1. Daniel was one of the Old Three Hundred.
2. The family left South Carolina on 5 Mar 1814, to follow the frontier. After making crops in North Carolina and Tennessee they followed their relatives and neighbors, the family of Edward Burleson, to Illinois and then Missouri in 1815. From there, in 1821 they drifted down into Arkansas and then to the Pecan Point region of North Texas where they arrived on 19 Mar 1822.
3. He received a one-league headright now in Brazoria County on 21 May 1827.
4. He married Margaretta Kelly on 23 Sep 1828 and subsequently settled on Oyster Creek in Fort Bend County.
5. By 1840 he owned 2,214 acres of land in Bexar County, an equal amount in Brazoria County, and 288 acrews in Harris County.
6. Daniel died at the home of his son, Daniel, Jr.
7. Source: BIBLIOGRAPHY: Daniel Shipman, Frontier Life: 58 years in Texas (1879). Andrew Jackson Sowell, History of Fort Bend County (Houston: Coyle, 1904; rpt, Richmond, Texas; Fort Bend County Historical Museum, 1974)
1. Daniel was one of the Old Three Hundred.
2. The family left South Carolina on 5 Mar 1814, to follow the frontier. After making crops in North Carolina and Tennessee they followed their relatives and neighbors, the family of Edward Burleson, to Illinois and then Missouri in 1815. From there, in 1821 they drifted down into Arkansas and then to the Pecan Point region of North Texas where they arrived on 19 Mar 1822.
3. He received a one-league headright now in Brazoria County on 21 May 1827.
4. He married Margaretta Kelly on 23 Sep 1828 and subsequently settled on Oyster Creek in Fort Bend County.
5. By 1840 he owned 2,214 acres of land in Bexar County, an equal amount in Brazoria County, and 288 acrews in Harris County.
6. Daniel died at the home of his son, Daniel, Jr.
7. Source: BIBLIOGRAPHY: Daniel Shipman, Frontier Life: 58 years in Texas (1879). Andrew Jackson Sowell, History of Fort Bend County (Houston: Coyle, 1904; rpt, Richmond, Texas; Fort Bend County Historical Museum, 1974)
1. Edward served as a private in the War of 1812 in his father's company, part of Perkin's Regiment, Alabama.
2. On 20 Oct 1817 he was appointed as Captain of Militia in Howard County, Missouri.
3. He was commissioned Colonel on 13 Jun 1821 in Saline County, and was Colonel of Militia from 1823 to 1830 in Hardeman County, Tennessee.
4. He arrived in Texas on 1 My 1830 and applied for land in March 1831; title was issued on 4 Apr 1831.
5. On 11 Aug 1832 at San Felipe de Austin, he as a member of the ayuntamiento governing the counties of Austin, Bexar, Goliad, and Guadalupe.
6. On 7 Dec 1832 he was elected Lieutenant Colonel of the Militia of Austin Municipality.
7. In 1833 he was elected a delegate to the Second Convention in Mina.
8. On October 17, 1839, Burleson was in command of the ceremonies establishing Austin as the capital of the Republic of Texas.
9. From 1830 to 1842 he defended settlers in numerous engagements with hostile Indians.
10. On May 17, 1835 he was elected to the committe of safety In Bastrop, but was unable to attend the Consultation of 1835, although he had been elected a delegate.
11. On 10 Oct 1835, in Gonzales he was elected Lieutenant Colonel of the infantry in Gen. Stephen F. Austin's army.
12. On 24 Nov 1835 he became general of the volunteer army and replaced Austin.
13. On 1 Dec 1835 Edward was commissioned Commander In Chief of the volunteer army by the provisional government.
14. He became General Burleson and Commander of the Texans in the battle for San Antonio during the beginning of the Revolutionary War for Texas Independence.
15. He died of pneumonia on 26 Dec 1851, in Austin while serving as Senator from the Twentyfirst District. He was still President Pro Tem.
16. He was given a Masonic burial at the site of the future State Cemetery.
17. Bibliography: Eugene C. Barker, ed., The Austin Papers (3 vols., Washington: GPO, 1924-28) Mary Starr Barkley, History of Travis County and Austin, 1839-1899 (Waco: Texian Press, 1963) Edward Burleson, Jr. papers, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
18. Headstone text: In Memory of Gen'l Ed.Burleson of the Texas Revolution Died Dec. 26, 1851
1. It is thought that Edward died in route to Wales, shortly after 1717.
1. Esther Schipmann {or Elizabeth Howe} was born about 1685 in Hamburg, Germany. The family lived about eight miles Southeast of Hamburg, on the Elbe River. They are said to have intended to obtain passage to New Jersey in America. The boys continued to plan the trip even after their mother remarried. One can only wonder at the stories the boys heard from their father about the great land in America before he died. He probably had heard and passed on the stories told in Germany by William Penn that land was plentiful and rich. Edward had worked in the shipyards in Germany and most likely thought he could earn the passager from Wales by working in the shipyards there as he had done in Germany. Passage to Wales was not hard to come by for a man who worked on ships each day. But, he did not complete the journey and is thought to have been buried at sea.
Esther was the widowed mother of Daniel and Jacob Shipman. Her husband whose first name is not known for sure but thought to be Edward Schipmann, died in route to Wales, Shortley after 1717. [No documentation has been found to show the name of the ship or the date of sail] She is thought to have settled in Wales with her two sons and married a man named Nicholas Gage. For some time it was thought that David Gage was Esther's son by Nicholas Gage, but, It has now been found that he was the son of Nicholas and his first wife named Mary. The name Gage is Welch and we now know that her stepson David Gage was younger than her other two sons. David married the younger sister of Daniel's wife, Elizabeth Burleson.
Since no mention of Esther is found in America, we must assume that she remained in Wales with her new husband and gave her blessing to her sons on their journey to the open country that her first husband dreamed of. The country of Wales was very nice but the stories told of the land in American must have sounded wonderful to her sons, and they were not very old when they embarked on the trip across the ocean to a land where they knew only each other. It is thought that the boys changed their names to the English spelling while still in Wales so as to fit in the the country they would call home.
So, the three young men, two brothers and a half brother, started a new beginning in a new land. If they ever wrote to their mother we will probably never know. But, for many of the pioneers of those days it was a time to look forward and never look back.
1. Esther Schipmann {or Elizabeth Howe} was born about 1685 in Hamburg, Germany. The family lived about eight miles Southeast of Hamburg, on the Elbe River. They are said to have intended to obtain passage to New Jersey in America. The boys continued to plan the trip even after their mother remarried. One can only wonder at the stories the boys heard from their father about the great land in America before he died. He probably had heard and passed on the stories told in Germany by William Penn that land was plentiful and rich. Edward had worked in the shipyards in Germany and most likely thought he could earn the passager from Wales by working in the shipyards there as he had done in Germany. Passage to Wales was not hard to come by for a man who worked on ships each day. But, he did not complete the journey and is thought to have been buried at sea.
Esther was the widowed mother of Daniel and Jacob Shipman. Her husband whose first name is not known for sure but thought to be Edward Schipmann, died in route to Wales, Shortley after 1717. [No documentation has been found to show the name of the ship or the date of sail] She is thought to have settled in Wales with her two sons and married a man named Nicholas Gage. For some time it was thought that David Gage was Esther's son by Nicholas Gage, but, It has now been found that he was the son of Nicholas and his first wife named Mary. The name Gage is Welch and we now know that her stepson David Gage was younger than her other two sons. David married the younger sister of Daniel's wife, Elizabeth Burleson.
Since no mention of Esther is found in America, we must assume that she remained in Wales with her new husband and gave her blessing to her sons on their journey to the open country that her first husband dreamed of. The country of Wales was very nice but the stories told of the land in American must have sounded wonderful to her sons, and they were not very old when they embarked on the trip across the ocean to a land where they knew only each other. It is thought that the boys changed their names to the English spelling while still in Wales so as to fit in the the country they would call home.
So, the three young men, two brothers and a half brother, started a new beginning in a new land. If they ever wrote to their mother we will probably never know. But, for many of the pioneers of those days it was a time to look forward and never look back.
1. It is said that Harmon had four sons and a daughter by his first wife who died young.
2. Harmon settled in Harmony Township [now Union] Warren County, New Jersey, where he purchased 200 acres of virgin forest. He cleared most of the land, lived the balance of his life there.
3. There are others that think Harmon is the son of Herman Schuppmann. No proven.
1. Enlisted in the American Revolutionary War.
1. Enlisted in the American Revolutionary War.
1. Enlisted in the American Revolutionary War.
1. It is said that Harmon had four sons and a daughter by his first wife who died young.
2. Harmon settled in Harmony Township [now Union] Warren County, New Jersey, where he purchased 200 acres of virgin forest. He cleared most of the land, lived the balance of his life there.
3. There are others that think Harmon is the son of Herman Schuppmann. No proven.
1. Enlisted in the American Revolutionary War.