Commodore Abraham Whipple of the Continental Navy: Privateer, Patriot, Pioneer

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Notes Chapter 1. Rhode Island Beginnings 1. Whipple, A Brief Genealogy of the Whipple Families, 1–3; Herbert, “The Whipples : A History of the Whipple Family, 350 Years from Captain John Whipple to the Children of Eli Whipple,” 1–4; Whipple genealogical website; Bridenbaugh, Vexed and Troubled Englishmen, 1590–1642, 474. 2. Edmund S. Morgan, Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea, 64–71; Bridenbaugh , Vexed and Troubled Englishmen, 434–73. 3. Robert C. Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1633, 3: 1970–71; Ethel McLaughlin Turner, F. A. Stoughton, Paul B. Turner, et al., The English Ancestry of Thomas Stoughton, 1588–1661, and His Son Thomas Stoughton , 1624–1684, of Windsor, Connecticut, His Brother Israel Stoughton, 1603–1645, and His Nephew William Stoughton, 1631–1701, of Dorchester, Massachusetts (Waterloo, Wisc., 1958); Newton, “Captain John Whipple, 1617–1685, and His Descendants.” 4. McGuigan, The Antecedents and Descendants of Noah Whipple, of the Rogerene Community of Quakertown, Connecticut, 28; Bridenbaugh, Vexed and Troubled Englishmen , 203, 355–57; Morgan, Visible Saints, 7–9; Whipple, Brief Genealogy, 4–10; Herbert, “The Whipples,” 2–5. 5. Simpson, Puritanism in Old and New England, 10–14; Notestein, The English People on the Eve of Colonization, 69–70, 122–23, 146–58; Bridenbaugh, Vexed and Troubled Englishmen, 376–81. 6. Jernegan, Laboring and Dependent Classes in Colonial America (New York, 1931), 50–55. 7. McGuigan, Antecedents and Descendants, 28; Anderson, Great Migration Begins , 3: 1271; Newton, “Captain John Whipple,” 1–3. 8. McGuigan, Antecedents and Descendants, 28–29; Whipple, Brief Genealogy, 7–8; Anderson, Great Migration Begins, 3: 1971–72; Whipple Family Typescripts, microfilm (CS 69, F19), Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, 1–2. 9. Morgan, Roger Williams: The Church and the State, 33–45; S. James, Colonial Rhode Island, 13–19; Whipple, Brief Genealogy, 7–9. 10. James, Colonial Rhode Island, 18–24; McGuigan, Antecedents and Descendants , 28–29; Herbert, “The Whipples,” 6–8. 11. James, Colonial Rhode Island, 38–39, 67–72, 86; McGuigan, Antecedents and Descendants, 29. 12. Bartlett, ed., Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England (hereafter R.I. Colony Records), 2: 150, 241, 395, 532; McGuigan, Antecedents and Descendants, 29; Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, 3: 1971–72. 13. McGuigan, Antecedents and Descendants, 29–30, 266–67; Whipple, Brief Genealogy , 8–9. 14. Whipple, Brief Genealogy, 9–11; R.I. Colony Records, 2: 241–43; McGuigan, Antecedents and Descendants, 31; Herbert, “The Whipples,” 8–9. 15. McGuigan, Antecedents and Descendants, 35; Whipple genealogical website; R.I. Colony Records, 3: 429. In May 1701, the colony General Assembly had named Noah Whipple a grand juror. 16. McGuigan, Antecedents and Descendants, 37; Whipple genealogical website; Herbert, “The Whipples,” 9–20. Noah Whipple Jr. was made a freeman of Providence in October 1720. See R.I. Colony Records, 4: 289–90. 17. Morgan, The Puritan Family, 17–20, 87–90. 18. Caulkins, History of New London, Connecticut, 201–21; Bolles and Williams, The Rogerenes: Some Hitherto Unpublished Annals Belonging to the Colonial History of Connecticut; McGuigan, Antecedents and Descendants, 14–17. 19. Thayer, “Abraham Whipple’s Father Identified”; Haddon, Homespun Lore, 28–29. In July 1746, Noah sold his property in Providence to a kinsman, Joseph Whipple. See Whipple, A History of Captain John and Sarah Whipple of Dorchester, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island, 1617–1685, 218. Mary Whipple died on December 25, 1753. Dr. Charles M. Whipple to Sheldon S. Cohen, July 15, 2008. 20. Baker, “Vessel Types of Colonial Massachusetts”; Bernard Bailyn, “Communication and Trade”; James, Colonial Rhode Island, 50, 159–83. 21. McElroy, “Seafaring in Seventeenth-Century New England.” Nautical terms in this work are taken from McEwen and Lewis, Encyclopedia of Nautical Knowledge. 22. Bailyn, The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century, 18–19, 84–89, 95–96, 175–93; James, Colonial Rhode Island, 146–48, 156–85, 261–62. 23. Kimball, Providence in Colonial Times, 150–87, 204–6, 238–62, 279–80; James, Colonial Rhode Island, 284–86. 24. John Carter, printer, Providence Gazette and Weekly Journal, no. 1, 1762; James, Colonial Rhode Island, 267–71. 25. James, Colonial Rhode Island, 264–65; Kimball, Providence in Colonial Times, 278–80. 26. Vickers and Walsh, Young Men and the Sea: Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail, x, 67–78, 97–99, 137–38, 153–56; McGuigen, Antecedents and Descendants, 34. Christopher Whipple, born 1706, was a seasoned Providence sea captain and a cousin of Noah Whipple...