Whipple Database
Database of the Whipple One-Name Study (WONS)
Benjamin Dexter
1794 --
Name Benjamin Dexter Birth 1794 Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island Gender Male Person ID I67510 Whipple Descendants Last Modified 10 Oct 2006
Father Benjamin Dexter, b. 1755, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island Mother Abigail, b. 1765, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island Family ID F29697 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Anna Aldrich, b. 1807, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island Children 1. Henry R. Dexter, b. 1834, Foster, Providence, Rhode Island 2. Benjamin Franklin Dexter, b. 1835, Foster, Providence, Rhode Island 3. Andrew Jackson Dexter, b. 1836, Foster, Providence, Rhode Island Family ID F29698 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - !SOURCE: S.C. Newman, Dexter Genealogy: Being a Record of the Families Descended from Rev. Gregory Dexter (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1859), p. 30, 37-38.
!OCCUPATION: Blacksmith. --S.C. Newman
!RESIDENCES: "He removed from Smithfield to Foster where he lived a few years, and then removed to the west part of Glocester, R.I., where he now lives and owns a small estate and carries on the trade of a blacksmith. He visits the village of Chepatchet but once a year, and that is at the April town meeting. I went seven miles through the woods to find him--and did find him." --S.C. Newman, p. 38.
- !SOURCE: S.C. Newman, Dexter Genealogy: Being a Record of the Families Descended from Rev. Gregory Dexter (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1859), p. 30, 37-38.