Daniel Whipple Family from Walpole As It Was and As It Is (1880)

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Surname: WHIPPLE
Source: Walpole As It Was and As It Is by George Aldrich, 
        The Claremont Manufacturing Co., Claremont, N.H., 1880, pages 381-382

WHIPPLE, DANIEL, came to this town from Grafton, Mass., in its very early settlement. He was an 
iron-founder, and had a foundry on the brook, west of the meeting-house, in the "hollow," where he had 
purchased a large tract of land. When he came to town, that portion where he settled, was one dense 
forest, and his wife always kept n stock of fire-brands ready to drive away bears from the premises, as 
that kind of gentry have an instinctive dread of fire. He married very young, Martha Adams, a cousin of 
John Adams, the second president. A silver spoon made from a tankard once belonging to President 
Adams, is now in the possession of one of Daniel Whipple’s grand-daughters, Mary Robinson. When 
they came to Walpole they were mere children; but they forced their way through all the hardships and 
privations incident to frontier life, living in a small hut that once stood near the Wellington place, getting 
their milling done somewhere near the Merriam place, and attending church in the first meeting-house 
that stood near J. W. Hayward’s residence. She, it is said, was a woman possessing great force of 
character and personal worth--always sympathizing with those in affliction and ready to lend a helping 
hand. He was born in 1750, and died Dec. 29, 1796. Ch.
I. Daniel, b. Jan. 18, 1777; m. Zerviah, dau. of Nathan Bandy, Sep. 25,1800 He had a son, 
Daniel, who m. Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Moore, and went to Lyndon, Vt.
II. Adams, b. Sep. 13, 1779; m. Huldah Howard, b. Sep. 3, 1780: d. in 1843. Ch. 1st, Harriet 
H., b. June 23, 1804; d. of spotted fever, in 1812. 2d, John Adams, b. Dec. 17, 1805; m. Ellen 
Carpenter, of Greene. 3d, Martha Adams, b. Jan. 22, 1808; d. of spotted fever, in 1811. 4th, 
James Duncan, b. May 16, 1810; d. of spotted fever in 1812. 5th, Maria, b. May 24, l813; m. 
Edwin Hosmer, of this town. (See Hosmer.) 6th, Nathaniel Grout, b. Feb. 18, 1815; m. Eliza 
Bickford, of Boston, and now lives in Belvidere, Ill. 7th, George Washington, b. Mar. 20, 
1818; m. Emily, dau. of George Bundy, and has 3 ch., two daughters and one son.
III. Andrew, b. Sep. 29, 1782; d. 1790.
IV. Polly, b. Sep 19, 1785: m. first, James Duncan, and had one child, Adeline, who m. Charles G. 
Livermore; m. second, Elisha Parks, and had 4 ch.
V. Luther, b. Nov. 24, 1788; d. 1790
VI. Betsey, b. July 18, 1791; m. Isaac Duncan, and went to New York State.
VII. Eben Waters, b. July 24, 1793, and is now living in Owego, N.Y.