Richard Lippincott UE (1745 - 1826)

Born 2 Jan 1745 in Shrewsbury, New Jersey

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Died 14 May 1826 at age 81 in York, Upper Canada

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Biography

Richard Lippincott was a United Empire Loyalist.
UEL Status:Proven
Date: Undated

During the American Revolutionary War, Richard sympathized with the Loyalist cause. In a petition for land compensation filed after the end of the war in Saint John, New Brunswick, he stated that “for trying to conceal a person sent from New York to New Jersey by General Sir William Howe to distribute proclamations, he was taken prisoner in October 1776.” ^[2] Richard later escaped from jail in Burlington and joined the British in New York. After the war, he lived in Pennfield, Charlotte, New Brunswick,^[3] where he lived until 1787. After a short period in England, he eventually settled in Upper Canada on a U.E.L. land grant of 3,000 acres^[4] in Vaughn Township, York County. He was later granted more land in Richmond Hill.^[5]

The Lippincotts had three daughters: Margaret, Rebekah and Esther. Esther, their only surviving child, married George Taylor Denison of York, on December 18, 1806. In 1808 she received United Empire Loyalist status. Her husband, a wealthy landowner, served in the 3rd York Militia in defense of Upper Canada during the War of 1812.^[6]

Richard Lippincott died in York (Toronto) on May 14, 1826 at the age of eighty-one and is buried in St. John’s Cemetery on the Humber in Toronto, Ontario.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Ryerson, Egerton. The Loyalists of America. Vol. 1. W. Briggs, 1880, p. 193. Google eBook.
2. ↑ Memorial Tiles: Capt. Richard Lippincott, St. Alban the Martyr UEL Memorial Church
3. ↑ New Brunswick Land Grants, 1784
4. ↑ Ryerson, Egerton. The Loyalists of America. Vol. 1. W. Briggs, 1880, p. 195. Google eBook.
5. ↑ Magel, Ralph. Two Hundred Years Yonge: A History. Toronto: Dundurn, 1998, p. 24
6. ↑ Reid, William D. The Loyalists in Ontario. New Jersey: Hunterdon House, 1973, p. 181 in Memorial Tiles: Capt. Richard Lippincott, St. Alban the Martyr UEL Memorial Church
7. ↑ Find a Grave # 104850904 [1]

See also:

• http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/a/s/h/William-Ashbey/GENE4-0007.html#CHILD591618
• http://www.uelac.org/Loyalist-Info/detail.php?letter=l&line=21

Early Days in Richmond Hill

Street Names and their Origin

Lippincott Court

Richard Lippincott was a Loyalist soldier who took up land on Yonge Street, first in Vaughan in 1799, then in Markham in 1800. He later sold the Markham farm to James Fulton.

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