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He died
12 Feb 1678 at the age of 68
in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. His parents
were John and Isabel (Moses). The first Tripp to come to America
has been appropriately tagged "The Founder," because
he is the ancestor of most of us. An early Twentieth Century
Tripp family author, Carolyn Valentine, may have first tagged
him " The Founder" (Reference
#1 and Reference
#2).
By his own hand, he wrote that he had 11 brothers and sisters,
so
he
evidently
did
not
have
much to
start with. For
that reason he indentured himself to Randall Holden so that
he could learn the carpenter trade. He was admitted as an
inhabitant of the
island of Aquidneck (Newport, Middletown & Portsmouth,
RI), and on April 30,
1638 signed a compact with twenty-eight others as follows: "We
whose names are underwritten do acknowledge ourselves the
legal subjects
of His Majesty King Charles, and in his name do hereby bind
ourselves into a civil body politic, unto his laws according
to Our desire is to build a "web of intrique" for researching the surname of Tripp. However, we need some help to continually update this site. We have four individuals who have compiled some very good data, they are Margaret Buckridge Bock, Dale Thompson, Herman Tripp and Paul L. Tripp - Your input, comments and most of all documented Tripp information sent to them is always appreciated. Tripp DNA Project The Tripp DNA Project was organized in October 2005 by a group of John Tripp descendants who wanted to prove their lineage by DNA testing. All Tripps are welcome to participate. As you review this data you will notice
that there are some missing children, marriages, documentation
and biographical
data within some of these generations. This is where we hope
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may give
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the documentation we need.
We
will also include web pages of Tripp lines which may or may
not be linked to John Tripp of Portsmouth. These web pages
would
cover such lines as Sylvanus Tripp of Maine, Nicholas Tripp
of North
Carolina, Ann Tripp - Sister of John Tripp of Portsmouth and
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Within
these pages you will find the Descendants of John and Mary (Paine)
Tripp of Portsmouth, RI. he was born 6 February 1610 in
Horkstow, Lincolnshire, England.
matters
of justice". Records show that he accumulated land in
Dartmouth, (that he purchased from John Alden), land in Narragansett,
land in Westerly and land on Hog Island. Hog Island got
its name
from the
fact, that all of the hogs that were not controlled by their
owners by fences or buildings were hauled over and turned
loose on Hog
Island! I don't know what John did with them, when he started
farming the
island! I guess this was the first Tripp to raise pigs in
this country! John Tripp was active in several aspects of
the government,
including
Commissioner. He was Deputy for the following years: 1648,
1654, 1655, 1658, 1661, 1662, 1663, 1664, 1666, 1667, 1668,
1669, and
1672. He left in his will various lands, buildings plus orchards,
and fencing.
John Tripp married Mary Paine in 1639 and during the next
21 years had, and then reared eleven children. 
