Background
William Whipple was the eldest of the five children of William and Mary (Cutt) Whipple, and a descendant of Matthew Whipple who came to America from England before 1638. He was born in Kittery, Me.
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Author William Whipple spent years managing state programs of water supply and pollution prevention. In this book Whipple resolves the conflicts that arise between environmental protection and the economic and social benefits evaluated for water resources. The book summarizes modern trends in comprehensive water resource planning and the environmental management of major watersheds. In addition, Whipple develops regional approaches that allow for real solutions.
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William Whipple was the eldest of the five children of William and Mary (Cutt) Whipple, and a descendant of Matthew Whipple who came to America from England before 1638. He was born in Kittery, Me.
He received a common-school education, and, like many boys of that locality, went to sea at an early age.
While still in his early twenties he became master of a vessel, making many deep-water voyages and incidentally engaging in the slave trade, then a legal if not wholly respectable activity, but one which a later generation of New Englanders regarded as anomalous in a signer of the Declaration of Independence. About 1760 he gave up the sea and formed a mercantile partnership with his brother Joseph at Portsmouth. Revolutionary activity began early in Portsmouth and Whipple was identified with the popular party in many of the disputes which preceded the final break with Great Britain in 1775. In this year he gave up his share in the business and entered public life. He was prominent in the early provincial congresses, a member of the Council in 1776, of the state committee of safety, and closely associated with John Langdon and other patriots in local developments at Portsmouth. In 1776 he was sent to the Continental Congress and shared with Josiah Bartlett and Matthew Thornton the honor of representing New Hampshire on the Declaration of Independence. He served in Congress until 1779, with the exception of periods of interruption occasioned by short tours of duty in command of militia contingents in the Saratoga and Rhode Island campaigns. He was quite active in committee, and his correspondence expresses exasperation at the inefficient public service, the lack of national spirit and the greed and selfishness of leaders and communities. He had an acute realization of the defects of the commissary and recruiting systems. He emphasized the importance of naval operations, urged the necessity for striking hard blows, taxing heavily, and spreading the burden of the struggle on the entire people. Peace, he repeatedly argued, would be secured by victory in the field and not by diplomatic juggling in Europe. He demanded "spirited measures" against speculators and Loyalists. As to the latter, he wrote Josiah Bartlett in 1779, "I think it high time they were all Hung or Banished". He was optimistic as to the outcome of the war, however, even in its most depressing stages and constantly urged his own state to increased efforts in the common cause. In the last years of the war he continued to be active in New Hampshire affairs and represented Portsmouth in the legislature for several sessions. From 1782 until his death he was also an associate justice of the superior court. In his later years however, he was badly handicapped by ill health, an autopsy confirming his own belief that for some years he had been performing his duties in imminent danger of the sudden death which finally overtook him while on circuit.
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His wife was Catharine Moffatt, of Portsmouth. They had no children.