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Mercy "Mary" Whipple
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Name Mercy "Mary" Whipple Born 15 Mar 1721 Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island 
Gender Female Person ID I389 Whipple Descendants Last Modified 18 Nov 2009
Father William Whipple, Jr., Captain, b. Abt 1691, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island , d. 16 Nov 1776, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island (Age ~ 85 years) Mother Elizabeth Sprague, b. 26 May 1694, Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts , d. Aft 1735 (Age > 42 years) Married Abt 1713 Family ID F320 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family David Arnold, b. Abt 1710, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island , d. 1 Feb 1786, Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island (Age ~ 76 years) Married 9 Feb 1745 Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island Children + 1. Elisha Arnold, b. 1754, Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island , d. 27 May 1838, Adams, Berkshire, Massachusetts (Age 84 years)2. Stephen Arnold, b. Aft 1756, of, Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island 3. David Arnold, b. of, Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island 4. Eleazer Arnold, b. of, Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island 5. Daniel Arnold, b. of, Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island 6. Abigail Arnold, b. of, Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island 7. Martha Arnold, b. of, Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island Last Modified 27 Feb 2021 Family ID F327 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map 
Born - 15 Mar 1721 - Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island 
Married - 9 Feb 1745 - Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - !SOURCE: Henry E. Whipple, A Brief Genealogy of the Whipple Families Who Settled in Rhode Island (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1873), p. 48. From a corrected copy of the book found in the Rhode Island Historical Society Library, call no. CS71.W574 1873 RIHSL.
!BIRTH: Email from Joanne Lahr-Kreischer to the Whipple Web Site, January 1998, citing Vital Records of Smithfield, RI, Council Book #1, Pages 445-447, gives birth year 1725.
!SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol. 3, Smithfield, Part 6 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1892), p. 120 gives birth 15 Mar 1721; p. 11 and 78 list entries for the marriage of Mary and Mercy to David Arnold.
!SOURCE: "Records of Old Smithfield," in The Narragansett Historical Register: A Magazine Devoted to the Antiquities, Genealogy and Historical Matter Illustrating the History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, ed. by James N. Arnold (Hamilton, R.I.: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co.; Central Falls, R.I.: E.L. Freeman) Vol. VIII (1889), p. 214-215. Extracted by Beth Hurd and submitted to the Whipple Website 21 Mar 2003. Records marriage of "Whipple, Mary, and David Arnold; Feb. 9, 1745"; also "Whipple, Mercy, and David Arnold; Feb. 9, 1745."
!SOURCE: Mail from Charles M. Whipple, Jr., to Weldon Whipple, 8 Dec 2006. Gives name Mercy Whipple.
!SOURCE: The Arnold Family of Smithfield, Rhode Island, by Richard H. Benson (Boston: Newbury Street Press, 2009; ISBN 978-0-88082-221-3), p. 290-92. Gives name Mercy "Mary" Whipple.
- !SOURCE: Henry E. Whipple, A Brief Genealogy of the Whipple Families Who Settled in Rhode Island (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1873), p. 48. From a corrected copy of the book found in the Rhode Island Historical Society Library, call no. CS71.W574 1873 RIHSL.