William Whipple (1652 - 1712): Our Family History

1652 - 1712 (~ 59 years)

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Name	William Whipple
Christened	16 May 1652	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Gender	Male
Died	9 Mar 1712	Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Buried	12 Mar 1712	Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Central Falls #1, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Initiatory (LDS)	28 Nov 1906	MANTI
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Person ID	I732	mytree
Last Modified	2 Mar 2022

Father	Captain John Whipple, b. Abt 1617, England , d. 16 May 1685, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States (Age 68 years)
Mother	Sarah, b. 1624, England , d. 1666, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States (Age 42 years)
Married	1638	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Family ID	F619	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Mary, b. Abt 1656, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States , d. Aft 16 Jun 1713, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States (Age > 57 years)

Married 1675 Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Children

+	1. Mary Whipple, b. Abt 1689, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States , d. Aft 14 Aug 1749, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, United States (Age > 60 years)
+	2. Captain William Whipple, Jr, b. Abt 1691, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States , d. 16 Nov 1776, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, United States (Age 85 years)
	3. Seth Whipple, b. Abt 1696, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States , d. 13 Nov 1724, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States (Age 28 years)

Last Modified 16 May 2022

Family ID F629 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Event Map

	Christened - 16 May 1652 - Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
	Married - 1675 - Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
	Died - 9 Mar 1712 - Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
	Buried - 12 Mar 1712 - Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Central Falls #1, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
	Initiatory (LDS) - 28 Nov 1906 - MANTI

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Histories
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Notes

SOURCE: Sons and Daughters of Jesse, by Charles M. Whipple (Oklahoma City: Southwestern Press, 1976), p. 15.

SOURCE: Henry E. Whipple, A Brief Genealogy of the Whipple Families Who Settled in Rhode Island (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1873), p. 14. From a corrected copy of the book found in the Rhode Island Historical Society Library, call no. CS71.W574 1873 RIHSL.

SOURCE: David Jillson, "Descendants of Capt. John Whipple, of Providence, R.I.," New-England Historical and Genealogical Register, 32 (1878): 405.

SOURCE: Vital Records of Attleborough, Bristol Co., MA to the end of the year 1849 [compact disc]: Attleborough Births (Wheat Ridge, Colo.: Search & Research Pub. Corp., c 1998), p. 285. Gives birth of grandson William.

SOURCE: Mail from Charles M. Whipple to Weldon Whipple, 4 Feb 2003. Indicates that date of marriage to wife Mary is unknown.

SOURCE: Email from Charles M. Whipple to Weldon Whipple, 11 Feb 2003. Cites "The Early Records of the Town of Providence," 21 volumes (Providence: Snow & Farnum, 1894), vol. 5. From page 338: "18 Jan 1678 - William Whipple made Proclamation of a stray horse he had taken up, color bay, branded on the foreshoulder with an X, the two hind feet with a White in the forehead, with a small white on the nose, Dock, somewhat short of stature, something small"; from page 162: "11 Nov 1703 - William Whipple and Richard Arnold witnessed a deed of sale made between Thomas Arnold and Shadrach Manton."

SOURCE: Charles M. Whipple, Jr., A History of William Whipple of Dorchester, Massachusetts and Smithfield, Rhode Island, 1652-1712: His Antecedents and Descendants. (Victoria, B.C.: Trafford, c2006), p. 4. Gives death in Lime Rock, Rhode Island; p. 55-62 indicates that his headstone was removed to Moshassuck Cemetery, Providence.