Whipple Database
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Seneca Ormsbee
Bef 1786 - 1842 (> 55 years)
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Name Seneca Ormsbee Birth Bef 1 Feb 1786 Gender Male Death 1842 Lost at sea 
Person ID I10329 Whipple Descendants Last Modified 18 Nov 2009
Father John Ormsbee, b. Abt 1753 d. 18 Jan 1787, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island (Age ~ 34 years) Mother Barbara Holden, b. 4 Jan 1750/1751 d. 1 Feb 1786 or 4 Feb 1786, , , Rhode Island (Age 35 years) Marriage Aft 28 Dec 1776 Family ID F6099 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Amey Whipple, b. 1785, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island d. 3 May 1806, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island (Age 21 years) Marriage 1 Sep 1805 Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Children + 1. Amey Whipple or Almy Whipple Ormsbee, b. 27 Apr 1806, , , Rhode Island d. 26 Apr 1899, , , Rhode Island (Age 92 years)Family ID F6093 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Anna Brown, b. Abt 1792 d. 17 Apr 1819, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island (Age ~ 27 years) Marriage 10 Sep 1809 Family ID F6098 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Marriage - 1 Sep 1805 - Providence, Providence, Rhode Island 
Death - 1842 - Lost at sea = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - !SOURCE: Henry E. Whipple, A Brief Genealogy of the Whipple Families Who Settled in Rhode Island (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1873), p. 61. From a corrected copy of the book found in the Rhode Island Historical Society Library, call no. CS71.W574 1873 RIHSL. Gives name Hill Omsbee.
!SOURCE: Will of brother-in-law James Whipple, dated 22 Jan 1835, proved 1 Jun 1835, p. 420-424. Abstracted in Lucille B. Beaman, "Abstracts of Foster, Rhode Island, Wills," Rhode Island Genealogical Register, vol. 7, no. 3 (Jan 1985), p. 215. Gives name Seneca Ormsbee.
!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to the Whipple Website, 9 Sep 2001. Cites "Charles Holden, 4th, Holden Family Bible, 1783" and Arnold's VR. Gives name Seneca Ormsbee.
!SOURCE: "Descendants of Elnathan Whipple," email from N. Combs to the Whipple Website, 24 Feb 2003. Cites Holden Family Bible (death); Descendants of Roger Williams, Book I (death).
!BIRTH: Before 1 Feb 1786, "when his mother Barbara died." --N.A. Combs, 9 Sep 2001
!SOURCE: Email from Beth Hurd to Weldon Whipple, 7 Feb 2005. Includes cemetery inscriptions found in Pocasset Cemetery, Cranston Historical Cemetery #2 (CR002):
n Memory of Mrs. Amey [Whipple] Ormsbee, wife of Mr. Seneca Ormsbee
who departed this life May 3, ??? aged 21 years [1785 - 3 MAY 1806 CR002]
.... he was lost at sea ....
- !SOURCE: Henry E. Whipple, A Brief Genealogy of the Whipple Families Who Settled in Rhode Island (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1873), p. 61. From a corrected copy of the book found in the Rhode Island Historical Society Library, call no. CS71.W574 1873 RIHSL. Gives name Hill Omsbee.