Benajah or Beneger Whipple, Captain

1734 - 1817  (82 years)

• Name	Benajah or Beneger Whipple
  Suffix	Captain
  Birth	17 Jun 1734	Providence, Providence, Rhode Island
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 Mar 1817	Cooperstown, Otsego, New York
  Burial	Whipple Cemetery, , Otsego, New York
  Person ID	I8209	Whipple Descendants
  Last Modified	20 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	Benjamin Whipple,   b. 11 Nov 1688, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island d. 27 Apr 1788, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island (Age 99 years)
  Mother	Esther Millard or Miller
  Marriage	25 Dec 1734	Providence, Providence, Rhode Island
  Family ID	F3470	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Tabitha Barnet or Hovey,   b. Abt 1730   d. 18 Mar 1813, , Otsego, New York (Age ~ 83 years)
  Marriage	Providence, Providence, Rhode Island
  Children	+ 1. Esek Whipple,   b. 3 Jul 1760, Fruit Hill, North Providence, Providence, Rhode Island d. 21 Dec 1833, De Kalb, St. Lawrence, New York (Age 73 years) + 2. Esther Whipple,   b. 30 Oct 1762   d. 24 Mar 1832 (Age 69 years) + 3. Abigail Whipple,   b. 9 Mar 1764, , , Rhode Island d. 21 Oct 1851, prob, Deerfield, Tioga, Pennsylvania (Age 87 years)   4. Barnard Whipple,   b. 19 Mar 1766 + 5. Benajah Whipple, Jr.,   b. 3 Nov 1768, Otsego, Otsego, New York d. 27 Feb 1813, Cooperstown, Otsego, New York (Age 44 years)   6. Tabitha Whipple,   b. 3 Nov 1768, Otsego, Otsego, New York + 7. Reuben or Winslow Whipple,   b. 17 May 1770, Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island d. 28 Mar 1842, of, Cooperstown, Otsego, New York (Age 71 years)   8. James Whipple, Deacon,   b. 30 Jun 1772   d. 16 Mar 1814, of, Otsego, , New York (Age 41 years) + 9. Barnet Whipple,   b. Abt 1773   d. 10 Mar 1821, Mexico, Oswego, New York (Age ~ 48 years)
  Family ID	F4713	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 17 Jun 1734 - Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Death - 17 Mar 1817 - Cooperstown, Otsego, New York Burial - - Whipple Cemetery, , Otsego, New York Marriage - - Providence, Providence, Rhode Island  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  !SOURCE: Genealogy of Whipple, Paddick, Bull Families [microfilm] / Ruth Whipple Kapphahn. -- Columbus, Ohio : UMI, 1992. -- (Genealogy & Local History ; G5108), p. 3. !SOURCE: Dwane V. Norris, Whipple Family Tree (Jackson, Mich., 1996), p. 121. !SOURCE: Clair A. Hemenway Newton, Captain John Whipple, 1617-1685, and His Descendants (Naperville, Ill., 1946), p. 19. !SOURCE: Email from Lynda Ozinga (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 3 Apr 2001, forwarding email from Marion Brophy, which cites death notices in the "Freeman's Journal" as well as the "Register of American Revolutionary Soldiers of Otsego [New York] prepared by the Oneonta chapter of the DAR." Gives death 1812. (Formerly entered as about 1816.) !BIRTH: Month, day (17 Jun) from Henry E. Whipple, A Brief Genealogy of the Whipple Families Who Settled in Rhode Island (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1873), p. 15. D.V. Norris gives birth date 7 Jun 1734. !SOURCE: Name (spelled Benjabet Whipple) and birth date (17 Jun 1734) appear on "Whipple Family Bible Record," a page posted at http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgs/whipple_bible.htm by the Oklahoma Genealogical Society (and viewed by Weldon Whipple on 19 Mar 2003). The web page states: This Bible was published 1836 at Hartford, Connecticut, by R. White and Hutchison and D. Wier. Pasted on the inside of the back cover of this Bible is "This Bible was left to me by my mother, Mrs. Dorcas C. Mitchell who was a daughter of Vernon L. Olney and Louisa Olney, /S/ Mrs. Blanche Boswell." Mrs. Boswell died May 17. 1928, was buried May 28, 1928 at Thomas, Oklahoma beside her husband, Wm. C. Mitchell. The Bible was first "presented to Louisa Whipple by her father, Stephen Whipple, Jan.12, 1839." This Bible record was copied in California by Magna Merle (Boswell) Williamson (Mrs. B.E.), mother of Jack Ellis Williamson, OGS member, Weatherford, Oklahoma. !NAME: Henry E. Whipple spells given name Benager. !RESIDENCES: "Settled on a farm in Glocester, where he lived a few years, and then removed into [New] York State, with his family."--Henry E. Whipple, p. 23. !BURIAL: "The location is on Glimmerglen Road. I have 2 locations - 1. About 100 feet from Glimmerglen Rd., across from the Laidlaw home, near tallest dead tree; or 2. About 90 yd from clearing on left past the small bridge guard rail." --L. Ozinga !SOURCE: Email from Rebecca Moran (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 2 Apr 2007. Gives name Benajah Whipple, Sr. !SOURCE: "Descendants of Esther Whipple," email from B. Huckins to Weldon Whipple, 5 May 2008. Cites Wm Richard Cutter A.M., Editor, Historian NEHG, Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1908, Vol III. Source gives name Benegar, d. 3.17.1817. (Previously entered as 1812.) !SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 15 Aug 2021. Cites Family Records of Deacons James W. and Elisha S. Converse / compiled and edited by William G. Hill (Boston, A. Mudge & Sons, 1887), p. 140. Gives death 17 Mar 1816 (previously entered as 17 Mar 1817).