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	Abraham Whipple - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abraham Whipple was born in 26 September to Noah Whipple, Jr.
		Whipple was commissioned a captain in the Continental Navy on 22 December and was given command of 24-gun frigate Columbus.
		Whipple remained a prisoner of the British until he was paroled to Chester, Pennsylvania, and he took no further part in the war.
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	AllRefer.com - Abraham Whipple (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Whipple commanded the party of Rhode Islanders that captured and burned the British revenue cutter Gaspee in Narragansett Bay in 1772, one of the most provocative instances of resistance to the British in the pre-Revolutionary period.
		Whipple, concealing the guns of his flagship, the Providence, hoisted the British flag and fell in with the fleet for several days.
		In 1780 he was charged with the naval defense of Charleston, S.C.; the city fell and Whipple was captured and held prisoner for the rest of the war.
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	Whipple II dd 217
		Whipple then shifted south for a brief cruise along the Levantine coast during which she visited Beirut and Damascus, Syria; and Port Said, Egypt, before she returned to Constantinople on 18 August.
		Whipple arrived at Singapore on 11 December and departed on the 14th, bound for the Netherlands East Indies.
		Whipple accordingly vacated the vicinity and subsequently rendezvoused with Pecos (AO-6) in the lee of Christmas Island to transfer the Army pilots to the oiler.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Whipple,
		Whipple, William WHIPPLE, WILLIAM [Whipple, William] 1730-85, political leader in the American Revolution, signer of the Declaration of Independence, b.
		Whipple, who had been a sea captain, was a merchant of Portsmouth, N.H., before he served as a delegate to the Continental Congress from New
		Whipple's disease: a review of 19 patients from one hospital and a review of the literature since 1950.
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	History of the USS Whipple
		Whipple was decommissioned at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, 9 November 1945.
		On 24 April 1967 the keel for the third USS Whipple (DE 1062) was laid at the Todd Shipyard in Seattle, Washington.
		Whipple was christened in the memory of Commodore Abraham Whipple of the Continental Navy and commissioned on 22 August 1970.
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	Abraham Whipple Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Abraham Whipple was raised in Providence, R.I. He went to sea at an early age, learning his craft in the West Indian trade.
		He was taken prisoner in the siege of Charleston and held at Chester, Pa., for the remainder of the war.
		Whipple moved to Marietta, Ohio, late in life and is buried there.
	www.clements.umich.edu /Webguides/Arlenes/UZ/WhippleA.html (0 words)

	William Whipple
		William Whipple was born at Kittery Maine, in 1730.
		Whipple was made a Council member, a member of the Committee of Safety, and was promptly elected to the Continental Congress.
		After the war Whipple was appointed an associate justice of the Superior Court of New Hampshire.
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	Part VI, Chapter 60. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The first shot of the Revolution on the water was fired by Captain Abraham Whipple when he chased a tender belonging to the British cruiser Rose, and captured her.
		Abraham Whipple was chosen as captain for the expedition.
		Whipple was never caught until 1778, when with his ship the Providence he tried to relieve Charleston, in South Carolina, which was at that time besieged by the British.
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		Bishop Whipple, along with Thomas Williamson and Stephen R. Riggs, often was exposed to threats and verbal abuse from white men who objected to their helping the Dakota.
		After an interview with Bishop Henry Whipple, President Abraham Lincoln told a visitor that Whipple "talked with me about the rascality of this Indian business, until I felt it down to my boots." Many think Bishop Whipple was a key factor in influencing the president to shorten the list of convicted Dakota.
		Henry B. Whipple was a well-born, articulate, highly educated bishop of Minnesota's Protestant Episcopal Church, who befriended many Native Americans in his career as a missionary.
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		"Abraham Whipple."1 This incident shows the kind of stuff from which Henry Hastings Sibley came, on his maternal great-grandfather's side.
		The claim of Captain Whipple to the honor of firing the first gun of the Eevolution,upon the water, is conceded by all critical historians.2 His little fleet of eight boats was the "embryo squadron" of the Continental Navy.
		2 " To Captain Abraham Whipple is due the honor of discharging the first gun upon the ocean, at any part of his Majesty's navy in the American Revolution." " The Lexington of the Seas was the affair of June 10,1772." Arnold's Hist.
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	The Builder Magazine - July 1925
		CAPTAIN ABRAHAM WHIPPLE'S fame has been somewhat overshadowed by that of his brother William Whipple, who was one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence; this is unfortunate because Captain Abraham Whipple was one of the true heroes of the Revolutionary period.
		Abraham Whipple was the third captain to be appointed in the original (Colonial) Navy of the United States.
		In 1780 Captain Whipple sailed to Charleston, in order to help relieve that city then being besieged by the enemy, but was met by Sir Henry Clinton with a larger and better armed fleet, who captured Whipple's vessels and held that good sailor prisoner until the end of the war.
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		Abraham Whipple (1733-1819) became a captain of a merchant vessel early in life, and then served as captain of the privateer Gamecock, which captured twenty-three French ships in the French and Indian War.
		It includes one contemporary letter book written in the hand of Whipple or a secretary; and one folder of letters copied in 1853 by an historian.
		Three Whipple items dated 1775 are part of the Stephen Hopkins Collection: the instructions of the Rhode Island Committee to Capt. Whipple of the sloop Katy, and two letters of marque and reprisal from Stephen Hopkins to Capt. Whipple.
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	The Court Martial of Abraham Whipple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A Court Martial ordered by Esek Hopkins, Commander in Chief of the American Fleet, was held on board ALFRED at Providence in the Colony of Rhode Island on 6 May 1776, at his own desire, to inquire into the conduct of Abraham Whipple Esqr.
		Abraham Whipple told the court that his character stood aspersed for cowardice on board the Columbus in action with the Glasgow.
		He declared that for want of wind and by means of the Glasgow firing stern guns together with his firing bow guns, and now and then a broadside, he was unable to make his attack closer than he did.
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	The Revolutionary War
		The names of the men who had rowed out to the ship so soundlessly that night were kept secret and no one ever claimed the reward offered by the British for information leading to their capture.
		On June 15, 1775, Captain Abraham Whipple attacked the HMS Rose in his sloop, made her run aground on Conanicut Island, and captured her.
		Whipple was exonerated by Congress in July, Hopkins in August of that year.
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	DD-217 DANFS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		As she headed for Tjilatjap, on the south coast of Java, she was struck a glancing blow by the Dutch light cruiser De Ruter.
		At 1358, the task at hand completed, Whipple backed off and stood out to destroy the derelict, opening fire at 1429 with her 4-inch main battery.
		After interrupting the proceedings to conduct an unsuccessful attack on a submarine lurking in the area, she returned to the task and continued the search until she had received 231 men from the oiler.
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	The Battle of Charleston
		In December 1779, 4 frigates had arrived under the command of Commodore Abraham Whipple and were joined by 4 ships from South Carolina and 2 French ships.
		Whipple chose to first withdraw to the mouth of the Cooper River.
		When Whipple saw the size of the British attack fleet, he scuttled most of his ships along with a few merchant ships at the mouth of the harbor in the Cooper River to obstruct that waterway.
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	Photo Album of Charles M. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Whipple Superchargers is proud to introduce its whipple new supercharger registry.
		Also called a pancreaticoduodenectomy, whipple supercharger which is generally the removal of the gallbladder, common bile duct, part of the duodenum, and the head of the pancreas.
		It is meant only to educate health jonathan whipple care professionals and patients about the current status of treatment and research in pancreas cancer at Hopkins..
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	John B. Hopkins
		Dudley Saltonstall, and the Columbus, Capt. Whipple, the brig Andrew Doria, Capt. Nicholas Biddle, and the Cabot, Capt.
		Whipple in the Columbus, could not get into action for want of wind, which was light and baffling, sufficiently near to afford much aid, or the Glasgow would have been captured.
		On his way back, Capt. Whipple fell in with, and made prize of the bomb ship of the British fleet, which had long been a terror to the people of Newport.
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	Ashland Daily Tidings :: Online Edition
		Whipple steered a zigzag course, carefully staying out of range of the warship’s cannons.
		Whipple sent this reply: “Sir, always catch your man before you hang him.” Thanks to close-mouthed Yankee patriots, no one was ever punished for the crime.
		John Brown and Abraham Whipple had successfully defied the powerful British navy and the government that backed it.
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	First Navy
		Abraham Whipple, commander, with the rank and power of commodore of both vessels.
		Three days later the sloop Katy, under the command of Captain Whipple, Commodore of the Rhode Island Navy, did capture the sloop Diana, a tender to the British Frigate Rose, in the first official naval action against the English.
		Captain Abraham Whipple was in the employment of Brown, so Brown was ready with both ship and crew.
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	Namesake Partnership - City of Providence - USS Providence SSN-719
		The General Assembly appointed Abraham Whipple, who had won fame in the burning of British armed schooner Gaspee in 1772, commander of Katy, the larger ship, and made him commmodore of the tiny fleet.
		Captain Whipple assumed command of Columbus, a larger ship; and Captain John Hazard was placed in command of Providence, later formalized by a commission from Congress dated 9 January 1776.
		Once Whipple's ships had completed this task, they were to move south and clear the Carolina coast of enemy shipping before sailing North to Rhode Island to perform a similar service.
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	Biography of Captain Benjamin Page
		He became a very close friend and admirer of Commodore Abraham Whipple and served with him several times during the American Revolution.
		After a cruise off of South Carolina in the winter of 1780 the small American fleet was sunk by the British in the region of Charleston in May 1780.
		Abraham Whipple), but Benjamin Page claims to have "obtained my parole" (prisoner exchange).
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	The Patriot Resource: Siege of Charleston
		In December 1779, four frigates had arrived under the command of Commodore Abraham Whipple and were joined by four ships from South Carolina and two French ships.
		General Lincoln questioned Commodore Whipple's conclusion, but Whipple was backed up by a naval board.
		When Whipple saw the size of the British attack fleet, he scuttled the ships at the entrance of the river.
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	USS Providence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Transferred to Boston to seek a crew, Providence sailed from Boston 18 June 1779 as flagship of Commodore Abraham Whipple, cruising eastward in company with Ranger and Queen of France.
		In the early morning of mid-July, the squadron was in a dense fog off the banks of Newfoundland and fell in with a Jamaican fleet of some 150 sails.
		Providence, with other ships of Commodore Whipple's Squadron remained for the defense of Charleston and was one of the ships taken by British when that city fell, 12 May 1780.
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	Marc Bernier Music and Songs
		Of the ten prizes taken by Whipple in succssive nights, nine arrived safely into Massachusetts harbors.
		"Old Whipple" is Abraham Whipple, one of the Rhode Island Vikings.
		After the war he went out with Abraham Cutter to Marietta, and he is thus one of the founders of the State of Ohio.
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	Rhode Islanders and the U.S. Navy
		The adventures of Abraham Whipple, leader of the Rhode Island rebels that burned the British schooner GASPEE, are the stuff of legend in American naval history.
		It was Captain Whipple who also commanded the KATY, the ship that won the first official naval battle of the revolution.
		There was Silas Talbot, who, while patrolling the Sakonnet River, performed the unique feat of successfully attacking the British schooner PIGOT by impaling the jib boom of his ship (the small coastal sloop HAWKE) into the PIGOT's rigging to hold her tight.
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	University of Rochester Medical Center - A Message From the Dean
		David Guzick, M.D., Ph.D. The first Dean of the Medical School, Nobel Laureate George Hoyt Whipple, M.D., came to Rochester in 1921 to put a revolutionary concept into practice.
		Whipple supervised the design, construction and staffing of the School of Medicine and Dentistry and Strong Memorial Hospital according to what was then a new framework advanced by medical-school pioneer Abraham Flexner.
		Whipple's vision, built on the philanthropy of George Eastman, was a school and a hospital under one roof that integrated basic science and clinical practice.
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	USS Whipple (FF 1062)
		USS WHIPPLE was the eleventh KNOX - class frigate and the third ship in the Navy named after Commodore Abraham Whipple of the Continental Navy.
		Equipped with new boilers, the frigate lit off her new boilers for the first time since she was decommissioned on September 30, 2005.
		The photo below was contributed by Jeffrey R. Smith and shows the WHIPPLE during her seatrials prior to transfer to the Mexican Navy in 2005.
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	Abraham Clark
		Land attorney; High Sheriff of Essex County, NJ.; Member of New Jersey Provincial Congress; Elected to the Continental Congress, 1776 ~1784.
		Abraham Clark was born into the life of a farmer at what is now Elizabeth, New Jersey.
		His father saw an aptitude for mathematics and felt that he was too frail for the farm life and so young Abraham was tutored in mathematics and surveying.
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	Private Anthony Remington, Continental Marine
		Anthony Remington aged sixty three years, resident Tolland county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: As a Marine under Capt. Duval on board The Frigate Providence of 36 Guns.
		Commander Abraham Whipple, Commander for the term of twelve months on this.
		I was on board said Frigate in New Port Harbor when the British took possession of New Port and drove us up the river where continued on Guard ship until the expiration of my enlistment ~ afterward I served in the Militia every year until 1781.
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	Naval History Magazine: The Log of Matthew Roving—Episode 7: The Letter Bomb by Don Wallace
		His lazy grace and simple freedom were the envy of Matthew, who was on his aching knees and scrubbing the wooden deck with a rough cloth wrapped around a stone in an ever-spreading puddle of dirty water.
		Ever since the longboat bearing Abraham Whipple back to his ship had departed, Matthew had known little of peace and nothing of repose.
		As soon as Whipple's longboat had rowed out of earshot, and indeed out of sight in the troughs of the heaving blue-green swells, Nicky had come from the shadows to take the first, heavy, official package of letters, which Whipple had handed to Matthew.
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