Quaker mavens, help me with the Shippeys of Chesterfield MM?

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I decided to track down signatories as possible of some of my family Quaker weddings, one of whom was  Gershom Shippey, who attended the Joseph Chapman & Mary Worth wedding at Chesterfield Monthly Meeting in 1715 (see Some Quaker Weddings)  I found this record in the Chesterfield minutes:

Woodbridge the 6th of June 1721 - This is to certifie all whome it maye consarne that I am freely willing that my son Gershom Shippey may take Mary Cheshier to be his wife as witness my hand John Shippey

I inadvertently created a duplicate and have applied for a merge for shippey-213 and shippey-87.

2 years after the permission above, there is a second:

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I did find this in Woodbridge and vicinity : the story of a New Jersey township (Dally, Joseph W. 1873)

Mary Shippey Daughter of John Shippey and Judeth his wife Born August ye 21st 1697. 

It seems like John Shippey was a widower in 1721 and has remarried, to Susanah, by 1723. I would love help finding a marriage record for Susanah. Also, a death for Judith Worth Shippey.

Extra credit: John Shippey signed his name "Junior" - can he be attached to a John Shippey father in England?

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in Genealogy Help by Jane Peppler G2G6 Mach 4 (43.9k points)
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Please do not assume that because John Shippey was called Junior, his father was called John, unless you have good other evidence for his father's name. Junior and Senior might be used to distinguish between people of the same name who were not father and son, but in some other family relationship to each other, or even occasionally in no close family relationship at all.
by Michael Cayley G2G6 Pilot (237k points)

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