I began writing an article about one thing – (the subject of tomorrow news) and ended up writing about something totally different, so I had to change the name of the article. So here is today’s story.In preparing yesterday’s vignette I accidently erased part of my data from my files and thought that I was going to have to go back to the old Metamora Meteor and recreate the information. Well it was late last night so I just sent the article as it was and thought I will deal with this at a later point in time. When I got up this morning I thought that I’ll just go to the backup and get the information – as it turned out the file I needed was in a backup format meaning I would need to restore the backup, so I wasn’t sure I wanted to deal with that either. I then thought about the database that I had used for Herman Tripp – a long time Tripp historian living in Iowa that I have worked with for probably 20 years collaborating back and forth. I used his data and three other people’s data to create the “Tripp Family Genealogical Web Site” about 15 years ago. I no longer support it, but most of it is still located at [ http://home.frognet.net/~bobt/Tripp.htm ]http://home.frognet.net/~bobt/Tripp.htm . Most of it is still in place although there are a few broken links. I gave up maintaining it when my vision began to falter and I no longer could keep up the computer work. There are tons of information on the Tripp’s beginning with, yes “John Tripp” who immigrated to this country in1635 from England in the Canterbury area of County Kent, England. The home page at the site states:
Welcome to the Tripp Family Genealogical Web Site
Within these pages you will find the Descendants of John and Mary (Paine) Tripp of Portsmouth, RI. He was born 6 February 1610 in Horkstow, Lincolnshire, England.
He died 12 Feb 1678 at the age of 68 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. His parents were John and Isabel (Moses). The first Tripp to come to America has been appropriately tagged "The Founder" because he is the ancestor of most of us. An early Twentieth Century Tripp family author, Carolyn Valentine, may have first tagged him “The Founder" [ http://home.frognet.net/~bobt/Paul%27s%20Info/Paul%20Tripp%20V31,p%204,%20Valentine%20p1.pdf ](Reference #1 and [ http://home.frognet.net/~bobt/Paul%27s%20Info/Paul%20Tripp%20V31Valentine,pp60-67.pdf ]Reference #2). By his own hand, he wrote that he had 11 brothers and sisters, so he evidently did not have much to start with. For that reason he indentured himself to Randall Holden so that he could learn the carpenter trade. He was admitted as an inhabitant of the island of Aquidneck (Newport, Middletown & Portsmouth, RI), and on April 30, 1638 signed a compact with twenty-eight others as follows: "We whose names are underwritten do acknowledge ourselves the legal subjects of His Majesty King Charles, and in his name do hereby bind ourselves into a civil body politic, unto his laws according to[Image]matters of justice". Records show that he accumulated land in Dartmouth, (that he purchased from John Alden), land in Narragansett, land in Westerly and land on Hog Island. Hog Island got its name from the fact, that all of the hogs that were not controlled by their owners by fences or buildings were hauled over and turned loose on Hog Island! I don't know what John did with them, when he started farming the island! I guess this was the first Tripp to raise pigs in this country! John Tripp was active in several aspects of the government, including Commissioner. He was Deputy for the following years: 1648, 1654, 1655, 1658, 1661, 1662, 1663, 1664, 1666, 1667, 1668, 1669, and 1672. He left in his will various lands, buildings plus orchards, and fencing. John Tripp married Mary Paine in 1639 and during the next 21 years had, and then reared eleven children.
Our desire is to build a web of intrigue for researching the surname of Tripp. However, we need some help to continually update this site. We have four individuals who have compiled some very good data; they are [ mailto:ctbucky@juno.com ]Margaret Buckridge Bock, [ mailto:DThomp4633@aol.com ]Dale Thompson, [ mailto:spring45@wccta.net ]Herman Tripp and [ mailto:okaycreativepaul@yahoo.com ]Paul L. Tripp - UPDATED December 10, 2005. Your input, comments and most of all, documented Tripp information sent to them is always appreciated.
As you review this data you will notice that there are some missing children, marriages, documentation and biographical data within some of these generations. This is where we hope you can help. As you travel through these pages you may find that you have additional or alternate data on a family line. We would like for you to share that information with us. However, if you do submit data, please provide either documentation or a source for this information. It is our desire to make the data in this core file as accurate as possible and documented material is important for this to take place. Any information you can provide may give us the clue that we have been looking for, leading us to the documentation we need.
We will also include web pages of Tripp lines which may or may not be linked to John Tripp of Portsmouth. These web pages would cover such lines as Sylvanus Tripp of Maine, Nicholas Tripp of North Carolina, Ann Tripp - Sister of John Tripp of Portsmouth and smaller unlinked Tripp lines. Additional pages include a listing of Tripp family web pages unrelated to this site, sources of additional Tripp family information, queries related to the Tripp family, biographies of Tripp family members, newspaper articles about Tripp family members and individual researchers and their particular area of interest. Together we can create a Tripp Family Web which will help countless cousins find valuable Tripp related information.[Image]
It was within this database that I found what I was looking for –the deleted data from my files – I had duplicated it on Herman Tripp’s webpage. So here is what I wanted to tell you that I found in my father’s high school yearbook dated 1928 – the Metamora Meteor:
Better known as "Johnny" was a member of the Minervian Literary Society; played on the Football team (playing the position of Center), grade 11 and 12; the Basketball team grade 12; was in the Class Play grade 12 and a member of the Editorial Staff (yearbook). The caption next to his senior picture states "Little, but Oh! My!" and "John's not merely good -- he's good for something, deserving all the credit we can give him". A quote from his Senior Essay states "No organization which lacks a real purpose for existing can long prevail". He stated in The Meteor - the schools yearbook, that his hobby was "being a Star Athlete".
So the gist of today’s story is:
• The Tripps’ are interwoven into the fabric of this country and have long played an important part in the development of it’s heritage.
• Whether you are capable or not, you can strive to become “A Star Athlete" if you have enough desire. For him it was a great legacy to have others say about him: “Little, but Oh! My!" and "John's not merely good -- he's good for something, deserving all the credit we can give him". I now know where our family got it’s desire for determination – the one reason why I kept looking for my lost data – inherited DNA.
• It’s really important to either backup your computer or duplicate your dat
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