Edward Shippen (1639,
Methley
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,
West Yorkshire
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, England – October 2, 1712,
Philadelphia
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,
Pennsylvania
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) was the second
mayor of Philadelphia
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as stipulated by the Charter of the City of Philadelphia. The current mayor of Philadelphia is Jim Kenney.
History
The first mayor of Philadelphia, ...
, although under
William Penn
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's charter of 1701, he was considered the first.
Early life
Edward was born in
Methley
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to his parents, William and Mary, whom were married there on July 16, 1626. Shippen's father was settled in the village of his birth,
Monk Fryston
Monk Fryston is a small village and civil parish in the Selby (district), Selby district of North Yorkshire, England.
The village was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974.
History and overview
The ''Dictionary of Briti ...
, before he migrated to Methley. Monk Fryston is closely linked to the village of
Hillam, which was where the Shippen family had hailed from, possibly as early as the thirteenth century according to family tradition.
Political and legal career
Shippen was appointed to a one-year term by
William Penn
William Penn ( – ) was an English writer and religious thinker belonging to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, a North American colony of England. He was an early advocate of democracy a ...
in 1701. In 1702, he was elected to a second one-year term, making him the first elected mayor of Philadelphia. He was also a leader of the
Province of Pennsylvania
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, and served as
Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
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in 1699. He also served as the chief executive for the Province of Pennsylvania as the President of the Provincial Council between 1703 and 1704.
[Armor, William C., Lives of the Governors of Pennsylvania, With the Incidental History of the State, from 1609 to 1872, Philadelphia, J.K. Simon (1873)]
Shippen first lived in Boston, where, according to family oral history, he wa
whipped for being a Quakerbefore being invited by William Penn to move his merchant business to the new city of Philadelphia.
After the sudden death of Deputy Governor
Andrew Hamilton in 1703, Shippen, by virtue of being the president of the Provincial Council, became the chief executive of the Province of Pennsylvania. It was during his term that the
Lower Three Counties (modern day
Delaware
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) elected their own Assembly and acted in their own interests. These counties, however, remained under the Penn Proprietorship and their appointed Deputy Governors until 1776 when Delaware became an independent state.
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Personal life
He married Elizabeth Lybrand, a Quaker, in 1671 and became a member of that sect. She died in Boston in 1688. Shippen married, secondly, at Newport, R. I., on September 4, 1689, Rebecca, widow of Francis Richardson, of New York, and daughter of John Howard, of Yorkshire, England. She died in Philadelphia on February 26, 1704, or 1705. He then married at Philadelphia in 1706, Esther, widow of Philip James, and daughter of John Wilcox. She died on August 7, 1724.
Shippen had multiple children with his wives, with many dying at a young age. His children are as follows; Frances (b.1672-d.1673), Edward (b.1674-d.1674), William (b.1675-d.1676), Eliza (b.1676-d.infant), Edward (b.1677-d.1714), Joseph (b.1678-d.1741), Mary (b.1681-d.1688), Anne (b.1684-d.1712), Elizabeth (b.1691-d.?), John (b.? - d.infant), and William (b. ? - d.1731).
One of Shippen's grandsons was Continental Congress
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man William Shippen. A granddaughter was the wife of Philadelphia Mayor Charles Willing
Charles Willing (May 18, 1710 – November 30, 1754) was a Philadelphia merchant, trader and politician; twice he served as Mayor of Philadelphia, from 1748 until 1749 and again in 1754.
Early life
Charles Willing was born in Bristol, Engla ...
, whose daughter was Mary Willing Byrd
Mary Willing Byrd (September 10, 1740 – March 1814) was an American planter.
She was the second wife of Colonel William Byrd III, a Colonial American military officer at the time of the American Revolution and son of the founder of Richmond, Vir ...
. Another grandson, Edward Shippen III
Edward Shippen III (July 9, 1703 – September 25, 1781) was an American merchant and mayor of Philadelphia.
Biography
He was born on July 9, 1703, in Boston.
Shippen entered into mercantile pursuits with James Logan, with whom he was in busi ...
, was also a mayor of Philadelphia. Shippen's great-great-granddaughter was Peggy Shippen
Margaret "Peggy" Shippen (July 11, 1760 – August 24, 1804) was the highest-paid spy in the American Revolution, and was the second wife of General Benedict Arnold.
Shippen was born into a prominent Philadelphia family with Loyalist tendencies. ...
, wife of Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold ( Brandt (1994), p. 4June 14, 1801) was an American military officer who served during the Revolutionary War. He fought with distinction for the American Continental Army and rose to the rank of major general before defect ...
.
See also
* List of colonial governors of Pennsylvania
This is a list of colonial governors of Pennsylvania.
Proprietors
Three generations of Penns acted as proprietors of the Province of Pennsylvania and the Lower Counties (Delaware) from the founding of the colony until the American Revolution remov ...
* Philadelphia history
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and timeline
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References
External links
Biography from ''Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania'', Vol. One, 1682–1709, pp. 666–669
Biography at Virtualology.com
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1639 births
1712 deaths
People from Cheshire
English emigrants
Colonial American merchants
People of colonial Pennsylvania
People from colonial Boston
Mayors of Philadelphia
Members of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly
Members of the Pennsylvania Provincial Council
Edward Shippen
Edward Shippen (1639, Methley, West Yorkshire, England – October 2, 1712, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was the second mayor of Philadelphia, although under William Penn's charter of 1701, he was considered the first.
Early life
Edward was bor ...