Whipple Database
Database of the Whipple One-Name Study (WONS)
Benjamin Whipple
1762 - 1835 (72 years)
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Name Benjamin Whipple Birth 21 Sep 1762 Coventry, Kent, Rhode Island 
Gender Male Death 1835 Person ID I9857 Whipple Descendants Last Modified 18 Nov 2009
Father Joseph Whipple, b. 7 Jan 1737, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island d. 1818, Perry Mills, Clinton, New York (Age 80 years) Mother Katherine or Catherine Greene, b. 4 Dec 1740, Coventry, Kent, Rhode Island d. 4 Dec 1813, Pittsford, Rutland, Vermont (Age 73 years) Marriage 18 Sep 1760 Coventry, Kent, Rhode Island Family ID F4730 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Ruth Brown, b. 1760, of, Johnston, Providence, Rhode Island d. 9 Jul 1802, Johnston, Providence, Rhode Island (Age 42 years) Marriage 4 May 1788 Johnston, Providence, Rhode Island Family ID F5753 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Zilpha Ruttenburg, b. 22 Mar 1786, of, Johnston, Providence, Rhode Island d. Abt 1831 (Age 44 years) Marriage 22 Mar 1803 Johnston, Providence, Rhode Island Children 1. Benjamin Greene Whipple, b. 26 Jun 1803, Johnston, Providence, Rhode Island d. 27 Dec 1827, Johnston, Providence, Rhode Island (Age 24 years)+ 2. Ruth Whipple, b. 4 May 1805, Johnston, Providence, Rhode Island d. Aft Jun 1870, of, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island (Age > 65 years)+ 3. Caleb Rutenberg Whipple, b. 2 Aug 1807, Johnston, Providence, Rhode Island Family ID F5754 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map 
Birth - 21 Sep 1762 - Coventry, Kent, Rhode Island 
Marriage - 4 May 1788 - Johnston, Providence, Rhode Island Marriage - 22 Mar 1803 - Johnston, Providence, Rhode Island = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - !SOURCE: Henry E. Whipple, A Brief Genealogy of the Whipple Families Who Settled in Rhode Island (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1873), p. 25-26. Gives birth 1763 in Connecticut.
!SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol. 1, Coventry, Part 4 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1892), p. 94. Gives birth 21 Sep 1762.
!SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, vol. 2, Johnston, pt. 3 (Providence, R.I.: Harragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1892), p. 19.
!RESIDENCES: Johnston, R.I. --H.E. Whipple; Plainfield, Connecticut. --J.N. Arnold, Johnston, p. 19.
!SOURCE: Email from Beth Hurd to Weldon Whipple, 9 Mar 2006. "It seems that Benjamin Whipple was once Johnston Town Clerk, and recorded some b-m-d of his family members??":Old Book, p. 47
"I hereby certify that Benjamin Whipple of Plainfield in the State of Connecticut, son of Joseph Whipple, and Ruth Brown of Johnston, daughter of Gideon Brown of sd Johnston, were lawfully joined together in marriage this 4th day of May, 1788, per me Samuel Winsor, Elder of Baptist Church of Christ in Johnston, RI, recorded December 10 AD, 1803, by Benjamin Whipple, Town Clk."
- !SOURCE: Henry E. Whipple, A Brief Genealogy of the Whipple Families Who Settled in Rhode Island (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1873), p. 25-26. Gives birth 1763 in Connecticut.