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Joseph Shippen

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Richard Byrd — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 158 
  • Father:
  • Edward Shippen 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Lybrand   
  • Birth Date:
  • 28 Feb 1679 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1741 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Germantown, Pennsylvania 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Abigail Grosse
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Jul 1702 
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  Edward Shippen

  Anne Shippen (Ahnentafel No:79 )

• Sources for Joseph Shippen

  • ¹ The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1900, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 258-259.
  • ² Harvey, Oscar Jewell, A History of Wilkes-Barré, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania: From Its First Beginnings to the Present Time . . ., Volume 1, Wilkes-Barré, Pennsylvania: Oscar J. Harvey (1909), 360.
  • ³ Horle, Craig W., et. al., Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania, Volume 2, Part 1, 1710-1756, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (1997), 666.
  • ⁴ Wikipedia, "Charles Willing", (accessed 09/09/2014).