Mary (Shippey) Newcomb (1664 - 1688)

Born 1664 in Henrico, Colony of Virginia

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Died 1688 at about age 24 in Henrico, Colony of Virginia

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Biography

Mary Shippey, daughter of Thomas and Martha Shippey,^[1] was the sister of Elizabeth (Shippey) Browne, Martha (Shippey) Stratton, and Thomas Shippey who married Frances.^[2]

Mary married (1) John Clyborn and had a son, Thomas, born about 1684/5. She married (2) Thomas Newcomb. When she died in 1688, custody of Thomas Clyborn went to Jeremiah Browne, who had married her sister.

"p 267 4/1/1688 - Thos Newcomb, married relict of John Clyborn, dec'd & his wife now dec'd leaving Thos Clyborn, orphan of 3-4 yrs. Jeremiah Brown married an aunt of said orphan. Jeremiah BROWN awarded custody."^[3]

Research Notes

Estimated Date: Her parents are said to have married about 1652, so their children were probably born over the next several years. Estimating Mary's birth based on her son Thomas being "3-4 yrs." in 1688 - assuming that Mary married at 21 and had her son - puts her birth about 1662 (rounded down to "about 1660" in the datafield).

Sources

1. ↑ RBB Papers: back (accessed 18 September 2020).
2. ↑ Martha m Stratton, Mary m Platt, and Thomas m Frances are shown to be the children of Thomas (d 1684) and his wife Martha in the RBB Papers:
   • Thomas Shippey, back (accessed 18 September 2020). Biographical Card Files of the R. Bolling Batte (RBB) Papers, Library of Virginia Digital Collections. Part of Batte’s collection of genealogical and historical research consists of more than 30,000 typed and handwritten index cards containing biographical information compiled from original and secondary sources.

   However, Mary who married Platt was a sister of Martha, wife of Thomas Shippey who died 1684, and subsequently married Edward Stratton (father of her daughter Martha's husband). In Martha Stratton's 1696 will, she names both her sister Platt and daughters Martha Stratton and Eliza ("in her widowhood"), as well as granddaughter Frances Shippey (her son Thomas's daughter). See Research Notes on her husband Thomas's profile - Shippey-50 (d 1655).

3. ↑ From her sister Elizabeth's profile. The book referenced was not named. Jeremiah died in 1690.

• The National Society of the Claiborne Family Descendants