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John's birthplace is speculated in several locations, Milford, Pembroke, Wales or Milford, Surry, England. His recorded immigration lists John Whipple of Bocking, Essex County, England, in 1632, as a passenger on a ship called "The Lyon", with Mr. William Peirce as Master. "The Lyon" sailed from London, June 22, 1632 and arrived September 16, 1632 at Boston. On 3 Oct. 1632 John was ordered to give3s. 4d. to his master Israel Stoughton for wasteful expenditure of powder and shot. John married Sarah (They or Darling ?) about 1639. She was born 1624 and died 1666, according to her gravestone. His house was near what is now called Neponset. He removed to Ipswich and became a proprietor of that town in 1638. His brother, Matthew Whipple, also settled at Ipswich and was the ancestor of many Essex County and New Hampshire families. John Whipple returned to Dorchester and was a freeman and deputy to the general court, May 13, 1640. He was one of the court's commissioners of valuation in 1640. He was engaged in trade with William Paine and others in 1647. He had the rank of cornet in the military service. He was a town officer of Dorchester. He and his wife joined the Dorchester church, in 1641. In 1658, John sold his house and some 40 or 50 acres of land in Dorchester, Massachusetts, to James Minot, and soon after moved with his family to Providence, Rhode Island. Land was granted to him in Providence on July 27, 1659, and drew lot 45 as proprietor February 19, 1665. He took the oath of allegiance in 1666. He was a deputy from Providence to the general assembly in 1666-69-70-72-74-76-77. He was licensed to keep a tavern at Providence in 1674. He was treasurer of the town from 1668 to 1683; town clerk 1670-71-72-76-77-81-82-83. He was in the Providence town council in 1669. He was virtually a resident of Providence after 1659. He refused to abandon his home during King Philip's War and was one of those entitled to the Indian prisoners, who were sold for a term of years to the planters. John Whipple died May 16, 1685, at Providence, aged about sixty-eight years, according to his gravestone there. John sold land in Ipswich on May 31, 1673.
John and Sarah had the following children:
John, baptized March 9, 1640, married, December 4, 1663, Mary Olney;
Sarah, baptized February 6, 1641-42,married John Smith, Jr.;
Samuel, baptized March 17, 1644;
Eleazer, baptize d March 8, 1646;
Mary, baptized April 9, 1648, married Epenctus Olney;
William , born 1652, baptized May 16, 1652, married Mary (???);
Benjamin, baptized June 4, 1654, married, April 1,1686, Ruth Mathewson;
David, baptized September 28, 1656, married, May15, 1675, Sarah Harndon; married (second) Hannah Tower;
Abigail, born at Providence, married, January 16, 1682, William Hopkins, son of ThomasHopkins;
Joseph, born at Providence, married, May 20, 1 684, Alice Smith;
Jonathan, born 1664, died September 8, 1721; married Margaret Angell, married (second) Anne (???).
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Davis Uriah I | Born 1707
Abt 1617 - 1685 (~ 68 years)