CCIF Research: John Pippon

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Commanders of the Castle Island Fort

Time Line

Research Notes

Sources

• Savage, v. 4. S-Z., p. 440.
• Not a ember of the Artillery Company of Massachusetts. Brought in by Andros.
• Born in England (Likely), Jersey, Channel Islands?
• French ancestry?
• Stephen Saunders Webb, Lord Churchill's Coup : the Anglo-American Empire and the Glorious Revolution Reconsidered, 1937.
• Did not settle in Colonies; no GM profile.

• G2G Discussion: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1324819/who-was-ensign-john-pipon-17th-century-new-england?state=comment-1324834&show=1324834#c1324834
• https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/215514462.pdf
• https://www.colonialsociety.org/publications/342/march-meeting-1913

• Neill De Paoli, Life on the edge: Community and trade on the

Anglo -American periphery, Pemaquid, Maine, 1610--1689, Spring 2001 (Doctoral Disertation).

1687, Lt. Joshua Pipon arrives Permaquid, Maine. p. 175-6.

10 Sep 1688. Joshua Pipon in Maine (Joshua Pipon to ? September 10, 1688, Baxter, ed., Baxter Manuscripts. VI, 425), (p. 188n. 77); Joshua Pipon

to Governor Edmund Andros, September 10,1688, September 22, 1688, Lieutenant James Weems to Governor Simon Bradstreet, June 1, 1689, Baxter, ed., Baxter Manuscripts. VI, 427,432,485; Lieutenant James Weems to Governor Simon. (p.189n. 78) Baxter Manuscripts, vol. 6

Regarding John Pipon, assuming all the sources are talking about the same person.

• 1653. John Pipon Jersey lands seized, enemy to the new government of England? (mentions a Thomas Pipon as well) (Webb, p. 192-3.
• 1673. Salem, MA. Expenses for John Pipon for bringing un-named French women on his ship.(Felt I, p. 359).
• 1686 John Pipon becomes Commander of Castle after Clap Resigns.
• 1688 Ensign/Lt. Joshua Pipon serving at Ft. Charles, Maine (also under command of Andros).
• 19 April 1689 Ensign Pipon surrenders Castle, (Andrews, p.203.)
• 1689, Gov. Andros Imprisoned, along with John Pipon.
• May 1690 - Andros and Pipon in London

• adulthood from at least 1653 through 1690, almost 40 years
• Explore relationships between Andros, Pipon and Carteret families.
• pursue Pipon given names of John, Joshua and Thomas in Jersey, Channel Islands.

Conflicting information to resolve:

The dates above imply that Joshua and John are two different people. How could the Commander of the Castle in Boston also be serving in Maine?

Yet, Churchill's account of the capture of Andros and Pipon at Fort Mary (a.k.a) on Castle Island refers to Pipon as Joshua.

I have not seen the actual letter sent to John to give up the fort but presumably it uses his full name and rank? Churchill is the only account of the surrender that I have seen so far that uses Joshua instead of John.