_John Whipple _______
| (1617 - 1685) m 1638
_Eleazer Whipple ____|_Sarah ______________
| (.... - 1719) m 1669 (1624 - 1666)
_Job Whipple ________|
| (1684 - 1750) m 1703|
| | _Thomas Angell ______
| | | (1618 - 1694) m 1643
| |_Alice Angell _______|_Alice Ashton _______
| (1649 - 1743) m 1669 (1617 - 1694)
_Job Whipple ________|
| (1703 - 1730) m 1724|
| | _Richard Pray _______
| | | (1630 - 1693)
| | _Ephraim Pray _______|_Mary _______________
| | | (.... - 1727)
| |_Silence Pray _______|
| (1682 - 1767) m 1703|
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| |_Sarah ______________|_____________________
| (.... - 1726)
_Ephraim Whipple ____|
| (1725 - 1805) m 1745|
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| | _Daniel Jencks ______|
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| |_Ruth Jencks ________|
| (1705 - ....) m 1724|
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| |_Katherine Balcomb __|
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|--David Whipple
| (1748 - 1803)
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| _John Lapham ________|_____________________
| | (1635 - 1710)
| _John Lapham ________|
| | (1677 - 1758) m 1700|
| | | _William Mann _______
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| | |_Mary Mann __________|_Frances Hopkins ____
| | (1640 - 1710)
| _Thomas Lapham ______|
| | (1705 - 1779) m 1729|
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| | |_Mary Russell _______|
| | (1683 - 1752) m 1700|
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|_Sylvia Lapham ______|
(1731 - 1805) m 1745|
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|_Abigail Wilbur _____|
(1711 - 1785) m 1729|
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!SOURCE: "Evidence for Believing Barneville Whipple, Alias, Barnable B. Whipple, Alias Barney Whipple was Descended from John & Sarah Whipple of Providence, R.I." mailed to the Whipple Website by Gerry Yost, 1 Feb 2001.
!SOURCE: Will of grandfather Thomas Lapham, dated 17 Aug 1775, proved 15 Mar 1779, p. 392-393. Abstracted in Abstracts Smithfield Wills, Rhode Island Genealogical Register, vol. 12, p. 41.
!SOURCE: Email from William Robertson (email hidden) to the Whipple One-Name Study, 26 Feb 2025. He writes:
I believe [this person] is the David Whipple who was in Caswell County, NC, in 1780, and in Rutherford County, NC, in 1800. I believe he is the David Whipple who was the son of Ephraim Whipple and Sylvia Silence Lapham of Cumberland, Providence, RI. I also believe that he had 4 children: David Hillis Whipple, Pray H. Whipple, Anna Whipple, and Silence Whipple. There is documentation that Pray Whipple, Silence Whipple, and Anna Whipple were all in Rutherford Co., NC, at the same time as David Whipple, and their ages conform to the ages of his children in the 1800 Census. Anna Whipple married (1) James Love and (2) Noah Hampton. I am descended from Noah and Anna Hampton. They moved from Rutherford Co., NC, to Henry Co., TN, in 1825. Pray H. Whipple had moved to Robertson Co., TN, by 1803, then to Montgomery Co., Tn, and to be with Noah and Anna Hampton in Henry Co., TN, ca 1825-26. Silence Whipple married George Henson and they settled in Missouri. David H. Whipple reside in Montgomery Co., VA, from around 1800 until 1810-11 when he moved to Gallatin, Sumner Co., TN. The last documentation on him is the 1819 tax record in Sumner County.There is a lot of circumstantial evidence that those 4 people are children of David Whipple and that David was the son of Ephraim Whipple and Sylvia Silence Whipple. David might have named his son Pray Whipple and his daughter Silence Whipple after Ephraim's mother who was Silence Pray.
Both David Whipple and his son David H. Whipple were silversmiths like Ephraim back in Rhode Island. David H. Whipple was also a clockmaker and one of his case clocks (Peter Rife was the cabinet maker) made in Montgomery Co., VA, (now Pulaski Co.), ca. 1810, is in the Colonial Williamsburg Collection.
Your database--and all the family trees in Ancestry and FamilySearch and elsewhere--say that Ephraim's son David Whipple died after 1775, but that is only because he is mentioned in his grandfather Thomas Lapham's will written in that year. I believe he came first to Virginia about that time and then to NC where he died around 1803. (I have found no evidence of him after that date, anywhere.)
RIN 34586. Quick link to this page: https://genweb.whipple.org/34586
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