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Richard Shipp (Richard) was born about 1740 SH6, BL3 in Essex or Caroline County, Virginia and
allegedly first married Lucy Yowell, but she died soon after giving birth to a
daughter, who was also named Lucy SH6.
A deed of ninety-one acres in Culpeper
County from Richard and Gizell Parker to Richard Ship, all of whom lived in
Culpeper County at the time, was dated August 15, 1755 CU3. Richard Ship
purchased the property for twenty-five pounds CU3, and if his birth
year was listed correctly, he was only fifteen when he purchased this parcel of
land. On March 22, 1758, he purchased one hundred acres of land on Mountain Run
in Culpeper County from Robert Taliaferro of Caroline County for the sum of
thirty pounds, which was paid by Robert Johnson of Culpeper County, on
Richard’s behalf CU2. This parcel of land was adjacent to the land which
belonged to Major James Pendleton, and its boundaries were described in this
way CU2:
Beginning in the said
Taliaferro’s Line on Mountain Run on a Point a little Below the Mouth of a
Small Branch on the lower side of the Plantation Running thence with the said
Taliaferro’s Line North Eight Degrees East One hundred & forty four poles to
a White & Two Red Oaks Corner to the said Taliaferro thence with another of
his lines North Forty Degrees West Seventy seven poles to a Forked Pine Near a
Branch thence South Thirty eight Degrees West to the said Mountain Run thence
down the Several Meanders of the said Run to the Beginning
His next marriage, to Isabel Martin SH6, BL3, occurred in 1765 SH6. Richard paid fifty
pounds for a four-hundred-acre parcel of land in Culpeper County from John McKenzie on June 16, 1768 CU3. The descriptive boundaries and
inclusions of this property were spelled out, and have been transcribed below CU3:
… Beginning at apine and three Red oak
saplins Corner to John Zimmerman thence along his Line South Forty five degrees
East Two hunded & seventy Eight Pole to ablack oak & two White Oak
Saplins and a blazed pine in the Line of Zachary Fleshmans thence along his
line north thirty Degrees East Two hunded & fifteen pole to two large pines
Corner to Manspike thence along his line south fifty two degrees west Ninety
four pole to apoplar and Gum in abranch Corner to the said Fleshman thence
along another of his lines North twenty three degrees West Four hundred &
Sixty poles to a Red oak and small white Oak by abranch of the Robinson River
Called Deep Run thence south seven degrees west three hundred & Sixty Pole
to the Beginning Together with all houses Buildings Orchards Gardens woods
under woods water and water Courses Profits Commodities and appurtenances whatsoever
to the same belonging.
On
October 21, 1771, he and his wife, named “Ezbel” sold that same four-hundred-acre
parcel in Brumfield Parish, Culpeper County to Atalph Woolpalk, from whom they
received thirty pounds CU4. The
descriptive boundaries and landmarks were identical to the property which
Richard purchased in 1768, but one of his neighbors had changed in the three-year
interim CU4. He lost money on this venture. Richard Ship was named
as a son of Richard Ship in his will which was written on August 23, 1778; he
was given the five pounds of proclamation money which he already possessed NO16.
A
man named Richard Shipp, who may have been the subject of this biographical
sketch, served under General Nelson’s Corps of Light Dragoons in the Revolutionary
War, according to a muster roll card (number 39187747) CO6, SH6, GW1. Thomas Nelson was appointed as a
brigadier general on August 19, 1777, and in April 1778, he began to promote
the plea Congress had made the previous month for the formation of light
cavalry troops EV2. Congress intended that these men would
serve until the end of that year and would be provided fodder for their horses
and provisions for themselves, but they would not be compensated for their
service EV2. General Nelson attempted to sweeten this
appeal for volunteers by entreating the various counties to provide support to
those men who would have enlisted but were forestalled due to financial
instability EV2. In May, General Nelson was given the
authority to create and command a regiment of 350 men and horses who would
receive rations, wages, and, if the volunteers were unable to provision
themselves and bring their own horse, they would be supplied these items as
well EV2. Nelson was afforded eight thousand
pounds to purchase arms and horses but was unable to convince enough men to
fill out his regiment, for on June 15, 1778 in Port Royal, Hanover County,
Virginia, less than one hundred men assembled to commence their training EV2.
These
men may have received smallpox vaccinations, as Thomas Nelson was a firm
advocate of this life-saving procedure, believing it to be instrumental in
preventing mass death in the military EV2.
The men trained in June and July, and at the end of July, they rode north
through Baltimore, and then met the army at Philadelphia in early August EV2. Once there, they were turned away,
because Congress had decided that, since the British had moved on to New York,
the service of the Virginians, several of whom had outfitted themselves on
their own dime, was not required EV2.
General Nelson and his enlistees returned to their homeland, and in October he
was back in the House of Delegates, immersed in government once again EV2.
Aside
from briefly fortifying Yorktown with local militia in preparation for a
potential British attack in May 1780, Thomas Nelson acted mainly in the realm
of legislature until essentially the end December 1780, when he was given the
authority to call up the militia in the area around Yorktown EV2. Most of the militia later commanded by
General Nelson sprang from around Richmond and the James River EV2. If Richard Shipp was indeed a member of
General Nelson’s “Corps of Light Dragoons”, he was likely one of these men who
trained at Port Royal in the summer of 1778, for Port Royal, unlike Richmond
and the James River area, is not inordinately far from Culpeper County, where
Richard was known to live.
Richard’s
death occurred sometime in the first half of 1781, as he created his will on
February 9, 1781, which was probated on August 20, 1781 CU6. His will was witnessed by William
Pennegar, Elizabeth Pennegar, and Lucey Thornhill, but the executors who were
named refused to “take up on themselves the Burthen [burden] thereof” CU6:
In the name of God Amen I Richard Ship of
the County of Culpeper being low and weak in Body, and knowing that all flesh
must yield to Death when pleases God to call, do make and Ordain this my last
Will and Testament hereby revoking all former Wills by me made
Imprimisses I give my daughter Lucey one
Good feather Bed & furniture to be by her possessed immediately after my
decease
Item 1st
I lend the Remainder of my estate of what kind soever it may be to my loving
wife Isabel Ship during her natural life on which she is to raise my children
& after her decease I give the remainder of my estate not already given to
the Remainder of my Children, Ambrose Richard Josiah, John, Nancey and Thomas,
in Equal distribution
Item 2d I
constitute and appoint Job Popham, Joshua Shumake & George Witherall
Executors of this my last Will & Testament the 9th day of February 1781
The inventory of his estate, on January
12, 1782, included CU6:
one mare… 7 Head Cattle… 22 Hoggs… 4
Narrow Axes… 4 Hilling Hoes and Grubbing Hoe… 1 Pair of Wedges… 1 Shovel plow
Clovis… 2 Hammers… One Griddle… 2 Iron Pottshooks… Frying pan Skillett… 1
Scythe… 2 Linnen Wheels… 1 Woolen Do
[ditto, which means one woolen wheel was included in his inventory]… 1 Mans
Saddle… 1 Loom some Gier… a parcel of Pewter… a parcel of Earthen Ware… a
parcel of Knives forks… Box Iron Heaters… 2 pails 2 Piggens… pair Fire Tongs…
One Churn… 1 Chest one Trunk… Some Lumber… One Stone Jugge… one Tubb… One
feather Bed… One Ditto [another feather bed]
Isabel Martin was born circa 1744, and her name has been
spelled “Ezbel” or “Isabella” SH6, but
her maiden surname was not “Martin”. She married John Martin, and with him had
a son named John Martin, Jr. SH6, but
her first husband died sometime after January 12, 1764, which was the date his
will was created CU5.
With
Richard, Isabel was the mother of Ambrose, Richard, Josiah, John, Nancy CU6, SH6, TR6, and
Thomas CU6, TR6. Ambrose Shipp
married Nellie Barnes TR6. Richard Shipp was born on April 15,
1768 in Virginia TR6. John Shipp married Sarah Ellen (Nellie)
Sanders and lived in Shelby County and Green County, Kentucky TR6. Nancy Shipp married
Thomas Long in 1794 TR6. Thomas Shipp first married Ruth Sanders
and second married Elizabeth Wright on November 14, 1814 TR6. Thomas died in 1830 in Kentucky TR6. Lucy Shipp, who was
not Isabel’s daughter, but was the daughter of Richard Shipp and Lucy Yowell, married
William Yowell in 1791 SH6, TR6.
She
remained in Culpeper County until 1784, when she and four of her sons traveled
to Green County, Kentucky (or Taylor County, Kentucky TR6, which was formed from Green County in 1848; Green County
itself was created from Nelson and Lincoln Counties in 1792) and
settled on farms near the village of Saloma SH6. Isabel
signed a deed on March 1, 1792 which granted one slave, named Rose, to her
daughter Nancy Ship, and four slaves named Temp, Celia, George, and Peter to
her son, John Martin, Jr. CU5:
By will of John Martin deceased… I hold
the following Negroes Temp, Celia, Rose, George & Peter, during my natural
life, which After my decease, descend unto the Heirs of J. Martin Deceased
__________ Now Know all men by these presents that I Isabel Ship of the County
of Culpeper for & in consideration of a Negro girl named Rose to my
daughter Nancy Ship made over by deed of gift by John Martin, the only
surviving heir of John Martin deceased I have assigned transferred and made
over to thesd. [the said] John Martin, the only Heir to John Martin deceased,
the following Negroes which agreeable to my former Husbands Will I hold by
dower to wit Temp, Celia, George & Peter, upon the consideration of thesd.
[the said] John Martins making a deed of gift of thesd. Negro girl Rose to my
Daughter Nancy Ship, now be it further understood & Known that I thesd.
Isabel Ship, upon the aforesaid Consideration do give up my rights & title
to thesd. Negroes (Temp, Celia, George & Peter unto thesd. John Martin) the
only heir to John Martin deceased.
Isabella, Ambrose, Richard, John, and
Thomas Ship were included in the tax list for Green County, Kentucky in 1800 CL10. The earliest records of Pitman’s Creek
Baptist Church in Campbellsville, Kentucky began in 1802, and Isabella,
Richard, Ambrose, Ruth, and Eleanor Ship were noted as members of that church
on May 21, 1802, and in August 1805 the membership roster included Isabell,
Richard, Thomas, Ambrose, Ruth, and Eleanor Ship PI9. Isabel
may have resided in Green County, Kentucky with her son, John, at the time of
the 1810 United States census. John Ship, who was between the age of twenty-six
and forty-four, was enumerated with four boys and two girls under the age of
ten, one young woman between sixteen and twenty-five, one woman forty-five or
older, and one slave. Her other sons who lived in Green County, Kentucky,
Ambrose, Richard, and Thomas, were not enumerated with any woman in their
household in the age bracket of forty-five or older.
Isabel probably died sometime after May 6,
1812, as on that date she was still a member of Pitman’s Creek Church SH6. At the time of the 1820 United States
Census, Ambrose, John, and Thomas Ship lived fourteen miles west of
Campbellsville, in Summersville, Green County, Kentucky, and Richard Ship lived
in Campbellsville, Kentucky. It did not appear as though Isabel was enumerated
with any of her sons at that time.