Edward Shippen IV

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Edward Shippen (February 16, 1729 - April 15, 1806) is a lawyer, judge, government official, and prominent figure in post-revolution Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania.

Shippen was born in Philadelphia, son of merchant Edward Shippen III. He studied law from Tench Francis, Pennsylvania's attorney general. He married the daughter of his teacher, Margaret Francis in 1753, with whom he had nine children. In 1748 he went to London to complete his legal studies in the Central Temple, and, upon returning to Philadelphia, was accepted at the bar. He was appointed judge of the admiralty court in 1755. Three years later he was elected to the general city council. In 1762 he was appointed as the prothonotary of the supreme court, a post maintained until the Revolution. He became a member of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania in 1770.

Shippen tried to remain neutral in the American Revolution, hoping that colonies and first ladies would be reconciled. He did not support the extension of royal authority and was therefore not a Loyalist, but he also opposed the radically democratic Pennsylvania 1776 Constitution, which sought to reduce government support by powerful families such as the Shippens.

He received in 1790 LL.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was the guardian of 1791 until his death. He is also a member of the American Philosophical Society.

In 1791, he was appointed to the High Court of Pennsylvania, serving alongside Jasper Yeates and Edward Burd, both male and former students. Shippen became the supreme judge in 1799, but in 1804 was dismissed for weak political reasons. The next year the Pennsylvania Senate released her and her colleagues. Shippen retired to private life and died shortly thereafter, on 15 April 1806 in Philadelphia at the age of 77.

Her fourth daughter, Margaret Shippen, was Benedict Arnold's second wife.

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Family

He married Margaret Francis (born August 17, 1735 in Talbot County, Maryland, died May 28, 1794 in Philadelphia), daughter of Tench Francis and Elizabeth Turbutt, on 29 November 1753 at Christ Church, Philadelphia.

The children known to Edward Shippen and Margaret Francis include: Elizabeth Shippen was born on September 16, 1754. She married her cousin Colonel Edward Burd, the son of Colonel James Burd and Sarah Shippen, on December 17, 1778. She died on March 26, 1828 at the age of 73, and was buried in the Church of Christ , Philadelphia.

Sarah Shippen was born on February 1, 1756. She married Thomas Lea, son of Thomas Lea and Eleanor, on September 21, 1787. She died in 1831.

Mary Shippen was born August 15, 1757; he married Dr. William McIlvaine.

Dr. Edward Shippen was born on December 11, 1758 in Philadelphia. She married Elizabeth Juliana Footman, daughter of Thomas Footman and Eleanor, on November 23, 1785 in Christ Church, Philadelphia. He died on October 22, 1809 in Burlington, New Jersey, at the age of 50 years. He is a doctor. She and Elizabeth Juliana Footman have 7 children.

Margaret Shippen (known as "Peggy") was born on July 11, 1760. She married General Benedict Arnold V, son of Benedict Arnold III and Hannah Waterman King, on April 8, 1779 in Philadelphia; he is his second wife. He died on August 24, 1804 in London, England, at the age of 44 years.

John Francis Shippen was born on November 24, 1762. He was buried on January 8, 1763.

James Shippen was born on October 9, 1766 in Philadelphia. She was buried on November 10, 1769.

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References

• Genealogy in RootsWeb
• Randolph Shipley Klein, Early Family Portrait of America: The Shippens of Pennsylvania Across Five Generations . University of Pennsylvania Press, 1975.

External links

• Sketches and biographical portraits at the University of Pennsylvania
• Biography at Virtualology.com (under his great-grandfather, also Edward Shippen)
• Taken by Robert Feke at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Edward Shippen IV in Discover Mausoleum

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