Joseph Stafford

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• FamilySearch ID: KLYS-2RG
• Initiatory (LDS): 19 Feb 1952, ARIZO

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• FamilySearch ID: 278Y-F6N
• Initiatory (LDS): 22 Apr 1938

Arnold married Phebe Sprague on 2 Dec 1766 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: KVLV-KJV
• Initiatory (LDS): 6 Feb 1942, ARIZO

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• FamilySearch ID: LC37-NB3
• Initiatory (LDS): 8 Oct 1926, SGEOR

Joseph married Rebecca Arnold on 27 May 1739 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, United States. Rebecca (daughter of Israel Arnold, Jr and Dorothy Whipple) was born on 5 Dec 1720 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, United States; died on 27 May 1789 in Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LH6D-PP2
• Initiatory (LDS): 26 Jan 1940, LOGAN

Notes:

SOURCE: "Descendants of Deliverance Whipple," descendancy chart from N . C ombs to Weldon Whipple, 24 Sep 2002. Cites Elder John Gorton and th e Si x Principle Baptist Church of East Greenwich, Rhode Island.

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• FamilySearch ID: L14M-Y63
• Initiatory (LDS): 14 Apr 1936, SLAKE

Joseph married Susannah Gorton about 1715. Susannah was born on 4 Jun 1694 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, United States; died on 29 Aug 1734 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LHZ6-8VY
• Initiatory (LDS): 25 May 1936, SLAKE

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• FamilySearch ID: LZ6P-NXZ
• Initiatory (LDS): 26 Feb 1935, LOGAN

Notes:

SOURCE: Email from Joanne Lahr-Kreischer to Weldon Whipple, 6 Apr 1999 . S pells name Isreal.

SOURCE: "Descendants of Abial Brown," email from N. Combs to Weldon Whip p le, 13 Jun 2003. Gives death 3 Aug 1753 in Warwick, Kent, RI. Spells na m e Israel.

SOURCE: "Direct Descendants of Israel Arhold, Jr.," email from N. Comb s t o Weldon Whipple, 11 Jun 2012. Cites Vital Record of Rhode Island 163 6-18 50 (birth, marriage)

Israel married Dorothy Whipple on 24 Dec 1719 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, United States. Dorothy (daughter of Ensign John Whipple and Rebecca Brown) was born about 1680 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; died on 19 Sep 1728. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LZNF-G62
• Initiatory (LDS): 28 Feb 1918, SLAKE

Notes:

SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, _Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island_ ( A lbany, N.Y., 1887; reprinted. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1 97 8) p. 221. This source shows Dorothy as a daughter of father John' s s eco nd wife Rebecca.

SOURCE: Henry E. Whipple, A Brief Genealogy of the Whipple Families Wh o S ettled in Rhode Island (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1873), p. 13 . Fro m a corrected copy of the book found in the Rhode Island Historica l Socie ty Library, call no. CS71.W574 1873 RIHSL. This source shows Doro thy as t he third Child of father John's first wife Mary Olney. A penne d correctio n also shows Israel Arnold as Dorothy's husband.

SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol . 1 , Warwick, Part 1 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1892 ), p . 99. Gives marriage date 8 May 1699/1700 in Warwick.

SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol . 2 , Providence, Part 1 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1 892) , p. 157. Gives marriage 8 Mar 1699/1700 in Providence.

Marriage: Year of marriage varies from source to source (some giving 1 6 9 8 /1699, others 1699/1700. The 1699/1700 year is from New England Mar ri ages Prior to 1700 / Clarence Almon Torrey (Baltimore: Genealogical Pu b . Co., 1985) p. 619.

SPOUSE: A handwritten "correction" to Henry E. Whipple's A Brief Gene a l o gy of the Whipple Families Who Settled in Rhode Island (Providence : A . Crawford Greene, 1873), p. 13, lists an Israel Arnold as Dorothy' s hu s band. Other sources do not substantiate this relationship. --Weldo n Whi pple.

Death: Date: Email from Susan Shannon (susanorl at sundial dot net) to t h e Whipple Web Site, 24 Oct 1997.

Birth: Email from Susan Shannon (susanorl at sundial dot net) to the W h i p ple Web Site, 24 Oct 1997, gives birth date 3 Jun 1669.

SOURCE: Dean Crawford Smith, The Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell, 1844-19 1 0 (Boston: NEHGS, 1992), p. 449. Describes her as "unrecorded" and lis t s Dorothy as Child of John's second wife Rebecca. This conflicts wi t h S . Shannon, whose birth date would make Dorothy the daughter of Mar y Olney , John's first wife.

SOURCE: Charles M. Whipple, Jr., A History of William Whipple of Dorches t er, Massachusetts and Smithfield, Rhode Island, 1652-1712: His Antecede nt s and Descendants. (Victoria, B.C.: Trafford, c2006), p. 4. Adds appr o xi m ate birth date (abt 1680); gives death 19 Sep 1728 (previously ent ere d as 10 Sep 1728.