Ancestors of Marian Bricker

Notes

1952. Richard Lippincott

Excerpts from History of Burlington County, New Jersey: [p. 221]
Richard LIPPINCOTT and his wife Abigail removed from Devonshire, England in
1639 and settled at Dorchester, near Boston, New England. Richard LIPPINCOTT
returned with his family to England and resided at Plymouth in 1653 and early
thereafter became a member of the religious Society of Friends, then emerging
from the various sects around them, and in consequence endured much
persecution for the testimony of a good conscience. On the 20th of

January 1660, he with other Friends was taken from the meetinghouse at
Plymouth and committed to prison by Oliver Creely, mayor. How long he
remained in prison we have no account. In 1663 he emigrated to Rhode Island,
where he resided for several years, and finally in 1669 established himself at
Shrewsbury, Monmouth, NJ in which place he was the largest landed
proprietor among the patentees of the new colony. He was a consistent and
exemplary Friend, accompanying George FOX during his religious visit in this
country, and a man of character and influence. A short time previous to his
death which occurred 9th month (November, old style) 25th day, 1683, he
purchased of John Fenwick one thousand acres of land in Shrewsbury Neck,
upon which some of his descendants now live (1883). His widow, Abigail died in
1697, leaving a "considerable" estate, having given freedom to all her slaves
before her death, which fact is worthy of record.
[p. 303]
Richard and Abigail LIPPINCOTT lived at Stonehouse, near Plymouth,
Devonshire, England where the family had been seated for many centuries. In
the time of King Henry III, AD 1243, they lived in a manor and parish of
Luffencott, at the western extremity of the county of Devonshire. About the
year AD 1440, John LIPPINCOTT, one of the family, married Jane, daughter
and co-heir of John Wyberry which brought the estate of the Wyberry's into the
LIPPINCOTT family until about the year 1775.