Benjamin Whipple

1688 - 1786  (97 years)

• Name	Benjamin Whipple
  Birth	11 Nov 1688	Providence, Providence, Rhode Island   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	1784  [5]
  Death	27 Apr 1786	Rhode Island   [6]
  Person ID	I43541	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	26 Sep 2025

  
  

  Father	Benjamin Whipple,   b. Bef 4 Jun 1654   d. 11 Mar 1704 (Age > 49 years)
  Mother	Ruth Mathewson   d. Aft 12 Apr 1704
  Marriage	1 Apr 1686  [7, 8]
  Family ID	F25440	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Esther Millard,   b. 23 Aug 1710, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts
  Marriage	25 Dec 1734	Providence, Providence, Rhode Island   [9]
  Notes	The citation for this marriage's date and place is to a problematic record. First, it's outside the stated chronological range of the database; second, the record itself is a transcription; third, while the aforementioned transcription says (believably) that the marriage took place in Providence, Rhode Island, familysearch.org's transcription of the transcribed record says, absurdly, "Palatine, Montgomery, New York." We suspect an error generated by a fumbled autocomplete.
  Children	+ 1. Benedict Whipple,   b. 12 Oct 1739, North Providence, Providence, Rhode Island d. 16 Jun 1819, Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island (Age 79 years)
  Family ID	F25438	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Sep 2025

  
  

• Notes

  It is said that at age 75, he accidentally spilled hot shoemaker's wax on one foot, burning it so severely that it had to be amputated. If we are to believe these records, he nevertheless lived to be nearly 100 years old.

  
  

• Sources

  [S8641] Find a Grave page for Benjamin Whipple., date only. [S7656] Rhode Island Town Births and Baptisms Index, 1639-1932, on familysearch.org. [S8643] Whipple family Bible record, transcribed with provenance on familysearch.org., date only. [S679] The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island by John Osborne Austin. Albany, New York; 1887. Corrected edition, including corrections by John Osborne Austin and material by G. Andrews Moriarty from The American Genealogist. Baltimore: Genealogicical Publishing Co., 1969, 1978., date only. [S8641] Find a Grave page for Benjamin Whipple. [S8642] Evidently mistranscribed entry in Rhode Island, Town Deaths and Burials Index, 1639-1932 on familysearch.org. The attached image is of a typed transcript of a Whipple family bible and gives the death date as given here. [S679] The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island by John Osborne Austin. Albany, New York; 1887. Corrected edition, including corrections by John Osborne Austin and material by G. Andrews Moriarty from The American Genealogist. Baltimore: Genealogicical Publishing Co., 1969, 1978. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S8644] Rhode Island, Vital Records, 1846-1898, 1901-1955, on familysearch.org.