Gideon Tower (Captain)

• BIRTH: 24 Feb 1699/1700, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island
• DEATH: 29 Dec 1772, 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

• MARRIAGE: 2 Oct 1729, Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts

1. +Deborah Tower (5 Apr 1731 - ____)
2. +Patience Tower (23 May 1733 - ____)
3.  Mary Tower (23 May 1733 - ____)
4.  Gideon Tower (23 Jul 1735 - Bet 1775 and 1783)
5. +Enoch Tower (20 Dec 1737 - 16 Apr 1807)
6. +Ichabod Tower (28 Feb 1740 - 23 Apr 1826)
7. +Levi Tower (19 Jul 1742 - 4 Aug 1826)
8. +Reuben Tower (9 Nov 1745 - 1790)
9. +Samuel Tower (2 May 1747 - ____)
10. +Lydia Tower (4 Aug 1752 - ____)

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                                             _John Tower _________|
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                       _John Tower _________|
                      | (1639 - 1693) m 1669|
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                      |                     |_Margaret Ibrook ____|
                      |                       (1620 - 1700) m 1638|
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 _Benjamin Tower _____|
| (1673 - 1743) m 1697|
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|                     |_Sarah Hardin _______|
|                       (.... - 1729) m 1669|
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|--Gideon Tower 
|  (1699 - 1772)
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|                                            _John Whipple _______|
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|                      _David Whipple ______|
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|_Deborah Whipple ____|
  (1681 - 1755) m 1697|
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                      |                      _John Tower _________|
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                      |_Hannah Tower _______|
                        (1652 - 1722) m 1677|
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                                            |_Margaret Ibrook ____|
                                              (1620 - 1700) m 1638|
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Notes

!SOURCE: The Sprague Database (Mail from Dick Weber (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 23 Oct 1997) gives birth and death places as Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island.

!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. 63.

!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 15 Apr 2006. Adds burial place, citing the Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Database Index.

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