Actual Record of Joseph Tremau serving aboard "La Blanche"
"Les Combattants Francais de la Guerre Americaine 1778-1783", published in Paris, 1903. The lists in this book were compiled from authentic records found in the French National Archives and the French Archives of the Ministry of War. I found this book in its entirety on a French Website in December, 2001. The images here are of the title page and of page 75 where Joseph's name and hometown area is shown in the left column, 36th name down from the top. From the previous page 74, the names are a continuation of the "Matelots" (sailors) aboard the French ship, "La Blanche".
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1894 Letter from Stephen Sippy (1809-1896)
This letter was written to his son, Amos Sippy. A
great-granddaughter of Joseph Tremeau/Sippy (probably Mary Margaret Bowlby,
daughter of William Bowlby and Phoebe Sippy) hand-copied the following
letter from the original. She pens her own comments on the letter on page
#3. This copy, itself, did not copy well, and much of it is
difficult or impossible to read, so I have typed my own transcript which follows
these 3 pages.
1894 Letter w/notes
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Transcript Notes
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1868 Land Sale to Stephen Sippy from Andrew Hann
Fulton County, Indiana
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1862 Civil War Letter
Written to Stephen & Emily (Warden) Sippy concerning the death of their son, Nelson G. Sippy (1845-1862) by disease in the Union Army during his service in the American Civil War. The letter was from their nephew, Hiram Whittenberger.
Transcript
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1893 Letter Written by Dr. Benjamin F. Sippy
This listing on the letterhead of Dr. Benjamin F. Sippy was found among the papers belonging to the doctor's 2nd cousin, Olive (Sippy) McQuinney, a great granddaughter of Joseph (Tremau) Sippy and Lucretia Johnson. Dr. Sippy closed his medical practice when his first wife became terminally ill so he could care for her. During that period he gathered family information by writing to other Sippy descendants who were scattered around the country. He passed this information along to his great grand-daughter, Judy (Naylor) Somers who incorporated it in her book, "Joseph Sippy, the Frenchman".
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JOSEPH (TREMAU) SIPPY'S WILL - PHOTOCOPY & TRANSCRIPT
(Beaver County, Pennsylvania)
In the name of God Amen ---I Joseph Sippy in the county of Beaver and Township of North Beaver, being weak in body, but sound in Memory and Judgment, Calling to mind remembrance the certainty of Death, after recommending my soul to God who gave it to me, and my Body to the Dust, do this fourteenth day of January in the Year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, devise and dispose of what Worldly Substance it has pleased God to Bless me with, in the following manner. Viz: It is my will and I do hereby allow all by lawful debts and funeral expenses to be paid out of this my Estate.---It is my will, and I do hereby give grant and bequeath to my dearly beloved Wife, Lucretia Sippy (after paying the hereafter legacees) All and Singular the property of which I am possessed, be it whatsoever kind it may---(Children’s clothes excepted) and to be at her disposal, for the raising, maintaining and educating of My Children, such of them as is not yet supposed to be fit to make a living for themselves. Item. It is my will, and I do hereby give, grant and bequeath to my sons John Sippy, Joseph Junr., Abraham Sippy, Isaac Sippy, Jacob Sippy, thomas Sippy, Eli Sippy, Nicholas Sippy, Stephen Sippy and Levi Sippy. To my Daughters, Elizabeth Shaffer inter-married with Christopher Shaffer, Ann Whittenberger intermarried with William Whittenberger, Mary Reagle intermarried with Abraham Reagle, Rebecca Sippy, Lucinda Sippy, to each and every one of them, one Dollar, to be paid to them fifteen months after my decease. ---Item. It is my will and I do hereby appoint my trusty friend John Clark of Beaver County, North Beaver Township and Thomas Williams of Mercer County, executors of this my last Will and Testament, and do hereby revoke and disannul all and every other will and legacies by me heretofore made and do declare this and no other to be my last Will and Testament.---
Sealed Signed and confirmed the day and year above Written.---
In presence of
James Alworth Joseph ( his
+ mark) Sippy (Seal)John Nisbet
N.B. It is my will and I do hereby allow that an inventory be taken and an Appraisement be made of all of the property that I now possess, and if that at any Time my wife Lucretia after my decease should marry, then in that case the one third of it is to be her dowry; the remainder to go to the use of the children before mentioned.---
Sealed Signed and confirmed as above written
In the presence of Jas Alworth John Nisbet
Joseph Sippy his mark +
Beaver County S-----Be it remembered on the 12th day of February A. D. 1819, Personally appeared before me David Johnson Register for the Probate of Will & c in and for said county. John Nisbet Esqr. Who being duly sworn did dispose and say, that he was personally present and heard and saw the Testator Joseph Sippy, sign, seal, pronounce and declare the within Instrument in Writing as and for his last Will and Testament. That said Testator was of sound mind, memory and understanding at the Time of so doing, in the deponents Judgment and belief, and that he and the under written James Alworth, both signed the same as witnesses therto at the desire of said Testator.-----
David Johnson, Register
