Mary A Johnson

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• FamilySearch ID: K8VD-XL3
• Initiatory (LDS): 6 Nov 1956, SLAKE

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• FamilySearch ID: LC8H-DNC
• Initiatory (LDS): 31 Jan 1957, SLAKE

Seth married Jerusha Root in 1828 in Chenango, Broome, New York, United States. Jerusha (daughter of Ebenezer Root and Cynthia Whipple) was born on 22 Feb 1804 in Guilford, Chenango, New York, United States; died on 8 Jul 1889 in Guilford, Chenango, New York, United States; was buried in Guilford, Chenango, New York, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LC8H-DJT
• Initiatory (LDS): 19 Feb 1957, SLAKE

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• FamilySearch ID: K6WC-J6P
• Initiatory (LDS): 13 Sep 1997, SLAKE

Daniel married Mary Norton in 1784 in Salisbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. Mary was born in 1764 in Salisbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States; died on 22 Jan 1824 in Salisbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: KZ36-KTW
• Initiatory (LDS): 1 May 2012, RALEI

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• FamilySearch ID: K236-GCW
• Initiatory (LDS): 12 Dec 1930, SLAKE

Ebenezer married Cynthia Whipple on 21 Nov 1802 in Bainbridge, Chenango, New York, United States. Cynthia (daughter of Daniel Whipple and Deborah Hildreth) was born in 1789 in Brattleboro, Windham, Vermont, United States; died on 15 Feb 1856 in Guilford, Chenango, New York, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LCJD-PW3
• Initiatory (LDS): 10 Jan 1957, SLAKE

Notes:

SOURCE: Email from Michael Whipple (whip33 at msn dot com) to Weldon W h i p ple, 30 Jun 2005. Cites http://www.rootsweb.com/~nychenan/1880-21.h t m (Hi story of Chenago and Madison Counties Chapter 21 Town of Osford) : " Ebenezer ROOT, His second wife was Cynthia Whipple, who died Feb. 15 , 185 6, aged 80."

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• FamilySearch ID: LH2S-57S
• Initiatory (LDS): 18 Sep 1930, SLAKE

Joshua married Abigail Olds on 23 Mar 1757 in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. Abigail was born on 27 Mar 1725 in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; died on 15 Sep 1797 in Egremont, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LC8K-GYV
• Initiatory (LDS): 10 Nov 1930, SLAKE

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• FamilySearch ID: LCZ3-NQG
• Initiatory (LDS): 21 Feb 1883

Notes:

SOURCE: LDS Collectors Library: Early LDS Membership Data, (c) 1995 Info b ases, Inc. Also LDS Ancestral File.

SOURCE: Clara Hammond McGuigan, The Antecedents and Descendants of N o a h W hipple of the Rogerene Community at Quakertown, Connecticut (Itha ca , N.Y.: J.M. Kingsbury, 1971), p. 40. Gives a Daniel, b. 7 Sep 1749 i n So mers, Connecticut. Does not give name of wife.

SOURCE: Clair A. Hemenway Newton, Captain John Whipple, 1617-1685, and H i s Descendants (Naperville, Ill., 1946), p. 55.


Grandson's Recollections

My grandfather, I have some more knowledge of. He was born in Brattlebor o , Windham County, Vermont, in the year of 1749. I know but little of h i s life until he came to the State of Pennsylvania about the year 1785 . H e settled in the wilderness on the Susquehanna River, 13 miles from a ny w hite inhabitants. Here he lived until the country became more settle d an d died suddenly of the pleurisy in the 51st year of his age and in t he ye ar 1798.His family consisted of four sons and three daughters of wh om m y father was the eldest. They were Daniel, Samuel, Richard, and Rosw ell , Cynthia, Polly and Lucy.

written by Norman Whipple 1877


History of Daniel Whipple written by son, Nelson Wheeler Whipple

A few sketches of the history of my fore-fathers according to the best i n formation I have been able to gather from my father and others.
My great-great grandfather was among the first settlers of the State o f V ermont in the Town of Brattleboro, Windham County. He had one brothe r als o who came over from England, so says the History that Edsom Whippl e obta ined while getting up the genealogy while on a mission east. He as sertain ed that there were three brothers, and from them sprang the Whipp le tha t I have ever found in the United States, which are a considerabl e number . I believe that all by that name have sprung from them as I hav e ever fo und any old countrymen that ever heard the name before they cam e to Ameri ca.

The above mentioned man, I suppose, died in the town of Brattleboro, a t w hat age I know n ot. His name I believe was Timothy, though as to th i s I am not certain–(Samuel was his name–Anor Whipple)

My great grandfather’s name was Daniel as I was informed by my father . H e also lived and died in the same place as I suppose. I have but litt le k nowledge of him at the most, but have often heard my father tell o f seein g him when my father was quite a child.

My grandfather, I have some more knowledge of. He was born in Brattlebor o , Windham County, Vermont, in the year of 1749. I know but little of h i s life until he came to the State of Pennsylvania about the year 1785 . H e settled in the wilderness on the Susquehanna River, 13 miles from a ny w hite inhabitants. Here he lived until the country became more settle d an d died suddenly of the pleurisy in the 51st year of his age and in t he ye ar 1798.

His family consisted of four sons and three daughters of whom my fathe r w as the eldest. They were Daniel, Samuel, Richard, and Roswell, Cynthi a, P olly and Lucy.

Roswell was a chair maker by trade and lived in Pennsylvania, I think, b u t I have little knowledge of him after I was 5 years old, when he cam e t o my father’s house and brought a set of common kitchen chairs, whic h wer e kept in our family 34 or 35 years.

Roswell went to the State of Ohio, Zainsville, Muskeegum County, on th e M uskeegum River and built mills there and probably died there but I ha ve n ot heard from him in many years.

Samuel was a tailor by trade and went to Canada and my father never hea r d from him after about the year 1800.

Cynthia and Polly, I cannot remember hearing my father say much about, a f ter he left home but whether either of them married I do not know but L uc y married a man by the name of Bingham and went to Ohio with Roswell a n d was killed in a saw mill.

My grandmother’s maiden name was Hildreth (Deborah). She was confine d t o her bed eight years, before her death, with slow consumption. She d ie d some years, before my grandfather did but I do not know in what year . H er father lived to the age of 104 years and died in Vermont, but wha t pla ce I do not know. I do not have knowledge of any more family.

My father Daniel Whipple was born in Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermo n t in the year 1779, Aug. 27. He resided here until he was 6 years old w he n his father moved to Pennsylvania.

Here they lived until his mother died. How long that was I do not know b u t when or shortly after she died, he went from his father’s house and l iv ed about in different places until he married, which was about the yea r 1 804, at which he was 25 years of age.

At what place they lived when they were married, I do not know, but shor t ly after he moved to Deposit, a small village in Broom Co. N.Y. Here h e f ollowed lumbering most of the time for about 5 years when he moved t o San ford in the same county about 4 miles from Deposit on Acquago Cree k in th e forest, in a valley between two mountains where the soil was ex tremly p oor and subject to frost in the summer and deep snow in the wint er.

Here he built a house and cleared off a farm, of 20 or 30 acres, of th e h eaviest timber which cost him much labor for which he received smal l pa y as the soil was not productive.

While living at this place, my mother did much towards the support of t h e family by sewing, carding and spinning wool, spinning flax for her ne ig hbors and by this means clothed her children and mostly fed them.

In this place they lived 13 years. Here four of the children were born , i ncluding myself, I being the youngest. My father was not at home bu t litt le, being off attending a saw mill or running lumber to Philadelph ia, dow n the River Delaware.

My father laboring hard and having made but poorly thought to seek a bet t er location in some other place in Tompkins Co., in the same state whe r e some of my mother’s kin lived. Having found, as they supposed, a bett e r place they returned and made preparations to move. He sold his plac e an d most of his house furniture and hired my cousin Erastus Stuart t o hau l us to the new location, he staying behind to arrange his business .

We, after three day’s travel, arrived at my uncle Nathan Stuart’s who ma r ried my mother’s sister. Here we stayed for several days and then wen t tw o miles to my Uncle Jarrid Patchin’s and lived with them several mon ths.

My father came here 4 weeks after us and he and Samuel went to movin g a b lock-house which my father had bought and putting it up on the far m he ha d taken, during which time we lived at my Uncle Jarrid’s.

After having completed the house we moved over to it. This was upon a hi g h hill or mountain where we had an extensive view of the surrounding co un try in almost every direction.

I was 9 years of age and had to perform a great deal of outdoor labor, s u ch as ploughing, harrowing, cutting wood, making fence, etc. But I wil l c ontinue the history of my father down to his death and then that of m y mo ther and of the older children, my brothers and sisters and my uncle s an d aunts and of their families before I commence upon my own.

The winter of 1828-29 was very severe and we living on a high hill whe r e the wind had a fine sweep, we found all we could do to keep ourselve s a nd the cattle alive.

Having passed this winter my father commenced farming, a business he w a s not much used to but made out very well at it for some years.

The price of grain being very low and money scarce he did not succee d i n paying for the land he had taken which was to be four dollar per ac re b ut the interest had run up to about 8 dollars per acre.

Circumstances being as they were he found it impossible to pay for the l a nd, and therefore concluded to sell his improvements and try some othe r p lace.

He therefore sold to Josep Baker and Jefferson Collins for the small s u m of forty dollars. The improvements had cost him not less than 300 dol la rs. He then went to the farm of Joseph Teeter, a part of which he rent ed . He built a house on the part he had taken but this land being very p oo r he soon gave it up for a bad bargain. During the time he was on thos e t wo places he did something at lumbering and shingles which inclined m y fa ther to go to Ohio.

In the latter part of the summer of 1833, my father made preparation s t o remove to the State of Ohio. He therefore sold off evrything he had , hi s cattle and wagon, household goods etc. etc., in the month of Nov . 1833 . He hired a young man by the name of Madison Knettles to take hi s famil y to the head of Cyuga Lake, a distance of 12 miles, there to tak e the St eam boat for Monesuma.

This lake is a small lake in the center of part of the State of New Yor k . It is 40 miles long and 8 or 9 miles wide. A small steamboat named De Wi tt Clinton was the only boat that ran upon it except small boats.

We arrived at the lake late in the evening and stood ourselves in the wa r ehouse till morning, and then took the boat for the bridge. This bridg e w as built across the foot of the lake two miles long.

Here we shipped aboard a canal boat and went to Montesuma, seven miles . H ere we had to ship again on board another boat for Buffalo, where w e arri ved in six days.

Buffalo is at the foot of Lake Erie, in the state of New York. Here we s h ipped again on board of the old Pennsylvania steamboat for Cleveland, O hi o.

The first night we were on the boat we witnessed the long to be remember e d signs in the heavens above.

Between 2 and 3 o’clock in the morning I heard the watch come down int o t he cabin where I lay, and tell the passengers of the sight to be see n i n the sky. I immediately got up and went to the upper deck of the boa t t o behold to wonderful sight.

And a wonderful sight it was for the stars were flying in every directi o n through the heavens. I stood and looked at them till I was nearly chi ll ed through, for it was very cold. I returned to my bed wondering wha t suc h a thing could mean. My father did not go up to see it .

In the morning the wind blew almost a huricane and very cold. The Lake r o lled in tremendously and the Captain was afraid to start out and her e w e lay for three days, but the wind did not cease but rather increased .

The passengers were so anxious to go that the Captain said he would g o o r go to hell trying, for he could stand it if they could. So on the f ourt h morning he put out but found rough weather and we all wished ourse lve s back in Buffalo again.

We went on 12 miles to Point Evernew on the Canadian side where we ancho r ed and lay three days. A severe snow storm came on with heavy wind whi c h drove several boats back to Buffalo.

On the 4th day we started from there and went as far as Erie in Pennsylv a nia where the boat belonged. Here the Captain had the boat drawn up an d s aid he would not go any further that winter so we had to make the bes t sh ift we could for Cleveland.

Here we stayed 3 days when the Fairpoint steamboat came up with heavy fr e ight and passengers for Cleveland. Here the most of the passenger of t h e Pennsylvania shipped on board, the Sheldon Thompson, which doubled h e r cargo. This boat was out of repair and dangerous at best. We had to p as s from one boat to the other. As it was raining and freezing it was ex tre mely dangerous. After having got aboard this boat we went on toward C leve land and we had no chance to lie down or even to sit down as the pas senge rs were so thick in the cabins, so we spent the night standing up , amuse d with jokes and fun of some of the large crowd.

The next day we arrived at Fairport, in Ohio and stayed till the next d a y for repairs. The boat started on towards Cleveland and we met a heav y s now storm which came on with such fury as to cause the Captain to tur n ba ck to Fairport again. Here we stayed another night.

The next day we started a second time for Cleveland which we made ou t t o gain as the day was fair. We had then been two weeks on Lake Erie a nd l anded almost without money, food or clothing, as we had lost some cl othin g on the boat.

My father hired a cart-boy to take us out of the city that we might ha v e some chance to get to Eaton in Lorain County, the place of our destin at ion.

Having gone a few miles we came across an old farmer going home from Cle v eland. We got him to take us out to his house. Here we stayed over nig h t and left all our goods in a barn and persued our journey on foot in t h e mud, a distance of 20 miles. My sister was sick and hardly able to wa lk . We got as far as Ridgeville that night and stopped at the house o f a Mr . Kibby who treated us with great kindness.

On the following day we arrived at George Tiffany’s in the town of Eato n , Lorain Co., Ohio, the place of our destination.

We found our relatives settled in the woods half leg deep in water i n a s mall log shanty with a few acres cleared around them.

On arriving at my brother’s house to our surprise we found Sylvanus Aldr i ch and his family living in the same house. This was my half brother , m y mother’s oldest child. He had come from the state of New York. We h ad n ot seem him in many years.

On meeting with our friends we somewhat cheered, notwithstanding our ha r d fare and past troubles.

Here we lived through the winter in a house 14 by 16 ft., all together , 1 5 in number. We were mostly dependent on them for our provisions as w e co uld not earn anything, as my father was sick all winter.

In the Spring my father assisted George in building another house an d w e lived in the old one and my father worked in the sawmill of Mr. Abb y an d I chopped for 5 dollars an acre through the summer.

In the fall we moved to Carlisle and took a sawmill belonging to Phine a s Johnson in the village of La Forte. Here we lived until the spring o f 1 838, when we moved to Elyris, the county seat of Lorain County.

Here my father took as small piece of land of Herman Ely on which we liv e d and worked for a year doing job work of different kinds for a living.

In the spring of 1839 we moved across the river and took another small p i ece of land on which was a good orchard.

We repaired the house and fences on this land and did much hard labor a n d raised considerable corn, vegetables, etc., which with what we earne d o ther ways made ourselves quite comfortable.

On the 18th of Sept., 1839, as my father and I were gathering corn wi t h a yoke of yearling steers, the only team we had at the time. The weat he r was wet and unhealthy and we both were taken sick at the same time . M y father was taken with inflamation of the bowels and I was taken wit h th e bilious fever.

On finding ourselves in a bad state we sent for Dr. Howard, a skillful p h ysician who attended us faithfully but in spite of all endeavors my fat he r died on the 9th day of his illness.

Thus ended the days of Daniel Whipple, at the age of 60 years and one mo n th. He was a man of remarkable strong constitution. He had very littl e si ckness in his life except that once he fell from a building and hur t hi s back which made him grow crooked as he grew older.

He was a man of good morals but did not belong to any church at the ti m e of his death, although he had been a Methodist for a few years of hi s l ife, but had left them on account of inconsistancy of some of their d octr ines and notions.

Had he lived to hear the Gospel he would have embraced it no doubt, fo r h e condemned all churched because they had not the gifts and ordinance s ac cording to the order that Christ and Apostles taught .
He also told me that if I lived to be fifty years old in all probabilit y , I would see it. In less than one year after his death the gospel wa s pr eached in the same house that he died in, by Elder John Hughes. My f athe r did not live quite long enough to hear it.

Daniel married Deborah Hildreth in 1776 in Brattleboro, Windham, Vermont, United States. Deborah (daughter of Joseph Hildreth and Lydia Bates Fletcher) was born on 5 May 1755 in Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died about 1789 in Pennsylvania, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LWFV-5RY
• Initiatory (LDS): 12 Jun 1908

Notes:

SOURCE: LDS Collectors Library: Early LDS Membership Data, (c) 1995 In f o b ases, Inc. Also LDS Ancestral File. All give birth in Brattleboro , Wi nd ha m, Vermont.

SOURCE: Email from Joanne Lahr-Kreischer to Weldon, 12 Feb 1999. Joa n n e f ound Deborah Hildreth born in Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts . D eb orah 's parents "both left estates and are in the probate records. " (M or e late r)a.

Deborah was confined to her bed for eight years before her death with sl o w consumption.