1. Daniel served in the military in Apr 1770 in Tryon County, North Carolina.
2. He was member of the Sandy Run Baptist Church, Tryon, North Carolina in 1782.
3. He was found on a Tax Listing in 1785 in Rutherford County, North Carolina.
4. He appeared in the 1790 Rutherford County, North Carolina Census.
5. The marriage of Daniel Shipman Jr. & Mary Elizabeth McMinn was listed in an approved application for the DAR by a Mrs. Maggie Means of Texas about 1925.
1. There is no proof she is a McMinn....
2. There is a D.A.R. paper in 1920 stating this mistake from "Fontier Life" by Daniel Shipman who was an old man at the time, who mentions seeing his old aunt Sarah Saling on the way to Texas. {Note from Noma Lee McMinn Taylor}
1. Moses Shipman appeared on the 1840 Henderson County, North Carolina Census.
1. Daniel & his half brother David moved to Bladen County, North Carolina. On 27 Apr 1767 a 200 acre land grant was issued to Daniel Shipman and was recorded in Mecklinburg County, North Carolina.
2. In 1770 Daniel was in Rutherford County, North Carolia, where he was appointed Lieutenant of the Malitia and purchased land.
3. Daniel Shipman is listed on the rolls of Sandy Run Baptist Church in 1782. This church is located in the little town of Mooresboro now in Cleveland County, North Carolina.
4. Public Records show sale of 200 acres to Daniel Shipman on both sides of Sandy Run and North side of the Broad River. File 2036, Book 23, Page 40.
5. He owned Land Grant on 9 Apr 1770 in Tryon County, North Carolina.
6. Public Records show Daniel Shipman bought 100 acres on both sides of the middle fork of Sandy Run of Broad River, File 255, Book 20, Page 562.
7. Daniel witnessed a deed where the buyer was Abraham Kuykendall, and this is where the Kuykendall family became neighbors to the Shipman's.
8. He is found on Tax Listing in 1785 in Rutherford County, North Carolina. Listed with sons, Daniel Jr. and Edward Shpman.
9. He appeared on the Census in 1790 in Rutherford County, North Carolina. It shows Daniel with a wife, a boy under 16 years of age and 2 slaves in his household. It is thought that they were living on Phoeby's 100 acres that she bought back in 1788.
10. He signed Marriage Bond in 1797 in Warren County, Kentucky, for his daughter Hannah to John Reed.
11. WARREN COUNTY KENTUCKY Deed BOOK 1, p. 53-55. Be it remembered that on the eighth day of November One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Eight that Daniel SHIPMAN, Senior Dec'd as he lay sick on his bed though in his perfect mind and memory not having an oportunity of a written will made and apointed this his perfect will in the Distribution of his Property, Viz: One negro man named Dick and one negro woman named Beck with two gildings called Dick and ______ with twenty pounds due to the above named Daniel SHIPMAN from one of his Daughters which said twenty pounds to be and remain in his hands until a Division of the above mention is brought to an Equal Division between his oldest children, to wit, Sarah HARRINGTON, Edward SHIPMAN, the heir of Jacob SHIPMAN, Anner Lee, Daniel SHIPMAN, Lucrecy GAGE who owes the above twenty pounds, Feby CRAWFORD, Rebecca SISCOE and Mary JOHNSON. About 1735.
12. Daniel Shipman, his brother Joseph and their half brother David Gage came to America together. Joseph and David lived for a while in New Jersey near the New York state border. However, Daniel seems to have moved to Pennsylvania where so many other Germans had moved. Daniel is believed to have moved from Pennsylvania and joined his half-brother in Lunenberg County, Virginia about 1739.
13. Daniel left a will proven 13 Nov 1798 in Warren County, Kentucky.
1. Phoebe Station {Stanton} purchased from Joel Shelton 100 acres of land on the Cornfield Fork of the Beaver Dam Creek and Little Broad River about one and a half miles above Samuel Blackburn's land for the sum of 150 pounds and witnessed by George Moore and William Jones. This deed also states that the land was granted to Joel Shelton on the 10th day of October, 1783, signed by Alexander Martin, Governor of North Carolina.
2. She is found in the Tax Polls in 1800 in Barren County, Kentucky.
3. She appeared on the Census in 1810 in Warren County, Kentucky, showing her living with a girl between 10 and 16, a boy between 16 and 26 and two other women in the household whos names are not known.
1. In the name of God, Amen. I Thomas Harrington of Rutherford County of North Carolina being in low state of health and in much Misery but of sound Memory and Understanding (Thanks be to God for it) and considering myself as at the point of Death, Do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament, and first of all things I give and bequeth my soul unto God that gave it and my Body to the earth to be furied at the discretion of my Executors which shall be henceforth named, and as such Temporal Estate as it hath to please God to endow me with, I dispose of in the Manner and form following, VIZ.
1. Sarah Shipman was listed in the Sandy Run Baptist Church, Tryon County, North Carolina in 1782.
2. She was mentioned in her father's willin the State of Kentucky as Sarah Harrington as one of his oldest children along with Edward Shipman, Anna Lee, Daniel Shipman, Jr., and Lucrecey "Lucy" Gage. Also mentioned were children Feeby Crawford, Rebeca Siscoe and Mary Johnson.
1. Eleanor Arens gave names of Eli, Ezeria, Zimeria, Sarah & Rachel. Not proven.
1. Irene McTeer Hunt posted birth of Edward abt 1743 North Carolina.
2. On 28 Apr 1795 in Rutherford County, North Carolina, he purchased 300 acres on Mudd Creek from Sarah Jane, widow of Jacob Shipman.
3. It is reported that Edward was a Patriot of the Rev. War in South Carolina Militia and later married Sarah Jane William Osteen, and states that Edward and Sarah returned to Little River in Henderson County, North Carolina. This second marriage was about 1794 after the dath of Thomas Osteen in Georgia where his Will was executed.
Capt. James "Jim" B. BURLESON "Sr"
1. The biography of James says he was born in Buncombe County, North Carolina....but, many other sources say he was born in Bladen County, North Carolina, while records in Texas have him being born in Washington County, Tennessee.
2. James B. Burleson was said to have moved from Eastern North Carolina into the Blue Ridge Mountains after purchasing two hundred acres near Asheville along Ivy Creek.
3. He served as Company Commander of Perkin's Regiment under General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 and had his son Edward as his clerk and servedin the military in 1815 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
4. He served during the Creek Indian War with then Lt. Sam Houston in the battle of Horsehoe Bend.
5. He immigrated to Hardeman County, Tennessee in 1827, later moving to Bastrop, Texas, in 1829.
1. She married her First Cousin once removed. [Son of her grandmothers brother]
2. She & her husband were some of the early pioneers to Texas, being part of Stephen F. Austin's "Little Colony" in 1823.