Edward Shipman, Jr.

One of the Saybrook Legatees of Sachem Joshua of the Nantic tribe.

Hebron Historical Society, in February 1676, three months before his death, he signed over large tracts of his tribal lands to the colonists. His “Last Will and Testament” is quoted as having begun: “I Joshua Sachim Son of Uncau Sachim Living nigh Eightmile Island on the River of Connecticut and within Bounds of Lyme being Sick of Body but of good and perfect memory and not knowing how soon I may depart this Life…” Another paragraph of the will grants 3,000 acres each to Francis Busnell son, Edward Shipman Son, and John Westall. The text that follows describes the land to be sold in extremely complicated ways with reference to place names that the English were unfamiliar with. But in the end, the Connecticut government, examining the terms of the will, concluded that Joshua had ceded all of the land that today comprises the town of Hebron to a group of men later referred to as the “Saybrook Legatees”, namely John Talcott, John Pratt, John Chapman, Abraham Post, and Edward Shipman. cxxvi

However, even this land title is said to have been contested. As Pfeiffer reports, two competing land documents relating to Lyme exist, and one local family uses Joshua, another family a Nehantic Sannup document for their legal claims.cxxvi

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