Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy --- Go to Genealogy Page for John Whipple --- Go to Genealogy Page for Sarah

Notes for John Whipple and Sarah

163738 On 2 January, John Whipple was granted eight acres in Dorchester about the mill. [1]

Research Notes:

John was first at Dorchester, as early as 1632, in the service of Israel Stoughton, was a carpenter, joined with the church in 1641. Sold his home and 40 or 50 acres to Geofge Minot, 1658, and removed to Providence and in the summer of 1659 was admitted there as inhabitant, own. alleg to the K 31 May 1666. [Savage, Vol IV, p 505]

The Great Migration reports [2]:

John Whipple
Origin: Unknown
Migration: 1632
First Residence: Dorchester
Removes: Providence 1658

Occupation: Carpenter [ SLR 3:204]. Tavernkeeper, 1674 [ PrTR 4:8]. In 1669 John Whipple Sr. was paid 10s. to allow the town council to meet at this house [ PrTR 3:148]. In 1670 the amount was raised to 20s. [ PrTR 3:152].
Freeman: Oath of allegiance, 31 May 1666 [ PrTR 3:101].
Education: He signed his name to deeds [ PrTR 3:100].

Offices: Deputy, General Court, 4 September 1666 [ PrTR 3:85]. Petit jury, 19 October 1670 [ PrTR 3:157].

Providence selectman, 1670, 1674, 27 April 1676 (moderator) [ PrTR 3:150, 4:1, 8:11]. Treasurer, 1 June 1668 [ PrTR 3:124]. Surveyor, 6 June 1670-71 [ PrTR 3:152, 192, 198, 201]. Committee to run the line, 27 January 1663[/4] [ PrTR 3:47, 49]. Committee to consider building a new town house [ PrTR 3:4]. Jury, 12 May 1663 [ PrTR 3:37]. Appointed to confer about mending a bridge, 27 January 1664[/5], 28 October 1667 [ PrTR 3:59, 110]. Committee to arbitrate over fences, 2 December 1666 [ PrTR 3:89]. Arbiter in the matter of the estate of Resolved Waterman, deceased, 9 January 1700/1 [ PrTR 6:103]. Committee to "demand & receive at every garrison what was taken from the Indians," 7 September 1676 [ PrTR 8:14]. Committee to lay out a common, 27 April 1678 [ PrTR 8:28].
Estate: On 2 January 1637[/8] John Whipple was granted eight acres in Dorchester about the mill [ DTR 27]. "John Whiplle" was the last of the Dorchester proprietors to sign his name to an agreement submitting to arbitration a dispute over the fencing and division of land [ DTR 76, 79].
On 15 November 1658 "John Whiple of Dorchester … carpenter" sold to George Minot of Dorchester "his now dwelling house and housements scituate and being in Dorchester near the River Naponset together with thirty-seven acres of upland more or less thereto adjoining," also "eight acres of salt marsh more or less lying near the place commonly called the penny ferry"; "Sarah the wife of the said John Whiple" relinquished her dower rights [ SLR 3:204-05].
On 3 February 1661[/2] John Whipple Sr. petitioned for a piece of land next to his orchard, but his will was referred to the next court [ PrTR 3:9]. On 27 July 1662 John Whipple Sr. was permitted to exchange sixty acres at Mashapauge Pond for lands at Loquasqussuck [ PrTR 3:26]. These lands were probably the eighty acres at Loquasqussuck laid out to him by Thomas Harris Sr. on 13 April 1667 [ PrTR 3:96].
On 23 November 1663 John Whipple Sr. of Providence deeded to "my son John Whipple" a houselot formerly owned by William Arnold excepting two acres, two shares of meadow, six acres of upland, sixty acres of land at Loquasqussuck [ PrTR 3:98-100].
On 19 February 1665[/6] John Whipple Sr. drew lot #45 in the division of lands east of Seven Mile Line [ PrTR 3:72]. On 13 November 1666 John Whipple Sr. was granted permission to exchange his sixty acres at Tare Breech Plain [ PrTR 3:88].
On 24 February 1674 John Whipple Sr. gave a deed of gift to his "son Eliezer Whipple" [ PrTR 8:140]. On 12 April 1675 he drew lot #43 in the lands on the west side of Seven Mile Line [ PrTR 4:46]. On 27 January 1674/5 John Whipple Sr. was granted permission to change a fifty-acre division of upland [ PrTR 4:18]. On 24 May 1675 he drew lot #91 in the land on the east side of Seven Mile Line [ PrTR 4:47].
He was among those who "stayed and went not away" in 1676 and as such was entitled to Indian slaves [ PrTR 8:12].
On 6 June 1681 John Whipple Sr. was granted permission to exchange his twenty-five acres at Goatum valley "which he bought of Mr. Benedict Arnold" [ PrTR 8:98].
On 4 March 1683/4 John Whipple Sr. made a deed of gift to his "son David Whipple" [ PrTR 8:137].
In his will, dated 8 May 1682 and proved 27 May 1685, John Whipple Sr. of Providence "being in a great measure of health … having many children & to prevent all differences that otherwise may hereafter arise … having formerly given unto three of my sons all my lands … namely Samuell, Eliazer, & William equally to be divided among them … only excepting thirty acres which I gave unto my son John at the northwest end"; to "my three aforenamed sons, namely Samuell, Eliazer & William, each of them a quarter part of one right of commoning for pasturing, cutting of timber, & firewood"; to "my son Benjamin a right of lands in the late division which is already laid out"; to "my son David a right of lands in the late division which is already laid out unto him"; to "my son Jonathan twenty-five acres on which he now dwelleth"; to "my son Jonathan one division of lands"; to "my son Joseph my dwelling house & my three home lots & the garden next the river, also a six acre lot … also twenty acres near Thomas Clemence his dwelling, also I give unto my son Joseph my share of meadow near Solletarey Hill & two six acre lots … also a five acre lot lying near where William Wickenden formerly dwelt; also one division beyond the Seven Mile Line … also I do give unto my son Joseph all other divisions which shall hereafter belong unto two rights throughout"; to "my sons John, Samuell, Eliazer, William, Benjamin, David & Jonathan unto these seven twelve pence to every of them"; to "my three daughters (namely) Sarah, Mary & Abigall unto every of them ten shillings"; to "my son Joseph all my right of lands in the Narragansett Country"; to "my son Joseph" residue; "my son Joseph my executor" [ PrTR 6:126-28]. Thomas Olney deposed that he had gone to John Whipple, at his request, and obtained clarification of some of the bequests [ PrTR 6:128-30].
The inventory of John Whipple Sr. was taken 22 May 1685 and totalled £41 11s. 10d., including no real estate [ PrTR 6:130-34].

Birth: About 1617 based on age at death.
Death: Providence 16 May 1685 "about 68 years of age" (gravestone, North Burial Ground, Providence [ NEHGR 32:403]).
Marriage: By about 1640 Sarah _____. On 29 October 1641 "Goodwife Whipple" was admitted to the second Dorchester church [ DChR 6]. She died at Providence in 1666 "aged about 42 years" (gravestone, North Burial Ground, Providence [ NEHGR 32:403-4]).

Children:
i John, born about 1640 (baptized three days after his mother joined the church and three months before his sister Sarah's baptism, indicating he was not born immediately before his own baptism); bp. Dorchester 1 November 1641 [ DChR 154]; m. (1) Providence 4 December 1663 Mary Olney [ RIVR :2:Providence 197]; m. (2) Providence 15 April 1678 Rebecca Scott [ RIVR :2:Providence 197].
ii Sarah, bp. Dorchester 6 February 1641[/2] (annotated "to Mr. Smith at Providence" [ DChR 154]); m. by about 1662 John Smith of Providence [ Austin 382].
iii Samuel, bp. Dorchester 17 March 1643/4 [ DChR 156]; m. by about 1669 Mary Harris (in his will of 3 June 1686 Thomas Harris bequeathed to "daughter Mary Whipple and her heirs, born of my son-in-law Samuel Whipple" [ Austin 311-12]).
iv Eleazer, bp. Dorchester 8 March 1646 [ DChR 158]; m. 26 January 1669[/70] Alice Angell [ RIVR :2:Providence 197; Angell Anc 126].
v Mary, bp. Dorchester 9 April 1648 [ DChR 159]; m. Providence 9 March 1665/6 Epenetus Olney [ PrTR 5:293].
vi William, bp. Dorchester 16 May 1652 [ DChR 162]; m. Mary _____ (his will of 27 February 1711/2 names wife Mary [ Austin 222]).
vii Benjamin, bp. Dorchester 4 June 1654 [ DChR 163]; m. 1 April 1686 Ruth Matthewson [ RIVR :2:Providence 197].
viii DAVID, bp. Dorchester 18 September 1656 [ DChR 168]; m. (1) Providence 15 May 1675 Sarah Hearndon [ Austin 95, 222, citing an unknown source; this marriage is not in published Providence records]; m. (2) Hingham 11 November 1677 Hannah Tower (recorded at Providence [ PrTR 5:263]).
ix Abigail, born say 1658; m. (1) by about 1674 Stephen Dexter [ Austin 223, 288]; m. (2) [blank] January 1682 William Hopkins (in her will of 16 August 1725 Abigail Hopkins, widow of William Hopkins, made bequests to son John Dexter, son William Hopkins and daughter Abigail Field [ Austin 288, 324]; John Dexter and Abigail (Dexter) Field were children of Stephen Dexter). (The Hopkins records demonstrate that the widow of Stephen Dexter married William Hopkins, but nothing cited here proves that the wife of Stephen Dexter was the daughter of John Whipple, as claimed by Austin and many other authors.)
x Joseph, born say 1660; m. Providence 20 May 1684 Alice Smith [ RIVR :2:Providence 197].
xi Jonathan, born say 1662; m. (1) by about 1688 Margery Angell, daughter of Thomas Angell (Jonathan and Thomas, sons of "Jonathan and Margory" Whipple were born at Providence 22 February 1691 and 26 February 1694 [ RIVR :2:Providence 256], and there were two elder daughters of this couple [ Angell Anc 127]); m. (2) by an unknown date Anne _____ (in his will of 5 September 1721 he names wife Anne, and she made a will dated 11 July 1723 [ Austin 223]).

Associations: On 3 October 1632 the General Court ordered that "Alex: Miller & John Wipple shall give iijs iiijd apiece to their master, Israell Stoughton, for their wasteful expense of powder & shot" [ MBCR 1:100].

Comments: Since John Whipple was a young, unmarried servant when he first arrived in Dorchester, we should not be surprised that he does not appear in the records more in the 1630s, but he generated remarkably few records between 1640 and 1658, during which period he lived as a married man in that town.
In his entry for John Whipple, Pope has hopelessly intermingled records for John Whipple of Ipswich with those of John Whipple of Dorchester and Providence.


Footnotes:

[1] William H. Whitmore and William S. Appleton, eds., Dorchester Town Records, 3rd ed. (Boston, Rockwell and Churchill, 1896), 27, [HathiTrust].

[2] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 1970, [AmericanAncestors].