Person:John Whipple (15)

John Whipple came to Dorchester 1632 aboard the "Lyon" with his master Israel Stoughton. He received a grant of land in Dorchester in 1637. He moved to Providence in Jul 1659 (after selling his Dorchester land on 15 Nov 1658). His house was the oldest building in Providence.^[9]

John served as deputy to the general court in 1666, as town selectman and treasurers in the 1670s, and as a member of numerous town committees in Providence. Among other land transactions is found “On 6 June 1681 John Whipple Sr. was granted permission to exchange his twenty-five acres at Goatum valley "which he bought of Mr. Benedict Arnold" [ PrTR 8:98].”^[10]

1. ↑ Rhode Island Cemeteries Database Index, Transcriptions by volunteers of Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Transcription Project; index compiled by John Sterling. 2003, online at nehgs.org.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Whipple, Henry E. A brief genealogy of the Whipple families, who settled in Rhode Island: in two parts. (Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States: A. Crawford Greene, 1873)
   6.

   John Whipple was b. England abt. 1616 or 1617 [he received a grant of land at Dorchester Neck in 1637/8, indicates he was then 21, so born about 1616/7], in 1658 sold land in Dorchester, grant of land in Providence 29 Jul 1659, d. Providence 16 May 1685. Tombstone, north burial-ground of Providence: "In Memory of / Capt. John Whipple, who / was born in England & / Died in Providence Town / ye 16th Day of May Anno / Dom. 1685 About 68 / years of age" [birth calculates to about 1617].

3.   Article on John Whipple, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

   Will dated 8 May 1682, d. Providence 16 May 1685 according to gravestone, inventory 22 May 1685, will proved 27 May 1685. Will mentions sons "John, Samuell, Eliazer, William, Benjamin, David & Jonathan", "son Joseph" [executor].

4.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   4:505-506.

   JOHN, Providence, was first at Dorchester, as early as 1632, in the serv. of Israel Stoughton, was a carpenter, join. with the ch. in 1641, had John, bapt. 7 Mar. 1641; Sarah, 6 Feb. 1642; Samuel, 17 Mar. 1644; Eleazer, 8 Mar. 1646; Mary, 9 Apr. 1648; William, 16 May 1652; Benjamin, 4 June 1654; and David, 28 Sept. 1656; sold his ho. and 40 or 50 acres to George Minot, 1658, and rem. soon aft. to P. and in the summer of 1659 was adm. there as inhab. own. alleg. to the k. 31 May 1666, with his eldest s. had Joseph; Jonathan; and Abigail there; prob. d. soon aft. 16 May 1685, the date of his will.[note, will dated 1682] Sarah m. a Smith; Mary m. 9 Mar. 1666, Epenetus Olney; and Abigail m. William Hopkins.

5. ↑ John Whipple (Captain) , in Whipple Website.

   John Whipple (Captain) - Place of birth of John Whipple: According to his gravestone, John was born circa 1617/18. "Only one individual whose christening was close to that date was discovered. His name was John Whaple baptized 13 December 1618 at Great Waltham, Essex--about 15 miles south of Bocking--the son of John Whaple and Mary Collett. As yet, no firm evidence has emerged which proves beyond doubt that the John baptized in 1618 was either the ancestor or related to the Bocking Whipple family." [Debrett Ancestry Research Limited (Gordon Road, Winchester, SO23 7DD, England, March 1990) p. C] There is absolutely no published primary reseach data that proves that John Whipple was born in Milford, Wales--or anywhere else. As quoted in: Charles Whipple, "A History of Captain John and Sarah Whipple of Dorchester, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island: A Multigenerational Study of the First Whipple Family in America" (Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing Company, 2007) 2 & 34.

6. ↑ Captain John Whipple, in Find A Grave.
7. ↑ http://www.whipple.org/docs/faqs.html#TwoJohns, in Whipple Org.
8. ↑ There are two John Whipples in Mass in the 1630s. This John Whipple lived in Dorchester and Providence. He is distinct from John Whipple of Ipswich, who was a son of the Matthew Whipple from Bocking, Eng. He and his brother Matthew came over at the same time as this John. They lived in the same area in England, but no relation has been proven. The data in AF ties Mary to the wrong John.
9. ↑ Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island
10. ↑ Great Migration Begins