent absence may be explained by the territorial allegiances referred to above. For example, Thomas Shepyn was taxed under Parlington in 1524,27 and there are other references to the name in places very close to Barwick during that period: Robert Shepen of Knowsthorpe (1425),28 Henry Shippyng of Milford (1521),29 and John Shypyn of Milford (1539).30 With the advent of parish registers it is easier to trace the name’s history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and that material can be supplemented by examples from alternative sources, as illustrated by the following references in and around Barwick: 1552. John Shippin of Hillam, will31 1557. James Shippyn of Monk Fryston, will32 1627. Nicholas Shippen, Barwick, subsidy roll 33 1672. Thomas, John and Richard Shippen, Barwick, hearth tax34 1686. Richard Shippen of Barnbow, linen webster, will 35 A SHIPPEN ALIAS A Shippin family “alias”36 was recorded as early as the sixteenth century. In a manorial roll of 1548—49 for Barwick, Thomas Shyppyn alias Harryson was listed as one of the copyholders; a similar roll for 1610 25 Carolyn C. Fenwick, The Poll Taxes of 1377, 1379 and 1381, Part 3 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 405. 26 Miscellanea, Thoresby Society 9(1899):149. 27 James J. Cartwright, “Subsidy Roll of Skyrack Wapentake,” The Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal 2(1873):294. 28 W. T. Lancaster, “A Fifteenth-Century Rental of Rothwell,” Miscellanea Thoresby Society 24(1919):292. 29 W. Brigg, “Testamenta Leodiensia,” Miscellanea, Thoresby Society 9(1899):166. 30 G. D. Lumb, “Testamenta Leodiensia,” Miscellanea, Thoresby Society 19(1913):18. 31 G. D. Lumb, “Testamenta Leodiensia,” Miscellanea, Thoresby Society 19(1913):304. 32 G. D. Lumb, “Testamenta Leodiensia,” Miscellanea, Thoresby Society 27(1930):162. 33 J. Stansfield, “Subsidy Roll of the Wapentake of Skyrack, 1627,” Miscellanea, Thoresby Society 2(1891):77. 34 David Hey, Colum Giles, Margaret Spufford, and Andrew Wareham, Yorkshire West Riding Hearth Tax Assessment, Lady Day, 1672 (London: British Record Society, 2007), 202. 35 E. W. Crossley, Index of Wills in the York Registry, 1681—1688 in Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Record Series 89(1934):160 36 For the significance of aliases, see George Redmonds, Surnames and Genealogy: A New Approach (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1997), especially at 17—26. Final copy 28 October, 2008 2008 Origins of the Shippen Surname in Yorkshire 309 included Henry Shipne alias Harrisonne, and a third for 1630 had Richard Shippen alias Harrison alongside three other Shippens, two called Richard and one called Thomas.37 The three Richards lived in the scattered Barwick hamlets of Scholes, Kiddall, and Barnbow. An alias of this type is often a clue to a former illegitimacy but in this case it is worth noting that Barwick harbored a significant number of Catholic recusants and such families often had resort to an alias as a way of hoodwinking the authorities.38 This means that there may be families called Harrison in the Leeds area who share the same ancestry as the Shippens. CONCLUSION Any discussion of the meaning of the surname must, of course, depend on how we interpret the very early place-name. There had probably been a cow shed on the site at some early date, but long before the surname stabilized, Shippen had become a substantial settlement. The etymology offered by Reaney and others is accurate, but the locality had been named in the Old English period, several centuries before the by-name came into use, and the fourteenth century “meaning” was clearly different. Moreover, there are no grounds for saying Shippen was “topographic,” or for classifying it as an occupational surname. GENEALOGICAL SUMMARY 1. WILLIAMA SHIPPEN was born say 1601 (estimating marriage at 25), possibly in Monk Fryston. He is said to have died in 1681 in Stockport, Cheshire, where he resided with his son William.39 Will[ia]m Shippen married 18 July 1626 in Methley, Yorkshire, MARY NUNNES.40 “Mary the wiffe of Will[ia]m Shippen” was buried 28 May 1672 at Methley.41 Children of WilliamA and Mary (Nunnes) Shippen, events at Methley:42 i. ROBERT SHIPPEN, baptized 20 May 1627 as “Robert Shippen, sonne of Will[ia]m”; Robt Shippen was buried 11 February 1660.43 37 Colman, Barwick-in-Elmet (note 20), 306—9. 38 For a discussion of this topic and the names of the most important families see Dom. H. Aveling, “The Catholic Recusants of the West Riding of Yorkshire 1558—1790,” Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, volume 10, part 6 (September 1963). 39 Balch, “English Ancestors” (note 2), PMHB 28:388. 40 Lumb, Methley (note 4), 47. She is said to be (Balch, “English Ancestors” [note 2], PMHB 28:388) the “Marie, doughter of John Nunns,” baptized 11 October 1592 in Methley (Lumb, Methley [note 4], 13), but since this would make her 33 at marriage and 48 at the birth of her last child, this is surely incorrect. She was likely born about 1605. 41 Lumb, Methley (note 4), 122. 42 The footnote to the burial of the child in 1634 says that there were six children, but the spacing and this burial strongly suggests there was a seventh, unnamed, child. 43 Lumb, Methley (note 4), 26, 117. Although he would have been 33 at death, there is no evidence that he married or had children. Final copy 28 October, 2008 310 Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Vol. 45 ii. MARY SHIPPEN, baptized 24 June 1629 as “Mary the daughter of William Shipne;” married 1 October 1663 WILLIAM CHAPMAN of the p[ar]ish of Normanton.44 iii. ANN SHIPPEN, baptized 21 November 1630 as “Ann, filia Willielmi Shippen”; “Ann, filia Will[ia]m Shippen,” was buried 1 December 1630. 45 iv. DORATHE SHIPPEN, baptized 9 February 1631[/2] as “Dorathe, daughter of Will[ia]m Shipen.”46 v. unnamed child, buried 13 December 1634 as “Will[ia]m Shippans child.” 47 vi. WILLIAM SHIPPEN, baptized 2 July 1637 as “Will[ia]m, son of Wm. Shippan”;48 died in 1693 in Stockport, Cheshire.49 He and three of his sons attended Oxford.50 2 vii. EDWARD1 SHIPPEN, baptized 5 March 1639[/40] as “Edward, ye son of William Shippen”; buried 3 8th month [October] 1714, recorded at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting; married first by say 1671 probably in Boston, Massachusetts, ELIZABETH LYRAND; married second 4 September 1689/90, recorded at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, REBECCA (HOWARD) RICHARDSON; married third after 25 5th month [July] 1706, recorded at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, ESTHER (WILCOX) FREELAND JAMES. 2. EDWARD1 SHIPPEN was baptized 5 March 1639[/40] in Methley, Yorkshire.51 He was buried 3 8th month [October] 1712, recorded at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting.52 His will, written 2 June 1712, names wife Esther; sons William, Edward, and Joseph; the children of Edward and Joseph; and his wife’s son Philip James.53 He married first by say 1671 (child born in 1672), probably in Boston, Massachusetts, ELIZABETH LYBRAND,54 who died between 1684 (birth of last child) and 1691 (his remarriage). 44 Lumb, Methley (note 4), 27, 92. She would have been 34 at marriage, but there is no evidence of any other Mary Shippen in Methley, other than her mother. 45 Lumb, Methley (note 4), 27, 79. 46 Lumb, Methley (note 4), 28. 47 Lumb, Methley (note 4), 80. 48 Lumb, Methley (note 4), 30. 49 Thomas Willing Balch, Letters and Papers Relating Chiefly to the Provincial History of Pennsylvania with Some Notices of the Writers (Philadelphia: Crissy & Markley, 1855), vii. 50 Joseph Foster, Alumni Oxonienses, The Members of the University of Oxford, 1500—1714 (Oxford: J. Parker & Co., 1888), 1351. Balch, “English Ancestors” (note 2), PMHB 28:389—396, has extensive discussions on this branch of the Shippen family. He discusses William’s four sons, but says nothing about the identity of their mother. 51 Lumb, Methley (note 4), 31. 52 Anna Miller Watring, Early Quaker Records of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2 volumes (Westminster, Md.: Family Line Publications, 1997), 1:34. 53 Philadelphia County Wills, 1686—1726 (note 7]), 135. 54 Balch, Letters and Papers (note 49), xix; it is undocumented. John W. Jordan, Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, 3 volumes (New York: Lewis Publishing, 1911), 1:96—109, also treats the family, again without documentation. Their dates sometimes disagree; both contain errors. Final copy 28 October, 2008 2008 Origins of the Shippen Surname in Yorkshire 311 On the 4th day 7th month called September 1689 in Rhode Island, Edward Shippen of Boston, in New England, merch’t, and Rebecca Richardson, late of New York, widow of Francis Richardson, merch’t, deceased the 15th day of 5th month, called March 1688.55 REBECCA (HOWARD) RICHARDSON was the daughter of John Howard of Upbridge, Middlesex, England, and the widow of the wealthy Francis Richardson, from whom she inherited several large pieces of property in Pennsylvania that may have been one of the motives for their relocation.56 Rebeckah Shippen, wife of Edward, died 26 2nd month [April] 1705, recorded at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting.57 On 28 4th month [June] 1706 Edward Shippen and Esther James declared their intentions to marry at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting; a committee was appointed to make inquiry concerning his clearness and to see that things were settled on account of her child by her former husband.58 However, before approval was given, it was discovered that Esther was pregnant. On 25 5th month [July] 1706, James Logan wrote to William Penn: Unhappy man last mentioned [Edward Shippen] has lost himself beyond reparation, he has committed folly in his almost decrepit age to an extremity. At two monthly meetings he was kept off from proceeding, at the 3rd he was at length admitted, since w[hi]ch such things have been discovered in his converse with that women (Esther James, Jos[eph] Wilcox’ sister) that last night, he was warn’d not to appear at meeting to day w[hi]ch was the last of asking, and now all his honour is tumbled in the dirt and he has made himself scandalous and contemptible to the last degree. 59 ESTHER/HESTER (WILCOX) FREELAND JAMES was the daughter of Barnabas and Sarah (–?–) Wilcox, and widow of William Freeland and Phillip James, and only thirty-three years of age to his sixty-seven.60 Hester 55 Watring, Quaker Records of Philadelphia (note 52), 1:86. Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy (note 52), 2:649, mistakenly gives the date of Francis’s death as the date of the marriage. 56 Francis Richardson married 20 7th month [September] 1680 at Devonshire House without Bishopsgate in London Rebecca Howard, daughter of John Howard of Upbridge, in the county of Middlesex, shoemaker, deceased (Watring, Quaker Records of Philadelphia (note 52), 1:85). Their daughter, Rebecca Richardson, was born 2 November 1685 and on 17 January 1703/4 married Thomas Murray. On 13 11th month [January] 1707/8 Thomas Murrey informed the meeting that there was a difference between his father-in-law Edward Shippen and himself, which was settled (PGM 6:216— 17). 57 Watring, Quaker Records of Philadelphia (note 52), 1:28. 58 Watring, Quaker Records of Philadelphia (note 52), 1:190. 59 Mary Maples Dunn and Richard S. Dunn, The Papers of William Penn, 5 volumes (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981—87) 4:550. Shippen later returned to good standing and appears in the meeting minutes in positions of responsibility. 60 Horle and Wockek, Lawmaking and Legislators (note 1), 1:666, 672. Children Joseph and Hester, among others, are named in the 1692 will of Sarah Willcox, who was sole administratrix of her deceased husband Barnabas; William Freeland died between 23 12th month [February] 1697/8 (will) and 18 March 1697/8 (probate), “brother” Final copy 29 October, 2008 312 Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Vol. 45 Shippen, widow of Edward, died 7 6th month [June] 1724, recorded at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting.61 Children of Edward1 and Elizabeth (Lybrand) Shippen: i. FRANCIS2 SHIPPEN, born 2 February 1672 in Boston, child of Edward and Elizabeth;62 died 9 April 1673.63 ii. EDWARD SHIPPEN, born 2 October 1674 in Boston, child of Edward;64 died 2 November 1674.65 iii. WILLIAM SHIPPEN, born 4 October 1675 in Boston; died in 1676. 66 iv. ELIZABETH SHIPPEN, born 21 August 1676 in Boston, child of Edward;67 died 16 August 1688.68 v. EDWARD SHIPPEN, born 10 February 1677[/8] in Boston, child of Edward and Elizabeth;69 Edward Shippen, Jr., was buried 30 10th month [December] 1714, recorded at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting;70 married near Bohemia River, Maryland, ANNA FRANCINA VANDERHEYDEN.71 vi. JOSEPH SHIPPEN, born 28 February 1678/9 in Boston;72 died in June 1741 in Germantown;73 married first 28 July 1702 in Boston ABIGAIL GROSS,74 who was born in Boston 25 October 1677, daughter of Thomas and James Willcox of Philadelphia to be advisor to wife Esther; Philip James, merchant of Philadelphia, died between 31 March 1702 (will) and 1 July 1702 (probate), his will mentions wife Esther and brother Joseph Wilcox; the will of Edward Shippen, Sr., mentions wife’s son Philip James (Philadelphia County Wills, 1686—1726 [note 7], 19, 36, 67, 135). 61 Watring, Quaker Records of Philadelphia (note 52), 1:45. Her will, written 4 August 1724, names numerous relations (Philadelphia County Wills, 1686—1726 [note 7], 216). 62 A Report of the Record Commissioners Containing Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630—1699 (Boston: City of Boston, 1883), 124 (town records). 63 Balch, Letters and Papers (note 49), xix. 64 Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths (note 62), 134 (town records). 65 Balch, Letters and Papers (note 49), xix. 66 Balch, Letters and Papers (note 49), xix. 67 Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths (note 62), 9:139 (town records). 68 Jordan, Families of Pennsylvania (note 54), 1:100. 69 Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths (note 62), 9:143 (town records). Balch, Letters and Papers (note 49), xix, erroneously gives the date as 10 December 1677/8. 70 Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy (note 52), 2:447. Philadelphia County Wills, 1686—1726 (note 7]), 151. His will, written 8 December 1714 and probated 10 January 1714[/5], names wife Francina, daughter Margaret, brother Joseph, sisters-in-law Hariana and Augustina Vanderheyden, and estate held in “Hillkow [sic], Yorkshire, and in Boston, New England.” 71 Balch, Letters and Papers (note 49), xix. Edward Burd in 1825 wrote that Francisca was his cousin, the daughter of Thomas and Ann Story (“Biographical Letters,” [note 52] PMHB 23:203), but this is not possible, because Ann (Shippen) Story was his sister. 72 Balch, Letters and Papers (note 49), xxi. 73 Jordan, Families of Pennsylvania (note 54), 1:101. 74 Balch, Letters and Papers (note 49), xxv. Final copy 29 October, 2008 2008 Origins of the Shippen Surname in Yorkshire 313 Elizabeth (–?–) Gross;75 Abigail Shippen, wife of Joseph, was buried 28 4th month [June] 1716, recorded at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting;76 married second ROSE (BUDD) PLUMLEY MCWILLIAMS, widow of Charles Plumley and John McWilliams,77 and daughter of Thomas and Susannah (–?–) Budd.78 vii. MARY SHIPPEN, born 6 May 1681; died in 1688.79 viii. ANN SHIPPEN, born 17 June 1684 at Boston;80 died 6 December 1712;81 Ann Shippen, daughter of Edward of Philadelphia, merchant, married 10 5th month [July] 1706, at Philadelphia Meeting House, THOMAS STORY of Philadelphia, gentleman.82 The 1741 letter from Edward indicates Thomas Story was in England and claiming the Hillam copyhold. 83 Child of Edward1 and Rebecca (Howard) Shippen: ix. ELIZABETH SHIPPEN, born 30 October 1691 in Boston, child of Edward and Rebecca;84 not named in father’s will. 85 Children of Edward1 and Esther/Hester (Wilcox) Shippen: x. JOHN SHIPPEN, born after 25 July 1706; John Shippen, son of Edward, Senr., and Hester, died 24 10th month [December] 1707.86 xi. WILLIAM SHIPPEN, born 3 8th month [October] 1708, son of Edward and Hester, recorded at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting;87 William Shippen, son of Edward, dec’d, died 3 12th month [February] 1730, recorded at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting.88 The will of William Shippen, merchant, written 1 February 1730/1 and probated 9 February 1730[/1], mentions brother Edward Shippen, plus numerous others [identifiable as related to his mother Hester].89 75 James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 4 volumes (Boston: Little Brown and Co., 1860−62), 4:87. 76 Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy (note 52), 2:447. 77 Jordan, Families of Pennsylvania (note 54), 1:101. 78 Rose, daughter of Thomas Budd and Susannah, was born 13 1st month [March] 1681, recorded at Burlington Monthly Meeting (Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, 3 volumes (Westminster, Md.: Willow Bend Books, 1994—95), 1:1). 79 Balch, Letters and Papers (note 49), xxi. Jordan, Families of Pennsylvania (note 54), 1:101, gives 30 August 1688. 80 Balch, Letters and Papers (note 49), xxi. 81 Jordan, Families of Pennsylvania (note 54), 1:101. 82 Watring, Quaker Records of Philadelphia (note 52), 1:91, 190. 83 Balch, “English Ancestors” (note 2), PMHB 28:387 (footnote). 84 Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths (note 62), 197 (town records). 85 Balch, Letters and Papers (note 49), xxiii, says she died in 1692 “about which time also Mrs. Shippen died.” Elizabeth may have died in 1692, but her mother died in 1705. Balch also errs in stating that Edward’s third marriage was in 1704. 86 Watring, Quaker Records of Philadelphia (note 52), 1:29. 87 Watring, Quaker Records of Philadelphia (note 52), 2:13. 88 Watring, Quaker Records of Philadelphia (note 52), 1:51. 89 Philadelphia County Wills, 1726—1747 (note 7]), 31. Final copy 4 November, 2008