Abraham Whipple, Commodore

1733 - 1819  (85 years)

• Name	Abraham Whipple
  Suffix	Commodore
  Birth	26 Sep 1733	Providence, Providence, Rhode Island
  Gender	Male
  Death	27 May 1819	Marietta, Washington, Ohio
  Burial	Mound Cemetery, Marietta, Washington, Ohio
  Person ID	I2570	Whipple Descendants
  Last Modified	18 Nov 2009

  
  

  Father	Noah Whipple, Jr.,   b. 18 Dec 1697, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island d. 29 Feb 1784, Ashford, Windham, Connecticut (Age 86 years)
  Mother	Mary Dexter,   b. 1699
  Marriage	24 May 1722	Providence, Providence, Rhode Island
  Family ID	F1424	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Hopkins,   b. 1739   d. 14 Oct 1818, Marietta, Washington, Ohio (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	2 Aug 1761
  Children	1. John Hopkins Whipple + 2. Katherine "Katy" Whipple,   b. 25 Jan 1762, East Providence, Providence, Rhode Island d. 15 Jul 1835, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan (Age 73 years) + 3. Mary or Polly Whipple,   b. Abt 1767, of, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island d. Aft 1795 (Age ~ 29 years)
  Family ID	F1423	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 26 Sep 1733 - Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Death - 27 May 1819 - Marietta, Washington, Ohio Burial - - Mound Cemetery, Marietta, Washington, Ohio  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

  Commodore Abraham Whipple (1733-1819)

  
  

  Headstones

  Gravestone of Commodore Abraham Whipple, 1733-1819

  
  

• Notes

  !SOURCE: Charles M. Whipple, Jr., Sons and Daughters of Jesse: A 360 Year History of the Whipple Family (Oklahoma City: Southwestern Press, 1976), p. 13. !SOURCE: Henry E. Whipple, A Brief History of the Whipple Families Who Settled in Rhode Island (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1873), p. 53. Henry E. Whipple doesn't know who Abraham's parents are. !SOURCE: The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. 2 (New York: James T. White, 1921), p. 16-17. !MILITARY: Appointed Commodore in 1775, commanding "two armed vessels, fitted out by Rhode Island."--Henry E. Whipple. !PORTRAIT: "His portrait as Commodore, in full uniform, can be seen in one of the rooms of the R. I. Historical Society at Providence."--Henry E. Whipple. !SOURCE: Letter from Joanne Lahr-Kreischer to Weldon Whipple, 13 Dec 1997. !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. 37. Gives death date 29 May 1819. !SOURCE: Clair A. Hemenway Newton, Captain John Whipple, 1617-1685, and His Descendants (Naperville, Ill., 1946), p. 56. !SOURCE: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial, Consisting of Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888), p. 28-29. !SOURCE: "Deaths from the New York Post, 1801-1890," emailed by N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 29 Jan 2003. The 7/1/1819 issue gives death in Marietta, Ohio, on the 27th of the previous month ("27th ult"), at age 86. [Probably meant the month before June?]. !SOURCE: Reprint of the "Brown genealogy of 1851," submitted to the Whipple Website by Ian Mackie, 20 Oct 2003.