By JOHN LASOLA SHINN III Founder-Editor L.A. Zamboanga Times NOTE: This is the family tree of the Shinns of Zamboanga City, Philippines going back fourteen (14) generations---starting with John (JT) Ruiz Shinn IV, only son of L.A. Zamboanga Times founder-editor John (Boboy) Lasola Shinn III. -------------------------------------------------------------- Ancestors of John (JT) Ruiz Shinn IV, only son of L.A. Zamboanga Times founder & editor John (Boboy) Lasola Shinn III Generation No. 1: 1. John (JT) Ruiz Shinn IV. He was the son of 1. John (Boboy) Lasola Shinn III Generation No. 2 1. John (Boboy) Lasola Shinn III. He was the son of 2. John (Johnny/Mañico) Atilano Shinn Jr. Child of John (Boboy) Lasola Shinn III is: 1.i. John (JT) Ruiz Shinn IV Generation No. 3 2. John (Johnny/Mañico) Atilano Shinn Jr. He was the son of 4. John (Boy) Ignacio Shinn Sr. Child of John (Johnny/Mañico) Atilano Shinn Jr. is: 1 i. John (Boboy) Lasola Shinn III Generation No. 4 4. John (Boy) Ignacio Shinn Sr. He was the son of 8. Zeller Hazen Shinn. Child of John (Boy) Ignacio Shinn Sr. is: 2 i. John (Johnny/Mañico) Atilano Shinn Jr.. Generation No. 5 8. Zeller Shinn. He was the son of 16. Ezra Hickman Shinn. Child of Zeller Hazen Shinn is: 4 i. John (Boy) Ignacio Shinn Sr. Generation No. 6 16. Ezra Hickman Shinn He was the son of 32. Josiah Shinn. Child of Ezra Hickman Shinn is: 8 i. Zeller Hazen Shinn. Generation No. 7 32. Josiah Shinn He was the son of 64. Benjamin Shinn. Children of Josiah Shinn are: i. Josiah Shinn Notes for Josiah Shinn: [kin of luth phillips.FTW] Author of .... 16 ii. Ezra Hickman Shinn. Generation No. 8 64. Benjamin Shinn He was the son of 128. Samuel Shinn and 129. Sara Schoolby. Child of Benjamin Shinn is: 32 i. Josiah Shinn. Generation No. 9 128. Samuel Shinn, born 1695; died 17581. He was the son of 256. Thomas Shinn and 257. Mary Stockton. He married 129. Sara Schoolby. 129. Sara Schoolby Children of Samuel Shinn and Sara Schoolby are: 64 i. Benjamin Shinn. ii. Mary Shinn, born 1727; married William Taylor, Jr. January 11, 1754. More About William Taylor and Mary Shinn: Marriage: January 11, 1754 iii. Joseph Shinn, born November 27, 1751 Generation No. 10 256. Thomas Shinn, born Abt. 1667 in Eng; died 1695 in ................................................................................3. He was the son of 512. John Shinn and 513. Jane. He married 257. Mary Stockton. 257. Mary Stockton More About Thomas Shinn: Fact 10: 4WR1-LL Children of Thomas Shinn and Mary Stockton are: 128 i. Samuel Shinn, born 1695; died 1758; married Sara Schoolby. ii. Thomas Shinn, born 16944; married Martha Earl. Generation No. 11 512. John Shinn, born 1632 in Frekenham, Herfordshire, England5; died 1711 in Burlington Co., NJ. He was the son of 1024. Clement Sheene and 1025. Grace. He married 513. Jane in England. 513. Jane, born Abt. 1642; died Aft. 1711. Notes for John Shinn: [kin of luth phillips.FTW] John Shinn came to America in 1677 (1678) on "Kent" from England to New Jersey. (e-mail 4/20/96, Sue Moore, Harrison County, WV) On the ship Kent with 230 Quakers. He was a wheelwright. (Melody Byard 8/21/96) SONS & DAUGHTERS OF THE PILGRIMS LINEAGES OF MEMBERS of the NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE PILGRIMS To January 1, 1929 COMPILED FROM THE ORIGINAL APPLICATIONS PHILADELPHIA PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY 1929 NATIONAL SOCIETY SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE PILGRIMS I, Lulu C. Burtis-Voorhees, 501 West State Street, Trenton, New Jersey; born 1875; married 1896, Edmund Dey Voorhees; hereby apply for membership in The Society of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims by right of descent from John Shinn (4) son of Clement (3) John (2) Francis (1) came to America about 1678, born in England 1632, died Burlington County, New Jersey 1711. Service: Settled the family in America; proprietor of early Jersey lands. I was born in Allentown, New Jersey. 1. I am the daughter of John Wyckoff Burtis, born May 27,1848; died January 18, 1915, and his wife Lila Corinna Emley, born November 6, 1852; married December 25, 1873. 2. The said Lila Corinna Emley-Burtis was the daughter of Samuel Harrison Emley, and his wife Emeline Hartshorn, born July 22, 1830. 3. The said Emeline Hartshorn was the daughter of Samuel Hartshorn, born in New Jersey, and his wife Abigail Shinn, born March 6, 1798; married October 9, 1823. 4. The said Abigail Shinn-Hartshorn was the daughter of John Shinn, born November 25, 1757; died February 13, 1833, and his wife Mary Norton, daughter of William; married 1780. 5. The said John Shinn was the son of Jacob Shinn, born May 13, 1715, died 1795, and his wife Hannah Rakestraw-Lippincott (widow of Freedom Lippincott), died 1796; married December, 1745. 6. The said Jacob Shinn (1715-1795) was the son of John Shinn, came to America with his father 1678, died 1736, and his 2d wife Mary; married July, 1707. 7. The said John Shinn was the son of John Shinn, born 1632, died 1711, and his wife Jane, born in England, died after 1711; married in England. 8. The said John Shinn, the American emigrant, was the son of Clement Shinn, baptized November 24, 1593, and his wife Grace; married 1625. 9. The said Clement Shinn was the son of John Shinn, died 1617, and his wife Anne. 10. The said John Shinn was the son of Francis Shinn, lived at Freckenham Parish, England, born 1525. From the History of the Shinn Family in Europe and America, by Josiah H. Shinn >>>>> JOHN SHINN AND EARLY NEW JERSEY In the spring of 1677 two hundred and thirty Quakers left London on the ship Kent for West Jersey. Half of these were from London and the other half from Yorkshire. Smith, in his "History of Nova C‘sarea; or, New Jersey," gives a partial list of these emigrants, but the name of John Shinn does not appear therein. He also says that these chose as a landing place the spot where Burlington now stands, and there began a settlement, which they named New Beverley; this was afterwards changed to Bridlington, after a town in Yorkshire, from whence many of the settlers came, and subsequently to Burlington. Smith also gives partial lists of emigrants who followed these in the year 1678, and in a general way names others who came between 1678 and 1680. In this general list will be found the name of John Shinn. In the old records of Burlington now in the office of the Secretary of State at Trenton, showing the freeholders for the year 1680, the names of "John Sheen" and "Clement Sheen" appear. The same records show that in the same year John Sheen was a grand juror. From the record of the Men's Monthly Meeting of Friends at Burlington it appears that on the 7th day of the 12th month (February), 1680, the Friends addressed a letter to the London yearly meeting, which Bowden transcribes in his history,1 with the remark that this was the earliest communication received by the London yearly meeting from any meeting in America. As a matter of religious interest, the letter, as it appears upon the Burlington M. M. Records, now deposited in the fireproof safe of the Friends at Philadelphia, Pa., is given in full: "Dear Friends and Brethren whom God hath honored with his heavenly Presence and crowned with Life and Dominion as some of us have been Eye witnesses (and in our measures partakers with you) in these solemn Annual Assemblies in ye Remembrance of which our hearts and souls are consolated and do bow before ye Lord with Reverent acknowledgments to him to whom it belongs forever. "And dear friends being fully satisfied of your Love, care and zeall for ye Lord and his Truth and your Travill and desire for ye promotion of it: hath given us encouragement to address ourselves to you and Request your assistance in these following particulars being sensible of ye need of itt and believing yt itt will conduce to ye hounour of God and benefit of his people for ye Lord having by an overruling Providence cast our lots in this remote pt of ye world, our care and desire is yt he may be hounoured in us and through us, and his Dear truth which we profess may be had in good Repute and Esteem by those yt are yet Strangers to itt. "Dear ffriends our first Request to you is yt in your severall countyes & meetings out of which any may transport themselves into this place, yt you will be pleased to take care yt we may have Certifycates concerning them for here are severall honest Innocent People yt brought no Certifycates with them from ye Respective Monthly Meetings not foreseeing ye Service of ym and so never Desired any which for ye future of such defect do Entreat you yt are sensiable of ye need of Certifycates to put ym in mind of ym for in some Caces where Certifycates are Required & yt have none itt ocations a great and tedious delay before they can be had from England besides ye Hazzard of Letters Miscarying which is not Necessary to ye Parties immediately & no wayes gratefull to Us yet in some cases necessity urgeth it or we must Act very Unsafely and pticularly in cases of Marriage in which we are often Concerned so if ye parties yt come are single and Marriageable att their Coming away we Desire to be Certifyed of their clearness or unclearness from other pties & what else you think meet for us to Know, and if they have parents whether they will commit ym to the Care of Friends in Generall in ye matter or appoint ant pticular whome they can trust & if any do incline to come that pfess truth & yet walk disorderly & so become dishounourable to Truth and ye pfession they have made of it we do desire to be Certyfied of ym & it by some other hand (as there is frequent opportunities from London of doing itt) for we are sensiable yt here are severall yt left no good Savour in yr native Land from whence they came & it may be probable yt more of yt Kind may come thinking to be Absconded in ys obscure place. But blessed be ye Lord he hath a pple here whom he hath provoked to a Zealous affection for ye Glory of his name & are desirous yt ye hidden things of Easau may be brought to Light & in it be condemned for wch cause we thus Request your assistance as an advantage & Furtherance to yt Work for though some have not thought it necessary either to bring Certificates themselves or Require any Concearning others we are not of yt mind and do leave itt to ye wise in heart to Judge whence it doth proceed for though we Desire this as an additional help to us, yet not as some have surmised yt we wholly build upon it without exercising our own immediate sence as God shall Guide us some we know yt have been other wise deserving but have Unadvisedly denied this Impartial right of a certificate & very hardly could obtain it, merely through ye dislike of some to ye undertakings in their coming hether which we believe to be an injury & though we would not any should reject any sound advice or council in ye matter yet we do believe yt all ye faithful oughtto be Left to God's Direction in ye matter most certainly knowing by ye Shurest Evedence yt God hath a hand in ye Removall of some into this Place wch we desire yt all yt are inclined to come heither who know God may be carefull to know before they attempt itt at least their Tryals become unsuportable unto them but if this they know they need not fear for ye Lord is known by Sea & Land ye Shield & Strength of ym ht fear him. "And Dear Friends one thing more we think needfull to Intimate to you to warn and advise all yt come pfessing truth yt they be carefull & Circumspect in their passage for itt is well known to some of you yt such as are imployed in sea affairs are commonly men of ye Vilest sort & many of ym use Great Diligence to betray ye Simple ones which if they can do they triumph in itt & spread it from nation to nation to defame truth theirfore Let all be warned of it especially Young Women that they behave themselves modestly & chastly yt they may not be corrupted in mind & so drawn to gratify ye wanton Luxurious inclination of any for many temptations may be met with some Times through short or Straight allowance for ye Enlargement of wch some have complyed wth that w??h hath Dishounoured God & grieved his people & though we Know yt true friends are never enabled ym to submit to any unrighteousness to gratify so mean an End yet all ye Professors of Truth are not of yt Growth & for their sakes it is intended yt all may be preserved & grow in truths Dominion. "So Dear Friends this wth what further you may apprehend may tend to truths pmotion in this Place we desire your assistance which will be very kindly and gladly Received by us who are Desirous of an Amicable Correspondency with you and do claim a part wth you in yt holy Body & Eternall Union which ye bond of Life is ye Strength of in wch God preserve you & us who are your ffds & Brethren. Thomas Budd, Willm Peachee, Wm Brightwen, Tho. Gardiner, Robt Stacy, John Hollingshead, Robt Powell, Jno Burton, Saml Jennings, Jno. Woolston, Daniel Leeds, John Butcher, Henry Grubb, Wm. Butcher, Seth Smith, Walter Pumphrey, Tho. Ellis, James Saterthwate. A careful perusal of the communication will satisfy any one familiar with a great mass of modern caurch correspondence and records, that this body of Christians in the wilds of New Jersey was fully equal to their modern brethren in bad orthography, grammar, and prolixity of utterance, and superior to them in matter and zeal. In an age when immigration was eagerly desired it is pleasant to contemplate a society trying to keep its membership pure. The settlers of Burlington were men to whom the creation of a sound society might safely be committed. And they discharged their trust with honor to themselves and glory to the cause of purity, honesty, and truth. This letter was quoted by Smith in his History of New Jersey, and referred to by Proud in his History of Pennsylvania. The manuscript copy was owned by Smith and was perused by Proud; it is now in the possession of the N. J. Historical Society. It was undervalued by both Smith and Proud. In a letter of Col. Morris concerning the state of religion in the Jerseys in 1700, the character of these signers is referred to in the following language: "In West Jersey in the year 1699 there were 832 freeholders, of which there were 266 Quakers. The Quakers in that Province are the men of the best rank and estates. The rest of the province (generally speaking) are a hotch potch of all religions." Col. Morris was a firm Church of England man. The persecution of Quakers marked the reign of Charles II, and many of their evangelists had been driven to America. Two of these preachers--William Edmunson and George Fox--had passed through New Jersey, whose soil was said to be good, and, taken altogether, "A most brave country." It would be a useless repetition of well-known facts to narrate the suffering of the Quakers during this period. Church and State united to make them miserable, indeed. But there appear to have been causes for suffering other than those of polities or religion. Miss Amelia Mott Gummere1 says: "If we consider the destruction of life occasioned by the terrible plague of 1665, when 1,177 persons, out of London meeting alone, were buried in Bunhill Fields;2 the destruction of property belonging to the survivors by the fire which swept over the city in the following year, together with the persecution so rigorously pursued during the troublous periods of the protectorship and restoration, we cannot wonder at the desire of Friends to escape and seek liberty of conscience in a free land." It was not long after Lord Berkeley's announcement of his determination to sell that a sale was made of his half of the province to two Quakers--John Fenwick and Edward Byllinge. In 1675 Fenwick, with a number of settlers, established the town of Salem. Fenwick and Byllinge divided their half of the province, which came to be called West Jersey, into 100 parts, of which Fenwick received ten,3 and Byllinge the remainder. Fenwick's settlement was upon his tenth. Byllinge met with a ??crics of reverses and assigned his property to William Penn, Gawen Lawrie and Nicholas Lucas, all Quakers, for the benefit of his creditors. These trustees sold a number of shares of the undivided half of New Jersey to different purchasers, who thereby became proprietors in common with them. These proprictors, on the 3d day of March, 1676, agreed upon a form of government comprising many of the provisions of the instrument formed by Berkeley and Carteret, and called it "The Concessions and Agreements of the Proprietors, Frecholders and Inhabitants of the Province of West Jersey, in America."4 This instrument created, among other things, a set of commissioners, ten in number, to be elected from their own number by ballot annually on the 25th of March, whose duty it was to "govern and order the affairs of the province for the good and welfare of the said people," according to the concessions, and until a general free assembly should be elected. By this agreement each tenth of the original one hundred proprietors was entitled to one commissioner, and the inhabitants of each tenth were the electors upon whom was cast the election of these commissioners. These Concessions and Agreements were signed by one hundred and fifty-one persons, many of whom moved to New Jersey and became prominent in the affairs of the infant settlement. Although the name of John Shinn does not appear in the list, yet, as he became one of the proprietaries in a very few years, and lived among these men until his death, we extract the names of such as had to do with the habitat in which John Shinn was afterwards found. EXTRACT FROM LIST OF SIONERS TO CONCESSIONS AND AGREEMENTS. Wm. Penn, Wm. Emley, Josh. Wright, Tho. Hooten, Henry Stacy, John Lambert, George Deacon, John Thompson, Tho. Smith, And. Thompson, John Pancoast, Rich. Fennimore, Tho. Scholey, Tho. Wright, John Newbold, Richard Smith, Dan. Wills, Thomas Olive, John Butcher, Mahlon Stacy, Eleazer Fenton, Dan. Smith, Sam. Lovett, Thomas Stokes, Robert Stacy, Tho. Eves, Sam. Jennings, John Gosling, Tho. Revell, Wm. Biddle, Thos. Gardner, Tho. Budd, Dan. Leeds. On the 1st day of July, 1676, a division of the province was made by a deed between George Carteret, one of the parties, and the trustees of Byllinge, the other. Carteret took all east of a line from the east side of Little Egg Harbor, straight north, through the country, to the utmost branch of the Delaware River, and called it "East New Jersey." The rest of it, along the Delaware, fell to Penn and his associates, under the title "West New Jersey," and was to be divided into one hundred parts. Fenwick had already located his tenth in the southern part of West New Jersey. Purchasers were numerous, and in a short time two companies--the first made up of some Friends in Yorkshire and the other of some Friends in London--contracted for shares and received their patents. In 1677 the proprietors sent commissioners to purchase the land from the Indians, to inspect the titles of claimants and to lay off the lands. The commissioners1 representing the Yorkshire proprietors were Robert Stacy, Joseph Helmsley and William Emley. Representing the London proprietors were Thomas Olive, Daniel Wills, John Penford, Benjamin Scott, John Kinsley, Richard Guy and Thomas Foulke. These commissioners, with the exception of Richard Guy, who was already in New Jersey, formed a part of the passenger list on the ship Kent, which sailed for New Jersey in 1677, as has been stated. After their landing at what was afterwards called Burlington, the commissioners negotiated three purchases from the Indians, viz., (1) from Timber Lake to Rankokas Creek, (2) from Oldman's Creek to Timber Creek, (3) from Rankokas Creek to Assunpink. From this territory so purchased the Yorkshire commissioners chose from the Falls of the Delaware down, which was called the First Tenth. The London commissioners chose at Arwaunus (in and near Gloucester), and called it the Second Tenth. Both sets of men, however, united in settling Burlington, a surveyed street being made the dividing line. With this explanatory matter concerning the general history of New Jersey, we pass to the particular history of John Shinn, Senior, the head of the family in America. Burlington Records, on file at Trenton, N. J., show "John Sheen and Clement Sheen" in a list of freeholders for Burlington in the year 1680. They also show "John Sheen" as grand juror in the same year. JOHN SHINN,2 SENIOR. On September 18th, 1680, John Shinn, Senior, bought of William Emley, one of the commissioners, 1-15 of one of the one hundred shares of West Jersey. This is evidenced (1) by a deed, dated July 17, 1697, wherein John Shinn, of Springfield Township, Burlington County, wheelwright, conveys to his son, James Shinn, 120 acres,1 being part of the 1-15 of the propriety bought of William Emley, September 18, 1680; Liber AAA, f. 368, N. J. Deeds; (2) by a deed, dated July 15th, 1711, from John Shinn, of same township, to John Shinn, Junior, of the same place, conveying the remainder of the 1-15 of a share, bought as aforesaid; Liber AAA, f. 368 ??f. At a meeting of proprietors and freeholders in the First Tenth on the 24th of June, 1684, assessors were chosen to value and list lands. These assessors were directed not only to receive the assessment, but "for ye giving in each persons quantity of land in ye said Tente(h), both of undivided and certain tracts." From the list prepared by said assessors, and headed "The Names of ye Proprietors and Freeholders, and ye Number of Acres They Possess," we gather that John Shinn had that year in the First Tenth "Undivided 300 acres. Located 100 acres." The list shows eighty-nine freeholders. Samuel Barker is the only one that shows 1,000 acres; twelve others show from 450 to 650; eight own 400 acres; the remainder had from 50 to 350.2 John Shinn at that early day stood among the well-to-do men of Burlington County. On September 36, 1680, a survey was made for John Shinn of 200 acres on Assincunk Creek, adjoining Eleazer Fenton. (Revel's "Book of Surveys," p. 7.) Again, on February 1, 1681, another survey was made for him of 100 acres on the Brook of Assincunk, adjoining his own land and that of Thomas Budd. Daniel Leeds was the surveyor. (Revel's "Book of Surveys," p. 18.) On September 22, 1682, another survey was made for him of 120 acres between John Butcher, Eleazer Fenton and the West Branch of Assincunk Creek. (Revel's Surveys, p. 34.) On September 6, 1686, Eleazor Fenton sold John Shinn 1-16 of a share of the original 100 shares of West New Jersey, a wharf lot in the town of Burlington and a house lot on Romb Street, in the same town. (Liber B, Part I, p. 247, Deeds of W. J.) Counting a share at 32,000 acres, as is done by Hon. John Clement, for thirty years a Judge of the Court of Error and Appeal of New Jersey3 this transaction gave John Shinn the right to locate 2,000 acres of land. Judge Clement contributed an article to the Pennsylvania Magazine of Biography and History,4 from which the following document is extracted: "On 'th of ye twelfth month 16(8)7. "The Deputy Governor and Commissioners being then met at ye house of (Henry) Grubb in Burlington, proposed to Governor Coxe's Agent to join ye the brother of "John Sheen," and that "George Shinn" was either his brother or son. We have seen that the Frecken ham Registers record the birth of "Clement Sheen, son of John Sheen, baptized Nov. 24th, 1593." The age of Clement in 1680 would be eighty-seven, which makes it probable that he was the grandfather of John, and the father of the Clement of the text. When it is remembered that his name appears nowhere else in Burlington records; that it appears then as a freeholder merely; that John was then a father of a large family of children, several of whom were of marriageable age, the deduction is logical that this Clement was about his age; that he bought lands in England in 1676, but did not go to them; that he actually came to America when John and his family emigrated; and that he died at Burlington in the year 1680, or shortly afterwards. This makes the pedigree of John Shinn of Burlington, N. J., root back to Francis Sheene of Freckenham Parish, England, born 1520. The spelling of the name "Sheen" connects the family with the English. In England and New Jersey the spelling crystallized into its present form about 1700. Since that time it has been uniformly spelled "Shinn" in England and America. proprietors (and) Commissioners in making as large a purchase from ye Indian natives (as can be) had on behalf of ye governor and proprietors of this province." It was also proposed by the Governor's Agent "that a general warrant be granted to ye Deputy Governor and Commissioners for ye surveying of ye (said) lands belonging to ye first settlements for twelve proprieties." Warrant was issued calling all the proprietors together in order that "their minds may be further known" concerning the legality of the measure and their agreement thereto. On the 13th of ye 12th month, 1687, the proprietors concluded and agreed as follows: "That the proprietors find the proposals of the Governor contrary to ye former rules and methods for taking up land." Yet, being desirous to accommodate the Governor and the families from England who had given information of an intention to remove to this province, and the expectation of a great advantage accrning to the province by reason of "peopling the same,"1 agreed that the Governor "may take up ye shares belonging to him for ye (first) divident of twelve priprieties" and authorize the court to issue a warrant to the General Surveyor to survey and lay out the same. "Ye agreement aforesaid subscribed by ye proprietors underwritten." Andrew Robinson, Thomas Gardner, John Dayes, William Royden, William Cooper, Thomas Farnsworth, William Bates, John Reading, Joshua Humphries, John Hugg, Bernard Devonish, John Pancoast, Elias Ffar, James Atkinson, Percival Toole, John Kay, William Albertson, Nathaniel Cripps, Thomas Barton, John Shinn, Isaac Marriot, Thomas Sharp, Freedom Lippencott, William Beard, Thomas Thackara, Thomas Matthews, Anthony Elton. On December 14, 1687, John Shinn, of Springfield Lodge, deeded John Crosby, of the same place, millwright, husband of Mary, daughter of said Shinn, one-half of a three-hundred-acre lot on Birch Creek. (W. J. R., Liber B, Pt. 1, pp. 167-443.) This deed fixes the name of one daughter. On April 10, 1693, John Shinn deeded to his son-in-law, Thomas Atkinson, and his daughter, Sarah, one hundred and ninety-five acres of land. (W. J. Rec., Liber B, Pt. 2, p. 582.) On May 25, 1687, John Shinn, Sr., and twenty-three others, proprietors of several undivided shares of land in West Jersey, conveyed to Thomas Budd 15,000 acres, to be bought from the Indians; grantee to pay the debts of the province according to act of General Assembly for 1687. (W. J. R., Liber B, ff. 150-231.) On August 8th, 1686, John Skein, of Peachfield, N. J., sold John Shinn, Sr., 100 acres in the First or Yorkshire Tenth to be located. (W. J. R., Liber B, f. 196.) On February 12, 1688-9, John Shinn and other proprietors consent to the agreement made by Dr. Daniel Coxe with East Jersey concerning the partition line. (W. J. R., Liber B. f. 233.) On July 17, 1697, John Shinn, wheelwright, deeded to his son, James Shinn, 120 acres on Birch Creek. (W. J. R., Liber B, f. 619.) In 1707 John Shinn, with divers others of the proprietors and purchasers of West Jersey, sent a remonstrance to Edward Viscount Cornbury, Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of New York and New Jersey, and asked for the removal of certain prohibitions, in words as follows: PETITION FROM PROPRIETORS AND PURCHASERS OF WEST JERSEY TO LORD CORNBURY. (From original in Alexander West Jersey Papers, p. 149.) To Edward Viscount Cornbury Captain Generale and Governour in Chief in and Over the Province of New Jersey, New York and All the Territories and Tracts of Land Depending Thereon in America and Vice Admirall of the Same, &c.: THE HUMBLE PETITION of divers of the proprietors and purchasers of the western division of New Jersey in all humility sheweth.-- That whereas we are fully Informed that the Councill of Proprietors for the western division have received a Prohibition from the Lord Cornbury in Councill held at Amboy the fourteenth day of November Anno Dom: 1706 for granting any warrants for laying out lands &c by reason whereof no warrants can be obtained for that end, to the great prejudice of such as have (as they Conceive) a good and lawful right to take up their Just proportions of land In the division aforesaid haveing as good an undevided right as ony else can pretend to and have also bought the same of the Indians for a very valuable consideration. WHEREFORE we humbly pray that such prohibition and Impediments may be removed and we evidencing our rights to such person or persons as the Proprietors have appointed to Inspect the same may be admitted thereto and we shall as in duty bound forever pray. Thomas Brian, Willm. Stevenson, Daniel Wills, John Gosling, John Sharpe, Richard Haines, William Heulings, Henry Ballinger, Henry Burr, Samuel Lippincott, Junr. Richard Fenimore. Will Petty, Jr. Edward Elkton, Joshua Humphries, Thomas Eves, Thomas Stoker, John Haines, Williams Evens, Benjamin Moore, Steven Wilson, John Horten, Thomas Wilkins, William Horton. John Jones (his mark), John Stokes, John Woolman, John Clarke, Joseph Kirkbride, Wm. Biles, John Swift, Roger Parke, Samll. Ferris, Nath. Pope, John Day (his mark), John Abbat, Matthew Watson, John Shinn, Thomas Peacher, Nathan Allen, Edward Rockhill, John Bacon. (N. J. Archives, Vol. III, p. 164.) On July 15, 1711, John Shinn, of Springfield, wheelwright, deeds John Shinn, Jr., one-seventh of a share of a propriety. (W. J. R., Liber AAA, f. 368.) In the will of John Shinn, Sr., hereafter to be noted, this John, Jr., is identified as a son of John, Sr. On February 2, 1699-1700, Robert Dimsdale,1 of Bishops Starford, County of Hertford, England, gave a power of attorney to Francis Davenport, John Shinn and John Scott as land agents. (W. J. R., Liber B, Pt. 2, f. 669.) These records disclose the fact that John Shinn, Sr., between the years 1680, when he first appeared, and 1712, when he died, had been the owner of several thousand acres of land, the largest part of which he gave his children--Mary, Sarah, Thomas, James and John, Jr. The greatest quantity conveyed at any one time was that of July 15, 1711, to John, Jr., of one-seventh of a share, and raises the probability that John, Jr., was the oldest son. There were other children, as we shall see, who, so far as the records show, received no land from their father. The modern ideas of equity in the division of estates did not find favor with fathers of that time. Primogeniture was in high repute with all land owners, and the oldest son, without superior merit, enjoyed the greater estate, while the younger children, especially the females, were considerd lucky if they were remembered at all. John Shinn may have given his other children--George, Francis, Martha and Esther--land, or money wherewith to purchase it, for the boys Francis and George had estates and died before their father. And while the will of John Shinn, Sr., made John, Jr., and James his general residuary legatees, share and share alike, it is still true that John Shinn, Jr., received the greatest quantity of land, and, so far as the records show, the other children were satisfied with the parental distribution. Burlington County at this period (1680-1712) embraced not only its present area, but a large part of Hunterdon County and Nottingham Township, in Mercer County. It is a difficult matter to trace the boundaries of the townships of the county as they existed then, but it is certain that they were larger than they are at present..... More About Jane: Fact 10: 4WR1-92 More About John Shinn and Jane: Marriage: England Children of John Shinn and Jane are: i. John Shinn, born Abt. 1659 in Mildenhall, England; died 1736; married (1) Ellen Stacey March 03, 1685/86; died Aft. 1707; married (2) Mary Budd July 01, 1707. Notes for John Shinn: [kin of luth phillips.FTW] AFN 4WR1-GW More About John Shinn: Fact 5: 1678 Notes for Ellen Stacey: [kin of luth phillips.FTW] AFN CW2R-95 There are two Stacy's that show up in the "First Tax List for the Province of Philadelphia and the Three Lower Counties 1693" as having property in Philadelphia County Robert, Robert and son, also Samuel and Company -abstracted and indexed by Adams Apple press 1994. In PCW p64 is "Robert Stacey, Philadelphia, Tanner. 2/11/1699. October 18, 1701. B. 147. Daughters Mary, Elizabeth and her children, Judith and Ellen and her son. Executor:Son John. Witnesses:Samuel Siddon, Francis Cooke." It would appear that Ellen is the son of Robert Stacey as this appears to be the only Stacey family in the area and there is a daughter Ellen. More About Ellen Stacey: Fact 10: CW2R-95 More About John Shinn and Ellen Stacey: Marriage: March 03, 1685/86 ii. George Shinn, born Abt. 1661 in Eng; married Mary Thompson May 06, 1691. More About George Shinn: Fact 10: 4WR1-H3 More About Mary Thompson: Fact 10: CW2R-CH More About George Shinn and Mary Thompson: Marriage: May 06, 1691 iii. Mary Shinn, born Abt. 1663 in Eng; married (1) John Crosby September 08, 1686; married (2) Richard Fennimore 1691. More About Mary Shinn: Fact 10: 4WR1-J8 More About John Crosby: Fact 10: CW2R-DN More About John Crosby and Mary Shinn: Marriage: September 08, 1686 iv. James Shinn, born 1664 in Soham, Suffolk, England; died June 1751 in New Hanover Twp., Burlington, NJ; married Abigail Lippincott March 03, 1696/97 in Burlington, Burlington, NJ; born February 16, 1676/77 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth, NJ; died June 1751 in N.J.. Notes for James Shinn: [kin of luth phillips.FTW] He was a minister and a landowner. More About James Shinn and Abigail Lippincott: Marriage: March 03, 1696/97, Burlington, Burlington, NJ 256 v. Thomas Shinn, born Abt. 1667 in Eng; died 1695 in ...............................................................................; married (1) Mary Stockton; married (2) Sarah Shawthorne May 01, 1687. vi. Sarah Shinn, born 1669 in Eng; married Thomas Atkinson. More About Sarah Shinn: Fact 10: 4WR1-MR More About Thomas Atkinson: Fact 10: CW2R-JC vii. Esther Shinn, born Abt. 1671 in Eng. More About Esther Shinn: Fact 10: 4WR1-NX viii. Francis Shinn, born Abt. 1673 in Eng. More About Francis Shinn: Fact 10: 4WR1-P4 ix. Martha Shinn, born Abt. 1675 in Eng; married (1) Joshua Owen January 03, 1695/96; married (2) Restore Lippincott December 24, 1729 in N.J; born July 03, 1653 in Plymouth, Devonshire, England; died July 20, 1741 in Mount Holly, Burlington, New Jersey. More About Martha Shinn: Fact 10: 4WR1-Q9 Notes for Restore Lippincott: [kin of luth phillips.FTW] Some references say birth was in Plymouth, Englnd More About Restore Lippincott and Martha Shinn: Marriage: December 24, 1729, N.J. Generation No. 12 1024. Clement Sheene, born November 12, 1593 in Near Freckenham, Mildenhall, Soham Parish, Eng; died 1640 in Soham Parish, England. He was the son of 2048. John Sheene and 2049. Anne. He married 1025. Grace 1625 in Soham Parish, England. 1025. Grace, born Abt. 1593. Notes for Clement Sheene: [kin of luth phillips.FTW] When his children were born, the spelling of their surname was given as, Shin. This was later changed to SHINN by John the emmigrant. More About Clement Sheene: Fact 2: November 24, 1593, Christtened Freckenham Parish, Hertfordshire, England More About Clement Sheene and Grace: Marriage: 1625, Soham Parish, England Children of Clement Sheene and Grace are: i. Margaret Shin, born 1624; died 1626. ii. Henry Shin, born 1627; died 1674; married Elizabeth. iii. Thomas Shin, born 1630. 512 iv. John Shinn, born 1632 in Frekenham, Herfordshire, England; died 1711 in Burlington Co., NJ; married Jane in England. v. Francis Shin, born 1634; married Alice Carter 1663. More About Alice Carter: Fact 10: CW2R-MV More About Francis Shin and Alice Carter: Marriage: 1663 vi. Clement Shin, born 1637. vii. Grace Shin, born 1640; married John Howlet. More About John Howlet: Fact 10: CW2R-N2 Generation No. 13 2048. John Sheene, born 1562 in Herfordshire, England5; died Aft. 1630. He was the son of 4096. Francis Sheene. He married 2049. Anne 1588 in Freckenham Parish, Hertfordshire, England6. 2049. Anne, died 16176. More About John Sheene and Anne: Marriage: 1588, Freckenham Parish, Hertfordshire, England6 Children of John Sheene and Anne are: i. Edward Sheene, born 1588 in Freckenham Parish, England6 Notes for Edward Sheene: [kin of luth phillips.FTW] Was a rector of Little Fransham 1610 1024 ii. Clement Sheene, born November 12, 1593 in Near Freckenham, Mildenhall, Soham Parish, Eng; died 1640 in Soham Parish, England; married Grace 1625 in Soham Parish, England. iii. Francis Sheene, born 15956; married Joane; died 16316. iv. William Sheene, born 1604 in Soham Parish, England. v. Anna Sheene, born 1608 in Soham Parish, England. vi. Margaret Sheene, born 1610 in Soham Parish, England6 vii. John Sheene, born 1614 in Soham Parish, England; died 1614. viii. Nicholas Sheene, born 1614; died 1615. Generation No. 14 4096. Francis Sheene, born 1525 in Freckenham Parish, Hertfordshire, England6. Notes for Francis Sheene: [kin of luth phillips.FTW] Reportedly of Anglo-Saxon descent. (Melody Byard 4/8/96) More About Francis Sheene: Fact 10: 4WR1-FQ Children of Francis Sheene are: i. Francis Sheene, Jr. ii. Sheen - Shin, born 15516 2048 iii. John Sheene, born 1562 in Herfordshire, England; died Aft. 1630; married (1) Anne 1588 in Freckenham Parish, Hertfordshire, England; married (2) Marie Aft. 1617; married (3) Marie Spatkes Aft. 1620; married (4) <Unnamed> Aft. 1628. iv. Mary Sheene, born 15646 Endnotes 1. Melody Byard (4/8/96) 2. Broderbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #2227, Date of Import: Apr 9, 1996 3. Melody Byard (4/8/96) 4. Shinn, Josiah, "The History of the Shinn Family in Europe and America", (The Genealogical and Historical Publishing Company, abt 1903). 5. Melody Byard (4/8/96) 6. Broderbund WFT Vol. 1, Ed. 1, Tree #4194, Date of Import: Apr 4, 1996 As of: December 8, 2009........... COMPILED BY: John Lasola Shinn III, who is listed in Generation No. 2. He is the founder & editor of L.A. Zamboanga Times based in Los Angeles, California. He can be contact via e-mail @: johnshinn3@gmail.com.