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Title: The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
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Publisher: (Philadelphia) Historical Society of Pennsylvania
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ans, as we wellknow, fled from persecution in their fatherland, and found arefuge in German town. It is not often, however, that thefact is recalled that, at the same time, there were those inan English Colony in America who, to save their lives, fledtherefrom to find safety in Pennsylvania. One of these wasEdward Shippen, a wealthy merchant of Boston, and of anEnglish family of some prominence, for he had a nephew,* Honest Will Shippen, as Robert Walpole called him, whowas a member of parliament. Edward was tried in Massachu-setts, and found guilty of being a Quaker, and was punishedaccording to its law, by being driven at the carts tail aroundthe streets of Boston, and soundly whipped the while, bythe hangman. This was not agreeable, but he did not feeldegraded by it, for it is crime, not punishment, that degrades.Gen. Morgan of our revolution believed this, when he re-ceived four hundred and ninety-nine lashes in BraddocksExpedition, saying to the day of his death, that the British
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If , The Germantown Boad and its Associations. 15 still owed him one, as the officer had made a miscount.Edward Shippen of course came here,—it was about the onlyplace on earth where he could come,—and he became thefirst Mayor of Philadelphia, and built Shippys greathouse, for so the name was pronounced, in Second Streetabove Spruce, long known as the Governors House, becauseafter his time so many of them occupied it. Many of hisdescendants, like himself, have been prominent in our publiclife, both in Provincial days and ever since. As early as 1709, Joseph Shippen, a son of Edward, beganto purchase land in Germantown, and in time he or his sonsowned one hundred acres, lying in one body there. In 1716he went there to live, perhaps in the summer time, and nodoubt it was he who erected the house, whose site is nowoccupied by that of Mr. Heft, Xo. 4612. But whether he, orothers of the family, lived in it for any length of time, doesnot appear to be known. There were other houses on t

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