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Richard Shipp (Richard, Isabel) was said to have been born
on April 15, 1768 SH6, BL3
in Culpeper County, Virginia SH6. He,
along with his mother and three brothers, journeyed to Kentucky in 1784 SH6, BL3 via a flat-bottomed boat on the Ohio
River SH6. He was very likely not the Richard W.
Shipp who, along with Colly (perhaps Colby) Shipp, were the grantees of a lot
of 18,520 acres in Bourbon County on the Big Sandy River in Kentucky, which was
surveyed on April 26, 1787 JI1. A
marriage bond dated November 26, 1788 between Richard Ship and John Copeland
stated ME2, KE18:
Know all men by
these presents that we, Richard Ship and John Copeland are held and firmly
bound unto his Excellency Edm.d
Randolph Esq. Governor of Virginia in the sum of Fifty pounds Current Money to
which payment to be made the said Governor & his Successors we bind
ourselves our Heirs &c Jointly & Severally firmly by these presents
Sealed with our Seals and dated this 26th
day of Novem.r
1788
The
Condition of this Obligation is such that whereas there is a Marriage Shortly
intended to be solemnized between the above bound Richard Ship and Mary
Copeland for which a Licence has issued [the previous word was faded] Now if
there be no Lawfull cause to obstruct the said Marriage then the above
obligation to be Void or else to remain in full force and Virtue
“N. Rice” performed
the marriage ceremony between Richard Ship and Mary Copland (another hand wrote
“Copeland” under the surname “Copland”) in Mercer County, Kentucky on December
2, 1788 ME1, ME9, KE18.
A man named Richard Ship, who may or may
not have been the Richard who married Mary Copeland, was listed in the
Washington County, Kentucky Tax List in 1792; he owned six horses and six heads
of cattle, but perhaps owned
no land EA1. Richard and his mother and brothers were
taxed in Green County, Kentucky in 1800 CL10,
and his name appeared in multiple instances in the earliest surviving records
of Pitman’s Creek Baptist Church in Campbellsville, Green County, Kentucky,
beginning on April 6, 1802 PI9.
According to the 1815 tax list for Green County, Kentucky,
Richard Shipp was a part of “4th
Capt. Short’s Company” and was older than twenty-one HO29. He owned 387 acres of third-rate land
on Pitman Creek in Green County, Kentucky, worth $6 per acre, which was
surveyed and patented in the name of “Edgar, Knox & Taylor” HO29. He also owned 115 acres of third-rate
land on Pitman Creek, valued at $1.50 per acre, surveyed and patented under the
name of Sinclear HO29. He owned five horses, mares, mules,
and/or jennies and was taxed on a total value of $2664.50 HO29. According to the 1816 tax list for
Green County, Richard Shipp owned 387 acres of third-rate land in Green County
on Pitman Creek, which was valued at $6 per acre, and was surveyed and patented
in the name of “Edgar & Co.” HO28. He also owned 115 acres of third-rate land on Pitman Creek in
Green County, worth $1.50 per acres, surveyed and patented under the name of
Synclare HO28. The 1816 tax list stated that he owned
one black individual who was older than sixteen, as well as six horses, mares,
mules, or jennies HO28.
Richard was taxed on a total value of $2724.50 HO28.
Richard and his family moved again to Blue
River Township, Johnson County, Indiana in 1822 SH6, BL3 or perhaps toward the end of the year in
1823, when he was said to have arrived in Johnson County from Kentucky, with
the families of Tandy Brockman and Samuel Sandefur (Sandifer) BR2. Richard Shipp purchased land in Johnson County, Indiana on
November 18, 1822 HO26, PR18.
This may
have been a reference to the parcel of eighty acres of land in Johnson County, Indiana which had a patent
date of January 6, 1824 GE4. On
July 10, 1826, he purchased another eighty acres of land in Johnson County GE4. His name was included in a group of men
of Johnson County, and from these men, a Grand Jury was to be selected for the
September 1826 term BA16. The
Shipp, Brockman, and Sandefur families created a Methodist Protestant church in
1830 in the home of Tandy Brockman BR2.
According to the epitaph on his gravestone
in Brockman Cemetery in Jackson Township, Shelby County, Indiana, he died at
age sixty-eight on June 4, 1836 SH6, JA2. His probate record was not located in Shelby County, Indiana
from October 1822 through March 1847. The most logical place for the location
of its documentation would have been in Probate
Order Book B Jan. 1836 [to] Oct. 1842
for Shelby County, Indiana, but it was not found there, nor was it found in the
Shelby County Probate Order Book A or
Probate Order Book C, which covered
the periods from October 1822 through November 1835 and November 1842 through
March 1847; all of these Probate Order books can be viewed on FamilySearch Film
Number 1401857.
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1810
US Census: lived in Green County, Kentucky with three boys and two girls under
ten years old, one boy and one girl between ten and fifteen, two young men and
one young woman between sixteen and twenty-five, and one woman between
twenty-six and forty-four.
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1820
US Census: lived in Campbellsville, Green County, Kentucky with one boy under
ten years old, three boys between ten and sixteen years old, one young man and
one young woman between sixteen and twenty-six, one man between twenty-six and
forty-five, and one woman over forty-five years old.
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1830
US Census: lived in Pleasant Township, Johnson County, Indiana with one boy
under five years old, one young man between fifteen and nineteen years, two men
between the age of twenty and twenty-nine, one man between thirty and thirty-nine
years, and one woman between sixty and sixty-nine years old.
Mary C. Copeland (James, Martha) was born on April 12, 1770 SH6, BL3, TR6 (according to the notation on her
gravestone) in Orange County, North Carolina SH6, TR6 to James and Martha Copeland TR6, and relocated to Mercer County, Kentucky
in 1786 SH6. According to Vera Reese Tranter, “Mary Copeland Shipp delighted
to tell her grandchildren that in 1780 she stood on the banks of the Yadkin
River in North Carolina and watched the British army and Lord Cornwallis when
they were encamped near her home; and she also delighted in his defeat later at
Yorktown” TR6.
Mary and Richard had eleven known
children: James SH6,
BL3,
TR6, Annie SH6, TR6, John Wiley SH6, BL3, TR6, Elizabeth SH6, TR6, William SH6, BL3, TR6, Nancy SH6, Martha SH6, Thomas SH6, TR6, Austin SH6, TR6, Samuel Copeland SH6, BL3, TR6, and Joseph SH6, TR6. James Shipp was born in 1790 and died in 1815 SH6, BL3. He was born on January 5, 1790 in Kentucky and died on October 8,
1815 in Kentucky TR6. He reportedly did not marry but he
became a Baptist preacher TR6 SP4.
Annie Shipp was
born on February 19, 1792 TR6 and
married Reverend Samuel Harding, a founder of Franklin College TR6, SP4. Samuel Hardin and John Shipp signed a
marriage bond on February 21, 1816 in Green County, Kentucky which stated that
Samuel Hardin was obligated a marriage license for himself and Anna Shipp GR8. Ann Harding was the head of the household in Jackson Township,
Shelby County, Indiana in 1850 when she was enumerated at age fifty-five with
Nancy Harding, age fifteen, and Madison Morgan, age six UN10. She lived in the household of Jane Hayes in Hendricks
Township, Shelby County, Indiana in 1860; at that time, her stated age was
sixty-eight UN11. Her birth probably
occurred in about 1792 UN11 or
1795 UN10 in Kentucky UN10, UN11.
Her gravestone, located at Atwood Cemetery in Johnson County, Indiana is in
pieces, and cannot be properly read, although a photo of the pieces can be
examined on the Find a Grave website.
She died on January 4, 1864 TR6.
John Shipp was
born about 1794 in Kentucky UN10 or on
January 27, 1794, and he married Nancy TR6. He
may have been the John Shipp who purchased land in Johnson County, Indiana on
December 2, 1823 HO26. John relocated to
Iowa circa 1850 TR6. He lived in
District 16 of Jasper County, Iowa in 1850 with Elizabeth, age forty,
Catharine, age seventeen, Austin, age sixteen, Thomas, eleven, Mary, who was
nine, Elisha, who was eight, and Caroline, age five UN10. All of the children in his household were born in Iowa, which
indicates that this family was probably in Iowa from about the year 1833 UN10. He may have been the John Shipp (or Ship) who purchased
several parcels of land in Jasper County, Iowa in 1850 which were located
around the outskirts of the town of Colfax; there were four land grants of 160
acres and one land grant of 168.7 acres GE4. All
of these purchases were made with other men, including Nicholas Fleener,
Christopher C. Fleener, and James Fleener GE4. It
is uncertain if this was the same John Shipp who was the son of Richard and
Mary. John Shipp was enumerated in Poweshiek, Jasper County, Iowa in the 1852
Iowa State Census; his household included four males and four females IO9.
Elizabeth Shipp was
born about 1796 UN10, UN12 or
1797 UN11 in Kentucky UN10, UN11, UN12 or on
March 22 or 26, 1796 TR6.
She married Samuel D. Sandifer in 1814 TR6; a
Green County, Kentucky record of a marriage bond indicated that Samuel
“Sunderford” married Elizabeth “Ship” in August 1814 GR9. Elizabeth Sandifur, age fifty-four, and Samuel D. Sandifur,
age fifty-six, lived near Ann Harding and Martha Brockman in Jackson Township,
Shelby County, Indiana in 1850 with Joseph, age twelve, and Sylvester, age
seven UN10. Elizabeth and Samuel D. Sandefur remained in Jackson Township
in 1860 UN11 and 1870 UN12; in
1860 their household included Sylvester W. Sandefur and Nancy Shipp, age thirty
UN11, but in 1870 they were enumerated as a couple UN12. The Shelby County, Indiana
death certificate for her son, Sylvester W. Sandefur, stated that his mother’s
name was Elizabeth Shipp IN20. She died on August 8, 1872 TR6. Her
headstone, located at Brockman Cemetery in Shelby County, Indiana, stated that
she was the wife of S.D. Sandefur and died at age seventy-six years, four
months, and sixteen days on August 8, 1872 (a photo can be found on the Find a Grave website). This indicates
that her birth occurred about March 23, 1796.
William Shipp was
born about 1799 in Kentucky UN10, UN11, UN12, UN13 to
a father who was born in Virginia and a mother who was born in North Carolina UN13, or in 1798 SH6, BL3, or
on July 23, 1798 TR6. He married Mary
Kelly on October 26, 1820 TR6. William Shipp and Matthew Kelly signed a marriage bond in
Green County, Kentucky on October 25, 1820, which stated that William intended
to marry Polly Kelly GR8. He
may have been the William Shipp who purchased land in Johnson County, Indiana
on November 9, 1827 HO26. He
and Mary were enumerated in Hendricks Township, Shelby County, Indiana in the
1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 US Census records. In 1850, their household included
George Shipp, age eighteen, Cinthia A. Shipp, age sixteen, and Martha Shipp,
age twelve UN10. In 1860, they lived with Cynthia A. Shipp, age twenty-four UN11. In 1870, Lewis Ship, age eighteen, and Alice Ship, age eight,
lived with William and Mary UN12,
and in 1880, they lived with two teenage granddaughters, Alice and Effie Delano
UN13. He died on May 21, 1883 in Shelby County, Indiana IN2. The gravestones of William and
Mary Shipp are located at Brockman Cemetery in Shelby County, Indiana (photos
are available on the Find a Grave
website). They state that William was born on July 23, 1798 and died at age
eighty-four years, nine months, and twenty-eight days on May 21, 1883, and that
Mary was born on April 20, 1802 and died on April 12, 1887. Nancy Shipp was born about 1799 UN10 or 1800 UN11 in Kentucky UN10,
UN11, on January 17, 1801 SH6, TR6, or on January
18, 1800 in Hardin County, Kentucky TR6.
Martha Shipp was
born about 1803 in Kentucky UN10, UN11 or
on April 30, 1803, and she married Tandy Brockman TR6. She may have been called Patsy TR6. Tandy Brockman and John Shipp signed a marriage bond in Green
County, Kentucky on December 18, 1820, which stated that Tandy intended to
marry Martha Shipp GR8. Martha
(Shipp) Brockman was born about 1803 in Kentucky UN10. Martha Brockman, age forty-seven, and Tandy Brockman, age
forty-four and born in Virginia, lived near Ann Harding and Elizabeth Sandifur
in Jackson Township, Shelby County, Indiana in 1850 with John, who was
twenty-two, William, Austin, Mary, Oswell, Emoline, and Euston, who was five UN10. All of the Brockman children were born in Indiana, which
indicates that Martha and Tandy resided in Indiana by the year 1828 UN10. However, according to the memorial marker for Brockman
Cemetery in Jackson Township, Shelby County, Indiana Tandy Brockman of Virginia
arrived in the area in 1823, and the first individual who was interred on that
site was his young son, Richard, who died the year after their arrival. Martha
and Tandy were enumerated in Jackson Township again in 1860 with Oswell, who
was twenty-two, Emaline, nineteen, and Easton or Euston, who was fifteen UN11. She died on March 31, 1864 TR6.
The headstone for Martha Brockman, located at Brockman Cemetery, stated that
she died at age sixty years, eleven months, and twenty-eight days on March 31,
1864 (a photo is available on the Find a
Grave website).
Thomas Shipp was
born about 1805 UN11 or 1806 UN10, UN12, UN13 in Kentucky UN10, UN11, UN12, UN13 to a father who was born in
Virginia and a mother who was born in North Carolina UN13, or on October 30, 1805 TR6. He
married Martha Kelly on March 5, 1832 RI12, TR6. He
may have been the Thomas Shipp who purchased land in Johnson County, Indiana on
February 9, 1830 HO26. He and Martha lived
in Blue River Township, Johnson County, Indiana in 1850 with Matilda, age
seventeen, Emily, Malinda, Jane, and Joseph, age five UN10. His occupation at that time was a Methodist Clergyman UN10. By the year 1860, they had relocated to Hanover Township,
Shelby County, Indiana, where they were enumerated in the 1860, 1870, and 1880
US census; in each of these census records, he was called a minister. Thomas
and Martha lived with Malinda Shipp, age twenty-two, Jane, age nineteen, and
Joseph, age fifteen, in 1860 UN11. In
1870, their household included Joseph V. Shipp UN12, and in 1880, a sister-in-law named Susan Duckworth lived with
Thomas and Martha UN13.
Thomas was said to have died in Hendricks County, Indiana TR6, but a death record indicated that he died at age eighty on
June 8, 1886 in Morristown, which is located in Hanover Township in Shelby
County, Indiana IN2.
Austin Shipp was
born about 1807 UN13 or 1808 in Kentucky UN10, UN11, UN12 or on May 5, 1808 TR6. He married Louisa C. Farnsworth on May 4, 1835 TR6, RI12 or May 5, 1835 IN6 in Johnson County, Indiana TR6, RI12, IN6.
Austin and Louisa C. Shipp resided in Blue River Township, Johnson County,
Indiana in 1850 with Milford B., age fourteen, Eliza A, age eleven, Mary C.,
age eight, Thomas C., age four, and Flora L. Shipp, age two, as well as Joseph
Shipp, age twenty, Moses G. Farnsworth, who was sixteen, Dortha Carter, age twenty,
and Hannah Whitney, age twenty-one UN10.
The 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 US census records stated that he was a merchant
or a clerk in a store. By 1860, the family of Austin and Louisa Shipp had
relocated to Edinburgh, Johnson County, Indiana UN11. Louisa C. Shipp was forty-three at that time, and she was born
in Ohio UN11. They lived with Milford B., Mary C., Thomas, Flora, Edda, who
was eight, Charles, who was five, Lincoln, who was eight months old, and Martha
Shipp, who was twenty-one years old UN11.
All of their children were born in Indiana UN10, UN11. In
1870, Austin and Caroline “Ship” lived in Ward 13, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah Territory with Thomas, who was twenty-five, Flora, twenty-two,
Edward, eighteen, Charles, who was fifteen, Clifford, who was ten years old,
and Christifer Johnson, who was a twenty-one-year old woman from Sweden UN12. According to the Salt Lake County death record for Louisa C.
Shipp, who was the wife of Austin Shipp, she died from Typhoid fever on either
December 28, 1878 or January 7, 1879 UT1. Louisa
Caroline (Farnsworth) Shipp, who was born on May 5, 1817, died on December 28,
1878 according to the gravestone she shares with Austin Shipp in Salt Lake City
Cemetery in Salt Lake City (a photo of their gravestone is available to view on
the Find a Grave website). In 1880,
Austin Shipp was enumerated in Beaver City, Beaver County, Utah with his wife,
Manty Shipp, who was thirty-five and was born in Alabama. In order of
appearance on the census record, the names of the children in this household
were Kent I., age five, Lettie, age three, Alice, age eight, and Thomas Shipp,
age thirty UN13. The household also included Emma McDonough, Austin’s
mother-in-law, and his stepsons, Edward and James Sewall, who were sixteen and
thirteen, respectively UN13.
The mother of Kent, Lettie, and Alice is a bit unclear because of their ages
and the death date of Austin’s first wife, Louisa, but according to the death
record for Kent Shipp, who was born on October 16, 1875 in Utah and died on
July 30, 1957 in Driggs, Teton County, Idaho, his father was Austin Shipp and
his mother was Samantha McDonough ID1.
Austin “Ship”, the “son of Richard & Mary C.” died at age eighty-four years
and thirteen days in Salt Lake County on May 18, 1892 of “old age” UT1. His gravestone in Salt Lake City Cemetery in Salt Lake City
states that he was born on May 5, 1808 and died on May 18, 1892.
Samuel Copeland Shipp was
born about 1810 UN13, SH6, BL3 or
1811 UN10, UN11, UN12 in Kentucky UN10, UN11, UN12, UN13, or on October 12, 1810 TR6. He married Matilda Peoples on January 27, 1829 TR6. He may have been the Samuel Shipp who purchased land in
Johnson County, Indiana on January 22, 1830 HO26. A
gravestone for Matilda, the wife of Samuel Shipp, located in Old South Cemetery
in Frankfort, Clinton County, Indiana (a photo is available on the Find a Grave website) states that she
died at age twenty-four on July 27, 1835. Later that year on November 24, 1835,
Samuel married Mary Catterlin in Montgomery County, Indiana IN6. The 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 US census records stated that
he was a merchant or a dry goods merchant. He and Mary were enumerated in
Jackson Township, Clinton County, Indiana in 1850 with Sanford, age thirteen,
Melton L., age eleven, Sarah A., age nine, Caroline, age seven, “Matila”, age
five, and Mary A., age one UN10. In
1860, they lived in Thorntown, Boone County, Indiana with Samuel M., age
twenty, “Anfa”, Carrie, “Melilda A.”, Mary A., and James T. UN11. They had moved again by 1870, where they were enumerated in
Sugar Creek, Boone County, Indiana with Maggie B., age eight, and Emma B., age
seven UN12. In 1880 they lived in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
with their sons and daughter, Samuel (forty-one), James T. (twenty-eight), and
Maggie (eighteen) UN13.
Samuel died on April 6, 1884 in Indianapolis, Indiana TR6. His headstone, located at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis,
Marion County, Indiana indicated that he died at age seventy-three years, five
months, and twenty-four days on April 6, 1884; another stone simply read
“Samuel C. Shipp 1810-1884” (the photos for these stones can be found on the Find a Grave website).
Joseph Shipp was
born about 1813 in Kentucky UN10 or on
June 20, 1813 “in what is now Taylor County, Kentucky” TR6 and married Mary A. Barnett in Johnson County Indiana on December
20, 1832 IN6 or December 25, 1832 TR6. A
Johnson County, Indiana marriage record dated December 17, 1832 between Joseph
Shipp and Mary Ann Barnett may have been the date of their marriage application
RI12. He and Mary A. Shipp, who was thirty-five, lived in Jackson
Township, Clinton County, Indiana in 1850 with Lydia, age fifteen, Martha, age
thirteen, Amanda, age twelve, May, age eight, and Clarissa, age six UN10. Joseph Shipp of Clinton County, Indiana wrote his will on
April 6, 1852, which mentioned his wife, Mary, and his brother, Samuel Shipp IN23. He died in May 1852 in Frankfort, Indiana TR6. A headstone with the name Joseph Shipp who died on a date
which appeared to state May 5, 1852 is located at the IOOF Cemetery in
Frankfort, Clinton County, Indiana (a photo is available on the Find a Grave website).
Mary
should have been enumerated in the 1840 and the 1850 censuses. Thus far, she
remains elusive, for a very broad search of all women who were approximately
eighty years of age and who resided in Indiana in 1850 did not include any
remotely similar name to Shipp (or Copeland) except “Mary Sluss”, whose
handwritten surname did resemble “Shipp”, but alas, Mary Sluss was married to
Michael Creger, and died at around the age 100 in 1880. Mary Shipp was not in
the households of Ann Harding, Elizabeth Sandifer, or Martha Brockman, three of
her daughters who resided in Jackson Township, Shelby County, Indiana in 1850,
nor was she found with Burgess and Nancy Waggoner. She was not with her sons
John Wiley in Jasper County, Iowa, with William in Hendricks Township, Shelby
County, Indiana, or with Thomas or Austin in Blue River, Johnson County,
Indiana. Neither was she with her youngest sons, Samuel and Joseph, who resided
in Jackson Township, Clinton County, Indiana in 1850.
Mary was
said to have died at age eighty-three on September 13, 1853 in Johnson County,
Indiana SH6, TR6 at
the residence of Martha/Patsy Brockman, her daughter TR6, and she was buried in Brockman
Cemetery, Jackson Township, Shelby County, Indiana SH6, JA2.
Her gravestone stated that she was eighty-two, and that she died on September
13, 1852 JA2.
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