Luther Whipple

1743 - 1830  (86 years)

• Name	Luther Whipple
  Birth	7 Mar 1743	Somers Twp, Tolland, Connecticut
  Gender	Male
  Death	1830	Roxbury Twp, Delaware, New York
  Burial	West Meredith Cemetery, Meredith, Delaware, New York
  Person ID	I15532	Whipple Descendants
  Last Modified	23 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	Abraham Whipple,   b. 1709, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut d. 3 Oct 1768, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island (Age 59 years)
  Mother	Mary Gray Jones,   b. 22 Apr 1709, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut d. 4 Nov 1780, East Haddam, Hartford, Connecticut (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	23 Aug 1731	Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut
  Family ID	F4794	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Eunice Gates,   b. Abt 1745, Preston, New London, Connecticut
  Marriage	Abt 1767	New London, New London, Connecticut
  Children	+ 1. Abram Whipple,   b. 11 Feb 1768, New London, New London, Connecticut or Bennington, Bennington, Vermont d. 12 Jan 1852, Roxbury Village, Delaware, New York (Age 83 years) + 2. Eunice Whipple,   b. 18 Mar 1770, New London, New London, Connecticut d. 26 Feb 1853, Roxbury, Delaware, New York (Age 82 years)   3. Polly Whipple,   b. 1772, New London, New London, Connecticut + 4. Elizabeth Whipple,   b. 25 Aug 1775, New London, New London, Connecticut   5. Lydia Whipple,   b. 1777, New London, New London, Connecticut   6. Henry Whipple,   b. 1779, New London, New London, Connecticut d. Aft 1800 (Age > 22 years)   7. Martha "Patty" Whipple,   b. 1781, New London, New London, Connecticut   8. Clarissa Whipple,   b. 11 Mar 1784, New London, New London, Connecticut d. , Tioga, New York + 9. Thomas Whipple,   b. 15 Jul 1787, New London, New London, Connecticut d. 18 Sep 1887, Rockland, Sullivan, New York (Age 100 years) + 10. Luther Whipple, Jr.,   b. 1790, New London, New London, Connecticut d. 1 Apr 1879, Ellenton, Lycoming, Pennsylvania (Age 89 years)
  Family ID	F6043	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 7 Mar 1743 - Somers Twp, Tolland, Connecticut Marriage - Abt 1767 - New London, New London, Connecticut Death - 1830 - Roxbury Twp, Delaware, New York  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  !SOURCE: International Genealogical Index, version 3.06. !SOURCE: Email from Bruce Whipple (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 28 Mar and 15 Oct 1999. Cites records of Roxbury Township, Delaware County, New York. !SOURCE: Email from Chuck Shelby (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 4 Jun 2001. Gives birth in Somers Twp, New London or Tolland County, Connecticut; gives death in 1830 in Middletown, Delaware County, New York. !SOURCE: Clair A. Hemenway Newton, Captain John Whipple, 1617-1685, and His Descendants (Naperville, Ill., 1946), p. 55, 57. !SOURCE: Email from Lynda Ozinga to the Whipple Website, 21 Jan 2002. Cites "History of Roxbury [New York], Roxbury Early Settlers," p. 46. !SOURCE: "Descendants of Stephen Gates," from the research files of Beverly Huckins (heidibetemail hidden), mailed to Weldon Whipple, 20 Nov 2003. Gives death 1820. (Previously entered as 1830.) !BIRTH: IGI gives birth in Somers Twp, Tolland, Connecticut. B. Whipple states: "We think that Luther Sr. moved from Rhode Island to Vermont and then to New York." !MILITARY: Luther served in the New London, Connecticut, militia during the Revolutionary War. --Bruce Whipple !RESIDENCES: All children were born in New London, Connecticut. All family (except Polly, who remained with her husband Thomas Whittlesley--a ship captain), moved from New London, Connecticut, to Roxbury, New York in about 1796. --Bruce Whipple !SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 23 Nov 2019. Cites Find a Grave web site (burial). !SOURCE: Email from Neil Whipple (email hidden) to the Whipple (ne-Name Study, 17 Sep 2023. Gives birth 7 Mar 1743, citing "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPS2-1CSR : 15 April 2022), Luther Whipple, ; citing Birth, Somers, Tolland, Connecticut, United States, Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 008272249. Birth date previously entered as 7 Mar 1742/1743.