Notes:

!SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, _Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (Albany, N.Y., 1887; reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978) p. 223

!SOURCE: Henry E. Whipple, A Brief Genealogy of the Whipple Families Who Settled in Rhode Island (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1873), p. 40. From a corrected copy of the book found in the Rhode Island Historical Society Library, call no. CS71.W574 1873 RIHSL.

!CHILDREN: Had 2 sons, 2 daughters. (Pencilled in margin of Henry E. Whipple)

!SOURCE: David Jillson, "Descendants of Capt. John Whipple, of Providence, R.I.," New-England Historical and Genealogical Register, 32 (1878): 406.

!SOURCE: "Rhode Island Friends Records: Marriages." In James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850. Vol. 7, Friends and Ministers (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1895), p. 38, 39.

!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to the Whipple Website, 12 Sep 2001.

!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to the Whipple Website, 5 Aug 2002. "In 1743 when the Town of Middletown, RI was formed from part of Newport, RI, the creek separating the farms of the Hon. Joseph Whipple Esq. and Godfrey Malbone of Newport, RI was used as the dividing line between the two towns. (See Arnold's VR 4:3:iii)"

!SOURCE: Email from Charles M. Whipple, Jr., to Weldon Whipple, 23 and 24 Jul 2002. Charles writes: "He died between May and July of 1750. His will was written 28 May 1750 and proved 2 July 1750. The fragmented document mentioned that he died of a 'short but severe illness.' Council Records, Newport, NHS 9:346,363. He named his widow Sarah, Daughters Sarah, Amey, Alice and Mehetable; sons Joseph and William; grandchildren Christopher, Amey, and Joseph Sylvester. (Codicil, ibid. 10:283)."

!SOURCE: Email from Barbara Carroll to Weldon Whipple, 27 Jul 2003. Cites Alden G. Beaman, "Births from Newport Common Burial Ground Inscrptions, 1590-1930," in Rhode Island Vital Records: New Series. 11 vols. (Princeton, Mass., 1976-87) 11:445. Gives Joseph's wife Anne, and children of their marriage. Also cites Arnold's Vital Record 1:290 (b. Providence 30 Dec 1687); 7:27 (d. Newport 1750); married Sarah Redwood (d/o Abraham; b. Antigua 19 Oct 1702, d. Cranston, RI, 7 Jan 1791; married in Newport-Friends Meeting 1 Mar 1721).

!GOVERNMENT: Deputy Governor of Rhode Island, 1743-46. --C.M. Whipple and B. Carroll, citing Bartlett 5:66.

!SOURCE: Email from Charles M. Whipple, Jr., to Weldon Whipple, 28 Jul 2003. Gives burial in the common burial ground in Newport (with first wife and their four infant sons). Gives marriage to first wife "around 1712."

!SOURCE: Email from Barbara Carroll to Weldon Whipple 29 Jul 2003. Barbara writes:

Although the Newport Common Burial Grounds records state that Joseph (2) is buried there, without a stone, that isn't necessarily the case. Just a few words on Newport research, from Vincent F. Luti's "Mallet & Chisel:Gravestone Carvers of Newport, Rhode Island, in the 18th Century," p. 8:

"Genealogical research on colonial Newport is complicated by the poor state of many of the surviving documents, which were damaged during the Revolution. In 1778, after nearly three years of British occupation, Newport was under heavy siege. Walter Chaloner, the town sheriff and a Tory, fled on a British man-of-war with all the probate records, deeds, and vital records under his jurisdiction. His ship ran aground in New York Harbor. Retrieved from the watery depths, the boxes were left in storage for some time. When they were finally unpacked, the extent of the damage was revealed. The remnants of the records are now preserved in bound volumes at the Newport Historical Society, but the contents of any given page may be from different documents, often of different dates. Furthermore, almost all are faded to differing degrees of indecipherability..."

Fully 1/2 or more of the documents were lost, so it's hard to draw many conclusions in Newport.

!SOURCE: Email from Charles M. Whipple, Jr., to Weldon Whipple, 4 Oct 2003. Charles writes: "I am now convinced that Lieutenant Governor Joseph Whipple Jr. was Anglican not Quaker. I received a reply from Harvard University finally. His son, William, graduated in 1749 at the head of his class. His biography notes that he was indeed Church of England as was Col. Joseph Whipple, his father. So, although Lieutenant Governor Joseph Whipple III and his mother, as well as some siblings may have been Quakers, at least it is now known that this was indeed a religiously mixed marriage."

Joseph married Anne or Ann Almy about 1708 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island. Anne was born about 1695; died on 28 Dec 1720 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island; was buried in Common Burial Ground, Farewell Street, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Sarah Redwood on 1 Mar 1721 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island. Sarah (daughter of Abraham Redwood and Mehitable Langford or Longford) was born on 19 Oct 1702 in Antigua, , West Indies; died on 3 Jan 1791 in Cranston, Providence, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from Barbara Carroll to Weldon Whipple, 27 Jul 2003. Cites Alden G. Beaman, "Births from Newport Common Burial Ground Inscrptions, 1590-1930," in Rhode Island Vital Records: New Series. 11 vols. (Princeton, Mass., 1976-87) 11:445. Entry reads: "Joseph, of Joseph Jr. and Annm d. 23 Sep 1713, age 16
weeks (b. 1713)"

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from Barbara Carroll to Weldon Whipple, 27 Jul 2003. Cites Alden G. Beaman, "Births from Newport Common Burial Ground Inscrptions, 1590-1930," in Rhode Island Vital Records: New Series. 11 vols. (Princeton, Mass., 1976-87) 11:445. Entry reads: "Christopher, of Joseph and Ann, d. 11 Jan 1716/17, age
2 yrs, 5 m, 8 d (b. 1714)"

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from Barbara Carroll to Weldon Whipple, 27 Jul 2003. Cites Alden G. Beaman, "Births from Newport Common Burial Ground Inscrptions, 1590-1930," in Rhode Island Vital Records: New Series. 11 vols. (Princeton, Mass., 1976-87) 11:445. Entry reads: "Joseph, of Joseph and Ann, d. 28 Sep 1717, age about 7
m (b. 1717)"

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from Barbara Carroll to Weldon Whipple, 27 Jul 2003. Cites Alden G. Beaman, "Births from Newport Common Burial Ground Inscrptions, 1590-1930," in Rhode Island Vital Records: New Series. 11 vols. (Princeton, Mass., 1976-87) 11:445. Entry reads: "William, of Joseph and Anne, d. 16 Dec 1720, age about
5 weeks (b. 1720)"

Notes:

!SOURCE: "Rhode Island Friends Records: Births." In James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850. Vol. 7, Friends and Ministers (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1895), p. 82. Gives birth 28 Jun 1723 in Newport.

!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to the Whipple Website, 12 Sep 2001. Cites Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850.

!SOURCE: Email from Barbara Carroll to Weldon Whipple, 27 Jul 2003. Cites Arnold 7:82 (b. 28 Jun 1723, Newport; d. before 1761); Arnold 7:47 (marriage to Matthew Borden, Friends Meeting).

Sarah married Matthew Borden on 19 Oct 1749 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island. Matthew (son of Abraham Borden and Elizabeth Wanton) was born on 2 Apr 1723 in Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: Frank V. McDonald, Inquiries Relating to the Ancestors and Descendants of Job Whipple, of Cumberland, Rhode Island, and Greenwich, Washington County, New York (Cambridge: University Press, John Wilson & son, 1881), p. 3.

!SOURCE: "Rhode Island Friends Records: Births." In James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850. Vol. 7, Friends and Ministers (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1895), p. 82. Gives birth 3 Jul 1725 in Newport.

!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to the Whipple Website, 12 Sep 2001. Cites Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850.

!SOURCE: Email from Charles M. Whipple, Jr., to Weldon Whipple, 23 Jul 2003. Gives death 1761.

!SOURCE: Email from Barbara Carroll to Weldon Whipple, 27 Jul 2003. Barbara writes:

"Joseph (3) was born Newport 3 July 1725. d. 1761 (Arnold 7:82). Deputy Governor 1749-1754. Joseph had financial trouble. In 1753, he mortgaged the family farm in Middletown, next community to Newport. (Land /evidence, Middletown, 1:175-180). It was 61 acres with a large house. Between Dec. 1753 and Mar. 225,075 pounds were raised form the sale of more than 500 acres if Whipple property in Middletown (need citation).On 2 Nov 1754, he resigned as Deputy Governor (Barltlett 5:377)

"According to the Newport Mercury of 29 March 1915, in 1761, Joseph Whipple, former deputy governor, became intemperate and was drowned from the Point Bridge [in Newport] while returning from the theatre on the Point.[The Point is the oldest settled area of Newport]."

!GOVERNMENT: Deputy Governor of Rhode Island, 1749-1954. --Charles M. Whipple

!SOURCE: Email from Charles M. Whipple, Jr., to Weldon Whipple, 4 Oct 2003. Charles writes: "I am now convinced that Lieutenant Governor Joseph Whipple Jr. was Anglican not Quaker. I received a reply from Harvard University finally. His son, William, graduated in 1749 at the head of his class. His biography notes that he was indeed Church of England as was Col. Joseph Whipple, his father. So, although Lieutenant Governor Joseph Whipple III and his mother, as well as some siblings may have been Quakers, at least it is now known that this was indeed a religiously mixed marriage."

Notes:

!SOURCE: "Trinity Church Newport." In James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850. Vol. 10, Town and Church (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1898), p. 533. Lists baptism of Benjamin Whipple (no parents given) 4 Sep 1726.

!SOURCE: Email from Charles M. Whipple Jr. to Weldon Whipple, 24 Jul 2003. Gives birth 4 Sep 1727 in Newport. Cites Arnold VR 10:553 (not mentioned in father's will).

!SOURCE: Email from Barbara Carroll to Weldon Whipple, 27 Jul 2003. Cites Arnold 10:553 [i.e. 10:533], which gives birth [i.e. baptism] 4 Sep 1727. Not in Joseph's [father's] will.

Notes:

!SOURCE: "Rhode Island Friends Records: Births." In James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850. Vol. 7, Friends and Ministers (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1895), p. 82. Gives birth 27 Jul 1727 in Newport.

!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to the Whipple Website, 12 Sep 2001. Cites Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850.

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from Charles M. Whipple Jr. to Weldon Whipple, 24 Jul 2003. Gives birth 13 May 1729. Cites RI Friends Records, Births, book 822, pg. 50. "Not mentioned in father's will."

!SOURCE: Email from Barbara Carroll to Weldon Whipple, 27 Jul 2003. Cites Arnold ?:59 (b. Newport 22 Jan 1731).

Notes:

!SOURCE: "Rhode Island Friends Records: Births." In James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850. Vol. 7, Friends and Ministers (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1895), p. 82. Gives birth 22 Mar 1731 in Newport.

!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to the Whipple Website, 12 Sep 2001. Cites Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850.

!SOURCE: Email from Charles M. Whipple Jr. to Weldon Whipple, 24 Jul 2003. Gives dates "22 Jan 173 [sic]-- between 1750 and 1754. Mentioned in will of father, 1750, and termed 'late' in brother Joseph's court petition of 1754. Council Records, Newport, M.Film Collection, pg. 605."

!SOURCE: Email from Charles M. Whipple, Jr., to Weldon Whipple, 4 Oct 2003. Charles writes: "I received a reply from Harvard University finally. ... William graduated in 1749 at the head of his class. His biography notes that he was indeed Church of England as was Col. Joseph Whipple, his father."

!SOURCE: Email from Charles M. Whipple, Jr., to Weldon Whipple, 22 Dec 2003. William "was born 22 Mar 1730 and died 23 June 1750, likely hastening the death of his father, Joseph Junior. (Boston Evening Post 2 July 1750 2/1)."

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to the Whipple Website, 12 Sep 2001. Cites Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850.

!SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol. 2, Providence, Part 1 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1892), p. 83. Gives marriage of Thomas Greene (of Thomas and Elizabeth) and Amey Whipple (of Joseph and Sarah) 24 Mar 1757; performed by Rev. Pollen Clark.

!SOURCE: Email from Charles M. Whipple Jr. to Weldon Whipple, 24 Jul 2003. Gives birth 18 Oct 1734. Mentioned in father's will. Spells name Amy.

!SOURCE: Email from Barbara Carroll to Weldon Whipple, 27 Jul 2003. Gives birth 18 Oct 1734 in Newport; married Thomas Greene, Jr.

Amey married Thomas Greene, Jr. on 24 Mar 1757 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island. Thomas (son of Thomas Greene and Elizabeth Church) was born on 21 Mar 1733/1734 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: "Providence Journal: Deaths Published from January 3, 1820, to December 31, 1829" In James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850. Vol. 13, Deaths, Providence Journal, S to Z. Providence Gazette, A to J, 1762-1830 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1903), p. 324. Gives death of Mrs. Alice Davis, "daughter of the late Governor Whipple, at Cranston, Dec. 5, 1795."

!SOURCE: Email from Charles M. Whipple Jr. to Weldon Whipple, 24 Jul 2003. Gives death 5 Dec 1795, citing Arnold VR, 13:324. Mentioned in father's will.

!SOURCE: Email from Barbara Carroll to Weldon Whipple, 27 Jul 2003. Barbara writes: "Alice, d. Cranston 5 Dec 1795 (Arnold 13:324) Married in Providence 18 Sep 1768, St. John's Church, Benjamin Davis. She inherited all of her mother's estate - Sarah Whipple Bagnall was her mother - (Council, Cranston 3:80, 16 June 1790, proved 9 Apr 1791)"

Alice married Benjamin Davis on 18 Sep 1768 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from Charles M. Whipple Jr. to Weldon Whipple, 24 Jul 2003. Cites her father's will.

!SOURCE: Email from Barbara Carroll to Weldon Whipple, 27 Jul 2003.

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 5 Aug 2002. Cites James N. Arnold's Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1892), 4:2:76, Newport 123. Entry reads: "Silvester, Joseph and Mary Whipple, married ------- 15, 1738."

!SOURCE: Email from Charles M. Whipple to Weldon Whipple, 22 Dec 2003. Mary's mother, Anne Almy "died 28 Dec 1720, not 1729, 12 days after the death of her youngest son. We were never able to place a 5th child of hers, Mary."

!SOURCE: Email from Charles M. Whipple Jr. to Weldon Whipple, 24 Jul 2003. Father's will mentions "her Sylvester children."

!SOURCE: Email from Barbara Carroll to Weldon Whipple, 27 Jul 2003. "Married Joseph Sylvester."

!SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850. Volume 4, Newport, Part 2 (Providence, R.I.: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1893), p. 63 and 76. Gives marriage of Joseph Silvester and Mary Whipple, "---- 15, 1738."

!SOURCE: Email from Christopher Congdon to Weldon Whipple, 24 May 2011. Cites James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850. Volume 8, Episcopal and Congregational (Providence, R.I.: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1896), p. 479. Gives marriage of Joseph Sylvester and Mary Whipple, "Oct. 15, 1738."

Mary married Joseph Silvester or Sylvester on 15 Oct 1738 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island. Joseph died on 12 Jul 1769 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from Judy Wheeler (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 16 Dec 2023. Cites "volumes 4-6 of the Town Council records which are located in the archives at the Providence City Hall. They have also been filmed by the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints and can be ordered on microfilm (#915884 and #915885) from any LDS Family History Center." Page 74 has the following entry:

20 July 1784 - Anne Borden, on her examination before the Town Council, stated that she was then in her thirtieth year, the daughter of Matthew and Sarah Borden of Newport, where she had been born. At about sixteen, she came to live at Providence at the house of Thomas Greene as one of his family, she being related to his wife. She never served any apprenticeship or owned any real estate at Providence. Anne signed her name. The Town Council rejected her from being an inhabitant of Providence and adjudged that the City of Newport was the place of her last legal settlement. As Anne was likely to become chargeable to the town, the clerk was ordered to issue his warrant for her removal to Newport unless she removed herself within a fortnight or procure a certificate from the City of Newport acknowledging her as an inhabitant of that city and promising to indemnify this town from all charges incurred by her or by the child with which she was then pregnant. [5:278]

!SOURCE: 1790 U.S. Federal Census of Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island, image 10 of 11. Lists an Anne Borden as the female head of household of 3 free white females (with no other household members). The 1800 U.S. Federal Census of the same place lists Widow Anne Borden as head of household consisting of 2 females age 16-25 and one female (Anne) age 26-44.

!SOURCE: Email from Judy Wheeler (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 18 Dec 2023. She writes:

I emailed the Newport Historical Society and Bert Lippincott, reference librarian & and genealogist, said: "Anne’s parents are included in my notes on the Abraham Redwood family of Newport, through the Whipples. Her mother died before 1764 and it seems she went to live with her aunt Amy (Whipple) Greene, wife of Thomas Greene of Bristol, Providence and Woodstock, CT. Thomas sold his Providence lands in 1784 during a time of profound economic uncertainty.We can check the Newport Town Council and Treasurer’s records for residency and support. We can also check the Quaker minutes to see if Anne came to live with some of her numerous Quaker relatives and required support and/or disciplinary actions."

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

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to the Whipple Website, 12 Sep 2001. Cites Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850; also cites The Greenes of Rhode Island with Historical Records of England Ancestry, 1534-1902.

Elizabeth married Henry Tillinghast about 1777. Henry (son of Daniel Tillinghast and Hannah Gibbs) was born on 6 Jun 1757 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to the Whipple Website, 12 Sep 2001. Cites Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850.

Family/Spouse: Rebecca Ingraham. Rebecca (daughter of Jeremiah Ingraham, Jr. and Rebecca) was born on 14 Nov 1760 in Bristol, Bristol, Rhode Island; died on 23 Sep 1821 in Bristol, Bristol, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to the Whipple Website, 12 Sep 2001. Cites Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850.

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to the Whipple Website, 12 Sep 2001. Cites Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850, and Rhode Island Cemeteries Database Index.

DEATH: Rhode Island Cemeteries Database Index gives 23 Feb 1772; Rhode Island Vital Records give 18 Feb 1772. --N.A. Combs

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 5 Aug 2002. Cites James N. Arnold's Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1892), 4:2:114 (Newport 155).

!SOURCE: Email from Charles M. Whipple Jr. to Weldon Whipple, 24 Jul 2003. Mentioned in will of grandfather, Joseph Whipple Jr.

!SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850. Volume 4, Newport, Part 2 (Providence, R.I.: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1893), p. 114. Gives Christopher Silvester's birth 5 Apr 1742.

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 5 Aug 2002. Cites James N. Arnold's Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1892), 4:2:114 (Newport 155).

!SOURCE: Email from Charles M. Whipple Jr. to Weldon Whipple, 24 Jul 2003. Mentioned in will of grandfather, Joseph Whipple Jr.

!SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850. Volume 4, Newport, Part 2 (Providence, R.I.: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1893), p. 114. Gives Amey Silvester's birth 22 Jul 1743.

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 5 Aug 2002. Cites James N. Arnold's Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1892), 4:2:114 (Newport 155).

!SOURCE: Email from Charles M. Whipple Jr. to Weldon Whipple, 24 Jul 2003. Mentioned in will of grandfather, Joseph Whipple Jr.

!SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850. Volume 4, Newport, Part 2 (Providence, R.I.: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1893), p. 114. Gives Joseph Silvester's birth 2 Sep 1745.

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to the Whipple Website, 12 Sep 2001. Cites Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850.

Family/Spouse: Rachel S.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to the Whipple Website, 12 Sep 2001. Cites Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850.

Benjamin married Joanna Cole on 26 May 1805 in Bristol, Bristol, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]