Person:Matthew Whipple (1)

WILL: Transcribed in "Genealogical Gleanings in England," The New-England Historical and Genealogical Register (October 1890) 44:389:

"Mathewe Whipple the elder of Bocking, Essex, clothier, 19 December 1616, proved 28 January 1618[/19]. "My capital messuage or tenement, with the yards, gardens, orchards, members and appurtenances, situate in Bradford Street in Bocking, now in the occupation of me and said Mathewe, from and after my decease shall remain to Mathewe Whippell, mine eldest son, upon condition that he shall pay or cause to be paid to my son John Whippell fourscore pounds within three months next after my decease, and to my daughter Jane thirty pounds within six months, and to my daughter Elizabeth thirty pounds within twelve months, and to my daughter Mary thirty pounds at one and twenty or day of her marriage, and to my daughter Amie thirty pounds at one and twenty or day of marriage, upon reasonable demand made by the said Jane, Elizabeth, Mary and Amye. To my daughter Amce (?) six silver spoons of the better sort, two high latten candlesticks, my biggest brass pot and three pounds six shillings and eight pence. To my daughter Johane forty shillings. To my daughter Jane two silver spoons, two pewter platters of the greater sort, one pewter candlestick, one half headed bedstedle, my best flock bed, a flock bolster, a coverlet and a pair of blankets. To my daughter Elizabeth two silver spoons, one pewter candlestick, two pewter platters of the greater sort, a half headed bedstedle, next the best, a flock bed, a flock bolster, a coverlet, a pair of blankets and the little chest which was her mothers. To my daughter Mary two silver spoons, two pewter platters and a pewter salt, a trundle bedsteadle, a flock bed, a flock bolster, a coverlet, a pair of blankets. To my daughter Amye two silver spoons, two pewter platters, a pewter salt, a trundle bedsteadle, a flock bed, a flock bolster and a pair of blankets. To my son John a joyned table and frame standing in my old parlor (and other movables). To my sister, wife of Richard Rathbone twenty shillings, To Hercules Stephens ten shillings. To my grandchildren Hercules Arthur, Margaret Arthur, Henry Caldham and Anne Caldham six shillings eight pence apiece. To the poor of Bocking twenty shillings. All the rest to my son Matthew, sole executor."

Research Notes

A Margareta Whipple was buried in Saint Mary's Burying ground on 13 Jun 1577.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Whipple GenWeb, Matthew Whipple, Sr. [1].
2. ↑ Matheus Whippell, in Goodwin, James Junious. The First register of Saint Mary's Church, Bocking. (Hartford, Connecticut, 1903)
   p. 67, 1618/19.

   Anno dni. i6i8.
   January.
   Matheus Whippell senior sepultus 16.

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} William Wyman Fiske, FASG, “The Whipple Family of Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire: Proposed Ancestral Origin of Matthew Whipple of Bocking, Essex, and a Whipple Ancestral Line for Arthur Gary of Roxbury, Massachusetts,”, in The Genealogist (American Society of Genealogists). (New York, New York: Organization for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy, 1980-)
   20:191-217@210, Fall 2006.

   Mathew(A) Whipped (Thomas B-C) "the elder" of Bocking, clotheir b 1550 buried 16 Jan 1618/9 Bocking; m 1580 Joan (unknown) who was buried 19 May 1612 at same; He apprenticed Braintee, Essex; Will 19 Dec 1616 proved 28 Jan 1618/9; Children Mathew, Joan, Anne, Margaret, Jane, Elizabeth, John, Mary, Amy - dates of bp, marriages and deaths given, etc.