Joseph Shinn

In the burying ground attached to St. Andrew's Cathedral, Mt.Holly, a tomb stone rears its modest head, and from whose time-worn and weather-beaten face these words have been deciphered: "Joseph Shinn. Died Feb. 11, 1759. Aged 56 years." This enables us to say that Joseph Shinn, son of James and Abigail (Lippincott) Shinn, was born in 1702 (O. S.,) and 1703 (N. S.). He was probably the oldest son, and the third child, Hannah and Hope, his sisters, being older than he. History is silent as to his early life, and the first authentic record of the man is found in the minutes of Burlington Monthly Meeting for the 2d of the 11th month, 1726, when it was recorded. "The over seers gave an account that Joseph Shinn, son of James Shinn, hath married a wife that is not of our profession." And at the meeting on the 5th of the 4th month he was disowned there for. Thus ends, so far as Quaker records are concerned, all evidence concerning Joseph Shinn, for he never thereafter returned to the religion of his birth. We might be at a loss to determine the maiden name of his wife but for the fact that a very perfect genealogy of her family has been preserved, from which we learn that in 1726 Joseph Shinn married Mary, daughter of William and Eliza(Stockton) Budd. The genealogy of the Budd family, referred to above, was prepared in 1774 by a William Bradford, a descendant of the family, and who afterwards became Attorney General of the United States. At Bradford's death it passed to his nephew, John B. Wallace, whose son gave it, in 1880, to Charles R. Hildeburn, who presented it to the Pennsylvania Historical Society, in whose library it now rests. The writer has a wide acquaintance with libraries in Europe and the United States, but is nowhere so comfortable as in the library of the Pennsylvania Historical Society. Its whole atmosphere is conducive of thought and eminently favorable to meditation and investigation. From the time-worn genealogical manuscript of the distinguished jurist I gleaned the following facts, which I here present, divesting them of the graphical method of presentation which makes the original so interesting and valuable.

William Bradford's maternal grandfather's father, William1 Budd, married Ann Clapgert. Son of William Bradford's maternal grandfather's father, William Budd, married Eliza Stockton, daughter of Richard.

1This man and his brother Thomas owned the lands on the East, North and West of Hampton-Hanover (Pemberton) for miles in each direction.

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Wife: Mary (Budd) Shinn 1704- _________ ??* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Dec 14 2021, 6:37:20 UTC