Hon. Henry Shippen and Elizabeth Wallis Evans

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Husband Hon. Henry Shippen ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 28 Dec 1788 - Lancaster, Lancaster Co, PA 2 3
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           Died: 2 Mar 1839 1 4
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         Father: Hon. Joseph Shippen (1732-1810) 5 6
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       Marriage: 1 May 1817 3 4

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Wife Elizabeth Wallis Evans ^{1 2 3}

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           Born:  - Northumberland, PA
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         Father: Evan Rice Evans (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Grace Wallis (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 F Frances Shippen ⁷

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           Died: Aft 1885
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         Spouse: Edgar Huidekoper (1812-1862) 8
           Marr: 28 Jun 1838 7

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2 M Edward Shippen ⁶

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           Died: Aft 1885
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3 M Evans W. Shippen ^{6 9}

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           Born: 16 Mar 1824 - Huntingdon, Huntingdon Co, PA 6
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           Died: Aft 1885
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         Spouse: Catharine Y. McElwee (      -      ) 6 9
           Marr: 1851 6 9

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4 M Rev. R. R. Shippen ⁶

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5 M Joseph Shippen ⁶

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. Henry Shippen

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He raised a company, in which were James Buchannan and Jasper Slaymaker, and marched to Baltimore in 1814. He read law with the late James Hopkins, and was admitted to the bar in 1811. He removed to Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, after he married. Governor Andrew Shulze appointed him judge of the Crawford County District.

He was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he read law and was admitted to the bar. He had graduated from Dickinson College in 1808, and was a captain in the War of 1812. He built up a successful practice at Lancaster, afterwards removing to Huntington, where he followed his profession until 1825, when he was appointed president judge of the district composed of Crawford, Erie, Venango and Mercer Counties. He presided over the courts of this district until his death.

In the War of 1812 he organized a company of volunteer cavalry, in which James Buchanan, afterward President of the United States, was a private. Mr. Shippen was made captain and ordered on duty September 5, 1812, by Governor Simon Snyder, afterward first aide-de-camp to Major General Nathaniel Watson, commanding Pennsylvania Volunteers at Baltimore, September 16, 1814. (See volume XII of the Roll of Pennsylvania Volunteers in the war of 1812-14, page 18.)
In 1817 he married and in 1819 he moved to Huntingdon, where he practiced law and became a member of the legislature. In 1825 he was appointed president judge of the sixth judicial district of Pennsylvania, then comprising the counties of Crawford, Erie, Warren, Venango and Mercer. He moved to Meadville in 1825, where he lived and served the district until his death. It is said that he never had but one decision reversed by the higher court during all his years of service.[HCC 1899, 708]

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General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Wallis Evans

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She was a grand-daughter of John Lukens, the first Surveyor-General of Pennsylvania.

1 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 766.

2 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 306, 768.

3 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 708.

4 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 306.

5 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 362,766.

6 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 768.

7 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 745.

8 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 306, 745.

9 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 709.