Joseph Whipple, III, Deputy Governor

1725 - 1761  (35 years)

• Name	Joseph Whipple
  Suffix	III, Deputy Governor
  Birth	3 Jul 1725	Newport, Newport, Rhode Island
  Gender	Male
  Death	1761	Newport, Newport, Rhode Island
  Person ID	I26807	Whipple Descendants
  Last Modified	18 Nov 2009

  
  

  Father	Joseph Whipple, Jr., Deputy Governor,   b. 30 Dec 1687, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island d. Between May and July 1750, of, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island
  Mother	Sarah Redwood,   b. 19 Oct 1702, Antigua, , West Indies d. 3 Jan 1791, Cranston, Providence, Rhode Island (Age 88 years)
  Marriage	1 Mar 1721	Newport, Newport, Rhode Island
  Family ID	F3486	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 3 Jul 1725 - Newport, Newport, Rhode Island Death - 1761 - Newport, Newport, Rhode Island  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

  Joseph Whipple III (1725-1761), Deputy Governor of Rhode Island Painted 1750 by Robert Feke

  
  

• Notes

  !SOURCE: Frank V. McDonald, Inquiries Relating to the Ancestors and Descendants of Job Whipple, of Cumberland, Rhode Island, and Greenwich, Washington County, New York (Cambridge: University Press, John Wilson & son, 1881), p. 3. !SOURCE: "Rhode Island Friends Records: Births." In James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850. Vol. 7, Friends and Ministers (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1895), p. 82. Gives birth 3 Jul 1725 in Newport. !SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to the Whipple Website, 12 Sep 2001. Cites Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850. !SOURCE: Email from Charles M. Whipple, Jr., to Weldon Whipple, 23 Jul 2003. Gives death 1761. !SOURCE: Email from Barbara Carroll to Weldon Whipple, 27 Jul 2003. Barbara writes: "Joseph (3) was born Newport 3 July 1725. d. 1761 (Arnold 7:82). Deputy Governor 1749-1754. Joseph had financial trouble. In 1753, he mortgaged the family farm in Middletown, next community to Newport. (Land /evidence, Middletown, 1:175-180). It was 61 acres with a large house. Between Dec. 1753 and Mar. 225,075 pounds were raised form the sale of more than 500 acres if Whipple property in Middletown (need citation).On 2 Nov 1754, he resigned as Deputy Governor (Barltlett 5:377) "According to the Newport Mercury of 29 March 1915, in 1761, Joseph Whipple, former deputy governor, became intemperate and was drowned from the Point Bridge [in Newport] while returning from the theatre on the Point.[The Point is the oldest settled area of Newport]." !GOVERNMENT: Deputy Governor of Rhode Island, 1749-1954. --Charles M. Whipple !SOURCE: Email from Charles M. Whipple, Jr., to Weldon Whipple, 4 Oct 2003. Charles writes: "I am now convinced that Lieutenant Governor Joseph Whipple Jr. was Anglican not Quaker. I received a reply from Harvard University finally. His son, William, graduated in 1749 at the head of his class. His biography notes that he was indeed Church of England as was Col. Joseph Whipple, his father. So, although Lieutenant Governor Joseph Whipple III and his mother, as well as some siblings may have been Quakers, at least it is now known that this was indeed a religiously mixed marriage."