Notes:

!SOURCE: Descendancy chart of Epenetus Olney mailed to the Whipple Web Site by J.D. Trezise on 10 Nov 1997, citing (among other references) Edward Justin Frost's 1938 genealogy of the Olney, Hawkins and Lewis families.

!MARRIAGE: Abigail Hawkins was second wife. --J.D. Trezise

!CHILDREN: Had 7 children with Abigail Hawkins. --J.D. Trezise

!SOURCE: Email from Mike Smith (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 27 Oct 1998, citing J.O. Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, p. 221-223, and Arnold's Vital Records of Rhode Island, vol. 2, p.197-198, 255-257. ("Elnathan appears of page 257, second line" of Arnold.)

!SOURCE: Email from Joanne Lahr-Kreischer to Weldon Whipple, 28 Oct 1998.

!SOURCE: "Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazeteer, Fair Haven, Vermont Rutland County," vol. 3, p. 724, cited by Pauline Manosh (email hidden) in a post to the RIGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com mailing list, 20 Dec 1999. Gives birth in North Providence, Rhode Island.

!SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, vol. 2, North Providence, pt. 4 (Providence, R.I.: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1892), p. 43. Gives name Ethan Whipple.

!SOURCE: GEDCOM file sent by Clayton J. Olney to Weldon Whipple, 16 Apr 2002. Gives marriage 30 Nov 1788. (Previously entered as Nov 1786.)

!MILITARY: "Served in the Continental army in Rhode Island, the summer he was 20 years old." --Hemenway

!OCCUPATION: "After leaving the army he appears to have worked at carpenter work in Providence." --Hemenway

!RESIDENCES: Moved to Fair Haven, Vermont in 1786. --Hemenway

!SOURCE: Email from Al Lee (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 17 Apr 1999. Gives name Ethan Whipple, dates 1767-1836 (no places), the second husband of Lydia Babcock Does not identify parents.

!SOURCE: Email from Beverly (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 9 Aug 2005. Identifies the Ethan Whipple who earlier married Lydia Babcock as the same person who married Elizabeth Greene and Abigail Hawkins. Cites the following evidence:

• History of Fair Haven VT by Andrew Adams, 1870, notes Ethan, son of Captn Benjamin Whipple, had a sister Mary Whipple who married John Brown in Providence RI 2.14.1790. John and Mary (Whipple) Brown lived south of Mr. Whipple. John Brown was the son of Captn Chris. Brown and came to Fair Haven from RI about 1792 when he was 26 so that puts Mary in the right age and family to have married this John Brown.
• DAR Records (not always accurate as the old records were often not verified but relied on evidence given by the applicants but they do support the evidence here as the descendant of Ethan and Lydia claims the same Ethan son of Benjamin.)
  • DAR Record, #35526
    Benjamin b 1726 m Anna Brown 1756
    Benjamin in Senior Class of old officers, taken ill and son Ethan sent to take his place. Ethan born North Providence, died Fair Haven, VT.
    Ethan enlisted as 1776, Corporal, re-enlisted and took his father's place. Pension allowed 1832 service as corporal and sergeant, RI line. Ethen m first wife Elizabeth Greene 1764-1786 (from another source m Elizabeth 1782) had son Joseph 1783-1853. Joseph m in 1806 to Anna Hawkins 1780-1854, had Joseph who m Eliza A. Culver etc. (you have them and the sons Benjamin and Cyrus with the info from their DAR records so I won't repeat.) (My note, By the way, Hawkins father, Charles Hawkins, was a brother to Mary Hawkins who married Ephraim Whipple b 1729.)
  • DAR Record #46346, descendant of Ethan and Lydia
    Ethan 1758-1836 Sergeant Capt Olney's Reg., re-enlisted under Capt Keene. Took his father' place. Ethan's wife Lydia Babcock(Church), his 3rd wife, had Caroline Whipple (Eddy).
• Rev War record images
  The dates of Ethan's marriages were still confusing me so I got his Rev War records of which there were 13 pages. Here is the info that supports this Ethan m to Lydia (summarized by page):
  1. Face sheet lists wife as Lydia
  2. States claimant of Fair Haven, VT
  3. States born 2.13.1758 as recorded in his father's bible
  4. Went to Fair Haven VT age 45 and now resides there
  5. Widow's application at Burlington, VT, name Lydia Whipple, same military history as previous Ethan
  6. Court record, declaration of Lydia (2 pages) that Ethan died 12.18.1836, that she was married to Ethan by Rev Mr Leonard or Lincoln in Poultney (Rutland County, VT) (my note the date is way off 4.27.1797 unless she was married to him twice), witnesses to marriage are listed; she further declared that her name to be Lydia Church when married to Ethan and that she raised "three children of which said Ethan was the father, to wit, Mary Maria, John Newton Whipple and Caroline are the children of Ethan and Lydia said declarant." signed 2.4.1850pg 8-9 nothing of note
  10. I'm sending you a copy of this page which lists the children of Ethan and Lydia and states she is the 3rd wife. It looks like this was taped onto another page and no indication of whose handwriting it is but it lists the three children above and their birth dates (my note, the two children other than Caroline were both deceased at the time of her declaration but were perhaps of another wife?)
  11. nothing of note, other than the dates of service were apparently in dispute at Ethan's first claim
  12. Nothing of note
  13. I'm sending you a copy of this to see what you make of it. It is the second page of a letter restating the facts, adds that Ethan was commissioned Lieutenant 1781 and that Lydia's maiden name was Babcock b 5.17.1774 and reaffirms the names of the three children. What you should look at is the handwritten note at the bottom, looks to me to read, "did not use the dates of birth of the children as there was some fraud". I wonder if Lydia was claiming two of the children who were not hers, for what purpose I don't know since they were deceased and I would not think it would have affected her claim for his pension anyway.

Elnathan married Elizabeth Greene on 28 Apr 1782 in Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island. Elizabeth (daughter of James Greene) was born about 1764; died in Feb 1786. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Joseph Whipple was born on 13 Nov 1783 in North Providence, Providence, Rhode Island; died on 28 Aug 1853 in Fair Haven, Rutland, Vermont.

Elnathan married Abigail Hawkins on 30 Nov 1788 in Fairhaven, Rutland, Vermont. Abigail (daughter of Charles Hawkins, Sr. and Sarah Olney) was born in 1764 in Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island; died on 12 Feb 1813 in Fair Haven, Rutland, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Betsey Whipple was born on 30 Jun 1789 in Fair Haven, Rutland, Vermont; died in 1837 in Fair Haven, Rutland, Vermont.
2. Anna Nancy Whipple was born on 14 Dec 1790 in Fair Haven, Rutland, Vermont; died on 18 Mar 1825 in Fair Haven, Rutland, Vermont.
3. Sarah Myra "Sally" Whipple was born on 10 Oct 1792 in Fair Haven, Rutland, Vermont.
4. Ethan Benjamin Whipple was born on 16 Oct 1794 in Fair Haven, Rutland, Vermont; died on 10 Dec 1795 in Fair Haven, Rutland, Vermont.
5. Ethan Benjamin Whipple was born on 11 Nov 1796 in Fair Haven, Rutland, Vermont; died in poss, , , Illinois.
6. Abigail Whipple was born on 12 Jun 1800 in Fair Haven, Rutland, Vermont.
7. Amy Whipple was born on 23 Jul 1802 in Fair Haven, Rutland, Vermont; died in 1815 in Fair Haven, Rutland, Vermont.
8. Mary Whipple was born in 1804 in Fair Haven, Rutland, Vermont; died on 27 May 1805 in Fair Haven, Rutland, Vermont.

Elnathan married Lydia Babcock on 7 Feb 1814 in Poultney, Rutland, Vermont. Lydia (daughter of Elijah Babcock and Sarah Brown) was born on 17 May 1774 in of , , , Massachusetts; died on 13 Aug 1857 in Fair Haven, Rutland, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary Maria Whipple was born on 2 Dec 1815; died on 14 Oct 1821.
2. John Newton Whipple was born on 17 Apr 1818; died on 6 Oct 1821.
3. Caroline Whipple was born on 29 Apr 1821 in Fairhaven, Rutland, Vermont; died after Jun 1900 in Marquette, Marquette, Michigan.

Notes:

!SOURCE: Genealogy of Whipple, Paddick, Bull Families [microfilm] / Ruth Whipple Kapphahn. -- (Columbus, Ohio : UMI, 1992) -- (Genealogy & Local History ; G5108), p. 3. Gives birth date 5 Jan 1725.

!BIRTH: Month, day, and place from Henry E. Whipple, A Brief Genealogy of the Whipple Families Who Settled in Rhode Island (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1873), p. 15. On p. 17, Henry gives the birth date 5 Jan 1726.

!SOURCE: Email from Mike Smith (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 27 Oct 1998, citing J.O. Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, p. 221-223, and Arnold's Vital Records of Rhode Island, vol. 2, p.197-198, 255-257. Gives birth 6 Jun 1726 in Providence, R.I.

!SOURCE: Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island (Chicago: J.H. Beers, 1908), 3:2153.

!SOURCE: Will, dated 18 Sep 1803, proved 4 Nov 1803. Abstracted in Lucille B. Beaman, "Abstracts of North Providence, Rhode Island, Wills," Rhode Island Genealogical Register, vol. 3, no. 4 (Jul 1981), p. 12.

!SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol. 2, Providence, Part 1 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1892), p. 198.

!SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol. 3, Smithfield, Part 6 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1892), p. 21.

!SOURCE: Birth date (5 Jan 1726) 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.

!SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol. 3, Smithfield, Part 6 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1892), p. 52. Lists Benjamin as Hannah's father (in Hannah's marriage entry).

!SOURCE: Email from Victoria Homeier (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 27 Mar 2004. Cites the DAR's Patriot Index, which adds October as the month of Benjamin's death.

Benjamin married Anne or Anna or Annie Brown on 25 Jan 1756 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island. Anne (daughter of Joseph Brown and Martha Field) was born on 14 Jan 1735. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. 49 (New York: James T. White, 1966), p. 239. Gives name Anna Brown.

!SOURCE: Email from Mike Smith (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 27 Oct 1998, citing J.O. Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, p. 221-223, and Arnold's Vital Records of Rhode Island, vol. 2, p.197-198, 255-257. Gives name Anne (no surname), married 25 Jan 1756 in Providence, having 3 children.

!SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol. 2, Providence, Part 1 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1892), p. 198.

!SOURCE: Email from email hidden to Weldon Whipple, 16 Mar 2005. Adds birth date (14 Jan 1735). "This Anne married a man named Ahlstedt."

Notes:

!SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, _Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (Albany, N.Y., 1887; reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978) p. 19, 222

!SOURCE: Descendancy chart of Gabriel Bernon, submitted 6 Feb 2007 by Blaine Whipple to Weldon Whipple. Does not include son Benedict in the list of Benjamin's children.

!DEATH: Email from email hidden (received 23 Sep 1995) gives date 1787.

!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.

!SOURCE: Email from Mike Smith (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 27 Oct 1998, citing J.O. Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, p. 221-223, and Arnold's Vital Records of Rhode Island, vol. 2, p.197-198, 255-257.

!SOURCE: Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island (Chicago: J.H. Beers, 1908), 3:2153, 2162. States that Benjamin died in the 100th year of his age. Also indicates that there are two possible pairs of birth and death years, depending on the sources used: 1688-1788, 1686-1786. Seems to prefer the former.

!SOURCE: Email from Debbie Owen (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 19 Sep 1999. Gives death in 1787.

!SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol. 2, Providence, Part 1 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1892), p. 198.

!SOURCE: Birth date (11 Nov 1688) and marriage date (11 Nov 1722) appear 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.

Benjamin married Sarah Bernon on 11 Nov 1722 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island. Sarah (daughter of Gabriel Bernon and Esther LeRoy) was born about 1700 in , , France; died in 1732 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!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. Gives surname Bernon.

!SOURCE: Descendancy chart of Gabriel Bernon, submitted 6 Feb 2007 by Blaine Whipple to Weldon Whipple. Gives name Sarah Bernon, no vital statistics. (He orders her birth after Esther and before Jane.)

!SOURCE: The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. 49 (New York: James T. White, 1966), p. 239. Gives surname Brown.

!SOURCE: Email from Debbie Owen (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 19 Sep 1999. Gives surname Benson.

!SOURCE: Mentioned in father's will, dated 16 Feb 1727/8, proved 16 Feb 1735/6, p. 259-261. Abstracted in Rhode Island Genealogical Register, vol. 13, "Abstracts of Providence Wills," p. 106.

!SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol. 2, Providence, Part 1 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1892), p. 198. Gives surname Beaman.

!SOURCE: Marriage date (11 Nov 1722) 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). Gives name "Sarah Benans (Bevans)." 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.

Notes:

!SOURCE: Post to the Whipple Mailing List (email hidden) by Joan Jachowski (joanann@pacbell.net), 27 Oct 1998.

!SOURCE: Gaspee Virtual Archives, http://www.gaspee.org/JosephBrown.htm, 6 Aug 2002.

!SOURCE: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial, Consisting of Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888), p. 12, 17.

!SOURCE: Email from email hidden to Weldon Whipple, 16 Mar 2005. Adds Providence as birth place. (Formerly of, North Providence, Providence, Rhode Island.). Gives marriage to Martha Field 1 Jan 1727/28. (Previously entered as 7 Jan.)

!SOURCE: "Descendants of Waite Waterman," email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 12 Mar 2011. Cites James Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850, Providence 1:81 (marriage to Abigail Whittemore).

Joseph married Martha Field on 7 Jan 1727/1728. Martha (daughter of William Field and Mary or Martha) was born about 1711 in of, North Providence, Providence, Rhode Island; died on 19 Apr 1736. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: Post to the Whipple Mailing List (email hidden) by Joan Jachowski (joanann@pacbell.net), 27 Oct 1998.

!SOURCE: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial, Consisting of Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888), p. 17.

!SOURCE: Reprint of the "Brown genealogy of 1851," submitted to the Whipple Website by Ian Mackie, 20 Oct 2003. The oldest of 8 children.

!DEATH: "In her 26th year." --A.I.B. Bulkley

Notes:

!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.

!SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol. 2, Providence, Part 1 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1892), p. 197.

!MARRIAGE: Date and place documented in New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence Almon Torrey (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1987), p. 802

!SOURCE: Charles M. Whipple, Jr., A History of William Whipple of Dorchester, Massachusetts and Smithfield, Rhode Island, 1652-1712: His Antecedents and Descendants. (Victoria, B.C.: Trafford, c2006), p. 4. Adds place of death.

Benjamin married Ruth Mathewson on 1 Apr 1686 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island. Ruth (daughter of James Mathewson and Hannah Field) died about 1704. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: Charles M. Whipple, Jr., Sons and Daughters of Jesse: A 360 Year History of the Whipple Family (Oklahoma City: Southwestern Press, 1976), p. 12-13.

!SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, _Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (Albany, N.Y., 1887; reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978) p. 131, 222.

!SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol. 2, Providence, Part 1 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1892), p. 197.

!DEATH: Date (after 1740) from email from email hidden, 9/23/94

!SOURCE: Descendancy chart of Gabriel Bernon, submitted 6 Feb 2007 by Blaine Whipple to Weldon Whipple. Gives death ca. 1704.

Notes:

!SOURCE: Henry E. Whipple, A Brief Genealogy of the Whipple Families Who Settled in Rhode Island (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1873), p. 15. Spells given name Gabril.

!SOURCE: David Jillson, "Descendants of Capt. John Whipple, of Providence, R.I.," New-England Historical and Genealogical Register, 32 (1878): 405.

!SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (Albany, N.Y., 1887; reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978) p. 19-20.

!SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, Ancestry of Thirty-Three Rhode Islanders (Born in the Eighteenth Century) (Albany, N.Y.: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1889), p. 1.

!SOURCE: Gabriel's will, dated 16 Feb 1727/8, proved 16 Feb 1735/6, p. 259-261. Abstracted in Rhode Island Genealogical Register, vol. 13, "Abstracts of Providence Wills," p. 106. Spells surname Bernoon.

!SOURCE: Email from Miles Harris III (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 18 May 2017. Cites attached article "Thomas and Nicholas Harris of Providence, Rhode Island," by Helen Schatvet Ullman, p. 5 "To be published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register in 2013 ..." Gives birth 5 or 6 Apr 1644, death 1 or 21 Feb. 1735/6.

!SOURCE: Descendancy chart of Gabriel Bernon, submitted 6 Feb 2007 by Blaine Whipple to Weldon Whipple. Spells name Gabriel Bernon, confirming father's name, birth date and place and death date. Also confirms date of marriage to Esther LeRoy (his first wife). Blaine additionally writes:

Gabriel Bernon, was a merchant at Rochelle and early in life engaged in commercial enterprises in Canada where he occasionally resided. He was in prison in France in 1685 for being a practicing Protestant. After release in 1686, he fled to Amsterdam and in February 1687 was in London. He arrive in Boston 5 July 1688 on the ship Dolphin from Gravesend and acquired 2,672 acres of land at Oxford, MA where he built a grist-mill. A French community existed there for several years. He lived in Boston and was engaged in the manufacture of rosin and salt. He made commercial trips to London in 1693 and 1696 and in 1697 was in Newport, RI. After his first wife's death in 1710, he moved from Newport (where she is buried) to Providence. After a few years in Providence, he moved to Wickford, moving back to Providence in 1719. His will, dated 16 Feb. 1728, was proved 16 Feb. 1736.

The following obituary was printed in Boston 19 July 1736: On the first instant, departed this life at Providence, Mr. Gabriel Bernon in the 92nd year of his age. He was a gentleman by birth and estate, born in Rochelle, in France, and about fifty years ago he left his native country, and the greatest part of his estate; and for the cause of true religion fled into New England, where he has ever since continued and behaved himself as a zealous Protestant professor. He was courteous, honest and kind, and died in great faith and hope in his Redeemer, and assurance of salvation; and has left a good name among his acquaintances. He evidenced the power of christianity in his great sufferings, by leaving his country and his great estate, that he might worship God according to his conscience. He was decently buried under the Episcopal church at Providence, and a great concourse of people attended his funeral, to whom the Rev. Mr. Brown preached an agreeable and eloquent funeral sermon, from Psalms xxxix:4.

Gabriel married Esther LeRoy on 23 Aug 1673. Esther was born in 1654; died on 14 Jun 1710; was buried in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (Albany, N.Y., 1887; reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978) p. 19.

!SOURCE: Mentioned in husband Gabriel's will, dated 16 Feb 1727/8, proved 16 Feb 1735/6, p. 259-261. Abstracted in Rhode Island Genealogical Register, vol. 13, "Abstracts of Providence Wills," p. 106.

!SOURCE: Descendancy chart of Gabriel Bernon, submitted 6 Feb 2007 by Blaine Whipple to Weldon Whipple. Spells surname with capital "R"; confirms year of birth, date of death. Adds burial place.

Notes:

!SOURCE: "John Smith, the Miller, of Providence Rhode Island: Some of His Descendants," by Charles William Farnham, in Genealogies of Rhode Island Families from Rhode Island Periodicals (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983), 2:25, 42.

!SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (Albany, N.Y., 1887; reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978) p. 259.

!SOURCE: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial, Consisting of Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888), p. 10, 11-12. Gives birth 1666.

!SOURCE: Gaspee Virtual Archives, http://www.gaspee.org/JosephBrown.htm, 6 Aug 2002. Gives birth 1666. (Some sources give 18 May 1662--the same date as James' brother John.)

!SOURCE: Reprint of the "Brown genealogy of 1851," submitted to the Whipple Website by Ian Mackie, 20 Oct 2003.

James married Mary Harris on 17 Dec 1691. Mary (daughter of Andrew Harris and Mary Tew) was born on 17 Dec 1671; died on 18 Aug 1736. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: Genealogies of Rhode Island Families from Rhode Island Periodicals (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983), 2:25

!SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, Ancestry of Thirty-Three Rhode Islanders (Born in the Eighteenth Century) (Albany, N.Y.: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1889), p. 13.

!SOURCE: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial, Consisting of Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888), p. 11.

!SOURCE: Reprint of the "Brown genealogy of 1851," submitted to the Whipple Website by Ian Mackie, 20 Oct 2003.

Notes:

!SOURCE: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial, Consisting of Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888), p. 17, 44.

!SOURCE: GEDCOM file from Ian Mackie to Weldon Whipple, 19 Oct 2003. Adds birth and death dates.

William + Mary or Martha. Mary died in 1729. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial, Consisting of Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888), p. 17 (gives name Martha), 44 (gives name Mary).

!SOURCE: GEDCOM file from Ian Mackie to Weldon Whipple, 19 Oct 2003. Adds death year (1729)

Notes:

!IDENTITY: Beginning in the 1990s and culminating in 2021, this person was thought to have been the John Whaple(s) who was listed in the baptism register of St. Mary and St. Lawrence Church in Great Waltham, Essex, England, baptized 13 Dec 1618. Until late 2021, no one had found any mention of John Whaple(s) after that baptism. Then, in a January 2022 report by Debrett Ancestry Research of Winchester, UK, it was discovered that John Whaple(s)'s grandmother Margaret Nevell of Great Waltham had mentioned him in her will of 29 Nov 1634, more than two years after the September 1632 arrival in Dorchester, Massachusetts, of this John, who later became Captain John Whipple and died in 1685 in Providence, Rhode Island. As a result, this database retracts its decision to identify this John as being the same person as John Whaple(s) of Great Waltham, England. John Whaple(s) is now found in the database as Person ID 167544. --Weldon Whipple, 18 Feb 2022.

!SOURCE: Email from Charles Whipple (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 20 Sep 2008. John was "buried in 1685 [in his home gravelot and reburied in the North Burial Ground] in about 1750."

!SOURCE: The following primary sources of information were supplied by Charles Whipple (charlemail hidden) to the Whipple Website, 1 Aug 2008:

Place of birth of John Whipple: According to his gravestone, John was born circa 1617/18. There is absolutely no published primary research data that proves that John Whipple was born in Milford, Wales--or anywhere else. As quoted in: Charles Whipple, A History of Captain John and Sarah Whipple of Dorchester, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island: A Multigenerational Study of the First Whipple Family in America (Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing Company, 2007) 2 & 34.

First evidence of John Whipple's presence in America: "September 16, 1632, being the Lord's Day. In the Evening, Mr. Pierce, in the ship Lyon arrived and came to an anchor before Boston...." [James K. Hosmer, ed., Governor Winthrop's Journal. 1630-1649 (New York: Scribner and Sons, 1908) 1:92. As quoted in: Charles Whipple, A History of Captain John and Sarah Whipple... 2 & 33.

First record of public activity in America: "3 October 1632, John Wipple and Alex Miller were ordered to pay fines of 3s, 4d to their master Israel Stoughton, for wasteful expenditure of powder and shot." [Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 6 volumes in 5 (Boston: W. White, 1853-54) 1974] [John O. Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (Albany, NY: 1887; Reprint ed, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978) 221.] As quoted in: Charles Whipple, A History of Captain John and Sarah Whipple...1 & 33.

Church membership at Dorchester: Sarah Whipple, on 29 October 1641, addressed as "Goodwife Whipple," one of the lowest social class distinctions, was admitted to the Dorchester church. [Records of the First Church at Dorchester in New England, 1636-1734 (Boston: George H. Ellis, 1891) 6.] John would have had to be a member by then, as freemen were required to be members of the church. It is believed that the record of John's admittance to membership was taken to Connecticut in 1635/36. "There is little hope of finding these ancient records either in Windsor or in Dorchester." [Records of First Church, iv & xi]. As quoted in: Charles Whipple, A History of Captain John and Sarah Whipple... 6.

Record of John Whipple's public life in Dorchester: "Astonishingly, only twice in almost two decades does John's name appear in public records." John Whiplle was the last proprietor to sign a fencing agreement [Dorchester Town Records, City Document 9, report 4, 1880, p. 27]. He was mentioned in an estate in 1656. [New England Historical and Genealogical Society Record, Vol. 6, 1852, p. 41.] [Robert C. Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England, 1632-1633, 3 vols. (Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1995) 3:1974.]. As quoted in: Charles Whipple, A History of Captain John and Sarah Whipple... 9.

John Whipple sold his 45 acre Dorchester property, 15 November 1658: "John Whipple, carpenter...his now dwelling house and housements scituate and being in Dorchester near the river Naponset together with thirty-seven acres of upland more or less thereto adjoining, also eight acres of salt marsh more or less lying near the place commonly called the penny ferry." Suffolk Land Records, Deeds, 14 vols. (Boston: 1880-1906) 3:204-05. As quoted in: Charles Whipple, A History of Captain John and Sarah Whipple... 16.

Church membership at Providence: "Was it coincidence that one month after the proclamation of the death penalty for Quakers, 19 October 1658, John sold his property...and began preparation to leave for Rhode Island, the only safe haven in New England for members of that sect? However, it is just as conceivable that Captain John could have become disenthralled with religion in general." Irvin Richman, Rhode Island, Its Making and Meaning (New York: B.P. Putnam Sons, 1908) 292.

"He was received as a preacher at Providence in 1659." This quote, which appears only in [Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island, 3 vols (Chicago: J.H.J. Beers and Company, 1908) III:1639] is an apparent miss-reading, by the compiler or editor, of the well known statement that appeared in earlier histories, "He was received as a proprietor at Providence in 1659." There is no record that Captain John Whipple or his children were members of the clergy. As quoted in: Charles Whipple, A History of Captain John and Sarah Whipple... 15-16.

Captain John Whipple's tavern: John's short lived, one room, Inn was not "staid or sober," nor was it a particularly popular meeting place as chronicled in previous histories. That honor belongs to John Whipple Junior's tavern. At least three of John's children and four grandsons owned more popular taverns. However, John's was the best known of the two earliest taverns. [Gertrude Kimball, Providence in Colonial Times (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912) 126. As quoted in: Charles Whipple, A History of Captain John and Sarah Whipple... 23.

John Whipple's military title: His title of "Captain" was strictly honorary. There is no record that he or his compatriots, including Roger Williams, used a weapon against the warring Indians of 1675/76 (the Indians refused to take up arms against Williams), or ever led a group of men into battle as an officer. [Early Records of the Town of Providence, 21 vols, collected and compiled by the Record Commissioners (Providence: Snow and Farnham, city printers, 1892-1915). XV:153.] As quoted in: Charles Whipple, A History of Captain John and Sarah Whipple... 25.

Last Will and Testament: John's last Will and Testament was flawed, which allowed his grandson, John Whipple III, to win a law suit against four of his Whipple uncles. They had to pay him hundreds of dollars to retain their inherited properties. [The Early Records of the Town of Providence, 21 vols, collected and compiled by the Records Commissioners (Providence: Snow and Farnham, city printers, 1892-1915) XX:274-75.] As quoted in: Charles Whipple, A History of Captain John and Sarah Whipple... 25-27.

The deaths of John and Sarah Whipple: John and Sarah's gravestones were carved around the year 1750, subsequent to the removal of their remains to the North Burial Grounds. Sarah died in 1666, being dead then for approximately 85 years before her gravestone was carved. Moreover, John would have been dead for approximately 65 years in 1750. A lack of accurate and complete cemetery information was the result. Those who had access to the truth were long since deceased themselves. Well-meaning descendants, likely their grandsons, Deputy Governor Joseph Junior and his brother, John, were insufficiently prepared to carry out Captain John's 1682 directive to their father to see to it that "I be decently buried." It must be pointed out that John and Sarah's gravestones are recognized to be the earliest dated in the cemetery. [John E. Sterling, North Burial Ground, Old Section, 1700-1848, Special Publication #5 (Providence: Rhode Island Genealogical Society, 2000) xii. As quoted in: Charles Whipple, A History of Captain John and Sarah Whipple... 28-31.

SOURCE: Dr. Charles M. Whipple, in an email to the Whipple Website dated 11 Mar 2021, cites Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island (Chicago: J.H. Beers, 1908), 3:1676-1677 as the only known source that gives Sarah's maiden name They. Suggesting that evidence to positively identify Sarah's maiden name is as yet inconclusive, he writes:

Three hundred years of anecdotal and theoretical primary research attempts have proven to be of no use whatsoever in explicating the mystery of Sarah's wayward surname that appears on the Whipple marriage certificate of 1638. I therefore undertook an empirical attempt, using the above-cited 1908 secondary source--the only known source that gives her name as "They"--to determine Sarah's maiden name once and for all. I advanced the possibility of the standalone name "They," or a proximate variant of the name, "Theyer," having conceivably been Sarah’s name. The evidence proved encouraging yet indeterminate. (See my post Sarah Theyer Whipple, Putative Wife of Captain John Whipple, 25 February 2021, on the Whipple Website blog).

!SOURCE: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial, Consisting of Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888), p. 44.

!IMMIGRATION: "Banks lists John Whipple of Bocking, Essex County, England, in 1632, as a passenger on a ship called 'The Lyon.' This ship: with Mr. William Peirce as Master, sailed from London, June 22, and arrived September 16th at Boston." Charles M. Whipple, Jr., Sons and Daughters of Jesse: A 360 Year History of the Whipple Family (Oklahoma City: Southwestern Press, 1976), p. 10. The same reference says he married Sarah They? or Darling? about 1639. (The quotation might actually refer to RIN 5890 or 5933 [father and son John Whipple, who were born in Bocking, Essex, England]? Neither 5890 or 5933 had a wife named Sarah They or Darling.)

!BIRTH: Variant place: Milford, Pembroke, Wales. --Brenda Bova (email hidden), in a post to the Whipple Mailing List (email hidden) 5 Oct 1997. Records of the Edson Whipple Family family Organization list Milford, Surrey, England. (We probably don't know where Captain. John was born ... --Weldon Whipple)

!BIRTH: Philip Currier, The Currier Family Records, v.4, p. 12, shows Captain John born in Bocking, Essex, England, on 19 Dec. 1588. (Being born in Bocking would seem to refer to one of the Ipswich Whipples. -- Weldon Whipple)

!DEATH: Age at death: 68.

!BIRTH: Date from John Osborne Austin, _Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island_ (Albany, N.Y., 1887; reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978.

!DEATH: Date from Austin, _Dictionary_, p. 221.

!RESIDENCES: Dorchester, Mass., and Providence, R.I. (Austin, _Dictionary_, p. 221.)

!RESIDENCES: In 1658, John sold his house and some 40 or 50 acres of land in Dorchester, Mass., to James Minot, and soon after moved with his family to Providence, R.I. Land was granted to him in Providence in July 1659, and he was admitted as an inhabitant. --Nancy Cluff Siders (email hidden) to the Whipple Family discussion list (email hiddena.edu), 5 Apr 1997, citing "The Steere Genealogy" by James P. Root, 1890.

!NOTE: 3 Oct 1632 ordered to give 3s. 4d. to his master Israel Stoughton for wasteful expenditure of powder and shot. (Austin, p. 221)

!SOURCE: Reprint of the "Brown genealogy of 1851," submitted to the Whipple Website by Ian Mackie, 20 Oct 2003.

!OCCUPATION: Carpenter by trade. --Brown genealogy of 1851.

!SOURCE: Mail from Charles M. Whipple, Jr., to Weldon Whipple, 8 Dec 2006. Estimates marriage in 1638 or earlier (previously entered as 1639/40) based on the Early Records of the Town of Providence, XVII:53-4: "On 24 Nov 1684, John junior made a declaration that he was 45 years old at the time, making his date of birth 1639." Thus his parents likely married in 1638 or earlier.

John married Sarah in 1638 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Sarah was born about 1624; died in 1666 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island; was buried in 1666 in North Burial Ground, North Main Street, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: The following primary sources of information were supplied by Dr. Charles M. Whipple (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 1 Aug 2008:

Church membership at Dorchester: Sarah Whipple, on 29 October 1641, addressed as "Goodwife Whipple," one of the lowest social class distinctions, was admitted to the Dorchester church. [Records of the First Church at Dorchester in New England, 1636-1734 (Boston: George H. Ellis, 1891) 6.] John would have had to be a member by then, as freemen were required to be members of the church. It is believed that the record of John's admittance to membership was taken to Connecticut in 1635/36. "There is little hope of finding these ancient records either in Windsor or in Dorchester." [Records of First Church, iv & xi]. As quoted in: Charles Whipple, A History of Captain John and Sarah Whipple... 6.

Sarah Whipple's maiden name: Previous antiquarian researches claim that Sarah's maiden name, among others, could have been: Hutchinson, Darling, or They. Regrettably, none of these writers provided requisite proof for their assertions. Sarah's birthplace and date of birth are likewise unknown.

In a subsequent email to the Whipple Website dated 11 Mar 2021, Charles cites Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island (Chicago: J.H. Beers, 1908), 3:1676-1677 as the only known source that gives Sarah's maiden name They. Suggesting that evidence to positively identify Sarah's maiden name is as yet inconclusive, he writes:

"Three hundred years of anecdotal and theoretical primary research attempts have proven to be of no use whatsoever in explicating the mystery of Sarah’s wayward surname that appears on the Whipple marriage certificate of 1638. I therefore undertook an empirical attempt, using the above-cited 1908 secondary source--the only known source that gives her name as 'They'--to determine Sarah's maiden name once and for all. I advanced the possibility of the standalone name 'They,' or a proximate variant of the name, 'Theyer,' having conceivably been Sarah’s name. The evidence proved encouraging yet indeterminate. (See my post Sarah Theyer Whipple, Putative Wife of Captain John Whipple, 25 February 2021, on the Whipple Website blog)."

The deaths of John and Sarah Whipple: John and Sarah's gravestones were carved around the year 1750, subsequent to the removal of their remains to the North Burial Grounds. Sarah died in 1666, being dead then for approximately 85 years before her gravestone was carved. Moreover, John would have been dead for approximately 65 years in 1750. A lack of accurate and complete cemetery information was the result. Those who had access to the truth were long since deceased themselves. Well-meaning descendants, likely their grandsons, Deputy Governor Joseph Junior and his brother, John, were insufficiently prepared to carry out Captain John's 1682 directive to their father to see to it that "I be decently buried." It must be pointed out that John and Sarah's gravestones are recognized to be the earliest dated in the cemetery. [John E. Sterling, North Burial Ground, Old Section, 1700-1848, Special Publication #5 (Providence: Rhode Island Genealogical Society, 2000) xii.

!DEATH: Age at death: 42.

!SOURCE: Dwane V. Norris, Whipple Family Tree, Revised 23 Jul 1996 (Jackson, Mich.: D.V. Norris, c1993), p. 81.

!SOURCE: Judith Whipple, "Genealogy Chart of Captain John Whipple 1617-1685 to Grace Louise (Whipple) Pitcher 1892 and Alfred Whipple 1903, and John Whipple 1904 and Lorey Whipple 1910-1970" (Portland, Tex., c1977). Copy in the NEHGS library, call number CS71.W574 1977.

!NAME: Philip Currier, The Currier Family Records, v.4, p. 12, gives Sarah's surname as Hutchinson. The name Sarah Hutchinson occurs much less frequently than "Sarah They? or Darling?" as Captain John's wife. One Sarah Hutchinson does appear in the Whipple genealogy (RIN 3573 in this database)--married to Joseph(4), Joseph(3), Matthew(2), Matthew(1) of the Ipswich/Bocking Whipple line.

!BIRTH: Date from John Osborne Austin, _Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island_ (Albany, N.Y., 1887; reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978. Judith Whipple gives birth place of Massachusetts (no date given).

!BURIAL: Sarah's grave marker in the Whipple section of the North Burial Grounds, Providence, R.I., reads: "IN MEMORY / of / Mrs. Sarah WHIPPLE / wife of / Capt. John Whipple / She was born in Dorchester, in New England; and died in / Providence, Anno Dona, 1666 / aged about 42 years." -- D.V. Norris, p. 81.

!RESIDENCES: Dorchester, Mass., and Providence, R.I. (Austin, _Dictionary_, p. 221.)

!SOURCE: Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island (Chicago: J.H. Beers, 1908), 3:1676-1677. Gives surname They.

!SOURCE: Mail from Charles M. Whipple, Jr., to Weldon Whipple, 8 Dec 2006. Estimates marriage in 1638 or earlier (previously entered as 1639/40) based on the Early Records of the Town of Providence, XVII:53-4: "On 24 Nov 1684, John junior made a declaration that he was 45 years old at the time, making his date of birth 1639." Thus his parents likely married in 1638 or earlier.

Notes:

!SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, _Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (Albany, N.Y., 1887; reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978) p. 131, 222.

!SOURCE: Email from Michael Whipple (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 30 Jun 2005. Cites http://users.rcn.com/lmerrell/mathewson.html. : "James Mathewson was at Providence, RI, as early as 1658"

!SOURCE: "Direct Descendants of James Mathewson," email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 3 Nov 2008. Cites LDS Ancestral File (birth); Vital Record of RI 1636-1850 (death 1: Bef. October 17, 1682; death 2: December 03, 1682).

James married Hannah Field about 1663. Hannah (daughter of John Field and Ruth Fairbanks) was born about 1642 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island; died after 1703 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, _Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (Albany, N.Y., 1887; reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978) p. 131, 222.

!SOURCE: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial, Consisting of Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888), p. 11.

!SOURCE: Reprint of the "Brown genealogy of 1851," submitted to the Whipple Website by Ian Mackie, 20 Oct 2003. Hannah is the eldest of four children.

!SOURCE: "Direct Descendants of James Mathewson," email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 3 Nov 2008. Cites LDS Ancestral File (birth); Mathewson Family of Woodstock, CT (death).

Notes:

!SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (Albany, N.Y., 1887; reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978) p. 313.

!SOURCE: Email from Miles Harris III (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 18 May 2017. Cites attached article "Thomas and Nicholas Harris of Providence, Rhode Island," by Helen Schatvet Ullman, p. 5 "To be published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register in 2013 ..."

Andre + Suzanne Guillemard. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (Albany, N.Y., 1887; reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978) p. 313.

!SOURCE: Email from Miles Harris III (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 18 May 2017. Cites attached article "Thomas and Nicholas Harris of Providence, Rhode Island," by Helen Schatvet Ullman, p. 5 "To be published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register in 2013 ..."

Notes:

!SOURCE: "John Smith, the Miller, of Providence Rhode Island: Some of His Descendants," by Charles William Farnham, in Genealogies of Rhode Island Families from Rhode Island Periodicals (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983), 2:21, 32.

!SOURCE: http://www.genealogy.org/~smcgee. Gives Providence, RI, as birth place. However, Providence as a birth place is questionable, since Providence was not organized until 1636 (Handy Book for Genealogists. 6th ed. [Logan, UT: Everton Publishers, 1971], p. 195.)

!SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (Albany, N.Y., 1887; reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978) p. 258. Gives birth date of 1630. (Previously recorded as 1629.)

!SOURCE: Email from Lynda Ozinga (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 4 Oct 2000.

!NOTE: It is this John Brown for whom [John] Brown University is named. --L. Ozynga

!SOURCE: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial, Consisting of Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888), p. 9, 10. Gives birth 1630 in England. (Birth previously entered as 1629.)

John married Mary Holmes in 1654. Mary (daughter of Obadiah Holmes, Reverend and Catharine or Katherine) was born about 1632 in , Lancashire, England; died in 1690. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: http://www.genealogy.org/~smcgee.

Notes:

!SOURCE: Edson Whipple Family Organization microfilm.

!SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, Ancestry of Thirty-Three Rhode Islanders (Born in the Eighteenth Century) (Albany, N.Y.: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1889), p. 13.

!SOURCE: Reprint of the "Brown genealogy of 1851," submitted to the Whipple Website by Ian Mackie, 20 Oct 2003.

Andrew married Mary Tew on 8 Dec 1670. Mary (daughter of Richard Tew and Mary Clarke) was born on 12 Aug 1647; died after 1688. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: Edson Whipple Family Organization microfilm.

!SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, Ancestry of Thirty-Three Rhode Islanders (Born in the Eighteenth Century) (Albany, N.Y.: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1889), p. 13.

!SOURCE: Reprint of the "Brown genealogy of 1851," submitted to the Whipple Website by Ian Mackie, 20 Oct 2003.

Notes:

!SOURCE: Helen Schatvet Ullmann and L. Randall Harris, "The Origins of Thomas Harris and William Harris of Providence, Rhode Island," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 167 (April 2013): 103.

!SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (Albany, N.Y., 1887; reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978) p. 312.

!SOURCE: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial, Consisting of Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888), p. 44.

!SOURCE: Reprint of the "Brown genealogy of 1851," submitted to the Whipple Website by Ian Mackie, 20 Oct 2003. "It is believed, though positive proof is lacking, that John and William Field were brothers, sons of William, and grandsons of Sir John Field, the astronomer of Ardsley, a village between Wakefield and Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire."

!CHILDREN: Six children. --Brown genealogy of 1851

Thomas married Martha Harris in By 1670. Martha (daughter of Thomas Harris and Elizabeth) was born about 1643 in prob, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island; died in 1717. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: Helen Schatvet Ullmann and L. Randall Harris, "The Origins of Thomas Harris and William Harris of Providence, Rhode Island," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 167 (April 2013): 103.

!SOURCE: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial, Consisting of Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888), p. 44.