Person:William Tripp (17)

William Tripp

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m. Bef 1823

Facts and Events

Name^[3]	William Tripp
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	10 Apr 1823	Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts, United Statesposthumous
Death^[2]	14 Jun 1840	Northfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ Warwick (Massachusetts). Town Clerk. Vital records, 1739-1900
Vol. 2, p. 229.

Family of Tripp [hard to read, looks like "Smith"] William and Patty his wife
William born April 10th 1823.
↑ Find A Grave: Northfield Farms Cemetery, Northfield, MA, in Find A Grave
William Tripp.

WILLIAM,
son of widow
Martha Tripp
died June 14, 1840,
AE. 17 yrs.
↑ Source:Allred, Marilyn. Town of Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts, Genealogical Records 1739-1900, Births, Marriages,, p. 257, has the same problem misreading the birth record as Smith. However, the death of the father more clearly says Tripp, and it appears that there is no such Smith family in Warwick, just the Tripp family.

Allred, because of misreading the name, has misidentified the son as William B Smith, ie, the William who had an infant die in Warwick 26 years later, as if that required the father to be born in Warwick. The birth record says the father was born in New York and the name confusion shows Allred was making assumptions to start with, which, in this case, are clearly wrong.