| Show A corner C orner in Arico ancestors mst mrs by FRANCIS COWLES shippen family by syndicate any member of the shippen family may well ell be hippy not only has the family been nt in thia this country ever since edward shippen came here in 1668 1063 but it Is aid said that every shippen who ho liv s to maturity stands a good chanat judging from past records ot of reaching the venerable age of three score and ten the family originated in england where it waa was well known at the time ot of the first settlements in america william shippen gentleman lived in yorkshire shire at the beginning of the sev entee nth century he lie was a prominent man there where his family bad livid for generations he ile held several important positions be he was overseer 0 t the poor and overseer of the high ways among other things one of his 1115 children edward who wae was born in 1639 was the founder of the Shipp cna la fri thia this country and he be came to DOS ton when he wax was twenty nine years old la in ices he was a man of a good deal of wealth he ile became a member of the ancient and honorable artillery and seemed in a fair way to enjoy a post sm 10 im don of importance in boston out but in 1671 be he married elizabeth ley brand a Qua QuiA kreas reee so convincing were the arguments that she he put forward that he be decided to join her sect and by this decision he ended bis his career as a useful citizen of boston he lie stayed there for a number of years however but be he buffered suffered a good deal the name halaby used to be spelled pelted liaise and before that it was hals franz hals the great dutch painter who died in 1666 belonged to the family hundreds of years before his day the family was flourishing and away back in the time of richard I 1 of england its surname wa was do de ate AN de do alee also and de alesa it bae has been becu argued from tha tho prefix dr dp that the family faintly wae was of norman origin but probably the prefix ie is imply simply one of the many examples of norman influx ence on english names the name hale la Is of danian or saxon d derivation it mean means la in danish icelandic gothic dutch and old frisian Fri eian to embrace or to fall on an the neck and as a noun it means neck it was probably applied to the halsey family because the ma nor of La nesley where they first lived was on a neck of land in 1559 when the pariah parish records begin in the old norman town of Gadd gaddesden esden Hertford shire the hal hat sey were living aa an tenants of the monastery there in the parsonage and in the reign of henry VIII on the dissolution of the monasteries the king granted gaddesden Gadd esden parsonage to the halsey family it la Is now in the possession of thomas frederick hat hal ley member of parliament although the original house wae was replaced la in 1773 in 1512 john halsey lived at the parsonage ilia ills eon son william married altce alice and their sons eons third eon son rob ert married a lady named dorothy it Is in their eon son thomae thomas who la Is the pur itan duct ator of the in amer lea thomas was one of 14 children ilia ills oldest brother william willi was the anchor nce tor of the member of parliament nove above referred to anna arms were grant ed ad to this william and to his brother james rector of st Alph agea church in london in 1635 the name of appears in boston but as it Is to not again heard of there for some time the man bearing beating it must have died thomas arrived at lynn mass some time before 1637 there Is a tradition in the family that be he came fn n the he ship that cromwell intended taking when he was forbidden by be the king to leave england for some reason thomas left mas alas it la Is supposed that relfe lous fous reasons of some kind forced him to join a band of settlers who started out I 1 for long island the men first went to cow bay now where they found the dutch arms displayed played they took these down befort they took their bat hats and coats off and la indian drew an am emblem to put la is s ia of persecution on ov account 0 his views j in 1677 he war twice p I 1 whip I 1 ped I 1 and in 1633 1693 decided to go to philadelphia where a new rolls ion on would be respected and understood in 1695 shippen waa was made speaker of the assembly and in 1701 october 25 william penn named him la in the charter aa as first mayor of 0 philadel phia edward the first had ft a good many children but only two t 0 of them ed ward and joseph both born in boa don ton ifft it t joseph married abigail gross a near relative of GOT gov 1 llowd oln a wife and settled in germantown inan town one of his daughters anne married charlee charles willing and from her jhb prominent bingham clymer francis powell willing morris hare ilare and bird families are tica cealey cec aed one of joseph josephe a eona sons born torn in 1712 known aa as william the elder to distinguish himself from bis his son on of the sanie name wax was sent to europe to be educated after hie his return to this country he became one of the foremost educators edu catora and physicians of hie his day in america he lie was one of the founders and patrons of the col lego of pennsylvania hia ills eon son william the younger wae was also a physician in 1762 when he be returned from europe where he had been educated be he began to lecture on an an to twelve students in ohp th col lege of pennsylvania which had placed him at the bead of its newly founded medical school before he died he ha bad ad the satisfaction of seeing the of the school increase to in one of the early generation ol 01 the shippen family there was a I 1 gen tieman jue joe who helped found the first philadelphia assembly dances pj 1748 1749 another joseph shippen helped benjamin Benjam fu franklin found the junto junta the forerunner of the learned societies of the country still another joseph together with some other men ol 01 means made it for benjamin west to study in italy and becom one of the foremost american painters in 1799 1709 an edward shippen vas was made chief justice of the united states hi his grandson born in 1828 1826 Is still living and until 1888 1889 when be he was retired be cause of the age limit was medical director U S 8 vi N the arms arras of the Ship shippers peas are blaz boned argent a chevron between three oak leaves gules crest A bird sable in its beak an oak leaf vert halsey hotkey fa family min their place an unhandsome unhan crome face it 11 Is to described naturally tho the dutch settlers sett lern who considered long island their own domain like these actions of their english neighbors and they made the new settlers Bett lero leave cow bay so they went to southampton and there established it Is in claimed the first perma pema nent settlement of englishmen in new now irk IT york state they boudat tho the land of the indians indiana for 16 coats 60 bushels of corn and a promise to defend them against other indians indiana three Ital were officers in the revolutionary war jeremiah auther and ellas elias alfas was a captain of the connecticut militia aud and was killed at broton heights luther also rose to be a captain he ile came froni from new jersey where the family Is now very well known krown and was one of the original I 1 members of the society of the cincinnati jeremiah of connecticut spent more time and money in the cause of the colonists than any other man at the time of the war excepting cover nor and gen get putnam the anns arms of the family farally which were granted to the two brothers of thoa as the american ancestor are blazoned argent on a pit i sable three griffins heads erased of the prat crest A cubit era arm gules cuff ar gr gent band hand proper holding a triffina ln leg erased or the motto which Is quoted from horaces de arte arta Poe poetical tica is N nye cit abssi list revera lw tall |
