Ruth Whipple

1691 -

• Name	Ruth Whipple
  Birth	12 May 1691	Providence, Providence, Rhode Island
  Gender	Female
  Person ID	I6126	Whipple Descendants
  Last Modified	1 May 2004

  
  

  Father	Benjamin Whipple,   c. 4 Jun 1654, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 11 Mar 1703/1704, North Providence, Providence, Rhode Island (Age ~ 49 years)
  Mother	Ruth Mathewson   d. Abt 1704
  Marriage	1 Apr 1686	Providence, Providence, Rhode Island
  Family ID	F311	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 12 May 1691 - Providence, Providence, Rhode Island  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  !SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, _Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (Albany, N.Y., 1887; reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978) p. 222. !SOURCE: Henry E. Whipple, A Brief Genealogy of the Whipple Families Who Settled in Rhode Island (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1873), p. 14. From a corrected copy of the book found in the Rhode Island Historical Society Library, call no. CS71.W574 1873 RIHSL. !BIRTH: David Jillson, "Descendants of Capt. John Whipple, of Providence, R.I.," New-England Historical and Genealogical Register, 32 (1878): 406, gives birth date 12 May 1692. !SOURCE: Birth date (12 May 1691) appears on "Whipple Family Bible Record," a page posted at http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgs/whipple_bible.htm by the Oklahoma Genealogical Society (and viewed by Weldon Whipple on 19 Mar 2003). The web page states: This Bible was published 1836 at Hartford, Connecticut, by R. White and Hutchison and D. Wier. Pasted on the inside of the back cover of this Bible is "This Bible was left to me by my mother, Mrs. Dorcas C. Mitchell who was a daughter of Vernon L. Olney and Louisa Olney, /S/ Mrs. Blanche Boswell." Mrs. Boswell died May 17. 1928, was buried May 28, 1928 at Thomas, Oklahoma beside her husband, Wm. C. Mitchell. The Bible was first "presented to Louisa Whipple by her father, Stephen Whipple, Jan.12, 1839." This Bible record was copied in California by Magna Merle (Boswell) Williamson (Mrs. B.E.), mother of Jack Ellis Williamson, OGS member, Weatherford, Oklahoma.