Brief Life History of Henry Titus
When Henry Titus Shipman was born on 14 May 1782, in Saybrook, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Elias Shipman, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth Titus, was 23. He married Jeannette Kirtland in 1805, in Binghamton, Broome, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 10 April 1838, in Binghamton, Broome, New York, United States, at the age of 55.
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- Henry T Shipman, "United States Census, 1830"
- Henry Titus Shipman, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Henry Titus Shipman, "Find A Grave Index"
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1783 · A Free America
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a boatman or mariner, or perhaps for a boatbuilder, from Middle English schipman ‘ship man’.
English: occupational name for a shepherd, from Middle English schep, ship ‘sheep’ + -man.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Dutch Schepman or of its already extinct variant Schipman, cognates of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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