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Joseph Tripp (abt. 1644 - 1718)

Joseph Tripp
Born about in Portsmouth, Rhode Islandmap
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Husband of — married 6 Aug 1667 in Portsmouth, Rhode Islandmap
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Died at about age 74 in Portsmouth, Rhode Islandmap
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Biography

Joseph Tripp, son of John Tripp and Mary Paine, was probobly born at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, say about 1644-46. He married, 6 Aug 1667, Mehitable, daughter of Thomas and Mary Fish of Portsmouth.[1]

Joseph’s marriage and the birth of his children were recorded in Dartmouth, but it seems likely that his marriage and the birth of the older children took place at Portsmouth. Town authorities often recorded the births of all the children of a family, even when many were born elsewhere.[1][2]

Joseph was made a freeman of Portsmouth, 4 May 1675, which probably indicates that he had lived there up to that time. On 3 May 1671, his father had deeded him land in Dartmouth and eventually he moved to that town, where he was listed as one of the townsmen, 24 Mar 1686. He probably lived there the rest of his life.[1]

Joseph Tripp was listed as a Freeman of Dartmouth in Plymouth Colony on 24 Mar 1668, and served as a member of the Court of Trials on 2 Oct 1677. He represented Dartmouth as a Deputy in 1685 and served as a Selectman from 1686 to 1690. On 16 Apr 1697, he was called "Lieutenant" when he was commissioned, with others, by the probate court to make a distribution of land in Little Compton.

Children of Joseph Tripp and Mehitable Fish

Joseph and Mehitable had the following children:[1]

  1. John, b. 6 Jul 1668
  2. Thomas, b. 28 Mar 1670
  3. Jonathan, b. 5 Oct 1671
  4. Peleg, b. 5 Nov 1673
  5. Ebenezer, b. 17 Dec 1675
  6. James, b. 12 Jan 1677
  7. Alice, b. 1 Feb 1679
  8. Abiel, b. 8 Jan 1681
  9. Mehitable, b. 9 Oct 1683
  10. Joseph, b. 24 Aug 1685
  11. Jabez, b. 3 Nov 1687
  12. Mary, b. 22 Aug 1689
  13. Daniel, b. 3 Nov 1691

Joseph died at Portsmouth, 17 Nov 1718. His wife Mehitable was living, 29 Dec 1713, at the time he made his will.[1]

Joseph Tripp died testate, having written a will on 29 Dec 1713, which was proved on 6 Jan 1719. The will named his son Joseph as executor and left him the homestead and the bulk of the estate. His wife Mehitable received 5 pounds a year and her diet and house room for life, with most of the moveables in the dwelling house. His son Peleg was left 3 shillings, his son Ebenezer 5 pounds, his son Abiel 5 pounds, his son Daniel 20 pounds, his daughter Alice Sherman a brass chafing dish, his daughter Mehitable Sherman a Dutch pewter pot or flagon, his daughter Mary Wait 10 shillings, and his grandson Joseph Tripp (son of Jonathan) 2 pounds. His two oldest sons, John and Thomas, are not mentioned in the will or elsewhere and may have died young.

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 The Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record — Vol XXII, 1944 Joseph Tripp, Portsmouth, Rhode Island : citing Bartlett, II, p. 527. New England Historical and Genealogical Record, XII, p. 160. Dartmouth, Mass., Vital Records.
  2. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8979-H6XF : 3 October 2022), Film# 007009647, Bristol > Dartmouth > Births, marriages, deaths 1667-1788 > image 251 of 452; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston, Page 3.
  • Neil D. Thompson, "Some Observations on the Ancestry of John Tripp, Emigrant to Portsmouth, Rhode Island," The Genealogist, Volume 10, Number 2 (Fall 1998), Page 195-199 New England Historic Genealogical Society (99-101 Newbury Street, Boston, Mass. 02116) http://www.AmericanAncestors.org
  • The biography of Joseph Tripp was provided by Carl Boyer 3rd in Ancestral Lines, Third Edition, published by the author in Santa Clarita, California in 1998
  • "The genealogical dictionary of Rhode Island : comprising three generations of settlers who came before 1690 : with many families carried to the fourth generation", by: Austin, John Osborne, 1849-1918, Publication date: 1887, Publisher: Albany : J. Munsell's sons, Link: https://archive.org/details/genealogicaldict00aust/page/n433/mode/2up?q=tripp




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Tripp-123 and Tripp-1129 appear to represent the same person because: These obviously are the same person & family; how your came to have a different place of birth might be explained by the fact that this man did spend much of his life in Dartmouth, MA, but since you uploaded no sources, it's difficult to be sure...
posted by Bob Nichol
Tripp-123 and Tripp-799 appear to represent the same person because: same person, same spouse...
posted by Bob Nichol
Tripp-734 and Tripp-123 appear to represent the same person because: Please merge my orphan file into yours to get him off the database. Thanks!
posted by Bob Nichol
Tripp-608 and Tripp-123 appear to represent the same person because: same vitals
posted by Jillaine Smith

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