Background
Born in Devon, England, he was descended from Ruald Adolphus de Lovecote. His first child, a son was born there and he was named Remembrance in the traditional Puritan manner.
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Richard Lippincott
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Lippincott was a devout English Quaker who emigrated to Colonial America to escape persecution for his religious beliefs. He was becoming disillusioned with New England Puritanism and was formally excommunicated on 6 July 1651 for being tenacious about his religious beliefs which became increasingly different from the church doctrine. A year later he returned to England hoping to find greater religious liberties than he did in Massachusetts Bay.
Lippincott was jailed at Plymouth, Devonshire for attesting that "Christ was the Word of God, and the Scriptures a document of the mind of God".
After this last child he was again jailed for the "faithfulness of his religious convictions". Fortunately he was released with the help of Margaret Fell who had some influence with Charles World War II Later, he moved to the area of Shrewsbury, New Jersey after buying patents for purchase of which he was by far the largest shareholder.
The reason given for the founding of the patents was in order that the inhabitants could experience "free liberty of Conscience without any molestation or disturbance whatever in the way of worship.
Membership
Richard Lippincott settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony and became a member of the church, consequently being made a Freeman by the General Court of Boston on 13 May 1640.
