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Definition of Shippens
1. shippen [n] - See also: shippen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shippens
Literary usage of Shippens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of George Washington by George Washington (1889)
"From shippens* to Fort Loudoun ... 24 " From Ft. Loudoun to Ft. Lyttleton . ...
From shippens E to Chambers .... 12 " From Chambers to Paulins . ..."
2. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond, William Abbatt (1888)
"From Carlyle to shippens* 21 miles. From shippens? to Chambers . . . . .12 — From
Chambers to Paulins 12 — From Paulins to F'. Frederick . ..."
3. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1910)
"Mary Humphreys Sarah Frazier \ servants to James Taylor of shippens- Judith
Conner / burgh Pa. Susannah Thompson servant to James Taylor ot shippens- burgh. ..."
4. The Writings of George Washington by George Washington (1889)
"From Carlyle to shippens* 21 miles. From shippens " to Chambers .... 12 " From
Chambers to Paulins 12 " From Paulins to Ft. Frederick . ..."
5. A Treatise on Conveyancing: With a View to Its Application to Practice by Richard Preston (1819)
"... by the names and descriptions of six messuages, nine stables, fourteen shippens,
six barns, one dove-cote, eight gardens, three hundred acres of land, ..."
6. A Treatise on Conveyancing: With a View to Its Application to Practice by Richard Preston (1819)
"... by the names and descriptions of six messuages, nine stables, fourteen shippens,
six barns, one dove-cote, eight gardens, three hundred acres of land, ..."
7. The Scotch-Irish in America: Proceedings and Addresses of the Scotch-Irish by Scotch-Irish Society of America (1902)
"The shippens gave the lot, but in naming the grantees they used a phrase which
fifty years later practically destroyed the grant and made the gift of no ..."
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