Whipple Database
Database of the Whipple One-Name Study (WONS)
Edward Dexter, Colonel
1770 - 1860 (90 years)
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Name Edward Dexter Suffix Colonel Birth 2 Jan 1770 North Providence, Providence, Rhode Island 
Gender Male Death 23 Aug 1860 Seekonk, Bristol, Massachusetts Person ID I19149 Whipple Descendants Last Modified 18 Nov 2009
Father Edward Dexter, b. 1732, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island d. Jan 1770, At sea (Age 38 years) Mother Marcy Arnold, b. 7 Jan 1739, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island d. 4 Sep 1817, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island (Age 78 years) Marriage 6 Sep 1761 Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Family ID F3574 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Abigail Smith, b. 29 Nov 1773, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island d. 30 Nov 1814, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island (Age 41 years) Marriage 6 Dec 1793 Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Children 1. Sally Smith Dexter, b. 1797, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island + 2. Edward Dexter, III, b. 1799, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island + 3. Henry Harris Dexter, b. 1801, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island d. 1869, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island (Age 68 years)4. Frances Susan Dexter, b. 1803, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Family ID F10176 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Sarah Mumford, b. 1781, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Family ID F10177 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Birth - 2 Jan 1770 - North Providence, Providence, Rhode Island 
Marriage - 6 Dec 1793 - Providence, Providence, Rhode Island 
Death - 23 Aug 1860 - Seekonk, Bristol, Massachusetts = Link to Google Earth
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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), 2:101.
!RESIDENCES: "His residence in later years was in Seekonk, Massachusetts." --C.W. Farnham
!SOURCE: S.C. Newman, Dexter Genealogy: Being a Record of the Families Descended from Rev. Gregory Dexter (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1859), p. 53, 61-65.
!SOURCE: "Descendants of Henry Harris," email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 23 Apr 2007. Cites North Burial Ground, Providence, RI: Old Section 1700-1848 (birth, death 13 Aug 1860, Seekonk, MA?, also d. 1860); Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850 (marriage)
!SOURCE: The Arnold Family of Smithfield, Rhode Island, by Richard H. Benson (Boston: Newbury Street Press, 2009; ISBN 978-0-88082-221-3), p. 376.
- !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), 2:101.