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Database of the Whipple One-Name Study (WONS)

Edward Dexter

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Name Edward Dexter Born 1732 Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Gender Male Died Jan 1770 At sea Person ID I6283 Whipple Descendants Last Modified 17 Apr 2009
Father Stephen Dexter, b. 15 Apr 1689, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island , d. 27 Dec 1758, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island
(Age 69 years)
Mother Susannah Whipple, b. 14 Apr 1693, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island , d. 15 Dec 1776 (Age 83 years)
Married 1709 Family ID F3489 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Marcy Arnold, b. 7 Jan 1739, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island , d. 4 Sep 1817, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island
(Age 78 years)
Married 6 Sep 1761 Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Children 1. Susannah Dexter, b. 1763, North Providence, Providence, Rhode Island + 2. Stephen Dexter, b. 1764, North Providence, Providence, Rhode Island , d. , , New York
+ 3. Abigail Dexter, b. 12 Apr 1767, North Providence, Providence, Rhode Island , d. 2 Apr 1812, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island
(Age 44 years)
+ 4. Edward Dexter, Colonel, b. 2 Jan 1770, North Providence, Providence, Rhode Island , d. 23 Aug 1860, Seekonk, Bristol, Massachusetts
(Age 90 years)
Family ID F3574 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map Born - 1732 - Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Married - 6 Sep 1761 - Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Died - Jan 1770 - At sea = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - !SOURCE: Genealogies of Rhode Island Families, from Rhode Island Periodicals (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983), 2:8.
!SOURCE: S.C. Newman, Dexter Genealogy: Being a Record of the Families Descended from Rev. Gregory Dexter (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1859), p. 46, 53.
!RESIDENCES: "Built a house near the present toll-gate of the Pawtucket [R.I.] turnpike, where he lived." --S.C. Newman
!OCCUPATION: "Master of a ship." --S.C. Newman, p. 53
!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), 2:101.
!SOURCE: Genealogies of Rhode Island Families from Rhode Island Periodicals (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1983), 2:18.
!SOURCE: The Arnold Family of Smithfield, Rhode Island, by Richard H. Benson (Boston: Newbury Street Press, 2009; ISBN 978-0-88082-221-3), p. 375-76. "Sailed on 25 December 1769, hath not been heard of since, and thus id dead by the law."
- !SOURCE: Genealogies of Rhode Island Families, from Rhode Island Periodicals (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983), 2:8.