When Mary Crispin was born about 1761, in Burlington Township, Burlington, New Jersey, United States, her father, Joshua Crispin, was 33 and her mother, Rachael Lippincott, was 32. She married Eber Bishop on 23 February 1782, in Monmouth, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter.
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"During the six-year Revolutionary war, more of the fights took place in New Jersey than any other colony. Over 296 engagements between opposing forces were recorded. One of the largest conflicts of the entire war took place between Morristown and Middlebrook, referred to as the ""Ten Crucial Days"" and remembered by the famous phrase ""the times that try men's souls"". The revolution won some of their most desperately needed victories during this time."
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English; Spanish (Crispín): from the personal name Middle English Crispin, Spanish Crispín, from Latin Crispinus, derived from crispus ‘curly-haired’ (see Crisp ). This name was especially popular in France in the early Middle Ages, having been borne by a Christian saint who was martyred at Soissons in AD c. 285 along with a companion, Crispinianus (whose name is a further derivative of the same word). Compare Crespin and 3 below.
English (of Norman origin): from Old French and Middle English crespin, crispin ‘curly-haired’, also found as Crepin; see Crippin . It is difficult to tell this apart from the personal name in 1 above. According to Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury (1070–1089), the Norman Gilbert Crispin was the first man to receive this nickname, and two of his sons adopted it as their surname. His grandson Gilbert Crispin became abbot of Westminster in 1085. Members of the Norman family were said to have inherited a shock of hair that stood up stiffly like a bristly pine, as though the name derived from Latin crispus pinus, but this derivation is a medieval invention.
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