Person:Hannah Shipman (7)

Hannah's father was Jacob Shipman who died in 1761 in Tewksbury Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. We do not know her mother's name. Her father's name was anglicized to Shipman before he died. Earlier extensive records at his (Zion Lutheran) church show his surname was often earlier written as Shubman or Schupman among other variants. The ministers at that church were recruited from Germany and the congregation was largely German-speaking. Hank Z. Jones has suggested that Jacob's family was among the original 1709 protestant Palatinate refugees who came from the Rhineland Palatinate (Rhein-Pfalz) in what is now Germany to New York City and who were initially supported by New York's Governor Hunter.

She was named "Janetje" in her father's 1761 will. She was named "Hannah" in the obituary of her son, Daniel Cummins, who died in Canada in 1853. Both of these names were pronounced in a similar way. Janetje is a German diminutive form of "Janet" which was pronounced like "Hana". Hannah married Jacob Cummins and for over 25 years after 1768 they lived in Delaware in Knowlton Township, Warren (then Sussex) County. Several of her children were baptized at St. James Episcopal Church in Knowlton Township.

She apparently died before her husband who died in 1811 about 15 years after he had moved to Hardwick Township, Warren (then Sussex) County. Hannah was not mentioned in the considerable records concerning the estate of her husband, Jacob Cummins, who died intestate. His estate was finally probated in 1815 at Newton, Sussex County.

It is assumed she was buried in the cemetery at the original site of St James Episcopal Church in Delaware in Knowlton Township but her grave and that of her husband have been lost. At least two of her children (Peter and Matthias) were buried in the much larger cemetery across the road from where St. James church originally stood. The newer and larger cemetery is now called the Ramseyburg cemetery. The original St. James cemetery may have been displaced by the railway which was built through the center of the community of Delaware which then became known as Delaware Station.