Person:Daniel Shipman (16)

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Daniel & Elizabeth (Burleson) Shipman - Daniel's will dated 8 Nov 1798 Warren Co., KY. Daniel Shipman's will named his daughters: Sarah Harrington, Anna Lee, Lucy Gage, Phoebe Crawford, Rebecca Cisco, and Mary Johnson.

Our branch of the Shipman family is believed to have come from Germany and the original spelling of the name was SCHIFFMANN.

The Schiffman family is said to have lived about eighteen miles southeast of Hamburg Germany on the Elbe River. Mr and Mrs Schiffmann and their two small sons, Joseph and Daniel b 1715 who was two years younger than his brother, began a trip to Wales where they intended to obtain passage to New Jersey in America.During the trip to Wales or soon after their arrival Mr Schiffmann died. In a short time the widow married a man named GAGE. Information here is a bit muddled as some sources say that at the time of the marriage Mr. Gage had a son, DAVID GAGE who would have been a step brother to the Schiffmann boys. Other sources indicate that David was a half brother. If the later is true, this would mean that he was born after the marriage of Mrs Schiffmann and Mr Gage. In either case the family was to remain in Wales for some years.

By the late 1720's the boys were of an age to make the earlier planned trip to America by themselves. They are said to have set sail, landing on the New Jersey shores sometime in the early 1730's. It appears that sometime during their voyage the name of Schiffmann was changed to Shipman. It is not known if this was intentional or not.

Joseph Shipman is said to have settled in the New Jersey area. David Gage married Abigail Burleson soon after his arrival. They moved with her parents to Lunenberg County Virginia. Daniel Shipman is said to have gone to Pennsylvania Dutch Country. Staying several years, he was not happy there so he moved to Lunenberg Co. Va. where he could be near the Gage family. Upon his arrival it is said he married Elizabeth Burleson, a sister of Abigail and the daughters of Aaron Burleson.

No records have been found to date to substantiate the above account of the early Shipman family, but the same story has been told with a few variations by several researchers.