Deen, Fordice, Hallett, Hodges and Van Horn Families - Person Sheet
Deen, Fordice, Hallett, Hodges and Van Horn Families - Person Sheet
NameElder John Whipple
Birth29 Aug 1596, Bocking, Essex, England
Death30 Jun 1669, Ipswich, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Spouses
BirthEngland
Deathaft 13 Jul 1661, Ipswich, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay
ChildrenSarah (1642-1681)
Notes for Elder John Whipple
11 children born to this marriage

01 :
Susanna Whipple
b. 1 July 1622 Bocking, Essex, England
m. Lionel Worth

02 :
John Whipple
b. 11 Jan 1623/24 Bocking, Essex, England
d. 4 Aug 1624, age 8 mo. England

03 :
Capt John Whipple
b. 21 Dec 1625, Bocking, Essex, England
bz. 25 Dec 1625

d. 10 Aug 1683, age 58, America
04 :
Elizabeth Whipple
b. 1 Nov 1627, Bocking, Essex, England
m. 1647 Anthony Potter
d. 15 Dec 1648, age 21, America

05 :
Matthew Whipple
b. 7 Oct 1628, Bocking, Essex, England
d. 12 Oct 1634, age 6, England

06 :
William Whipple
b. 12 Oct 1631 Bocking , Essex, England
d. 4 Jun 1641, age 10, England

07 :
Anne Whipple
b. 2 Jun 1633 Bocking, Essex, England
d. 4 May 1634, age 1, England

08 :
Mary Whipple
b. 20 Feb 1634 Bocking, Essex, England
m. 1656 to Simon Stone
d. 2 Jun 1720, age 86, America

09 :
Judith Whipple
b. Aug 1636, Bocking, Essex, England or Ipswich, MA
d. 17 Feb 1637/38, age 6 mo. England or Ipswich, MA

10 :
Matthew Whipple
b. 17 Feb 1637/38, Bocking ,Essex, England or Ipswich, MA`
d. 30 Mar 1637/38, age 1 yr, England or Ipswich, MA

11 :
Sarah Whipple
b. 3 Nov 1641, Ipswich MA
m. 13 Jul 1661 to Joseph Goodhue
d. 23 Jul 1681, age 40, Ipswich MA, America

John Whipple was baptized on 29 Aug 1596 in Bocking, Essex, England, the son of Matthew Whipple & Joan ???. John Whipple married in Bocking, Essex, England to Susanna about 1620.

John & Susanna had 11 children born to them. It would appear that 10 children were born in Bocking England. Of the children born in England , only 2 children survived beyond the age of 21. These were Capt John Whipple who was about age 13 when the family came to Ipswich MA, Elizabeth Whipple age 11, and Mary Whipple who was about age 6 when the family reached Ipswich MA. Mary Whipple married Simon Stone in Ipswich MA and lived to age 86. Elizabeth Whipple married Anthony Potter but died at age 21.

John & Susanna Whipple emigrated to America along with his brother Matthew Whipple and family, some time between 1636 and 1638, settling in Ipswich MA; which John & Susanna Whipple made their permanent home.

John Whipple became a “Freeman” in Ipswich MA in 1640. John & Susanna Whipple became members of the First Congregational Church of Ipswich MA, where in time, he rose to the respected Office of “Ruling Elder.”

Elder John and Susanna Whipple made their home in Ipswich MA. Of the 10 children born to them in England, only 3 children had survived to begin their home in the New World. The 11th and last child, Sarah Whipple, was a gifted person with a talent for writing. Sarah Whipple, known for her piety and intelligence, may have been among the first of the noted Women Writers in America .

Elder John Whipple served as a Deputy to the General Court in 1642, 46, 50, and 1654. Elder Whipple also had extensive land holdings in the Ipswich area. It is recorded that when daughter Sarah married Joseph Goodhue on 13 Jul 1661, Deacon William Goodhue and Elder John Whipple drew up an instrument giving their newly married children a house and lands in Chebacco parish of Ipswich MA.

After more than 40 years of marriage, Susanna Whipple died some time after 13 Jul 1661, in Ipswich MA. Elder John Whipple remarried after 1662 to the Widow Janet Dickinson. Janet Dickinson Whipple died in Ipswich MA on 30 Jan 1666/67. Elder John Whipple died in Ipswich MA on 30 Jun 1669, age 73 years.

The Whipple House in which Elder John & Susanna Whipple made their home in Ipswich; was purchased in modern times by the “Ipswich Historical Society”, and is occupied by the Society.

Sources
All of the information about this couple comes from Howard Judson Wilcox, Jr. He sites the following sources:
“Ipswich in the MA Bay Colony 1622-1700” by Thomas F Watson; Ipswich Historical Society, pub 1905
“The Goodhue Family in England & America” by Rev Jonathan E Goodhue, pub 1891
“Matthew Whipple of Bocking England and Descendants” by Henry Whipple, pub 1965
“Ipswich Vital Records”, 2 volumes.
“History of the Kimball Family in America 1634-1890” by Leonard A Morrison & Stephen P Sharples, 2 volumes, pub 1897
“Genealogy Connecticut”, 4 volumes, pub 1911, “Genealogical & Family History of the State of CT”, page 1330 Goodhue; pgs 799,1692 Kimball; Whipple Ancestry
Last Modified 3 Mar 2019Created 28 Sep 2020 Anthony Deen