TO FIND: Actual parents, Birth Place, Marriage Place, Death Date and Place
 

If his parents are not Joseph and Mary, then the following branches would be pruned from the family tree: WHITMORE(4), WARNER(6+1), HARRIS(4+2), PARKE(2+1), MASON-2(1), WARD-1(2+1), GRANT(2+1), HUMPHREY(2), HOLLAND(1), and PURCHAS(2+1). (note: the numbers in the parenthesis after each surname represents the number of ancestors with that surnames involved plus the number of ancestral wives without maiden names). Per his FindAGrave.com page, someone(s) did much reserach and learned that the parents of Captain Francis Whitmore are actually William Whitmore and Rebecca Bassett, both of their lines going back to the immigrants on most every branch. So the loss of the above families will easily be replaced with the new, and apparently more correct, families.

Historical
1725: Africa - The Fulani nomads took complete control of Fuuta Jallon (Guinea, West Africa) and set up the first of many Fulani jihad states to come
1726: China - The enormous Chinese encyclopedia Gujin Tushu Jicheng of over 100 million written Chinese characters in over 800,000 pages is printed in 60 different copies using copper-based Chinese movable type printing
1727-1729: England, Spain - Anglo-Spanish War
1729-1735: England - Charles Wesley and John Wesley begin the Methodism in England
1730-1760: England, United States - First Great Awakening takes place in Great Britain and North America, it challenges the established clergy and leads to many new Protestant denominations, this contributes to the concept of religious tolerance
1730: Turkey - Mahmud I takes over Ottoman Empire after the Patrona Halil revolt, ending the Tulip period
1732-1734: Russia, Ukraine - Crimean Tatar/Tartar raids into Russia
1732: United States - George Washington is born in Virginia
1733-1738: Poland - War of the Polish Succession
1735-1739: Russia, Turkey - Russo-Turkish War (fifth of ten), Russian victory
1735-1799: China - The Qianlong Emperor of China oversaw a huge expansion in territory
1735: United States - John Adams is born in Boston
1736: China - Qing Dynasty Chinese court painters recreate the classic panoramic painting by Zhang Zeduan called Along the River During Qingming Festival
1736: Iran - Nader Shah assumed title of Shah of Persia and founded the Afsharid dynasty, ruled until his death in 1747
1736: United States - Patrick Henry born
1737: United States - Alexander Hamilton born
1737: United States - John Hancock born
1738-1756: Mali - Famine across the Sahel, half the population of Timbuktu (Mali) died
1738: Italy - Pope Clement XII Issues the Eminenti Apostolatus Specula prohibiting Catholics from becoming Freemasons
1739: England, Spain, Caribbean - Great Britain and Spain fight the War of Jenkins Ear in the Caribbean
1739: India - Battle of Karnal, Nader Shah defeats the Mughals and sacks Delhi
1740-1741: Ireland - Famine in Ireland killed ten per cent of the population
1740-1748: Austria - War of the Austrian Succession
1740: England, Spain, United States - British attempt to capture St. Augustine, Florida but lose to the Spanish during the Siege of St. Augustine
1740: Germany - Frederick the Great comes to power in Prussia
1741: Italy - Pope Benedict XIV Issues Immensa Pastorum principis against slavery
1741: Russia, United States - Russians began settling the Aleutian Islands
1741: United States - Benjamin Franklin invents the Franklin Stove, a very efficient stove that heats a house even after the fire extinguishes. Franklin chose to not patent his invention based on his belief that he instead should help others
1743: United States - Thomas Jefferson is born in Virginia
1744-1748: France, India - The First Carnatic War fought between the British, the French, the Marathas, and Mysore in India
1744: France - French attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails
1744: Saudi Arabia - The First Saudi State is founded by Mohammed Ibn Saud
1745: England, Scotland - Second Jacobite Rebellion began by Charles Edward Stuart in Scotland
1745: United States - John Jay born
1747: Afghanistan - Ahmed Shah Durrani founded the Durrani Empire in modern day Afghanistan
1748-1754: England, France, India - The Second Carnatic War fought between the British, the French, the Marathas, and Mysore in India
1748: Austria - Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession and First Carnatic War
1748: United States - Benjamin Franklin retires from the printing business to pursue scientific matters
1750: Europe - Peak of the Little Ice Age [first suggested in 1939, this has since been disputed after more detailed research] that lasts another one hundred years
1751: United States - Jamaes Madison born
1752: United States - Benjamin Franklin discovers electricity with his famous kite flying experiment which was done in secrecy at the time. Later that same year he invents the lightning rod, one of the most perfect inventions because it continues to do its job without maintenance. It is still being used today by every tall building in the world.
1753: United States, France, England - Major George Washington, age 21, delivers a message to the French from the English King asking the French to leave North American, the French politely refuse
1754-1763,: United States, France, England - The French and Indian War, Fought in the U.S. and Canada mostly between the French and French allies and the English and English allies, the North American chapter of the Seven Years War
1754: India - Treaty of Pondicherry ends Second Carnatic War (of three) and recognizes Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah as Nawab of the Carnatic
1755-1763: Canada - The Great Upheaval, forced population transfer of the French Acadian population from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
1755: Portugal - The Lisbon earthquake