Matthew Whipple (1658 - 1738)

Born 20 Dec 1658 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts

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Died 28 Jan 1738 at age 79 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts

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Biography

Matthew Whipple, son of Matthew Whipple, was born at Ipswich, Massachusetts on 20 December 1658. ^[1] He was married three times, and had children by all three wives:

Around 1684 he married Jemima Lane, who was born 19 Aug 1666, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died about 1686.

Child of Jemina and Matthew:
1. Matthew Whipple, Deacon, b. 20 Oct 1685, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts , d. 24 Jan 1766, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts

Jemina died in about the year 1686. Matthew remarried around 1688 to Joanna Appleton, who born about 1663, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; died 14 Sept 1696, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.

Children of Joanna and Matthew:
2. Joanna Whipple, b. 22 Jul 1692, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts , d. 31 Aug 1692, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
3. Appleton Whipple, b. 19 Oct 1693, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
4. William Whipple, Captain, b. 28 Jan 1695/1696, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts , d. 17 Aug 1751, Kittery, York, Maine

Joanna died in 1696. Matthew married Martha Denison 11 Jun 1697, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. Martha was born about 1668, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, and died 12 Sep 1728, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.

Children of Martha and Matthew:
1. Joseph Whipple, Reverend, b. 31 Jul 1701, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts , d. 17 Feb 1757, Hampton Falls, Rockingham, New Hampshire
2. Martha Whipple, b. 7 Jan 1704, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts , d. 30 Jan 1704, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
3. Nathaniel Whipple, b. 2 Jul 1711, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
4. Martha Whipple, b. 2 Jul 1711, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts

Research Notes

• SLAVE: "He had a slave Pluto who was born in Africa, lived to age 107, and was eventually freed by Matthew. Pluto was living in Hamilton at the time of death." --B. Whipple, p. G9.

• Email from Beverly Huckins to Weldon Whipple, 1 Feb 2009 Cites/notes the Will of Major Matthew Whipple b 1658 d 1738, mentions son Appleton. Source states Major Whipple was the ancestor of two of the name of Oliver now residing in Hamilton. One of them, brother to Jonathan, deceased of Salem, is descended through his mother's ancestor who was Martha Whipple, the daughter of Nathaniel Whipple who was the son of Captn. John who was the son of Major Matthew. Major Matthew m Joanna Appleton by whom he had Matthew, John, Joanna, Appleton and William and afterwards m Martha Ringe, the granddaughter of General Daniel Dennison.

Sources

1. ↑ transcribed Ipswich town record: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L979-W7DN?i=58&cc=2061550&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3ADZ35-QF3Z.

• John Osborne Austin, in _One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families_ (Salem, Mass., 1893; reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977), p. 262.

• A Partial List of the Descendants of Matthew Whipple, the Elder, of Bocking, Essex County, England / Compiled from Divers Sources by Henry Burdette Whipple (High Point, North Carolina, Oct. 1965), p. 9.

• Dwane V. Norris, Whipple Family Tree (Jackson, Mich., 1996), p. 13.

• Blaine Whipple, History and Genealogy of "Elder" John Whipple of Ipswich, Massachusetts (Victoria, B.C.: Trafford, 2004), p. G5, G9.

• Lowell, Delmar Rial, The Historic Genealogy of the Lowells in America 1639 to 1899 NOTE Lowell, Delmar Rial. The Historic Genealogy of the Lowells in America 1639 to 1899. cd. Rutland, VT: Delmar Rial Lowell, 1899.

• Raymond Whipple Jr., The Whipples of Ipswich and Its Hamlet, 2d ed. (Beverly, MA: Minuteman Press, 2009), p. 13. Adds burial place.

• http://iwhipple.org/getperson.php?personID=I6065&tree=Whipple

• https://archive.org/stream/cogswellsinameri00jame/cogswellsinameri00jame_djvu.txt

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Andrew White for creating WikiTree profile Whipple-909 through the import of APW_2013-03-26.ged on Mar 26, 2013.