Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Richard LIPPINCOTT
"QUAKER BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES of Ministers and Elders, and other
concerned members of the Yearly Meeting of Philadelphia" [1682-1800]
Edited by Willard Heiss (Indianapolis: 1972) Page 85-86
"RICHARD LIPPINCOTT. Richard Lippincott, originally of
Devonshire,
England, was one of the early settlers in Massachusetts, and we find
him in the Second month, 1640, residing in Dorchester, near Boston."
[the article goes on for a page and a half - there is copy of same
in file] The last six paragraphs are as follows: "To return to Richard
Lippincott. Early in the year 1653, he went back to England to reside,
taking with him his wife, whose name was Abigail, and two children.
Their first child he had named, after the practice of the Puritans,
Remembrance, in the recollection of the liberty he had enjoyed on his
first arrival in the western world. His second son was John, which
means the "gift" or "grace of the Lord." His third son, was born
soon after his arrival in England, he called Restore, being once more
restored to the land of his forefathers. He settled near Plymouth, and
was soon convinced of the truth of the doctrine, which George Fox was
sent forth to proclaim afresh to a formal, priest-ridden people.
In the year 1655, he was imprisoned for this faithfulness to the
testimony of Truth, and being soon released, he named his fourth son,
born after, Freedom. His next child was a daughter, and in token of
the enlargement of his family, he called her Increase. His sixth
child was born in 1660, and was named Jacob. Towards the close of
that year, he was imprisoned in Exeter, for having attended a meeting
of Friends in that city.
A year or two after this, he returned to America with his family,
and
settled in Rhode Island, where, in 1663, another daughter being added
to the family circle, he, in commemoration of the saving protecting
mercy which had watched over him in his varied trials and persecutions,
called her Preserved.
The English having taken possession of "New Amsterdam" and the
territories thereunto belonging, Charles the Second granted by charter
all the lands from the Delaware river to the Connecticut, to his
brother, the Duke of York. In 1665, a number of Friends of Long
Island,
having first bought of the Indiana Sachems a large portion of land in
what is now called New Jersey, lying between the Raritan river and the
ocean, applied for, and obtained a patent therefor, of Nichols,
governor
under the Duke. When a settlement began to be made on this tract,
Richard Lippincott was induced to remove thither, where he soon
became one of the largest proprietors."
Here Richard Lippincott lived an active, useful life, surrounded
by a
family of children who bid fair to follow his example, performing
their religious, as well as social duties with alacrity. He was a
useful member of the religious Society of Friends, and so were several
of his children, as we shall have occasion hereafter to show.
His death took place on the 25th of the Ninth month, 1683.
[Volume28 Page 388]
Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Volumes I-III
Samuel Babcock Crowell
Richard Lippincott was a son of Anthony Lippincott, of county Devon, England, and a descendant in the twelfth generation from Robert de Lughencott, who in the reign of Henry III held the Manor of Hughecott, Devonshire. He was admitted a freeman of Dorchester, Massachusetts, May 13, 1640, and was a member of the church there April 1, 1644, when his second son John was baptised at the First Church of Boston. He does not seem to have been in accord with the rigid creed of the Puritan church, and was, for some discrepancy of faith, as viewed by the elders of the church, excluded from communion in July, 1651, and soon after that date returned to England, where he became a member of the Society of Friends. In 1655 he was arrested with other Friends at Plymouth, Devonshire, and confined for a time in the castle at Exeter. He was again arrested in Plymouth in 1660 and was released at the solicitation of Margaret Fell, who later became the wife of George Fox. In 1661 or 1662 he again sailed for America and founded an asylum from religious persecution in Rhode Island, where in 1664 he joined in the formation at Newport for securing title from the Indians and the Dutch authorities at New York to a large tract of land in New Jersey, and was the largest contributor of funds for that purpose. The purchase of the land from the Indian sachem Popona was consummated April 3, 1665, and the title confirmed the following day by patent from Governor Richard Nichols, of New York. By the terms of this patent the settlers were to have "free liberty of conscience, without any molestation or disturbance whatever, in their way of worship." Richard Lippincott settled at Shrewsbury, Monmouth county, and was a representative in the first Provincial Assembly of the Province organized in 1667, and again in 1668. He was made one of the judges of the first court, in 1670; was again in the Assembly in 1677; and was coroner of Monmouth county, 1681-83. He was one of the founders of Shrewsbury Friends Meeting, and prominent in all the concerns of the pioneer settlement in East Jersey. He died at Shrewsbury, November 26, 1683. He and his wife Abigail had eight children, two born at Dorchester, and one at Boston, Massachusetts, four at Plymouth, England, and one in Rhode Island.
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