Silvia or Sylvia or Sylvania Staples

• BIRTH: 4 Feb 1759, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island
• DEATH: 10 Jan 1843, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island
• BURIAL: New Diamond Hill Cemetery, Reservoir Road, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island
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• MARRIAGE: 1 Aug 1773, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island

1.  Prusia Whipple (20 May 1776 - 12 May 1785)
2.  Ezekiel Whipple (18 Apr 1778 - 27 May 1785)
3.  Nathan Whipple (ABT 1779 - ____)
4. +Asa Whipple (12 Aug 1780 - 27 Apr 1837)
5. +Amos Whipple (22 Jan 1783 - 19 Mar 1858)
6. +Lewis Whipple (26 Jun 1785 - 12 Aug 1814)
7.  Sylvia or Silvia Whipple (15 Oct 1787 - 3 Dec 1872)
8.  Levett or Lovell Whipple (8 Nov 1789 - 15 Jan 1856)
9. +Martha Whipple (28 Nov 1791 - 5 Feb 1852)
10. +Sarah Whipple (29 Apr 1796 - 13 Jun 1875)
11.  Levi Whipple (ABT 1799 - 12 Feb 1855)
12.  Randall Whipple (____ - ____)

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                       _Nathan Staples _______________|
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 _Nathan Staples _____|
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|                     |                                                                            _Roger Mowry ________
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|                     |                                                      _Nathaniel Mowry ____|_Mary Johnson _______
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|                     |                                _Joseph Mowry _______|
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|                     |                               |                     |                      _Edward Inman _______
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|                     |                               |                     |_Joanna Inman _______|_Barbara ____________
|                     |                               |                       (1640 - 1718) m 1666                      
|                     |_Mary or Marcy or Mercy Mowry _|
|                       (1709 - 1746) m 1731          |
|                                                     |                                            _John Whipple _______
|                                                     |                                           | (1617 - 1685) m 1638
|                                                     |                      _Eleazer Whipple ____|_Sarah ______________
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|                                                     |_Alice Whipple ______|
|                                                       (1675 - 1746) m 1695|
|                                                                           |                      _Thomas Angell ______
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|                                                                           |_Alice Angell _______|_Alice Ashton _______
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|--Silvia or Sylvia or Sylvania Staples 
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|                                                                                                  _William Comstock ___
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|                                                                            _Samuel Comstock ____|_Elizabeth Daniel ___
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|                                                      _Samuel Comstock ____|
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|                                                     |                     |_Anne Tucker ________|_____________________
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|                      _Hazadiah Comstock ____________|
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|                     |                               |                      _Thomas Arnold ______|_____________________
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|                     |                               |_Elizabeth Arnold ___|
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|_Martha Comstock ____|
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                      |_Martha Balcolm _______________|
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Notes

!SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, vol. 3, Cumberland, pt. 5 (Providence, R.I.: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1892), p. 67, 123.

!SOURCE: Will of husband, Asa Whipple, dated 15 Apr 1831, recorded 1 Aug 1831. Abstracted in Lucille B. Beaman, "Abstracts of Cumberland, R.I., Probate Records," R.I. Genealogical Register, vol. 5, no. 1 (Jul 1982), p. 32.

!SOURCE: Mentioned in grandmother Martha Comstock's will, dated 13 May 1784, proved 14 May 1794, p. 439-440. Abstracted in Rhode Island Genealogical Register, vol. 13, "Abstracts of Smithfield Wills," p. 129. Gives name Sylvania.

!SOURCE: Transcriptions of headstones from the Old and New Diamond Hill Cemeteries, Reservoir Road, Cumberland, Rhode Island. Emailed by Beth Hurd to Weldon Whipple, 13 Jun 2002. Gives name Sylvia.

!SOURCE: "Descendants of Sarah Whipple," email from N. Combs to the Whipple Website, 23 Feb 2003. Cites Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 (birth, marriage); Rhode Island Cemeteries Database Index (death, burial). Gives name Sylvia Staples.

Gravestone of Sylvia Whipple

Submitted by Beth Hurd

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