Gideon Tower, Captain

1700 - 1772  (72 years)

• Name	Gideon Tower
  Suffix	Captain
  Birth	24 Feb 1699/1700	Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island
  Gender	Male
  Death	29 Dec 1772	Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island
  Burial	Elder Ballou Meeting House Cemetery, Elder Ballou Meeting House Road, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island
  Person ID	I4882	Whipple Descendants
  Last Modified	18 Nov 2009

  
  

  Father	Benjamin Tower,   b. 25 Jan 1673/1674, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts d. 2 May 1743, Attleborough, Bristol, Massachusetts (Age 69 years)
  Mother	Deborah Whipple,   b. 12 Sep 1681, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island d. 26 Mar 1755 (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	1697	Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F2878	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Ray,   b. 22 Aug 1710, of, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island d. 29 May 1794, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	2 Oct 1729	Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts
  Children	+ 1. Deborah Tower,   b. 5 Apr 1731, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island + 2. Patience Tower,   b. 23 May 1733, of, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island   3. Mary Tower,   b. 23 May 1733, Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts   4. Gideon Tower,   b. 23 Jul 1735, Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. Between 1775 and 1783 (Age 39 years) + 5. Enoch Tower,   b. 20 Dec 1737, Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 16 Apr 1807, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island (Age 69 years) + 6. Ichabod Tower,   b. 28 Feb 1740, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island d. 23 Apr 1826, Charlton, Worcester, Massachusetts (Age 86 years) + 7. Levi Tower, Captain,   b. 19 Jul 1742, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island d. 4 Aug 1826, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island (Age 84 years) + 8. Reuben Tower,   b. 9 Nov 1745, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island d. 1790, , , Vermont (Age 44 years) + 9. Samuel Tower,   b. 2 May 1747, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island + 10. Lydia Tower,   b. 4 Aug 1752, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island
  Family ID	F2877	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 24 Feb 1699/1700 - Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island Marriage - 2 Oct 1729 - Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts Death - 29 Dec 1772 - Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island Burial - - Elder Ballou Meeting House Cemetery, Elder Ballou Meeting House Road, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  !SOURCE: Pam Koch (?) (email hidden), 11/28/96. Gives birth place as Attleboro[ugh], Massachusetts--another name for the same place as Cumberland? !SOURCE: The Sprague Database (Mail from Dick Weber (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 23 Oct 1997) gives birth and death places as Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island. !SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, vol. 3, Cumberland, pt. 5 (Providence, R.I.: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1892), p. 63. !SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 15 Apr 2006. Adds burial place, citing the Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Database Index.