Abigail Whipple

1703 - Abt 1787  (83 years)  Submit Photo / Document    Has 8 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Abigail Whipple
  Birth	12 Jan 1703	Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
  Gender	Female
  Death	Abt 1787
  Initiatory (LDS)	28 Nov 1917	SLAKE
  FamilySearch ID	LZLV-QCH
  Person ID	I18433	mytree
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2024

  
  

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

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 12 Jan 1703 - Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Initiatory (LDS) - 28 Nov 1917 - SLAKE  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• 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. SOURCE: Henry E. Whipple, A Brief Genealogy of the Whipple Families Wh o S ettled in Rhode Island (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1873), p. 15 . Fro m a corrected copy of the book found in the Rhode Island Historica l Socie ty Library, call no. CS71.W574 1873 RIHSL. 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 (12 Jun 1703) 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. Wh i t e a nd Hutchison and D. Wier. Pasted on the inside of the back cove r o f t hi s Bible is "This Bible was left to me by my mother, Mrs. Dorca s C . Mit che ll who was a daughterernon L. Olney and Louisa Olney, /S/ M rs . B lanc he Boswell." Mrs. Boswell died May 17. 1928, was buried May 2 8 , 192 8 at T homas, Oklahoma beside her husband, Wm. C. Mitchell. The B ib le wa s firs t "presented to Louisa Whipple by her father, Stephen Whi ppl e, Jan.12, 18 39." This Bible record was copied in California by Magna Merle (Boswell ) W i lliamson (Mrs. B.E.), mother of Jack Ellis Williamson, OGS member , Weathe rford, 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 appro xim ate death date.