Deputy Governor Joseph Whipple, Jr (1687 - Bef 1750): Our Family History

1687 - Bef 1750 (< 62 years) Has 10 ancestors and 20 descendants in this family tree.

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Name	Joseph Whipple
Prefix	Deputy Governor
Suffix	Jr
Birth	30 Dec 1687	Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Gender	Male
Death	Bef Jul 1750	Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States
Initiatory (LDS)	4 Mar 1931	SLAKE
FamilySearch ID	29HC-F66
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Person ID	I18044	mytree
Last Modified	25 Feb 2024

Father	Colonel Joseph Whipple, b. Abt 1662, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States d. 28 Apr 1746, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States (Age 84 years)
Mother	Alice Smith, b. 1644, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States d. 20 Jul 1739, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States (Age 95 years)
Marriage	20 May 1684	Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Family ID	F638	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1 Ann Almy, b. Abt 1695 d. 28 Dec 1720, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States (Age 25 years)

Marriage Abt 1708 Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States

Children

	1. Joseph Whipple, b. May 1713, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States d. 23 Sep 1713, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States (Age 0 years)
	2. Christopher Whipple, b. 3 Aug 1714, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States d. 11 Jan 1717, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States (Age 2 years)
	3. Joseph Whipple, b. Feb 1717, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States d. 28 Sep 1717, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States (Age 0 years)
	4. William Whipple, b. Nov 1720, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States d. 16 Dec 1720, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States (Age 0 years)

Family ID F8951 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 6 Mar 2025

Family 2 Sarah Redwood, b. 19 Oct 1702, Antigua, West Indies d. 3 Jan 1791, Cranston, Providence, Rhode Island, United States (Age 88 years)

Marriage 1 Mar 1721 Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States

Children

	1. Sarah Whipple, b. 28 Jun 1723, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States d. Bef 5 Nov 1761, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States (Age < 38 years)
	2. Deputy Governor Joseph Whipple, III, b. 3 Jul 1725, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States d. 1761, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States (Age 35 years)
	3. Benjamin Whipple, c. 4 Sep 1726, Trinity Church, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States
	4. Elizabeth Whipple, b. 27 Jul 1727, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States
	5. Abraham Whipple, b. 13 May 1729, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States
	6. William Whipple, b. 22 Mar 1731, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States
	7. Amey Whipple, b. 18 Oct 1734, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States d. 7 Apr 1782, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States (Age 47 years)
	8. Alice Whipple, b. Abt 1736, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States d. 5 Dec 1795, Cranston, Providence, Rhode Island, United States (Age 59 years)
+	9. Mary Whipple, b. Abt 1716, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States d. Bef 10 Jun 1754 (Age < 38 years)

Family ID F8952 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 6 Mar 2025

Event Map

	Birth - 30 Dec 1687 - Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
	Marriage - Abt 1708 - Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States
	Marriage - 1 Mar 1721 - Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States
	Death - Bef Jul 1750 - Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States
	Initiatory (LDS) - 4 Mar 1931 - SLAKE

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Notes

SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, _Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (A l bany, N.Y., 1887; reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1 97 8) p. 223

SOURCE: Henry E. Whipple, A Brief Genealogy of the Whipple Families Wh o S ettled in Rhode Island (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1873), p. 40 . Fro m a corrected copy of the book found in the Rhode Island Historica l Socie ty Library, call no. CS71.W574 1873 RIHSL.

CHILDREN: Had 2 sons, 2 daughters. (Pencilled in margin of Henry E. Whip p le)

SOURCE: David Jillson, "Descendants of Capt. John Whipple, of Providenc e , R.I.," New-England Historical and Genealogical Register, 32 (1878): 4 06 .

SOURCE: "Rhode Island Friends Records: Marriages." In James N. Arnold, V i tal Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850. Vol. 7, Friends and Ministers (P ro vidence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1895), p. 38, 39.

SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to the Whipple Website, 5 Aug 2002. "In 17 4 3 when the Town of Middletown, RI was formed from part of Newport, RI , th e creek separating the farms of the Hon. Joseph Whipple Esq. and God fre y Malbone of Newport, RI was used as the dividing line between the tw o to wns. (See Arnold's VR 4:3:iii)"

SOURCE: Email from Charles M. Whipple, Jr., to Weldon Whipple, 23 an d 2 4 Jul 2002. Charles writes: "He died between May and July of 1750. Hi s wi ll was written 28 May 1750 and proved 2 July 1750. The fragmented do cumen t mentioned that he died of a 'short but severe illness.' Council R ecords , Newport, NHS 9:346,363. He named his widow Sarah, Daughters Sara h, Amey , Alice and Mehetable; sons Joseph and William; grandchildren Chr istopher , Amey, and Joseph Sylvester. (Codicil, ibid. 10:283)."

SOURCE: Email from Barbara Carroll to Weldon Whipple, 27 Jul 2003. Cit e s Alden G. Beaman, "Births from Newport Common Burial Ground Inscrption s , 1590-1930," in Rhode Island Vital Records: New Series. 11 vols. (Prin ce ton, Mass., 1976-87) 11:445. Gives Joseph's wife Anne, and children o f th eir marriage. Also cites Arnold's Vital Record 1:290 (b. Providenc e 30 De c 1687); 7:27 (d. Newport 1750); married Sarah Redwood (d/o Abrah am; b. A ntigua 19 Oct 1702, d. Cranston, RI, 7 Jan 1791; married in Newp ort-Frien ds Meeting 1 Mar 1721).

GOVERNMENT: Deputy Governor of Rhode Island, 1743-46. --C.M. Whipple a n d B. Carroll, citing Bartlett 5:66.

SOURCE: Email from Charles M. Whipple, Jr., to Weldon Whipple, 28 Jul 20 0 3. Gives burial in the common burial ground in Newport (with first wif e a nd their four infant sons). Gives marriage to first wife "around 1712 ."

SOURCE: Email from Barbara Carroll to Weldon Whipple 29 Jul 2003. Barba r a writes:

Although the Newport Common Burial Grounds records state that Jose p h (2) is buried there, without a stone, that isn't necessarily the cas e . Just a few words on Newport research, from Vincent F. Luti's "Mall e t & Chisel:Gravestone Carvers of Newport, Rhode Island, in the 18th Cen tu ry," p. 8:

"Genealogical research on colonial Newport is complicated by t h e poor state of many of the surviving documents, which were damaged dur in g the Revolution. In 1778, after nearly three years of British occupat ion , Newport was under heavy siege. Walter Chaloner, the town sheriff a n d a Tory, fled on a British man-of-war with all the probate records, de ed s, and vital records under his jurisdiction. His ship ran aground in N e w York Harbor. Retrieved from the watery depths, the boxes were left i n s torage for some time. When they were finally unpacked, the extent o f th e damage was revealed. The remnants of the records are now preserve d in b ound volumes at the Newport Historical Society, but the contents o f any g iven page may be from different documents, often of different dat es. Furt hermore, almost all are faded to differing degrees of indecipher ability.. ."

Fully 1/2 or more of the documents were lost, so it's hard to draw m a ny conclusions in Newport.

SOURCE: Email from Charles M. Whipple, Jr., to Weldon Whipple, 4 Oct 200 3 . Charles writes: "I am now convinced that Lieutenant Governor Joseph W hi pple Jr. was Anglican not Quaker. I received a reply from Harvard Univ ers ity finally. His son, William, graduated in 1749 at the head of his c lass . His biography notes that he was indeed Church of England as was Co l. Jo seph Whipple, his father. So, although Lieutenant Governor Joseph W hippl e III and his mother, as well as some siblings may have been Quaker s, a t least it is now known that this was indeed a religiously mixed mar riage ."