military officer
Abraham Whipple.
Continental Navy officer, pioneer to the Ohio Country
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About Abraham Whipple
Commodore Abraham Whipple was a Continental Navy officer who served in the American Revolutionary War and co-founded Marietta, Ohio. Born near Providence, Rhode Island, Whipple chose to be a sailor early in his life and embarked on a career in the lucrative colonial trade with the West Indies, working for Moses and John Brown.
Everything about Abraham Whipple →- Occupation
- military officer, slave trader, soldier
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- September 26, 1733
- Died
- May 27, 1819