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Abraham Whipple (Commodore)

Commodore Abraham Whipple
Father: Noah Whipple (18 Dec 1697 - 29 Feb 1784)
Mother: Mary Dexter (1699 - ____)

Family 1: Sarah Hopkins (1739 - 14 Oct 1818)
  1.  John Hopkins Whipple (____ - ____)
  2. +Katherine "Katy" Whipple (25 Jan 1762 - 15 Jul 1835)
  3. +Mary or Polly Whipple (ABT 1767 - AFT 1795)

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                                                                   _John Whipple _______|_____________________
                                                                  | (1617 - 1685) m 1638                      
                                             _Samuel Whipple _____|
                                            | (.... - 1710) m 1666|
                                            |                     |                      _____________________
                                            |                     |                     |                     
                                            |                     |_Sarah ______________|_____________________
                                            |                       (1624 - 1666) m 1638                      
                       _Noah B. Whipple ____|
                      | (1667 - 1703)       |
                      |                     |                                            _Andrew Harris ______
                      |                     |                                           | (.... - 1616) m 1603
                      |                     |                      _Thomas Harris ______|_Jane Bagley ________
                      |                     |                     | (.... - 1686) m 1636                      
                      |                     |_Mary Harris ________|
                      |                       (1639 - 1722) m 1666|
                      |                                           |                      _____________________
                      |                                           |                     |                     
                      |                                           |_Elizabeth __________|_____________________
                      |                                              m 1636                                   
 _Noah Whipple _______|
| (1697 - 1784) m 1722|
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|                     |                     |                     |_____________________|_____________________
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|                     |_Susannah ___________|
|                                           |
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|                                           |                      _____________________|_____________________
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|--Abraham Whipple 
|  (1733 - 1819)
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|                                                                  _Gregory Dexter _____|_____________________
|                                                                 | (1610 - 1700)                             
|                                            _Stephen Dexter _____|
|                                           | (1647 - 1679) m 1672|
|                                           |                     |                      _____________________
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|                                           |                     |_Abigail Fullerton __|_____________________
|                                           |                       (.... - 1706)                             
|                      _John Dexter ________|
|                     | (1673 - 1734) m 1685|
|                     |                     |                                            _____________________
|                     |                     |                                           |                     
|                     |                     |                      _John Whipple _______|_____________________
|                     |                     |                     | (1617 - 1685) m 1638                      
|                     |                     |_Abigail Whipple ____|
|                     |                       (1657 - 1725) m 1672|
|                     |                                           |                      _____________________
|                     |                                           |                     |                     
|                     |                                           |_Sarah ______________|_____________________
|                     |                                             (1624 - 1666) m 1638                      
|_Mary Dexter ________|
  (1699 - ....) m 1722|
                      |                                                                  _____________________
                      |                                                                 |                     
                      |                                            _____________________|_____________________
                      |                                           |                                           
                      |                      _Thomas Field _______|
                      |                     | (.... - 1717)       |
                      |                     |                     |                      _____________________
                      |                     |                     |                     |                     
                      |                     |                     |_____________________|_____________________
                      |                     |                                                                 
                      |_Mary Field _________|
                        (1673 - 1727) m 1685|
                                            |                                            _Andrew Harris ______
                                            |                                           | (.... - 1616) m 1603
                                            |                      _Thomas Harris ______|_Jane Bagley ________
                                            |                     | (.... - 1686) m 1636                      
                                            |_Martha Harris ______|
                                              (1643 - 1717)       |
                                                                  |                      _____________________
                                                                  |                     |                     
                                                                  |_Elizabeth __________|_____________________
                                                                     m 1636                                   

Notes

!SOURCE: Charles M. Whipple, Jr., Sons and Daughters of Jesse: A 360 Year History of the Whipple Family (Oklahoma City: Southwestern Press, 1976), p. 13.

!SOURCE: Henry E. Whipple, A Brief History of the Whipple Families Who Settled in Rhode Island (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1873), p. 53. Henry E. Whipple doesn't know who Abraham's parents are.

!SOURCE: The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. 2 (New York: James T. White, 1921), p. 16-17.

!MILITARY: Appointed Commodore in 1775, commanding "two armed vessels, fitted out by Rhode Island."--Henry E. Whipple.

!PORTRAIT: "His portrait as Commodore, in full uniform, can be seen in one of the rooms of the R. I. Historical Society at Providence."--Henry E. Whipple.

!SOURCE: Letter from Joanne Lahr-Kreischer to Weldon Whipple, 13 Dec 1997.

!SOURCE: Clara Hammond McGuigan, The Antecedents and Descendants of Noah Whipple of the Rogerene Community at Quakertown, Connecticut (Ithaca, N.Y.: J.M. Kingsbury, 1971), p. 37. Gives death date 29 May 1819.

!SOURCE: Clair A. Hemenway Newton, Captain John Whipple, 1617-1685, and His Descendants (Naperville, Ill., 1946), p. 56.

!SOURCE: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial, Consisting of Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888), p. 28-29.

!SOURCE: "Deaths from the New York Post, 1801-1890," emailed by N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 29 Jan 2003. The 7/1/1819 issue gives death in Marietta, Ohio, on the 27th of the previous month ("27th ult"), at age 86. [Probably meant the month before June?].

!SOURCE: Reprint of the "Brown genealogy of 1851," submitted to the Whipple Website by Ian Mackie, 20 Oct 2003.

Gravestone of Commodore Abraham Whipple

Abe's headstone is in Marietta, Ohio
Photo courtesy of Ralph W. Lange (ralsal@eriecoast.com).

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