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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New HampshireWilliam WHIPPLE
(1730-1785)
WHIPPLE, William, a
Delegate from New Hampshire; born in Kittery, York County, Maine,
January 14, 1730; became a sailor and engaged in the slave trade;
freed his slaves and engaged in mercantile pursuits in Portsmouth,
N.H.; delegate to the Provincial Congress at Exeter in 1775; Member
of the Continental Congress 1776-1779; declined to be a candidate
for renomination; one of the signers of the Declaration of
Independence; commissioned a brigadier general in 1777; member of
the State assembly 1780-1784; participated in several battles in
the Revolutionary War; appointed judge of the State supreme court
in 1782; financial receiver for New Hampshire 1782-1784; died in
Portsmouth, N.H., November 28, 1785; interment in the Old North
Burial Ground.
Bibliography
Vaughan, Dorothy Mansfield. This Was a Man; A Biography of
General William Whipple. [Portsmouth, N.H.: N.p., 1964].
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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