Captain
Elias
Shipman
Born in Old Saybrook, Hartford, Connecticut Colony
Ancestors 
Brother of
Elizabeth (Shipman) Bushnell, John Shipman 3rd [half], Nathaniel Shipman and Samuel Shipman
Husband of
Rebecca (Willard) Morgan
— married
about 1744 (to 17 Nov 1748) in Saybrook, Connecticut.
Descendants 
Father of
Elias Shipman II
Died
at age 28
in Antigua, West Indies
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Biography
Elias was born in 1720, the son of John and Elizabeth (Kirtland) Shipman, In Hartford, Connecticut Colony, where he was raised.
In around 1744, Elias married Rebecca Willard, the daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Stillman) Willard, in Saybrook, Connecticut.
Elias and Rebecca would have the following children:
Rebecca (Shipman) Parmelee (1745–1809)
Elias Shipman II (1747–1823)
Joseph Shipman (1749–1784)
Elias was a sea captain and evidently met his fate in Antigua, West Indies in late 1748 where he was either lost at sea or died of some other malady. He left Sarah with three young children (the youngest not yet born).
No burial records could be found.
Sources
- Southworth, with collateral lines : Buckingham, Collier, Kirtland, Pratt, Shipman : ancestral record of Henry Martyn Lewis, by Barnes, Harriet Southworth Lewis, 1860- . Publication date 1903. Pages 46-47. [1]
- The Shipmen Family in America, compiled by Mrs. Wayne A. Carl (Rita Shipman). Mrs. Egerton Crispin (Angela Shipman) and Mr. & Mrs. William Henry Shipman. Page 260 [2]
- "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6CTT-8M9H : 11 January 2021), Elias Shipman in entry for Rebecca Shipman, 1745.
- "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPS2-YTVN : 21 September 2019), Elias in entry for Joseph Shipman, ; citing Birth, , Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 008272246.
- Elias' death date is included in "The history of the island of Antigua, one of the Leeward Caribbees in the West Indies, from the first settlement in 1635 to the present time", by Oliver, Vere Langford. Publication date 1894. Page 371. [3]
- Family Search Profile on Elias Shipman [4]
- Family Pages on Genealogy.com - Genealogy of New England [5]
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