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The earliest "connected" Whipples we know
about are two families that date from the 15th-17th centuries in Great
Britain. (Prior to 2006, we could trace them only to the 16th century.) Representatives of both families migrated to New England (in
America) in the 1620s and 1630s.
- Thomas Whipple, earliest known
"connected" Whipple
- Thomas is new to the Whipple Website, added at Christmas 2006. (What
a great Christmas present!) He is the proposed grandfather of the
previous earliest known connected Whipple, "Elder" Matthew
Whipple of Bocking, Essex County, England. Thomas lived in Bishop's
Stortford, Hertfordshire, 22.8 miles west of Bocking (a 36 minute
drive on today's highway A120).
- (Thomas' connection was proposed by William
Wyman Fiske in fall 2006.)
Two of Thomas' great grandsons, the brothers Matthew and John
Whipple, sailed from England to America, landing in Ipswich,
Massachusetts, in 1638.
- "Captain" John Whipple, earliest
known
"Rhode Island" Whipple
- John was the first ancestor of present-day American
Whipples to arrive in the New World. He landed at Dorchester,
Massachusetts, in1632 (or 1631 or 1630)
as a teenager. Initially indentured to Israel Stoughton, he soon became a
"freeman," married, and began raising his family in
Dorchester. He moved with his family to
Providence, Rhode Island, in 1658. We haven't yet identified his
parents.
Information about these families appears elsewhere
on this site. See (for example):
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