Rebecca (Shipman) Sisco (1754 - 1817)

Born 1754 in Province of North Carolina

Ancestors

Wife of Jacob Francisco — married 1784 in Sandy Run Baptist Church, Mooresboro, NC

Descendants

Died 1817 at about age 63 in Brandley, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Rebecca (Shipman) Sisco was a North Carolina colonist.

Rebecca was born 1754 in Rutherford, North Carolina.

She was the Wife of Jacob Francisco/Sisco. Jacob Francisco/Sisco born 1755 and died 1816. He moved from western NC to TN about 1790 and was a Revolutionary War Veteran.

They had the following known children:

• HANNAH FRANCISCO
• JACOB SISCO
• JOHN ANDREW SISCO
• JAMES SISCO
• DANIEL FRANCISCO
• THOMAS FANCHER SISCO SR
• EDWARD FRANCISCO (SISCO)

She died in 1817 in Bradley, Tennessee.

Research Notes

Second Generation

HANNAH FRANCISCO was born on 10 Oct 1785 in NC. Died on 4 Feb 1871 in VERONA MO. She married DANIEL LEE in 1810. DANIEL LEE was born on 9 Feb 1785 in NC. Died on 4 Mar 1863 in VERONA MO.

JACOB SISCO was born in 1788 in RUTHERFORD CO NC. Died in 1834 in NEW MARKET MADISON CO ALA. He married SARAH "SALLY" FRANKS in 1811. SARAH "SALLY" FRANKS was born about 1785. Died in 1837 in NEW MARKET MADISON CO ALA.

JOHN ANDREW SISCO was born in 1789 in NC. Died on 18 Feb 1862 in TN. He married PHOEBE ANN TURNER about 1822. PHOEBE ANN TURNER was born in 1794 in NC. Died in Aug 1855 in CANE CREEK HICKMAN CO TN.

JAMES SISCO was born in 1796 in TN. Died in Aug 1855 in CANE CREEK HICKMAN CO TN S. He married SARAH "SALLY" BRANHAM on 29 Jun 1813 in ROANE CO TN. SARAH "SALLY" BRANHAM was born in 1796 in VA.

THOMAS FANCHER SISCO SR was born in 1800 in HANGING LIMB OVERTON CO TN. Died in 1872 in OSAGE CARROLL CO ARK. He married NANCY MILLER about 1819 in OVERTON CO TN. NANCY MILLER was born in 1801 in OVERTON CO TN. Died in 1875 in DELMAR CARROLL CO ARK.

DANIEL FRANCISCO was born on 5 May 1803. Died on 18 Nov 1859 in OKAW SHELBY CO ILL. He married CHARITY VIRDEN on 10 Jan 1822 in MONTGOMERY CO ILL. CHARITY VIRDEN was born on 5 May 1803 in SC. Died on 30 Nov 1853 in SHELBYVILLE SHELBY CO TN. ^[1]

EDWARD FRANCISCO was born on 16 May 1809 in OVERTON CO TN. Died on 1 Mar 1898 in OVERTON CO TN. He married ELIZABETH CANNON in 1838 in OVERTON CO TN. ELIZABETH CANNON was born in 1811 in TN. Died on 27 Aug 1876 in OVERTON CO TN. He also married JANE COOPER on 31 Mar 1879 in OVERTON CO TN. JANE COOPER was born on 24 Apr 1824 in SPRING CREEK JACKSON CO TN. Died on 21 Feb 1907 in OVERTON CO TN.^[2]

Timeline

1790 We have already established Jacob and Rebecca in Rutherford County, North Carolina. Listed on the 1790 census record, Jacob lives next door to John Sr. with his wife, Rebecca, a daughter, and two young sons. The daughter is Hannah, born October 10, 1785, who later married Daniel Lee. The oldest son is probably Jacob, born 1788, who later married Sarah Franks, and the other son is probably John Andrew, born 1789, who later married Phoebe Ann Turner. We will look into why these are probably the sons born in 1788 & 1789 later.

1796 The Great Migration to Warren County, Kentucky took place. Many of the families around Sandy Run community in North Carolina headed west. Names such as Shipman, Gage, Burleson, Kuykendall, Lee, Landers, and several others either moved there in 1796 or were already in the area. Many of them had military land grants. Kentucky had just acquired statehood a few years earlier.

1796 Jacob and Rebecca had another son; probably James who later married Sarah Branham.

1799 We next find Jacob on the 1799 Warren County tax list as having land on the Big Barren River. Neighbors include Isaac Crawford (Rebecca's sister, Phoebe's husband; the widow, Sarah (Shipman) Harrington, another sister to Rebecca; George Salling, who later marries the widow; Robert Gage, husband of another sister, Anna; Moses Shipman, a nephew to Rebecca and important to our story later. There are also several more nephews listed as having land on the Big Barren River.

Bet. 1799 and 1802 Jacob and Rebecca move down into Jackson County Tennessee where they joined the Spring Creek Baptist Church. They have had another son during that time, Thomas Fancher, born in 1800.

Nov 1802 According to the Spring Creek Baptist Church minutes, Jackson Co. TN. in Nov. 1802, Jacob Sisco was counseled by the Church for the sins of drunkenness. (Notice the interplay of Francisco, Sisco, and Scisco in the Church minutes).

Apr 1803 Moses, Rebecca's nephew, married Mary Robinson in Warren County and moved to Spring Creek. Moses and Mary Shipman received into Spring Creek Baptist Church in Jackson Co. Tn. by letter. Moses Shipman appointed to speak to Jacob Francisco about the Sin of Drunkenness. The baby Daniel was born to Rebecca in May. Perhaps Mary (Robinson) Shipman helped Rebecca tend to him as Rebecca would have her hands full with all the other children and a drunk husband.

June 1803 Jacob Sisco's case continued in Church.

16 July 1803 Jacob Francisco Excommunicated by Spring Creek Baptist Church, Jackson Co. TN. for continued drunkenness.

17 Sep 1803 Brothers from Spring Creek Baptist Church, Jackson Co. TN., appointed to speak to Rebecca Scisco about reports and the motions of her mind which she has made known.

Sep 1803-Rebecca Sisco case continued in Church.

Sep 1803 Moses and Mary Shipman dismissed from Spring Creek Baptist Church by letter. Moses and Mary leave to go to South Carolina where Mary was born and probably still has family there.

3 Jan 1804 Rebecca Francisco excluded from meeting of Church for going in evil company after being reproved. (To be continued).

According to the Sisco DNA Project,[2] "A Francisco family descended from Daniel Francisco, born about 1803 in Tennessee, who moved to Illinois at a young age. The Y chromosome of men in this family matches other men with the surname of "Gage", so it is likely their direct male ancestor was a Gage. They have an E1b1b Y chromosome haplotype, described at: www.eupedia.com/europe/Haplogroup_E1b1b_Y-DNA.shtml"

This Francisco/Sisco family descended from John Fransoy/Franse/Francisco, a French protestant (Huguenot) born about 1660 in France, who fled north to the Netherlands to escape religious persecution. His name probably just means "John the Frenchman" Jean le François in French. He was married to a Dutch woman, Elizabeth Geitje, either in the Netherlands or in New Jersey. In the Netherlands and in the Dutch community of Second River, New Jersey, he was known as Johannis Franse, which means "John French" in Dutch. Later the name was written as Francisco or Fran Sisco. He is supposed to have had at least five sons, Henry, Frans, Johannis, Abraham, and Barent. Many of the descendants of Barent in New Jersey shortened the name to "Sisco", whereas the descendants of Henry in New York and points west kept the full name of "Francisco". A southern branch of this family is descended from a John Francisco who moved to North Carolina about 1750. The southern branch changed the name from Francisco to Sisco or Cisco about 1800.[3]

Sources

1. ↑ [1] "A Francisco family descended from Daniel Francisco, born about 1803 in Tennessee, who moved to Illinois at a young age. The Y chromosome of men in this family matches other men with the surname of "Gage", so it is likely their direct male ancestor was a Gage. They have an E1b1b Y chromosome haplotype, described at: www.eupedia.com/europe/Haplogroup_E1b1b_Y-DNA.shtml"
2. ↑ Family of Jacob Francisco/Sisco and Rebecca Shipman Francisco/Sisco by Shirley Hendrix

• "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHKB-54K : accessed 11 April 2018), Jacob Susco, Rutherford, North Carolina, United States; citing p. 147, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 7; FHL microfilm 568,147.

• Minutes of Spring Creek Baptist Church of Jackson & Overton Counties TN 1802-1868
• Daniel Shipman and Elizabeth Burleson, parents of Rebecca Francisco, [4]

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Earl Cisco for creating Shipman-343 on 7 Dec 13. Rebecca Shipman was my (Earl Sisco's) Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandmother. .