Person:Prudence Whipple (1)

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Prudence Esther Whipple
b.9 Dec 1771 Montville, New London, Connecticut, United States
d.14 Oct 1845 Stafford, Genesee, New York, United States
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  • H.  Robert Fargo1766 - 1849
  • W.  Prudence Esther Whipple1771 - 1845
m. 1795
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Name[1][2][3][4][5] Prudence Esther Whipple
Gender Female
Birth? 9 Dec 1771 Montville, New London, Connecticut, United StatesCitation needed
Marriage 1795 Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United StatesCitation needed
to Robert Fargo
Death? 14 Oct 1845 Stafford, Genesee, New York, United States
Burial? East Bethany Cemetery, Stafford, Genesee, New York

Her parents were Titus and Lucy (Minor) Whipple, who married 12 June 1766 in the New Haven Second Church, New London, Connecticut.

From the Autobiography of Robert Fargo (Prudence's grandson by Isaac and Sarah L. Rogers)

About this time was the beginning of railroad building... The Holland Land Company, with headquarters at Batavia, had about their quarters a group of capitalists who, together with several moneyed men of the City of Rochester, conceived the idea of building a road between the two places, a distance of thirty miles... The cars were run as high as fourteen miles an hour! The coaches were modeled just like a Concord coach with leather supports or "thorough-braces", only much larger, seating, if crowded, sixteen persons... When the road was open for traffic, people came long distances to see the wonder of the age... On occasion my brother Lorenzo would follow the train down the track from the village to a road crossing and, on old Kate's back, would keep close behind the train, to the great amusement of the train men. A few years later during my clerkship at Churchville, eighteen miles distant, when I wished to visit at my home, I used to get on the cars, tell the conductor I wanted to get off the train near "Valleth's", a farmer's home three miles from my father's farm. Paying him my fare to the place - in the open country - in due season he pulled the bell rope, the engine slowed down, and I jumped off. He usually cautioned me to be careful and to always "jump ahead".

References
  1. ↑ American Historical Society, Inc. Ostrander and Allied Families. (1936).
  2. ↑ Henry A. Baker. History of Montville, Connecticut. (Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, Hartford Conn 1896)
    p. 130.
  3. ↑ Biographical Sketches of Old Settlers of Wisconsin. (1899).
  4. ↑ Lucretia Smith. FARGO: Notes on the Fargo Family of New London and Montville
    Vol. 17, 62-70.
  5. ↑ James Swift Rogers. ROGERS: James Rogers of New London, CT and his Descendants. (published Boston by the compiler 1902).
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