Portrait of an Early American Family : The Shippens of Pennsylvania Across Five Generations

An expert rendering of a strong kinship system operating for the benefit, advancement, and protection of its members. An expert rendering of a strong kinship system operating for the benefit, advancement, and protection of its members. Table of Contents Illustrations Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgement 1. The Family Connection II. The First Generation: Uprooting, Transplanting, and Creating III. Second Generation: Contraction of the Family IV. Third Generation: The Formative Period V. The Education and Establishment of the Fourth Generation'- The Primary Branch VI. The Establishment of the Fourth Generation: The Secondary Branches VII. Interaction as a Family Before the American Revolution VIII. The Shippens and the American Revolution to 1781 IX. The End of an Era X. The Shippens in Retrospect Notes Appendix A. Vital Statistics of Five Generations Appendix B. The Shippen Family Kinship Network: A Schematic Presentation Bibliography Index This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.