Person:Mary Whipple (31)

Name	Mary Whipple
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]^[3]	20 Oct 1684	Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage Banns	12 Dec 1719	Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Benjamin Crocker (add)
Marriage	Aft 12 Dec 1719	to Benjamin Crocker (add)
Death^[2]	25 Oct 1734	Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ Whipple, Blaine. History and genealogy of "Elder" John Whipple of Ipswich, Massachusetts: his English ancestors and American descendants. (Victoria, British Columbia: Trafford Publishing, 2003)
G26.

Mary Whipple, d/o Maj. John Whipple, b. Ipswich 20 Oct 1684, d. Ipswich 25 Oct 1734, m. (int.) 12 Dec 1719 Benjamin Crocker.
↑ Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts to End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1910, 1919)
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Crocker, Mary, w. Benja[min], Oct. 25, 1734. [a. 51 y. 5 d. GR1]
↑ There is no birth record for Mary in the Ipswich VRs^S1, so one naturally wonders how Mr. Whipple^S1 was able to obtain such a precise birth date as 20 Oct 1684. Unfortunately no explanation is found, leaving it for us to try and recreate the process. The very precise age at death suggests that perhaps we could calculate the birth date to the required precision. There is just one problem: it calculates to 20 Oct 1683, one year off from the given birth date. But since Mr. Whipple reports her age at death as 50, not the 51 carved on her gravestone, we are left wondering if he made a bookkeeping error with the age at death, and propagated it throughout.