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Abraham Whipple



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Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1733

Birth Place: Providence

Death Date: 1819

Death Place: Ohio

Affiliations: Unknown

Notes: American revolutionary commander in the Continental Navy and later one of the founders of Marietta, Ohio. Sank the first British ship of the American Revolution, and was the first to sail an ocean-going ship downriver from Ohio to the Caribbean, which opened trade with the Northwest Territory. Commanding officer at Fort Wayne (1804), friend to Gerard Hopkins.

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