"Freedom Lippincott, fourth child of Richard, described as a tanner, lived by Rancocas creek, where the king's highway crossed the same, about where Bridgeboro now stands. Having sold his Salem land, he located two hundred and eighty-eight acres in 1687, whereon he settled. To the trade of a tanner he probably added that of a smith, and could shoe a horse or "upset" the axes of his neighbors with some skill. However that may have been, we find that, in the summer of 1697, while shoeing a horse, he was killed by lightning. His widow and five children survived him, the oldest being but thirteen years of age. The children's names were Samuel, who married Hope Wills; Thomas, who married Mary Haines; Judith, who married Joseph Stokes; Mary, who married Edward Peake; and Freedom, who married Elizabeth Wills." [1]
"Freedom Lippincott located several tracts of land on Penisaukin creek, married Mary Wills [sic, Mary Custin], and lived at the ferry on Ancocas creek where the public highway was marked out in 1682-3 from Burlington to Salem, and had the following named children : Samuel, Thomas, (who married Mary Haines,) Judith, (who married Joseph Stokes,) Mary and Freedom [who married Elizabeth Wills]." [2]
1680 On 2 of month 7, Mary Costoms and Freedom Lippincott, shoemaker of Shrewsbury, declared their intention to marry at the Burlington monthly meeting. [3] [4] [5]
1680 On 14 of month 8, Mary Custon of Burlington married Freedom Lippincott, of Shrewsbury, at Burlington. [6] [7] [8]
1697 Freedom Lippincott died. [9]
1697 On June 15, the intestate account of Freedom Lippincott, of Wellingburrow, Burlington County, was settled. Inventory of the estate of (£188.15.6); made by Thomas Eves. John Hollinshead junior, John Test and Henry Grubb. [10]
1697 June 16. Bond of Restore Lippincott of Burlington Co., yeoman, as administrator. Henry Grubb and Samuel Furnis fellow bondsmen. [11]
Research Notes:
The wife of Freedom Lippincott, Mary, has been named Mary Curtis by some researchers. [12] [13]
The name of the spouse of Freedom Lippincott is uncertain.
1681 Freedom Lippincott married Mary Austin, Mary Custin, or Mary Costoms, at Burlington meeting, based on different reports in Quaker indices. [14] [15] [16]
"Thomas Lippincott, [was] a son of Freedom and Mary (Curtis) Lippincott. Freedom was a son of Richard and Abigail Lippincott." [17]
"... Joseph and Judith (Lippincott) Stokes, who were married August 8, 1710; the latter being a daughter of Freedom and Mary (Curtis) Lippincott, and a granddaughter of Richard and Abigail Lippincott" [18]
Freedom Lippincott was born on 1 Sept 1655 at Plymouth, England. Freedom Lippincott died at Wellingborough, Burlington County, New Jersey. Letters of administration to brother Restore Lippincott dated 15 June 1697. [19]
[1] John Clement, Sketches of the first emigrant settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey (Camden, NJ: Sinnickson Chew, 1877), 383, of 383-84, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
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[3] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1678-1737, 5, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[4] U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1678-1737, 5, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[5] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 1 (1994), 48.
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[7] Richard Haines, George Haines, Charles Stokes. Genealogy of the Stokes Family (1903), 12, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
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[9] Major E. M. Woodward and John Hageman, History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1883), 222, right column, [HathiTrust].
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[12] Richard Haines, Ancestry of the Haines, Sharp, Collins, Wills, Gardiner, Prickett, Eves, Evans, Moore, Troth, Borton, and Engle Families (1902), 290, 306, Reports Curtis, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[13] George DeCou, Burlington: A Provincial Capital (1945), 198, Reports Curtis, [GoogleBooks].
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[15] U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1678-1737, 5, reports Costoms, [AncestryImage].
[16] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1678-1737, 5, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[17] Francis Bazley Lee, ed., Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1910), 538, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[18] John W. Jordan, Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Vol. 1 (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), 450, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[19] John W. Jordan, Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Vol. 2 (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), 1009, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].