Benjamin Tripp^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]}

1678 - 1754  (76 years)

• Name	Benjamin Tripp  [1, 7]
  TRIPP LINEAGE - 3RD GENERATION - John Tripp 1611-1678	1600  [7]
  	GEN3: BENJAMIN TRIPP [3], (John2, John1)
  Birth	21 Feb 1678	Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, USA   [2]
  	Portsmouth, RI Vital Records, page 62 [Film #: 4250610, image: 119]; FamilySearch.org. Birth records of John Tripp and Susanna Anthony's children
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  Gender	Male
  Will	10 Nov 1753	Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA   [3]
  Probate	1754	Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA   [3]
  Death	2 Jul 1754	Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA   [3]
  Person ID	I342223137042	Tripp Family Genealogical Website | John Tripp 2

  
  

  Father	John Tripp,   b. 1640, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, USA d. 20 Nov 1719, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts USA (Age 79 years)
  Mother	Susanna Anthony,   b. 1644, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, USA d. 1716, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, USA (Age 72 years)
  Marriage	07 Sep 1665	Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, USA   [8, 9, 10]
  	Portsmouth, RI Vital Records, page 62 [Film #: 4250610, image: 119]; FamilySearch.org. Marriage Record of John Tripp and Susanna Anthony
  Family ID	F29831	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Potter,   b. Abt 1680, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA d. 10 Dec 1731, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA (Age 51 years)
  Marriage	31 Jul 1707	Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, USA   [2]
  	Portsmouth, Rhode Island Vital Records, page 150 [Film #: 4250610, image: 168]; FamilySearch.org. Marriage Record for Benjamin Tripp (son of John Tripp) and Elisabeth Potter (daughter of Nathaniel Potter)
  Children	1. Katherine Tripp,   b. 17 May 1708, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA d. 1751 (Age 42 years)   2. Benjamin Tripp,   b. 15 Nov 1709, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, USA d. Abt. 1797, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA (Age 87 years)   3. Nathaniel Tripp,   b. 27 Feb 1711, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, USA d. 22 Oct 1790, Westport, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA (Age 79 years)   4. Lydia Tripp,   b. 31 Oct 1714, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA d. Bef. 24 Apr 1797, Bristol County, Rhode Island, USA (Age 82 years)   5. Rebecca Tripp,   b. 01 May 1717, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA d. Bef. 24 Apr 1797, Bristol County, Massachusetts (Age 79 years)   6. Elizabeth Tripp,   b. 06 May 1722, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA d. Aft. 24 Apr 1797, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA (Age 74 years)   7. Stokes Tripp,   b. 13 May 1725, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA d. 1797, Westport, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA (Age 71 years)
  Family ID	F24851	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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• Notes

  References: Randall, Joseph manuscript from the New Bedford Library, 9th Cousin Breffni Whelan, descendant specializes on John's descendants. Bock: His will, dated 10 November 1753 and pr 2 July 1754, named wife and son Nathaniel as executors, but the wife renounced on 28 June 1754. Mentioned were sons Benjamin, Nathaniel, and Stokes and Daughter Catherine Tripp, Lydia Tripp, Bebecca Tripp and Elizabeth Gifford. The inventory on same day was L106.01.06. He bequeathed his homestead equally to sons Nathaniel and Stokes ( Bristol Probate Rec 14:117-23). After the death of Nathaniel in 1790, his heirs and Stokes made a division of the farm ( Bristol Land Rec., 13:75-7). After the death of Stokes, Nathaneil's two daughters purchased his part of the farm from the heirs of Benjamin Tripp, Catherine Tripp and Elizabeth Gifford (ibid 14:499ff). He was a freeman of the colony from Portsmouth on May 1, 1706 (Casey 55) and was possibly the Benjamin who was master mate of Sloop "Revenge" out of Newport (Joseph Jencks Smith, " Civil and Military List of Rhode Island, 1647-1800 (Providence 1900 2:691). Sometime between the births of Nathaniel and Lydia, Benjamin and family moved from Portsmouth to Dartmouth, Massachusetts, where he owned some of the former Alden land (Valentine 147). Benjamin Tripp of Portsmouth Rhode Island purchased from Jeremiah Devil [sic] of Dartmouth 12 acres of land with house in Dartmouth on March 2, 1712/3 (Bristol LR1:382-3. Still of Dartmouth, a weaver, he purchased 10 acres land from Devel on March 27, 1713 (ibid 1:384-6. On 19 July 1715, now of Dartmouth, yeoman, he purchased 3 1/2 acres land from Nathaniel Soule of Dartmouth (ibid 2:491-2), and in 1718, a weaver, he purchased further land from Thomas Cornell of Dartmouth ( ibid, 489-90). (VR 1:62, 2:150; Arnold 4:46,102 [m,b]; Austin; Bruce Thompson; IGI RI [m];Potter Genealogies [Boston 1888] part 8:1, mar as 1709).

  
  

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