When Capt William Whipple was born on 28 January 1695, in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Matthew Whipple, was 36 and his mother, Joanna Appleton, was 32. He married Mary Cutt on 21 April 1722, in Kittery, Province of Maine, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 17 August 1751, in Kittery, York, Maine, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in First Congregational Church Cemetery, Kittery Point, Kittery, York, Maine, United States.