Thelippincottsinenglandandam

IN T RO D U C T IO N TH E facts which constitute the body of this w ork and give it value were collected by the late James S . Lippincott, during a period of over x n 1 40 8 1 8 8 3 . forty years, e tendi g from to t Mr . Lippincot was earnestly engaged in this Genealogical work wi 1 7 up to thin a short time of his death ( March , and he had always hoped to publish the results of his investigations in a volume at once worthy of his own labors and the varied record of the Lippincott Family . The fact that this desire has at last been in some measure realized is largely due to the generous appreciation of Mr . James J . Goodwin, - — Y in i . of New ork, son law of the late J . B . Lippincott, of Ph ladelphia A s a 1 849 r e rly as the year , the late James S . Lippincott, in a lette sent hither and thither in search of genealogical information, said, Having for several years been interested in the collect ion of facts respecting the Lippincott Family, I have been encouraged to seek fur n ther information relative to the origi and history of its early members, and it is with the hope that such may be elicited that I have addressed . e thee Though much has already b en collected, all that has come to n fin my k owledge is con ed to one branch, and the history of others , ” m n rt wn . comprising much the ost umerous po ion, remains unkno ea In this same letter Mr . Lippincott stated very cl rly the object of own his search as it had then defined itself in his mind, as follows If a proper interest should be manifested by the ready assistance n i afforded the undertaking, a con ected account of the Fam ly since of i the arrival its progenitor in th s country will be prepared, i n and h prefaced by the nformation already obtai ed, t at may be hereafter procured respecting those of the name resident in Great Britain, the r i ns &c . i Histo y of the Name, its origin, adopt on, variatio , , w th proofs ” of th e same from judicial and other records . a: >x< >l< >x< ow n as H careful Mr . Lippi cott w in all his researches, and how will ing to correct his own previous information or opinions based thereon, m ay be gathered from the fact that in the short sketch of the Lippin ’ ’ cott s prepared by him for Mr . John Clement s Book of Sketches of i w The F rst Emigrant Settlers in Newton To nship, Old Gloucester ” un New fi ve w n Co ty, West Jersey, and in the years intervening bet ee i his . the t me of its publication and death , Mr Lippincott had made no less than twelve changes and corrections in th e nine pages of his ow r 5 6 Int roduct ion. copy of that work . It was not that the work had not been carefully i n e r done to beg n with, but that fresh i v stigation b ought new facts which he desired to have embodied in the rec ord . In the same line and spirit it is worth While to quote in this per r manent statement a letter wr itten by Mr . James S . Lippincott, Janua y Lovecott 9 1 8 78 Mr . th, , to Alfred Earle, then resident of , in Devonshire, e England : My dear Sir, I often find especial pleasure in r calling the 1 8 76 incidents attending our call at Lovecott in the Summer of , when on a pilgrimage to the homes of my English Ancestors . Nothing suc ceeds l r r ike success, and I was g eatly g atified to find that I had at last discovered the rock from whence my name, if not myself, had been hewn . The confirmation added by Mr . Powell was of a character that to a l ought s tisfy, since his authority is unimpeachable, but I wou d like to have further confirmation in the form of a description of the estate of Lovecott for compar ison with the details of the D omesday Book such as the number of acres of meadow and number of acres comprised r ink in the enti e estate . I th you remarked that Upper and Lower Lovecot t er n had been applied to the estate, but p haps I am confou ding L ’ it with ovecott near Alverdiscott . I remember you spoke of James Lovecott as a name applied to part of the tract . If you would not deem it irksome I would like to have from your hand all the information n Lovecot t i you can collect respecti g , whether legendary, h storical or statistical . I have hitherto believed that the Parish of Lufiincot t on the Tamer r Lovecot t has n was the cradle of our race, and now that you been show to be the veritable spot, my calculations and my notes must be revised and adapted to the new departure . I have records of sundry Lippin t now Luffincot t Lu h enc ott cot s, as spelled, who held , anciently g and D e 1 1 9 5 e t o r ov cote, from , to recent dat s , but they all seem efer to Luffi n o t c Lovecote Lufiin ott c t on the Tamer . Sin e both and c are in the Hundred of Black Torrington I cannot distinguish them in the ” records I have examined . 1 8 8 r. 7 M . After , James S Lippincott made such alteration in his s n n note as seemed to him dema ded by his latest i formation, and in the own following pages , which appear very much in his words, he evidently v r ha ing practically completed this pa t of the work for publication, m r atters refe red to in this letter are treated with fuller detail . h ’ Touching the desirability of aving Mr . James S . Lippincott s genealogical investigations published in the form of a book , Mr . Samuel . wr t o . R Lippincott, of Richmond, Indiana, in a letter itten Mr James t 1 3th 18 8 0 s S . Lippinco t, August , , probably expre sed the general senti now w ment of the idely scattered members of the family when he said, “ ” “ t h en w l speaking of the Lippincott Tree about ready, I ou d have much preferred it in the shape of a handsome volume ( so much more r th e r r easily prese ved ) , with photog aphs of as many leading membe s, ” u . p ast and present, as co ld be obtained T H E L I PPI N C O T T S E NG LA ND A ND A M ERIC A . CHA PTER I . TH E LIPPI NC OTTS IN ENGLA ND . Outline S ch emeof D escent of Me Repr esenfal ives of 1126 Lippincott in in U . a S RNAMES, says Dr Thomas Fuller, were fixed f milies ” m Engl and at or about the time of the Conquest . For erly though men urn o w had s ames, yet their s ns did not, as I may say, follo suit ” with their father ; the name descended not hereditarily on the family . “ ’ o r C-onfessor s 1042 It began somewhat so ne , in the time [ l r fetched out of France, but not universally sett ed till some hund ed ” and fifty years after . r w m a n All that came ove ith the Conqueror, says the sa e qu i t n n m i or w ot n . author, ere Ge tleme until they ca e over w th the Conquer n or r bl oud For instantly upo their vict y, thei flesh was refined, clarified , ” o th e spirits elevated t an higher purity and perfection . Many of Norman soul diery suddenly starting up honourable from mean orig inal s. ’ “ ’ n ul a and I F ler s List of B ttle Roll, extracted from Fox s list d t o Louot ot . a apted the spelling of the time, is the name of I . de ” - s But as the Battle Abbey Roll, or list of the name of the soldiers ” “ ul of the Conqueror, hath, says F ler , been practiced upon with all th e o a h r si r oe e s &c . : figures of Dicti n, p othesis, p , some names therein b m t d n n r t eing aug ented, subtrac e , exte ded, co t acted, leng hened, cur ” “ t ai o led, and D omsday Book will be believed on its Word before ” “ ” te it s t a no we m s . Louot ot b Bat l Roll on oa h, y pas I de y as of m r i n and e i po tance in th s connectio , turn to the Dom sday Book as of n o th ere1n u doubted auth rity, and find the original of the name of L m our a o . ippincott and estee ancestors of S xon, not of N rman blood While the merits or demerits of our ancestry shoul d entail no blame l or praise upon their descendants, an influence physical and moral wil h 8 T e Lippincot t s in Engl and and Am erica .

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