History of the Lippincott Family

The following account is from an old newspaper which is likely from the region near Tuckerton, New Jersey. I have no attribution of source, authorship, or date.

Sons of our Quaker Sires,
And daughters of a worthy race of old,
Lest for a love of Christian Truth inspires
The whole record that you have behold.

Here shall ye find the Faith that must prevail
Mighty through god o'er every evil thing;
The Faith that scorned the scaffold and the jail,
Could e'en in dungeons hallelujahs sing.

A love of Liberty their souls posessed.
Nor sought they Freedom for themselves alone;
The Truth they bought heir hearts had truly blest,
And broad and deep their Charity had grown.

No servile sycohants to worthless kings,
No semi-Jewish ritualists were they,
But Christ's true light were their illumining,
And led thier spirits by a better way,

The vative of the Wilds whose lands they sought,
The swarthy Afric born across the main,
To those the law of Love and Truth they taught,
From there they struck the weight of Slavery's chain.

No fairer scene can History's page unfold,
No more Arcadian Age shall time display,
Than Jesey Annals in "our Age of Gold/"
Ere pure Astraea took her heavenward Way.

Sons of our Quaker Sire,
And Daughters of those worthy ones of old;
Enkindle, then, the pure and holy fires
That warmed your Father in Our "Ages of Gold."

J.S.L.

"In America, from the Ancestors Richard and Abigail, who removed from Devonshire, England, in 1630, and settled at Boston, New England.

Having been excommunicated from the "Church" at Boston for non-conformity in 1651, he returned with his family to England, and resided at Plymouth Devon, and early thereafter became a member of the Society of Friends then emerging from the various sects areound them, and in consequence endured much persecution for the testimony of a Good Conscience.

In 1663, he returned to New England and lived for several years in Rhode Island, and finally, in 1669, established himself and family at Shrewsbury, Monmouth county, New Jersey, where he died 25th of the 9th Mo. (November Old Style) 1683. His widow, Abigail died in 1697, leaving a considerable estate.

Richard Lippincott was the largest proprietor among the Patentees of the New Colony.

The name is one of the oldest of local origin in England and was derived from Levecote, which is described in the Domesday Book of Census, made by order of William the conqueror in 1086 of lands held by Edward the Conressor in 1041-1066. This Saxon name implies that a proprietor name Love held the house, cote, and lands, hence called Lovecote, which name was probably already ancient. Surnames were not settled until about this date and hence Lovecoat, Loughvyngeote, Lyvenscott, Lippingcott, Luppincott, through which variations it has descended to become fixed in Lippincott during the last two centuries and undoubtedly of great antiquity.

The material for the constrution of this Tree was derived from the following authorities: The ancient Records of the Society of Friends, the Resgisters of old wills at Trenton, Mount Holly, Freehold and Salem, N.J. Many old Family Bibles and Records and extensive correspondence with all branches of the family as well as interviews with or reports from the oldest living members of the descendents of our honored ancestors. The publisher also has had free access to the extensive collection of Jan. S. Lippincott of Haddonfield, N.J. from which much valuable information has been obained, Constructed and publishede by Charles Lippincott,Cinnaminson, Burlington County, New Jersey, 1880."

At the end of the article is a poem written by J.S.L. My presumption is that J.S.L. is a Lippincott, but I cannot confirm this.

Another account of Lippincott history (most likely based upon the same historical references) with an alternate coat of arms can be found on rootsweb.com.

Richard Lippincott (b.1610, Devonshire, England; d. 25 NOV 1683)
+Abigail Goody (b. 1622, Northumberland, England, d. 2 AUG 1697)
(m. 10 MAY 1640, Roxburry, Massachusetts)
Remembrance Lippincott (b: 19 SEP 1641@ Dorchester, Suffolk, MA)
+Margaret Barber (b: 1651 in Boston, Suffolk, MA)
Joseph Lippincott (b: 28 MAR 1680)
+Elizabeth White (b: 28 JAN 1679/80)
Joseph Lippincott (b: 12 OCT 1712)
+Elizabeth Esther Andrews (b: 30 AUG 1727)
Samuel Lippincott (b: 29 JAN 1747/48)
+Deborah Arnold (b: BEF 1762)
Joseph Lippincott b: 12 AUG 1784
+Nancy Fox
Samuel A. Lippincott (b. 11 OCT 1816, d: 14 AUG 1899)
+Mary Elizabeth Cranmer (b: 1 FEB 1816 d. 28 MAR 1893) Married: ABT 1836
Ann (Nancy) Lippincott (b. 1843)

Having identified the correct family for Ann Lippincott, the remainder of Ann Lippincott's paternal family tree was developed using Ref {LIP.1}.

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{LIP.1}	Families of Burlington Co., NJ
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