What is "shippen"

Usage examples of "shippen".

At the head of the line, Jon Shippen dug his hand in his pocket and turned around with a grin to show the rest.

Craig, the Misses Chew, Miss Redmond, Miss Bond, the Misses Shippen, and others, all of loyalist families, yet content to play the game of hearts with both armies.

Sukey Shippen, daughter of a prominent Philadelphia doctor, as a student in housewifery.

Their friend Doctor Shippen administered the dangerous inoculation against smallpox to both Edwards and Esther.

Peggy Shippen was a delightful, fun-loving girl from an old Quaker family when she met the man assigned as American military commander in Philadelphia, Benedict Arnold.

Edward Shippen, her father, was a Tory sympathizer, but not a particularly ardent one.

Andre was one of the many men who came calling at the Shippen household and one of the organizers of the infamous farewell celebration, called the Meschianza, that the British threw for their commander, Lord Howe.

The Shippen family seems to have been somewhat taken aback by the not so subtle suitor.

William Garnett Shippen III and why was she writing her a thank-you note?

There were further elegant receptions and dinners at the homes of the Mifflins, the Shippens, the Powels, Cadwalladers, and Dickinsons, extended gatherings presided over and attended by many of the most beautiful, fashionably dressed women of Philadelphia.