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Abigail Whipple

Abigail Whipple

Female Abt 1658 - 1725  (~ 67 years)

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  • Name Abigail Whipple 
    Birth Abt 1657/1658  Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Death 19 Aug 1725  Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I376  Whipple Descendants
    Last Modified 18 Nov 2009 

    Father John Whipple, Captain,   b. Abt 1617, , , England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 May 1685, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 68 years) 
    Mother Sarah,   b. Abt 1624   d. 1666, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 42 years) 
    Marriage 1638  Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F303  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Stephen Dexter,   b. 1 Nov 1647, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1679 (Age 31 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1672  Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. John Dexter,   b. 1673, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Apr 1734 (Age 61 years)
    +2. Abigail Dexter,   b. Abt 1675, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft Aug 1725 (Age ~ 50 years)
    Family ID F314  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 William Hopkins,   b. 1647, of, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Jul 1723 (Age 76 years) 
    Marriage Jan 1682  Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. William Hopkins, Jr.,   b. Abt 1682, of, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1738, Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 56 years)
    Family ID F315  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - Abt 1657/1658 - Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - Abt 1672 - Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - Jan 1682 - Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 19 Aug 1725 - Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • !SOURCE: Henry E. Whipple, A Brief Genealogy of the Whipple Families Who Settled in Rhode Island (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1873), p. 9. From a corrected copy of the book found in the Rhode Island Historical Society Library, call no. CS71.W574 1873 RIHSL.

      !SOURCE: Judith Whipple, "Genealogy Chart of Captain John Whipple 1617-1685 to Grace Louise (Whipple) Pitcher 1892 and Alfred Whipple 1903 and John Whipple 1904 and Lorey Whipple 1910-1970" (Portland, Tex., c1977). Copy in the NEHGS library, call number CS71.W574 1977.

      !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. 28. Gives birth 1660 in Providence, R.I. (Date previously entered as about 1658.)

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

      !BIRTH: Dick Weber, in a printout from the Sprague Database dated 7 Nov 1997, citing Robert Charles Anderson's "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1623" (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), p. 1973, gives birth date of "about 1658." Judith Whipple gives birth date 1660. The 1665 date given by some sources seems late, especially if compared to a marriage date of "about 1772" given by other sources.

      !SOURCE: Email from Charles M. Whipple Jr. to Weldon Whipple, 26 Jan 2005. Charles notes the following regarding Abaigail's birth date:
      As far as Abigail's birth is concerned, it undoubtedly occurred earlier than 1660. Austin does not know her date, page 223. And Henry E. Whipple states 1665, as it known to be much too late seeing that she was married around 1672. Again, the best source for the 1657/58 date is from [Robert C.] Anderson, [The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 (Boston: NEHGS, 1995)] 1972-3. The absence of a christening date from Dorchester likely resulted from the family's religious heterodoxy, and/or was due to the below.

      James Blake, Annals of the Town of Dorchester (Boston: David Clapp, 1846) 1:20. "The Records of Births and deaths that was before this year (1657/58) is said to be accidentally burnt in Thomas Millit's house, and so all was lost, except a few families that kept ye Account of their childrens births, entered them into ye next Book of ye Records of births." Conceivably, a possibility of faulty memory and/or error by the church clerk, could explain much error that has been found regnant in the genealogies of several Dorchester families of that time.



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