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Commodore Abraham Whipple

Commodore Abraham Whipple

Male 1732 - 1819  (86 years)  Submit Photo / DocumentSubmit Photo / Document    Has 80 ancestors and 7 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Abraham Whipple 
    Prefix Commodore 
    Birth 26 Sep 1732  Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 27 May 1819  Marietta, Washington, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Initiatory (LDS) 23 Oct 1919  SGEOR Find all individuals with events at this location 
    FamilySearch ID LD6M-K2K 
    Burial Mound Cemetery, Marietta City, Washington, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
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    Person ID I18755  mytree
    Last Modified 25 Feb 2024 

    Father Noah Whipple, Jr,   b. 18 Dec 1697, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Feb 1784, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years) 
    Mother Mary Dexter,   b. 1699, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 24 May 1722  Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F8937  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Sarah Hopkins,   b. 26 Sep 1739, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Oct 1818, Marietta, Washington, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years) 
    Marriage 2 Aug 1761  Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Catherine Whipple,   b. Abt 1762, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1834, Detour Township, Chippewa, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)
     2. Captain John Hopkins Whipple,   b. 2 Jul 1765, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. At Sea, Atlantic Ocean Find all individuals with events at this location
    +3. Mary Whipple,   b. Abt 1767, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Aug 1831 (Age 64 years)
    Family ID F9211  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 5 May 2024 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 26 Sep 1732 - Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 2 Aug 1761 - Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 27 May 1819 - Marietta, Washington, Ohio, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsInitiatory (LDS) - 23 Oct 1919 - SGEOR Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Mound Cemetery, Marietta City, Washington, Ohio, United States Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
    Whipple, Commodore Abraham - Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Navy
    Whipple, Commodore Abraham - Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Navy

    Documents
    Whipple, Commodore Abraham - Commission from the Congress of the United States
    Whipple, Commodore Abraham - Commission from the Congress of the United States
    Certificate dated 8 December 1775, signed by President of the Continental Congress, John Hancock, commissioning Abraham Whipple as Captain of the armed ship Columbus.

  • Notes 
    • SOURCE: Charles M. Whipple, Jr., Sons and Daughters of Jesse: A 360 Ye a r History of the Whipple Family (Oklahoma City: Southwestern Press, 197 6) , p. 13.

      SOURCE: The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. 2 (New Yor k : James T. White, 1921), p. 16-17.

      !MILITARY: Appointed Commodore in 1775, commanding "two armed vessels, f i tted out by Rhode Island."--Henry E. Whipple.

      !PORTRAIT: "His portrait as Commodore, in full uniform, can be seen in o n e of the rooms of the R. I. Historical Society at Providence."--Henr y E . Whipple.

      SOURCE: Letter from Joanne Lahr-Kreischer to Weldon Whipple, 13 Dec 1997.

      SOURCE: Clara Hammond McGuigan, The Antecedents and Descendants of Noa h W hipple of the Rogerene Community at Quakertown, Connecticut (Ithaca , N.Y. : J.M. Kingsbury, 1971), p. 37. Gives death date 29 May 1819.

      SOURCE: Clair A. Hemenway Newton, Captain John Whipple, 1617-1685, and H i s Descendants (Naperville, Ill., 1946), p. 56.

      SOURCE: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial, Consistin g o f Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and El izab eth Browne (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888), p. 28-29.

      SOURCE: "Deaths from the New York Post, 1801-1890," emailed by N. Combst o ck to Weldon Whipple, 29 Jan 2003. The 7/1/1819 issue gives death in Ma ri etta, Ohio, on the 27th of the previous month ("27th ult"), at age 86 . [P robably meant the month before June?].

      SOURCE: Reprint of the "Brown genealogy of 1851," Submitted to the Whipp l e Website by Ian Mackie, 20 Oct 2003.