General Notes

REFN: 6502AN
JOHN WHIPPLE
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1632
FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester
RE MOVES: Providence 1658
OCCUPATION: Carpenter [SLR 3:204]. Tavernkeeper, 1674 [ PrTR 4:8]. In 1669
John Whipple Sr. was paid 10s. to allow the town council t o meet at this
house [PrTR 3:148]. In 1670 the amount was raised to 20s. [PrT R 3:152].
FREEMAN: Oath of allegiance, 31 May 1666 [PrTR 3:101].
EDUCATION: H e signed his name to deeds [PrTR 3:100].
OFFICES: Deputy, General Court, 4 Sep tember 1666 [PrTR 3:85]. Petit jury,
19 October 1670 [PrTR 3:157].
Providenc e selectman, 1670, 1674, 27 April 1676 (moderator) [PrTR
3:150, 4:1, 8:11]. T reasurer, 1 June 1668 [PrTR 3:124]. Surveyor, 6 June
1670-71 [PrTR 3:152, 192 , 198, 201]. Committee to run the line, 27
January 1663[/4] [PrTR 3:47, 49]. Committee to consider building a new
town house [PrTR 3:4]. Jury, 12 May 1663 [PrTR 3:37]. Appointed to confer
about mending a bridge, 27 January 1664[/5] , 28 October 1667 [PrTR 3:59,
110]. Committee to arbitrate over fences, 2 Dec ember 1666 [PrTR 3:89].
Arbiter in the matter of the estate of Resolved Water man, deceased, 9
January 1700/1 [PrTR 6:103]. Committee to "demand & receive at every
garrison what was taken from the Indians," 7 September 1676 [PrTR 8: 14].
Committee to lay out a common, 27 April 1678 [PrTR 8:28].
ESTATE: On 2 January 1637[/8] John Whipple was granted eight acres in
Dorchester about the mill [DTR 27]. "John Whiplle" was the last of the
Dorchester proprietors to sign his name to an agreement submitting to
arbitration a dispute over the fe ncing and division of land [DTR 76, 79].
On 15 November 1658 "John Whiple of D orchester ... carpenter" sold to
George Minot of Dorchester "his now dwelling house and housements
scituate and being in Dorchester near the River Naponse t together with
thirty-seven acres of upland more or less thereto adjoining," also "eight
acres of salt marsh more or less lying near the place commonly c alled the
penny ferry"; "Sarah the wife of the said John Whiple" relinquished her
dower rights [SLR 3:204-05].
On 3 February 1661[/2] John Whipple Sr. pe titioned for a piece of land
next to his orchard, but his will was referred t o the next court [PrTR
3:9]. On 27 July 1662 John Whipple Sr. was permitted t o exchange sixty
acres at Mashapauge Pond for lands at Loquasqussuck [PrTR 3: 26]. These
lands were probably the eighty acres at Loquasqussuck laid out to him by
Thomas Harris Sr. on 13 April 1667 [PrTR 3:96].
On 23 November 1663 J ohn Whipple Sr. of Providence deeded to "my son
John Whipple" a houselot form erly owned by William Arnold excepting two
acres, two shares of meadow, six a cres of upland, sixty acres of land at
Loquasqussuck [PrTR 3:98-100].
On 19 February 1665[/6] John Whipple Sr. drew lot #45 in the division
of lands east of Seven Mile Line [PrTR 3:72]. On 13 November 1666 John
Whipple Sr. was gra nted permission to exchange his sixty acres at Tare
Breech Plain [PrTR 3:88].
On 24 February 1674 John Whipple Sr. gave a deed of gift to his "son
Elieze r Whipple" [PrTR 8:140]. On 12 April 1675 he drew lot #43 in the
lands on the west siDe of Seven Mile Line [PrTR 4:46]. On 27 January
1674/5 John Whipple Sr. was granted permission to change a fifty-acre
division of upland [PrTR 4: 18]. On 24 May 1675 he drew lot #91 in the
land on the east siDe of Seven Mil e Line [PrTR 4:47].
He was among those who "stayed and went not away" in 1676 and as such
was entitled to Indian slaves [PrTR 8:12].
On 6 June 1681 John W hipple Sr. was granted permission to exchange his
twenty-five acres at Goatum valley "which he bought of Mr. Benedict
Arnold" [PrTR 8:98].
On 4 March 168 3/4 John Whipple Sr. made a deed of gift to his "son
David Whipple" [PrTR 8:1 37].
In his will, dated 8 May 1682 and proved 27 May 1685, John Whipple Sr.
of Providence "being in a great measure of health ... having many
children & to prevent all differences that otherwise may he