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Susanna Whipple

Female Abt 1661 - 1713  (~ 52 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Susanna Whipple was born about 1661; died on 4 Aug 1713 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

    Susanna married Col. John Lane on 20 Mar 1682 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. John (son of Job Lane and Anna Reyner) was born in May 1661 in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 17 Jan 1715 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Mary Lane  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 15 May 1686; died on 27 Mar 1783.
    2. 3. Martha Lane  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 1 Oct 1694 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 18 Jan 1734 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Mary Lane Descendancy chart to this point (1.Susanna1) was born on 15 May 1686; died on 27 Mar 1783.

    Notes:

    "[John Lane's] daughter Mary evidently inherited the martial spirit of her ancestors. During a season of Indian alarms, before her marriage, she was in her father's house in Bedford, with one soldier on guard, and looking from a window in the roof, she saw something suspicious behind a stump. The soldier declined to fire; she took his gun, discharged it, and a dead Indian rolled into sight." ["The Whitmores of Medford and Some of Their Descendants", Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8, at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2005.05.0008%3Achapter%3D16.]

    Mary married John Whitmore in 1706. John (son of John Whitmore and Rachel Eliot) was born on 27 Aug 1683 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 26 Mar 1753 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 4. Francis Whitmore  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 4 Oct 1714 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 27 Apr 1794 in Bowdoinham, Maine.

  2. 3.  Martha Lane Descendancy chart to this point (1.Susanna1) was born on 1 Oct 1694 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 18 Jan 1734 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: 18 Jan 1735

    Martha married Col. James Minot on 14 Nov 1716 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts. James (son of Capt. James Minot and Rebecca Wheeler) was born on 17 Oct 1694 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 6 Feb 1759 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in Hill Burying Ground, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 5. Rebecca Minot  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 5 May 1720 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 8 Oct 1761 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Francis Whitmore Descendancy chart to this point (2.Mary2, 1.Susanna1) was born on 4 Oct 1714 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 27 Apr 1794 in Bowdoinham, Maine.

    Notes:

    "Francis W. was engaged in business in Medford; but his too generous method of dealing embarrassed his affairs; and having, with Rev. Mr. Stone, purchased a township on the Kennebec, he removed thither with his oldest son, Stephen. He was engaged in shipping masts for the royal navy, an occupation which gave much offense to the squatters on the crown lands." [Record of the Descendants of Francis Whitmore of Cambridge, Massachusetts]

    Francis married Mary Hall on 1 Jan 1739. Mary (daughter of Lt. Stephen Hall and Elizabeth Fowle) was born about 1712; died on 20 Oct 1791. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 6. John Whitmore  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 25 Nov 1754 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 29 Nov 1820 in Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine.

  2. 5.  Rebecca Minot Descendancy chart to this point (3.Martha2, 1.Susanna1) was born on 5 May 1720 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 8 Oct 1761 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: 15 May 1720, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts

    Rebecca married Benjamin Prescott on 12 Aug 1741 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Benjamin (son of Rev. Benjamin Prescott and Elizabeth Higginson) was born on 29 Jan 1717 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 18 Aug 1778 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 7. Rebecca Prescott  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 20 May 1742 in Danvers, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 19 Apr 1813 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut.


Generation: 4

  1. 6.  John Whitmore Descendancy chart to this point (4.Francis3, 2.Mary2, 1.Susanna1) was born on 25 Nov 1754 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 29 Nov 1820 in Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine.

    Notes:

    "He was a pilot and was drowned in the Kennebec river through the treachery of another pilot, who saw him fall back in his boat and sailed away, leaving him without assistance. This man acknowledged it on his death bed." [Alice C. Ayres, "The Whitmores of Medford," citation details below.]

    John married Huldah Crooker on 12 Apr 1781. Huldah (daughter of Isaiah Crooker and Hannah Harding) was born on 8 May 1762 in Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine; died on 19 Feb 1812 in Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 8. William Dickman Whitmore  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 3 Nov 1781 in Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine; died on 17 Feb 1819 in Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine.

  2. 7.  Rebecca Prescott Descendancy chart to this point (5.Rebecca3, 3.Martha2, 1.Susanna1) was born on 20 May 1742 in Danvers, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 19 Apr 1813 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut.

    Notes:

    Also spelled Rebekah.

    Rebecca married Roger Sherman on 12 May 1763 in Danvers, Essex, Massachusetts. Roger (son of William Sherman and Mehetabel Wellington) was born on 19 Apr 1721 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 23 Jul 1793 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 9. Roger Sherman  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 16 Jul 1768 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 5 Mar 1856 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut.