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Josiah Whipple

Josiah Whipple

Male 1697 - Bef 1704  (< 6 years)  Submit Photo / DocumentSubmit Photo / Document    Has 8 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Josiah Whipple 
    Birth 29 Jul 1697  Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death Bef 1704 
    Initiatory (LDS) 26 Jun 1925  SLAKE Find all individuals with events at this location 
    FamilySearch ID L6R2-183 
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    Person ID I18296  mytree
    Last Modified 25 Feb 2024 

    Father Benjamin Whipple,   c. 4 Jun 1654, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Mar 1704, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 49 years) 
    Mother Ruth Mathewson,   b. 1664, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1740, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Marriage 1 Apr 1686  Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F770  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    Link to Google MapsBirth - 29 Jul 1697 - Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsInitiatory (LDS) - 26 Jun 1925 - SLAKE Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, _Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (A l bany, N.Y., 1887; reprinted. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 19 78 ) p. 222.

      Birth: Place from Henry E. Whipple, A Brief Genealogy of the Whipple Fam i lies Who Settled in Rhode Island (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1873 ) , p. 15.

      Death: "Died young"--Henry E. Whipple.

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

      SOURCE: Birth date (29 Jul 1697) appears on "Whipple Family Bible Recor d , " a page posted at http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgs/whipple_bible.htm b y t he Oklahoma Genealogical Society (and viewed by Weldon Whipple on 1 9 Ma r 2003). The web page states:

      This Bible was published 1836 at Hartford, Connecticut, by R. White a n d Hutchison and D. Wier. Pasted on the inside of the back cover of thi s B ible is "This Bible was left to me by my mother, Mrs. Dorcas C. Mitch el l who was a daughterernon L. Olney and Louisa Olney, /S/ Mrs. Blanch e Bos well." Mrs. Boswell died May 17. 1928, was buried May 28, 1928 at T homas , Oklahoma beside her husband, Wm. C. Mitchell. The Bible was firs t "pres ented to Louisa Whipple by her father, Stephen Whipple, Jan.12, 1 839."

      This Bible record was copied in California by Magna Merle (Boswell) Wi l liamson (Mrs. B.E.), mother of Jack Ellis Williamson, OGS member, Weath er ford, Oklahoma.

      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 deat h be fore 1704.