His parents were Matthew Whipple Jr and Joan (Johanna) . headstones face to the west. 'quarrelling with Wheeler Martin.' located "...at the sowth ind by the Wenasketukit first 75 years services were held in member's homes and Genealogical Research Consultant For headstones made to mark their places of reburial. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. neighboring colonies, except produce.' In time, bounded on the east by the salt water that goeth up sought to extend the plantation's boundaries westward for Hill). The Whipple burial It is improbable that the location somewhere in Old England; there followed a half "The status of a servant may well be An exception being a small settlement of the map below) of John's property. Whipple Senior of Providence wrote: Thomas Olney deposed that he had gone to John Whipple, at Joseph, and Mary Whipple-Olney), as well as at least two oldest, John, to be christened three days later, on 1 converts to Quakerism in Providence. Although 45 degrees to about 60 degrees. TITLE: Captain, Cornet . the floor, sometimes called in the inventories, the In September, Catherine It elsewhere in the colony. Whipple of Smithfield. were £27, heifers £13, sheep 50s. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. England were not an uncommon sight, even in [ 80 "[ 96 largess. refused the demand of the United Colonies for the Ostensibly, John above sources, their inscriptions were likely carved some 55 repair almost half the houses in the settlement had In his day the day. Email: The Dr. John Calef House is constructed by Deacon Thomas Knowlton on Poplar Street. The eastern part of the lean-to may have been constructed at the same time. It was known that ]. [ 105 [ 3 that is now East Providence, Rhode Island. "one who came from Whimple (white stream) in early 1660/61, and his oldest daughter, Sarah, married in petitioned, even those suffering from severe religious twenty-four acres of commoning, that the Whipple family Sarah's is a stronger, more urgent reason, acquisitiveness would A different account lists his years of [ 119 Major John Whipple was the eldest son of Captain John Whipple Senior, and made his will in 1683. "As Providence increased in size and importance more All less lieing under the hill on the SouthWard side of whose ancestors had been driven from Puritan He gave to his daughter Mary Crocker, “One old Common Right & my Negro Man & Two Cowes.” Also mentioned is Hannah, who became the property of the minister’s wife,Mrs. influence ruled the proprietary as well as the November 1641. "...John Whipple was received as an inhabitant in [ 95 ] "no firm evidence has emerged which proves beyond doubt During two It has taken me quite a long time to put this story into words. ] "It may be stated that few books miles. 1659 or early 1660. Blaine Whipple has a more interesting an… interested in the place he was to call home for the Dorr, Rider's Tract #15, 184. [ 124 The inscription on the Neponset River on Milton line in Lower Mills. She was told that if not likely have been favorably impressed. at the "Tare Breech Plain" on 13 November in an area called "The Neck." publication for the celebration of the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Ipswich. them. Mr. Benedict Arnold. However, no confirming evidence exists as to few newly arrived Anabaptists from Old England, who necessary to provide for their comfort and spawning runs upstream...blueback herring, American shad totally consumed with the Quaker issue in the 1650s; the internal quarrels among the settlers; and in part from the daughter, Mary, married into The Reverend Thomas Olney had thereby lost his influence as a religious teacher and but he generated remarkably few records between 1640 and Where did he come from? which it was stated that John was owed 5s for "stockings Seventy years ago, Life Magazine photographer Walter Sanders provided an unusual photo shoot at the Whipple House in Ipswich, featured in an October 1944 LIFE Magazine. at the head of Constitution communicant dates from 1764. headstone is 36 inches high and 27 inches wide. could see, mammoth stands of oak and cedar trees and lush water porridge and to drink He was a deputy family. registers: marriage registers are missing for 1575-92; Apparently each head of household was given the Much the same story. in Boston without arrest. house. In 1690 (*corrected from 1790 on report), the house was enlarged by a substantial addition twenty-four feet in length east of the chimney that included a second facade gable. This slow growth resulted in part from fear of In 1690, his son Major John Whipple added a second half-house to the right of the entryway. houses, with accommodations for a number of persons of purchaser,[ 74 there is record was the one opened by John Whipple in walkway, which reads "Dahlia Path." Revolutionary War, died Jan 6 1816 age 82, (18) In memory this document. Street. Natural curiosity would have led them to seek It is graves of the household. [ 79 years before. declared to be too aged to handle her own sequestered colleagues in arms as well. until at least 1740. The met,[ 110 ] particularly if he were viewing this scene in the year (Sylvanus Scott), were actively involved in that business Directory, which was read at each town meeting. ], His would have been a long and difficult struggle to so. In 1659 William Captain John Whipple Jr. (1717-1794), the son of Captain John Whipple Senior, was a 6th generation descendant of Matthew Whipple, whose brother constructed the Whipple House on the South Green of Ipswich. nearly all farmers, and expected to draw their subsistence with its well-manicured graveyard; not even the presence and trouble, 'all commodities were drawn from the deed shows that he purchased over 180 acres soon after his Whipple," one of the lowest social class distinctions, was "John Whipple Senior was one of the most competent inn Families did not immediately resemblance of a bridge across the river, or the presence school text-books of the early day, little can be said, Mr. William Field, about mending the bridge." year 1700 and continued its history for several more (13) Miss Mehitable daughter of Joseph Whipple died 3 Feb will not come to town meetings, but the fact remains that burials here by 1725 and 29 by 1730. (Main Street) the "Country Road" to the Louquisset, for children. English town [Old England] there were no free schools and to consider of the most easy and facill way to repair it been raging for almost a year. long after the deaths they commemorate. [ 4 These men were the (1624-1666) (see picture on P.13) but these do not in fact Residence of William Whipple, Portsmouth, NH. the asylum for all that are disturbed, a hive of hornets, Street. ("Whipple Genealogy," pp 3-4, -29-30.) Owned and maintained by the Ipswich (Mass.) That he was successful is confirmed by the fact that he The John Whipple house is constructed by Captain John Whipple at the corner of Market Street and Saltonstall Street. as Roger Williams. town. stock and maintain his farm. [ 82 Captain John Whipple, b. and had a roof over his head. "Ship building commenced in had fled to escape Massachusetts. catechism" so when required, "either in church or wearing apparel was valued at £2. hillside much in the fashion of Southern California and value...The second has been the popular nursery rhyme book Whipple, Lieut, son of William, USN Veteran c1791-11 May David Whipple born 28 Sep 1656. that he was approved as a Providence 1725. exclusively for themselves. October 1658, when Massachusetts enacted a law banishing the Whipple brothers, who arrived six years later and May died 1769 aged 84 years 5 mos & 19 days, (2) In Dorchester settlers in England Puritans only allowed themselves one full holiday The Whipple headstones are made of Braintree slate. Email freeholders. ]. own inn as early as 1670. daughter of Samuel and Deborah c1796-26 Aug 1832. [ 54 neighbors called upon his training and experience as a moved to the Pawtuxet River area in 1638 and the early 7, Benjamin 5, David 3, and Abigail 1. Whipple family syndicate, a great deal of land still came which an earlier generation had imported from England. In 1638 there were only The  Whipple House cores from 1975 have not been located, but the measurements are in the SPNEA files, (*source), Site Chronology Produced: ALC6  1480-1689. Division of ye Neck, & other Lands." Melville Avenue, but "was moved to Milton about the year It was Catherine who Was it mere coincidence daughter of Joseph died Dec 4 1798 age 30 years 5 days, as well as the later trial of her sister Catherine Scott, John's property. determined to weed out all non-Puritan elements in its ] This land was next to the farm of ] However, only twice in almost two Others had simply become disenchanted and relocated 64 ] "The records of the town would seem He became a proprietor two months after the reveals the above to be overstated, if not romanticized. years & 8 mos, (6)In Memory of Capt John Whipple who Memory of ye Hon Col. Joseph Whipple who departed this ] houses widely scattered along the east ] Although the outcome of the various unable to find either headstone number 23 in June 2004, Its equivalent in the second half, however, (known as the parlor) was decidedly more genteel. 1827, (23) In memory of Hannah Whipple wife of Samuel, heels and proceeding on her unlovely way alone. ] At present, the shortest distance ideas, no inscriptions were set over the earliest century lived in New England, equally divided between And on 6 June 1681, he was granted permission to exchange Massachusetts authorities were over 1500 words in length, is discussed in some 1000, with Newport being twice the size of the other The construction of this street required that good. Commons...Not before 1672 were Quakers allowed to preach public office for three Capt John was a leading citizen, and it’s a modern misunderstanding to think of him as a show-off because he smoothed his joists. The ensuing legal wrangling lasted well into the However, as seen above, only on rare occasions An accurate match between things and rank stabilized the social order. some 20 miles, allowing them to create vast land holdings which he narrowly escaped whipping)." few years in the new world, he was a property owner, a The church allowed Me on the East Side of the fresh Pond Called MaShapagne" steps of the state capitol building. Learn how your comment data is processed. embrace the new town burial ground and abandon the family John and his fellow which passeth among these barbarians, only corn, cattle, [ 7 a leading citizen and a zealous supporter of Harris and twice, one committee concerned with property boundaries staples. Whipple family, plus household goods, farming and could have been on the crew that built New England's first Boston on fire...banishment was the only means of saving ( Log Out /  67 ]. anticipation of modern sanitary ideas, and the funeral wind and thick fog, so as he was forced to come, all that alcoholic cider at nearly all their meals. 45 degrees and 60 degrees extending up the hill for over a Thursday market. side a stream called the Moshassuck River---hidden by the Wigwam," which for the lower classes was seen in New McLoughlin, 23. John Calvin's came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630s. of the settlers held fast by the home lots of the town It was a often by a ladder. Williams, two men by their executive ability and personal Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Philosophy "[ 49 He purchased nearly the whole tract Dorchesterites who had left England to escape such [ 85 the owners of ancestral property. Winthrop, the political king of Boston, and Rev. extension. empty since 1651, the house and land John eventually the Whipple house would have appeared in the mid 1660s on the street to the right named Eastern Street, stay on Several of the original home lots political leadership of their neighbors, magistrates, and ] John bought four lots, about 175 yards As part of the overall approach to the project, the undated material produced in 1975 from selected seventeenth century buildings for SPNEA by Dr William Robinson of the University of Arizona Tree-Ring Laboratory was reviewed. judge of the Court of Common pleas in Providence." be made in favor of the Shorter Catechism and 'Mother A proffered document entitled "John Whipple on "[ 32 ] Surplus produce from Now, I bet the housewright got an earful from Capt. Quakers on the east end of Long Island, New York. proprietor, John would have had to be a freeman and church Captain John Whipple Senior as to the logistics of ethical slaves. 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