Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from Ellen Schuster to Weldon Whipple, 29 Mar 1998.

!SOURCE: Email from Patricia M. Gobea to the Whipple Website, 11 Jul 2002. Information on "this line of Whipples came from 1850, 1860, 1880 Leroy Twp., Bradford Co. Census records; Leroy and Mott Cemeteries, Leroy, PA; Mott Records in my possession; marriage records from the Bradford Co. Court House, Towanda, PA; funeral records from Vickery's Funeral Home, Troy, Pa and funeral records from Morse-Kleese Funeral Home, Canton, PA; newspaper obituaries."

!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 13 Feb 2004. Norma writes:

The 1900 Census, Rutland Twp., Tioga, PA, p.152, has the following birthdates for the children of Sarah Whipple {18706} and John Hall {67381}: George {67385} born PA 10/1881; May {67386} born PA 5/1883; and Grace {67387} born PA 10/1885. Probably the names given are the middle names of the children as they are not exactly the same as on the Whipple Genweb.

Both Sarah and John are still alive at the time of the 1900 census. Sarah indicated that she was the mother of five children, three of whom were still living.

The 7/1/1870 census for LeRoy Twp., Bradford, PA, p.232 has the following individuals living with George Whipple {13233}: S. C Morris (female) 27; J. W. Morris (male) 4; J. C. Morris (male) 3; & Lelah Morris 1.

Living with George Morris on the 6/17/1880 LeRoy Twp., Bradford, PA census and identified as his grandson was J. C. Morris, age 14, who was working on the farm. George's daughter Sarah {18706} is the right age to be the mother of these Morris children.

Family/Spouse: Morris. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. J. W. Morris was born about 1866 in of, Leroy Twp, Bradford, Pennsylvania.
2. J. C. Morris was born about 1867 in of, Leroy Twp, Bradford, Pennsylvania.
3. Lelah Morris was born about 1869 in of, Leroy Twp, Bradford, Pennsylvania.

Sarah married John M. Hall on 16 Dec 1880 in Leroy, Bradford, Pennsylvania. John (son of Asel Hall and Achsa Pate) was born on 30 Jan 1831 in Addison, Steuben, New York; died after 1900 in of, Rutland Twp, Tioga, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. George Hall was born in Oct 1881 in , , Pennsylvania.
2. Rena May Hall was born in May 1883 in , , Pennsylvania.
3. Reba Grace Hall was born in Oct 1885 in , , Pennsylvania.

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from Judith Newman (email hidden) to the Whipple Web Site, 16 Nov 1997.

!SOURCE: Email from Ellen Schuster to Weldon Whipple, 29 Jun 1998.

!SOURCE: Email from Lynda Ozinga to Weldon Whipple, 22 Apr 2001.

!SOURCE: Email from Suzanne Stewart (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 6 Jan 2002. Suzanne writes: "Judson A. Whipple's father was Leo Whipple not George and his mother's name was Sally Stratter. I have Judson's death certificate" (Previous sources give name as George Whipple.)

!SOURCE: Email from Suzanne Stewart (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 23 Feb 2002. Indicates that the census gives this individual's name as George. "Leo may have been a nickname, I don't know."

!SOURCE: Email from Patricia M. Gobea (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 11 Jul 2002. Information on "this line of Whipples came from 1850, 1860, 1880 Leroy Twp., Bradford Co. Census records; Leroy and Mott Cemeteries, Leroy, PA; Mott Records in my possession; marriage records from the Bradford Co. Court House, Towanda, PA; funeral records from Vickery's Funeral Home, Troy, Pa and funeral records from Morse-Kleese Funeral Home, Canton, PA; newspaper obituaries." Gives name George Whipple

!SOURCE: Descendancy chart of Luther Whipple and Eunice Gates, emailed by Charles Snitchler to the Whipple Website, 26 Nov 2003. Gives birth abt 1814 in Roxbury, Delaware Co., New York, no death information.

!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 13 Feb 2004. Norma writes:

The 7/1/1870 census for LeRoy Twp., Bradford, PA, p.232 has the following individuals living with George Whipple {13233}: S. C Morris (female) 27; J. W. Morris (male) 4; J. C. Morris (male) 3; & Lelah Morris 1.

Living with George Morris on the 6/17/1880 LeRoy Twp., Bradford, PA census and identified as his grandson was J. C. Morris, age 14, who was working on the farm. George's daughter Sarah {18706} is the right age to be the mother of these Morris children.

!RESIDENCES: Moved to Bradford Co., Pennsylvania in 1840. --E. Schuster

George married Sarah Maritta "Sally" Stratton or Stratter about 1831 in Roxbury, Delaware, New York. Sarah was born on 9 Jan 1811 in , , New York; died on 31 Aug 1889 in , Bradford, Pennsylvania; was buried on 3 Sep 1889 in Leroy Cemetery, Leroy, Bradford, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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

!SOURCE: Email from Ellen Schuster to Weldon Whipple, 29 Jun 1998.

!SOURCE: Email from Suzanne Stewart (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 6 Jan 2002. Suzanne writes: "Judson A. Whipple's father was Leo Whipple not George and his mother's name was Sally Stratter. I have Judson's death certificate"

!SOURCE: Email from Patricia M. Gobea to the Whipple Website, 11 Jul 2002. Information on "this line of Whipples came from 1850, 1860, 1880 Leroy Twp., Bradford Co. Census records; Leroy and Mott Cemeteries, Leroy, PA; Mott Records in my possession; marriage records from the Bradford Co. Court House, Towanda, PA; funeral records from Vickery's Funeral Home, Troy, Pa and funeral records from Morse-Kleese Funeral Home, Canton, PA; newspaper obituaries." Gives name Sarah Maritta "Sallie" Stratton.

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from Judith Newman (email hidden) to the Whipple Web Site, 16 Nov 1997.

!SOURCE: Email from Joanne Lahr-Kreischer to the Whipple Website, 20 Nov 1997.

!CHILDREN: Abraham and Asenath had 11 children. George is #8. --J. Lahr-Kreischer.

!SOURCE: Email from Donald E. Risen (email hidden) to Craig M. DeLong (cdelong@mhonline.net), 11 Apr 1999; forwarded to Weldon Whipple, 12 Apr 1999. Gives name as Abram, citing his gravestone.

!SOURCE: Email from Bruce Whipple to the Whipple Website, 15 Oct 1999. Cites records of Roxbury Township, Delaware County, New York. Bruce maintains that there are two Abrahams, who are cousins, one the son of the Luther, and the other the son of Joseph. He states that the two cousins are often confused, and that "it was Joseph's son Abraham who married Asenath Sumners in Connecticut, moved to Halifax, New Hampshire, where most, if not all, of their children were born. He then moved with his family to Roxbury, New York, and occupied the farm 'next to his Uncle Luther.'" --Bruce Whipple

!SOURCE: Email from Don Risen (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 14 Aug 2002. Don disputes Bruce Whipple's conclusions. He states:

I have reviewed both of the pages that you pointed out to me and find this to be a rather interesting situation. I have done extensive research in Delaware County, New York and I've come to the conclusion that the two Abrahams are one and the same person. The reasons as follows:

1. Both Abrahams shown are listed as born in 1768. The one listed as Luther's son does not show a wife or family but shows a birthdate of Feb 11, 1768. The other one listed as Joseph's son shows only 1768 but has him married to Asenath Sumner (b:Aug 2, 1768). (The alternate surname Summer should be removed as she was the daughter of Daniel Sumner who married Lydia Fairbanks). I can personally verify that I have seen the side-by-side gravesites of Abram and Asenath and read their headstones and photographed them. The Abram next to Asenath was born Feb 11, 1768 and hers Aug 2, 1768. Your web-sites would separate them into two different families.
2. Irma Griffin who was born in the late 1800s was a historian who wrote The History of Roxbury Town. She was apparently intimately familiar with the Whipples who resided in Vega as they are found extensively throughout her book. I would like to quote from two portions of her revised book:

   Page 35: "The First Whipple Farm. Charles F. Bouton of Roxbury who died August 6, 1962, described the location of the lease lot and mill of Luther Whipple, Sr.(born in New London, Conn., 1743, died in Roxbury between 1820 and 1830) as follows: "Beginning at the first farm below Stratton Falls at West Settlement, starting at the Tyler cemetery and going North there was the Tyler farm which took in the burying ground."

   Going a bit further in the book:

   Page 36: "John Kierstad's Field Book at the Delaware County Court House, Delhi, N.Y., shows that Luther Whipple signed a lease August 1, 1795 on Lot 52. In an unrecorded transaction, according to the late John D. Monroe, this lot was later assigned to Abraham Gould.

   "In unrecorded transfers still later, this lot is described as the Saw Mill property 'leased by Luther Whipple'.

   "Luther Whipple married Eunice Gates, daughter of Thomas Gates and Elizabeth Mitchell, of Preston, Conn. Elizabeth was a descendant of Francis Cooke of the Mayflower. Luther and Eunice had the following children:

   "Abraham Whipple, b. 1768, married Asenath Sumner. They settled in Batavia-kill. Their markers are in Vega cemetery (See chapter on Vega-Denver)."

   The author goes on to describe the other children, Eunice, Polly, Elizabeth, Lydia, Henry, Martha, Clarissa, Thomas, and Luther Jr., and details about their marriages, homes, etc. Now I would like to take you to another portion of her book, beginning on page 147:

   "The Denver farm 'Crystal Springs' now owned by Mr. and Mrs. John B. Hewitt had descended from mother to daughter almost ever since pioneer days. Abraham Whipple, the eldest son of Luther Whipple, Sr., of New London, Conn. (who settled near the Four Corners at Roxbury) moved first to Halifax, Vt., from New London, Conn., and then between 1800 and 1810 moved to Batavia-Kill, at the site of 'Crystal Springs'. Abraham and his wife, Asenath Sumner, had eleven children: Abigail (married Isaac Coons); Eunice (married David Davis);......"

   The author continued on with the list of children and their descendants. Then "Abraham died in 1852 and his son, Daniel, inherited the farm, but in 1865 moved to Kortright and sold the farm to his niece, Mary Davis, daughter of Eunice and her husband, Joseph Bouton."
3. In all of my research in Delaware County records I have never found an Abram or Abraham that was a son of a Joseph Whipple residing in the county. I have looked over the census records for 1830, 1840, etc. and continuing thru the 1880s. I do however agree, and my records show that he had an uncle Joseph (b: May 18, 1740) who married Abigail Gary but my records show only that they lived in Halifax, Windham County, Vermont.

... I'm almost convinced that only one Abraham (Abram)Whipple lived in the Vega area, although the name Abraham, like many others, occurs frequently in the Whipple genealogy.

!SOURCE: GEDCOM file from Mark Lozer to the Whipple Website, 14 Dec 2002. Gives birth in Bennington, Vermont. (Previously entered as New London, Connecticut.)

!SOURCE: Descendancy chart of Luther Whipple and Eunice Gates, emailed by Charles Snitchler to the Whipple Website, 26 Nov 2003. Adds death place of Roxbury Village (in Delaware County, New York).

!SOURCE: "Descendants of Stephen Gates," from the research files of Beverly Huckins (heidibetemail hidden), mailed to Weldon Whipple, 20 Nov 2003. Adds marriage place of Abraham and Asnath: Connecticut.

!SOURCE: Email from Mike Whipple (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 14 Mar 2005. Cites Vega Cemetery record at http://www.dcnyhistory.org/cemiralawrencevega.html: "Abram Whipple d. Jan 12, 1852 AE 83y 11m 1d"

Abram married Asenath Sumner about 1790 in , , Connecticut. Asenath (daughter of Daniel Sumner and Lydia Fairbanks) was born on 2 Aug 1768 in Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut; died on 23 Dec 1851 in Roxbury, Delaware, New York; was buried in Vega Cemetery, Vega, Delaware, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from Joanne Lahr-Kreischer to the Whipple Website, 20 Nov 1997. Gives name Asenath Summer.

!SOURCE: Email from Donald E. Risen (email hidden) to Craig M. DeLong (cdelong@mhonline.net), 11 Apr 1999; forwarded to Weldon Whipple, 12 Apr 1999. Gives name Asenath Sumner.

!SOURCE: Email from Lynda Ozinga to Weldon Whipple, 22 Apr 2001.

!SOURCE: Email from Don Risen (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 1 Sep 2002.

!SOURCE: GEDCOM file from Mark Lozer to the Whipple Website, 14 Dec 2002. Gives death 23 Dec 1861. (Previously entered as 23 Dec 1851.)

!SOURCE: Descendancy chart of Luther Whipple and Eunice Gates, emailed by Charles Snitchler to the Whipple Website, 26 Nov 2003. Gives death 23 Dec 1851 in Ruxbury Village, Delaware Co., New York.

!SOURCE: "Descendants of Stephen Gates," from the research files of Beverly Huckins (heidibetemail hidden), mailed to Weldon Whipple, 20 Nov 2003. Adds marriage place of Abraham and Asnath: Connecticut.

!SOURCE: Email from Mike Whipple (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 14 Mar 2005. Cites Vega Cemetery record at http://www.dcnyhistory.org/cemiralawrencevega.html: "Aseneth w/o Abram Whipple d. Dec. 23, 1851 AE 83y 4m 21d"

Notes:

!SOURCE: International Genealogical Index, version 3.06.

!SOURCE: Email from Bruce Whipple (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 28 Mar and 15 Oct 1999. Cites records of Roxbury Township, Delaware County, New York.

!SOURCE: Email from Chuck Shelby (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 4 Jun 2001. Gives birth in Somers Twp, New London or Tolland County, Connecticut; gives death in 1830 in Middletown, Delaware County, New York.

!SOURCE: Clair A. Hemenway Newton, Captain John Whipple, 1617-1685, and His Descendants (Naperville, Ill., 1946), p. 55, 57.

!SOURCE: Email from Lynda Ozinga to the Whipple Website, 21 Jan 2002. Cites "History of Roxbury [New York], Roxbury Early Settlers," p. 46.

!SOURCE: "Descendants of Stephen Gates," from the research files of Beverly Huckins (heidibetemail hidden), mailed to Weldon Whipple, 20 Nov 2003. Gives death 1820. (Previously entered as 1830.)

!BIRTH: IGI gives birth in Somers Twp, Tolland, Connecticut. B. Whipple states: "We think that Luther Sr. moved from Rhode Island to Vermont and then to New York."

!MILITARY: Luther served in the New London, Connecticut, militia during the Revolutionary War. --Bruce Whipple

!RESIDENCES: All children were born in New London, Connecticut. All family (except Polly, who remained with her husband Thomas Whittlesley--a ship captain), moved from New London, Connecticut, to Roxbury, New York in about 1796. --Bruce Whipple

!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 23 Nov 2019. Cites Find a Grave web site (burial).

!SOURCE: Email from Neil Whipple (email hidden) to the Whipple (ne-Name Study, 17 Sep 2023. Gives birth 7 Mar 1743, citing "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPS2-1CSR : 15 April 2022), Luther Whipple, ; citing Birth, Somers, Tolland, Connecticut, United States, Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 008272249. Birth date previously entered as 7 Mar 1742/1743.

Luther married Eunice Gates about 1767 in New London, New London, Connecticut. Eunice (daughter of Thomas Gates, Corporal and Elizabeth Mitchell) was born about 1745 in Preston, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!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. 40.

!SOURCE: Email from Bruce Whipple to the Whipple Website, 15 Oct 1999. Cites records of Roxbury Township, Delaware County, New York. Gives birth 22 Apr 1709.

!SOURCE: Email from Lynda Ozinga to Weldon Whipple, 22 Apr 2001.

!SOURCE: Descendancy chart of Luther Whipple and Eunice Gates, emailed by Charles Snitchler to the Whipple Website, 26 Nov 2003. Adds Eunice's birthplace: Preston, Connecticut.

!SOURCE: "Descendants of Stephen Gates," from the research files of Beverly Huckins (heidibetemail hidden), mailed to Weldon Whipple, 20 Nov 2003.

Notes:

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

!SOURCE: Email from Don Risen (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 1 Sep 2002. Gives surname Sumner

!SOURCE: GEDCOM file from Mark Lozer to the Whipple Website, 14 Dec 2002. Gives surname Sumner.

!SOURCE: International Genealogical Index (Internet). Adds marriage date and place.

Daniel married Lydia Fairbanks on 14 May 1761 in Holliston, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Lydia was born on 20 Sep 1739 in Holliston, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 14 May 1771 in Halifax, Windham, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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

!SOURCE: GEDCOM file from Mark Lozer to the Whipple Website, 14 Dec 2002.

!SOURCE: International Genealogical Index (Internet). Adds marriage date and place.

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: 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. 44.

!SOURCE: "The First Whipple Farm," document attached to email from Carol Jeffery (emj576@ameritech.net), received by the Whipple Website 11 May 2000. Reportedly found the attachment in a "copy of The History of the Town of Roxbury by Irma Mae Griffin and Linda Norris."

!SOURCE: Email from Chuck Shelby (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 4 Jun 2001. Identifies Thomas as a Corporal.

!SOURCE: Email from Chuck Shelby (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 17 Jun 2001. Cites "List of Qualified Jurors - 1798-1800; Delaware County, New York"

!MILITARY: A member of "Capt. Erastus Sergeant's co., Col. Benjamin Simonds's detachment of Berkshire Co. militia; entered service Dec. 16, 1776; discharged March 22, 1777; service, 97 days, travel included, at Ticonderoga; enlistment to expire March 15, 1777; also, Capt. Oliver Belding's co., Maj. Caleb Hyde's detachment of militia; entered service July 8, 1777; discharged July 26, 1777; service, 19 days, in Northern department; also, Capt. Oliver Belding's co., Col. John Brown's regt.; entered service Sept. 21, 1777; discharged Oct. 1, 1777; service, 11 days, at the Northward; also, Private, Capt. William Wells's detachment of militia, 3d Berkshire Co. regt.; enlisted Oct. 30, 1781; discharged Nov. 7, 1781; service, 8 days, on the alarm at Saratoga of Oct. 29, 1781." --C. Shelby, 4 Jun 2001, quoting from Vol. 6, p. 324 of Revolutionary War Service Records, 1775-83.

Thomas + Elizabeth Mitchell. Elizabeth (daughter of Joseph Mitchell and Elizabeth Lamb) was born in 1724 in of, Preston, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: "The First Whipple Farm," document attached to email from Carol Jeffery (emj576@ameritech.net), received by the Whipple Website 11 May 2000. Reportedly found the attachment in a "copy of The History of the Town of Roxbury by Irma Mae Griffin and Linda Norris."

!SOURCE: Email from Chuck Shelby (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 17 Jun 2001. Cites "List of Qualified Jurors - 1798-1800; Delaware County, New York" Gvies birth about 1720.

!ANCESTRY: "A descendant of Francis Cooke of the Mayflower." --C. Jeffery

!SOURCE: "Descendants of Stephen Gates," from the research files of Beverly Huckins (heidibetemail hidden), mailed to Weldon Whipple, 20 Nov 2003. Gives birth 1724.