Donathan Shipp
Campbellsville
Record for acquisition of land
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Richard Shipp was born April 15, 1768 in Culpepper Co., Virginia. His father, Richard Shipp, served in the American Revolutionary War. His mother was Isabella (Isabel) Martin.
When Richard was sixteen years old, he left Virginia for Kentucky with his m
Hij is getrouwd met Mary Copeland.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 26 november 1788 te Mercer, Kentucky, United States, hij was toen 20 jaar oud.Bron 1
Zij zijn getrouwd op 2 december 1788 te Mercer, Kentucky, United States, hij was toen 20 jaar oud.Bron 1Kind(eren):
Richard Shipp was born April 15, 1768 in Culpepper Co., Virginia. His father, Richard Shipp, served in the American Revolutionary War. His mother was Isabella (Isabel) Martin.
When Richard was sixteen years old, he left Virginia for Kentucky with his mother and three brothers, passing down the Ohio River in a flat-bottom boat in company with three or four other families. Two or three times he narrowly escaped being killed by Indians. They landed at the falls of the Ohio River where Louisville now stands. There was only one house in the place and that was a cabin. The immigrants were living in tents, and shanties, and were very much afflicted with chills, and ague [an attack of fever].
The family went to Green County, Kentucky and stayed close together on farms north of present-day Campbellsville and near the village of Salome.
His occupation was clearing ground, making rails, cultivating the soil, and contending with the Indians. He saw many a family lying in their blood with their scalps taken off.
In 1788 he was married in Mercer Co., Kentucky to Mary Copeland with whom he lived forty seven years, when they were separated by his death. The Almighty spared his life to see his family of seven sons and four daughters all grown. For about fifteen years after his marriage, he lived a very "profligate" [wasteful and somewhate reckless] life. He had a dancing school kept at his house, kept a tavern, sold whisky, had a ball alley, and a race track, but in the midst of all this wickedness and frivolity he was arrested by the spirit of God under the labors of a Baptist minister by the name of Mulky. The morning after his conversion, he cut down his tavern sign, and ball alley, and commenced laboring in the cause of his Master in earnest. He was a deacon in the Baptist Church for forty five years. He died a member of the Methodist Church. While he was a minister, the family had the advantage of pious instructions, and of hearing the voice of prayer and praise ascending from the family altar every morning and evening.
Richard owned a large farm which abounded with berries, broomsage, [persimmins], and sassafras sprouts. About one month was taken up in cutting and taking up the sprouts every spring, and then all march to the tune of ten bushels of corn to the acre.
He was a bitter opposer of slavery, and frequently talked to the slave holders about the great sin they were committing in holding their fellowmen in bondage. His words were little regarded at that time, in as much as no person could be highly esteemed unless there were slaves in the family. So, he resolved to move to a free 6 state. Indiana was then considered the far West, and was rapidly settling up with immigrants from Kentucky.
In the year 1823 he moved with his family to Blue River Township, Johnson Co., Indiana from Taylor Co., Kentucky. They settled in the Jollity neighborhood, where they helped organize the Jollity Methodist Church. He appeared to be anxious to get land for all his children near his own residence so that he could enjoy the society of his children as long as he lived. This he succeeded in doing, as he thought then, but in this he was mistaken for in a short time they all began to sell out and in a few years they were scattered in all directions.
Richard died June 4, 1836, in Edinburg, Johnson County, Indiana.
Richard's wife, Mary Copeland, was born April 12, 1770, in Orange County, North Carolina. She was the daughter of James Copeland and Martha Johnson. In 1780, when she was ten years old, she stood on the bank of the Yadkin River in North Carolina and saw General Lord Cornwallis and the British Army which was encamped near her father's home. Mary came with her family to Mercer County, Kentucky in 1786. She married Richard Shipp December 2, 1788 in Mercer County, Kentucky. She died September 13, 1853 in Edinburg, Johnson Co., Indiana at age 87 years. Mary Copeland is buried beside her husband in the Broekman Cemetery, Shelby County, Indiana.
Source: Ancestors of Carl Bingham Shipp and Annie May Newton by Jane Shipp Hogan (1995).
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Headstone on Grave of Mary Copeland/ FamilySearch