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Tree: Adam Shipley
| Tree Name | Adam Shipley | |
| Description | According to the best authorities, the word Shipley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. It is one of the oldest names of England, is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1068, and goes back in usage prior to the present form of the English language. our Adam1 – shows up in the Colonies in 1668. This means that he left England at age 19. Adam arrived at a port in the area now Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. He was one of ten young men solicited by the merchant John Pawson to come to the new world with the promise of free land and a new life. At one time, I had seen a lineage line that traced him back to William the Conqueror's mother, Herleva, and step-father, Herluin. | |
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