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tures a declaration of the mind of God." Several months later, in May, 1655, according to Sewell's History of the Quakers, he, with others, testified against the acts of the mayor and the falsehood of the charges brought against them. In commemoration of this re- lease from imprisonment he named his next son, born that same year, Freedom. The following few years seem to have been com- paratively quiet ones with him, the only note- worthy events in his life being his making of a home for himself and family at Stone- house, near Plymouth, and the birth of his daughter Increase in 1657, and of his son Jacob in 1660. In this last mentioned year he was again imprisoned by the mayor of Ply- mouth for his faithfulness to his religious con- victions, being arrested by the officers at and taken from a meeting of Friends in that city. His release was brought by the solicitations of Margaret Fell and others whose efforts in be- half of imprisoned Friends were so influential with the newly restored King Charles II as to obtain the liberation of many. In compari- son with this treatment in Boston, Richard Lippincott's experiences in Plymouth were such that he at length determined to make an- other trial of the new world, and once more bidding farewell to his native land he sailed again for New England in 1661 or 1662, and took up his residence in Rhode Island, which he found to be a Baptist colony very tolerant of varied forms of belief. Here his youngest son, Preserved, was born in 1663, and received his name in commemoration of his father's preservation from persecution and from the perils of the deep. Ie is a curious fact that, omit- ting the name of his third child, Abigail, who lived only a few weeks, the names of the chil- dren of Richard and Abigail Lippincott, taken in the order of their birth, form the words of a prayer, which needs only the addition of an- other son, called Israel, to be complete, thus : Remember John, Restore Freedom, Increase Jacob, and Preserve (Israel). Whether this arrangement was accidental or was due to a premeditated design cannot be determined; it is probably a coincidence, as although in strict accordance with the ways in fashion among the Puritans of that day, so complete an ar- rangement as this is extremely rare.
In the Rhode Island colony each of the set- tlements was at first regarded as an independ- ent establishment; but in 1642 it was deter- mined to seek a patent from England, and Roger Williams having gone to the mother country for that purpose, obtained in 1644,
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through the influence of the Earl of Warwick, a charter from Parliament uniting the settle- ments as the "Incorporation of Providence plantations in the Narragansett Bay in New England." Complete religious toleration was granted together with the largest measure of political freedom, but owing to jealousies and exaggerated ideas of individual importance, the settlements did not become really united until 1654 and it was nine years later that they sought and obtained their charter of "Rhode Island and the Providence plantations," from King Charles II, which served as the constitu- tion of the colony and state down to 1843. In the following year, 1664, the Dutch Colony of New Netherland came into the possession of the English, and the next year, 1665, an asso- ciation was formed at Newport, Rhode Island, to purchase lands from the Indians, and a patent was granted to them. This movement had been initiated by the people of Gravesend, Long Island, but the residents of Newport were considerably in the majority and the success of the movement is mainly due to them and to their efforts in raising the greater part of the money to pay the Indians for their land and in inducing persons to settle on it. Of the eighty-three Newport subscribers who con- tributed towards buying the Monmouth county, New Jersey, lands from the Indians and towards defraying the incidental expenses in treating with the natives, Richard Lippin- cott gave by far the largest subscription, £16, IO shillings, which was more than twice that of any other contributor except Richard Bor- den, whose amount was fII, IO shillings. The first deed from the Indians is dated March 25, 1665, and is for the lands at Nevesink, from the sachem Popomora and his brother Mish- acoing to James Hubbard, John Bowne, John Tilton, junior, Richard Stout, William Gould-
ing and Samuel Spicer, for and on behalf of
the other subscribers. April 7, 1665, Popo-
mora and his brother went over to New York
and acknowledged the deed before Governor
Nicolls, and the official copy is in the office of
the secretary of state, New York, liber 3, page
I.
Another copy is preserved in the records
of the proprietors of East Jersey at Perth
Amboy, where there is also a map of the land embraced in the purchase, while still a third copy may be found in the office of the secre-
followed and on April 8, 1665, Governor tary of state at Trenton. Two other deeds
Nicolls signed the noted Monmouth patent, one of the conditions of which was "that the said Patentees and their associates. their heirs or
assigns, shall within the space of three years, beginning from the day of the date hereof, manure and plant the aforesaid land and prem- ises and settle there one hundred families at the least." > The reason for the founding of the Monmouth settlements is given in the pat- ent as the establishment of "free liberty of Conscience without any molestation or dis- turbance whatsoever in the way of worship." In accordance with the terms of this patent, Richard Lippincott and his family removed from Rhode Island to Shrewsbury, New Jer- sey, among the earliest settlers of the place. With him went also a number of other mem- bers of the Society of Friends and they at once formed themselves into the Shrewsbury Meeting, which for a long time met at Rich- ard Lippincott's house. He himself was one of the most active of the Friends in the meet- ing and he was also one of the most prominent in all public matters. In 1667 the inhabitants of Middletown, Shrewsbury and other settle- ments included under the Monmouth patent, found themselves so far advanced, with dwell- ings erected and lands cleared that they had opportunity to take measures to establish a local government. Their grant from Nicolls authorized them to "pass such prudential laws as they deemed advisable" and as early as June, 1667, they held an assembly for that purpose at Portland Point, now called High- lands. On December 14 following another as- sembly was held at Shrewsbury; and although Governor Carteret and his council considered these assemblies as irregular they are never-
theless the first legislative bodies that ever met in New Jersey. This "General Assembly of the Patentees and Deputies" continued to meet for many years and its original proceedings are still preserved. In 1669 Richard Lippin- cott was elected a member of the governor's council as one of the representatives from Shrewsbury, but being unwilling to take the cath of allegiance unless it contained a proviso guaranteeing the patent rights of the Mon- mouth towns he was not allowed to take his seat. In the following year, 1670, he was
elected by the town as an associate patentee, one of the "five or seven other persons of the ablest and discreetest of said inhabitants" who joined with the original patentees formed the
assembly above mentioned. which according to Nicoll's patent had full power "to make such peculiar and prudential laws and constitutions amongst the inhabitants for the better and more orderly governing of them," as well as "liberty to try all causes and actions of debts
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and trespass arising amongst the inhabitants to the value of fio." In 1676 the governor's council passed a law providing that any town sending deputies who "refused on their ar- rival to take the necessary oaths," should be liable to a fine of fio; consequently Richard Lippincott who was chosen to represent his town in 1677, did not attend, and as a result the council passed another act fining any mem- ber who absented himself, ten shillings for each day's absence. In 1670 the first meeting for worship was established by the Friends; and in 1672 this was visited by George Fox who was entertained during his stay by Rich- ard Lippincott. His residence was on Passe- queneiqua creek, a branch of South Shrews- bury river, three-fourths of a mile northeast of the house of his son-in-law, Samuel Dennis, which stood three-fourths of a mile east of the town of Shrewsbury. Soon after this Rich- ard Lippincott made another and final voyage to England, where he was in 1675 when John Fenwick was preparing to remove to West Jersey ; and on August 9, 1676, he obtained from Fenwick a patent for one thousand acres of land in his colony, which he probably pur- chased as a land speculation since neither he nor his children ever occupied any part of it. May 21, 1679, Richard Lippincott divided this plantation into five equal parts, giving to each of his sons a two hundred acre tract. Having at length found a fixed place of residence where he could live in peace and prosperity, Richard Lippincott settled down to "an active and useful life in the midst of a worthy fam- ily, in the possession of a sufficient estate, and happy in the enjoyment of religious and po- litical freedom." Here he passed the last eight- een years of his life of varied experiences, and here he died November 25, 1683.
Two days before his death Richard Lippin- cott made his will and acknowledged it before Joseph Parker, justice of the peace. January 2 following his widow, Abigail Lippincott, gave her bond as administratrix, her fellow bondsman being her son's father-in-law, Will- iam Shattock, and Francis Borden. There seems, however, to have been some irregularity in the will or its provisions, particularly in omitting mention of an excutor ; for on the day when the widow gave her bond, Governor Thomas Rudyard issued a warrant or com- mission to Joseph Parker, John Hans (Hance) and Eliakim Wardell "or any two of them, to examine Abigail, the widow of Richard Lip- pincott, as to her knowledge of any other last will made by her husband." An endorsement
on the will, dated May 21, 1684, states that the "said Abigail has no knowledge of any other will and that she will faithfully administer the estate." The inventory of the personal estate, £428, 2 shillings, including debts due £30, and negro servants £60, was made by Eliakim Wardell, William Shattock, Francis Borden and Joseph Parker.
The Dutch proprietors of New Amsterdam had long been engaged in the slave trade and at the surrender to the English in 1664 the colony contained many slaves, some of whom were owned by Friends. As early as 1652 members of this society at Warwick, Rhode Island, passed a law requiring all slaves to be liberated after ten years service as was the manner with the English servants, who, how- ever, had to serve but four years. In 1683 the court at Shrewsbury passed a law against trading in slaves. These are the earliest known instances of legislation in behalf of negro emancipation. Richard Lippincott was the owner of a number of slaves; and in her will, dated June 28, 1697, and proved August 7 following, his widow, Abigail Lippincott. frees most of them besides leaving to her chil- dren and grandchildren much real estate and considerable bequests in money.
Remembrance, the eldest son of Richard and Abigail Lippincott, lived at Shrewsbury, mar- ried Margaret Barber, of Boston, and died in 1722, aged eighty-two years. He was promi- nent in colonial affairs, a bitter opponent of George Keith, and clerk of the monthly and quarterly meeting of Friends at Shrewsbury. His children, four of whom died in infancy, were Joseph, Elizabeth, Abigail, Richard, Eliz- abeth again, Joseph, William, Abigail again, Sarah, Ruth, Mary and Grace. His descend- ants through his sons Richard and William are numerous, and many descendants of Samuel, son of William, now resides in Pittsburg and other western cities.
John, "yeoman of Shrewsbury," second son of Richard and Abigail Lippincott, married (first) Ann Barber, and on her death in 1707 he married Jeannette Austin, and died in 1720. The eight children borne by his first wife were John, Robert, Preserved, Mary, Ann, Mar- garet, Robert and Deborah. Their descend- ants are now found chiefly in Monmouth county, New Jersey, Green county, Pennsyl- vania, and New York City.
Abigail Lippincott, born January 17, 1646, died March 9, 1646. Restore Lippincott is treated below. Freedom, the fifth child and fourth son of Richard and Abigail Lippincott,
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was a tanner ; lived on Rancocas creek, about where Bridgeboro now stands; he was also a blacksmith, and was killed by lightning while shoeing a horse in the summer of 1697. By his wife, Mary (Curtis) Lippincott he had five children : Samuel, Thomas, Judith, Mary
and Freedom Junior. His descendants through his sons Samuel, Thomas and Free- dom, are numerous in the western townships of Camden and Burlington counties.
. Increase, the only daughter of Richard and Abigail Lippincott who reached maturity, mar- ried Samuel Dennis and removed to Salem county, New Jersey. Of this branch of the family there has for many years been no trace remaining in the state.
Jacob, the fifth son of Richard and Abigail Lippincott, lived at Shrewsbury, and by his wife, Grace (Wooley) Lippincott, had two children : Jacob and Ruth. Preserved, the youngest son of Richard and Abigail Lippin- cott, died March, 1666, aged three years and one month. Freedom, another son, is written of elsewhere.
(II) Restore, or Restored, fourth child and third son of Richard and Abigail Lippincott, was born in Plymouth, Devonshire, England, July 3, 1652, and died near Mt. Holly, Burl- ington county, New Jersey, about July 20, 1741, in the ninetieth year of his age. He was, however, regarded by his contemporaries as a much older man than he really was; for the noted Quaker minister, Thomas Chalkley, who attended his funeral, notes in his journal, "On fourth day, the 22d, I was at Mount Holly, at the burial of our ancient friend Restored Lip- pincott ; he was as I understood, nearly one hundred years of age, and had upwards of two hundred children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, many of whom were at his funeral." Restore was brought to this country when his parents returned from Ply- mouth and accompanied them from Rhode Island to Shrewsbury. When he was twenty- two years old he married, and settled down at Shrewsbury on land near his father, for which in 1677 he and his wife received a patent under the "Grants and concessions made by the pro- prietors," a record of which is preserved in the land warrant records in the office of the surveyor general of East Jersey, at Perth Amboy. This estate comprised two-hundred and forty acres, and ten years later, in Janu- ary, 1687, Restore added to it considerably. On January 2, he received a patent for 96 I-2 acres "at Passequenecqua, North Richard Stoutt junior, South William Scott, East Pass-
equenecqua Creek, West George Keith"; this patent also included three and a half acres of meadow, "East Peter White, West John Havens, North and South upland." (East Jersey deeds, liber B, page 264.) On Janu- ary 22 following, he received still another pat- ent for "217 acres, counted as 193, on Ram- sonts Neck, East John Claytone, North Nave- sinks River, West a road, South grantee and Abraham Browne; also 7 acres of meadow ad- joining." (East Jersey deeds, liber B, page 271.) September 21, 1692, Restore Lippin- cott, styled in the deed, "late of Shrewsbury, East Jersey, now of Northampton River, West Jersey, husbandman," bought of Thomas Ollive of Wellingborough a plantation of five hundred and seventy acres in Northomp- ton "along the line between the two Tenths, adjoining Widow Parker and John Woolston." January 10, 1699, Restore deeded three hun- dred and nine acres of this property, eight acres of it being meadow, to his son Samuel; and about a year and a half later bought him- self another plantation of three hundred acres from Isaac Horner, the deed bearing the date of June 20, 1701. The following month, in company with John Garwood, he bought of Susanna, the widow and executrix of Thomas Budd, of Philadelphia, two thousand acres more in Burlington county, "on the north branch of the Northampton River, near Mount Pisgah, and adjoining William Budd." The two hundred acres of his Cohansey property in Fenwick's colony which had been given him by his father he disposed of to Robert Eyres, giving to Joseph Eastland, of Cohansey, Au- gust 12, 1699, a power of attorney to make the delivery. In 1701 Restore Lippincott was chosen as the representative of Burlington county in the West Jersey assembly, and the same year he joined with the Provincial coun- cil and the members of the assembly in a petition to King William, for the confirma- tion of Andrew Hamilton as the governor of the colony. This was the last assembly to meet under the old proprietary government of West Jersey, since in the following year the proprietors surrendered their governmental rights to the Crown and Lord Cornbury was appointed as the first of the royal governors of the province of New Jersey. In 1703 Re- store Lippincott' was elected as the represen- tative of Burlington county to the first of the Royal provincial assemblies, which met at Perth Amboy ; in 1704 he was re-elected to the same office and continued to serve in that capacity until 1706. Restore Lippincott be-
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came one of the most influential of the Burl- ington Friends, and up to 1716, when the meet- ing house at Mt. Holly was built, the meeting of Friends were often held at his home. This was especially the case during the severe win- ter of 1704-05, when the records of the old Springfield meeting tell us that they held their meetings there too, "considering the badness of the way in going to the usual house." In the minutes of the Burlington monthly meet- ing there is a very interesting record which illustrates not only the carefulness and dili- gence of the Friends in regard to all the de- tails of their religious life, but also at the same time throws a genial light upon the char- acter of Restore himself. At the monthly meeting of January 23, 1704, one of the mem- bers, Thomas Atkinson, presented the follow- ing memorial in writing: "Friends : whereas I was charged in the face of the meeting by Re- store Lippincott that I pulled off my hat when John Langstaff was buried is not true. I have many witnesses to the contrary." When this memorial was read, Restored Lippincott imme- diately arose and demanded that a committee be appointed to investigate the charges; and six or seven months later, on August 6, 1705, the committee reported to the meeting that "Whereas some time since there was a paper sent in by Tho. Atkinson that Restore Lippin- cott charged him falsely in the face of the meeting with pulling off his hat att the time of John Langstaff's funeral whilst the priest was speaking, for which at our last meeting some Friends were to speak to Restore Lippincott to be at our last Monthly Meeting to answer to itt for himself, and he making it appear by several evidences to be true, it is this meet- ing's Judgment that Restore Lippincott did not accuse Tho. Atkinson falsely." Restore was buried in the friends ground at Mt. Holly ; and in his will, which is dated March 16, 1733, and proved December 13, 1741, he leaves legacies to his son James, his daughters Rachel Dawson, Abigail Shinn, Rebecca Gaskill and Elizabeth Shinn, and his grandsons, Joseph and Restore Lippincott Junior, and David and Jonathan Jess.
November 6, 1674, Restore Lippincott mar- ried (first) Hannah, daughter of William Shattock, who was born July 8, 1654, in Bos- ton, 'Massachusetts, and died before 1729, when he married (second) Martha (Shinn ) Owen, the daughter of John and Jane Shinn, the emigrants, and the widow of Joshua Owen. His second wife bore him no children; by his first wife he had eight, all of whom reached
maturity and married. 1. Samuel, born Sep- tember 12, 1675, married, July 3, 1700, Ann Hulett, and the descendants of his son Samuel, who married Mary Arney, are many of them residing on the purchase between Mt. Holly and Pemberton. 2. Abigail, born February 16, 1677, married, May 3, 1697, James, the young- est child and the longest lived son of John and Jane Shinn, the emigrants, and their descend- ants are very numerous throughout South Jer- sey. 3. Hannah, born in October, 1681, mar- ried William Gladding in 1701. 4. Rebecca, born November 24, 1684, married, in 1704, Josiah Gaskill. 5. James, treated below. 6. Elizabeth, born March 15, 1690, married, June 12, 1712, George, eldest son of John and Ellen (Stacy) Shinn, nephew to James Shinn, the husband of his wife's sister, Abigail, and grandson of John and Jane Shinn, the emi- grants. 7. Jacob, born in August, 1692, mar- ried, in 1716, Mary, daughter of Henry Burr, and his descendants are numerous, chiefly in Gloucester and Salem counties; among them, however, was Joshua Lippincott, of Philadel- phia, at one time a director of the Bank of the United States and president of the Schuyl- kill Navigation Company. 8. Rachel, born January 8, 1695, married (first) Zechariah Jess, and (second) Francis Dawson.
(III) James, the fifth child and second son of Restore and Hannah (Shattock) Lippin- cott, was born June 11, 1687, at Passequen- ecqua, near Shrewsbury, and died in 1760, at his home, inherited from his father, near Mt. Holly. September 12, 1709, he married Anna, the eldest daughter of Thomas and his second wife Anna Eves, and granddaughter of Thomas Eves, "barber in London," who came to Burlington in 1677, in the ship "Kent." They had six children who reached maturity and married: 1. Jonathan, married, March 13 1746, Ann, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Thompson) Shinn-Eves, a first cousin of her husband's mother, being the granddaughter of Thomas and Anna Eves, and great-grand- daughter of Thomas Eves, of London and Burlington. Her mother was Mary, daugh- ter of John Thompson, and widow of George, son of John and Jane Shinn, the emigrants. 2. Aaron, treated below. 3. John, married Elizabeth Elkinton. 4. Daniel, married Eliza- beth Pim. 5. Moses, married in 1750, Mari- bah Mullin or Miller. 6. Anna, married, Au- gust 6, 1746, Thomas Taylor. The descend- ants of these children have resided for the most part in Northampton, in Evesham, and in Philadelphia, the most noteworthy among
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them being Joshua Ballinger Lippincott, the distinguished publisher ; Judge Benjamin H. Lippincott, of Burlington county, who is treated below, and Aaron S. Lippincott, a successful cotton manufacturer of Philadel- phia.
(IV) Aaron, second child and son of James and Anna ( Eves) Lippincott, married Eliza- beth, daughter of Ephraim and granddaughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Tomlinson, the emi- grants, and was the sister of Mary (Tom- linson) Gardiner, the great-grandson of Dr. Thomas Gardiner, the emigrant. Aaron and Elizabeth (Tomlinson) Lippincott had five children who reached maturity and married. I. Moses, treated below. 2. Elizabeth, mar- ried (first) John Butcher, who died leaving no issue, and his widow then married Isaac, son of Jonathan and Hannah (Sharp) Haines, grandson of Jonathan Haines and Mary, daughter of William Matlack, the emigrant ; great-grandson of John Haines and Esther, daughter of John Borton the emigrant; and great-great-grandson of Richard and Margaret Haines, the emigrants. By this marriage there were three children : Elizabeth, Ephraim, and a second Elizabeth. 3. Sarah, married Caleb Lippincott. 4. Mary, married a Quicksall. 5. Aaron, married Hannah, daughter of Nathan-
iel and Margaret Snowden, and widow of Job, son of Rehoboam Braddock and Jemima, daughter of John Darnell, the emigrant ; grandson of Robert Braddock and Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Bates and Mercy, daugh- ter of James, son of Gregory Clement, the regicide ; and great-grandson of Robert Brad- dock, the emigrant, and Elizabeth, daughter of Timothy Hancock, the emigrant, and Rachel Firman, his first wife.
(V) Moses, eldest son and child of Aaron and Elizabeth (Tomlinson) Lippincott, mar- ried (first) October 3, 1778, Mary, daughter of Joseph Hewlings by his second wife, Eliza- beth, daughter of Laban Langstaff, and widow of William Hammitt ; granddaughter of Laban and Susanna (Warrington) Langstaff, also granddaughter of Jacob Hewlings and Doro- thy, daughter of Thomas and Anna Eves, children of Thomas Eves, of London and Burlington ; and great-granddaughter of Will- iam Hewlings and Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Eves, of London and Burlington. Moses and Mary (Hewlings) Lippincott had five children who reached maturity and mar- ried: 1. Rebecca, married (first) Josiah, son of Isaac Haines and his first wife Mary, daughter of Thomas Wilkins and Mary,
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