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Freedom Lippincott, Sr.

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Stonehouse, Devon, England
Death: June 15, 1697 (41)
Willingboro Township, Burlington County, Province of West Jersey, Colonial America (Killed by lightning)
Place of Burial: Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Richard Lippincott and ‘Goody’ Abigail Lippincott
Husband of Mary Lippincott
Father of Samuel Lippincott; Thomas Lippincott; Judith Stokes (Lippincott); Mary Peake and Freedom Lippincott, Jr.
Brother of Remembrance Lippincott; John Lippincott; Abigail Lippincott; Restore Lippincott; Increase Dennis and 3 others

Occupation: tanner of hides and blacksmith.
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About Freedom Lippincott, Sr.

Common Ancestor With George W. Bush. 10 gens from both of us, 9th cousin.


Biography

From https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101832139/freedom-lippincott

Freedom Lippincott

  • Birth: Sep. 1, 1655 Stonehouse Devon, England
  • Death: 1697 Shrewsbury Monmouth County New Jersey, USA

Freedom Lippincott was the fourth son born to the English emigrant, Richard Lippincott and his wife, Abigail (maiden name not substantiated). Richard had previously emigrated to the new world and been made a "Freeman" of the Massachusetts Bay colony by the General Court of Boston in May of 1640. The family resided in the nearby Dorchester settlement but returned in 1652 to Stone House, Plymouth, Devonshire, England after Richard was excommunicated from the church. In England he became a follower of the Society of Friends and was there jailed for religious dissent. It was soon after Richard's release from this persecution that Freedom was born and possibly named in commemoration thereof. The growing family again immigrated to the new world, perhaps in 1663 to live in the tolerant colony of Rhode Island led by the Baptist founder Roger Williams. Here the family prospered and in 1665 joined with other patentees to start the first English colony in New Jersey.

The family resided on Passequeneiqua Creek, a branch of the South Shrewsbury River, about a mile and a half from the town of Shrewsbury, in what was to become Monmouth County. Freedom grew to manhood and was joined in marriage to Mary Custance on October 14, 1680.

Freedom and Mary had the folowing five children:

  1. Samuel – 1684 - m. Hope Wills
  2. Thomas – 1686 – m. Mary Haines
  3. Judith – 1689 - m. Joseph Stokes
  4. Mary - 1691 – m. Edward Peake
  5. Freedom – 1693 - m. Elizabeth Wills

Freedom earned his living as a tanner of hides and was a blacksmith. He was an active member of the Burlington Society of Friends. Freedom and Mary lived by the Rancocas Creek, where the King's Highway crossed it, just about where Bridgeboro now stands. In the summer of 1697 he was struck and killed by lightening while shoeing a horse. Like so many other resting places of the very early colonists, the marker for this person's mortal remains has been lost or decayed away after almost three centuries of time and weather.

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Parents:

  • Richard Lippincott (1613 - 1683)
  • Abigail Goody Lippincott (1621 - 1697)

Spouse:

  • Mary Custance Lippincott (1660 - 1695)*

Burial: Lippincott Family Burying Ground (Shrewsbury) Monmouth County New Jersey, USA

Created by: Jerry L. Lippincott Record added: Dec 06, 2012 Find A Grave Memorial# 101832139

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Freedom Lippincott, Sr.'s Timeline

1655
September 1, 1655
Stonehouse, Devon, England
1684
December 24, 1684
Evesham Township, Burlington, New Jersey, United States
1686
December 28, 1686
Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co., New Jersey, Colonial America
1689
October 22, 1689
Evesham Township, Burlington, New Jersey, United States
1691
September 29, 1691
Burlington County, Province of West Jersey
1693
February 6, 1693
Evesham, Burlington County, Province of West Jersey
1697
June 15, 1697
Age 41
Willingboro Township, Burlington County, Province of West Jersey, Colonial America
June 15, 1697
Age 41
Lippincott Family Burying Ground, Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States
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Stonehouse, Devon, England