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Richard Shipp (Josias, Elizabeth) was born circa 1685 in St. Anne’s Parish in Essex
County, Virginia SH6,
KI1. He was mentioned in his father’s will
dated January 24, 1705/6 which indicated that he was as yet unmarried or
without children (“if my Son Richard Should dye without Issue”) ES2. He inherited his father’s plantation in or after 1706 ES2, KI1, SH6, and he married Mary, whose surname is
unknown SH6,
KI1.
His death occurred in St.
Anne’s Parish, Essex County, Virginia between the time his will was
created, on September 3, 1723, and the date on which it was proved, May 19,
1724 VI1, KI1. Because he died before his children reached maturity,
guardians were appointed for Thomas and Richard VI1, SH6. The records of two
bonds, registered at the
Essex County Court on June 20, 1727 indicated that James Blassingham became the
guardian for Thomas Shipp, and William Thomas was assigned as the guardian of
Richard Shipp VI1,
KI1, SH6. Richard wrote
his will on September 3, 1723, which was witnessed by James Jameson, Thomas
Ship, and Mr. Kendall, and was proved “At a Court held for Essex County on
Tuesday y.e 19.th
day of May 1724” VI1. Both his will and the inventory of his
estate, which was appraised on June 11, 1724, have been transcribed VI1:
In the Name of God amen September the 3.d
1723 I Richard Ship of the parish of St. Anne in the County of Essex being Sick
and Week in body but of p[er]fect Sense and memory thanks be given to God Therefore [the
transcription of preceding word is uncertain, but best resembles the word “Therefore”]
calling to mind the mortality of my body & that it is appointed for all…
[At this point, the condition of the
document, being the lower portion of the page, has deteriorated, and many dark
marks and smudges have obscured and sometimes obliterated the words. In this
particular instance, because the word “dye” is somewhat legible after a dark
smear, the phrase that was written was probably similar to “… it is appointed for all men once to die”, but
not “… it is appointed for all men to die”, because there is too much space
between the words “all” and “dye”.]
dye do make and ordain this to be my Last
Will & Testament in manner and form following, Imprimis I Give my Soul into
the hands of God that gave it trusting through the Merits of my [the word which
follows may have been “blessed”] Savior to receive the same again and for my body
I recommend it to the Earth to be buryed in a Christian like and decent manner
at [the following five or six words have been partially obscured by a smudge,
but most likely stated “the discretion of my Executor”]
Item I [the following word is illegible,
but may have stated “Lend”] to my beloved wife Mary Ship all my Land and my
Negro woman named Sukey during of her natural life Item I give and bequeath all
my Land after my wifes deceas to my Son Thom [the entire name “Thomas” may have
been written, but only the first four letters were visible] and to his heirs
for ever. Item I give and bequeath to my Son Richard my Negroe woman named
Sukey after my wifes decease to him and his heirs for ever. Item I give to my
beloved wife Mary my two Horses. Item I give and bequeath all the rest of my
Estate to be equally divided between my wife and Children. I make and ordain my
beloved wife Mary Ship my whole and sole Exeutrix of this my Last Will and
Testament and I do utterly disannul and revoke all other Wills or Legacys
ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my Last Will and Testament as
Witness my hand and Seal the day and year above written
Signed Sealed
published & pronounced by the said Richard Ship to be his Last Will &
Testam.
June y.e 11.th 1724. A true &
Just Inventory of Richd Ships Estate deceased.
5 Cows & Calves…
2 Cows & one Steer… 3 two year olds… 2 yearlings… 1 horse… 1 old horse… 1
Negro woman… 1 feather bed & furniture [the word “furniture” was legible,
but words before it were blurred]… 1…
[This item, and the
four items below it, have been rendered illegible because the ink has smeared,
creating black smudges over the words listed at the bottom of the page. The
length of the text of the next item was as long as the item which probably
stated “1 feather bed & furniture”, and this particular item may have
stated “2 flock”, which probably indicated that he owned two flock beds and the
furniture to go with them.]
Six plates & 1
small Dish [the preceding transcription is questionable]… [illegible, but may
state “a __ of old ___”]… [another illegible item]… a parcel of old pewter…
[illegible]… 1 old Warming pan… a parcel of Coopers tooles… 3 Stock Locks… a
parcel of Carpenters tooles… 2 Narrow Axes & 3 Wedes [perhaps this was
meant to have been “Wedges”] & one branding Iron… 1 box Iron & 2
heaters… 1 Grid Iron, 1 Iron [illegible] & Tongs… 1 Iron [illegible] &
Chain… 1 Iron Ladle & flesh forks… a p [this seemed to be an abbreviated
word, which may have been “parcel”] of ould Iron… 1 Gun… a pair of Stilards [a balance used to measure weight]… a
Looking Glass… 3 ould Chests… a p[arc]el of ould Tubs… a powdering Tub… a
Spinning Wheel & Wool Cards… a p[ar]cel of Glass bottles… a p[ar]cel of
earthen ware… a razor and hone… a p[ar]cel of pailes… 4 Iron pots & a
Cettle [Kettle]… 2 p.r of
potracks… a ould Table & fourm [form]… 2 Chaires & 3 Stooles… 2 Wheat
Sives & 2 meal Sifters… [illegible]… a Table & 12 napkins… a p[ar]cel
of old [illegible]… 3 p.r of
Silver [illegible]… a pair of [perhaps “Shoes & boots”]… a ould Saddle
& [the remainder of this item and the entire item listed after it were
illegible]… a pr of Weights & Scales… Earthen pots… [the following two
items were illegible, and the final item of inventory may have stated “42 head
of Hoggs”, but was also nearly illegible]
Mary was the mother of Thomas and Richard Shipp KI1, SH6. She died after 1724, because in that year she
proved her husband’s will, but before June 1727, when her son was listed as an
orphan SH6.
Richard Shipp, the son of Richard and Mary Shipp, was
born circa 1710 in St. Anne’s Parish, Essex County, Virginia SH6.
Thomas Ship, the son of Richard and Mary Shipp VI1, SH6, VI12, was
born about the year 1707 KI1. He married
Elizabeth SH6 and was already a father at the time he
appointed a guardian for himself in 1727 KI1. In a deed
dated May 18, 1736 in which he sold a parcel of land to Gawin Corwin, Thomas
called himself a planter of St. Anne’s Parish, Essex County who was the eldest
son of his father, Richard Ship; the acknowledgement of this deed at the Essex
County court also mentioned his wife, Elizabeth VI12. This deed
specified that this parcel of land was a part of a tract of 528 acres of land
granted to Robert Tomlin on October 29, 1662, which Robert sold to John Meadow
on May 3, 1665, who then conveyed the parcel to Josiah Ship on July 2, 1695 VI12. Josiah Ship
then wrote his will in January 1705/6 which gave that parcel to his eldest son,
Richard Ship, and that Richard Ship wrote his will on September 3, 1723 which
gave that parcel to his eldest son, Thomas Ship, who then sold it to Gawin
Corbin in the deed which follows VI12:
This Indenture made the 18th day of May in the ninth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George
the Second by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King
defender of the faith annoq Dom 1736 Between Thomas Ship of the parish of St.
Anne & County of Essex planter of the one part & Gawin Corbin of the
parish of Stratton Major & County of King & Queen Esq of the other part
Witnesseth that the said Thomas Ship for and in Consideration of the sum of
seventy five pounds Curr money to him in hand by the said Gawin Corbin well
and truly paid the receipt whereof the said Thomas Ship doth hereby Confess
& acknowledge and thereof and of every part and parcil thereof acquit
Exonerate and discharge the said Gawin Corbin his heirs Ex.[ecutors] &
admin[istrators] by these presents and for diverse other good causes &
Considerations him thereunto moving he the sd. Thomas Ship hath granted bargained
& sold aliened released and Confirmed & by these presents doth fully
freely & absolutely grant bargain sell alien release & Confirm unto the
said Gawin Corbin (in his actual pos[ession] now being by virtue of a bargain
& sale to him thereof made for one year by Indenture Bearing date the day
next before the day of the date of these presents & by force of the statute
for transferring uses unto pos[ession]) and to his heirs & assigns for ever
one tract or parcil of land scituate lying & being in the parish of St.
Anne & County of Essex Containing by Estimation one hundred & fifty
acres together with all the land thereunto adjoining now in the pos[ession] of
the sd. Thos. Ship The said land being part of a tract of land of five hundred twenty
eight acres granted to Robert Tomlin by patt [probably “patent] bearing date 29th Octo. 1662 & by the said Tomlin assign’d over to John Meadow by deed
dated the 3d. May 1665 & the sd. Meadows by Indenture bearing date 2d. July 1695 made a Conveyance of the aforesd. land to Josiah Ship who by will dated 11th. Janry 1705-6 Gave the sd. land to Richd. Ship his Eldest son & the said
Richd. Ship by will dated 3d. Sepr. 1723 gives the before mentioned
lands to the said Thomas his eldest son party to these presents and all houses
edifices buildings Gardins orchard Lands pastures feedings trees woods
underwoods waters watercourses ways passages… In Witness whereof this parties
to these presents have Interchangeably fix’d their hands & seals the day
& year above written
Jeremiah Upshaw
Wm. Pickett
Ro Brooke
At a Court held for Essex County at Tapp. on the
xviija day of May anno Dom MDCCXXXVJ - Thomas Ship acknowledged this Indenture
to Gawin Corbin Esqr to be his act act [sic] and deed and then
Elizabeth the wife of the said Thomas freely relinquished her right of Dower of
& in the land & premises Conveyed by this deed to the sd. Gawin Corbin…
Thomas again referred to himself as the son of Richard Ship, and he stated
he was a planter who had previously lived in Essex County but was then living
in Spotsylvania County, when he sold a plantation and two hundred acres of land
in Essex County, Virginia to John Miller the Younger, on August 4, 1743 VI12:
This Indenture made the fourth day of August in the
year of our Lord God one thousand seven hundred and forty three Between Thomas
Ship late of the County of Essex but now of the County of Spotsylvania planter
of the one part and John Miller the Younger of the County of Caroline planter
of the other part Whereas Thomas Meades late of the County of Essex planter
deceased by his Last will and testament in writing bearing date the twenty
Ninth day of January One thousand seven hundred and Sixteen among other things
did give and devise his then dwelling plantation & two hundred acres of
Land thereunto adjoining in the words following I give unto my loving wife Ann
Meades the plantation whereon I now dwell and two hundred acres of Land there
unto adjoining during her Life, and after the said plantation and tract of Land
to return to my said son John Meades, and if my said son should die without
Issue before he comes to the age of twenty one years, then the said Land to
return to Richard Ship and his heirs forever as in and by the said Last will
and Testament remaining on Records in the said County of Essex relation being
thereunto had may more fully appeare, And Whereas the said John Meades, the son
died without Issue before he attained to the age of twenty one years, and the
said Richard Ship is also dead & the said Thomas Ship (party to these
presents) is his son and heir at Law & is seized of the immediate reversion
of the said plantation & two hundred acres of Land with the appurtenances
depending on the Estate for term of the natural Life of the said Ann (the widow
and devisee of the said Thomas Meades ye. Testator who is now in the
possession thereof Now this Indenture Witnesseth that the said Thomas Ship for
and in consideration of the sum of one hundred pounds Current money of Virginia
to him in hand paid or secured to be paid by the said John Miller the Younger
at and before the Ensealing & delivery of these presents the receipt
whereof the said Thomas Ship doth hereby acknowledge hath Given Granted bargained
sold aliened & confirmed & by these presents doth give grant bargain
Sell alien & confirm unto the said John Miller the Younger his heirs and
assigns for ever all that the above-mentioned plantation and two hundred acres
of Land thereunto adjoining scituate Lying and being in the County of Essex
aforesaid…
Thomas Ship, the son of Richard and Mary
Ship, was the father of Richard and Thomas KI1. Richard
Ship, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Ship, was born about 1725/6 in St.
Anne’s Parish, Essex County, Virginia and married an individual named Martha,
with whom he seems to have been the father of Jesse (born about 1755 in
Caroline County; died about 1778), Richard (born about 1758 in Caroline County;
died after 1792), Thomas (born about 1764 in Caroline County; died after 1783),
and Nancy (born before 1778) KI1, VI12. Richard died
testate but his will has been lost; the Caroline County Minute Book indicated
that his will was proved on November 13, 1777 and the executor of his will was
Jesse Shipp KI1. Richard Ship of Caroline County, Virginia called himself the son
of Thomas Ship when he and his wife, Martha, sold a parcel of land in Essex
County, Virginia to John Lee, Esquire, on May 18, 1756 VI12:
This Indenture made the Eighteenth day of May in the
twenty Ninth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the
Grace of God of great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith
etc. and in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty six
Between Richard Ship of the parish of [blank space] in the County of Caroline
& Martha his wife of the one part & John Lee Esq. of the Parish of St.
Anne in the County of Essex of the other part Witnesseth that the sd. Richard Ship & Martha his wife for and In Consideration of the sum
of five shillings Curr[ant] money of Virginia to them in hand paid by the sd. John Lee Esq. at or before the ensealing and Delivery of these presents
the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged have granted bargained and sold and
by these presents do grant bargain & sell unto the sd. John Lee Esq. and his heirs All his the sd. Richard Ship & Martha his wife and their heirs [the following short
word is smudged] Rights and titles of in and to all the Lands in Essex County
which they have Any manner of Claim or right to, particularly all the Lands
held by one Thos. Meades, Richd. Ship & Thomas Ship his Father
situate in the sd. County part of which Land one George Green of the
sd. County Claims by Escheat which he the sd. Richard Ship Claims as heir at Law to as well as the Land which Thos. Ship his Father sold & Conveyed by Deed to John Miller who sold the
same to John Lee a party to these presents with all his his [sic] heirs
etc. Right & Claim thereto and all others portending any right or Title
thereto by him or his heirs etc. Refference being had to the titles thereto by
the several Conveyances recorded among the Records of the sd. County of Essex and all houses outhouses edifices buildings ways waters
water Courses profits Comodities hereditaments & Appurtenances Whatsoever
to the sd. premises hereby granted or any part thereof belonging or in any wise
Appurtaining and the reversion and reversions remainder and remainders rents
Issues & profits thereof To have and to hold the sd. Lands and premises and all & Singular other the premises hereby
granted with the appurtenances unto the sd. John Lee Esq. his Executors
Administrators & Assigns from the day of the date hereof for & during
the full term and time of one whole year from thence next Ensuing and fully to
be Compleat and ended Yielding and paying therefore the rent of one Ear of
Indian Corn on Lady day next if the same Shall be Lawfully demanded To the
Intent and purpose that by Virtue of these presents and of the Statute for
Transferring uses unto possession the sd. John Lee Esq. may be in the actual
possession of the premises and be thereby Enabled to accept & take a grant
& release of the reversion and inheritance thereof to him & his heirs
In Witness whereof the parties aforesd. to these presents Indentures their
hands & seals Interchangeably have set the day & Year first above
written
Sealed and Delivered
In the presence of Us
Richard Hipkins
John Satane
John Thomas
Thomas Shipp, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Ship,
was born about 1727 KI1. Thomas married
an individual named Rachel in 1747, with whom he was the father of Richard, born
on November 12, 1747 in Caroline County, Virginia, Gideon, born about 1750 in
Caroline County, Edmund, born in 1753 in Caroline County, Ann, Lucy, Lemuel,
Ewell, Martha or Molly, Frances or Fanny, and John, born about 1770 in Caroline
County KI1. Thomas Ship died intestate in
Caroline County, Virginia in 1777 KI1.
Thomas Ship, the son of Richard and Mary Shipp, was said to have died testate
about 1752 in Caroline County, Virginia SH6, KI1. The will has
been lost but the Caroline County Order Book indicated that the will of Thomas
Ship was witnessed by Simon Edwards and was proved in September 1752 KI1.