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Levi Tower (Captain)

BIRTH: 19 Jul 1742, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island
DEATH: 4 Aug 1826, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island
BURIAL: Elder Ballou Meeting House Cemetery, Elder Ballou Meeting House Road, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island
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TITLE: Captain

Father: Gideon Tower (24 Feb 1699/1700 - 29 Dec 1772)
Mother: Mary Ray (22 Aug 1710 - 29 May 1794)

Family 1: Mary Whipple (29 Dec 1745 - AFT 31 Jan 1789)

MARRIAGE: 19 Jan 1771, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island

+Edilda Tower (27 May 1771 - 27 Dec 1834)
+Chloe Tower (7 Sep 1773 - 29 Oct 1815)
+Levi Tower (2 May 1776 - 4 Jun 1854)
Nancy Tower (3 Sep 1779 - 3 Oct 1784)
+Zillah Tower (15 Oct 1781 - 1 Oct 1834)
+Jason Tower (30 Aug 1786 - 17 Aug 1844)
+Emerson Tower (31 Jan 1789 - 23 Oct 1862)

Family 2: Hannah Whipple (17 Mar 1747 - ____)

MARRIAGE: 8 Jan 1817, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island

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                                                                   _John Tower _________|__
                                                                  | (.... - 1701) m 1638   
                                             _John Tower _________|
                                            | (1639 - 1693) m 1669|
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                                            |                     |_Margaret Ibrook ____|__
                                            |                       (1620 - 1700) m 1638   
                       _Benjamin Tower _____|
                      | (1673 - 1743) m 1697|
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                      |                     |_Sarah Hardin _______|
                      |                       (.... - 1729) m 1669|
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 _Gideon Tower _______|
| (1699 - 1772) m 1729|
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|                     |                                            _John Whipple _______|__
|                     |                                           | (1617 - 1685) m 1638   
|                     |                      _David Whipple ______|
|                     |                     | (.... - 1710) m 1677|
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|                     |                     |                     |_Sarah ______________|__
|                     |                     |                       (1624 - 1666) m 1638   
|                     |_Deborah Whipple ____|
|                       (1681 - 1755) m 1697|
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|                                           |                      _John Tower _________|__
|                                           |                     | (.... - 1701) m 1638   
|                                           |_Hannah Tower _______|
|                                             (1652 - 1722) m 1677|
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|                                                                 |_Margaret Ibrook ____|__
|                                                                   (1620 - 1700) m 1638   
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|--Levi Tower 
|  (1742 - 1826)
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|                      _Samuel B. Ray ______|
|                     | (1687 - 1744)       |
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|_Mary Ray ___________|
  (1710 - 1794) m 1729|
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                      |_Miriam Smith _______|
                        (1689 - 1746)       |
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Notes

!SOURCE: The Sprague Database (Mail from Dick Weber (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 23 Oct 1997).

!SOURCE: Dwane V. Norris, Whipple Family Tree (Jackson, Mich., 1996), p. 120.

!SOURCE: Charlemagne Tower, Tower Genealogy: An Account of the Descendants of John Tower, of Hingham, Mass. (Cambridge: University Press, 1891), p. 130.

!SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, Vol. 3, Cumberland, Part 5 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1892), p. 63, 126.

!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).

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