Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs, Vol. I, Part 13

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed; Jordan, Wilfred, b. 1884, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, NY : Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 710

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George Hamilton Brown, b. June 18, 1831, d. 1856;

Deborah Norris Brown, b. Aug. 15, 1832, d. Aug. 19, 1904; m. January 13, 1852, George Dawson Coleman, of Lebanon.

Frances Brown, d. inf. ;

Mary Hamilton Brown, b. Dec. 25, 1834;

Emily Hamilton Brown, b. Sept. 10, 1836; m. Jan. 15, 1856, Samuel Glover ; Fanny Brown, b. Feb. 23, 1838;

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ISAAC NORRIS, b. Feb. 21, 1802, d. July 1, 1890; m. Mary Pepper, of whom presently ;

Thomas Lloyd Norris, b. Sept. 2, 1803, d. Feb. 9, 1828; unm .;

Hanna Fox Norris, b. Sept. 5, 1804, d. Aug. 26, 1884;

GEORGE WASHINGTON NORRIS, M. D., b. Nov. 6, 1808, d. March 4, 1875; m. Mary Pleasants Fisher, of whom later ;

Ellen Norris, b. March 4, 1810, d. Sept. 23, 1877; unm .;

Henry Norris, b. Aug. 6, 1811, d. Dec. 17, 1904; unm .;

Sally Norris, b. Jan. 16, 1814, d. May 19, 1899; m. Feb. 11, 1841, Henry Pepper ; had issue : Elizabeth Norris Pepper, b. Dec. 19, 1841 ; m. Feb. 7, 1872, Col. William Brooke Rawle;

Henry Pepper, b. Aug. 8, 1843, d. Feb. 28, 1844;

Mary Pepper, b. Jan. II, 1845, d. Jan. 12, 1845;

Henry Pepper, b. Nov. 4, 1846, d. March 3, 1880; m. Jan. 16, 1873, Agnes Camp- bell Norris;

Mary Pepper, b. Nov. 18, 1848; m. June 21, 1880, John Gwinn ;

Catharine Pepper, b. May I, 1851, d. May 2, 1851 ;

George Norris Pepper, b. Oct. 18, 1852; d. Oct. 8, 1898.

Emily Norris Pepper, b. June 28, 1855; m. Feb. 1, 1877, J. Waln Vaux, he d, May, 1898; had issue :

Richard Vaux, b. Dec. 13, 1877;

Henry Pepper Vaux, b. June 12, 1879, banker, of Philadelphia; m., 1907, Frances Alice Cramp.

Norris Wister Vaux, b. Sept. 1, 1881; M. D. Univ. Pa .; m., 1907, Honora Dixon.

Emily Norris Vaux, b. June I, 1885; m. Apr. 17, 1907, Edward Ingersoll ; issue : Warren Ingersoll, b. March 22, 1908; Emily Norris Ingersoll.

Emily Norris, b. July 17, 1816, d. Aug. 6, 1901 ; unm.

Ann Caroline Norris, b. 1817, d. y.

JOSEPH PARKER NORRIS, the youngest son and third child of Joseph Parker Norris, by his wife, Elizabeth Hill Fox, was born October 20, 1794. He entered the University of Pennsylvania, received his degree from the College Department in 1816; taking up the study of the legal profession, he was admitted to the Phila- delphia bar, and practised in that city until his death, January 31, 1863. He married, February 21, 1821, Caroline Thompson, and had issue, viz :

Anne Thompson Norris, b. March 22, 1822, d. s. p. May 30, 1866; m. (first) Oct. 18, 1844, Robert E. Johnson; (second) July 24, 1860, Lamar W. Fisher ;

Elizabeth Norris, b. July 23, 1824, d. July 5, 1908; unm .;

Joseph Parker Norris (third), b. Jan. 27, 1826, d. Nov. 16, 1887; m. Feb. 22, 1854, Mary Elizabeth Garesche; had issue:

Louis Baudery Norris, d inf. ;

Caroline Thompson Norris, b. Oct. 31, 1857, d. Apr. 30, 1882; m. Apr. 28, 1881, William A. Dick; had issue ;

Franklin A. Dick, b. Apr. 27, 1882 ;

Mary Garesche Norris, b. Nov. 19, 1859;

George Washington Norris, younger, b. July 5, 1864; banker of Philadelphia; m. June 10, 1891, Sarah Fox ;

Annie Norris, b. May 27, 1867, d. May 12, 1873;

Alexander Garesche Norris, b. July 12, 1868; m. Dec., 1899, Emma Carmen, dau. of Alexander Wilson, M. D .; had issue :

Elizabeth Carmen Norris, b. Dec. 6, 1901 ;

Henry Turner Norris, b. July 30, 1870, d. Mch. 25, 1872;

Thomas Lloyd Norris, b. July 12, 1874, d. June 4, 1876;

Caroline Norris, b. Jan. 6, 1828, d. Feb. 18, 1877; m. Nov. 2, 1854, Phineas J. Horwitz, M. D., who died Sept. 28, 1904; Medical Director, U. S. N .; Assistant Surgeon Gen- eral, U. S. N., 1860-64; Surgeon General, 1864-69; was voted highest pay of his grade by Congress for distinguished services during War of the Rebellion; had issue:

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Theodore Horwitz, b. Sept. 24, 1855, d. Dec. 13, 1877;

Joseph Parker Horwitz, b. June 26, 1858, d. July 12, 1860;

Orville Horwitz, b. June 26, 1860; received degree of B. S. at Univ. Pa., 1881 ; that of M. D. at Jefferson Medical College, 1883; Professor of Genito-Urinary Surgery, Jefferson Medical College; Surgeon to same institution; also to St. Agnes and Philadelphia General hospitals, and to State Hospital for Insane; Consulting Surgeon to Jewish Hospital, and Surgeon to Jefferson Medical Col- lege Hospital ;

Caroline Norris Horwitz, b. Sept. 17, 1861, d. July 1, 1862;

Thomas Lloyd Norris Horwitz, b. Sept. 13, 1863, d. June 22, 1900;

John Meredith Read Horwitz, b. Jan. 27, d. Aug. 21, 1865;

Amelia Read Horwitz, b. Aug. 26, 1866; m. May 23, 1894, S. Franklin Sharpless ; George Quintard Horwitz Esq., of Philadelphia Bar, b. Feb. 3, 1868; m. May 23, 1901, Marian, dau. of Daniel S. Newhall; A. B. 1886; LL.B. 1888, Univ. Pa .; issue; Caroline Norris Horwitz, b. Dec. 10, 1902, d. Aug. 27, 1906.

Thomas Lloyd Norris, b. April 8, 1831, d. April 28, 1862;

Adeline Norris, b. Nov. 3, 1834, d. s. p. Nov. 7, 1900; m. Feb. 15, 1862, Sewell H. Brown.

ISAAC NORRIS, eighth child of Joseph Parker and Elizabeth Hill (Fox) Norris, born in Philadelphia, February 21, 1802, received his early education in private schools, and in 1818 entered the college department of University of Pennsylvania, graduating with his class in 1821. He studied law and practiced at the Phila- delphia bar ; was a member of American Philosophical Society, and a Trustee of Fair Hill estate. He died at his country residence, "Hawthorne", near West Chester, July 1, 1890. He married, May 18, 1830, Mary, daughter of George Pepper, of Philadelphia.

Issue of Isaac and Mary (Pepper) Norris :--

George Pepper Norris, b. July 9, 1831, d. March 7, 1865; A. M., Univ. Pa., 1850; M. D., 1858; practiced medicine in Wilmington, Del., where he died; m. Agnes Campbell, dau. of John Price, of Wilmington; had issue :

John Price Norris, b. Aug. 20, 1853, d. Sept. 14, 1865;

Isaac Norris, b. Mch. 29, 1856, d. Dec. 9, 1857;

George Pepper Norris Jr., b. Sept. 29, 1858;

Margaretta Price Norris, b. Sept. 8, 1861.

Isaac Norris, b. June 12, 1834; graduated at University of Pennsylvania, A. B. and M. D .; was Physician to Philadelphia Dispensary; Lincoln Institute and Church Home for Children; Prof. Chemistry, High School, Philadelphia, 1869-76; Fellow of College of Physicians, 1865; Secretary of same, 1885-88; member American Philosophical Society since 1873; member Academy of Natural Sciences since 1861; of Biological and Microscopical Society since 1872, and its Secretary and Treasurer; of Franklin Insti- tute since 1886; member Hist. Society Pennsylvania; Assistant Surgeon U. S. A., 1862-66, serving in military hospitals of Philadelphia; m. April 24, 1862, Clara Lamb; had issue :

Clara Norris, b. May 10, 1864;

Isaac Norris, b. Aug. 2, 1865; Ph. B. Yale; LL. B. Univ. Pa .; m. Harriet Sears, dau. of Caspar Crowinshield; she died Aug. 18, 1905; had issue :

Mary Lloyd Norris, b. Jan. 4, 1903.

Mary Pepper Norris, b. Oct. 7, 1837; m. April 30, 1857, Travis Cochran; have issue : Mary Norris Cochran, b. April 14, 1858;

John Travis Cochran, b. Dec. 24, 1859, d. Mch. 23, 1882;

Isaac Norris Cochran, b. Oct. 7, 1866, d. Jan. 17, 1890;

Elizabeth Travis Cochran, b. Dec. 3, 1870, died same day ; Fanny Travis Cochran, b. Dec. 9, 1876;

Joseph Parker Norris, b. Nov. 28, 1841, d. Jan. 15, 1842;

Henry Pepper Norris, b. May 18, 1843, d. Feb. 15, 1892; member of Philadelphia bar ; m. June 18, 1879, Bessie Ebbs; had issue :

Henry Pepper Norris Jr., b. July 18, 1881.

Joseph Parker Norris, b. Nov. 3, 1847; Attorney-at-Law ; author of "Portraits of Shakes- peare," etc .; m. March 10, 1870, Isabel Nevins, dau. of Joseph Reese Fry; have issue :

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Joseph Parker Norris, b. Feb. 9, 1871; m. Jan. 6, 1909, Mary Rawlings Brady, of Baltimore ; issue: Mary Rawlings Brady Norris, b. Dec. 11, 1909.

Cornelia Norris, b. Feb. 6, 1873, d. June 29, 1874;

Henry Norris, b. May 27, 1875; A. B. and M. D., Univ. Pa .; m. Aug. 3, 1898, Ethel Bowman, dau. of Charles Wheeler Esq .; have issue :

Susan Wheeler Norris, b. June 22, 1899;

Henry Norris Jr., b. Aug. 25, 1901;

Ethel Stuart Norris, b. Feb. 28, 1905;

John Ridgway Norris, b. Feb. 27, 1877 ;

Edith Norris, b. April 19, 1878; m. Jan. 18, 1905, Reginald Kearney Shober; had issue :

Edith Shober, b. May 25, 1906; d. Apr. 21, 1909.

Mary Bedford Shober, b. Aug. 15, 1908;

Mary Pepper Norris, b. Sept. 25, 1879; m. Jan. 27, 1908, Dr. Montgomery H. Biggs. Phillip Norris, b. Dec. 5, 1880, M. D. Univ. Pa., 1903;

Alice Isabel Norris, b. June 15, 1882;

William Pepper Norris, b. June 26, 1886.

William Pepper Norris, b. Feb. 9, 1852, d. Nov. 14, 1876; received degree of A. B. at Univ. Pa., 1871; m. June, 1876, Laura Camblos; had issue:

Charles Camblos Norris, M. D. (Univ. Pa., 1898).

GEORGE WASHINGTON NORRIS, twelfth child of Joseph Parker and Elizabeth Hill (Fox) Norris, born in Philadelphia, November 6, 1808; in 1824 entered the University of Pennsylvania, class of 1827, and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Entering the medical department of the same institution, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine, 1830. During the same year he was elected one of the resident physicians of the Pennsylvania Hospital. Upon the conclusion of his term of service, he studied medicine abroad for a few years, most of his time being spent in Paris. In 1836, at the age of twenty-eight years, he was elected one of the surgeons of Pennsylvania Hospital, a position which he held for over twenty years. In 1848, he was appointed Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, finally resigning in 1857, at which time he was elected Trustee of the University.

He was the author of a number of monographs, which were eventually pub- lished in one volume, entitled "Contributions to Practical Surgery"; and from time to time he wrote articles on historical subjects for the magazines, etc. His last literary work, "The Early History of Medicine in Philadelphia", left unfin- ished at the time of his death, was subsequently finished by his son. Dr. Norris rose to great eminence in his profession as a surgeon. Despite his diffidence and humility, he had a wide reputation as a consultant. His calm and excellent judg- ment was frequently called into requisition by his professional confreres and friends.

A memoir of Dr. Norris, by Dr. William Hunt, says of him, in part: "Dr. Norris was a man of truth. He never flattered and he never sneered. Well may we wish that not only we, but many more of his profession than those who hear us tonight, were such as he was."

In two respects Dr. Norris may be said to have anticipated the subsequent developments of modern surgery. Before the days of anaesthetics, he used before operations, in a measure to relieve the sufferings of his patients, a liberal admin- istration of alcohol and opium; and before the days of antiseptics, he used to rigorously insist upon the necessity of prolonged and frequent application of soap and water, and upon the use of new and unused bandages for each patient.

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In fact he was so punctilious in these matters that he was sometimes criticised as cranky on the subject.

Among the official positions held by Dr. Norris the following may be men- tioned: Vice-President of the College of Physicians ( 1864-75) ; President of the Board of Managers of the Children's Hospital; Consulting Surgeon to the same institution, and to the Orthopaedic Hospital; President of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; member of the American Philosophical Society, and of the Academy of Natural Sciences; Director of the Philadelphia Library Company, and of the Mutual Assurance Company, (Green Tree) ; of the Philadelphia Sav- ing Fund Society, and "a much consulted Trustee of the University of Penn- sylvania."

Dr. George W. Norris married, February 1, 1838, Mary Pleasants, daughter of William Wharton Fisher, of Philadelphia. He died March 4, 1875.

Issue of Dr. George W. and Mary P. (Fisher) Norris :-

WILLIAM FISHER NORRIS, b. Jan. 6, 1839, d. Nov. 18, 1901; m. (first) Rosa Clara Buch- mann, of whom presently ;

Mary Fisher Norris, b. July 7, 1841, d. May 27, 1894; m. James Parsons, Professor of Law of Personal Property at the Univ. Pa., Feb. 26, 1874; had issue :

Lewis Hines Parsons, b. April 30, 1876; banker, of Philadelphia; graduate (A. B.) of Harv. Univ .;

Mary Norris Parsons, b. June 18, 1881 ; m. Nov. 2, 1908, J. Ridgway Reilly.

WILLIAM FISHER NORRIS, M. D., only son of Dr. George W. and Mary P. (Fisher) Norris, born in Philadelphia, January 6, 1839, graduated from Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, "with high honors", class of 1857, receiving degree of Bachelor of Arts; two years later that of Master of Arts, and in 1861, that of Doctor of Medicine from the same institution. He became a resident physician of Pennsylvania Hospital, and after having served his term there, passed the examinations for surgeon in the U. S. A. During the greater part of the Civil War he was stationed in Washington, D. C., and after a short term of service was placed in charge of Douglas Hospital, a post which he held until his resig- nation from army in 1865; he having been brevetted Captain. While at Wash- ington, he inaugurated the custom of photographing wounds and pathological specimens for future records; he was practically the first, in this country, to photograph microscopic sections. The authorities at Washington were so im- pressed with the value of this means of recording case histories that a special bureau was established for this purpose. After leaving the army Dr. Norris went to Europe to study Ophthalmology, a branch of medical science at that time practically unknown in this country. He spent several years in Europe, most of his time being passed in Vienna. Here it was that, together with Professor Stricker, he published an epoch-making article "On the Inflammation of the Cornea."

On his return to this country Dr. Norris took up Ophthalmology as a specialty. In 1873 he was appointed Lecturer on this branch of medicine at University of Pennsylvania, and in 1876 was appointed to the newly established professorship of Clinical Ophthalmology. This chair was later made a full professorship and held by him until his death in 1901.

In 1872 he was appointed surgeon of the Wills Eye Hospital, a position he also held until 1901, at which time he was appointed consulting surgeon, "as a token of respect for his unremitting labor as Attending Surgeon."

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Conservatism and conscientiousness, rather than brilliancy or display, char- acterized the lectures and operations of Dr. Norris; the welfare of the patient being always the primary object in view. He was one of the founders of Uni- versity Hospital, (he, with Drs. Wood and Pepper, being the originators of the plan), and for many years was President of its Board of Managers. He was a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and for many years one of its Censors. In 1877 he was president of Pathological Society; from 1885 to 1889, president of the American Ophthalmological Society; a director of the Mutual Assurance Company ; a member of the Wistar Party, of the Academy of Natural Sciences, and the Philadelphia Zoological Society. He made many con- tributions to medical literature ; was senior author of "A Text Book of Ophthal- mology", and senior editor of "A System of the Diseases of the Eye." He died November 18, 1901.

Dr. William Fisher Norris married (first) July 14, 1873, Rosa Clara, of Vienna, daughter of Hieronymus Buchmann, who died November 1, 1897. Mar- ried (second) June 12, 1899, Annetta Culp, daughter of Col. George A. Earn- shaw, of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He and his first wife are buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery.

Issue of Dr. William F. and Rosa Clara (Buchmann) Norris :-

George William Norris, b. Jan. 1, 1875; graduated at the Univ. Pa., (B. A.) class of 1895, and from medical department of the same institution (M. D.) in 1899; is Associate in Medicine at the University; Assistant Physician at Philadelphia General, and the Uni- versity Hospitals. Fomerly Physician to Phipps Institute; Fellow of the College of Phy- sicians, Philadelphia ; Physician to Out-patient Dept. Penn. Hospital.

William Felix Norris, b. May 6, 1879; graduated at the Univ. Pa. (B. S.) class of 1901; received the degree of LL. B. from the same institution in 1904; was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in the same year, and is a practicing attorney in the city;

Lloyd Buchmann Norris, b. Jan. 19, 1881, d. March 30, 1885.

SHIPPEN FAMILY

Among those who, in the second part of the seventeenth century, left Eng- land for the New World, was Edward Shippen of Methley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. There is a family tradition, confirmed by a letter of Edward Shippen "of Lancaster", written in 1741, that the Shippens were settled at Hil- lam, a hamlet in the ancient parish of Monk Fryston, in Yorkshire, as early as the thirteenth century. There is nothing further known to prove this tradi- tion, and it may be true. In any case, at the dawn of the Reformation the Ship- pens were established at Hillam, in the parish of Monk Fryston.

In 1539 there is the entry, "Janet Shippen christened the XXIIth day" and, between that date and 1678, there are about forty Shippen entries, the latest of which are in 1622-3 and 1624-5. There were Shippens, however, in many of the villages adjacent to Monk Fryston, and to this day there is a farm-house called Shippen, in the parish of Barwick-in-Elmet, six or seven miles to the northwest of Monk Fryston. The word 'shippen' is in every-day use in agricul- tural Yorkshire, at the present time, and denotes a partly covered cattle-yard, and there are persons bearing the name Shippen still to be found in Leeds and the neigborhood.

Monk Fryston is in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and lies about thirteen miles southeast of Leeds and fifteen miles south of York. There William Ship- pen-the father of the emigrant-appears to have been born about the year 1600, but by some mischance his name is not to be found in the Monk Fryston registers. What is certain is that he migrated to Methley, a village about seven miles to the west of Monk Fryston, and that there, on July 16, 1626, he married Mary Nunnes or Nuns.

WILLIAM SHIPPEN, in his new home at Methley, became a man of local prominence, for in 1642, he was overseer of the poor, and in 1654, overseer of highways. He died in 1681 at Stockport in Cheshire, where he was living with his son William. His wife, Mary Nunnes, the daughter of John Nunnes, of a substantial yeoman family long established at Methley, was baptized at Meth- ley on October 11, 1592, and buried there May 26, 1672. William Shippen him- self spent his declining years with his son William, rector of Stockport, and died there in 1681. William and Mary (Nunnes) Shippen had six children, all born at Methley :-

Robert Shippen, bap. May 20, 1627; Mary Shippen, bap. June 24, 1629;

Ann Shippen, bap. Nov. 21, 1630;

Dorathe Shippen, bap. Feb. 9, 1631 ; William Shippen, bap. July 2, 1637;

Edward Shippen, bap. March 5, 1639.

Of these, Robert, Ann, and Dorathe died young at Methley, and Mary married, in 1663, William Chapman, of the neighboring town of Normanton. Of the two remaining children, William remained in England and Edward came to America.

WILLIAM SHIPPEN, baptized at Methley July 2, 1637 ; studied and graduated

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at University College, Oxford, receiving his B. A. in 1656 and his M. A. in 1659. He was afterward Proctor of the University, 1664; Rector of Stockport in Ches- hire; and was the author of "The Christian's Triumph over Death," a sermon preached at the funeral of Richard Leigh, Esq. He died in 1693, and was buried under the chancel of the church. Rev. William Shippen had four sons and one daughter :-

Edward Shippen, b. 1671, M. A. and M. D., Brasenose College, Oxford, subsequently suc- ceeded his brother Robert as Professor of Music at Gresham College. Was a physi- cian ; supposedly m. Frances, dau. of Peter Leigh, of Lynne ;

William Shippen, b. 1673 and d. 1743; was bur. in St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, Lon- don. Educated at Westminster and Brasenose College, Oxford, he was called to the Bar from the Middle Temple in 1693. He sat in five parliaments from 1716 to his death in 1743, and was the incorruptible leader of the Jacobites. In his speeches he spoke his mind clearly and fearlessly, and to such purpose that on one occasion, for reflecting on the policy of the King, he was confined to the Tower of London. It was of him that Pope wrote,-

"I love to pour out all myself, as plain As downright Shippen, or as old Montaigne."

Lord Dover, in his edition of the letters of Sir Horace Walpole, brother of Sir Rob- ert Walpole, says of Shippen,-

"'Honest Will Shippen,' as he was called, or 'Downright Shippen,' as Pope terms him, was a zealous Jacobite member of Parliament, possessed of considerable talents, and a vehement opposer of Sir Robert Walpole's government. He, however, did justice to that able Minister, for he was accustomed to say, 'Robin and I are honest men; but as for those fellows in long perriwigs,' (meaning the Tories of the day) 'they only want to get into office themselves.' He was the author of a satirical poem entitled 'Faction Displayed,' which possesses considerable merit."

Sir Robert Walpole said of Shippen, "Some are corrupt, but I will tell you of one who is not; Shippen is not."

On one occasion the Prince of Wales, to show his satisfaction with a speech of Shippen, sent the sturdy Jacobite leader, by General Churchhill, Groom of the Bed- chamber, a thousand pounds sterling, which Shippen refused.

Shippen's character and conduct are well illustrated in the report of the proceedings in Parliament, when he was sent to the Tower.

"In this speech, Mr. Shippen overshot himself so far in his expressions, as to give too much advantage against him, to such as perhaps were not over-backward to lay hold of it: His words that gave the offence were to the following purpose, 'That the second paragraph of the King's speech seemed rather to be calculated for the meridian of Germany, than Great Britain; and that 'twas a great misfortune, that the King was a Stranger to our language and constitution.' These expressions gave offence to sev- eral members, and in particular to Mr. Lechmere, who having taken them down in writing, urged, 'That those words were a scandalous invective against the King's per- son and government, of which the house ought to shew the highest resentment, and therefore moved, That the member who spoke those offensive words should be sent to the Tower.' Mr. Lechmere was seconded by Mr. Cowper, brother of the Lord Chan- cellor, and back'd by Sir Joseph Jekyll, and some others: Upon which Mr. Robert Wal- pole said, 'That if the words in question were spoken by the member on whom they were charged, the Tower was too light a punishment for his rashness; but as what he had said in the heat of his debate might have been misunderstood, he was for allowing him the liberty of explaining himself.' Mr. Snell, Mr. Hutchinson, and some other gentlemen, spoke also in behalf of Mr. Shippen, intending, chiefly, to give him an op- portunity of retracting or excusing what he had said; which Mr. Shippen not thinking proper to do, several speeches were made upon the question, Whether the words taken down in writing were the same as he had spoken? A gentleman having suggested, That there was no precedent of a censure passed on a member of the house, for words spoken in a Committee, Sir Charles Hotham produced instances of the contrary; and. on the other hand, Mr. Shippen having maintained what he had advanced, it was, at last, resolved by a majority of 196 votes against about 100, That the words taken down in writing were spoken by Mr. Shippen. It was then about nine o'clock in the even- ing, and it being moved and carried, That the Chairman leave the chair; Mr. Speaker resumed his place, and Mr. Farrer reported from the said Committee, 'That exceptions having been taken to some words spoken in the Committee, by William Shippen, Esq .. a member of the house, the Committee, had directed him to report the words to the house.' Which being done accordingly, and candles ordered to be brought in, Mr. Shippen was heard in his place, and then withdrew. After this it was moved, that the question might be put, 'That the words spoken by William Shippen, Esq., (a member of this house) are highly dishonorable to, and unjustly reflecting on his Majesty's per- 7

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son and government.' Which occasioned a debate that lasted 'till past II o'clock; when the question being put, was carried in the affirmative by 175 voices against 81; and thereupon ordered, 'That William Shippen, Esq., be, for the said offence, committed prisoner to his Majesty's Tower of London, and that Mr. Speaker do issue his warrant accordingly.' "

Of a speech by Shippen in the Commons (1720) the Countess of Cowper writes in her diary,-

"Shippen upbraided Walpole terribly in Debate with having chid the Committee of Supply for fear of such an indiscreet method as this to raise Money, and now with moving and helping the Court to it in this manner. He spoke long, and very well-the better for being in the Right."

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Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs, Vol. I, Part 13

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed; Jordan, Wilfred, b. 1884, ed Publication date: 1911 Publisher: New York, NY : Lewis Historical Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 710

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed; Jordan, Wilfred, b. 1884, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, NY : Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 710