Lemuel Shipp

Lemuel Shipp was born in Caroline County circa 1760. He served in the Revolutionary Army with General Nelson's Corps, Light Dragoons.Lemuel Shipp married in King George County by 1783 Lucretia ("Lucy") Doniphan, daughter of Anderson Doniphan, Gentleman, and Magdalin Monteith, his wife. Lemuel Shipp died without issue in Caroline County and his will was admitted to probate before the June 1788 Court withThomas Slaughter as executor. A full copy of his will has been published, which was dated 13 April 1787. After the death of his wife he bequeathed four negroes to "my brother Richard Ship's four daughters namely Mary Ship, Betsey D. Ship, Narcissa Ship and Sopha Ship" and to his will appointed his wife executrix and Mr. Jonathan Finnall executor.Mrs. Lucy (Doniphan) Shipp Slaughter died circa 1804.

There arose concerning the property bequeathed the residuary legatees by Lemuel Shipp a suit in chancery most of which has been published from the original papers filed with the Caroline County Chancery Causes in the Archives Division of the Virginia State Library. It is shown that Thomas Slaughter, the executor of Lemuel Shipp, shortly after his death married his widow Lucy (Doniphan) Shipp, He was then a widower with children of marriageable age, and it would seem absorbed considerable of the Shipp estate.

Filed with these chancery papers is the deposition of Mr. Anderson Doniphan, of Stafford County, aged about 25 years, taken 1 September 1789 in which he says that in 1787 Mr. Richard Shipp came to the County of King George and informed the deponent the sheriff of Caroline had distrained a desk the property of Lemuel Shipp, deceased, and that he the said Shipp had come over to get the taxes from Mrs. Shipp, the relict of the aforesaid Lemuel Shipp . . . and after the aforesaid conversation the deponent went in company with the said Richard Shipp to Mr. Finnalls in Stafford County, where Mrs. Shipp had gone and the deponent saw Mrs.Shipp, later Mrs. Slaughter, pay the said Shipp a piece of gold. The deponent, Anderson Doniphan, was a first cousin of Mrs. Lemuel Shipp, who after the death of her husband seems to have gone on an extended visit to her step-father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Finnall, in Stafford County Virginia.

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