Capt John Whipple Sr

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There is a great deal of conflicting information on John and his family. He
may have been born in Wales and may have had as many as three wives all
supposedly named Sarah.

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WHIPPLE, JOHN [1632, Dorchester]

JOHN WHIPPLE


ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1632
FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester
REMOVES: Providence 1658

OCCUPATION: Carpenter [SLR 3:204]. Tavernkeeper, 1674 [PrTR 4:8]. In 1669 John Whipple Sr.
was paid 10s. to allow the town council to meet at this house [PrTR 3:148]. In 1670 the amount
was raised to 20s. [PrTR 3:152].
FREEMAN: Oath of allegiance, 31 May 1666 [PrTR 3:101].
EDUCATION: He signed his name to deeds [PrTR 3:100].
OFFICES: Deputy, General Court, 4 September 1666 [PrTR 3:85]. Petit jury, 19 October 1670 [PrTR
3:157].
Providence selectman, 1670, 1674, 27 April 1676 (moderator) [PrTR 3:150, 4:1, 8:11].
Treasurer, 1 June 1668 [PrTR 3:124]. Surveyor, 6 June 1670-71 [PrTR 3:152, 192, 198, 201].
Committee to run the line, 27 January 1663[/4] [PrTR 3:47, 49]. Committee to consider building a
new town house [PrTR 3:4]. Jury, 12 May 1663 [PrTR 3:37]. Appointed to confer about mending a
bridge, 27 January 1664[/5], 28 October 1667 [PrTR 3:59, 110]. Committee to arbitrate over
fences, 2 December 1666 [PrTR 3:89]. Arbiter in the matter of the estate of Resolved Waterman,
deceased, 9 January 1700/1 [PrTR 6:103]. Committee to "demand & receive at every garrison
what was taken from the Indians," 7 September 1676 [PrTR 8:14]. Committee to lay out a
common, 27 April 1678 [PrTR 8:28].
ESTATE: On 2 January 1637[/8] John Whipple was granted eight acres in Dorchester about the
mill [DTR 27]. "John Whiplle" was the last of the Dorchester proprietors to sign his name to an
agreement submitting to arbitration a dispute over the fencing and division of land [DTR 76, 79].
On 15 November 1658 "John Whiple of Dorchester ... carpenter" sold to George Minot of
Dorchester "his now dwelling house and housements scituate and being in Dorchester near the
River Naponset together with thirty-seven acres of upland more or less thereto adjoining," also
"eight acres of salt marsh more or less lying near the place commonly called the penny ferry";
"Sarah the wife of the said John Whiple" relinquished her dower rights [SLR 3:204-05].
On 3 February 1661[/2] John Whipple Sr. petitioned for a piece of land next to his orchard, but
his will was referred to the next court [PrTR 3:9]. On 27 July 1662 John Whipple Sr. was permitted
to exchange sixty acres at Mashapauge Pond for lands at Loquasqussuck [PrTR 3:26]. These
lands were probably the eighty acres at Loquasqussuck laid out to him by Thomas Harris Sr. on
13 April 1667 [PrTR 3:96].
On 23 November 1663 John Whipple Sr. of Providence deeded to "my son John Whipple" a
houselot formerly owned by William Arnold excepting two acres, two shares of meadow, six acres
of upland, sixty acres of land at Loquasqussuck [PrTR 3:98-100].
On 19 February 1665[/6] John Whipple Sr. drew lot #45 in the division of lands east of Seven
Mile Line [PrTR 3:72]. On 13 November 1666 John Whipple Sr. was granted permission to
exchange his sixty acres at Tare Breech Plain [PrTR 3:88].
On 24 February 1674 John Whipple Sr. gave a deed of gift to his "son Eliezer Whipple" [PrTR
8:140]. On 12 April 1675 he drew lot #43 in the lands on the west side of Seven Mile Line [PrTR
4:46]. On 27 January 1674/5 John Whipple Sr. was granted permission to change a fifty-acre
division of upland [PrTR 4:18]. On 24 May 1675 he drew lot #91 in the land on the east side of
Seven Mile Line [PrTR 4:47].
He was among those who "stayed and went not away" in 1676 and as such was entitled to
Indian slaves [PrTR 8:12].
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].
On 4 March 1683/4 John Whipple Sr. made a deed of gift to his "son David Whipple" [PrTR
8:137].
In his will, dated 8 May 1682 and proved 27 May 1685, John Whipple Sr. of Providence "being in
a great measure of health ... having many children & to prevent all differences that otherwise may
hereafter arise ... having formerly given unto three of my sons all my lands ... namely Samuell,
Eliazer, & William equally to be divided among them ... only excepting thirty acres which I gave
unto my son John at the northwest end"; to "my three aforenamed sons, namely Samuell, Eliazer
& William, each of them a quarter part of one right of commoning for pasturing, cutting of timber,
& firewood"; to "my son Benjamin a right of lands in the late division which is already laid out"; to
"my son David a right of lands in the late division which is already laid out unto him"; to "my son
Jonathan twenty-five acres on which he now dwelleth"; to "my son Jonathan one division of
lands"; to "my son Joseph my dwelling house & my three home lots & the garden next the river,
also a six acre lot ... also twenty acres near Thomas Clemence his dwelling, also I give unto my
son Joseph my share of meadow near Solletarey Hill & two six acre lots ... also a five acre lot lying
near where William Wickenden formerly dwelt; also one division beyond the Seven Mile Line ...
also I do give unto my son Joseph all other divisions which shall hereafter belong unto two rights
throughout"; to "my sons John, Samuell, Eliazer, William, Benjamin, David & Jonathan unto these
seven twelve pence to every of them"; to "my three daughters (namely) Sarah, Mary & Abigall
unto every of them ten shillings"; to "my son Joseph all my right of lands in the Narragansett
Country"; to "my son Joseph" residue; "my son Joseph my executor" [PrTR 6:126-28]. Thomas
Olney deposed that he had gone to John Whipple, at his request, and obtained clarification of
some of the bequests [PrTR 6:128-30].
The inventory of John Whipple Sr. was taken 22 May 1685 and totalled Ð41 11s. 10d., including
no real estate [PrTR 6:130-34].

BIRTH: About 1617 based on age at death.
DEATH: Providence 16 May 1685 "about 68 years of age" (gravestone, North Burial Ground,
Providence [NEHGR 32:403]).
MARRIAGE: By about 1640 Sarah _____. On 29 October 1641 "Goodwife Whipple" was admitted
to the second Dorchester church [DChR 6]. She died at Providence in 1666 "aged about 42 years"
(gravestone, North Burial Ground, Providence [NEHGR 32:403-4]).
CHILDREN:

i JOHN, b. about 1640 (baptized three days after his mother joined the church and
three months before his sister Sarah's baptism, indicating he was not born
immediately before his own baptism); bp. Dorchester 1 November 1641 [DChR 154];
m. (1) Providence 4 December 1663 Mary Olney [RIVR:2:Providence 197]; m. (2)
Providence 15 April 1678 Rebecca Scott [RIVR:2:Providence 197].


ii SARAH, bp. Dorchester 6 February 1641[/2] (annotated "to Mr. Smith at
Providence" [DChR 154]); m. by about 1662 John Smith of Providence [Austin 382].


iii SAMUEL, bp. Dorchester 17 March 1643/4 [DChR 156]; m. by about 1669 Mary
Harris (in his will of 3 June 1686 Thomas Harris bequeathed to "daughter Mary
Whipple and her heirs, born of my son-in-law Samuel Whipple" [Austin 311-12]).


iv ELEAZER, bp. Dorchester 8 March 1646 [DChR 158]; m. 26 January 1669[/70]
Alice Angell [RIVR:2:Providence 197; Angell Anc 126].


v MARY, bp. Dorchester 9 April 1648 [DChR 159]; m. Providence 9 March 1665/6
Epenetus Olney [PrTR 5:293].


vi WILLIAM, bp. Dorchester 16 May 1652 [DChR 162]; m. Mary _____ (his will of 27
February 1711/2 names wife Mary [Austin 222]).


vii BENJAMIN, bp. Dorchester 4 June 1654 [DChR 163]; m. 1 April 1686 Ruth
Matthewson [RIVR:2:Providence 197].


viii DAVID, bp. Dorchester 18 September 1656 [DChR 168]; m. (1) Providence 15
May 1675 Sarah Hearndon [Austin 95, 222, citing an unknown source; this marriage
is not in published Providence records]; m. (2) Hingham 11 November 1677 Hannah
Tower (recorded at Providence [PrTR 5:263]).


ix ABIGAIL, b. say 1658; m. (1) by about 1674 Stephen Dexter [Austin 223, 288];
m. (2) [blank] January 1682 William Hopkins (in her will of 16 August 1725 Abigail
Hopkins, widow of William Hopkins, made bequests to son John Dexter, son William
Hopkins and daughter Abigail Field [Austin 288, 324]; John Dexter and Abigail
(Dexter) Field were children of Stephen Dexter). (The Hopkins records demonstrate
that the widow of Stephen Dexter married William Hopkins, but nothing cited here
proves that the wife of Stephen Dexter was the daughter of John Whipple, as
claimed by Austin and many other authors.)


x JOSEPH, b. say 1660; m. Providence 20 May 1684 Alice Smith [RIVR:2:Providence
197].


xi JONATHAN, b. say 1662; m. (1) by about 1688 Margery Angell, daughter of
Thomas Angell (Jonathan and Thomas, sons of "Jonathan and Margory" Whipple
were b. at Providence 22 February 1691 and 26 February 1694 [RIVR:2:Providence
256], and there were two elder daughters of this couple [Angell Anc 127]); m. (2) by
an unknown date Anne _____ (in his will of 5 September 1721 he names wife Anne,
and she made a will dated 11 July 1723 [Austin 223]).


ASSOCIATIONS: On 3 October 1632 the General Court ordered that "Alex: Miller & John Wipple
shall give iijs iiijd apiece to their master, Israell Stoughton, for their wasteful expense of powder &
shot" [MBCR 1:100].


COMMENTS: Since John Whipple was a young, unmarried servant when he first arrived in
Dorchester, we should not be surprised that he does not appear in the records more in the
1630s, but he generated remarkably few records between 1640 and 1658, during which period
he lived as a married man in that town.
In his entry for John Whipple, Pope has hopelessly intermingled records for John Whipple of
Ipswich with those of John Whipple of Dorchester and Providence.
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Arrived on the "LYON" in 1632, originally settled in Dorchester, MA 1632, then moved to Providence, RI, recorded there in 1658-9.

Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worchester County vol2
Author: Ellery Bicknell Crane
Call Number: F72.W9C8vol.2

John Whipple (1), the immigrant ancestor of Horace P. Whipple, of Whitinsville, Massachusetts, was born in England, 1617. He was a house carpenter and was employed by Mr. Stoughton in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1632. His house was near what is now called Neponset. He removed to Ipswich and became a proprietor of that town in 1638. His brother, Matthew Whipple, also settled at Ipswich and was the ancestor of many Essex county and New Hampshire families. John Whipple returned to Dorchester and was a freeman and deputy to the general court, May 13, 1640. He was one of the court's commissioners of valuation in 1640. He was engaged in trade with William Paine and others in 1647. He had the rank of cornet in the military service. He was a town officer of Dorchester. He and his wife joined the Dorchester church, in 1641. He sold his house and lot at Dorchester, in 1658, to James Minot, and removed to Providence, Rhode Island, but he returned again to Ipswich and sold land there May 31, 1673. He was recorded as a purchaser July 27, 1659, at Providence, and drew lot 45 as proprietor February 19, 1665. He took the oath of allegiance in 1666. He was a deputy from Providence to the general assembly in 1666-69-70-72-74-76-77. He was licensed to keep a tavern at Providence in 1674. He was treasurer of the town from 1668 to 1683; town clerk 1670-71-72-76-77-81-82-83. He was in the Providence town council in 1669. He was virtually a resident of Providence after 1659. He refused to abandon his home during King Philip's war and was one of those entitled to the Indian prisoners, who were sold for a term of years to the planters. John Whipple died May 16, 1685, at Providence, aged about sixty-eight years, according to his gravestone there.

He married, 1639, Sarah (???), born 1624 and died 1666, according to her gravestone. Their children: John, baptized March 9, 1640, married, December 4, 1663, Mary Olney; Sarah, baptized February 6, 1641-42, married John Smith, Jr.; Samuel, baptized March 17, 1644; Eleazer, baptized March 8, 1646 (see forward); Mary, baptized April 9, 1648, married Epenctus Olney; William, born 1652, baptized May 16, 1652, married Mary (???); Benjamin, baptized June 4, 1654, married, April 1, 1686, Ruth Mathewson; David, baptized September 28, 1656, married, May 15, 1675, Sarah Harndon; married (second) Hannah Tower; Abigail, born at Providence, married, January 16, 1682, William Hopkins, son of Thomas Hopkins; Joseph, born at Providence, married, May 20, 1684, Alice Smith; Jonathan, born 1664, died September 8, 1721; married Margaret Angell; married (second) Anne (???).
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1. JOHN1 WHIPPLE was born 1617 in Milford, Pembroke, Wales, and died May 16, 1685 in Providence, Providence, RI. He married SARAH THEY/DARLING Abt. 1640 in Dorchester, Suffolk, MA. She was born Abt. 1624 in England, and died 1666 in Providence, Providence, RI.

Notes for JOHN WHIPPLE:
John Whipple was first at Dorchester, as early as 1641 as church had John baptized 7 Mar 1641. Sold his house and 40/40 acres to George Minot in 1658 and removed soon after to Providence and in the summer of 1659 was admitted there as inhabitant owner. Allegience to the King 31 May 1666.
Jul 1659 received an allotment of land in Providence.
1641 - joined church in Dorchester
Will dated 8 May 1682 proved in Hartford Probate Court.

More About JOHN WHIPPLE:
Emigration: September 16, 1632, on Lyon
Fact 3: 1685, N Bur Grnds, Providence, RI
Military service: Capt
Occupation: Tavern Keeper

Children of JOHN WHIPPLE and SARAH THEY/DARLING are:
2.
i.

JOHN2 WHIPPLE, b. Bef. March 09, 1640/41, Dorchester, MA; d.
December 15, 1700, Providence, Providence, RI.
3.
ii.

SARAH WHIPPLE, b. Abt. February 06, 1641/42, Dorchester, MA; d.
Aft. 1687, Providence, RI.
4.
iii.

SAMUEL WHIPPLE, b. March 17, 1643/44, Dorchester, MA; d. March
12, 1710/11, Providence, Providence, RI.
5.
iv.

ELEAZER WHIPPLE, b. March 08, 1645/46, Dorchester, Suffolk, MA; d.
August 25, 1719, Providence, Providence, RI.
6.
v.

MARY WHIPPLE, b. Bef. April 09, 1648; d. July 12, 1698, Providence,
Providence, RI.

vi.

WILLIAM WHIPPLE, b. May 16, 1652, Dorchester, MA; d. March 09,
1711/12, Providence, Providence, RI; m. MARY TOWERS, 1675; d. Aft.
1712.
7.
vii.

BENJAMIN WHIPPLE, b. 1654, Providence, RI; d. March 11, 1703/04.
8.
viii.

DAVID WHIPPLE, b. 1656, Providence, RI; d. December 1710,
Rehoboth, RI.
9.
ix.

ABIGAIL WHIPPLE, b. 1660, Providence, Providence, RI; d. August 19,
1725, Providence, Providence, RI.
10.
x.

JOSEPH WHIPPLE, b. 1662, Providence, Providence, RI; d. April 28,
1746, Providence, Providence, RI.
11.
xi.

JONATHAN WHIPPLE, b. 1664, Providence, Providence, RI; d.
September 08, 1721, Providence, Providence, RI.

John married in 1639-1640 in Dorchester, Suffolk, MA.