Notes:

!SOURCE: International Genealogical Index, version 3.06.

!SOURCE: Clair A. Hemenway Newton, Captain John Whipple, 1617-1685, and His Descendants (Naperville, Ill., 1946), p. 55.

!SOURCE: Email from Neil Whipple (email hidden) to the Whipple One-Name Study, 29 Sep 2023. Cites https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9XW-XLJ4, image 21 (marriage)

Mary married Oliver Evens on 27 Nov 1763 in Somers, Tolland, Connecticut. Oliver was born in of, Somers, Tolland, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from Neil Whipple (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 22 Sep 2023. Cites Find a Grave web site memorial 145468621. Also cites The History of Enfield Connecticut Vol. 1 https://bit.ly/46p4ZQe and Vol 2. https://bit.ly/3rrXNUY

!SOURCE: Email from Judith Newman (email hidden) to the Whipple Web Site, 16 Nov 1997. Confirmed by Joanne Lahr-Kreischer on 20 Nov 1997.

!CHILDREN: Abraham and Mary had 11 children, of which Joseph was #5. --J. Lahr-Kreischer.

!BIRTH: Place from L.D.S Ancestral File, 2 Jan 1996.

!SOURCE: Clair A. Hemenway Newton, Captain John Whipple, 1617-1685, and His Descendants (Naperville, Ill., 1946), p. 46. Lists Abraham's child Thomas, b. July 16, 1728?

!SOURCE: U.S. Mail from Charles M. Whipple, Jr., to Weldon Whipple, May 2003. Charles included a photocopy of a typescript of data "from the original records in Providence [R.I.] and Tolland, Conn. [typed] by Emily G. Weiss, 130 E. 57th St., New York City." The document reads (in part):

Thomas Whipple Family

(Thomas was the son of Samuel and grandson of Capt. John, the emigrant.)

The proof that Abraham⁴ Whipple of Enfield, Conn., was the son of Thomas³, Samuel², Captain John¹ has been sought for many years. The following land records of Providence, R.I., and Tolland, Conn., are, therefore, of especial interest to descendants of this branch of the family.

Providence, R.I., Land Records, Providence, R.I.

vol. 2:236:

Samuel Whipple of Groton in the Colony of Connecticut and Thomas Whipple of the Town of Providence, Rhode Island ... Dec 30, 1712.

vol. 5:39:

April 23, 1717, recorded March 9, 1720/21, Thomas Whipple and Abigail Whipple, his wife, of Providence, Rhode Island ...

vol. 2:595:

Oct 1716/1717, Samuel Whipple of Groton and Thomas Whipple of Providence, Rhode Island ... recorded Feb 24, 1716/1717

vol. 3:191:

Nov 22, 1718, recorded Nov 29, 1718, Thomas Whipple of Tolland in the County of Hartford State of Connecticut ...

Tolland, Conn., Land Records, Tolland, Conn.

vol. 1:73:

April 2, 1720, record of a lott of Thomas Whipple of 40 acres lying in the south of Tolland in the County of Hartford in Colony of Connecticut ... the bound is as follows ;..

vol. 1:73:

... Division of Thomas Whipple seven acres

vol. 2:50:

July 22, 1726 ... Thomas Whipple and Abraham Whipple (for) 33 pounds ... to be paid by Samuel Chapman living at or near Stratford (sell to) the said Samuel Chapman ... a certain tract or parcel of land ... being within the Township of Tolland near Thomas Pond containing by estimation 30 acres ...

Signed: Thomas Whipple Abraham Whipple

vol. 2: 284:

March 31, 1726: Thomas Whipple (of) Township of Bolton near the west side of the Town of Tolland (sells) for fifty pounds ... 47 acres ... laid out and surveyed in the year 1720 by Dan'l Eaton and Ebenezer Nye to my said Thomas Whipple's honorable father Thomas Whipple now supposedly deceased. Dated Mar 31, 1726Signed: Thomas Whipple

vol. 2:391:

Nov 3, 1730, Thomas Whipple and Abraham Whipple of Enfield in the County of Hampden and in the Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England (sell) for forty pounds (to) Josiah Goodrich of Tolland ... 77 acres of land ... in the common and undivided lands of said Town together with one Ceadr [sic] Swamp lot already drawn for which lands were orinigally [sic] granted to our honored father Thomas Whipple late of Tolland deceased ...

Signed: Thomas Whipple Abraham Whipple

Abraham married Mary Gray Jones on 23 Aug 1731 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. Mary (daughter of Thomas Jones, Lieutenant and Mary Meacham) was born on 22 Apr 1709 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 4 Nov 1780 in East Haddam, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from Judith Newman (email hidden) to the Whipple Web Site, 16 Nov 1997. Confirmed by Joanne Lahr-Kreischer on 20 Nov 1997. Joanne provided Mary's surname (Jones). Judith gave no surname, but gave Mary a middle name of Jane.

!SOURCE: Email from Bruce Whipple to the Whipple Website, 15 Oct 1999. Cites records of Roxbury Township, Delaware County, New York. Gives name Mary Gary.

!SOURCE: Clair A. Hemenway Newton, Captain John Whipple, 1617-1685, and His Descendants (Naperville, Ill., 1946), p. 46, 55. Gives name Mary Jones.

!SOURCE: Email from Neil Whipple (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 22 Sep 2023. He writes:

In my opinion, the Abraham Whipple marriage to a Mary Gary probably incorrect. First, the Gary family genealogy is silent about any marriage to an Abraham Whipple, and Enfield was such a small community at the time I do not think there would have been another Gary family that was not related. Second, at least two different source documents from the Enfield Historical Society ... confirm that Abraham Whipple married a Mary Jones.

!SOURCE: Email from Neil Whipple (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 22 Sep 2023. Cites The History of Enfield Connecticut Vol. 1 https://bit.ly/46p4ZQe and Vol 2. https://bit.ly/3rrXNUY

!SOURCE: Find a Grave web site memorial 145473945, cited 1 Oct 2023. Gives name Mary Gray (Jones) Whipple.

Notes:

!SOURCE: Edson Whipple Family Organization microfilm.

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

!SOURCE: Clara Hammond McGuigan, The Antecedents and Descendants of Noah Whipple of the Rogerene Community at Quakertown, Connecticut (Ithaca, N.Y.: J.M. Kingsbury, 1971), p. 36.

!SOURCE: Clair A. Hemenway Newton, Captain John Whipple, 1617-1685, and His Descendants (Naperville, Ill., 1946), p. 52.

!SOURCE: Father Samuel's will, dated 9 Mar 1710/11, proved 20 Mar 1710/11, p. 181-2. Abstracted in Abstracts Providence Wills, Rhode Island Genealogical Register, vol. 12, p. 151.

!SOURCE: U.S. Mail from Charles M. Whipple, Jr., to Weldon Whipple, May 2003. Gives death between 1726 and 1730. (Previously entered as "Bef 31 Mar 1766.") Charles included a photocopy of a typescript of data "from the original records in Providence [R.I.] and Tolland, Conn. [typed] by Emily G. Weiss, 130 E. 57th St., New York City." The document reads (in part):

Thomas Whipple Family

(Thomas was the son of Samuel and grandson of Capt. John, the emigrant.)

The proof that Abraham⁴ Whipple of Enfield, Conn., was the son of Thomas³, Samuel², Captain John¹ has been sought for many years. The following land records of Providence, R.I., and Tolland, Conn., are, therefore, of especial interest to descendants of this branch of the family.

Providence, R.I., Land Records, Providence, R.I.

vol. 2:236:

Samuel Whipple of Groton in the Colony of Connecticut and Thomas Whipple of the Town of Providence, Rhode Island ... Dec 30, 1712.

vol. 5:39:

April 23, 1717, recorded March 9, 1720/21, Thomas Whipple and Abigail Whipple, his wife, of Providence, Rhode Island ...

vol. 2:595:

Oct 1716/1717, Samuel Whipple of Groton and Thomas Whipple of Providence, Rhode Island ... recorded Feb 24, 1716/1717

vol. 3:191:

Nov 22, 1718, recorded Nov 29, 1718, Thomas Whipple of Tolland in the County of Hartford State of Connecticut ...

Tolland, Conn., Land Records, Tolland, Conn.

vol. 1:73:

April 2, 1720, record of a lott of Thomas Whipple of 40 acres lying in the south of Tolland in the County of Hartford in Colony of Connecticut ... the bound is as follows ;..

vol. 1:73:

... Division of Thomas Whipple seven acres

vol. 2:50:

July 22, 1726 ... Thomas Whipple and Abraham Whipple (for) 33 pounds ... to be paid by Samuel Chapman living at or near Stratford (sell to) the said Samuel Chapman ... a certain tract or parcel of land ... being within the Township of Tolland near Thomas Pond containing by estimation 30 acres ...

Signed: Thomas Whipple Abraham Whipple

vol. 2: 284:

March 31, 1726: Thomas Whipple (of) Township of Bolton near the west side of the Town of Tolland (sells) for fifty pounds ... 47 acres ... laid out and surveyed in the year 1720 by Dan'l Eaton and Ebenezer Nye to my said Thomas Whipple's honorable father Thomas Whipple now supposedly deceased. Dated Mar 31, 1726Signed: Thomas Whipple

vol. 2:391:

Nov 3, 1730, Thomas Whipple and Abraham Whipple of Enfield in the County of Hampden and in the Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England (sell) for forty pounds (to) Josiah Goodrich of Tolland ... 77 acres of land ... in the common and undivided lands of said Town together with one Ceadr [sic] Swamp lot already drawn for which lands were orinigally [sic] granted to our honored father Thomas Whipple late of Tolland deceased ...

Signed: Thomas Whipple Abraham Whipple

!RESIDENCES: Lived in Glocester, Rhode Island. --C.A.H. Newton; according to C.M. Whipple, Jr., he lived in Smithfield, R.I. (not Glocester); he "left Rhode Island in about 1718" -- C.M. Whipple, Jr.

!CHILDREN: According to Clair A. Hemenway Newton, Captain John Whipple, 1617-1685, and His Descendants (Naperville, Ill., 1946), p. 52, Thomas and Abigail had three additional children, named Enoch, Daniel and Noah. Charles M. Whipple, Jr., in email to Weldon Whipple dated 13 Jan 2005, suggests otherwise. He writes:

I have been diligently searching the records for Noah, Enoch, and Daniel, the supposed sons of Thomas Senior (636). I am presently writing on his history and have entitled it--from the Louquisset Meadows to Thomas' Pond. I have come to the conclusion that that they never existed. Do you know off hand where the present information on the website was obtained? I think Newton took her source from Jillson. I would like to hypothesize what might have happened. The sons of Noah (635) were also Noah, Enoch, and Daniel. Could it be that they were mistakenly added to Thomas? ... McGuigan, (p. 36) the most authoritative source on the Samuel Whipple family I've consulted, does not know of these three sons of Thomas.

Thomas + Abigail Jenckes. Abigail (daughter of Joseph Jenckes and Esther Ballard) was born in 1676. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!NAME: Variant surname: Jencks.

!BIRTH: Date from the Sprague Database (Mail from Dick Weber [email hidden] to Weldon Whipple, received 23 Oct 1997. On the Internet at http://www.sprague-database.org)

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from Joanne Lahr-Kreischer to the Whipple Web Site, 20 Nov 1997. Gives name Thomas Jones.

!SOURCE: Email from Bruce Whipple to the Whipple Website, 15 Oct 1997. Cites records of Roxbury Township, Delaware County, New York. Gives name Thomas Gary.

!SOURCE: Email from Neil Whipple (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 22 Sep 2023. Gives name Lieutenant Thomas Jones, 1679-1963. Cites Find a Grave web site memorial 26648860. Also cites The History of Enfield Connecticut Vol. 1 https://bit.ly/46p4ZQe and Vol 2. https://bit.ly/3rrXNUY

!SOURCE: Find a Grave web site memorial 26648860, cited 1 Oct 2023. Gives name Lieut Thomas Jones.

Thomas married Mary Meacham in 1708. Mary was born on 12 Jan 1685 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 8 Nov 1744 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in Enfield Street Cemetery, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from Joanne Lahr-Kreischer to the Whipple Web Site, 20 Nov 1997. Gives name Mary Meacham.

!SOURCE: Email from Bruce Whipple to the Whipple Website, 15 Oct 1997. Cites records of Roxbury Township, Delaware County, New York. Gives surname Jones.

!SOURCE: Clair A. Hemenway Newton, Captain John Whipple, 1617-1685, and His Descendants (Naperville, Ill., 1946), p. 46. Gives name Mary (no surname).

!SOURCE: Email from Neil Whipple (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 22 Sep 2023. Gives maiden name Meacham. Cites Find a Grave web site memorial 26648841. Also cites The History of Enfield Connecticut Vol. 1 https://bit.ly/46p4ZQe and Vol 2. https://bit.ly/3rrXNUY

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): 102.

!SOURCE: Henry E. Whipple, A Brief History of the Whipple Families Who Settled in Rhode Island (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1873), p. 13. It appears that Henry *might* have skipped a generation in his book. Samuel's children listed on page 13 appear to be his grandchildren--the children of Samuel Jr. in other sources. Furthermore, the Elizabeth Eddy listed as Samuel's wife on page 13 is listed as Samuel's daughter-in-law (wife of Samuel's son named Samuel) in other sources. (A corrected copy of this source in the R.I. Historical Society Library also indicates that there are major problems with this information.)

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

!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.

!SOURCE: Email from Charles M. Whipple, Jr., to Weldon Whipple, 22 Mar 2013. Samuel "....was the first to set up a stagecoach [to Boston]; after him, Robert Currie, then Samuel Whipple; when they got through by day light, they thought to have done well." -- William R. Staples, Annals of the Town of Providence (Knowles and Vose, 1843) 605.
As you will note from my book on Capt. John and family that Samuel was indeed a most enterprising fellow. Currie was his son-in-law.

!SOURCE: Samuel's will, dated 9 Mar 1710/11, proved 20 Mar 1710/11, p. 181-2. Abstracted in Abstracts Providence Wills, Rhode Island Genealogical Register, vol. 12, p. 151.

!BURIAL: 1st person to be buried at North Burial Ground, Providence, R.I. --Wm. Lee Whipple.

!RESIDENCES: Lived and died in "Abbot House," N. Main, Providence, R.I.

!DEATH: Family Tree Maker database of William Lee Whipple (email hidden)--received by the Whipple Web Site 4 Dec 1997, gives year 1709/10.

Samuel married Mary Harris about 1666 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island. Mary (daughter of Thomas Harris and Elizabeth) was born about 1639 in prob, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island; died on 14 Dec 1722 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island; was buried in North Burial Ground, North Main Street, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island. [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): 102.

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

!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. Gives death 1676 in Providence, R.I.

!SOURCE: Husband Samuel's will, dated 9 Mar 1710/11, proved 20 Mar 1710/11, p. 181-2. Abstracted in Abstracts Providence Wills, Rhode Island Genealogical Register, vol. 12, p. 151.

Notes:

!SOURCE: The Sprague Database (Mail from Dick Weber [email hidden] to Weldon Whipple, received 23 Oct 1997. On the Internet at http://www.sprague-database.org)

!SOURCE: M.M. Wilkinson, _Genealogy of Wilkinson and Kindred Families_ (Shelby, Miss.: Shelby Book Store, 1949), p. 75.

!SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (Albany, N.Y., 1887; reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978) p. 112.

Joseph + Esther Ballard. Esther was born about 1633 in , , England; died after 1717. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: The Sprague Database (Mail from Dick Weber [email hidden] to Weldon Whipple, received 23 Oct 1997. On the Internet at http://www.sprague-database.org)

!SOURCE: M.M. Wilkinson, _Genealogy of Wilkinson and Kindred Families_ (Shelby, Miss.: Shelby Book Store, 1949), p. 75.

!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.

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: 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): 100-101:

Many have erroneously said that this Thomas Harris arrived in New England with his brother William and Roger Williams aboard the ship Lyon, arriving in Nantasket 5 February 1630/1. However, the first record of this Thomas Harris in New England is when he was in a group of "second comers" to the new settlement, who "was received a purchaser of Providence previous to" 20 August 1637. These were thirteen men "desirous to inhabit in the town of Providence" who subscribed to a "ciuill" compact.

!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), 2:42.

!SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (Albany, N.Y., 1887; reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978) p. 310.

!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 conjectured, in the absence of positive proof, that Thomas and William Harris, brothers, were born in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales."

Thomas married Elizabeth about 1636 in poss, , , England. Elizabeth was buried in Poss 8 Mar 1690 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. [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): 100-101. "She may be the widow Elizabeth Harris who was buried in nearby Rehoboth, Massachusetts, 8 March 1690."

!BIRTH: Dick Weber, in a printout from the Sprague Database dated 7 Nov 1997, citing Robert Charles Anderson's "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1623" (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), p. 1973, gives surname Leather.

Notes:

!SOURCE: M.M. Wilkinson, _Genealogy of Wilkinson and Kindred Families_ (Shelby, Miss.: Shelby Book Store, 1949), p. 75.

!SOURCE: "First Patent in America (hand written), submitted to the Whipple Website by Joanne Lahr-Kreischer, 16 Nov 2001.

!NOTABLE: Mr. Jencks was was granted the first patent issued in America, in 1646. He also "made the dies for coining the first money ... [and] built the first fire engine in America." --J. Lahr-Kreischer

!RESIDENCES: Settled at Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1643. --J. Lahr-Kreischer

!BIRTH: Hounslow is located in present-day Greater London. --Weldon Whipple