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Matthew Whipple, Major

Matthew Whipple, Major

Male 1658 - 1739  (81 years)


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  • Name Matthew Whipple 
    Suffix Major 
    Birth 1658  Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 28 Jan 1738/1739  Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I6065  Whipple Descendants | Bocking/Ipswich MA Descendants
    Last Modified 16 Dec 2009 

    Father John Whipple, Captain, Cornet,   b. 21 Dec 1625, Bocking, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Aug 1683, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 57 years) 
    Mother Martha Reyner,   b. , , England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Feb 1679/1680, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Abt 1653  Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1859  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Jemima Lane,   b. 19 Aug 1666, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 19 May 1688 (Age 21 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1684  Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    >1. Matthew Whipple, Deacon,   b. 20 Oct 1685, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Jan 1766, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
    Family ID F1890  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Joanna Appleton   d. Abt 1698, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Abt 1688  Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. John Whipple, Captain,   b. 22 Jul 1689, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Feb 1781, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 91 years)
     2. Joanna Whipple,   b. 22 Jul 1692, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Aug 1692, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)
     3. Appleton Whipple,   b. 19 Oct 1693, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location
    +4. William Whipple, Captain,   b. 28 Jan 1695/1696, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Aug 1751, Kittery, York, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years)
    Family ID F1883  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 3 Martha Denison,   b. Abt 1668, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Sep 1728, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 60 years) 
    Marriage 11 Jun 1697  Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    >1. Joseph Whipple, Reverend,   b. 31 Jul 1701, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Feb 1757, Hampton Falls, Rockingham, New Hampshire Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years)
     2. Martha Whipple,   b. 7 Jan 1704, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Jan 1704, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)
     3. Nathaniel Whipple,   b. 2 Jul 1711, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location
    +4. Martha Whipple,   b. 2 Jul 1711, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F1886  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1658 - Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - Abt 1684 - Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - Abt 1688 - Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 11 Jun 1697 - Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 28 Jan 1738/1739 - Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • !SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, in _One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families_ (Salem, Mass., 1893; reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977), p. 262.

      !SOURCE: A Partial List of the Descendents of Matthew Whipple, the Elder, of Bocking, Essex County, England / Compiled from Divers Sources by Henry Burdette Whipple (High Point, North Carolina, Oct. 1965), p. 9.

      !SOURCE: Dwane V. Norris, Whipple Family Tree (Jackson, Mich., 1996), p. 13.

      !SOURCE: Blaine Whipple, History and Genealogy of "Elder" John Whipple of Ipswich, Massachusetts (Victoria, B.C.: Trafford, 2004), p. G5, G9.

      !SLAVE: "He had a slave Pluto who was born in Africa, lived to age 107, and was eventually freed by Matthew. Pluto was living in Hamilton at the time of death." --B. Whipple, p. G9.

      !SOURCE: Email from Beverly Huckins to Weldon Whipple, 1 Feb 2009 Cites/notes the Will of Major Matthew Whipple b 1658 d 1738, mentions son Appleton. Source states Major Whipple was the ancestor of two of the name of Oliver now residing in Hamilton. One of them, brother to Jonathan, deceased of Salem, is descended through his mother's ancestor who was Martha Whipple, the daughter of Nathaniel Whipple who was the son of Captn. John who was the son of Major Matthew. Major Matthew m Joanna Appleton by whom he had Matthew, John, Joanna, Appleton and William and afterwards m Martha Ringe, the granddaughter of General Daniel Dennison.

      !SOURCE: Raymond Whipple Jr., The Whipples of Ipswich and Its Hamlet, 2d ed. (Beverly, MA: Minuteman Press, 2009), p. 13. Adds burial place.


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