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SGT Thomas Whipple

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SGT Thomas Whipple Veteran

Birth
Death
1833 (aged 80–81)
Burial
Tecumseh, Lenawee County, Michigan, USA Add to Map
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER

Whipple, Thomas, private. Placed on Pension Roll, May 3, 1819, at the age of 80 yrs. Service:--New Hampshire continental line. Pension began Apr. 21, 1818. Annual allowance $96.00. Sums received $1,425.32. Inscribed under Act of Congress passed Mar. 18, 1818. Remarks:--Transferred from Albany Co.


A Baptist minister. Husband of Rhoda Merrill Whipple; father (by a previous marriage) of Walter Whipple; father-in-law of Susan A. Donaldson Whipple; grandfather of Lothario D. Whipple. Born Connecticut 1752; in Connecticut Militia fighting in Vermont with Green Mountain Boys during Vermont's war of independence; Sergeant in Massachusetts Militia during American Revolutionary War. Left Connecticut due to religious intolerance; settled in Hanover, New Hampshire. In later years, apparently moved to Michigan to be near his son Walter, and died in 1833 while in Michigan.

Buried in McLain Cemetery, Raisin Twp


Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Vol.4, p. Serial: 8542; Volume: 4


Marked 1924, Lucy Wolcott Barnum Chapter, Adrian
REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER

Whipple, Thomas, private. Placed on Pension Roll, May 3, 1819, at the age of 80 yrs. Service:--New Hampshire continental line. Pension began Apr. 21, 1818. Annual allowance $96.00. Sums received $1,425.32. Inscribed under Act of Congress passed Mar. 18, 1818. Remarks:--Transferred from Albany Co.


A Baptist minister. Husband of Rhoda Merrill Whipple; father (by a previous marriage) of Walter Whipple; father-in-law of Susan A. Donaldson Whipple; grandfather of Lothario D. Whipple. Born Connecticut 1752; in Connecticut Militia fighting in Vermont with Green Mountain Boys during Vermont's war of independence; Sergeant in Massachusetts Militia during American Revolutionary War. Left Connecticut due to religious intolerance; settled in Hanover, New Hampshire. In later years, apparently moved to Michigan to be near his son Walter, and died in 1833 while in Michigan.

Buried in McLain Cemetery, Raisin Twp


Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Vol.4, p. Serial: 8542; Volume: 4


Marked 1924, Lucy Wolcott Barnum Chapter, Adrian


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