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Anne Home Shippen Livingston (1763–1841)

Role

In 1784 Bushrod Washington wrote Anne Home Shippen Livingston a flowery letter after visiting her and other friends in Philadelphia. 

Description

Anne "Nancy" Home (or Hume) Shippen, a sister-in-law of Edward Livingston and Robert R. Livingston and cousin of Peggy Shippen, was born on 24 February 1763 in Philadelphia. She received an education in Trenton, New Jersey, during the British occupation of her home city.

Citations

Bushrod Washington to Anne Home Shippen Livingston, 28 April 1784, Box 2 (Reel 3), Shippen Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Shippen Family Papers: A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Margaret Galphin, Review of Edith Armes, ed. and comp., "Nancy Shippen, Her Journal Book: An International Romance of a Young Lady of Fashion of Colonial Philadelphia with Letters to Her and about Her," The William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 16, Number 2 (April 1936), 33436.

Benjamin Trott, "Anne Hume Shippen" (oval), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Anne Hume "Nancy" Shippen Livingston at Find a Grave.

Anne Hume Shippen at FamilySearch.