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Stephen Dexter

Stephen Dexter

Male 1689 - 1758  (69 years)


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  • Name Stephen Dexter 
    Birth 15 Apr 1689  Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 27 Dec 1758  Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial North Burial Ground, North Main Street, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I6168  Whipple Descendants | Dorchester MA/Providence RI Descendants
    Last Modified 11 May 2020 

    Father John Dexter, Major,   b. 6 Nov 1652   d. 23 Apr 1706, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 53 years) 
    Mother Alice Smith,   b. 1665, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Feb 1735/1736, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years) 
    Marriage 16 Feb 1687/1688  Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F3440  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Susannah Whipple,   b. 14 Apr 1693, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Dec 1776 (Age 83 years) 
    Marriage 1709 
    Children 
    +1. Susan or Susannah Dexter,   b. 28 Oct 1713, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location
    +2. Freelove Dexter,   b. May 1719, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Oct 1775 (Age ~ 56 years)
    +3. Waitstill or Wait Dexter,   b. 10 Sep 1721, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Aug 1808 (Age 86 years)
     4. John Dexter,   b. 1725, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location
    +5. Joseph Dexter,   b. 1727, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location
    +6. Christopher Dexter,   b. 1728 or Abt 10 Sep 1725, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Jun 1797, North Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years)
    +7. Jeremiah Dexter,   b. 1730, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Mar 1807, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)
    +8. Edward Dexter,   b. 1732, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jan 1770, At sea Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 38 years)
    Family ID F3489  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 15 Apr 1689 - Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 27 Dec 1758 - Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - North Burial Ground, North Main Street, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • !SOURCE: Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914 - familysearch.org, viewed 11 May 2020. (birth).

      !SOURCE: Find a Grave website memorial 15705528 (birth, death, burial).

      !SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (Albany, N.Y., 1887; reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978) p. 223, 289.

      !SOURCE: "John Smith, the Miller, of Providence Rhode Island: Some of His Descendants," by Charles William Farnham, in Genealogies of Rhode Island Families, from Rhode Island Periodicals (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983), 2:8.

      !SOURCE: "Descendants of Sarah Whipple," descendancy chart from Beverly Phillips (rogerp@vegas.info.net) to the Whipple Website, 21 Dec 1998.

      !SOURCE: S.C. Newman, Dexter Genealogy: Being a Record of the Families Descended from Rev. Gregory Dexter (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1859), p. 46-47.

      !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. 44, 47.

      !SOURCE: Reprint of the "Brown genealogy of 1851," submitted to the Whipple Website by Ian Mackie, 20 Oct 2003.

      !SOURCE: "Deacon James Whipple: A Man of Mystery," by Kenneth L. Vogt (2003), 3:3. Gives marriage 1709.

      !SOURCE: Henry E. Whipple, A Brief Genealogy of the Whipple Families Who Settled in Rhode Island (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1873), p. 17. From a corrected copy of the book found in the Rhode Island Historical Society Library, call no. CS71.W574 1873 RIHSL.


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