The Wheeler Families of Old Concord, Massachusetts
Late 19th century photograph of Scotchford-Wheeler House, Sudbury Road, Concord, photographed by Alfred W. Hosmer
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Compiled by George Tolman in 1908
Revised for editions of 1970 and 1981 and, by Joseph C. Wheeler, for this online edition of 2006.
This online edition is complete up to the Joseph's revision, 12 October 2016.
Questions or comments regarding the content of this genealogy should be addressed to Joseph C. Wheeler.
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Note to the 1970 and 1981 editions: Numerous insertions have been made by Mrs. Caleb (Ruth R.) Wheeler (RRW) and we have not usually noted her initials for these. Other insertions by Elizabeth R. Pickard are initialed. Mr. Tolman's manuscript was signed six years before Albert Gallatin Wheeler published in 1914 his 1250 page History of the Wheeler Family in America, but Mr. Tolman had many details not in Gallatin's book. Also, RRW notes that articles related to the English origins of the Wheelers can be found in the American Genealogist, Vol. 12, pp. 4-17 and 135 and Vol. 14, pp 1-4 – July 1935 and Jan. 1936.
Note to the 2006 edition: This edition attempts to bring the earlier documents up to date. Its editor, Joseph C. Wheeler (JCW), had considerable help from Ann Young, Barbara Wheeler, George Francis Wheeler III, Marian Wheeler, Phebe Packer, Kenneth Turkington, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wheeler and other family members. This new edition has been renumbered for ease of use.
The number after a name denotes the generation, with the first generation being that of one of the six “early settlers” listed in the table of contents below.
Contents
1. The George Wheeler Line 1 - 692
2. The Obadiah Wheeler Line 1001-1159
3. The Lieutenant Joseph Wheeler Line 2701 - 2705
4. The Captain Thomas Wheeler Line 2801 - 2823
5. The Captain Timothy Wheeler Line 2901 - 2905
6. The Sergeant Thomas Wheeler Line 3001 - 3242
7. Probable English Ancestry of the Concord Wheelers
Some of the relationships among these lines are discussed under # 2901 as well as in Section 7.
GEORGE 1 WHEELER m. KATHERINE PYN
George Wheeler was an early settler of Concord: The first record I find of his name is in 1640. He appears to have been a person of some influence, and his name appears often on town records. He was selectman in 1660. His house lot of 11 acres was at the (present) corner of Main and Walden Streets, and in conjunction with Capt. Timothy Wheeler, who I think was very probably his nephew, he owned a large amount of land in the center of the town. He had also land near the “frog-ponds” and at Walden Pond, and at Nut Meadow Brook. His death is not recorded but his will was dated January 28, 1684/5 and presented for probate June 2, 1687. (Suffolk Prob. Reg. Vol. X fol. 1) His sons Thomas and John were named executors, but the former had died between the above dates and John was named sole executor. The will names “the children of my son William deceased, sons Thomas and John, daughters Elizabeth Fletcher, Sarah Dudley, Ruth Hartwell and Hannah Fletcher, and the children of my daughter ‘Fox' “. His age is not known, but as he had a son married in 1657, and as the birth of the youngest of his eight children occurred in 1645, it is probable that he was born between 1600 and 1610. I think it probable that he was a brother of Obadiah.
[George married Katherine Pyn 9 Dec.1631 -- RRW] Katherine d. 2 Jan. 1684/5. According to a letter from Lexington genealogist Winifred Lovering Holman dated 21 June 1945, George Wheeler married first, 12 May 1645, Mary Studd.] His children by Katherine, as shown by his will and by the Town records were:
2. I Thomas 2 m. Hannah Harwood
3. II William 2 [b. 1633 – AY] m. Hannah Buss
4. III Ruth m. Samuel Hartwell
5. IV Elizabeth m. Francis 2 Fletcher [b. 1636 in Concord. They married 1 Aug. 1656. On April 15 1682, their son Samuel 3 Fletcher, who was born 6 Aug. 1657 and died 23 Oct. 1741, married another Elizabeth 2 Wheeler -- #3008. She was born 23 Feb. 1664. Samuel 3 Fletcher was a Corporal under Capt. Timothy Wheeler (#2901) and fought in King Philip's War. He was a Selectman 1705-7. – JCW]
6. V Hannah m. [Samuel] Fletcher [son of William, son of Robert - RRW] [Note: Births, Marriages and Deaths has “Hanna Wheler” marrying Samewell (Samuel) Smedly 11 July 1667 and “ffrancies ffletcher” marrying Elizabeth Wheeler 11 Oct. 1656. See also note under # 5 – JCW]
7. VI Sarah b. 30 March 1640 m. Francis Dudley [They married 26 Oct. 1665. Their son Joseph Dudley married Abigail Goble in Concord 25 Feb. 1689/90. She was the daughter of Thomas Goble (Gobill). Joseph and Abigail's son Benjamin Dudley was born in Concord 20 March 1698/9 and married Elizabeth Rice of Sudbury. Then their son Joseph Dudley married Mary Warren of Westborough in 1732 -- JCW]
8. VII John 2 b. 19 March 1643 m. Sarah Larkin
9. VIII Mary b. 6 Sept. 1645 m. Eliphalet 2 Fox [They married 26 Oct. 1665. He was the son of Thomas and Rebecca Fox. Eliphlet and Mary Wheeler Fox' daughter Mary married Peter Harwood – JCW]
2.THOMAS 2 WHEELER m. HANNAH HARROD or HARWOOD George 1
They married 10 Oct. 1657. [Apparently, wife Hannah was daughter of John Harwood and Dorothy - Source: see bolded 212. THOMAS 6 WHEELER - JCW]. His death not of record, nor that of his wife who survived him. [He apparently died 1687 in Concord, MA - Source: see 212. THOMAS 6 WHEELER - JCW]. On 21 Sept. 1687 administration of his estate was granted to his widow Hannah, and his son Thomas. The inventory begins thus: “an inventory of the estate of Thomas Wheeler, son of George Wheeler late of Concord deceased.” (Suffolk Prob. Reg. Vol. X fol 115-116).
[RRW notes that Thomas's descendants in Marlboro, Worcester and Hardwick are described in a paperback on the Wheeler and Warren families compiled by Henry Warren Wheeler, Albany, 1892.] His children, as per Town Records, were:
10. I Hannah b. 25 Oct. 1658 d.12 Aug 1659
11. II Thomas 3 b. 1 Jan. 1659/60 m. Sarah Davis
12. III John 3 b. 2 Sept. 1661 m. Elizabeth Wells [Tolman separately says they moved to Marlboro – JCW]
3. WILLIAM 2 WHEELER m. HANNAH BUSS George 1
[Hannah was born in 1641, daughter of Lt. William Busse – AY] They married 30 Oct. 1659. He died intestate 31 Dec. 1683 and administration of his estate was granted to his widow Hannah. (Middlesex Prob. Rec. Vol II fol 133). On 15 March 1693/4 John Wheeler Senior of Concord, son of and apparent heir to George Wheeler late of said Concord dec'd quitclaims to William, John and George Wheeler, all his right title and interest in certain lands in the south part of Concord “that were in the possession of their father William Wheeler deceased.”
On the same date another agreement sets forth that “Whereas William Wheeler late of Concord died some time since, possessed of several lands of which he had no legal conveyance as also of a competency of personal and moveable estate, -- but as yet there has been no final settlement of said estate, -- and there being a considerable part of said moveable estate is wasted one way or other and doth not appear, and the rest of which is disposed of by Hannah, relict of the sd Wm Wheeler, and for a final settlement of the whole of the remaining part of the sd estate, amongst the children of the sd Wm Wheeler, and to prevent any further trouble and contention about the premises and to settle peace and unity that may be lasting, they, viz: William Wheeler, John Wheeler and George Wheeler, sons to the sd Wm deceased, upon their own accounts, and Nicholas Shevalley on behalf of Rebeckah his wife of sd Concord, and James Burley of Ipswich on the behalf of Elizabeth his wife, both daughters of sd Wm Wheeler dec'd, do agree in manner and form following, as to the division of property, by virtue of which agreement Wm [#16] as oldest son had a double share of the real estate, and John [#19] and George [#20] and the two younger sons divided the rest, and the personal property was parceled out among the daughters. The land was all in the Nine Acre Corner district, and some of it is in the family to this day.
The children of William and Hannah (Buss) Wheeler, as shown by the Town Records, and by this agreement, (the birth of sons John and George not being of record), were:
13. I Hannah b. 23 Oct 1660 d. 8 April 1673
14. II Rebecca b. 25 Feb. 1661/2 m. Nicolas Shevalley
15. III Elizabeth b. 2 Jan. 1663/4 m. James Burley of Ipswich
16. IV William 3 b. 8 Feb. 1664/5 m. Sarah Fletcher
17.
18. VI Richard 3 b. 19 Sept. 1672 d. 31 March 1689
19. VII John 3 m. Dorothy Hosmer
20. VIII George 3 d. Aug. 1737 m. 1st Abigail Hosmer, 2 nd Abigail Smith
8 JOHN WHEELER m. SARAH LARKIN George 1
They married 25 March 1663. She was born at Charlestown 12 March 1646/77, and was daughter of Deacon Edward Larkin (or Lakin) and his wife Joanna. He died 27 Sept. 1713: his widow died 12 Aug. 1725. He was called in the town records “John Wheeler Senior”. On 21 Oct. 1719 an agreement for the settlement of his estate is made by his widow Sarah, and his children Samuel, Edward and Ebenezer, on their own accounts, and Wm Woodbury, John Meriam, Timothy Wheeler, Sam'l Prescott and Jonas Prescott on behalf of their wives, as named below. The births are all on record, excepting that of Sarah.
21. I Samuel 3 b. 6 July 1664 m. Mary Hosmer
22. II Sarah b. Dec 1666 d. 1692 m. in 1691 John Meriam [#16 in Meriam genealogy – b. 1666 d. 1748 (JCW)]
23. III Edward 3 b. 17 July 1669 m. Sarah Meriam [daughter of Samuel Meriam, # 8 in Meriam genealogy (JCW)]
24. IV Joanna b. 21 Dec 1671 m. Wm Woodbury
25. V Mary b. 16 Sept 1673 m. Jacob Wood
26. VI Lydia b. 27 Oct 1675 m. Timothy Wheeler #3009
27. VII Esther b. 1 Dec 1678 m. Samuel Prescott
28. VIII Ebenezer 3 b. 3 June 1682 m. Mary Minot
29. IX Thankful b. 3 June 1682 m. in 1699 Jonas Prescott (Jonas/John).[Ebenezer bought ½ of quarter acre near corn mill in center of Concord from Stephen Wheeler (#66) bounded E and N on the highway.]
11. THOMAS 3 WHEELER m SARAH DAVIS Thomas 2/Geo 1
They married 13 Nov 1695. Sarah was born 11 March 1665/6 and was daughter of Lieut. Simon Davis and his wife Mary (Blood). Thomas 3 Wheeler (known to the Record as “Ensign” Thomas). Died 2 Oct 1734. [According to Henry Warren Wheeler, they lived in the East Quarter on the Bay Road on land previously owned by his father, probably including land later owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson.] His wife Sarah died 5 Aug 1728. They [moved to Hardwick MA and] were buried in the Main Street burying ground, their graves being numbered 484 and 485 in the record now deposited in the Free Public Library.
Their children were:
30. I Thomas 4 b. 14 Aug 1696 m. Mary Brooks
31. II Sarah b. 20 Dec 1697 m. Jonathan Hartwell
32. III Dorcas b. 29 March 1700 [Apparently, m. William Lee, Jun 1724—Source: see bolded "212. THOMAS 6 WHEELER" - JCW]
33. IV Hannah b. 9 April 1702
34. V Mary b. 3 March 1704 m. John Holden
[John Holden and Mary Wheeler married in 1725. He died in 1757. Children included Eunice 1717, Sarah 1728/9, Mary 1732, Jonathan 1734 and Rebeccah 1736. Sarah Holden m. Samuel Barrett – RRW and JCW].Note: On 13 Dec 1722 Thomas Wheeler & wife Sarah and Thomas Wheeler Jr. & wife Mary sell to Francis Wheeler and Nath'l Meriam, 60 acres in south part of Concord. [Also, see sworn statement at the end of George Wheeler's inventory – RRW]
12. JOHN 3 WHEELER m. ELIZABETH WELLS Thomas 2/Geo1
They married 25 June 1684. Their first three children are recorded at Concord, the others at Marlboro, to which place he removed, and where he died in 1721. Some account of his descendants may be found in Hudson's History of Marlboro, p. 465 et seq .
Their children were:
35. I Josiah 4 b. 25 Sept. 1686
36. II Rachel b. 18 April 1689
37. III Dorcas b. 14 Jan. 1690/1
38. IV John 4 b. 15 Aug. 1695 m. Mary Hapgood and removed to Shrewsbury.
39. V Martha b. 22 July 1698
40. VI Joseph 4 b. 19 April 1700 m. Elizabeth Holloway
41. VII Ephraim 4 b. 1 May 1702
42. VIII Daniel 4 b. 12 Aug. 1704
16 WILLIAM 3 WHEELER m. SARAH FLETCHER Wm 2/Geo1
[They were married 17 May 1692 – RRW.] Sarah was born 24 Feb. 1668/9, daughter of Francis and Elizabeth (Wheeler #5) Fletcher. [Francis Fletcher, who was born about 1635, was the son of Robert Fletcher, born in England and died in Concord 3 April 1677. – JCW] She was therefore his cousin. William died 29 May 1752; Sarah died 25 Sept. 1744, says her gravestone. 75y.7m.1 day. They are buried under one gravestone in the Hill Burying Ground.
Their children were:
43. I William 4 b. 9 Feb. 1693/4 m. Mercy Willard
44. II Joseph 4 b. 2 Feb. 1694/5 m. Sarah
45. III Francis 4 b. 8 Feb. 1697/8 m. (1) Mary Meriam (2) Sarah Blood
46. IV Hezakiah 4 b. 13 June 1700 m. Sarah Buss
47. V Nathaniel 4 b. 18 Sept. 1702 m. Abigail Conant
48. VI Elizabeth b. 2 Oct. 1704
49. VII Sarah b. 6 March 1706/7 d, 26 Nov. 1707
50. VIII Jeremiah 4 b. 22 Nov. 1709 m. (1) Mary Wheeler(#76) (2) Esther
19 JOHN 3 WHEELER m. DOROTHY HOSMER William 2/George 1
They married 8 March 1711. Dorothy was born 10 Dec. 1677, daughter of Stephen and Abigail (Wood) Hosmer, and was sister to the wives of John Wheeler's brother George [#20], and his cousin Samuel [#21]. John Wheeler died 30 June 1737. On April 17, 1740, Samuel Miles, Joseph Wheeler & Nathaniel Hosmer were appointed to sell his real estate, and to divide between the widow and the children. This estate was on the Marlborough Road, bounded by William Wheeler, Jr.[#16] and George Wheeler [#1] deceased. This was part of the land confirmed to the children of William Senior [#3] by John Wheeler [#8], son of George [#1], as previously noted. [This was part of his brother's deeds XXII -261.]
Children:
51. I John 4 b. 21 Sept. 1713 m. Deborah Derby
52. II Dorothy b. 19 Feb. 1715/6 d. 27 March 1716
53. III Josiah 4 b. 29 March 1718 m. Mary Lee [son Thomas, Selectman 1815; Representative 1818 – lived near Assabet River on Old Bridge Road]
54. IV Dorothy b. 11 Jan. 1720
20. GEORGE 3 WHEELER m. (1)ABIGAIL HOSMER (2) ABIGAIL SMITH William 2/Geo 1
George married Abigail Hosmer 14 Aug 1695. She was born 6 Nov. 1669, daughter of Stephen and Abigail (Wood) Hosmer. She died 27 Dec. 1717, and he married 2 nd Abigail Smith, daughter of Thomas Smith of Sudbury. George Wheeler's death is not of record, but his will was dated 24 May 1737 and was probated 1 Aug. 1737. His wife's will was dated 3 Oct. 1728 and probated 30 Dec. 1728, leaving her separate estate to her own people. George Wheeler's children were all by his first wife. The births of the two youngest are not recorded but I get their names from his will. He was a blacksmith. His children were:
55. I Tabitha b. 16 Jan. 1695/6 m. Samuel Bennett
56. II Abigail b. 6 Feb. 1696/7
57. III Jemima b. 5 Sept 1700
58. IV James 4 b. 5 Sept 1702 m. Mary Minot
59. V Peter 4 b. 23 Oct. 1704 m Hannah
60. VI Daniel 4 b. 5 June 1707
61. VII Ephraim 4 m. Rebecca Shavally
62. VIII Simon 4 b. [1709 in Acton – JCW] m. Dorothy Wooster
21. SAMUEL 3 WHEELER m. to MARY HOSMER 27 Jan. 1690 John 2/ George 1
They married 27 Jan. 1690. Mary was born 2 May 1668, daughter of Stephen and Abigail (Wood) Hosmer. Samuel Wheeler died 20 Dec. 1717, and his widow married John Bellows 5 Dec. 1721. [See Allen French papers – RRW].
His children were:
63. I Mary m. Joseph Stone of Lancaster
64. II Dorothy b. 2 June 1693
65. III Joanna b. 12 May 1696
66. IV Stephen 4 b. 12 April 1698 m. Ruth Hill
67. V Jacob 4 b. 26 June 1702 [m. Amity Amadon of Marlboro and lived 20 years in Southboro]
The estate of Samuel Wheeler was settled 3 Nov. 1719 and the name of eldest daughter and her husband appear as above in the settlement. The other two daughters were at that date unmarried. [1722 Middlesex Deeds 25-471 children of the late Samuel Wheeler sell house lot to I. Minot (Walden Street) SE. on Jonathan Wheeler, NE on land of John Bellers and Jacob Wheeler; SW on land sold to Ebenezer Wheeler out of said home lot.]
23. EDWARD 3 WHEELER m. SARAH MERIAM John 2/ Geo 1
They married 23 Nov 1697. Sarah was born 18 Aug. 1675, d. of Samuel [#8 in Meriam Genealogy] and Elizabeth (Townsend) Meriam. Edward died 17 Feb. 1733/34. His will, dated 17 March 1731/2 names his children as below with the exception of youngest daughter Mary who probably died before that date. He was a weaver by occupation, and was for many of his last years a deacon. His widow Sarah [bought the old red house on Sudbury Road (99) from John Scotchford – RRW]. She died 25 Oct. 1738.
His children were:
68. I Edward 4 b. 23 Oct. 1698 m. Elizabeth Herrick of Sudbury
69. II Nathan 4 b. 2 March 1700 m. [Moved to Nashoba, then Boston, according to separate Tolman notes – JCW]
70. III Esther b. 15 Oct. 1702 m. Jonathan Simpson
71. IV David 4 b. 26 Dec. 1707 m. Sarah Meriam [d. of Samuel #20 in Meriam Genealogy and Sarah (Wheeler) Meriam – JCW]
72. V Sarah b. 27 Nov. 1709 d. 11 Dec. 1711
73. VI Abigail b. 9 Nov. 1712 m .Deacon Ephraim Brown [son of Thos. & Han. Potter Brown]
74. VII Mary b. 20 April 1715 (We copy this as given)
28. EBENEZER 3 WHEELER m. to MARY MINOT John2/Geo1
They married 26 Dec 1706. Mary Minot was born 16 Nov. 1689, daughter of Capt. James Minot & his wife Rebecca Wheeler [#2905] [daughter of Capt. Timothy Wheeler [#2901]. Ebenezer died 26 Feb. 1748; his widow died 3 Sept. 1760. His will mentions children as below, excepting Mary, who we may therefore presume had died.
His children were:
75. I Rebecca b. 2 Sept. 1712 m. John Page of Billerica
76. II Mary b. 8 May 1714 d. 29 April 1744 m. Jeremiah Wheeler #50
77. III Ebenezer 4 b. 6 Jan. 1715/16 Went to Grafton, MA and died there 24 Feb. 1801. Some account of his descendants may be found in Pierce's History of Grafton.
78. IV Timothy 4 b. 21 Feb. 1716/17 m. 1 st Sarah Hunt, 2 nd Mary (Adams), widow of Peter Hubbard and 3 rd Hannah Bright Bond.
79. V Sarah b. 24 July 1720 m. Jonathan Fisk
80. VI James 4 b. 7 April 1722 m. Abigail Hall in Rutland MA 24 May 1750
30 THOMAS 4 WHEELER m. (1) MARY BROOKS (2) SUSSANAH Thomas 3/Thomas 2/ Geo1
Mary Brooks was born 2 March 1699/1700 daughter of Daniel and Ann. Thomas 4 is known in Concord Records as Lieut. Thomas. His first four children are recorded at Concord, the last four in Acton, at which place he was the first Town Clerk, in 1735-6. He after removed to Worcester, and later to Hardwick where he died 31 Jan. 1769. His wife Mary died at Worcester 18 May 1740, aged 40, says her gravestone.
His children were:
81. I Thomas 5 b. 6 Feb. 1722/3 d. 14 Jan. 1736/7. He is buried in Concord close to his grandparents.
82. II Mary b. 7 July 1726
83. III Daniel 5 b. 30 April 1728 m. (1) Mary Halloway, (2) Mary Cleveland [See Wheeler & Warren genealogy p. 15, etc. (Albany 1892) of Hardwick]
84. IV Charles 5 b. 10 Feb. 1731 d. at Worcester 3 June 1761
85. V Amos 5 b. July 1733 m. Mary Henshaw
86. VI Nathan 5 b. 15 Sept. 1735 m. Hannah Hunt
87. VII Sarah b. 8 Jan. 1736/7 d. 18 March 1736/7
88. VIII Thomas 5 b. 22 March 1738/9 d. at Worcester 12 Jan 1795
[Thomas 4 married a second wife, Susannah, who d. at Worcester 17 Sept 1760 at age 58]
43 WILLIAM 4 WHEELER m. MERCY WILLARD Wm 3/Wm 2/Geo 1
Mercy Willard was born 4 June 1704 daughter of John and Mary (Hayward) Willard. William 4's death is not of record, but administration of his estate was granted to his son William on 6 Oct. 1769. [See William 5 and Willard 5 below (JCW)] Mercy died 17 Feb.1760, aged 55.
His children were:
89. I Mary b. 25 Aug. 1729 m. Silas Walker 28 Nov. 1760
90. II Catherine b. 12 Feb. 1730/31 d. unmarried in 1779
91. III William 5 b. 21 Dec. 1732 d. March 1757 (single)
92. IV Willard 5 b. 24 Dec. 1734 afterward called himself “Wm. Willard Wheeler.”, graduate of Harvard 1755, was an Episcopal Minister at Scituate where he died 14 Jan. 1810.
93. V Mercy b. 17 Jan 1737
94. VI Wareham 5 b. 30 April 1740 m. Mary
95. VII Oliver 5 b. 14 July 1742 m. Mary
I7 July 1799 Wm. Wheeler Senior and wife Sarah [ sic ], “for love and affection” convey to their son Wm certain lands on the Marlboro Road, bounded E by Wm (Senior). S. by George, and W by John Wheeler.
44. JOSEPH 4 WHEELER m SARAH FLETCHER Wm 3/Wm2/Geo1
Their children were:
96. I Joseph 5 b. 10 May 1724 m. Mary Hosmer
97. II Jerusha b. 11 Sept 1726
98. III Sarah b. 7 April 1729 m. Henry Flint
99. IV Grace b. 4 May 1730 m. Nathan Buttrick
100. V Lydia b. 4 Oct. 1732
101. VI Hannah b. 23 Jan 1734/5 m. Nath'l Sargent of Stow
102. VII Rebecca b. 21 March 1736/7
103. VIII Amos 5 b. 26 Feb. 1741 m. Rhoda Buttrick
[Note: Mr. John Richardson in 2011 noted that daughters Jerusha & Sarah should not be listed under this Joseph 4 Wheeler"; rather, they should only be listed under "3015 Joseph 3 Wheeler m Sarah Ball". His source: FHL film 0432078, Middlesex, MA Probate File 24302, Joseph Wheeler 1732 - JCW]
20 July 1738. Wm. Wheeler [Wm. #16? (JCW)] and w [ife] Sarah, convey to son Joseph [presumably Joseph 4 # 44 (JCW) ] 60 acres & 2 July 1747, Jos. & w [ife] Sarah 30 acres & ½ the buildings, on road leading to Fairhaven, to Jos. & wife Mary who re-convey the same to Jos. Sr. in July 1766, and the old man sells it, and some 50 acres more, to Amos. The latter mortgages it Nov. 1768 to Jos. Lee, and his mother Sarah, widow, signs off her right of dower. 28 Dec. 1770 Amos sells it to Wm. Parkman: the place is now owned by Levi Miles. [Mrs. Douglas Miller 1938 (RRW)] [Corner of Powder Mill Rd. and Sudbury Rd.]
45 FRANCIS 4 WHEELER m. (1) MARY MERIAM (2) SARAH BLOOD Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
Mary was born 22 Dec. 1702: daughter of Nathaniel [#17 in Miriam genealogy] and Mary (Taylor) Meriam. She died 24 July 1737 and he m. (2) Sarah Blood on 23 Jan 1740/41, who was born 19 Dec. 1705, daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Davis) Blood. She died 17 May 1769. Seven of Francis Wheeler's children were by his first wife, and five by his 2 nd . He died Nov. 1774.
His children were:
104. I Francis 5 b. 22Feb 1724/5 d. 14 Dec 1727
105. II Mary b. 27 Aug. 1726 d. 21 June 1736
106. III Francis 5 b. 3 July 1728 m. Mary Hayward
107. IV Rhoda b. 24 Aug. 1730 m. Abraham Smith
108. V Nathaniel 5 b. 29 April 1732 d. 11 July 1736
109. VI Miriam b. 3 Jan 1733/4
110. VII Solomon 5 b. 5 Nov. 1735 d. 30 Nov. 1736
111. VIII Sarah b. 22 June 1742
112. IX Samuel 5 b. 5 Oct. 1743 m. Keziah Wellington
113. X Phineas 5 b. 3 April 1745 m. Lydia Meriam [#51 in Meriam Genealogy -- JCW]
114. XI Hannah b. 23 Jan. 1746 m. Reddit Jones
115. XII Noah 5 b. 25 Jan. 1749/50 m. Sarah Meriam [#51iv in Meriam Genealogy -- JCW]
46. HEZEKIAH 4 WHEELER m. SARAH BUSS Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 12 April 1732. She was born 21 Dec. 1710, daughter of Peter and Rachel (Fletcher) Buss. He was of Acton, and the births of all of his children except the first two are recorded there. He died 5 May 1759.
His children were:
116. I Peter 5 b. 4 Feb. 1732/3 m. Martha Maxwell
117. II Elizabeth b. 23 July 1734
118. III William 5 b. 1 Jan 1735/6; said in will to have deceased
119. IV Rachel b. 3 July 1737 m. Whitney
120. V Hezekiah 5 b. 6 March 1740/1 m. Mary Gilbert
121. VI Sarah b. 2 Oct. 1742
122. VII Abigail b. 31 March 1744
123. VIII Hannah b. 17 Aug. 1746
124. IX Beck 5 b. 1750 (so called in his will)
125. X Huldah b. 5 Aug. 1752
126. XI Amos 5 b. 12 July 1754 m. Eunice Gates
127. XII Lois b. 2 May 1748 d. 4 Nov 1752
47. NATHANIEL 4 WHEELER m. ABIGAIL CONANT Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
Abigail was born at Beverly 25 May 1705; daughter of Roger and Mary (Raymond) Conant. He was of Acton.
His children were:
128. I Nathaniel 5 b. 27 May 1734 went to Westminster
129. II Roger 5 b. 22 July 1737 m. Eunice Gilbert
130. III Sarah bapt. 20 May 1739 at Acton
131. IV Simeon 5 bapt. 1 April 1744 at Acton
50. JEREMIAH 4 WHEELER m. (1) MARY WHEELER [# 76] (2) ESTHER Wm3/Wm3/Geo1
Jeremiah and Mary married 6 Nov. 1740. Mary died 29 April 1744 aged 30 and he married 2 nd Esther. He died 3 Aug. 1783; there was no will and no administration.
His children by his second wife were:
132. I Jeremiah 5 b. 15 Feb. 1745/6 Went to Hollis NH where he married Keziah Blanchard 15 Feb. 1770
133. II Abel 5 b. 25 May 1748 m. Mary
134. III Molly b. 23 Aug 1750
135. IV Esther b. 23 Aug 1750
136. V John 5 b. 29 Jan 1754 Born at Littleton
137. VI Lucy b. 23 April 1757
138. VII William 5 b. 21 March 1760
139. VII Cata b. 14 Jan. 1762 m. Leonard Whitney
140. VIII Betty b. 7 March 1766
On Dec 11, 1754 in Middlesex Court of Sessions, the Town of Littleton entered caution against Jeremiah and Esther Wheeler and their children Abel, Mary, Esther and John who last came from Concord, and had been legally warned to depart.
51. JOHN 4 WHEELER m. DEBORAH DERBY John3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 24 July 1739. Deborah was the daughter of John Derby and his wife Deborah (Conant) Derby. In 1757 they were living at “Narragansett No. 2”, now Westminster.
His children were:
141. I Beulah b. 7 April 1740
142. II Lois b. 17 Aug. 1741
143. III John 5 b. 20 Aug. 1743
144. IV Eunice b. 25 June 1745 d. 7 Aug. 1745
145. V Lucy b. 8 June 1746
146. VI Thomas 5 b. 25 April 1748
147. VII Sarah b. 16 Oct. 1751
53. JOSIAH 4 WHEELER m. MARY LEE John3/Wm/2/Geo1
They married 1 Feb. 1741/2. Mary was born 9 Nov. 1724, daughter of Dr. Joseph and Ruth (Goodnow) Lee. Josiah died between 16 March 1768, the date of his will, and 26 April 1768, when it was entered for probate. His widow died 11 March 1799, aged 74. He was by occupation a bricklayer.
[This is the Josiah Wheeler who built what is today known as the Wheeler/Harrington House at 249 Harrington Avenue, owned by the Town of Concord. (JCW)] [The house was later bought by Joseph Harrington of Noah Wheeler, Jr. (#225) by deed 19 April 1827 Bk 274 p. 309 –RRW]
His children were:
148. I Josiah 5 b. 4 Nov. 1742 m. Lucy Heald
149. II Nathan 5 b. 9 Jan 1744/5 m. Lydia Adams
150. III Mary b. 26 April 1747 d. 17 Feb. 1831 single
151. IV Anna b. 10 May 1749 d. 25 Nov. 1846 single
152. V Abijah 5 b. 18 Sept. 1851 m. Abigail
153. VI Hepzibeth b. 16 Feb. 1754 m. Haynes
154. VII Dorothy b. 1 April 1756 m. John Hosmer
155. VIII Thomas 5 b. 14 Oct. 1758 d. 22 July 1780 single
156. IX Eleanor b. 20 Nov. 1762 d. 2 Feb.1780
58. JAMES 4 WHEELER m. MARY MINOT Geo3/Wm2/Geo1
Their first three children were recorded in Concord; the last five in Bedford.
I 57. I Mary b. 1 Oct. 1725
158. II Keziah b. 10 March 1726/7 m. John Brown at Hollis NH
159. III Lydia b. 11 March 1728/9
160. IV James 5 b. 16 May 1731 m. Mary Butterfield at Hollis NH
161. V Elizabeth b. 23 March 1734
162. VI Daniel 5 b. 23 April 1736 m. Amy Morse – [settled in Monson/Hollis NH -- JCW]
163. VII Zeubee b. 29 Oct. 1738
164. VIII Thaddeus 5 b. 16 Dec. 1742 m. Elizabeth Farmer
59. PETER 4 WHEELER m. HANNAH COLBURN Geo3/Wm2/Geo1
Hannah Colburn was born 21 July 1710, daughter of Benjamin & Elizabeth. At His Majesty's Court of Sessions at Cambridge 11 July 1727 “Peter Wheeler of Concord, Husbandman”, and Hannah, now his wife, late Hannah Colburn are fined 30 shillings each “For fornication by them committed before their marriage”. He removed to Hollis NH where he died 28 March 1772, in his 60 th year. Some account of his descendants in Worcester's History of Hollis , p. 390. Their first child is recorded at Concord; the four next at Bedford; the rest at Hollis NH. [Part of Concord became Bedford in 1729 so children born in the same house were registered in different towns.]
Their children were:
165. I Love b. 10 May 1728
166. II Peter 5 b. 19 Jan. 1730/1 m. Mehitable Jewett [Peter's son Joseph 6 moved from Hollis NH to Maine – RRW]
167. III Hannah b. 7 Oct 1733 m. Jabez Russell of Bedford
168. IV Abigail b. 25 March 1736
169. V Benjamin 5 b. 22 Aug. 1739 m. Susanna Williams of Bedford 11 Sept. 1777
170. VI Lucy b. 1 June 1744 m. Silas Brown at Hollis NH 8 Oct. 1765.
171. VII Alice b. 1 Dec. 1745
172. VIII Ebenezer 5 b. 15 July 1748 m. Azuba Taylor at Hollis NH
173. IX Lebbeus (Labbeus) 5 b. 15 Oct. 1750 m. Elizabeth Carter
174. X Jemina b. 15 Aug. 1756
61. EPHRAIM 4 WHEELER m REBECCA SHEVALLY Geo3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 31 October 1739. In 1763 Ephraim and Rebecca and their children Rebecca, Lucy, Oliver, Lois, Jesse and Mary were warned out of Westford, to which place they had come from Acton.
The births of the first two and the baptisms of the rest are recorded at Concord.
175. I George 5 b. 28 June 1740
176. II Ephraim 4 b. 8 March 1742
177. III Rebecca
178. IV Lucy Bapt. 11 Nov. 1750
179. V Oliver 5 Bapt. 11 Nov. 1750
180. VI Lois Bapt. 16 July 1758
181. VII Jesse 5 Bapt. 16 July 1758
182. VIII Mary Bapt. 6 Aug. 1758
62. SIMON 4 WHEELER m. DOROTHY WOOSTER Geo3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 18 Sept. 1739. He died in 1757, at which time Samuel Dakin was appointed guardian to his son Josiah, the same Josiah was in 1760 put under guardianship of Stephen Hosmer of Concord. If any guardian was appointed for the other children, there is no record thereof now extant. [After her husband's death Dorothy moved to Hollis NH. According to Charles S. Spaulding Vol. I, p. 62 of Hollis Town Records she was warned to leave town and went to Mason NH. Spaulding lists the children as: Simon, 1740 (died young); Dorothy 1742 (died young}; Betty, 1745; Dorothy 17 March, 1748, m. Joshua Davis; Timothy (as listed below);Daniel (as listed below); and Simon (as listed below). JCW]
183. I Mary b. 12 Dec. 1741
184. II Josiah 5 b. 29 Sept. 1743 in Acton. [m. 18 Sept. 1773 to Huldah Page of Harvard. b. 1746, d. 14 Dec. 1826 in Westminster. They had a son Lewis b.18 April 1793 in Westminster. Lewis married Mary Stowell of New Ipswich NH in 1817. In turn, they had a son John Peter Wheeler b. 6 July 1867 in Gloucester MA who married on 1 Jan. 1900 Marian Stephens from Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia. They also had a daughter Mary Josephine Wheeler who married Emile Martin of Baie Ste Anne, New Brunswick– JCW]
I85. III Betty b. 9 June 1746 m. Ebenezer Farley, Hollis NH
186. IV Dolly b. 14 March 1748
187. V Timothy 5 b. 14 June 1750 m. Mary Nevins
188. VI Daniel 5 b. 10 July 1752 m. (1) Eunice Hobart of Plymouth NH and (2) Mary Fuller
189. VII Simon 5 b. 9 June 1754 widow and children went to Amherst.
190. VIII Beulah Bapt. 16 May 1756
66. STEPHEN 4 WHEELER m. RUTH HILL of Cambridge Sam'l 3/John2/Geo1
The administration of Stephen 4's estate was granted to son Samuel 15 Feb. 1747. He was apparently an only child.
191. I Samuel b. 25 Oct. 1722 d. 12 Aug. 1799 single
67. JACOB 4 WHEELER m. AMITY AMSDEN (or AMADON) Sam'l 3/John2/Geo1
Jacob 4 lived 20 years in Southboro, marrying in Marlboro. The records on their children may be incomplete. They are listed in The History of the Wheeler Family in America p. 30 as follows:
192, I John 5 b. 5 Feb. 1731/2 m. Deborah “He was a Minute Man at the first alarm at Concord and served at Dorchester Heights, and at Ticonderoga and Crown Point under Ethan Allen” They had a child, Jonas 6, born 29 June 1772 in Petersham MA who married Sarah Boynton. [Jonas 6 and Sarah had ten children p. 42. & p. 61 – JCW]
193. II Jonas 5 b. 10 May 1734 m. Margaret Whitney They had four children p. 42
194. III Joel 5 b. 27 Jan. 1742 m. Mary Dudley or Dole
He was a Revolutionary soldier. They had seven children p. 43. He died 1 Dec. 1814. One line of later generations went: Jacob 6 who married Azuba Skinner, Joseph 7, Myra 8 who married Fred McCard, Mildred McCard 9 who married Hobart Page, Barbara Page McCard 10 who married a Rockwell, and then Michael Rockwell 11.
195. IV Silas 5 b. 24 Feb. 1744/5 m. Sarah Miller
Silas was a farmer in Littleton NH. He and Sarah had ten children
68 EDWARD 4 WHEELER m. ELIZABETH HERRICK of Charlestown Edw3/John2/Geo1
They married 17 May 1721. [According to separate Tolman notes, they moved to Littleton – JCW]
Their children were:
196. I Elizabeth b. 2 Feb. 1722/3
197. II Sarah b. 4 Feb. 1724/5
198. III Edward 5 b. 2 April 1729 d. 8 May 1929
199. IV Jonathan 5 b. 28 June 1730 m. Mary Hartwell
200. V Hannah b. 8 Sept. 1733
201. VI Edward 5 b. 9 Oct 1738
71 DAVID 4 WHEELER m. SARAH MERIAM Edw3/John2/Geo1
Sarah Meriam was born 1 April 1713, daughter of Samuel & Sarah (Wheeler) Meriam. [See #20 in Meriam genealogy. – JCW] David died 24 March 1784; Sarah on 5 April 1797, aged 83 says record, but she was 84. In his will of 18 March 1783 he speaks of “my daughter Sarah Harlow, and her children Lucy Vose and John Vose”. David 4 is buried in the Hill Burying Ground: his wife's grave is unknown. [David 4 was a weaver, Deacon, and, at age 68, participated in the Concord Fight – RW], [According to Town assessors' records, David, in 1747, owned real estate valued at 38 pounds, 2 oxen, 4 cows, 1 horse, 1 swine, and 15 sheep – JCW].
They had two children as follows:
202. I Ephraim 5 b. 11 Dec. 1734 m. Sarah Haywood
203. II Sarah b. 31 Jan 1736 m. (1) David Vose (2)Harlow
78 TIMOTHY 4 WHEELER m. (1) SARAH HUNT (2) MARY HUBBARD (3) MARY BOND Eben'r 3/John2/Geo1
Timothy and Sarah married 2 March 1742/3. Sarah was born 24 Jan 1720/1: daughter of John & Mary (Brown) Hunt. She died 29 July 1753 and he married, [on 9 July 1754], MARY (ADAMS) HUBBARD , widow of Peter Hubbard. Mary was born 18 May 1730, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Minot) Adams. She died 30 Oct 1759. On 2 Jan 1765 he married, 3 rd , HANNAH BOND, widow of Amos Bond of Watertown. Her maiden name was Bright, b. 15 Jan. 1722, daughter of Nathaniel & Ann (Bowman) Bright.[She is # 91 Bright in Bond's Watertown .] She survived Timothy and is mentioned in his will. He died 26 Sept 1795 and is buried with his 1 st & 2 nd wives in the Main Street Burying Ground. He is called in the records “Timothy Wheeler, Jr.”, “Lieut.” And afterwards “Capt.” He was familiarly nicknamed “Pond Tim”, and achieved some little reputation on April 19, 1775.
His children were:
204. I Mary b. 11 Dec 1743 m. Fisk
205. II Sarah b. 5 May 1746 m. Lawrence
206. III Rebecca b. 8 April 1748
207. IV Elizabeth b. 8 Feb 1749/50 d, 26 Jan 1754
208. V Timothy 5 b. 13 [or 24] May 1752 m. Sarah Hubbard
209. VI Peter 5 b. 24 April 1755 m. Phebe Brooks
210. VII Elizabeth b. 20 August 1756 m. John P. Heywood
211. VIII Ebenezer 5 b. 24 Feb 1759
83 DANIEL 5 WHEELER m. (1) BETTY HOLLOWAY (2) MARY CLEVELAND Thom4/Thom3/Thom2/Geo1
The following is from Henry Warren Wheeler: Betty was the daughter of Lieut. William Holloway of Northborough, now Marlboro MA. She died in Hardwick 7 March 1774. Daniel then married Mrs. Mary Cleveland of New Marlborough. She died in 1810 and he in 1813 [in Jan, in Hardwick, MA—Source: see "212. THOMAS 6 WHEELER" - JCW].
His children by his first wife were:
212. I John 6 b. about 1757 m. Mary Paige
[Henry Warren Wheeler lists a son Daniel 7 who married Sally Wheeler, daughter of Col. Thomas Wheeler in Hardwick. They had ten children. He also lists a son John who married Submit Cutting and then Sophia Wheeler and had eight children.]
213. II Mary b. about 1759 m. Moses Mandell
85 AMOS 5 WHEELER m. Mary Belcher Henshaw Thom4/Thom3/Thom2/Geo1
They married 2 May 1762. Mary was the daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Bass) Henshaw. [See Henry Warren Wheeler for a full discussion of Amos and his wife].
Their children were:
214. I Elizabeth b. 4 May 1763 m. Elijah Warren
215. II Amos 6 b. 5 Aug 1764 [Henry Warren Wheeler lists an Amos 7 born in Woodstock VT on 13 Dec. 1803, marrying Louisa Amelia Warren. He became a Unitarian minister and ended up in Topsham ME and was associated with Bowdoin College. They had four children. Henry Warren Wheeler himself counted Amos 6 as grandfather, his father being Amos Dean 7 Wheeler. Henry Warren Wheeler was very active in Brunswick ME affairs.]
216. III Mary Belcher b. 19 Dec. 1774 m. Elijah Warren as his second wife
217. IV Charlotte b. 4 Oct. 1778 single – lived for many years with her nephew, the Rev. Amos Dean 7 Wheeler and died in Topsham ME 1 Aug. 1870
86 NATHAN 5 WHEELER m. HANNAH HUNT Thom4/Thom3/Thom2/Geo1
Nathan, who was born in Acton 15 Sept 1736, later settled in Hardwick MA and died in Vermont 3 Nov. 1819.
Their children were:
218. I Persis b. 27 March 1763 d. 6 Aug. 1853
219. II Lemuel 6 b. 30 April 1764 m. Anna Ames
220. III Nathan 6 b. 16 June 1767 m. Silence Giles of Chester VT
221. IV Hannah b. 22 Dec. 1768 m. Lewis Abbott
222. V Betsey b. 4 May 1773 m. Elihu Wright of Westminster VT
223. VI Polly b. 5 April 1775 m. Peter Wilder of Oakham
224. VII Artemas 6 b. 10 June 1777
88 THOMAS 5 WHEELER m. SARAH WARNER Thom4/Thom3/Thom2/Geo1
Sarah was born 1 Nov. 1742, daughter of Jonathan Warner of Hardwick MA.
Their children were:
225. I Charles 6 b. 13 Oct. 1763 [According to Henry Warren Wheeler he married Luthera Bangs, moved to Ticonderoga NY, and had two children.]
226. II Thomas 6 b. 3 March 1767 m. (1) Anna Dexter (2) Mary Paige. [According to Henry Warren Wheeler he had fifteen children.]
227. III Moses 6 b. 26 March 1769 m. Mehitable Pearson of Randolph VT
228. IV Daniel 6 b. d. 8 Oct. 1798
229 V Sally single d. 5 July 1793
[In 2011, Mr. James "Stuart" Babin provided a genealogical record for a sixth child, "Willam 6 Augustus Wheeler", who had two wives: (1) ANNA DEXTER; (2) MARY PAIGE. - JCW]
94 WAREHAM 5 WHEELER m. MARY Wm4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
Mary died 17 July 1766. Wareham must have died before May 1787 when his administrator renders an account of his estate. He had one son:
230. I William 6 b. 3 Feb 1866 m. Mitty Lee
95 OLIVER 5 WHEELER m. MARY Wm4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
Oliver died by drowning in 1796. His widow died 2 March 1812, aged 56. Children were:
231. I Mercy Willard b. 11 Aug 1782
232. II Mary Willard b. 9 Feb 1784 d. 7 April 1784
96 JOSEPH 5 WHEELER m. MARY HOSMER Jos4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 7 Jan 1750. Mary was born 16 Oct 1726, daughter of Mehitable (Parker) Hosmer. Joseph Wheeler was of Fitchburg in 1784.
103 AMOS 5 WHEELER m. RHODA BUTTRICK Jos4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
Amos died in Ashby in 1777, leaving several children.
106 FRANCIS 5 WHEELER m MARY HAYWARD Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 15 March 1755. Mary was born 31 March 1736, daughter of Josiah and Mary (Hosmer) Hayward. Francis died 25 June 1778, his widow died 23 March 1831, aged 95.
Their children were:
233. I Mary b. 17 March 1756 m. Josiah Whitney [Josiah Whitney was the son of Isaiah Whitney, Jr. and became guardian for siblings Ruth and Rhoda – RRW]
234. II Rebecca b. 27 March 1758 [d.1784, m. Jonas Bemis. They had a daughter Rebecca Wheeler Bemis who married a Brown – RRW]
235. III Miriam b. 19 April 1760
236. IV Josiah Hayward 6 b. 29 Dec. 1762 m. Polly [He bought out his sisters – RRW,]
237. V Ruth b. 1 April 1762 d. 17 Aug 1786
238. VI Olive b. 26 April 1767 [m. Silas Haynes]
239. VII Rhoda b. 15 Sept. 1769 m. Elijah Brown of Sudbury
240. VIII Elizabeth b. 12 Feb. 1772
241. IX Daniel 6 b. 27 April; 1774 m. Mary H. Forbush
242. X Simeon H. 6 b. 10 Oct. 1776 m. Betsy Forbush
112 SAMUEL 5 WHEELER m. KEZIAH WELLINGTON Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 24 June 1773. He died 13 Jan. 1832, his wife died 23 Feb. 1830, aged 85. They are buried in lot No. 122 “New Burying Ground”. Their son Nathan is buried in the same lot. The Yeoman's gazette in a 21 Jan 1832 obituary said, "In this town, on Friday evening, the 13th inst. Mr. Samuel Wheeler, aged 88."
His children were:
243. I Anna b. 22 Sept. 1773
244. II Elijah 6 bapt. 11 Jan. 1778 d. 27 June 1815 non compos
245. III Keziah b. 13 Sept. 1780 d. 10 Dec. 1782
246. IV Elisha 6 b. 18 Nov. 1783 m. Eleanor Tower
247. V Nathan 6 b. 13 March 1787 d. 31 Oct. 1865 (single)
248. VI Samuel 6 b. 1789 d. 30 Aug.1802, aged 13
113 PHINEAS 5 WHEELER m. LYDIA MERIAM Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
Lydia was born 1 May 1747, daughter of Josiah (Meriam Genealogy# 51) and Lydia (Wheeler) Meriam. Phineas 5 died 18 June 1814: his will names “eldest son Phineas, second son Amos, son Timothy, son Stephen of West Cambridge, eldest daughter Lydia, daughter Anna M. and my third daughter Hannah French”. The births of some of these children are not recorded. [Land bounded E on Lee, Brigham, Fitchburg Turnpike 1806.] The widow Lydia married Benjamin Smith of Stow and died 26 March 1839, aged 92 years.
His children were:
249. I Phineas 6 b. 9 Feb. 1775 m. Sally Smith
250. II Amos 6 b. 13 Sept. 1777 m. Mary Downing
251. III Artemas b. 26 Feb. 1781 m. Elizabeth Downing
252. IV Lydia b. 11 March 1783 d. 24 March 1861
253. V Anna Meriam bapt. 20 March 1785 d. 31 May 1864 m. Noah Wheeler [#257]
254. VI Hannah b. 14 April 1787 m. Moses French
255. VII Stephen 6 b. m. Sally Whittemore
256. VIII Timothy 6 b. 17 Jan. 1790 m. Sophia Jones
115 NOAH 5 WHEELER m. SARAH MERIAM Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
Sarah and Noah were married 30 July 1776. She was born 19 April 1753, daughter of Josiah (Meriam Genealogy # 51) and Lydia (Wheeler) Meriam. He died 23 Feb. 1834, she died 9 March 1825.They are buried, as is son Barzillai, in lot # 34 in the “New Burying Ground.”
Their children were:
257. I Noah 6 b. 3 Feb 1778 d. 1855 m. Anna Meriam Wheeler (#222) 15 Jan 1811. [Tolman separately notes that Noah and Anna (Ann?) were “cousin in double relation, their fathers (Noah and Phineas) being brothers and their mothers (Sarah and Lydia Meriam) being sisters.” – JCW]
258. II Francis 6 b. 29 Jan.1780 d. 1853 m. Susan Stearns
259. III Sally b. 21 July 1782 m. 1. Peter Hunt; 2. Artemas Brown
260. IV Barzillai 6 bapt. 17 Aug. 1784 d. 27 Dec. 1841 (single)
261. V Cyrus 6 b. 10 Nov. 1786 d. 1855 m. Elizabeth Smith
262. VI Polly b. 5 Aug. 1789 d. 11 Dec. 1795
263. VII Betsy b. 3 Jan 1792 m. Simon Roby
264. VIII Dorcas bapt. 23 March 1794 m. William Lee
116. PETER 5 WHEELER m. MARTHA MAXWELL Hez4/Wm3/Wm3/Geo1
The following children were recorded at Stow:
265. I Levi 6 b. 29 Oct. 1784 [1754? JCW]
266. II William 6 b. 22 Nov. 1757
267. III Peter 6 b. 29 Oct. 1760
268. IV Katherine b. 5 July 1763.
120 HEZEKIAH 5 WHEELER m. MARY GILBERT Hez4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 12 Nov. 1767 in Acton. Hezekiah died in Acton 5 Nov. 1786 in his 46 th year. The births of their first two children only are recorded, the rest gleaned from the guardianship records in the Probate Court. They were probably all born in Acton.
269. I William 6 b. 16 April 1768
270. II Hezekiah 6 b. 7 Nov. 1779 d. 7 Aug. 1813
271. III Patty m. Jacob Blaisdell
272. IV Daniel 6 over 14 years old on 10 May 1787
273. V Aaron 6 under 14 years old on 10 May, 1787
274. VI Joseph D. 6 [bapt. 30 May 1779 AVR]
275. VII Sarah [bapt. 24 Nov. 1780 AVR]
276. VIII Reuben 6 [bapt. 13 April 1782 AVR] m. Rhoda
277. IX Lydia [bapt. 18 June 1784 AVR]
126. AMOS 5 WHEELER m. EUNICE GATES Hez4/Wm.3/Wm2/Geo1
Amos went to Charlestown NH and (according to Saunderson's story of Charlestown p. 613) had:
278. I Amos 6 m. Rachel
279. II Sarah
280. III Allen 6 IRA
281. IV Jesse 6 b. 26 July 1791 d, 1874 m. Philera
282. V Catherine, who was living 1876, unmarried
283. VI Abigail b. 3 Jan. 1794
284. VII Mary
285. VIII Hammond 6 b. 28 March 1796
286. IX Daniel 6 b. 28 March 1796
287. X Willard 6 b. 22 Aug 1800
288. XI Charles 6 b. 22 Aug. 1800
129. ROGER 5 WHEELER m. EUNICE GILBERT Nathl4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 30 Aug. 1764 in Acton. He died in Acton 30 Dec. 1813, aged 76. She died Feb. 1830, aged 86. This is on the authority of their gravestones. Children, born in Acton, were:
289. I Abigail b. 27 Nov. 1767
290. II Meriam b. 3 Feb. 1770 m. John Meriam
291. III Josiah Gilbert 6 b. 9 Aug. 1772
292. IV Roger 6 b. 25 Oct. 1775
293. V Theodore 6 b. 5 Feb. 1777 m. Hannah
294. VI Nathaniel 6 b. 12 Nov. 1779
295. VII Eunice b. 18 March 1782
296. VIII Joseph 6 b. 25 June 1784
297. IX Mary b. 25 June 1784
[Note, a part of a newspaper clipping inserted in Ruth Wheeler's copy reads as follows: “Corinth, Orono Families Prize Diaries Written a Century Ago When Life Was Hard, But Simple. By Joseph Cobb, News Staff Writer. Faint words scrawled with quills by the light of quivering candles bring the Maine scene of almost a century ago to life for families in Corinth and Orono.
“Home-made Ink – The faded notations – probably made in home-made ink – are to be found in two sets of crumbling dairies written by Joseph B. Wheeler, grandfather of Fred L McCard of Corinth and William M. Scott of Chester, great-great grandfather of Rachel and John Kylee, children of Mr and Mrs. Edward E Ross of Orono.
“Wheeler, a Corinth native, whose father built the first frame house in town, was a selectman, attorney, preacher, undertaker, farmer and one-man draft board for the town of Corinth during the Civil War.” JCW]
133 ABEL 5 WHEELER m. MARY Jermh4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
298. I Louisa (bap. Lovice) (Also called Lovisa) b. 7 Dec. 1782
299. II Polly b. 29 July 1784
300. III Martha Russell b. 30 April 1986
301. IV Betty b. 29 July 1788
302. V Abel 6 b. 4 April 1791
303. VI Sarah b. 2 Sept. 1793
304. VII John 6 b. 9 July 1796
305. VIII Dorothy b. 4 Feb. 1799
148. JOSIAH 5 WHEELER m. LUCY HEALD Josiah4/John3/Wm2/Geo1
Lucy Heald was born 5 May 1742, daughter of John and Lydia Heald. Josiah removed to Temple NH and died there 7 May 1834. The births of the following children are recorded there:
306. I Lucy b. 16 Jan 1765
307. II Josiah 6 b. 6 Jan. 1768
308. III Mary b. 6 Jan. 1768
309. IV Elizabeth b. 29 Aug. 1769 d. 22 March 1772
310. V Eleanor b. 22 April 1771
149. NATHAN 5 WHEELER m. LYDIA ADAMS Josiah4/John3/Wm2/Geo1
Lydia Adams was born 5 June 1743, daughter of John and Lydia. Nathan, [like his brother Josiah 5], removed to Temple NH and died there 7 May 1834. The births of the following children are recorded there:
311. I Nathan 6 b. 20 Oct. 1781
312. II Lydia b. 9 Aug. 1783
313. III Josiah 6 b. 4 May 1786
314. IV Thomas 6
152 ABIJAH 5 WHEELER m. (1) ABIGAIL and (2) CATHERINE Josiah4/John3/Wm2/Geo1
Abijah died at Woburn 28 Dec. 1812 and his son, Artemis, of Temple NH was made administrator of his estate. His daughter Hepzibeth, “a minor above the age of 14 yrs”, is put under guardianship 15 Feb. 1813. His widow Catherine appears on the record. The first two children were by the first wife and their births are recorded in Concord. Their children were:
315. I Artemas 6 b. 7 March 1774
316. II Nabby b. 10 Sept. 1775
317. III Hepsibeth
155 THOMAS 5 WHEELER (Single) Josiah4/John3/Wm2/Geo1
Thomas 5 Wheeler died a bachelor and left all his property to his Nephew Thomas (#275) “to the exclusion of my other heirs, viz: my brothers Josiah, Nathan and Abbijah, and my sisters Mary & Anna Wheeler, and Hepzibah Haynes.” Abel Moore, ex'r of the estate, was made guardian of the divisee, who was mildly insane. In 1844 he was again put under guardianship: again released in 1849, and a third time put under restraint in 1858.
[The following is from “An Account of Some of the Early Settlers of WEST DUNSTABLE, MONSON and HOLLIS, N.H.” by Charles S. Spaulding, Nashua Press, 1915 – JCW]
160 JAMES 5 WHEELER m. MARY BUTTERFIELD James/4/Geo3/Wm2/Geo1
Mary Butterfield was from Hollis NH. They were married 1 Nov. 1750. They settled east of Patch Corner in the township of Monson. He became involved in debt. “He removed about a mile east, near the Shattuck land, and told his folks to tell [his creditors] he had gone to Boston. The place has been called Boston Lot ever since. Mr. Wheeler served in the war of the Revolution in Capt. Noah Worcester's company at Cambridge in 1775. Shortly after this he removed to the north part of Dunstable, where his wife's people resided, and soon after became insane and remained in that condition four or five years. He spent all his wife's property, who became heir to several hundred acres of those pitch pines forests of Dunstable plains.”
The children were:
318. I James 6 b. 29 Jan. 1753 m. Hannah Read
319. II Reuben 6 b. 30 Jan. 1755 m. Dorcas Stevens3201.
320. III Mary b. 28 Nov. 1756
321. III John 6 b. 2 July 1758 m. Biah or Byer
322. IV Levincey b. 20 Aug. 1760 m. William King
323. V Abiezer 6 b. 2 Feb. 1765 m. Ruth Williams
324. VI Zebulon 6 b. 20 Jan. 1768 m. widow Mary Pool Kendrick
325. VII Solomon 6 b. 28 April 1769 m. Hannah Farley
162. DANIEL 5 WHEELER m. AMY MORSE James4/Geo3/Wm2/Geo1
[The following, like #160, is from Spaulding -- JCW.]
Daniel was born 23 April 1736 in Bedford MA, moving to West Dunstable NH with his father, settling in Patch Corner, Monson NH – later a part of Hollis NH. He served in the French War in Capt. Peter Power's company. The family left Hollis before 1800. He died in 1775; his widow, who later married Samuel Leeman of Patch Corner, died in 1821 in Concord NH.
The children of Daniel and Amy were:
326. I Lydia b. 24 Nov. 1757 m. Joseph Adams
327. II Abner 6 b. 14 April 1760 m. Mary Ross He was at battle of Bennington.
328. III Jacob 6 b. 5 March 1763 m. Elizabeth Dix
329. IV Daniel 6 b. 18 March 1765 m. Chive White
330. V Benjamin 6 b. 18 Aug. 1768 m. Polly Fitch
331. VI Hannah b. 1772 d. 1862 m. (1) Joseph Flagg,
(2) Deacon Nathaniel Hale
159 THADDEUS 5 WHEELER m. ELIZABETH FARMER James4/Geo3/Wm2/Geo1
[The following, like #160 and # 162 is from Spaulding -- JCW]
Lieut. Thaddeus Wheeler was born in West Dunstable NH 16 Dec, 1742 and died in 1826 from the effects of a kick of a steer. He belonged to the Hollis NH Minute Men, served in the Revolution and was Hollis Selectman 1787 – 1808. He was an ardent Democrat of the Jefferson school. They married in 1769.
Their children were:
332. I Elizabeth b. 12 July 1770 m. David French of Hollis NH
333. II Thaddeus 6 b. 10 Oct. 1773 d. 1871 m. Sibbel Spaulding
334. III Minot 6 b. 6 May 1777 m. Sally Farley
335. IV Theodore 6 b. 7 Jan. 1780 m Susannah Hamlet of Hollis NH
336. V Amos 6 b. 12 July 1783 m. Mary Rideout
337. VI Major James b, 6 Aug. 1785 m. Dorcas Mooar
338. VII Capt. Benjamin b. 16 Oct. 1790 m. Rhoda Rideout
166 PETER 5 WHEELER m. MEHITABLE JEWETT Peter4/Geo3/Wm2/Geo1
Ms. Jewett was from Hollis NH. The children born at Hollis, according to Worcester's History of Hollis (p. 390) were:
339. I Mehitable b. 29 Feb. 1752
340. II Peter 6 b. 31 Aug. 1753
341. III Samuel 6 b. 18 July 1755
342. IV Esther b. 7 Jan. 1758
343. V Hannah b.12 Oct. 1760
344. VI Benjamin 6 b. 29 July 1763
345. VII Joseph 6 b. 15 Nov. 1766
346. VIII Jonathan 6 b. 2 July 1768
347. IX Nathan 6 b. 19 March 1774
169 BENJAMIN 5 WHEELER m. SUSANNA WILLIAMS Peter4/Geo3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 11 Sept 1777 in Bedford
172 EBENEZER 5 WHEELER m AZUBA TAYLOR Peter4/Geo3/Wm2/Geo1
They married at Hollis NH.
173 LABBEUS 5 WHEELER m. ELIZABETH CARTER Peter4/Geo3/Wm2/Geo1
187 TIMOTHY 5 WHEELER m. BETSEY (MARY?) NEVINS Simon4/Geo3/Wm2/Geo1
They married at Hollis NH on 8 Sept. 1773. The Nevins went from Bedford. Timothy died in Amherst NH 28 Nov. 1826, “a native of Concord MA, in his 77 th year.” Betsey died Oct. 1815 aged 65. Secomb's History of Amherst NH gives the following as his children:
348. I Timothy 6 b. 12 Jan 1774 m. Betsy Peacock Beverly
349. III Simon 6 b. 23 July 1777 d. 6 Feb 1803
350. IV Nathan 6 b. 1779 m. Huldah Wilkins
351. V William Nevins 6 b. 1781 m. Hannah Odell
352. VIII Daniel 6 b. 26 Oct. 1789 m. Martha Aitken
353. IX John 6 b. 1796 m. Nancy Rhodes
354. X Jonathan 6 b. 1795 m. Martha Beals
355. II Mary b. 2 Oct. 1775 d young
356. XII Betsey b. 1799
357. VI Rebecca b. 1783 m. Jacob McIntire
358. VII Joseph 6 b. 1786
359. XI Mary b. 1797 m. Peregrine Nichols
188 DANIEL 5 WHEELER m. (1) EUNICE HOBART and (2) MARY FULLER Simon4/Geo3/Wm2/Geo1
They lived in Plymouth NH
189 SIMON 5 WHEELER m. LYDIA HALL Simon4/Geo3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 13 July 1780. He died at Concord 3 Jan. 1833 in his 79 th year. His will mentions eldest son Isaac and only daughter Polly. His widow removed to Amherst NH where she died 23 July 1846, aged 84. He was a Revolutionary pensioner. The following children were baptized at Concord:
360. I Isaac Hall 6 b. 26 Feb. 1781 m. Sarah Dodge and lived in Hollis NH according to Seccomb's History p. 826
361. II Polly bapt. 26 Jan. 1783 m. Turner of Boston
362. III Joseph 6 bapt. 22 Oct. 1786
363. IV James 6 bapt. 25 May 1788
199 JONATHAN 5 WHEELER m. MARY HARTWELL Edwd4/Edwd3/John2/Geo1
He died in Littleton 22 July 1799; his widow died 21 June 1801, aged 83. Children born at Littleton:
364. I Thomas 6 b. 10 March 1760 m. Anna Reed
365. II Lucy b. 16 Feb 1762
366. III Elizabeth b. 5 Jan. 1764
367. IV Mary b. 29 Oct. 1765
368. V Esther b. 27 June 1767
369. VI Jonathan 6 b. 27 June 1767
370. VII Susanna b. 6 Oct. 1773
371. VIII Edward 6 b. 12 March 1776
202 EPHRAIM 5 WHEELER m. SARAH HEYWOOD David4/Edwd3/John2/Geo1
They married 27 Nov. 1766. Sarah was born 18 Oct. 1745, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Stone) Heywood. Ephraim died 23 [or 25] Sept. 1809. The widow Sarah married 13 July 1811 William Parkman and died 16 Nov. 1837. [Interestingly, her son Ephraim 6 later married his daughter Sarah --JCW.] [Ephraim 5 fought at Concord, Bunker Hill and White Plains. – RW] [The Concord Museum reports in its Winter/Spring 2006 Newsletter that it owns “a 1776 muster roll for Ephraim Wheeler's company, which was part of Eleazer Brooks' regiment” – JCW]
Children at Concord:
372. I Sarah b. 27 Aug, 1767
373. II Rebecca b. 20 Jan 1770 m. Thomas Hubbard
374. III Ephraim 6 b. 21 March 1773 m. Sarah Parkman
375. IV Jonathan 6 b. 31 July 1776 d. 4 Sept 1811 (single)
376. V Sally b. 24 Jan. 1786 m. Seth Bemis
208 TIMOTHY 5 WHEELER m. SARAH HUBBARD Tim4/Eben'r3/John2/Geo1
They married 11 April 1776. She was born 12 April 1756, daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Derby) Hubbard. Timothy Wheeler was of Mason NH and all his children were born there. He died 13 Dec. 1820, aged 68, says the record which thus identifies him as above traced.
Children:
377. I Sally b. 27 March 1777 d. 6 March 1848 m. Aaron Warren
378. II Betsey b. 5 Jan. 1779 d. 6 Feb. 1855
379. III Polly b. 14 March 1781 d. 7 June 1855 m. David Boynton
380. IV Timothy 6 b. 16 June 1783 d. 21 Jan. 1854
381. V Lucy b. 1 Dec. 1784 d. 28 Dec. 1861 m. Samuel Stone
[Samuel Stone was of Mason NH, born 17 Aug. 1779, d, 29 Aug, 1830; son of Samuel Stone (1756-1829) and Sarah Wallace (1756-1827) – JCW)
382. VI Nancy b. 14 April 1787 d. 9 Sept. 1845 m. S. Weston
383. VII Hannah b. 1 May 1789 d. 4 March 1817m. Oliver Wright, Jr.
384. VIII Ebenezer 6 b. 19 July 1791 d. 6 Aug. 1866
385. IX Amy[Amey] b. 18 Sept 1793 m. David Sanders 1791-1863
[They had a daughter Sarah Wheeler Sanders who was grandmother to Ruth Sanders Thomson of Riverdale CT.]
386. X Rebecca b. 6 Dec. 1796 d. 5 Nov. 1869
209 PETER 5 WHEELER m. PHEBE BROOKS Timothy4/Eben'r3/John2/Geo1
They married 24 Jan. 1788. Phebe was born 22 July 1766, daughter of Joshua & Hannah (Simonds) Brooks. He died 14 May 1813 and is buried beside his father and mother and brother William in the Main Street burying ground. Phebe and her daughter Phebe were “dismissed” from the 2 nd church in Concord and recommended to the church in Fitchburg 19 Aug. 1842.
[Daughter Phebe Wheeler [#388] kept a private school in Peter Wheeler's house at 92 Walden Street where she taught the Thoreau children. See The Days of Henry Thoreau by Walter Harding, Princeton, 1962, pp 17-18 – RRW/JCW]
The children, born at Concord, were:
387. I Peter 6 b. 26 Sept. 1789 d. at sea 22 Sept. 1811
388. II Phebe b. 26 July 1792
389. III William 6 b. 1 Jan. 1795 d. at Andover 13 Sept. 1818
390. IV Timothy A b. 1 April 1806 m. Elizabeth, went to Stoneham where he died 1837. He was a cordwainer.
[212. JOHN 6 WHEELER m. MARY Daniel 5/Thom 4/Thom 3/Thom 2/Geo 1
In 2011, Mr. James "Stuart" Babin provided a genealogical record for John 6 Wheeler, created by his maternal grandfather, Harold W. Wheeler; according to these records, this "John 6 Wheeler" was born in 1757 in Hardwick, MA, & died 8 Jun 1794. HIs wife, Mary: b. 1761, d. May 1821.
They had seven children as follows:
212a. I Betsey b. Jun 1780 d. Jul 1849 m. Isaac Davis, May 1845
212b. II Fanny b. Sep 1781 d. Jul 1807 m. Lemuel Weeks
212c. III Daniel b. 07 Oct 1783
(Henry Warren Wheeler lists this son, who married Sally Wheeler, daughter of Col. Thomas Wheeler in Hardwick. They had ten children.)
212d. IV John b. 1785
212e. V Mary b. 1788
212f. VI Holloway b. Sep 1790 d. Apr 1841, Rutland, VT
212g. VII (Unnamed) b. 02 Dec 1792 d. 02 Dec 1792
This genealogical line continued from 212d John 7, who had John Arey 8, who had John Arey 9, who had Joshua Stephen 10, who had Harold Winthrop 11, who had Sally Louise 12, who had James Stuart 13, who had Mr. James "Stuart" Babin 14, the source of this information - JCW]
220 NATHAN 6 WHEELER m. SILENCE GILES Nathan5/Thom4/Thom3/Thom2/Geo1
Nathan 6 of Hardwick MA married Silence Giles of Chester VT and settled in Weathersfield VT.
Their children, according to Henry Warren Wheeler, were:
391. I Silence b. 8 Feb. 1798
392. II Nathan 7 b. 8 Jan. 1800
393. III Artemas 7 b. 9 April 1802 m. Elizabeth Downing
394. IV Charlotte b. 3 April 1804
395. V David 7 b. 29 July 1806 d. 14 April 1808
396. VI Amos 7 b. 12 Feb. 1809 d. 22 July 1809
397. VII Martha b. 26 Aug. 1810
398 VIII Fanny b. 3 Dec 1813
399. IX A son b. 7 July 1816 d. same day
400. X Lucia b. 11 March 1820
230 WILLIAM 6 WHEELER m. MITTY LEE Wareham5/Wm4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 13 Dec. 1790. Mitty was born 12 April 1769, daughter of Woodis & Mary (White) Lee. The birth of their first child was recorded at Concord; the names of the others, whose births were recorded in Sudbury, are also listed in the papers of the estate of Warren Wheeler (#405) who died intestate and single at Lowell in 1829. The children were:
401. I Wareham 7 b. 24 Aug. 1792 m. Susan F. Gibbs 4 Nov. 1820. On 8 June 1835 Susan Wareham, widow of Wareham Wheeler, who recently died at Cincinnati, Ohio, administers his property in Boston.
402. II William 7 b. 6 Jan. 1796
403. III Mitty L. b. 29 March 1798
404. IV Woodhouse L 7 b. 10 July 1800
405. V Warren 7 b. 28 Dec. 1801 single d. Lowell 1829
406. VI Willard 7 b. 12 Aug. 1804
407. VII Winthrop 7 b. 5 March 1806
408. VIII Mary b. 10 May 1807
409. IX Webster 7 b. 24 April 1810
410. X Mary b. 10 Feb. 1812
236 JOSIAH [HAYWARD] 6 WHEELER m. POLLY Fran5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
The children were:
411. I Rebecca b. 26 March 1792
412. II James 7 b. 11 Aug. 1794
413. III
241 DANIEL 6 WHEELER m. MARY H. FORBUSH Fran5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 14 March 1801. Their children were:
414. I Amos 7 b. 23 Oct. 1801
415. II Olive b. 16 Jan. 1803
416. III Francis 7 b. 6 June 1804
417. IV Josiah H. 7 bapt. 10 April 1807 d. when 3 days old
418. V Jonas Lee 7 b. 24 July 1808
242 SIMEON H. 6 WHEELER m. BETSEY FORBUSH Fran5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 4 June 1807 and lived in Waltham. Their children were :
419. I Isaac 7 b. 21 Jan. 1808
420. ` II Mary Weston b. 27 June 1810
246 ELISHA 6 WHEELER m. ELENOR TOWER Sam'l 5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 3 Jan. 1816. Elenor was born 18 July 1790, daughter of Abel and Elenor (Parmenter) Tower of Sudbury. Elisha died 10 June 1856; Elenor died 30 Aug. 1860, aged 70. They are buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Their children were:
421. I Elenor b. 10 Feb 1817 m. (1) Jos. Whitman(2) N.P.Coburn
422. II Mary b. 2 Feb 1819 m. Rensselaer Bacon
423. III Joel 7 b. 13 Feb. 1821 m. Almira Tuttle
424. IV Hannah b. 22 Nov. 1822 m. William Richards
425. V Nancy b. 6 March 1827 m. Charles A. Hubbard
426. VI daughter d. 26 July 1829 – one week old
427. VII son d. 3 Oct. 1831 – two weeks old
428. VIII Elbridge 7 b. Nov. 1832 m. (1) Catherine A. Davis, (2) Susanna P. Wetherbee
429 IX Lucy bapt. 31 Oct 1830 m. Tuttle
249 PHINEAS 6 WHEELER m. SALLY SMITH Phin5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 12 July 1801. Sally was born at Sudbury 27 Feb. 1778, daughter of Abel and Ruth Smith. Their children were:
430. I Almira b. 14 Dec, 1801 m. Perkins Carlton
431. II Caroline b. 9 Oct. 1804 m. Joshua Carlton
432. III Stephen 7 bapt. 10 July 1808
433. IV Andrew Jackson bapt. 14 July 1816
434. V Sophronia m. Day
435. VI Sarah Ann m. Cram
436. VII Mary J. single
250 AMOS 6 WHEELER m. MARY DOWNING Phin5/Fran 4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 3 Sept. 1801. Mary came from Waltham, he from Boston and they lived in Watertown MA. Their children were: {as listed in a communication to Mr. Tolman found among his papers):
437. I Mary Ann m. Benj. F. Farrar
438. II Lydia m. Warren Wright
439. III Henrietta m. Lougee
440. IV Evelyn Augusta b. 1807 m. Luther Bent of Watertown
441. V Thatcher 7
251 ARTEMAS 6 WHEELER m. ELIZABETH DOWNING Phin5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 29 May 1803. He died 11 Jan 1845, she died Jan 1859. They are buried with their son Amos in lot 30 East, New Burying Ground. At the time of their marriage he lived in Boston and some of the children were perhaps born there -- others in Concord, but none of their births are recorded. They were:
442. I William 7 b. 1807 m. Lucy Miles
443. II Amos 7 b. 1808 d. 8 July 1859, aged 51 years
444. III Ann m. Durant
445. IV Eliza m. Graham
446. V Angeline m. Currier
447. VI Artemas 7 b. 1817 m. Betsey C. Whittier
448. VII Alpheus 7 b. 1825 d. 22 May 1826, aged I year
449. VIII Joseph Atwood 7 m. Alice
450. IX Albert 7 m. Mary E.
255 STEPHEN 6 WHEELER m. SALLY WHITTEMORE Phin5/Fran4/Wm.3/Wm2/Geo1
Sally was born in Cambridge 15 Sept. 1788, daughter of Josiah & Olive (Winship) Whittemore. Stephen died at Boston and his widow married Joshua Avery. They had no children.
256 TIMOTHY 6 WHEELER m. SOPHIA JONES Phin5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
Sophia was born 27 June 1797. He died at Watertown 16 Jan 1853, she died 1 Jan 1880. Their children were:
451. I Horace 7 b. 20 Nov. 1817 at Concord
452. II George 7 b. 24 Nov. 1819 at Concord
453. III Otis 7 b. 20 May 1822 at Concord
454. IV Lydia A. b. 20 Oct 1825 at Concord [Chelmsford]
455. V. Hannah b. at Keene NH
456. VI Lavinia b. at Keene NH
457. VII Albert 7 b. at Keene NH
458. IX Eliza Jane b. 20 Aug. 1835 at Keene NH
257 NOAH 6 WHEELER m. ANNA MERIAM WHEELER Noah5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
Noah married his cousin (#253) 15 Jan. 1811. He died 3 Jan 1855, she died 31 May 1864. They are buried in lot 73 New Burying Ground.
Their children were:
459. I Charles 7 b. 13 Aug 1811 d. 28 Dec. 1860 single
460. II Sophia bapt. 1 May 1814 m. Nathan S. Hosmer
461. III Noah Emerson 7 bapt. 1 June 1817 d. 12 Jan 1869
462. IV Elbridge 7 b. 3 Nov. 1819 d. 7 July 1822
463. V John 7 b. 2 May 1822 d. 2 Dec 1833 single
464. VI Warren 7 b. 30 June 1825 d. 22 Jan 1842
465. VII George 7 b. 18 Aug 1831 m. Vester A. Fowler
258 FRANCIS 6 WHEELER m. SUSAN[NA] STEARNS Noah5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2Geo1
[They married 25 Nov. 1809 – JCW]. Francis died 21 July 1833, Susan [was born in Waltham 24 March 1786 –JCW] and died 2 Feb. 1869. They were buried in lot 26 E. New Burying Ground.
Their children were:
466. I William Henry 7 b. 29 March 1811 d. 23 Oct. 1863
467. II Susan Elvira b. 8 March 1813 m. Henry B. Stone 14 Sept. 1846
468. III Francis Augustus 7 b. 3 April 1815 m. Sarah A. Hunter
469. IV Joshua Stearns 7 b. 12 April 1817 d.18 July 1862 m. Ann B. Johnson
470. V Avis Moore b. 8 July 1819 m. Willard C. Stevens 4 Nov. 1851
471. VI Lois Jane b. 19 Feb. 1823 m. Richard Barrett 20 May 1847
472. VII Noah Jefferson 7 b. 16 Aug. 1826 d. 28 [or 29] May 1833
473. VIII Hersey Bradford Goodwin 7 b. 22 Jan 1830 m. Lucille Currier
474. IX Everett Austin 7 b. 21 Dec. 1833 [or 1832 –JCW] m. Rachel N. Stearns [
261 CYRUS 6 WHEELER m. ELIZABETH SMITH Noah/5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
Cyrus died 28 April 1855; Elizabeth [was born in 1893 and – AY] died 23 Jan. 1877. Cyrus was a member of the committee to oversee the construction of the Town House in 1851.
Their children were:
475. I Edwin 7 b. 19 Oct. 1817 m. Mary Rice
476. II Eirene b. 1 July 1820 m. William A. Blaisdell
477. III Gardner 7 b. 10 May 1822 m. Maria Rice
478. IV Elizabeth b. 15 April 1824 m. Joseph [Nelson] Gibbs
[Elizabeth Wheeler and Joseph Gibbs had eight children and lived in Cambridgeport and Medford MA. The Gibbs' daughter Elizabeth married Rufus Crowell. The Crowells' son Donald, born in 1892, married Doris Berry of NJ. Donald and Doris Crowell's daughter Ann (Young) was born in 1926 and their daughter Barbara in 1931. Barbara married Harvey Wheeler (# 614)]
479. V Martha W. b. 16 Aug. 1827 d. 21 Feb. 1860 m. Julius M. Smith
Martha and Julius had Emma Frances Smith b. 27 Oct 1851, Julius Alfred Smith b. 23 Dec. 1857, d. 25 March 1925 and Martha Ida Smith b. 30 March 1854, d. 19 Oct. 1875
480. VI Sarah b. 3 Oct. 1829 [m. Lemuel Willis Bean 11 Sept. 1851]
276 REUBEN 6 WHEELER m. RHODA Hez5/Hez4/Wm.3/Wm/2/Geo1
[Their children are listed from Acton birth records]:
481. I Mary b. 22 Feb. 1810
482. II Josiah 7 b. 22 Feb. 1810
483. III Almira b. 17 March 1814
485. IV Sarah D. b. 19 Sept 1817
485. V Reuben 7 b. 5 Dec. 1819
486. VI Aaron 7 b. 15 July 1821
487. VII Nancy b. 2 Feb. 1825
293 THEODORE 6 WHEELER m. HANNAH Roger5/Natl4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
Theodore died at Acton 12 June 1829 according to his Acton Center gravestone. Hannah died 19 June 1834. Children at Acton were:
488. I Eliza b. 11 June 1804
489. II Thomas J. 7 b. 23 April 1805
490. III Frederick 7 b. 12 March 1811
324 ZEBULON 6 WHEELER m. MARY POOL KENDRICK James5/James4/Geo3/Wm2/Geo1
[The following is from Spaulding.] Mary was from Patch Corner, Hollis NH. She died about 1810
Their children were:
491. I Bridget b. 20 May 1792 m. James Davis of Mason NH
492. II Sally b. 2 May 1794 m. John Ball
493. III Lucinda b. 1 Jan. 1800 m. Calvin Willoughby
494. IV Benjamin 7 b. 12 Aug. 1802 d. young
495. V Luther 7 b. 26Sept. 1803 d. 18 Feb 1816
496. VII Calvin 7 b. 27 June 1805 m. Sarah Holt
497. VIII Loisa b. 3 Sept. 1807 m. Charles Farnsworth
333 THADDEUS 6 WHEELER m. SIBBEL SPAULDING Thad5/James4/Geo3/Wm2/Geo1
337 MAJOR JAMES 6 WHEELER m. DORCAS MOOAR Thad5/James4/Geo3/Wm2/Geo1
The following is from Spaulding. Major James died in 1870. Dorcas was the daughter of Jacob Mooar. She died in 1885.
Their children were:
498. I James W. 7 b. June 1819 m. Kezeah Wheeler
499. II Mary Ann b. 3 April 1821 m. Andrew Spaulding
500. III Emeline b. 5 Dec. 1822 m. James Blood
502. IV Jackson E. 7 unmarried
504. V Louisa M. b. 12 March 1828 m. Edward Hardy
505. VI Hannah b. 30 June 1830 m. Nathaniel Pierce
506. VII Charles H. 7 b. 5 Feb. 1832 m. Laura Hartwell
507. VII George F. 7 b. 12 Sept. 1833 m. Lottie Boswell
348 TIMOTHY 6 WHEELER m. BETSEY PEACOCK BEVERLY Tim5/Simon4/Geo3/Wm2/Geo1
Timothy married the widow Betsey in 1802 in Amherst NH. Their children were:
508. I Timothy 3 rd 7 b. 28 Sept. 1803 m. Mercy Foster
509. II Nathan 7 b. 29 May 1805 m. Hannah Wheeler
510. III William 7 b. 17 Jan. 1807 (went to Illinois)
511. IV Eric C. 7 b. 17 April 1809 m. Hannah Holt
512. V Porter 7 b. 8 Feb. 1812 m. Mary Holt
513. VI Betsey b. 9 April 1814 m. Reid Dutton
514. VII Gardner G. 7 b. 17 June 1816 m. (1) Irene Follansbee (2) Tabatha Brown
374 EPHRAIM 6 WHEELER m. SARAH PARKMAN Eph5/Dav4/Edw3/John2/Geo1
They married 26 Sept. 1799. She was born 25 May 1777, daughter of William and Lydia. He died 19 Aug. 1848; she died 19 Jan. 1856. They are buried in lot 4, East New Burying Ground.
Their children were:
515. I Lydia Parkman b. 13 July 1800 d. 4 March 1883 m. Cyrus Hosmer
[See “Letters from Lydia Hosmer” written to her mother from Northfield MA 1830-32 – Concord Free Public Library, Special Collections – JCW]
516. II Henry Adams 7 b. 22 Nov. 1802 m. Dolly Kendall
517. III Jonathan 7 b. 14 Oct. 1804 m. Deborah S. Train
518. IV Abiel Heywood 7 b. 13 Feb. 1807 m. Harriet Lincoln
393 ARTEMAS 7 WHEELER m. ELIZABETH DOWNING Nathan6/Nathan5/Thom4/Thom3/Thom2/Geo1
[son William died 30 April 1864]
423 JOEL 7 WHEELER m. ALMIRA TUTTLE Elisha6/Sam'l5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 19 Oct. 1847. She was born Aug 1827, daughter of Augustus and Almira (Robbins) Tuttle. He died 13 Jan 1869. She died 15 Feb. 1854. They are buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
Their children were:
519. I Alice Almira b. 25 Nov. 1848
520. II Henry [Lincoln] 8
428 ELBRIDGE 7 WHEELER m. (1) CATHERINE A. DAVIS (2) SUSANNA P. WETHERBEE Elisha6/Saml5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
Catherine died 10 May 1862. Elbridge married Susanna 23 March 1867. Susanna died 25 Aug. 1873. Elbridge died 10 Dec. 1878. They are buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. The children were:
By Catherine:
521. I Hannah Augusta b. 28 Oct. 1858
522. II Fannie E. b. 11 July 1860 m. Fred Nason
By Susannah:
523. III Julian Whitman 8 b. 15 Nov. 1871 d. 1878
524. IV Clarence L. 8 b. 12 Aug. 1873
442 WILLIAM 7 WHEELER m. LUCY MILES Art6/Phin5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm3/Geo1
They married 25 Feb. 1836. He died at Lowell 30 April 1864 and she died 25 December 1891. They are buried in lot 114 Sleepy Hollow.
Their children were:
525. I Sabrina E b. 1837 d. 11 [or 10] March 1856, aged 19
526. II Eliza F. b. 1840 d. 9 June 1864, aged 24
527. III Mary D. b. 1843 d. 21 April 1880, aged 37
528. IV Hiram 8 m. Abby
529. V Edward 8
530. VI Ella J. b. 1851 d. 5 Oct. 1857, aged 6
531. VII Fanny
447 ARTEMAS 7 WHEELER m. BETSEY C. WHITTIER Art6/Phin5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They were married at Lowell 13 June 1847. Their children were:
532. I Waldo C. 8 b. 22 July 1851
533. II not named b. 11 Oct. 1853
449 JOSEPH ATWOOD 7 WHEELER m. ALICE Art6/Phin5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm3/Geo1
Their child was:
534. I son b. 16 March 1851 at Lowell
450 ALBERT 7 WHEELER m. MARY E. Art6/Phin5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
Their children were :
535. I Albert H. 8 b. 23 April 1847
536. II Marietta b. 6 Aug 1851
465 GEORGE 7 WHEELER m. VESTA A. FOWLER Noah6/Noah5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 31 Dec. 1868. She died 1 May 1873. He died 11 Feb. 1903. Their child was born in Concord.
537. I Harriet Sophia [Hattie – RRW]
468 FRANCIS AUGUSTUS 7 WHEELER m. SARAH ABBEY HUNTER Fran6/Noah5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
Sarah was born 6 March 1836, the daughter of David Hunter and Abigail Temple. She died 3 Dec. 1895. Francis died in 1896.Their children were:
538. I Abby Frances b. 29 May 1858 d. 13 Dec. 1928
539. II Francis Hunter 8 b. 7 Feb. 1860 d. 23 Dec. 1942
540 III Everett Augustus 8 b. 27 April 1862 d. 30 April 1862
541. IV Charles Edgar 8 b. 3 June 1863
542 V Frederick Daria 8 b. 16 May 1866 d. 15 Oct. 1887 (Colorado)
542a VI George Robert 8 b. 13 Sept. 1867 d. 5 Dec. 1943
542b VII Elizabeth Augusta b. 7 Nov. 1870 d. 16 May 1946
Elizabeth married Burleigh E. Richardson
543. VIII Arthur Hersey 8 b. 3 Jan. 1873 d. 25 Jan 1955
469 JOSHUA STEARNS 7 WHEELER m. ANN B. JOHNSON Fran6/Noah5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
He died 18 July 1862
473 HERSEY BRADFORD GOODWIN 7 WHEELER m. LUCILLE CURRIER Fran6/Noah5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
474 EVERETT AUSTIN 7 WHEELER m. RACHEL N. STEARNS Fran6/Noah5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 30 Nov. 1865.
475 EDWIN 7 WHEELER m. MARY RICE Cyrus6/Noah5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 15 Jan 1845. He died 29 June 1898. She died 14 Jan. 1909. Edwin served as a member of the Board of Selectmen in 1871-72.
[Mary Rice was a descendant of Edmund Rice, an early settler of Sudbury. Mary's sister, Maria Rice, married "477 Gardner 7 Wheeler. A 3rd Rice sister married another resident of the Nine Acre Corner area. The sisters have been called "those swinging Rice sisters." - JCW]
Their children in Concord were:
544. I Edwin M. 8 b. 22 Dec. 1845 d. 21 May 1922 moved to Brooklyn NY
545. II Harvey 8 b. 5 Nov. 1847 m. Annie A. Bent
546. III Elbert 8 b. 18 Sept. 1849 m. Clara Marshall Roby 22 June 1875 moved to Nashua NH
547. IV William 8 b. 6 [4] Dec. 1851 m. Fannie Eleanor Hubbard
548. V Frank 8 b. 3 April 1856 m. Lucie Brigham
549. VI Mary b. 23 March 1859 d. 19 Sept. 1949 [Miss Mary Wheeler wrote “Characters I Have Known” – a pamphlet of reminiscences about the old district schools in Concord and farming at Nine Acre Corner. She was a poet and artist – known for her 1897 sketch of the Henry David Thoreau birth house -- JCW.]
550. VII Eirene b. 30 March 1861 m.21 March 1890 to Frank E. Nichols. She died 16 Oct. 1904. He died 10 April 1923.
551. VIII Samuel 8 b. 2 April 1866 [m. Sarah A. (or Agnes) McIntire 10 June 1890 and moved to Ashland WI]
477 GARDNER 7 WHEELER m. MARIA RICE Cyrus6/Noah5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 4 Dec. 1847. He died 3 Feb. 1900. She died 2 March 1894. Their children were
552. I Alvah Gardner 8 b. 1 Jan. 1849 m. (1) Lilla J. Adams (2) Mary C. Smith
553. II Mary Elizabeth b. 11 Oct. 1850 d. 26 July 1862
554. III Cyrus 8 b. 7 Dec. 1852
555. IV Richard Rice 8 b. 19 Aug. 1857 m. Alma B. Best
556. V Anson 8 b. 5 Nov. 1863 m. Mary E. Angier 14 April 1887 She died 1 June 1914.
557. VI Mabel Maria b. 3 Nov. 1866 m. Murray Ballou 4 June 1890
516 HENRY 7 ADAMS WHEELER m DOLLY KENDALL Eph6/Eph5/Dav4/Edwd3/John2/Geo1
[They married 30 Sept. 1828.] Henry died 4 Sept. 1881. Dolly [daughter of Caleb and Dolly Kendall was born 19 Sept. 1809 in Holden MA and] died 5 Sept. 1885. They are buried in lot 5 East, New Burying Ground.
Their children, in Concord, were:
558. I Mary Jane b. 8 Aug. 1829 d. 13 Jan 1851
559. II Sarah Eliza b. 13 Feb. 1832 m. Alonzo Burgess 1 Aug. 1854 [He was born 10 Nov. 1830. They had two children: (1) Eveline Wheeler Burgess b. c. 1855 in Chicago and d. Aug. 1855 in Detroit MI and (2) Herbert Wheeler Burgess b. 9 Oct. 1865 in Concord and d. 1 March 1866.] [Sarah Eliza died 10 Oct. 1865.]
560. III Lucy Ann b. 6 Jan. 1834 d. 30 April 1854
561. IV Rebecca b. 6 Aug. 1835 m. Thomas Todd 6 May 1858
[Rebecca and Thomas had three children: (1) Agnes Staniford Todd b. 16 June 1859, d. 20 Oct. 1881; (2) Gertrude Todd b. 22 Dec. 1867; and Thomas Todd, b. 25 May 1878. This Thomas Todd married Louise, b. 1894 and they had Jeanette b. 1914 and Thomas b. 1918. The original Thomas Todd began a long line of Thomas Todds in the printing business beginning in Maine in 1811, moving to Boston in 1842.]
562. V Abba Frances b. 20 May 1837 m. Julius Michael Smith 28 Dec. 1865. He was the son of Joseph Smith of Westminster and Sarah Brown Smith of Dover. She died 9 July 1924. He died 23 Nov. 1912.
563. VI Eliza Kendall b. 21 Dec. 1840 d. 1 March 1842
564. VII Caleb Henry 8 b. 10 Nov. 1842 m. (1) Ellen Agusta Brown
(2) Sarah Elizabeth Parks
565. VIII Fanny Wood b. 5 Feb. 1845 d. 14 July 1847
566. IX Mattie (Martha Washington) b. 22 Feb.1849 m. Dr. Samuel Worcester 4 May 1871. They had a daughter Edith W. Worcester, born in Burlington VT 28 Feb. 1876 who married Fremont Scott.
517 JONATHAN 7 WHEELER m. DEBORAH S. TRAIN Eph6/Eph5/Dav4/Edwd3/John2/Geo1
Deborah was the daughter of Isaac and Sally (Harrington) Train. They married 6 April 1831. He died 16 Oct. 1889. She died 17 May 1893, aged 86 years. Their children were:
567. I Helen Augusta 8 m. Walter S. Blanchard 23 Jan. 1861.
[Note: Helen and Walter's daughter, Margaret Blanchard , married Henry Francis Smith, Jr . He was the son of Henry Francis Smith and Hannah Lincoln. Hannah Lincoln was b. 21 May 1837 and died 22 March 1929. She was the great-grand daughter of General Benjamin Lincoln of Hingham. Henry Francis Smith, senior, was the son of Henry and Susan Farnham Smith of Gloucester. Susan Farnham was born 30 Oct, 1798 in Wilton NH.
Margaret and Henry Francis Smith, Jr. had five children including Whitney Savage Smith b. 14 Jan. 1901, Russell Train Smith b. 14 March 1905 and two daughters: Helen Wheeler Smith b. 25 March 1908 and Margaret Cushing Smith b. 7 July 1911. Margaret married a Mr. Wakelin of Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
Another daughter of Helen and Walter Blanchard, Helen Train Blanchard , married Henry Francis Smith's brother, Benjamin Farnham Smith (who went by the name of Farnham} on 19 Nov. 1902. Farnham was a Boston banker who served as Town Moderator and State Representative. Helen and Farnham were the parents of Eric Parkman Smith (b. 23 March 1910, d. 15 June 2007). Farnham Smith died 7 Feb. 1933.
Still another daughter, Grace Blanchard , married another brother, William Lincoln Smith . They married 14 June 1894. They had a daughter Hilda Blanchard Smith b. 10 April 1896 and a son Benjamin Lincoln Smith b. 1 Nov. 1900. Hilda died 6 April 1902. William's second wife, Mary McRuer, whom he married 15 April 1905, had Philip Loring Smith b.13 March 1906, Elizabeth Farnham Smith b. 12 Sept. 1907 and Donald McRuer Smith b. 8 Feb. 1913 -- JCW]
568. II Francis 8 m. Amelia Frances Eaton, She died 9 Oct. 1916. They owned the ancestral Wheeler home at 99 Sudbury Road. In 1867 they had a daughter Isabelle Wheeler (Belle) who died 1 August 1955 at the age of 88. She left the house she had inherited from her parents to her cousin Margaret Wakelin. Her residual estate was left to the Town's Silent Poor Fund. ]
569. III George 8 d. 29 May 1853
570. IV Lucilla d. 27 Jan 1857
518 ABIEL 7 WHEELER m. HARRIET LINCOLN Eph6/Eph5/Dav4/Edwd3/John/Geo1
They married in 1829. Harriet was daughter of William and Jael (Cushing) Lincoln. Abiel died in Concord 8 Sept 1896. Harriet was born at Marlboro NH 20 Jan. 1807 and died 13 Oct. 1894. William Lincoln was originally from Hingham MA.
Their children, born in Concord, were:
571. I Henry Lincoln 8 b. 5 Feb. 1830 d. 1886
572. II Charles Parkman 8 b, 6 Nov. 1832 d. 1898
573. III Harriet Lincoln b. 10 Jan. 1834 d. 3 May 1918 m. William C. Whitcomb of Marlboro NH.
[They had a daughter Eva Myrtella Whitcomb who married S. Ripley Bartlett, son of Dr.Josiah Bartlett and Martha Tilden Bradford. Myrtella and Ripley had a daughter Miss Sarah Ripley (Sally) Bartlett b. 10 June 1883 d. 31 August 1976 who attended Concord High School and the Mary Wheeler School in Providence RI She obtained degrees from Smith and Simmons. She served Concord as assistant librarian beginning in 1914 and as Town Librarian from 1920 to 1953 – JCW]
574. IV Sarah Elizabeth bapt. 8 May 1840 m. George W. Schaumberg of Germany who was born 10 May 1840, died 11 March 1925.
575. V George Francis 8 b. 2 Feb. 1842 m. Alice Rattray
576. VI William Ephraim 8 bapt. 26 May 1844 d. 22 Sept 1846
577. VII Mary Colman b. 15 May 1846 d. 17 May 1920 (Mary Colman was a well known impressionist artist and an educator who founded the Wheeler School in Providence RI. Her biography is available at the Concord Free Public Library.)
578. VIII William Ephraim 8 b. 1844 d. 1846
543 ARTHUR HERSEY 8 WHEELER m. FLORA BELLE PECK Francis7/Francis6/Noah5/Francis4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married in St. Petersburg, FL, 17 Nov. 1897. She was born 13 May 1880, daughter of Joseph Peck and Eliza Warner. Their children were:
578a. i Clarence Warner 9 b. 19 Apr. 1907 d. 13 May 1998
578b. ii Arthur Peck 9
544 EDWIN M. 8 WHEELER m. Edwin7/Cyrus6/Noah5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
Edwin died 21 May 1922
545 HARVEY 8 WHEELER m. ANNIE A. BENT Edwin7/Cyrus6/Noah5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 16 June 1861. Harvey died 22 Dec. 1917. Annie died 27 Dec. 1921. [son, Roger, died 3 Aug. 1892] [See article by Edward W. Emerson in the Concord Enterprise of January, 1918; also, see Concord Journal article by Jackson Garrett 2 Nov. 1939. Harvey Wheeler was a member of the Board of Selectmen 1896-99 -- JCW] Their children were:
579. I Gladys b. 10 June 1885 m. Charles C. Willis 10 June 1911
580. II Berkeley 9 b. 26 April 1888 m. Catherine Ruth Cummins 29 May 1918
546 ELBERT 8 WHEELER m. Clara Marshall Roby Edwin7/Cyrus6/Noah5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 22 June 1875. Elbert joined his brother Harvey and William, serving as treasurer of seven water companies. In Nashua NH he was on the board of the Security Trust Company and served as Inspector-General for several New Hampshire governors.
547 WILLIAM 8 WHEELER m. FANNIE ELEANOR HUBBARD Edwin7/Cyrus6/Noah5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 17 July 1878. Fannie was born 22 Sept 1853, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Hubbard of Sudbury Road. She died 18 April 1942. He died 1 July 1932. His biography is
available at the Concord Free Public Library. Also see “Hokkaido Letters of William Wheeler” provided to the Concord Free Public Library by Barbara Wheeler (see #614). William and Fannie had no children.
548 FRANK KELSEY 8 WHEELER m. LUCIE HOWE BRIGHAM Edwin7/Cyrus6/Noah5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 3 April 1888. He died 9 May 1919. She died 12 June 1918. They had six daughters:
581. I Hilda b. 15 July 1889 m. Harold Tompkins 26 Nov. 1908
Their son Robert Hicks Tompkins was born 20 June 1909 and their daughter Maud Wheeler Tompkins on 29 Jan. 1911.
582. II Esther Howe b. 26 July 1891 m. Leslie Oscar Anderson 27 Nov. 1920
They had three children: (1) Pauline Anderson b. 13 Sept. 1921 who married Stanley Ellis Wilson of Concord. (Pauline and Stanley had five children: Barbara Louise, Stanley Ellis, Jr., Leslie Scott Dyer, Lucie Howe and Maurine Lynette); (2) William Wheeler Anderson b. 13 March 1924 who married Mary Richardson of Lincoln, MA. (William and Mary had four children: Kenneth Duane, William Wheeler, Jr., Kristin Louise and Elizabeth Rice). (3) David Anderson b. 7 May 1927 who married Charlotte Lehto of Stow, MA. (David and Chrolotte had seven children: Janice Ellen, Bonnie Lee, Beverly Gail, Jennifer Lisa, Donna Marie, David Lars and Lori Esther).
583. III Priscilla b. 8 March 1894 m. Wendell Doolittle Mansfield 15 June 1925. She died 9 July 1974. He died 3 Jan. 1985.
584. IV Elizabeth Rice b. 23 March 1899. d. 1 Jan. 1973
585. V Eirene b. 18 April 1901 m. Allen Leonard Anderson 10 June 1925. Eirene died 5 Sept. 1997. Allen died 29 Sept 1988.
586. VI Frances Brigham b. 5 Dec. 1904 m. John Adams on 19 Oct. 1927. Frances died 26 June 1999. John died 31 Jan. 1983.
551 SAMUEL 8 WHEELER m. SARAH A. MCINTYRE Edwin7/Cyrus6/Noah5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
552 ALVAH GARDNER 8 WHEELER m. (1) LILLA ADAMS (2) [MARY] CAROLINE SMITH Gardner7/Cyrus6/Noah5/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
Alvah and Lilla married 25 April 1878 and Lilla died the same year on 14 Dec. 1878. Alvah and Caroline married 13 July 1883. Alvah died 29 Aug. 1932. Caroline died 1 Feb. 1934. The children were:
587. I Marguerite b. 4 Oct. 1884
588. II Rodney 9 b. 1 March 1887
589. III Lilla Maria b. 7 Jan. 1893 d. 1 June 1926
590. IV Rachael b. 21 August 1896 [5]
554 CYRUS 8 WHEELER Gardner7/Cyrus6/Noah5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
[Cyrus did not marry. He joined a mining firm in Arizona – BW] [I believe he died 16 Jan. 1921 –JCW]
555 RICHARD 8 WHEELER m. ALMA B. BEST 7/Cyrus 6/Noah5/Fran4/Wm.3/Wm2/Geo1
556 ANSON 8 WHEELER m MARY EVALINA ANGIER Gardner7/Cyrus6/Noah5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 14 April 1887. Mary was born in 1866 and died 12 Jan. 1941. Anson died I June 1914. Their children were:
591. I Raymond 9 b. 10 March 1888 m. (1) Ruth White Payson 20 July 1910 (2) Marguerite Daloz
592. II Mabel b. 1 April 1890 m. Raymond C. Robinson 30 July 1912/
593. III Edith Vilette b. 10 Dec. 1892 m. Clarence Clark Ackerman
Clarence was born 14 Aug. 1899 in Alexandria, NH, and died 7 Jan. 1992 in Rutland, VT. They married 16 Oct. 1929 in Portland, ME. She died 9 Jan. 1989 in Benson, VT. Their children were Janet, Ronald and Philip.
Janet married (1) Oliver Harvey Hulett on 4 Sept. 1951 in Benson, VT and had Heather Vilette Hulett, Hope Clark Hulett and Holly True Hulett. Oliver died 25 Oct. 1964. Janet married (2) Loren Dennet Wooster on 10 Dec. 1966.
Janet's daughter Heather married Leslie Edward Harvey, 24 May 1980. Their children were Heidi Lee, Leslie Raymond, Justin Oliver, Alexander Edward, Harmonie Jane, Elizabeth Tressie and Pat (who died in infancy).
Janet's daughter Hope married Alexander Keith Kennedy. Their children were Darren Kennedy and Ryan Patrick Kennedy.
Janet's daughter Holly married Daniel Boyce. Their child was Shannon Lynn Boyce (who married Matt Quelch).
In 2006 Heather Vilette Hulett Harvey reported that Clarence had worked on Anson Wheeler's farm and in his greenhouses. Edith went to Mt. Holyoke College. She served tea every day at 10:30 and 3:30! Clarence's ambition was to own a farm -- a wish later fulfilled in Vermont.
594. IV Marion b. 17 July 1894 m. Almy Dwight Washburn 20 June 1921. Almy died 5 Jan. 1930. Marion died 14 March 1978.
595. V Alden Rice 9 b. 5 Dec. 1897
596. VI Dorothy b. 14 Dec. 1902 m. 30 June 1927 Wilfred Montgomery Kimball
Their children were Marcia Wentworth Kimball, b. 27 Apr. 1931; and Carolyn Wheeler Kimball.
564 CALEB HENRY 8 WHEELER m. (1) ELLEN AGUSTA BROWN and (2) SARAH ELIZABETH PARKS. Henry7/Eph6/Eph5/Dav4/Ewd5/John2/Geo1
Caleb married (1) Ellen Agusta Brown 22 April 1868. She was the daughter of Joseph and Lucy Rebecca Brown and was born 14 June 1844 and died 19 Jan.1869. On 13 Nov. 1879 Caleb married (2) Sarah Elizabeth Parks, daughter of Julia (Dale) and Luther Parks. Sarah, called Lillie, was born in Boston 14 March 1854. She died 4 Feb. 1933. He died 4 Sept. 1900.
Julia Dale was born 8 July 1826 and Luthur Parks MD was born 4 Nov. 1823
Caleb and Ellen had a daughter Nellie b. 19 Jan. 1869 who died 19 April 1869. Caleb's children with Sarah were:
597. I Julia Dale b. 19 Oct 1880 d. 21 Nov. 1964--single
598. II Sarah Kendall b. 25 May 1882 m. Julius Malcolm Eveleth 19 Nov. 1913. Julius was the son of Julius and Adeline Eveleth of Newton MA. They moved to Florida and had two children: Sarah Pauline (Polly) b. 28 May 1916 and Priscilla b. 7 June 1919. Sarah married John Harrison Foss Jr. and had two children: James Malcolm Foss b. 22 Feb. 1950 and Barbara Marie Foss b. 10 June 1952. Priscilla married Frank H. Rich. Priscilla Rich died 12 Mar 2008.
599 III Mary Ellen (Mollie) b. 18 April 1885 m. George Putnam Cook They married 5 Oct. 1910 and had two children: (1) Elizabeth Wheeler Cook b. 24 July 1912 and died in 2002 and (2) George Putnam Cook, Jr. b. 18 Dec. 1913 who married Ina and had three children: Charlotte Audrey or Chari (Mrs. Don Goddard), Putnam and David. Mollie died 27 April 1957.
600. IV Elizabeth (Bettie) Parks b.21 April 1888. m. Ortho Wilton Tompkins 1884-1920. They had three children: (1) Ortho Wilton Tompkins, Jr. 1911-1962 who married Olga Julia Servais (They had two children: Audrey b. 1930 – who married Edgar Fernand Provencal by whom she had three children and Priscilla Marie b. 1931 -- who married James Edwin Alwin, Jr. by whom she had six children and then married Leroy Tolman by whom she had one child); (2) Ruoff Alonzo Tompkins 1912-1976 who married Irene Marie Tobin (They had three children: Elizabeth Wheeler Tompkins who married John William Lowe and had three children; David Alonzo Tompkins who married Christina Marie Chiang and had two children; and Jeanette Rueene Tompkins who married Richard Coles Thompson III and had three children; and (3) Mary Elizabeth Tompkins 15 March 1915-1996 who married Kenneth R. Henery-Logan.
601. V Caleb Henry 9 b. 22 May 1891 m. Ruth Winifred Robinson
572 CHARLES 8 PARKMAN WHEELER m. Abiel7/Eph6/Eph5/David4/Edw3/John2/Geo1
He died in 1898. Their children were:
602. I Robert 9
603. II Clara
604. III Margaret
605. IV George 9
606. V Herman
575 GEORGE FRANCIS 8 WHEELER m. ALICE RATTRAY Abiel 7/Eph6/Eph5/David4/Edw.3/John2/Geo1
They married 3 Jan. 1867. He died 21 [or 22] Sept. 1925. She was born in Scotland 23 July 1845 and died 26 Jan. 1930. He was one of the largest local producers of strawberries and asparagus. Their children were:
607. I Arthur Lincoln 9 b. 26 Oct. 1867 m. Cora F. Dunnells
608. II Blanche Emily b. 9 Jan 1870 d. 1936 m. Emile Francis Williams who was born in 1858, married 7 June 1904 and died in 1929.
609. III Thomas Rattray 9 b. 4 Oct. 1871 m. Florence Haggerty
610. IV Ralph N. 9 b. 30 Sept. 1873 m. Edith G. Starkey
611. V Wilfrid 9 b. 8 Sept 1876 m. Emily Howard Lillie
612. VI Alan Rattray 9 b. 10 May 1879 m. Florence Williamson
578a CLARENCE WARNER 9 WHEELER m. (1) EVA GRACE RICHARDSON, (2) MARY CATHERINE BEATTIE, (3) IRENE G. CAUGHEY Arthur8/Francis7/Francis6/Noah5/Francis4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
Clarence and Eva married 27 Oct. 1928 in Leominster, MA. She was born 25 Jan. 1899, daughter of Arthur Richardson and Grace Conway. She died 17 Apr. 1973. Clarence married Mary in 1938 and married Irene in 1949. Irene died Sept. 2000. The children of Clarence and Eva were:
612a. I Arthur Warner 10 b. 18 June 1929 in Waltham, MA
612b. II Richard Francis 10 b. 8 March 1931
612c. III Eliot Dwight 10 b. 28 June 1933 d. 17 Dec. 1997
612d. IV Joan Francis (adopted) b. 7 Mar. 1934 d. 14 Dec. 1998
Joan married (1) Lawrence Peavey, Jr., (2) Thomas Tweedie, (3) Robert Parker. With Robert she had four children: Mark Jonathan Parker, b. 5 July 1953; Bradley Kevin Parker, b. 14 June 1955; Peter James Parker; and Betsy Roberta Parker.
612e. V Jean Flora b. 25 Feb. 1943 m. Nills William Anderson
612f. VI Robert Kenneth 10 b. 17 Oct. 1947
580 BERKELEY 9 m. CATHERINE RUTH CUMMINS Harvey8/Edwin7/Cyrus6/Noah5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 29 May 1918. Berkeley died 23 Oct. 1967. Catherine died 10 Jan. 1968.
Their children were:
613. I Bradley 10 b. 20 Sept. 1919 d. 20 Feb. 1932
614. II Harvey 10 b. 19 March 1922 m. Barbara Hall Crowell
615. III David 10 b. 16 Dec. 1925
591 RAYMOND 9 WHEELER m. (1) RUTH WHITE PAYSON (2) MARGUERITA CECILE DALOZ Anson8/Gardner7/Cyrus6/Noah5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
Raymond and Ruth married 30 July 1910. Ruth Payson was born in 1888 and died 13 Feb.1940. Raymond died 26 March 1957. Cecile died 29 August 1980.
The children of Raymond and Ruth were:
616. I Richard Payson 10 b. 16 July 1911 m. Pauline Ella Goldthwaite
617. II Russell Winter 10 b. 25 Nov. 1913 m. Marian Alma Harlow
618. III Gardner Anson 10 b. 12 Jan. 1916 m. (1) Lois Wickes (2) Barbara Russell
595 ALDEN RICE 9 WHEELER m. BEATRICE BALDREY Anson 8/Gardner7/Cyrus6/Noah5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married 8 Sept. 1920. Alden died 8 Jan. 1963. Beatrice died 25 Oct. 1995. Their child was:
619 I Joyce b. 10 July 1929 m. Siraner [Joyce and Siraner married in 1951 and had two children: Alden and Dorinda]
601 CALEB HENRY 9 WHEELER m RUTH WINIFRED ROBINSON Caleb8/Henry7/Eph6/Eph5/Dav4/Edw3/John2/Geo1
They married 9 March 1916. Ruth was born 12 Dec.1890 and died 3 June 1973. Caleb died 5 May 1970. Their children were:
620. I Henry Adams 10 b. 22 Sept. 1918m. (1) Adeline (Patsy) Bigelow Holden
(2) Marjorie B. Welch
621. II Frederick Robinson 10 b. 8 July 1920 m. Alice Cornell
622. III Caleb Kendall 10 b. 18 Feb. 1922 m. Elizabeth Kathleen Trundy
623. IV Joseph Coolidge 10 b. 21 Nov. 1926 m (1) Jean Huleatt
(2) Verona Farness Kane
624. V Warren Wright 10 b. 21 Feb. 1931 m. Joanne Duryea
607 ARTHUR LINCOLN 9 WHEELER m. CORA FROST DUNNELLS (DOROTHY) Geo8/Abiel7/Eph6/Eph5/David4/Edw3/John2/Geo1
Cora and Arthur married 1 August 1893. Cora was born 31 Aug. 1874 in Concord, the daughter of Charles S. and Emma Frost Dunnells. She died in Los Angeles 24 Jan. 1957. Arthur died 2 Sept. 1932. The children of Cora and Arthur were:
625. I Margaret Constance 10 b. 16 Nov. 1895 in Providence RI m. Smith They had a daughter Helen Smith who married Dexter Strong.
626. II Mary Constance 10 b. 21 March 1898 in Providence RI and died in Concord Dec. 1981
627. III George Francis II 10 b. 23 Feb. 1906 in Providence RI m. Helen Ann Morse
610. RALPH 9 WHEELER m. EDITH G.STARKEY Geo8/Abiel7/Eph6/Eph5/David4/Edw3/John2/Geo1
Their children were:
628. I Thomas Granville 10
629. II Alice Charlotte 10 b. 27 Feb. 1907 m. Ronald Alexander Dickson who was born 2 Aug. 1903. Alice and Ronald had two children: (1) Ronald Alexander Dickson, Jr. who was born 22 Dec. 1933 and married Mary Butler on 18 June 1955; and (2) Robert Gordon Dickson who was born 10 March 1937. On 26 May 1962 Robert married Andre Castellini Raue who was born 6 Jan. 1937.
611 WILFRID 9 WHEELER m. EMILY HOWARD LILLIE Geo8/Abiel7/Eph6/Eph5/David4/Edw3/John2/Geo1
They married 8 Sept. 1898. Wilfrid died 25 Dec.1961 in Falmouth MA. Emily was born 22 April 1874 and died Jan. 1971. Their children were:
630. I Wilfrid Stayner 10 b. 2 [or 3] March 1901 m. Sybil Constance Leckenby
631. II Charles Lincoln 10 b. 19 May 1914 m. Caroline Ella Wright
632. III Richard Parkman 10 b. 12 May 1917 m. Sally Barnard
612 ALAN RATTRAY 9 WHEELER m. FLORENCE WILLIAMSON Geo8/Abiel7/Eph6/Eph5/David4/Edw3/John2/Geo1
Alan and Florence had two children:
633. I Elizabeth 10 b. 17 Feb. 1907
634. II George Williamson 10 b. 22 Nov. 1909 m. Marjorie Borden
612a ARTHUR WARNER 10 WHEELER m. JOAN ARLENE FITZGERALD
Clarence9/Arthur8/Francis7/Francis6/Noah5/Francis4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
Arthur and Joan married 2 Oct. 1954. She was born 28 June 1932, daughter of Herbert Fitzgerald and Pauline Saunders. She died 5 Nov. 1999. Their children were:
634a. II Craig Arthur 11 b. 31 Oct. 1960 m. Lynn Meredith Thompkins
634b. III Scott Jon 11 b. 31 Oct. 1960 m. Marla Lynn Silver
634c. I Dale Saunders 11 b. 8 July 1965 m. Renee Elizabeth Cormier
612b RICHARD FRANCIS 10 WHEELER m. NANCY ANN TUTTLE
Clarence9/Arthur8/Francis7/Francis6/Noah5/Francis4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
634d. I Wendy Louise b. 21 Aug. 1951 m. Thomas Kaylor
634e. II Beth Ann b. 21 Aug. 1952 m. Charles Copeland
634f. III Jeffrey Warner 11 b. 24 Sept. 1954
634g. IV Denise Lee b. 30 Sept. 1957 m. (1) William Turner, (2) Philip Metcalf, (3) Norman Harold Webb
634h. V Richard Francis 11 b. 4 Oct. 1958 m. Christine Taylor
634i. VI Douglas Henry 11 b. 8 Dec. 1959 m. (1) Dianna Doris Bachelder, (2) Cheryl Ann Parker
634j. VII Stephanie Clark b. 22 Nov. 1961 m. Kenneth Robert Henrich
634k. VIII Michael Arthur 11 b. 19 Aug. 1963
634l. IX Dana Richardson 11 b. 27 Jan. 1965 m. (1) Christine M. Taylor, (2) Carla Jean Caldwell
612c ELLIOT DWIGHT 10 WHEELER m. BETTY ANN HOWE
Clarence9/Arthur8/Francis7/Francis6/Noah5/Francis4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They were married 16 Jan. 1960. Betty Ann was born in Lansdale, PA, 30 Jan. 1934. He died 17 Dec. 1997. Their children were:
634m. I Keith Eliot b. 24 Nov. 1965 (adopted)
634n. II Elizabeth Ann b. 18 Dec. 1967 (adopted) m. (1) Keith Nelson, (2) Todd Kagan, (3) Carl Zukowski
612f ROBERT KENNETH 10 WHEELER m. BRENDA KNOX
Clarence9/Arthur8/Francis7/Francis6/Noah5/Francis4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
Their children were:
634o. I Robert Kenneth 11
634p. II Clinton George 11
634q. III Jonathan 11
614 HARVEY 10 WHEELER m. BARBARA HALL CROWELL Berkeley9/Harvey8/Edwin7/Cyrus6/Noah5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married in 1953. Barbara was also descended from George 1 Wheeler – see #478 Elizabeth Wheeler whose granddaughter married a Crowell. Harvey died 18 Aug. 1994. Their children were:
635 I Andrew Hall 11 b. 5 Sept. 1954
636 II Sarah 11 b. 15 March 1957 m. Andrew Lovell in 1992. Sarah and Andrew had Adam in 1995 and Katherine in 2001. They are of the 12 th generation.
637 III William Gibbs 11 b. 15 March 1960 m. Lissa Dengler in 1993
616 RICHARD PAYSON 10 WHEELER m. PAULINE ELLA GOLDTHWAITE Raymond9/Anson8/Gardner7/Cyrus6/Noah5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married in 1935. She was born in 1910 and died 8 April 2004. He died 29 Oct. 1972. Their children were:
638. I Robert Loring 11 b. 19 Aug.1936 m. Kathleen Kelly
639. II David Anson 11 b. 28 Nov.1941 m. (1) Dianne Homans (2) Priscilla Johnston (David and Dianne had three children: Christopher 12 b.1964 who married Lillie Richardson; Jeffrey David 12 b. 1967; and Jennifer Beth 12 b. 1973.)
640. III Elizabeth Ann b. 1 Dec.1943 m. William Scannell
(Elizabeth and William had a daughter Wendy Jeanne Scannell b. 1943 who, in 1996, married Mark Belair.)
641. IV Sylvia Jean b. 18 Nov.1949 m. (1) Robert Daniels (2) Steven Recklow
617 RUSSELL WINTER 10 WHEELER m. MARIAN ALMA HARLOW Raymond9/Anson8/Gardner7/Cyrus6/Noah5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
Russell (Rusty) and Marian were married in 1940. She was born in 1917. Russell died 19 July 1998. Their children were:
642. I Roberta Perry 11 b. 4 July 1942 m. Ralph Alden Bradshaw (Roberta and Ralph had two children: (1) Christopher Evan Bradshaw who married Carter Randolph Gooch and had three children – Maria Madison Bradshaw b. 1994, Tucker Wheeler Bradshaw b. 1997 and Cooper Bartlett Bradshaw b. 2000 and (2) Amy Dodd Bradshaw who married Andrew William Hunter and had two children: Zachariah Harlow Hunter b. 1999 and Nathaniel Alden Hunter b. 2004.)
643. II Russell Theodore 11 (Ted) b. 5 May 1944 m. Ingrid Elaine Blatzer
644. III Virginia Ruth 11 b. 12 Feb. 1946 m. (1) Herbert Lebherz (2) Benjamin John Robinson
645. IV Barbara Harlow 11 b. 27 Aug. 1948 m. (1) John Steven Tara (2) Francis la Jeunesse (Frank) who brought two children to the marriage: Torr Peter and Tonya May.
618 GARDNER ANSON 10 m. (1) LOIS WICKES (2) BARBARA RUSSELL Raymond9/Anson8/Gardner7/Cyrus6/Noah5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
Gardner and Lois married in 1946, Gardner and Barbara married in 1957. Gardner died in 1972. There were no children.
620 HENRY ADAMS 10 WHEELER m (1) ADELINE BIGELOW (PATSY) HOLDEN (2) MARJORIE MAE BREMILLER Caleb9/Caleb8/Henry7/Eph6/Eph5/Dav4/Edw3/John2/Geo1
Henry and Patsy married 28 March 1942. Patsy was born 5 Jan. 1916, the daughter of Stephen Holden and Clara Louise Angel of Westchester County, NY. Patsy died 8 April 1969. Henry and Marjorie married 28 Dec. 1969. Marjorie was born 6 Nov. 1920 in Utica NY. Henry died 10 Dec. 2003. Marjorie died 24 Nov. 2011. Children (all by Patsy) were:
646. I Jonathan 11 b. 23 Dec 1943 m. (1) Tamara Stech in 1967 and (2) Marsha Spector in 1989. Jonathan and Tamara had one child, Caleb Henry Wheeler, 12 th generation, b. 30 August 1977.
647. II Phebe 11 b. 11 Feb. 1946 m. (1) Stephen Allen Heifetz 4 April 1970. He died 18 October 1997; (2) Gregory Lee Nichols 28 August 1977. He died 21 November 1981; (3) James Warren Packer 26 June 1982. He died 16 May 2003.
Phebe and Stephen had two children: (1)Jennifer Ruth Heifetz b. 21 Sept. 1970 (12 th generation). Jennifer married Troy Allen Wullkotte 4 July 1992. Jennifer and Troy had one daughter: Shelby Ann Wullkotte (13 th generation) b. 5 Feb. 2001. (2) Joshua Barnett Heifetz (adopted) b. 29 Oct. 1972. He married Kristy Louise Roy 12 August 2000. Joshua and Kristy had two children: (1) Joshua Barnett Heifetz II and Kimberly Carol Heifetz (twins) (13 th generation) b. 23 Oct. 2001
648. III Timothy 11 b. 11 Dec. 1947 m. Gloria Maria Mejia 6 July 1976 in Tegucigalpa. Gloria and Timothy had three children: (1) Marsha Maria Wheeler (12 th generation) b. 15 June 1981; (2) Pamela Patricia Wheeler (12 th generation) b. 15 June 1981; and (3) Grace Ruth Wheeler (12 th generation) b. 10 Feb. 1987.
621 FREDERICK ROBINSON 10 WHEELER m. LT. ALICE GERALDINE CORNELL Caleb9/Caleb8/Henry7/Eph6/Eph5/Dav4/Edw3/John2/Geo1
They married 9 February 1946. Alice was born 11 Sept. 1921, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Cornell of Providence RI. Alice died 24 Dec 2010. Their children were:
.649. I Candace Cornell 11 b. 7 Aug. 1948 m. (1) Charles Rudinsky (2) David Kessner. Candace and Charles married 1 Jan. 1971 and had two children: Sarah Wheeler Rudinsky b. 30 Sept 1978 and Hannah Conant Rudinsky b.11 Aug. 1981.
650. II William Robinson 11 b. 25 July 1951
651. III Kendall Caleb 11 b. 18 Jan. 1955 m. Judy Carol Brown
Judy and Kendall had one daughter, Ariel Rebekah Wheeler, b. 25 May 1988.
622 CALEB KENDALL 10 WHEELER m. ELIZABETH (BETH) KATHLEEN TRUNDY Caleb9/Caleb8/Henry7/Eph6/Eph5/Dav4/Edw3/John2/Geo1
Beth and Caleb married 19 Jan. 1944. She was the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Levi Trundy of Presque Isle ME. Caleb died in action over Budapest 2 July 1944. They had no children.
623 JOSEPH COOLIDGE 10 WHEELER m (1) JEAN HULEATT (2) MARIE VERONA FARNESS KANE Caleb9/Caleb 8/Henry7/Eph6/Eph5/Dav4/Edw3/John2/Geo1
Joseph and Jean married 2 Feb.1949. She was born 16 May 1927, the daughter of Joseph A. and Miriam W. Huleatt of Natick MA. She died 17 Aug. 1969.
Children by Jean:
652. I Juliet 11 b. 2 Oct. 1951 m. (1) Stephen Rampley (2) Robert Joseph Cormier (3) Kenneth Turkington
653. II Rachel 11 b. 17 Jan 1953 m. John Myers
John was born 15 May 1949. Rachel and John Myers married 23 April 1977 and had two children: Beth Robinson Myers (adopted) (12 th generation) b. 19 Aug. 1982 and Emily Wheeler Myers (12 th generation) b. 15 April 1983.
654. III Deborah 11 b. 8 April 1954 m. Jerry Michael Burk
Jerry was born 19 Sept. 1950. Deborah and Jerry Burk married 7 July 1979 and had one child: Virginia Wheeler Burk (12 th generation) b. 13 Jan 1988.
655. IV Caleb Henry 11 b. 1 May 1956 m. Maureen Dupre
Caleb and Maureen married 2 Feb. 1980. Maureen was born 12 Feb.1949 and brought a daughter, Tiffany Jones, to the marriage. Maureen and Caleb had two children: Caleb Henry III, 12 th generation, b. 5 Feb 1987 and Jordan Daniel, 12 th generation, b. 2 April 1990.
656. V Daniel Lincoln 11 b. 17 Feb. 1958 d. 18 Aug. 1969
Joseph married Verona on 22 Dec. 1970 in Islamabad, Pakistan. She was born 8 Feb. 1924 at Heron Lake MN, the daughter of Alma and Orrin Farness of Stordan, MN. Verona brought two children to the marriage by her first husband William Kane: Marilee Kane b. 18 Aug. 1948, d. 12 Sep. 2011; and Margaret Jean Kane b. 12 Feb 1950.
624 WARREN WRIGHT 10 WHEELER m. JOANNE DURYEA Caleb9/Caleb8/Henry7/Eph6/Eph5/Dav4/Edw3/John2/Geo1
Warren and Joanne married 18 June 1954. Joanne was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Merle Junius Duryea of Springfield MA and granddaughter of Charles Duryea, maker of the first successful gasoline motor car. Warren died 9 June 1970.
They had one child:
657. I Todd Duryea 11 b. 27 Dec. 1962
627. GEORGE FRANCIS WHEELER II 10 m. HELEN ANN MORSE Arthur9/Geo8Abiel7/Eph6/Eph5/David4/Edw3/John2/Geo1
Helen was born 2 Sept. 1908 in Toledo OH and died 23 May 2000 in Perryburg OH. Their children were:
658. I George Francis III (Jerry) 11 b. 17 May 1933 in Toledo OH m. Margaret Mary Cece
659. II Constance Margaret 11 b. 12 Jan. 1936 m. Donald Carlson
The Carlsons had four children: (1) Dale Allen Carlson 12 b. 12 May 1959. He married Patricia Valencia and they had two children – Cody Wheeler Carlson 13 and Casey Valencia Carlson 13; (2) Lynn Ann Carlson 12 b. 15 Feb. 1963; (3) Dean Eric Carlson 12 who married Ramona Marie Loya and had Brittany Alexandra Carlson 13 2 Sept. 1989; and (4) Mark Adam Carlson 12 who married Maria Delia Pena and had Adam Elija Carlson 13 b. 19 August 2004.
630 WILFRID STAYNER 10 WHEELER m. (1) SYBIL CONSTANCE LECKENBY (2) EMMA GALE WHITTEMORE (3) DOROTHY STONE Wilfrid9/Geo8/Abiel7/Eph6/Eph5/David4/Edw3/John2/Geo1
Sybil and Wilfrid married in 1923. They divorced in 1933. Wilfrid then married Emma Gale Whittemore. On 18 Dec. 1939 he married Dorothy Stone. Dorothy was born 4 Sept. 1900 and died 2 March 1994. Wilfrid died 30 April 1983. The children of Wilfrid and Sybil were:
660. I Wilfrid III 11 b. 12 May 1925 d. in action in Korea 24 May 1953.
661. II Richard Warren 11 b. 8 Feb. 1929 m. Betty Ann Owens
631 CHARLES LINCOLN 10 WHEELER m. CAROLINE ELLA WRIGHT Wilfrid9/Geo8/Abiel7/Eph6/Eph5/David4/Edw3/John2/Geo1
They married 1 June 1940. Caroline was born 28 Dec. 1911. Their child was:
662. I Robert Lincoln 11 b. 4 Feb. 1951 m. Patricia Wright
632 RICHARD PARKMAN 10 WHEELER m. SALLY BARNARD Wilfrid9/Geo8/Abiel7/Eph6/Eph5/David4/Edw3/John2/Geo1
They married 26 Aug. 1939. Sally was born 12 Jan. 1918 and died 26 March 2000. He died 31 March 2000. Their children were:
663. I Julie Anne 11 b. 7 May 1947 Julie married (1) Richard Earl Wheeler. Julie and Richard Earl Wheeler had a son Brian Gregory 12 Wheeler (later changed to Brian Gregory Child) b. 17 Feb. 1966. Brian Gregory Child married Kristen Finerty. Brian and Kristen had two children: Madison Linda Child b. 26 Nov. 2000 and Patrick Richard Child b. 23 July 2003; Julie married (2) Richard Albert Child on 23 May 1970. Julie and Richard Albert Child had Audra Ann Child b. 23 Nov. 1972. Audra married Jeffrey William Meyer on 21 August 1993. She later married Eric Paul Keliher. They had two children: (1) Gene A. Keliher b. 11 Sept. 2000 and Thomas Paul Keliher b. 9 April 2002.
664. II Christopher Barnard 11 b. 22 Sept. 1955 m. Deborah Sue Teeters
634 GEORGE WILLIAMSON 10 WHEELER m. MARJORIE BORDEN Wilfrid9/Geo8/Abiel7/Eph6/Eph5/David4/Edw3/John2/Geo1
They had two children:
665. I Robert Borden 11 b. 21 Aug. 1934
666. II Joan 11 b. 17 June 1937 m. Ivan Tracy Kaufman
Joan and Ivan had three children: Helen Alegra Kaufman b. 21 April 1967; Adam Wheeler Kaufman b. 19 Feb. 1969; and Alexander Michael Kaufman b. 9 Sept. 1971.
639 DAVID ANSON 11 WHEELER m. (1) DIANNE HOMANS (2) PRISCILLA JOHNSTON Richard10/Raymond9/Anson8/Gardner7/Cyrus6/Noah5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
David and Dianne married in 1962. Their children were:
667. I Christopher John 12 b. 1964 m. Lillie Richardson
668. II Jeffrey David 12 b. 1967
669. III Jennifer Beth 12 b. 1973
643 RUSSELL THEODORE 11 WHEELER m. INGRID ELAINE BLATGER Russell10/Raymond9/Anson8/Gardner7/Cyrus6/Noah5/Fran4/Wm3/Wm2/Geo1
They married in 1967. Their children were:
670 II Gregory Raymond 12 b. 1970 m. Melanie Forsythe
Melanie brought her child Krista Jeanne Forsythe to the marriage. Gregory and Melanie had Russell James 13 Wheeler in 1999.
671. II Jessica Ruth 12 b. 1973
672. III Sarah Jeanne 12 b. 1975 m. Stephen Gottschalk
658 GEORGE FRANCIS WHEELER III 11 (JERRY) m. MARGARET MARY CECE Geo10/Arthur9/Geo8/Abiel7/Eph6/Eph5/David4/Edw3/John2/Geo1
Margaret was born 11 March 1936 in Detroit MI. Jerry and Margaret married 18 June 1955. Their children:
673. I Craig Michael 12 b. 7 May 1956 m. Kathleen Campbell
674. II Coleen Margaret 12 b. 11 March 1958 m. William Gordon Soutar III
Coleen and William had a son Aaron William Soutar b. 7 Dec. 1987.
675. III Eric Christopher 12 b. 24 Sept. 1965 m. Lisa Marie McLennon
676. IV Adam Bruch 12 b. 31 May 1967 m. Samantha Lynn Brautigan
661 RICHARD WARREN 11 WHEELER m. BETTY ANN OWENS Wilfrid10/Wilfrid9/Geo8/Abiel7/Ephraim6/Ephraim5/David4/Edw3/John2/Geo1
They married 9 Sept. 1950. Betty Ann was born 2 Feb. 1928. Their children were:
677. I Emily 12 b. 13 Oct. 1952 in USA m. James Grimm Lemoyne. They married 18 Dec. 1976 and had a daughter Clara Wheeler Lemoyne b. 26 July 1991
678. II Susan Knight 12 b. 6 Aug. 1954 in Hongkong m. Constantine Cacos on 17 June 1989
679. III Thomas Adams 12 b. 10 Sept. 1957 in Manila m. Susan Elizabeth Hodge
680. IV Alice Owens 12 b. 1 Dec. 1961 in Manila m. Peter John Morris on 19 Oct. 1985
681. V Sarah Bennett 12 b. 5 May 1967 in Japan
662 ROBERT LINCOLN 11 WHEELER m. PATRICIA WRIGHT Charles10/Wilfrid9/Geo8/Abiel7/Ephraim6/Ephraim5/David4/Edw3/John2/Geo1
Robert and Patricia married in 1982 and had one son:
682. I John Charles Wright Wheeler a.k.a. John Charles Wheeler Wright 12 b. 24 July 1983
664 CHRISTOPHER BARNARD 11 WHEELER m. DEBORAH SUE TEETERS Richard10/Wilfrid9/Geo8/Abiel7/Ephraim6/Ephraim5/David4/Edw3.John2/Geo1
They married 22 Sept. 1986. Deborah was born 16 July 1955. Their children were:
683. I Emily Kathleen 12 b. 20 July 1989
684 II Kelsey Elizabeth 12 b. 27 June 1993
673. CRAIG MICHAEL WHEELER 12 m. KATHLEEN CAMPBELL Geo11/Geo10/Arthur9/Geo8/Abiel7/Ephraim6/Ephraim5/David4/Edw3/John2/Geo1
Kathleen was born 14 July 1957. Their children were:
686. I Lyndsay Nicole 13 b. 28 Sept. 1984
687. II Caitlin Elizabeth 13 b. 27 July 1988
675 ERIC CHRISTOPHER WHEELER 12 M. LISA MARIE MCLENNON Geo11/Geo10/Arthur9/Geo8/Abiel7/Ephraim6/Ephraim5/David4/Edw3/John2/Geo1
Lisa was born 5 Jan. 1963. Their children were:
688. I Collin Christopher 13 b. 13 Feb. 1992
689. II Rylea Margaret 13 b. 20 Sept. 1995
676 ADAM BRUCH WHEELER 12 m. SAMANTHA LYNN BRAUTIGAN Geo11/Geo10/Arthur9/Geo8/Abiel7/Ephraim6/Ephraim5/David4/Edw3/John2/Geo1
They married 2 Oct. 1993. Samantha was born 26 Dec. 1964. Their children were:
690. I Cameron Bruch 13 b. 10 August 1994
691. II Madeline Elaine 13 b. 29 Nov. 1996
679 THOMAS ADAMS WHEELER 12 m. SUSAN ELIZABETH HODGE Richard11/Wilfrid10/Wilfrid9/Geo8/Abiel7/Ephraim6/Ephraim5/David4/Edw3/John2/Geo1
Susan was born 12 Oct. 1955. They married 25 Sept. 1982. They had one son:
692 I Barrett Alexander Wheeler 13 b. 4 Oct. 1984.
1001 OBADIAH 1 WHEELER m. SUSANNA WHEELER
Susanna was a sister to George #1 from Cranefield, Bedfordshire. [This is apparently incorrect. Susanna was the daughter of Thomas the Elder (1561-1634) by his second wife Rebecca, J.C.W., 2014]. For Susanna's family relationships see J.C.W. commentary at the beginning of Section 7: Probable English Ancestry of the Concord Wheelers.
The will of Obadiah Wheeler "aged about three score and three years" was dated 6 Oct. 1671.
So he was born about 1608.
[According to this section of Tolman, Obadiah was” probably brother of the first George (George#1). However, this is contradicted by the information in the first paragraph above taken from the section on Probable English Ancestry -- JCW] He seems to have lived at first very near the center of the village, for in 1653 we find in the Town Records that [the residents of] "the East Quarter are to make and maintain all the highways from Obadiah Wheeler's house along to the baywards." etc. We afterward find his son Obadiah, in 1675, living on the Lancaster road beyond the South River, on land which may perhaps have been first set off to the senior.
The will of Obadiah Wheeler was imperfect in that it was not witnessed, and administration of his estate was granted to "Thomas Wheeler the kinsman and John Wheeler the son" of the testator. The document names "son Joshua first born and heir;" 2nd son Samuel"; "son Obadiah"; "son John"; "youngest son Josiah, and daughter Susanna". This shows that the son John whose birth in 1641 is recorded, must have died young, and have [been] succeeded by another of the same name whose birth was not recorded.
Obadiah 1 Wheeler died 29 Oct 1671 at 83. His wife Susanna died 24 March 1649. Their children, on authority of the Town Records, and of his will, were:
1002 I Joshua 2 [born in England] m. Elizabeth
1003 II John 2 b. 23 Jan 1640/1 d. young
1004 III Ruth b. 23 April 1642 m. Samuel Hartwell
1005 IV a son b. 25 Nov. 1643 d. 29 Nov. 1643
1006 V Samuel 2 b. 22 Feb. 1655/6 m. Mary Perry
1007 VI John 2 [Was he killed by Indians at Oyster River, Durham NH leaving three sons, one of whom was Richard of Bedford? – RRW]]
1008 VII Susanna b. 16 March 1649 m. Shipley
1009 VIII Obadiah 2 m. Elizabeth [White]
1010 IX Josiah 2 “who was slain in ye engagement with ye Indians at Sudbury April ye 21, 1676.” Administration was granted to John Wheeler and Elizabeth (wife of Joshua) who deposes that “I heard my brother Josiah say that he willed one half of his estate to his brother John.” (Middlesex Probate Records Vol. VI fol 91.)
Probably the two youngest children were by a second wife, though there was no record of a second marriage.
1002 JOSHUA 2 WHEELER m. ELIZABETH Obadiah 1
There is no record of the death here of Joshua, nor of his wife, nor is there any will or record of administration in Middlesex County. They were both living in 1703, when with their consent their son Isaac sells land in Concord to Isaac Temple (Deeds III-624) [Tolman in a later paragraph says: Joshua Wheeler died at Central Village CT 4 Feb. 1725; Elizabeth his wife died ibid 12 Feb. 1715/6 in the 80th year of her age.]
Joshua had a house lot of 14 acres on Walden Street, between George Wheeler [#1] on the corner of Main Street and Robert Merriam who lived on the Ebenezer Hubbard place (Hubbard Street). He had a mill on the little brook that runs from just south of Walden Pond to the river at Fairhaven. [Walcott on page 79 of his Concord in the Colonial Period puts this mill at "Swamp Bridge" on the brook crossing Sudbury Road betweet Grant Street and Southfield Road. He said the mill built in 1691, was jointly owned by Joshua Wheeler and Jonathan Prescott. RRW/JCW]
The birth of but one child is recorded. [Walcott, p. 79, old roads mss believes this mill at swamp bridge was on Sudbury Road near Robin Wheeler's house [235 Sudbury Road] [and] was jointly owned with Jonathan Prescott.] Their children were:
1011 I Joshua 3 b. 28 March 1663 d. 18 Nov. 1666
1012 II Timothy 3 d. 6 Dec. 1666
1013 III Isaac 3 m. Sarah Howe
1006 SAMUEL 2 WHEELER m MARY PERRY Obadiah 1
They married 10 Nov. 1673. Their children, at Concord were:
1014 I Mary b. 18 Nov. 1677
1015 II Mary b. 19 May 1682
1016 III Mary b. 12 Nov. 1690
1017 IV Susanna b. 12 Nov. 1690 m. Benj. Townsend
On 15 June 1672 Samuel Wheeler Senior and wife Mary sell to Nicholas Shavelly land In Concord formerly belonging to “my father Obadiah Wheeler deceased.” [Now Bowser's Main Street beyond Sudbury River (RRW)] [This would be 572 Main Street (JCW)]
1009 OBADIAH 2 WHEELER m. ELIZABETH WHITE Obadiah 1
They married 17 July 1672. [Elizabeth was from Scituate. Tolman implies Elizabeth was daughter of Resolved White, who came on the Mayflower – confirmed by a letter to RRW from Elizabeth Pickard. Resolved, according to Pickard, was married to Judith Vassall – known to have spoken out in favor of tolerance toward the Quakers.(JCW)] Both Obadiah 2 and his wife were living 28 March 1712, on which date they convey to son Obadiah one half their estate in Concord (Deeds XVII-467). [Obadiah died in 1715; his wife in 1732 according to Pickard. She refers to NE Registry Vol. 87 p. 115 – JCW]
Their children were:
1018 I Obadiah 3 b. 21 Sept. 1673 m. Hannah Fletcher 25 March 1702
1019 II Josiah 3 b. 22 Oct. 1675 m. Martha Prescott, was living at Lancaster in 1718. [b. 1679. d. 1748. daughter of John Prescott of Lancaster]
1020 III Uriah 3 b. 13 April 1678 m. Abigail Rice [of Sudbury]
Uriah went to Sudbury in 1718. He was a housewright, had 10 children. Son Elisha m. Mary Loring, daughter of Rev. Israel Loring. [RRW noted in her copy that Mrs. Florence Hayner of 338 Orchard Park, Rochester, NY was writing a genealogy.]
1021 IV Samuel 3 b. 23 Jan, 1680/1 m. (1) Joanna Walcott [moved to Brookfield] and (2) Dorcas Pellett (?)
1022 V Jonathan 3 b. 28 July 1683 m. Hannah Russell, was living at Lancaster in 1718
1023 VI Elizabeth b. 7 Feb. 1684/5 m. Elisha Rice of Sudbury, 10 Feb. 1707/8. She died in 1725.
1024 VII Joseph 3 b. 7 March 1690/1 [m. (1) Abigail Butterfield [of Lancaster – JCW] (2) Sarah Allen]
1025 VIII Benjamin 3 b. 29 Sept 1693 Was living in Lancaster in 1718, went to New Marlboro [where he was a first settler – JCW] and died there in1759.
1026 IX Joshua 3 b. 9 April 1696 m. Anna [children said to include Joshua in Lancaster – JCW]
[Note RRW in her copy suggests there was another daughter, Experience, who married William Pollard of Lancaster or perhaps she was a daughter of Josiah]
1013 ISAAC 3 WHEELER m. SARAH HOWE Joshua2/Obadiah1
They married 16 Jan. 1699/70. They had three children at Concord and then removed to Plainfield CT where they had ten more. Sarah died there 25 Dec. 1760 in her 81 st year. Isaac died May 1752. Their children were:
1034 I Sarah b. 11 Sept. 1700
1035 II Deborah b. 13 Jan. 1701/2
1036 III Mary b. 4 March 1703 m. Timothy Pierce 12 June 1723 at Plainfield CT
1037 IV Isaac4 b. 18 Nov. 1706 m. Hannah Stearns 5 June 1729 [she died in Plainfield CT in 1760 –RRW]
1038 V Marcie b. 20 Nov. 1706
1039 VI Bette b. 28 Sept. 1708
1040 VII Prudence b. 9 Feb. 1709/10
1041 VIII Abigail b. 29 Jan. 1711/12
1042 IX Ruth b. 17 Jan. 1713/14
1043 X Timothy 4 b. 15 March 1717
1044 XI Joshua 4 b. 18 April 1719 [An RRW note suggests he married (1) Hanna Howe of Royalton, Canada and (2) a cousin Sarah Howe of Barnaton, Quebec.]
1045 XII Lydia b. 23 Jan 1920/1 m. Joseph Spaulding 4 March 1742
1046 XIII Susanna b. 21 Feb. 1723/4
1018 OBADIAH 3 WHEELER m. HANNAH FLETCHER Obad2/Obad1
They married 25 March 1702. Hannah was born 24 Oct. 1674, daughter of Francis and Elizabeth (Wheeler #4) Fletcher. Her mother was a daughter of the first George Wheeler [#1]. Obadiah and his wife Hannah sell land in Sudbury 22 June 1715 and on the same date sell to John Holden all their lands, etc. in Concord, even to “their interest in the meeting house.”
[Query: Did he go to Pomfret CT?]
Their children at Concord were:
1030 I Hannah b. 5 April 1703
1031 II Josiah 4 b. 8 March 1704/5
1032 III Phineas 4 b. 23 Oct. 1707
1033 IV Peregrine b. 23 Jan. 1709/10
1020 EURIAH 3 WHEELER m. ABIGAIL PRICE Obad2/Obad1
[Our information on Euriah Wheeler is limited to a single line through son Asahal Wheeler as follows: Asahal 2 married Thankful Goodnow; their child Anna 3 Wheeler married Ebenezer Parmenter; their child Asahel 4 Parmenter married Percis Price; their child Lucy 5 Parmenter married C. Sherman; their child Calvin 6 Sherman married Lucy Parmenter (?); their child Edwin 7 Sherman married Florence Lowdroy of Melrose, moving to Sioux Falls and had children Arthur, Jessica and Mabel; Sherman then married Katherine Elwe and they had children including Philip – JCW]
Elisha, Son of Uriah married Mary Loring. They had six sons with whom Elisha "took part in the Battle of Concord, where he had his horse shot under him" [Reunion of the descendants of Elisha and Mary (Loring) Wheeler, June 18, 1917 at the Unitarian Church, Sudbury, MA].
1021 SAMUEL 3 WHEELER m. (1) JOANNA WALCOTT and (2) DORCAS PELLETT Obad2/Obad1
Samuel 3of Brookfield and Joanna Walcott married 23 Nov. 1704. [Tolman says that Samuel had three children by Joanna and then ten more by a second wife Dorcas Pellett, daughter of Thomas and Phelice Pellett. He indicates that in 1762 Dorcas, widow of Samuel Wheeler, and her son Judah, “who last came from Acton”, were warned out of Westford. However a note has been added as follows: “This is surely wrong. He had other children in Brookfield by Joanna. Miss Holman says but one wife Joanna, d. 4 July 1751, Brookfield.]
The children, following Tolman, were:
By Joanna:
1047 I Jonathan 4 b. 14 Sept. 1705
1048 II Mary b. 8 Oct 1706 m. John Hamilton, Jr. of Brookfield
1049 III Joanna b. 13 Aug. 1708
By Dorcas:
1050 IV Samuel 4 b. 22 Sept 1715 d. 5 Nov. 1715
105l V Dorcas b. 9 Aug. 1716 d. 20 Sept. 1716
1052 VI Samuel 4 b. 21 Sept. 1717 (still living 1761)
1053 VII Gershom 4 b. 28 March 1720
1054 VIII Nehemiah 4 b. 19 Oct. 1722 [m. Susannah Proctor of Westford in 1746 – RRW]
1054a Abigail b. 7 Feb. 1724/5
1055 IX Samson 4 [m. Sarah Parlin – see History of Carlisle - RRW]
1056 X Judah 4 b. 17 Aug 1727 d. 7 March 1728/9
1057 XI Judah 4 b. 1732
1058 XII Phineas 4 b. 22 Jan 1736/7
1059 XIII Oliver 4 b. 1725
1022 JONATHAN 3 WHEELER m. HANNAH RUSSELL [?] Obad2/Obad1
They married 29 Aug. 1710. [In Tolman a note says: “Note error – see Lancaster)] Their children were: [but another note says their children included Obadiah and Jonathan – JCW] [Notes in RRW's copy suggest that Jonathan actually married (1) Mary of Concord and (2) Tabitha Russell, who, when widowed, married Samuel Bennett of Lancaster. RRW also cites a 1717 document reproduced on page 27 of Lapham's Carlisle Corporate Community which is a release from Tabitha, widow of Abraham Wheeler of Lancaster and Samuel Wheeler, brother-in-law, of any claim to land, now in Jonathan Wheeler's (and?) her sons possession. The document was also signed by James Blood, her son-in-law. The document is blotted but seems to call Samuel Wheeler her son. RRW suggests she had two sons: Obadiah and Jonathan.]
1060 I Abraham 4 b. 29 Sept. 1711 m. Martha Blood
1061 II
On 19 April 1727 Jonathan sells to Alex Cummings “a first right in Concord Village which did appertain to my honored father Obadiah, but now belongeth to me.” At that date he was living in Lancaster.
1024 JOSEPH 3 WHEELER m. (1) ABIGAIL BUTTERFIELD (2) SARAH ALLEN Obad2/Obad1
Joseph and Abigail married 2 March 1726/7. Abigail died at Lancaster 2 Oct 1764. Joseph married Sarah Allen at Lancaster 14 Oct. 1766. Joseph died at Lancaster 29 Feb. 1780. Sarah died at Lancaster 14 April 1789 age 71. Abigail was received into the church at Lancaster from the First Church in Cambridge 6 April 1746. She was born 11 May 1702, daughter of Jonathan and Ruth Butterfield of Cambridge. Joseph and Abigail's children, born in Concord, were:
1062 I Phebe b. 11 Jan 1727/8 m. Jotham Wilder
1063 II Reuben 4 b. 3 Dec. 1729
1064 III Rachel b. 15 Sept. 1731 d. Lancaster 15 May 1799
1065 IV Joseph 4 b. 13 March 1734/5 Was minister at Harvard 1759-1768. d. at Worcester 10 Feb.1793.
In 2007, Charles Palmer indicated that family bible information says Joseph was the father of eleven children including John Wheler, b. 1770, settled in Dover, N.H., m. to Rebecca Harris in 1793, d. 1840 aged 70.
1066 V Abigail b. 13 May 1737 m. Louis Conqueret 23 July 1758
VI
1047 JONATHAN 4 WHEELER m. MARGARET MARTIN Saml3/Obad2/Obad2
Their intent of marriage was filed 6 July 1737 at Acton. Their children at Concord were:
1067 I Margaret bapt. 28 Oct.1739
1068 II “a child” bapt. 19 April 1741
1069 III Asa 5 b. 29 May 1743
1070 IV Jonathan 5 b. 26 May 1745
1054 NEHEMIAH 4 WHEELER m. SUSANNAH PROCTOR Saml3/Obad2/Obad1
They married 10 Dec. 1746. She was the daughter of Joseph and Agnes Proctor of Westford. She died at Carlisle 26 June 1778. He died at Carlisle 1794. The births of the following children are recorded in Acton and in Old Carlisle:
1071 I Samuel 5 b. 27 June 1748 m. Lydia Munroe
1072 II Jacob 5 b. 17 March 1750
1073 III Rachel b. 30 June 1752
1074 IV Joseph P.5 b. 29 Nov. 1754 m. Nabby Munroe
1075 V Rebecca b. 6 March 1759 m. Samuel Emery
1076 VI Susanna b. 15 June 1762 m. Levi Flint
1077 VII Joanna b. 11 Nov. 1764
1078 VIII Olive b. 20 July 1761 m. (1) Barker, (2) James Wright
1055 SAMSON 4 WHEELER m. (1) SARAH PARLIN (2) MARY Saml3/Obad2/Obad1
Sarah was born 7 Jan 1727/8, daughter of Joseph and Abigail Parlin. [They lived in a part of Concord that was taken into Carlisle. Samson served in the Revolution – RRW note.] Samson died at Carlisle 8 Feb. 1804. The births of his children are recorded at Carlisle and Acton, all but one of them by his first wife:
1079 I Tamar b. 19 Jan 1752 d. 8 Oct. 1759
1080 II Hannah b. 9 Aug. 1753 d. 14 Oct. 1759
1081 III Amos 5 b. 1 May 1755 d. 21 Oct. 1759
1082 IV Sarah b. 17 Aug. 1757 d. 3 Oct. 1759
1083 V Nathan 5 b. 30 Dec. 1759 m. Ruth Hunt [He was apprenticed to the Rev. William Emerson at the Old Manse. See Town papers in the library. RRW] [see Janz letters – RRW]
1084 VI Beulah b. 5 Jan 1762 m. Henry Flint (2 nd wife)
1085 VII Lucy b. 6 Feb. 1764 m. Jonathan Wilson
1086 VIII Molly b. 26 March 1766 m. Jonas Spaulding
1087 IX Betty b. 13 Dec. 1769
1089 X Simon 5 b. 16 Dec. 1772 m. Abigail Blood
1056 JUDAH 4 WHEELER m. LUCY COREY Saml3/Obad2/Obad1
They married 20 May 1762. She was the daughter of Stephen and Lucy Corey of Littleton. Judah died in Acton 10 Oct. 1806 aged 74. They had a son. [His cellar hole is near Berry Corner, on very old road running from Carrie Robbin's barn on Acton-Concord old line – see Carlisle map. --RRW]
1090 I Phineas 5
1059 OLIVER 4 WHEELER m. ABIGAIL WOOD Saml3/Obad2/Obad1
They married Nov. 1747. She was of Groton. Oliver died 31 July 1804 in his 82 nd year. His wife died 14 Aug. 1786 in her 60 th year, as we learn from their gravestones at North Acton. The births of the following children are recorded at Carlisle:
1091 I Oliver 5 b. 13 Nov. 1748 m. Hepsibeth Munroe [d, 1773]
1092 II Jonathan 5 b. 9 April 1750
1093 III Patience b. 17 May 1752 m. Brown
1094 IV Leonard 5 b. 24 June 1755 d. 25 Oct. 1759
1095 V Abijah 5 b. 20 Sept. 1758 d. 12 Oct 1759
1096 VI Joel 5 b. 2 June 1761 m. Polly Procter
1097 VII Asa 5 b. 28 July 1763 m. Polly Davis
1098 VIII Abigail b. 1 Jan. 1766 m. John Taylor
1099 IX Reuben 5 b. 28 Jan. 1768 m. Hepzibeth Heywood
1060 ABRAHAM 4 WHEELER m. (1) MARTHA BLOOD (2) HANNAH Jona3/Obad2/Obad1
Abraham and Martha married15 December 1736. She was born Feb. 1712/13, daughter of James and Abigail (Wheeler) Blood. Abraham's first child was by his first wife. Shortly after her death he removed to Groton where the rest of his children were born of his second wife Hannah. In April 1749 he put his eldest daughter under the guardianship of her grandfather Jonathan; then ten years later on 17 Feb. 1759, the grandfather being dead, and the girl having married James Davis, Abraham, having resumed the guardianship, renders his final account; the trust having been of property left to her by James Blood, her mother's father. (See Middlesex Probate Court Records, Vol. XXXVIII, fol 301 and 310, which sets forth all these facts in detail.) In the Middlesex Court of Sessions, 15 March 1736/7 Abraham Wheeler of Concord, housewright, is fined 50 shillings for fornication before marriage, with Martha now his wife, and at the next term of the same court, in May, Martha is fined a like amount. His children, one in Concord by first wife, the rest in Groton by second wife, were:
1100 I Mary b. 1 Feb. 1737 d. 26 Jun. 1799 m. James Davis on 24 Nov 1756 in Concord MA. He was b. 17 Jul. 1734, son of Captain Thomas Davis, and d. 15 Sep. 1821 in Holden MA. Served in the revolution as Captain of a company of Minute-men in Col. Doolittle’s regiment, which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; later, was a Captain in Col. Benjamin Flagg’s (Worcester Co.) regiment.
1101 II Abraham 5 b. 9 April 1743
1102 III Hannah b. 18 Sept. 1744
1103 IV Martha b. 10 March 1745/6
1104 V Shadrach 5 b. 14 April 1747 d. 1 Aug. 1747
1105 VI Abigail b. 15 May 1748
1106`` VII Zadock 5 b. 23 April 1750
1107 VIII Shadrach 5 b. 15 Feb. 1751/2 d. 8 April 1755
1108 IX Alice b. 24 Sept. 1753
1109 X Walter 5 b. 30 Jan. 1755
1110 XI Jesse 5 b. 24 Nov. 1757
1111 XII Lucy b. 26 June 1761
1071 SAMUEL 5 WHEELER m. LYDIA MUNROE Neh4/Saml3/Obad2/Obad1
They married 13 Feb. 1777 at Billerica. He died at Carlisle 9 Oct. 1812. The children at Carlisle were:
1112 I Nehemiah 6 b. 16 March 1780
1113 II Lydia b. 3 March 1782
1114 III Isaac 6 b. 30 May 1785 d. 14 Jan. 1787
1115 IV Hannah m. Elnathan Blood
1074 JOSEPH P. 5 WHEELER m. NABBIE MUNROE Neh4/Saml3/Obad2/Obad1
They married 9 Dec. 1779 at Billerica. Joseph died at Carlisle 8 Feb 1839. Nabbie died 9 Jan. 1827. Children at Carlisle:
1116 I Polly b. 30 May 1783 m. Asa Parlin, Jr.
1117 II Susannah b. 13 July 1785 m. Nathaniel Hutchinson
1118 III Patty b. 3 July 1787 d. 11 May 1809
1119 IV Sally b. 1789 d. 10 July 1834
1120 V Silas 5 b. 5 June 1790 d. 9 March 1811
1121 VI Betsey b. 25 March 1793 m. William Raymond
1121 VI Joseph 6 b. 2 Oct. 1795 m. Ruth Webster
1083 NATHAN 5 WHEELER m. RUTH HUNT Samp4/Saml3/Obad2/Obad1
They married 16 Nov. 1785. She was born in Concord 12 Nov. 1759, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Hildreth) Hunt. [She died 24 May 1843. According to RRW correspondence, it was family tradition that Ruth carried water to the men in the Revolution .– JCW] The Hunt family of Concord lived near the North Bridge – RRW note] [Another RRW note says that this Ruth Hunt was apprenticed to the family of the Rev. William Emerson and was at the Old Manse on April 19, 1775.] Their children at Concord were:
1122 I Amos 6 b. 22 Jan. 1785 [1788? Amos said to be living in Philadelphia in 1816 – JCW]
1123 II Ruth b. 22 March 1789 [Said to have married (1) a Mr. Spaulding, (2) a Mr. Wilson and (3) a man named George Sargeant – JCW]
1124 III Betsey b. 15 June 1790 [She was called Eliza – RRW]
1125 IV Abel 6 b. 10 June 1791 [m. Aurelia Cushman –Abel said to have served in War of 1812 - JCW]
1126 V Polly b. 22 Dec. 1792 [She was called Sally or Sarah – RRW] m. Thomas Woodward
1127 VI Patty b. 17 Feb. 1795
1128 VII Daniel b. 26 May 1796 m. [Lydia Bebbins or Bibbens. According to correspondence left in RRW's files, Daniel served in War of 1812 and went from Salem MA to Salina (now Syracuse) NY and was great-grandfather to Wheeler Williams, important sculptor–JCW]
1129 VIII Fanny or Frances Cordelia b. 16 Feb. 1803 [ m. David Lockwood, went to Salena, now Syracuse NY.]
[According to correspondence in RRW's files, there was a Nathan 6 born 6 Aug. 1786, per Carlisle vital statistics to 1849. Also there was a Sarah said to have married a Woodward and a Lois who married Samuel? Jackett who was adopted by Frances C. Wheeler Lockwood – JCW]
1089 SIMON 5 WHEELER m. ABIGAIL BLOOD Samp4/Saml3/Obad2/Obad1
Simon died at Carlisle 3 Jan. 1826; Abigail died 18 Oct. 1855. Their children at Carlisle were:
1130 I Abigail b. 16 Aug. 1799 d. 13 Sept 1799
1131 II Sarah b. 5 Aug. 1801 m. Samuel Webster
1132 III Samuel 6 birth not recorded but name in will as eldest son
1133 IV Lucy b. 30 March 1805
1134 V Rebecca b. 19 Oct. 1806 d. 8 March 1830
1135 VI David 6 b. 10 March 1808` d. 1 Nov. 1817
1136 VII Moses 6 b. 4 Nov. 1809 went to Pelham NH
1137 VIII Simon 6 b. 7 Oct. 1811 d. at Carlisle 1851 – single
1138 IX Betsey b. 24 April 1813 m. Harris
1139 X Hannah b. 27 Sept. 1814 d. 1 Nov. 1817
1140 XI Mary Ann b. 12 Sept. 1816 d. 31 Oct. 1817
• XII,XIII,XIV ( David 6, Mary Ann, Hannah) b. and d. triplets -- 31 Oct. 1819
1090 PHINEAS 5 WHEELER m. (1) LUCY PARLIN (2)HANNAH JONES (3) ELIZABETH HODGMAN (4) LUCY HAYWARD Judah4/Saml3/Obad2/Obad1
Lucy Parlin died 7 Dec. 1806, aged 26. Hannah Jones died 7 Dec. 1828, aged 51. Elizabeth Hodgman, [whom Phineas married in 1831,] was the widow of John Hodgman of Carlisle, by birth Elizabeth Buttrick. She died [in Acton] April 1835 aged 60. He married Lucy Hayward 14 April 1836. She was by birth a Hunt, daughter of John and Hannah Dakin Hunt and had been married twice before, first to Henry Durant and second to Hayward. Phineas Wheeler was a housewright; for several years Deacon at Acton where he died 2 August 1838.
[Children by Lucy Parlin]:
1144 I Phineas P. 6 b. Nov. 1800 d. 22 March 1801
1145 II Cyrus 6 b. 27 January 1803
1146 III Lucy b. 29 Aug. 1804 m. John Hodgman
1147 IV Timothy 6 b. 29 Aug. 1804 [d. 5 Oct. 1839 single – RRW]
[Children presumably by Hannah Jones – but the first is listed as having been born only four months after Lucy Parlin is said to have died - JCW]
1148 V Winthrop F. 6 b. 3 April 1807 d. 5 Oct. 1839 – single
1149 VI Nancy b. 1810 m. Albert Sawin
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1099 REUBEN 5 WHEELER m. HEPSIBETH HEYWOOD Oliver4/Saml3/Obad2/Obad1
They married 20 Oct. 1789. He died at Acton 5 Feb. 1841; she died 23 Dec. 1849, aged 83. Their children at Carlisle were:
1150 I Ithamar 6 b. 15 Jan 1791 – killed at Sackett's Harbor, war of 1812
1151 II John H. 6 b. 30 April 1992 m. Betsey Brooks
1152 III Elijah 6 b. 21 Sept. 1793
1153 IV Nancy b. 27 March 1795 d. 24 Nov. 1816
1154 V Eunice b. 23 April 1797 m. Henry Flint (1 st wife)
1155 VI Reuben 6 b. 29 Jan 1799 (went to So. Boston)
1156 VII Franklin 6 b. 4 March 1802 [m. Susan Collins of Marlboro. They married in 1845. He was from Acton. One of their children was named Henry C. 6 Wheeler, born in Acton in 1846. Henry married on Nov. 19, 1871 in Acton Sarah J. Tibbetts, daughter of William Tibbetts, Jr and Mary A. Smith Tibbetts of Brookfield NH. The Tibbetts lived in Concord 1859-1873 and 1878-1887 and it was through the Tibbetts family that Henry C. 6 Wheeler came to own the farm at 215 Virginia Road where the Thoreau Birth House had been located before it was moved to its present location in 1878. He owned the farm at 215 Virginia Road from 1883 to 1915. Sarah Tibbetts Wheeler died 9 Dec. 1899. — JCW]
[Shirley Blanke, in her paper published in the Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Fall 2011 issue ("A Report on the H.C. Wheeler Collection of Native American Artifacts, Concord Museam, Concord, MA: with Reference to the R.S. Peabody Museum's Collection, Andover, MA"), reported that census data from 1880 to 1910 revealed that Henry C. Wheeler & Sarah Tibbets Wheeler had a daughter, Laura, about 1874. She signed Henry C.'s death certificate in Lexington in 1925 as Laura Litchfield. See also : Shirley Blancke, "Henry C. Wheeler's Native American Artifact Collection at the Thoreau Farm," The Concord Saunterer, a Journal of Thoreau Studies, vol. 19/20, 2011-12 — JCW]
1157 VIII Betsey b. 31 May 1803 m. Henry Flint (3 rd wife)
1158 IX Mary b. 29 Sept. 1804 d. 24 Feb. 1828
1159 X William 6 b. 15 May 1808
3. The Lieut. Joseph Wheeler Line
2701 JOSEPH 1 WHEELER m. (1) ELIZABETH (2) SARAH MERIAM
Elizabeth died in childbirth on 20 Sept. 1643; her death was recorded as 20 July 1643, the copyist having rendered the 7 by July instead of September, thus transfixing Dr. Savage with astonishment, and he confesses his inability to solve the puzzle how she could have died in July and given birth to a child in September. Joseph married (2) Sarah, widow of Joseph Meriam [who died 1 Jan. 1640/1] [Joseph, son of William of Hadlow, Kent, was baptized 18 Feb. 1610 according to a note in RRW files –JCW.] [Sarah had already had seven children by Joseph Meriam - JCW] The children of Joseph 1 Wheeler were:
By Elizabeth
2702 I Ephraim 2 b.14 April 1640 d. 19 July 1642
2703 II Joseph 2 b. 1 Dec. 1641 d. 18 July 1642
2704 III Mary b. 20 Sept. 1643 d. same day
By Sarah
2705 IV Rebecca b. 6 Sept. 1645 m. (1) Peter Bulkeley (2) Jonathan Prescott
Lieut. Joseph Wheeler seems to have been connected with the Charlestown Wheelers, for on 17 Dec. 1678 "Joseph Wheeler, 68 years old", testifies to having been present when Thomas Wheeler of Charlestown made his will, which he died without signing. In May 1681, being then "71 years old", he makes affidavit as to the laying out of certain lots of land in Concord several years before. He had a large amount of property on the Merrimack River, and 12 Aug. 1670, Joseph Wheeler and his wife Sarah of Concord sell 700 acres there to Cornelius Waldo. In 1676 he buys of John Hull 300 acres near Dunstable, and in 1678 he buys of Joseph Wheeler of Malden and his wife Frances and in 1679 Joseph Wheeler of Malden and his wife Frances sell about 150 acres of this to John Hayward of Boston. On 12 Feb. 1660 the selectmen of Concord grant to Lieut. Joseph Wheeler a tract of land lying between the line of Chelmsford and the line of Nashoba 610 acres in all, and 4 April 1679, Joseph Wheeler and wife Frances of Concord, sell the same to Ralph Shepard. It is therefore to be inferred that he married a third wife Frances, and removed to Dunstable and afterward to Malden. He left no will.
4. The Captain Thomas Wheeler Line
2801 CAPTAIN THOMAS 1 WHEELER m RUTH WOOD
[According to a note in RRW's files Thomas was baptized 8 April 1620. See also articles in the American Genealogist , Volume 12 pp 4-17 and after p 135 and in Volume 14 by Homer W. Brainard– JCW] Samuel G. Drake in his History of Boston , surmises (p. 196) that this Thomas Wheeler was the one to whom a grant of land was set down at Muddy River (p. 94 Boston Book of Possessions ). He also says (p.406) that "this Captain Wheeler, of the Brookfield fight, I believe to be the same one once owner of the point still bearing his name. He was of Concord at this time, having gone there recently." Here Mr. Drake is all wrong. The Thomas of Muddy River was a tailor: lived at what is now the corner of Bedford and Washington Streets: died at Boston 16 May 1654: his widow married John Pierce of Dorchester, and some years later sells this Muddy River land, "the property formerly of Thomas Wheeler" to “Thomas Hammond" {Suffolk Deeds Vol 3 p. 296.)
The other Thomas of Boston, who owned "Wheeler's Point", was a vintner: lived on the north side of "the street leading from the South Meeting House easterly" on land which was conveyed to him by Wm. Pell and his wife Alice,:in consideration of the love and affection they have unto their daughter Hannah wife of said Thomas". This Thomas and Hannah have several children in Boston, and were living there in 1681, when they buy land of Jonathan Bridgham. In Jan. 1690 adm estate of Thomas Wheeler, vintner, of Boston is granted to his widow Hannah, who with her sons Thomas and Joseph, sell to Thomas Bossonger this same property that had come to them from Wm. Pell. (Suffolk Deed XV-69).These facts make it impossible that either of these two Thomas Wheelers could have been the Capt. Thomas Wheeler to whom the Town of Concord leased 260 acres of land in 1669, and whom we knew to be the Thomas of the Quaboag fight, and the brother of Capt. Timothy Wheeler {No. 2901) Savage's identification of him, as having had a second wife Sarah, etc. is still more absurd, he died 19 Dec, 1678. The births of his children are not of record here, nor is his marriage, nor the death of his wife, but the record of his death is explicit: "Capt. Thomas Wheeler, husband of Ruth, died 10-10-1676". Thomas Wheeler, son of the widow Ruth died 17-12-1676/7. Nathaniel Wheeler, son of ye widow Ruth died 9-12-1676/7"
Joseph, Ephraim and Deliverance are identified by their uncle Timothy's will and on 19 June 1677, Joseph Wheeler is made administrator of the estates of his brothers Thomas and Nathaniel, the estate of the former, who had been with his father at the Quaboag fight, consisting only of "Horse, pistols, a cutlas and gun", and that of the latter of "one pair of oxen". The facts that Timothy (2901) had land in Charlestown, and that Deliverance (2806) lived for some time in Charlestown after his marriage, seems to infer some connection between this line of Wheelers and the Charlestown Wheelers. [See pp 377-408 of Hudson's History of Concord available at the Concord Free Public Library for the story of the Wheelers in King Philip's War – see also King Philip's War by Eric B. Schultz and Michael Tougias, Countryman Press, 1999 where on pp. 357-61 is printed Captain Thomas Wheeler's Narrative. Another book making reference to Wheeler is The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity by Jill Lepore, Alfred Knopf, New York 1998. -- JCW]
Captain Thomas 1 Wheeler's wife was Ruth Wood, daughter of William Wood, but I have found no record of her birth or death, nor of their marriage. [William Wood's will names son Michael and grand daughter Abigail Hosmer, wife of Thomas Wheeler - RRW] Their children were:
2802 I Thomas 2 d. 16 Feb. 1676/7 [He died of wounds from the Brookfield fight that led to the death of his father. Brainard puts his birth at “before 1652” and his death at 9 Jan. 1676/7 – JCW.]
[Brainard includes a Ruth, born “about 1652”, dying 7 May 1673 and married to Ephraim Jones. Births, Marriages and Deaths has “Ephram Jones” marrying “Reuth Wheeler” on 7 May 1673. It has him dying 23 Jan 1676 but includes no date for Ruth's death. An RRW note suggests that Ruth subsequently married Thomas Brown and then Jonathan Prescott. Births, marriages and deaths, p. 20, has a Capt. Jonathan Prescott marrying Ruth Brown 18 Aug. 1718 – JCW]
2803 II Nathaniel 2 [b. “about 1655”] d. 9 Feb. 1676/7 [or 16 Jan. or 9 Dec. 1676 - JCW]
2804 III Joseph 2 m. Mary Powers
2805 IV Ephraim 2 d. 19 Feb. 1689
2806 V Deliverance 2 m. Mary Davis [daughter of Lt. Simon 2 Davis – RRW]
2804 JOSEPH 2 WHEELER m. MARY POWERS Thomas 1
They married 1 March 1681. She was the daughter of Walter Powers . The 1st , 5th, 6th and 7th children are recorded in Concord; the 2nd, 3rd and 4th in Stow, and the 8th in Stratfield CT.
17th June 1695 Joseph Wheeler and wife Mary convey to Rebecca Minot (2905) all their rights, etc. in Concord New Grant, "formerly belonging to my uncle Timothy Wheeler deceased". He went with his family to Stratfield CT where he joined the Stratfield church 20 Dec. 1698, and where he died in the spring of the following year. His widow appears to have returned to Massachusetts for on 20 March 1716, her son Joseph, (who had just come of age) quitclaims to her all his rights etc. in the property of his father in Stow. The dates here given as those of the birth of his children are from the Concord and Stow records. They differ, in two instances, from those given in the History of Stratford page 1344, nor does the Stratford Historian mention the daughter Ruth, although she was administrix of the estate and rendered an account to the Middlesex Probate Court, 1 Oct. 1706.
But the facts are quite enough to identify the Joseph of Stratfield with Joseph the son of Capt. Thomas. Their children were:
2807 I Ruth b. 19 Nov. 1682 [single woman – RRW]
2808 II Mary b. 24 Oct. 1684
2809 III Rebecca b. 31 July 1686
2810 IV Esther b. 29 Jan. 1687/8
2811 V Elizabeth b. 17 July 1690
2812 VI Jane b. 16 Jan. 1692
2813 VII Joseph 3 b. 12 Jan. 1694/5
2814 VIII Ephraim 3 b. 28 July 1697
30 Sept 1706, Ruth Wheeler, of Fairfield CT, single woman, sells 57 acres in Stow, "formerly belonging to my hon'd father Joseph Wheeler, now deceased". (xiv - 367)
2806 DELIVERANCE 2 WHEELER m. MARY DAVIS Thomas1
They married 28 May 1691. Mary was born 2 or 3 Oct. 1663, daughter of Lieut. Simon and Mary (Blood) Davis. She was the sister of Sarah, the wife of Thomas Wheeler (No. 11)
Deliverance sold out his property in Concord in 1692, and seems to have gone to Charlestown for a while, as his 2 nd son was born there. 24 Jan 1701 he bought land in Stow, and died there intestate in 1720, administration of his estate granted to his widow 19 April 1720, and the estate divided just a year later to “Deliverance 1st son; Thomas 2 nd son; and Ephraim 3 rd son”, the daughter Mary not appearing in the division. Their children were:
2815 I Deliverance 3 b. 5 June 1692
2816 II Thomas 3 b. 24 June 1697 m. Elizabeth Gates
2817 III Ephraim 3 ( “in his 17 th year” 19 April 1720) d. 9 Oct. 1723
2818 IV Mary b. 5 Nov. 1707, at Stow.
2816 THOMAS 3 WHEELER m. ELIZABETH GATES Deliv2/Thomas1
They married 15 April 1722. He was living at Harvard in 1740. Their children were:
2819 I Thomas 4 b. 30 Jan. 1722/3 at Stow m. Mary Gates
2820 II Mary b. 25 Feb. 1726/7 at Stow
2819 THOMAS 4 WHEELER m. MARY GATES Thom3/Deliv2/Thom1
The inventory of Thomas' estate was made 23 January 1756, and guardian appointed 13 April 1756 to the children named below who are said to be “under 14 yrs old: children of Thomas and Mary Gates Wheeler.”
2821 I Deliverance 5 b. 22 Dec. 1749
2822 II Thomas 5 b. 1 Feb. 1752
2823 III Mary b. 4 July 1754
5. The Captain Timothy Wheeler Line
2901 [CAPTAIN] TIMOTHY 1 WHEELER m. (1) JANE (2) MARY BROOKS
Timothy 1 Wheeler appears to have settled in Charlestown, and had also, says Bond, a freehold in Watertown, but the birth of a daughter to him in 1640, and the death of his first wife in 1643, are recorded in Concord. In 1663 and again in 1683 he sells land in Charlestown, and in Jan. 1683/4 he sells to his son-in-law Ebenezer Prout his corn mill in Menotomy. His will (Suffolk Reg. X-103) was dated 1 March1680 at which time he says he is 82 years old; but his gravestone makes him 86 years old at the time of his death 30 July 1687. The inventory of his estate calls him Timothy Wheeler, Jr. In his will, after a bequest of land to the Town of Concord, he names "my brother Caleb Brooks"; "my cousin Samuel and his sister Susanna Shipley"; "my cousin Joshua"; "Joseph, Ephraim and Deliverance, my brother Thomas his sons" [presumably this should read: "my brother Thomas' sons - JCW]; "Ephraim & Joseph the two youngest sons of my nephew Sergeant Thomas Wheeler", "Sarah Jones my grandchild"; "my son & daughter Proust", and "my daughter Rebecca Minot". [Deed 4-459 of 1664/5 also speaks of his “brother”, Gorsham Brooks. – JCW]
[In her copy, RRW left a note as follows: “Timothy Wheeler's will (copied by RRW in Suffolk County Court House) : Mary Wheeler (?)
20 shillings each: Ed Bull; Jos. Estabrook
see will p. 131
40 acres woodland near Elias Ball's lot
to Mary Brooks my brother Caleb's daughter 20 lbs
Cousin Joshuah Wheeler 3 lbs in corn
Cousin Sam'l Wheeler & sister Susannah Shipley 20 sh apiece
To Joseph Wheeler my Bro Thomas his son all my rights in the village
To Ephraim and Deliverance Wheeler my brother Thomas' youngest sons I give them (?) of meadow land lying at the upper end of Elmbrook Meadow not far from Jos Dane's meadow this to be equally divided between them.
I give to the 2 youngest sons of my Nephew Sgt. Tho. Wheeler viz Ephraim and Joseph 4 acres of meadow lying near Virginy bounded by meadow of Ty [presumably Timothy] Wheeler, Junior [on] the north and meadow of John Hoar on the east & meadow of Dr. Taylor on the south,
To Sarah Jones my grandchild I give five acres of meadow lying in Elmbrook meadow butting upon John Hoar's meadow. Also I give to Sarah Jones 20 A [presumably “acres”] woodland in the North Q [presumably ”Quarter”] lands of Jos Flint & son, and
To D. Proust all my lands at Mistick
Grants Tim Proust 5 lbs
Ebenezer my grandson my land in [Boston or Acton] which I had of my cousin Southfort
To my daughter Rebecca Minott after the decease of my wife my Homestead in Concord; that is my house and barns with all the appurtenances, my meadow in the Great Meadow, my mill in Concord with all the privileges
To my loving wife Mary all my (?) in Charlestown – also my land at the Town End.
Inventory Lbs 790.05 ]
This is the only key we have to the relationships of the early Wheelers, and shows:
1st Captain Timothy Wheeler # 2901 and Captain Thomas Wheeler #2801 were brothers
2nd They were nephews of Obadiah #1001
3rd They were both uncles of Sergeant Thomas Wheeler #3001, since Captain Thomas' son Thomas died in 1677
4th Timothy's 2nd wife was a Brooks.
Captain Timothy 1 Wheeler's first wife Jane died 12 February 1642/3, and he married 2nd Mary Brooks, daughter of Thomas & Grace Brooks. She died 4 Oct. 1693. The children were:
2902 I Sarah b. 22 June 1640 m. John Farwell
2903 II Elizabeth Birth not recorded but she was probably 2nd child, for she was of marriageable age 28 May 1678, at which date she married Ebenezer Proust
2904 III Mary b. 3 Oct 1657 d. 7 Oct. 1660
2905 IV Rebecca b. 1666 m. James Minott (sic) [Captain James Minot was the grandfather of Jonas Minot who became step-grandfather to Henry David Thoreau. Rebecca had inherited the mill at the Milldam from her father. See “Where Thoreau Was Born” by Joseph C. Wheeler in the Thoreau Society's The Concord Saunterer , 1999- JCW]
6. The Sergeant Thomas Wheeler Line
3001 SERGEANT THOMAS 1 WHEELER m. (1) SARAH MERIAM (2) SARAH STEARNS
Sarah Meriam [was born about 1626 - JCW], the daughter of Joseph Meriam and Sara[h] (Goldstone) Meriam. [Sara Goldstone was the daughter of John and (probably) Frances (Jefferie) Goldstone of Tonbridge -- according to the Meriam Genealogy - JCW]. This is shown by a deed (17 April 1667) from the heirs of Jos. Meriam dec'd, to Joseph Wheeler [#2701], who had married their mother, conveying to him their several shares of their late father's estate, among the signers of which deed are Thomas Wheeler and his wife Sarah. He lived in the east part of the town, and at various times conveys to one or another of his sons lands at “Verginy in Concord”.
The will of Timothy Wheeler (#2901) speaks of him as “my nephew, Serg't Thomas Wheeler”, but he could not have been the son of Captain Thomas (#2801) whom we know to have been a brother of Timothy, for Cap't Thomas and his son Thomas had both died before the date of Timothy's will. We may fairly presume that he was born not far from the year 1625.
Sarah Meriam, Sgt. Thomas Wheeler's first wife, died 1 Feb. 1676/7 and he married 2d Sarah [Beers] Stearns 23 July 1677: she was the widow of Isaac Stearns of Lexington, and her maiden name was Beers. [This Isaac Stearns, Jr. was the son of Watertown first settler Isaac Stearns – JCW] Sgt. Thomas died 24 Dec. 1704 at 76; his widow died 24 [or 21] January 1723/4. His children were born in Concord, ten by his first wife and three by his second.
[This Sgt. Thomas Wheeler received much of the Virginia Road land in Concord's First and Second Divisions – including the farm where Henry David Thoreau was born. – JCW]
[Children of THOMAS 1 and SARAH MERIAM were: - JCW]
3002 I Sarah b. 10 June 1649 m. John Smedley
3003 II Joseph 2 b. 18 Aug. 1651 d. 16 March 1676/7
3004 III Ann b. 20 Dec. 1653 d. 20 March 1676/7
3005 IV John 2 b. 18 Feb. 1655 m. (1)Sarah Stearns [daughter of his step-mother – JCW] (2) Sarah Farwell Jones
3006 V Mary b. 20 Dec. 1658 d. 6 [or 26] May 1668
3007 VI Thomas 2 b. 29 March 1662 d. 12 June 1695 (single)
3008 VII Elizabeth b. 23 Feb. 1664/5 [d. 26 Oct 1744] m. Samuel Fletcher
3009 VIII Timothy 2 b. 12 [or 24] July 1667 m. Lydia Wheeler (#26)
3010 IX Rebecca b. 3 April 1670 d. 6 Nov. 1710 (single)
3011 X Ruth b. 10 April 1673 m. Joseph Warren of Chelmsford (2 nd wife)
[Children of THOMAS 1 and SARAH STEARNS were: - JCW]
3012 XI Ephraim 2 b. 26 June 1678 m. Elizabeth Spaulding
3013 XII Joseph 2 b. 11 Jan. 1680/1 [said to have married Martha Wigglesworth on 2 Nov. 1704 and to have died in 1705 – JCW]
3014 XIII Joanna b. 11 Jan. 1680/1
3005 JOHN 2 WHEELER m. (1) SARAH STEARNS (2) SARAH JONES Thomas1
John and Sarah Stearns married 27 Dec. 1678. She was born 14 Jan. 1662, daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Beers) Stearns. (Her mother married John Wheeler's father.) She died 29 Dec. 1727. He married 2 nd Sarah Farwell Jones, widow of John Jones: this is shown by her will, in which she calls herself “relict of Deac. John Wheeler” and leaves her property to the children of John Jones. Deacon John Wheeler had by his will left to her “all the movable estate she brought with her”, as per a pre-nuptial agreement. She was by birth Sarah Farwell, b. 2 May 1662, daughter of John and Sarah (Wheeler) Farwell, her mother [#2902] being the oldest child of Capt. Timothy Wheeler (2901). She was married first 5 May 1681 to John Jones who died in Feb. 1725/6, and she is mentioned in [Capt.] Timothy Wheeler's will as “my grand-daughter Sarah Jones.” Her marriage to Deacon John Wheeler is not of record. She died 18 April 1741.
[Some historians believe that this John Wheeler, about the time of his second marriage,built the house now known as the Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse (birth place of Henry David Thoreau) – see National Register application – JCW]
Deacon John Wheeler died 1 Dec. 1736. His will names wife Sarah, and all his children below, excepting Joseph and Nathaniel who had already deceased. He leaves also to his “grandson Joseph Wheeler of Acton” all his right interest etc. in Concord New Grant.
His children, recorded in Concord, and all by his first wife, were:
3015 I Joseph 3 b. 27 Jan. 1679 m. Sarah Ball [10 April 1705]
3016 II John 3 b. 6 Feb. 1684
3017 III Sarah b. 11 Nov. 1686 m. Samuel Meriam [#20 in Meriam Genealogy – They had four children of which the eldest married David Wheeler (#71) -- JCW]
3018 IV Abigail b. 29 Dec. 1689 m. Thomas Ball
3019 V Thomas 3 b. 24 June 1692 m. Mary Monroe
3020 VI Jonathan 3 b. 19 April 1696 m. Sarah [moved to Sutton MA, d. 10 July 1779 –RRW]
3021 VII Nathaniel 3 b. 28 Sept. 1702 m. 7 Oct. 1723 [Nathaniel 3 had Nathaniel 4 of Sutton and Croyden NH. Then Deacon Nathaniel 5 had James 6 who had Lucy 7 (Mrs. J. W. Forrester of Concord) – RRW]
3009 TIMOTHY 2 WHEELER m. LYDIA WHEELER Thomas1
Timothy married Lydia Wheeler (No. 26) 19 May 1692. She was the daughter of John and Sarah (Larkin) Wheeler. Timothy died 14 April 1718 and his widow married Nathaniel Stow 21 April 1720. Timothy Wheeler & son Jonas are buried in the Hill Burying Ground. [Timothy built the house at 477 Virginia Road – JCW] Their children, born in Concord, were:
3022 I Lydia b. 5 May 1694 m. Joshua Brooks
3023 II Timothy 3 b. 8 March 1696/7 m. Abigail Row [Monroe]
3024 III Jonas 3 b. 19 June 1699 d. 30 Aug. 1716
3025 IV Sarah b. 3 Nov. 1701
3026 V Mary b. 12 Aug. 1704
3027 VI Elizabeth b. 20 April 1707
3028 VII Benjamin 3 b. 13 Aug. 1709 m. Rebecca Lee
3029 VIII Anna b. 26 Sept. 1713 m. John 4 Bateman
3012 EPHRAIM 2 WHEELER m. ELIZABETH SPAULDING Thomas1
They married 20 April 1698. Elizabeth died at Fairfield CT 4 Sept. 1724 in her 44 th year. He died ibid 19 April 1725. Their children (two in Concord and six at Plainfield) were:
3030 I Elizabeth b. 31 Dec. 1699
3031 II Ephraim 3 b. 9 March 1701/2 m. Mary Johnson, lived in Plainfield CT. Had sons Moses, who married Martha Spaulding, and Aaron.
3032 III Olive b. 13 Jan. 1703/4
3033 IV Benjamin 3 b. 13 Jan. 1703/4 d. 11 Apr. 1770 m. Prudence Hewitt (Thom2/Thom1) in Stonington CT : Ephraim4/Spaulding5/Schyler6/Perry7/Chloe Ann8/Mabel Callecote9. Also Spaulding5/Schuyler6/Commodore7/Waldo8/Waldo9 and Schuyler10 living in Columbus MO. [Commodore Perry Wheeler had eight children: Chloe Ann who married Callicothe, had Perry,Schuyler,Ira,Clarence,Waldo,Frank and Guy – JCW]
3034 V Thomas 3 b. 13 May 1706
3035 VI Sarah b. 21 Oct. 1712 d. 24 Aug. 1724 at Plainfield CT
3036 VII Edward 3 b. 13 May 1715
3037 VIII Mary b. 23 Dec 1720
3015 JOSEPH 3 WHEELER m. SARAH BALL John2/Thomas1
They married 10 April 1705. She was the daughter of Eleazer Ball. Joseph 3 died intestate 15 Oct. 1732. Sarah died 24 June 1748. Their children born in Concord were:
3038 I Joseph 4 b. 24 Dec, 1705 m. Ruth Fox
3039 II John 4 b. 25 May 1707 d. 25 July 1769 (single) [He lived at Anderson place on Virginia Road – RRW]
3040 III Martha b. 4 Aug. 1709 d. 22 July 1779 [She lived at the Anderson Place on Virginia Road with her brother John – The Anderson Place is now subdivided and located opposite and just to the east of the farm where Thoreau was born. -- JCW]
3041 IV Miriam b. 17 July 1711
3042 V Abijah 4 b. 3 Dec. 1712 m. Tabitha
3043 VI Jerusha b. 17 Apr. 1715 d. 9 Jan. 1715/6
3044 VII Eleazer b. 12 Jan 1716/7
3045 VIII Ezra 4 b. 3 Dec. 1717 m. Rebecca Davis
3046 IX Esther b. 3 May 1720 m. Samuel Meriam [#49 in Meriam Genealogy – JCW]
3047 X Nehemiah 4 b. 20 March 1721/2 m. Judith Rowell at Boston 20 Oct. 1743, and they were dismissed from the church in Concord and recommended to that of Portsmouth 10 Oct. 1756
3048 XI Zachariah 4 b. 30 April 1724 [d. 1790 – RRW] m. Mary Pierce [of Weston – supported by Town in her old age – RRW]
3049 XII Sarah b. 17 Feb. 1725/6
3050 XIII Jerusha b. 1729 m. David Fletcher
[See note under "44. JOSEPH 4 WHEELER m SARAH FLETCHER." - JCW]
3019 THOMAS 3 WHEELER m. MARY MONROE John2/Thomas1
[Mary was born in 1699, daughter of William and Mary (Cutler) Monroe – RRW] Thomas 3 died in 1750, his will dated 30 March and offered for probate 28 May 1750. His widow married on 4 June 1751 to Deacon Joshua Brooks. She died 30 April 1782. Thomas' children by Mary at Concord were:
3051 I Lucy b. 3 May 1723 m. Samuel Buttrick
3052 II Mary b. 2 March 1724/5 m. Elisha Child
3053 III Ruth b. 5 Feb. 1726 m. Ephraim Flint
[Ruth Ephraim Flint had a child Abigail, who married "3133. John 5 Wheeler" - JCW.]
3054 IV Edmund 4 b. 4 March 1730/1 m. Eunice Munroe
3055 V Ephraim 4 b. 6 March 1728/9 d. 27 Nov. 1731
3056 VI John 4 b. 5 Sept. 1733 m. Lydia Allen
3057 VII Abigail b. 11 Jan. 1739/40 m. Daniel Heald
3020 JONATHAN 3 WHEELER m. SARAH Tim2/Thom1
Jonathan Wheeler and his wife Sarah were admitted to the church in Sutton MA by letter from church of Concord in 1746. Their children at Concord were:
3058 I Rebecca b. 26 Aug. 1718
3059 II Sarah b. 7 Feb. 1721/2
3060 III Nathaniel 4 b. 5 Feb. 1723/4 [Nathaniel moved from Sutton to Croyden NH. He had Deacon Nathaniel 5 who had James 6 who had Lucy 7 –RRW]
3061 IV Hannah b. 29 April 1725 m. Jabez Russell [In 2009, Dave L. Johnson reported that Jabez and Hannah were married on 16 Aug 1751, and that he was descended from this couple - JCW]
3062 V Olive b. 1 Jan. 1727/8 m. Nathaniel Meriam [Meriam Genealogy #52 – JCW]
3063 VI Jane b. 12 Feb. 1729
3064 VII Jonathan 4 b. 13 Sept. 1732
3065 VIII Abel 4 b. 27 Aug. 1735 [He married Rebecca Wakefield, widow of Josiah Clark of Killingly CT. Their son Amos 5 married Betsy Hall of Bethlehem NH – RRW]
3066 IX Millison b. 2 Dec. 1730 [?]
3067 X Anne bapt. 4 Jan. 1741 m. Ephraim Russell
3023 TIMOTHY 3 WHEELER m. (1) ABIGAIL ROE (MONROE) (2) MEHITABLE WHITTEMORE Tim2/Thomas1
Timothy and Abigail were married 25 June 1719. [A footnote in Lexington's Births, Marriages and Deaths says that Abigail Monroe was born in 1701, the daughter of William Monroe 2, son of William Monroe 1. In the Lexington records he was also known as “Ensign Roe” -- RRW] [Abigail must have died before 1744 – probably in 1743 --after having borne twelve children –JCW] Timothy then married Mehitable Whittemore on 31 May 1744. She died 2 March 1772; he died 7 May 1782. The children, born at Concord:
3068 I Jonas 4 b. 7 Dec. 1720 m. Persis Brooks [b. 1742, d. 1815 or 1816 in New Ipswich NH. [Among Jonas' children there was Noah 5 who had Otis 6 (St. Louis MO) who had Benjamin 7 (probate judge in Troy MO) who had Charles 8 who had Clara 9 who married C.S.Hammond in St. Louis MO – RRW]
3069 II Abigail b. 7 Dec. 1721 m. Nathan Meriam [ #50 in Meriam Genealogy – JCW]
3070 III Timothy 4 b. 19 March 1722/3 m. Sarah Bond
3071 IV Lydia b. 5 Oct. 1724 m. Josiah Meriam [ #51 in Meriam Genealogy – JCW]
3072 V Nathan 4 b. 9 Feb. 1725/6 m. Mary Hunt
3073 VI Amos 4 b. 19 Oct. 1727
3074 VII Elizabeth b. 10 Dec. 1728 m. Sargent
3075 VIII David 4 b. 22 July 1730 m. Rebecca Jones
3076 IX Mary b. 23 April 1732 m. Ebenezer Jones
3077 X Lucy b. 5 Nov. 1733 m. Luke Brooks
3078 XI William 4 b. 17 Jan. 1734/5 m. Grace Wood
3079 XII Rebecca (named in will)
3080 XIII Joel 4 b. 8 Nov. 1748 m. Dorcas Stearns
In May 1781, Timothy Wheeler, being very old and non compos , is put under guardianship of Abner Wheeler, which results in a suit by David, settled by arbitration 12 Dec. 1781
3028 BENJAMIN 3 WHEELER m. (1) REBECCA LEE (2) LUCY WINSHIP Tim2/Thos1
Benjamin married Rebecca Lee 6 April 1736. She was born 31 Oct. 1715, daughter of Henry and Rebecca Lee. She died 19 April 1752 and Benjamin married Lucy Winship 27 Nov. 1753. Lucy was the daughter of Moses and Lucy Winship of Lexington. She died 28 Dec. 1777. He died 21 Sept. 1777. He and his two wives are buried in the Hill Burying Ground. His children, eight by his first wife and three by the second are recorded in Concord:
3081 I Jonas 4 b. 11 Feb. 1736/7 d. 29 Jan. 1739/40
3082 II Benjamin 4 b. 27 March 1739 m. Hannah
3083 III Aaron 4 b. 20 March 1740/1 m. Lucy Brooks
3084 IV Rebecca b. 23 Jan. 1742/3 m. Aaron Wood
3085 V Abner 4 b. 9 Sept. 1745 m. Elizabeth Hunt
3086 VI Lydia b. 9 April 1747
3087 VII Jotham 4 b. 27 April 1749 m. Sarah Bacon
3088 VIII Nathan 4 b. 12 June 1751 not named in will
3089 IX Lucy b. 28 Sept. 1758 m. Jeremiah Williams
3090 X Hailey b. 28 May 1760
3091 XI Hepzibeth b. 23 Nov. 1764
3038 JOSEPH 4 WHEELER m. RUTH FOX Jos/John2/Thos1
Ruth Fox was the daughter of John and Ruth (Meriam) Fox, and was born 8 April 1704. Joseph was not as sternly virtuous as was Joseph of old; for on 12 March 1727/8 he was fined 30 sh for fornication before marriage, and at the next session of the court his wife Ruth pays the same. He died in Acton 17 June 1756. Was a cooper. He bought from John Bateman in 1737 a farm of 73 acres in North part of Concord, and later from other parties several other small tracts of land in the same locality. His first four children are recorded in Concord, the rest in Acton:
3092 I Elenor b. 27 Feb. 1727 m. William Edgell of Narragansett
3093 II Martha b. 24 Sept. at Bedford
3094 III Lois b. 8 Aug. 1732 d. 1 Feb. 1739/40
3095 IV Samuel 5 b. 18 Aug. 1734 m. Martha Hosmer
3096 V.Joseph 5 b. 17 June 1736
3097 VI Enos 5 b. 17 Sept. 1738 m. Mary Garfield
3098 VII John 5 b. 13 Oct. 1740 d. 11 July 1756
3099 VIII Ruth b. 18 April 1743
3100 IX Molly “under 14 in 1756”
3042 ABIJAH 4 WHEELER m. TABITHA Jos3/John3/Thos1
His first two children were born in Concord; the rest probably in Weston where he died in April, 1753. The names of his children are learned from the Middlesex Probate Court Records. They were:
3101 I Abijah 5 b. 26 Sept. 1737 m. Mary Haywood
3102 II Sarah bapt. 1 July 1739 m. Abraham Sanderson
3103 III Solomon 5 m. Abigail Stratton
This son Solomon “having last come from Weston” was warned out of Concord in March 1762; on 29 Nov.1764, being then of “Kingston”, he married Abigail Stratton of Concord.
3104 IV Jonathan 5
3105 V Lucy
3106 VI Esther
3045 EZRA 4 WHEELER m. REBECCA DAVIS Jos3/John2/Thos1
They married 3 Feb. 1749. She was born 12 May 1719, daughter of Eleazer & Eunice (Potter) Davis. In 1755 he, with his wife and children, was warned out of Acton. However, the birth of his youngest child is recorded there, and he and his family lived there at the time of his death in 1798. Their children were:
3107 I Rebecca b. 18 Feb. 1750 She died in 1825, single, and in her will is mentioned sisters Elizabeth (unmarried) and Basmath Foster.
3108 II Elizabeth b. 18 March 1752
3109 III Sarah b. 11 Feb. 1753 d. 24 March 1759
3110 IV Thomas 5 b. 22 April 1755
3111 V Mercy b. 23 Sept. 1757
3112 VI Sarah b. 22 August 1759 [m. Isaac Hildreth]
3113 VII Basmath b. 24 June 1761 m. Foster
3048 ZACHARIAH 4 WHEELER m. MARY PIERCE Jos3/John2/Thos1
They married 29 March 1750. She was from Weston MA. Zachariah died 6 Aug. 1790. Their children at Concord were:
3114 I Zachariah 5 b. 13 June 1751
3115 II Elijah 5 b. 7 June 1754 lived but a few days
3116 III Beulah b. 7 June 1754 lived but a few days
3117 IV Simon b. 28 Jan. 1756 m. Lydia Pemletiah Russell of Groton. He was from Charlestown
3118 V Mary b. 20 Dec. 1757
3119 VI Hannah b. 1 Dec. 1761 m. Benjamin Stafford of New Ipswich NH
3120 VII Tetty b. 27 Sept. 1764 baptized “Mary”
3121 VIII Asa 5 b. 20 April 1767 m. Sarah of Groton
3122 IX Eliz C. m.Onecimus Cole of Framingham
• See Probate Records (RRW)
3054 EDMUND 4 WHEELER m. EUNICE MONROE Thom3/John2/Thos1
They married 26 June 1756. She was born 9 April 1734, daughter of Benjamin & Abigail Monroe of Lexington. Edmund died at Lincoln 1 June 1805. She died 15 Aug. 1824, aged 90. He resided in Lincoln and all his children were born there:
3123 I Molly b. 29 Jan. 1757 d. 22 March 1758
3124 II Thomas 5 b. 17 Oct. 1758 m. Mary Hoar
3125 III Eunice b. 12 March 1764 m. Leonard Hoar
3126 IV Mary b. 13 Feb. 1768 d. 2 Jan 1774
3127 V Edmund 5 b. 16 Oct. 1770 m. Elizabeth Brooks
3128 VI Charles 5 b. 25 April 1773 m. Julia Stearns [Parents of Charles Stearns Wheeler – RRW] [See #3227 – JCW]
3129 VII William 5 b. 19 Feb. 1776 m. Sarah Smith, went to Dummerston VT
3056 JOHN 4 WHEELER m. LYDIA ALLEN Thom3/John2/Thos1
He died intestate in 1765 and administration of his estate was granted to his widow Lydia and brother Edmund 8 Oct. of that year. Their children, born at Lincoln were:
3130 I Lucy b. 27 July 1755 m. Ebenezer Edwards
3131 II Siley b. 1 March 1757 m. Abijah Monroe
3132 III Lydia b. 8 Feb. 1759 m. Daniel Billing
3133 IV John 5 b. 23 March 1761 Revolutionary soldier
3134 V Milly b. 18 May 1763
3135 VI Ephraim 5 b. 1765
3065 ABEL 4 WHEELER m. REBECKAH WAKEFIELD CLARK Jonathan3/Timothy2/Thomas1
They married 24 July 1760 in Sutton, MA, moving to Newport, NH in 1793. Their children were:
3135a I Rebeckah b. 14 Aug. 1768 m. Samuel Williams
3135b II Abigail b. 4 May 1771 m. Nathaniel Brown
3135c III Amos 5 b. 17 Oct. 1773
3135d IV Jonathan 5 b. 20 July 1779
3135e V Abel 5 m. Betsy Hall
3068 JONAS 4 WHEELER m. PERSIS BROOKS Tim3/Tim2/Thos1
They married 13 Oct. 1743. Persis was born 2 Aug. 1720, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Haywood) Brooks. The following children are recorded in Concord. He may have had additional children in New Ipswich NH to which place he removed with all his family and where he died in 1815. His widow died 28 April 1816 at New Ipswich; Children were:
3136 I Persis b. 23 Aug. 1744
3137 II Jonas 5 b. 25 Jan. 1745/6 [m.(1)Rebecca Maynard, (2) Jane Coburn. Jonas had 22 children including Asa, a pioneer in Barry County MI, moving from Wheeler NY to Woodland Illinois in the 1830s. He married Henrietta Betts and they had ten children including Milo Thatcher Wheeler of
Hastings, MI. Milo and Henrietta had Rosella Belle Wheeler who married Marshall Cook. They had Robert Wheeler Cook. He had Constance Harper Cook who married a Campbell. The Campbells had Terry Campbell of East Grand Rapids MI (JCW from RRW correspondence}.[RRW notes that Jonas Wheeler was the third great-grandfather of Mary Ellen Thompson of Basalt, Idaho]
3138 III Dorothy b. 16 March 1748 m. Benjamin Prescott
3139 IV Seth 5 b. 25 May 1750 d. 1822 at New Ipswich NH
3140 V Silas 5 b. 7 March 1752
3141 VI Isaac 5 baptized 14 April 1754
3142 VII Amos 5 b. 28 July 1756
3143 VIII Abigail b. 25 July 1760
3144 IX Noah 5 baptized 26 July 1763 – born in New Ipswich NH d. in Hancock NH m Mary Butterfield [RRW notes that Otis 6 graduated from West Point, Benjamin 7 lived in Troy,Missouri and was judge of probate; Then Charles 8 had Clara 9 (Mrs. C.S.Hammond].
3070 TIMOTHY 4 WHEELER m. SARAH BOND TIM3/Tim2/Thos1
They married 14 Dec. 1752. Sarah was born 11 Sept. 1733, daughter of Samuel & Mary (Cutler) Bond of Watertown. He was called in Concord Town Records, and in church records “Timothy Wheeler tertius ”. In April 1758 “Sarah and Lemuel, the children of Timothy Wheeler 3d who came here from Concord in June 1757” were warned out of Lincoln. In April 1772. David Wheeler is made guardian of “Timothy Wheeler now of New Ipswich, son of Timothy Wheeler 3d.” This might make it appear that Timothy No. 194 was after all the son of this Timothy 3d, but to assume this would be to assume an error in the record of Mason NH which (if correct) identifies Timothy Wheeler of that place as having been born in 1752. Their children were:
3145 I Sarah b. 18 Feb. 1754
3146 II Timothy 5 b. 8 April 1755 Went to New Ipswich.NH [died 1827 at 71, grave in New Ipswich new cemetery.]
3147 III Lemuel 5 b. 8 March 1757 m. Catherine Whitney
3148 IV Ephraim 5 b. 3 Sept. 1765
3072 NATHAN 4 WHEELER m. MARY HUNT Tim3/Tim2/Thos1
They married 25 May 1749. Mary was born 10 May 1729, daughter of Simon & Mary (Raymond) Hunt. Their children at Acton were:
3149 I Nathan 5 b. 13 July 1750
3150 II Luther 5 b. 6 Aug. 1754
3151 III Mary b. 6 May 1756
3152 IV Miriam b. 5 Feb. 1758
3153 V Amos 5 b. 13 Sept. 1761
3075 DAVID 4 WHEELER m. REBECCA JONES Tim3/Tim2/Thos1
They married 15 March 1757. Rebecca was born 24 July 1736, daughter of Bartholomew & Ruth (Stow) Jones. David died 10 Nov. 1803; his widow died 6 Sept. 1823. [RRW notes David 4 was a Capt. of Minute Men.] Their children were:
3154 I David 5 b. 30 June 1758 m. Martha Brooks [RRW notes that David 6 m. Esther Emery of Waterville Maine; then there was David 7 and David 8 of Illinois and David 9 of Marion, Kansas.]
3155 II Rebecca b. 30 June 1760 m. James Colburn
3156 III Jesse 5 b. 22 Oct. 1762 m. Lucy Fisk
3157 IV Daniel 5 b. 24 April 1766 m. Hannah Fisk [who, as a widow, married John Buttrick, son of Major Buttrick of 1775 fame – RRW]
3158 V Esther b. 3 Oct. 1768 m. Nathan Wood
3159 VI Amos 5 b. 2 Feb. 1771 (not named in will)
3160 VII Lydia b. 26 Nov. 1772 m. John Buttrick
3078 WILLIAM 4 WHEELER m. GRACE WOOD Tim3/Tim2/Thos1
They married 18 Jan. 1763. Grace was born 1 Dec. 1741, daughter of Joseph & Grace Wood. On 21 Nov. 1784 William and Grace were dismissed from the church in Concord and recommended to that in New Ipswich NH. Their children were born in Concord:
3160 I Grace b. 13 March 1765
3161 II William 5 b. 24 Aug. 1767 d. at Waitsfield VT
3162 III Abigail b. 22 Feb. 1770
3163 IV Timothy 5 b. 21 Sept 1772 Went to Indiana
3164 V Susanna b. 1 May 1775
3165 VI Joseph 5 b. 20 June 1778
3080 JOEL 4 WHEELER m. DORCAS STEARNS Tim3/Tim2/Thos1
On the authority of Herrick's History of Gardner MA they had children:
3166 I Timothy 5 b. 24 Dec. 1781 m. Mary Stearns
3167 II Mary b. 19 Sept. 1786
3168 III Lucy b. 27 July 1789 m. Benjamin Stone
3169 IV Joel 5 b. 1 March 1792 m. Martha Kelton
3170 V Betsey b. 25 Dec. 1794 m. Edward Loud
3082 BENJAMIN 4 WHEELER m. HANNAH Benj3/Tim2/Thos1
Benjamin's father bequeathed all his lands in Pepperell and lived there until his death which occurred 21 Jan. 1814. Benjamin's widow died at Pepperell 11 Aug. 1818. Their children at Pepperell were:
3171 I Hannah b. 19 Sept. 1769
3172 II Benjamin 5 b. 30 April 1771 m. Polly Parker at Westford 10 April 1794.
3173 III Ebenezer 5 b. 28 March 1773
3174 IV Josiah 5 b. 20 May 1776
3175 V Joseph Emerson 5 b. 7 Nov. 1779
3083 AARON 4 WHEELER m. LUCY BROOKS Benj3/Tim2/Thos1
They married 14 Nov. 1766. Lucy was born 19 Aug. 1746, daughter of John & Lucy (Hoar) Brooks. Aaron Wheeler removed to New Ipswich NH, and his children were all born there, but it was not until 25 Oct. 1789 that his wife was dismissed from the church in Concord and recommended to that in New Ipswich. Their children were:
3176 I John 5 b. 2 Aug. 1767 d. 10 Aug. 1767
3177 II Aaron 5 b. 9 July 1768
3178 III John Brooks 5 b. 11 March 1770
3179 IV Nathan 5 b. 4 Dec. 1771
7180 V Daniel 5 b. 3 April 1774
3181 VI Lucy b. 16 Feb. 1776
3182 VII Benjamin 5 b. 14 Jan. 1778
3183 VIII Rebecca b. 25 Oct. 1779
3184 IX Patty b. 4 Aug. 1781
3185 X Alice b. 20 April 1783 d. 18 June 1783
3186 XI George 5 b. 11 June 1784 d. 1 Nov. 1786
3187 XII Jotham 5 b. 19 April 1786
3188 XIII Alice b. 15 April 1789 d. same day
3189 XIV Prescott 5 b. 3 June 1794
3085 ABNER 5 WHEELER m. (1) ELIZABETH HUNT (2) LUCY WESTON Benj3/Tim2/Thos1
They married 22 Nov. 1769. Elizabeth was born 22 Aug. 1751, daughter of Simon & Anna (Barron) Hunt. [Pencil note: RRW “says she was a Brooks, widow of Thomas Hunt”] After Elizabeth's death, Abner married Lucy Weston. He was a housewright. He died at Lincoln 15 May 1820. His sons all went to Framingham from Lincoln where all his children were born. They were:
3190 I Elizabeth b. 9 Oct. 1770 m. Samuel Dakin
3191 II Abner 5 b. 15 July 1772 m. Polly Bennett [He was a carpenter and is known for the Abner Wheeler House in Framingham]
3192 III Lucy b. 23 July 1774 m. Joseph Meriam
3193 IV Patty b. 21 Dec. 1777 m. Stephen Buttrick
3194 V Benjamin 5 b. 18 March 1779 m. Rebecca Bennett
3195 VI Rebecca b. 5 June 1781 d. 22 March 1798
3196 VII Asa 5 b. 27 Sept. 1783 m. Eleanor Rice
3197 VIII Susanna b. 1 Jan 1786 d. 8 April 1812
3198 IX Hannah Brooks bapt. 14 Dec. 1788 m. Bennett
3199 X Eliphalet 5 b. 21 Aug, 1791 m. Clarissa Rice
3087 JOTHAM 4 WHEELER m. SARAH BACON Benj3/Tim2/Thos1
They married 30 March 1775. Sarah was from Bedford. Jotham died in Concord 18 Nov.1808, his widow died 17 April 1811. Their children at Concord were:
3200 I Sarah b. 10 Nov. 1775 d. 2 Oct. 1797
3201 II Polly b. 5 Oct. 1770 d. 11 Dec. 1795
3202 III Jotham 5 b. 2 Oct. 1786 m. Azubah Whitcomb
3203 IV Jonas 5 b. 9 Feb. 1789 Went to Camden ME where he died 1 May 1826
3095 SAMUEL 5 WHEELER m. MARTHA HOSMER Jos4/Jos3/John2/Thos1
Their marriage intention was filed 17 March 1759. Martha was born at Acton 2 April 1736, daughter of Jonathan & Martha (Conant) Hosmer. Their children at Acton were:
3204 I Martha b. 1 Oct. 1759
3205 II John 6 b. 23 Jan. 1761 m. Ruth Hosmer
3206 III Jonas 6 b. 17 April 1763
3207 IV Joseph 6 b. 3 May 1765 m. Judith Barker
3097 ENOS 5 WHEELER m. MARY GARFIELD Jos4/Jos3/John2/Thos
Enos 5 Wheeler went from Acton to Lincoln, and probably thence to Weston, for on 20 Nov. 1782 Enos Wheeler of Weston, laborer, sells to his brother Joseph all his right and title in the lands and buildings of their late father Joseph Wheeler of Acton, deceased (XCV-271). Children at Lincoln were:
3208 I Daniel 6 b. 14 June 1766
3209 II Molly b. 25 Jan. 1768
3210 III Enos 6 b. 18 Feb. 1772
3211 IV Anna b. 19 Jan. 1778
3212 V Edward W. 6 b. 19 July 1779
3101 ABIJAH 5 WHEELER m. MARY HEYWOOD Abij.4/Jos3/John2/Thos1
They married 7 Dec. 1773. Their child was:
3213 I Nabby b. 17 Sept. 1775 at Concord
3124 THOMAS 5 WHEELER m. MARY HOAR Edm'd4/Thos3/John2/Thos1
They married 27 March 1788. Mary was born 17 June 1764, daughter of John & Esther (Pierce) Hoar. Deacon Thomas Wheeler died at Lincoln 26 Jan. 1841, aged 82. The Children at Lincoln were:
3214 I Leonard 6 b. 18 Feb. 1789 d. Lexington 1 May 1864
3215 II Abel 6 b. 3 Oct. 1790 [RRW refers to History of Lincoln – p. 210.]
3216 III Mary b. 9 Dec. 1800 m.Daniel Weston
3127 EDMUND 5 WHEELER M. ELIZABETH BROOKS Edm'd4/Thos3/John2/Thos1
Their intention to marry was filed 10 Oct. 1800. Elizabeth was born 26 Dec. 1780, daughter of Eleazer & Elizabeth Brooks. Edmund died at Lincoln in 1859. The children at Lincoln were:
3217 I Adaline b. 17 Oct. 1801 m. Mitchell
3218 II Elizabeth Brooks b. 30 July 1803 d. 20 Nov. 1862
3219 III Eleazer Brooks 6 b. 23 March 1805 m. Sophia
3220 IV Horatio 6 b. 29 July 1806 went to Brooklyn NY
3221 V Marshall 6 b. 28 Oct. 1810
3222 VI Lucretia b. 15 April 1817 d. 21 Feb. 1830
3223 VII Edmund 6 went to Burton. Illinois
3224 VIII Otis 6 went to Cold Spring, Texas
3128 CHARLES 5 WHEELER m. JULIA STEARNS Edm'd4/Thos3/John2/Thos1
Julia was the daughter of the Rev. Charles & Sussana (Cowdrey) Stearns. Charles 5 died in Lincoln in 1848. The children at Lincoln were:
3225 I Charles 6 b. 2 Nov. 1809 d. 5 Nov. 1809
3225 II Julia b. 14 Dec. 1810 d. June 1842 (single)
3226 III Wm. Francis 6 b. 11 March 1812 [Selectman, historian (Middlesex County -- Lincoln)]
3227 IV Charles Stearns 6 b. 19 Dec. 1816 d. 17 June 1843 [This was Thoreau's classmate at Harvard, German scholar and interpreter of Carlyle. See Charles Stearns Wheeler: Friend of Emerson by John Olin Eidson, University of Georgia Press, 1951 – JCW]
3228 V George H. 6 b. 19 May 1819 d, 4 Nov. 1841
[3133 JOHN 5 WHEELER m. (1) ABIGAIL FLINT (2) SALLY WHITE
John and Abigail m. 29 Dec. 1781. Abigail Flint was the daughter of "3053 Ruth Wheeler", daughter of "3019 Thomas 3 Wheeler" - JCW]
3144 NOAH 5 WHEELER m MARY BUTTERFIELD Jonas4/Tim3/Tim2/Thos1
[The following is from The History of Hancock, New Hampshire-1764-1889 by William Willis Hayward and from correspondence left in RRW files – JCW]
Mary Butterfield, from Pepperell MA, was born 9 May 1764. Noah 5 was born in New Ipswich NH 26 July 1762 and came to Hancock about 1787. Their youngest child was Capt. Otis Wheeler who married Jane Wallace.
3154 DAVID 5 WHEELER m. MARTHA BROOKS David4/Tim3/Tim2/Thos1
They married 22 May 1783. Martha was born 7 Oct. 1764, daughter of Ephraim & Sarah (Heywood) Brooks. David 5 died at Norridgwock ME 5 Oct. 1806. [She died 23 Sept. 1837. – JCW] The children at Concord were:
3229 I David 6 b. 12 Feb. 1784 [m.(1)Esther Emery (2) Enice Blaisdell –RRW left a document called Wheelers of Virginia Road , compiled by David W. Wheeler of Marion, Kansas who stated, in 1965, that David 6 and Esther Emery (b. 20 July 1795 in Bloomfield ME, d. 26 July 1845) had a child David 7 (b. 1 July 1822 in West Waterville ME, d. 11 Sept. 1898 in Marion KA) who on 1 April 1851 married Louisa Bourquin in Twin Grove McLain ILL(b. 15 Sept. 1835, d. 26 June 1935. They, in turn, had twelve children including David 8 (b. 2 May 1857, d. 14 Jan. 1947) who married Frances (Fannie} Reed Williams (b.23 Dec. 1871). David 8 and Fannie were the parents of David W. Wheeler of Marion, Kansas. Judith Villumsen of Greeley CO in 2005 indicated that David 6 married (2) Enice Blaisdell on 6 Dec. 1854. She was born 3 Oct. 1809. Ms. Villunsen stated that David 8 had a daughter Alice Lenore Wheeler who married Louis Grinnel Hargett in Marion KS and they, in turn, had a daughter Helen Elizabeth Hargett on 17 Feb. 1918. Helen married Melvin William Norton and they had a daughter Judith Carol Norton who married Borge Secher Villumsen in Witchita KS.
3230 II Patty b. 2 Nov. 1785 m. Nelson
3231 III Alice b. 4 Aug. 1788 m. Cowen
3232 IV Hadasseh b. 23 May 1790 m. Soule
3233 V Amos 6 b. 20 Nov. 1794
3234 VI Cyrus 6 b. 6 June 1796
3235 VII Heber 6 b. 13 April 1798
3156 JESSE 5 WHEELER m. LUCY FISKE Dav4/Tom3/Tom2/Thos1
They married 11 Oct. 1802. Lucy was born 3 Dec. 1779, daughter of David & Elizabeth (Mansfield) Fiske. Jesse 5 died 16 March 1811, wife died 13 March 1807, aged 27. Their children at Concord were:
3236 I Lucy b. 20 July 1803
3237 II Jesse 6 b. 6 Nov. 1804 d. Watertown 25 July 1882
3157 DANIEL 5 WHEELER m. HANNAH FISKE Dav4/Tim3/Tim2/Thos1
They married 21 Nov. 1797. Hannah was born 7 Nov. 1777, daughter of David & Elizabeth (Mansfield) Fiske, and sister of the wife of Daniel's brother Jesse. Daniel died 7 Nov. 1810 and his widow married 9 Dec. 1813 John Buttrick (who had been the husband of Daniel Wheeler's sister Lydia). Hannah, widow of John Buttrick, died 2 June 1839. The “children of Hannah, widow of Daniel Wheeler” were baptized at Concord 12 July 1812. They were listed as Rebecca, Esther, Daniel, David and Hannah Susanna. Tolman lists the children as :
3238 I Rebecca Esther b. 14 Oct. 1800 m. Charles Kirkland
3239 II Mary b. 11 Aug. 1802 d. 23 June 1811
3240 III Daniel 6 b. 1 Oct. 1804
3241 IV David 6 b. 29 Oct. 1806
3242 V Hannah Susanna b. 29 Aug. 1808 m. 17 May 1835 to Timothy Wheeler of Natick
7. The Probable English Ancestry of the Concord Wheelers
by George Tolman
with notes from the Cranefield, Bedfordshire records
[From J.C.W. in 2014. In 2013 I obtained (Courtesy of Sharon Hamilton) a copy of Raymond David Wheeler’s book Volume I of “The Wheeler Genealogy” published in 1993. This provides additional information on the Cranfield Wheelers. This is available at the Special Collections of the Concord Free Public Library. Raymond David Wheeler provides the following in his introduction to Volume I: Henry Wheeler, born in 1503 and deceased in 1557 married Isable Allen (1524-1570) and had five children including Thomas (1526-) and John (1533-1567). Thomas (1526-) had six children (Henry, Isabel, John, George, Thomas and William). His son Thomas Wheeler (1578-) in turn had George Wheeler (1605/06-1687) (Tolman #1) as well as other children.
Henry’s John (1533-1567) who married Alice Sayre had Thomas the Elder of Bourne End (1561-1634) and John the Elder (1563-1643). Thomas the Elder (1561-1634), according to Raymond David Wheeler, had thirteen children by two wives. Thomas the Elder’s children by his first wife were Thomas Sr. (1588-); John (1590-); Priscilla (1593-); Ann (1595-) and Deborah (1598-). Thomas the Elder’s second wife Rebecca’s children were Elizabeth (1602-); Captain Timothy (1604-1687) (Tolman #2901); Susanna (1607-1648/9); Lt. Joseph (1609/10-) (Tolman #2701); Abiah (1612/13-); Mary (1615-); Ephraim (1618/19-); and Captain Thomas (1620-1676) (Tolman #2801). Thomas Sr. (1588-) had Sgt. Thomas Wheeler (1630-1704) (Tolman # 3001).
John (1563-1643) had a son Obadiah (1608-1671)(Tolman #1001). According to Tolman, Obadiah is a brother to George (1605/6-1687) (Tolman #1) but Raymond David Wheeler suggests Obadiah is the son of John (1563-1643) and thus a cousin to George (1605/6-1687) (Tolman #1). Therefore it is unclear as to where Obadiah belongs. Thus from Henry’s children come all six of Tolman’s early settler Wheelers.]
[Note to reader: see also the American Genealogist , Volume 12 pp 4-17 and after p 135 and Volume 14 for later analyses by Homer W. Brainard – JCW]
GEORGE WHEELER, son of John Wheeler, was baptized at Cranfield, Bedfordshire 18 March 1605/6. [Also reported to be 28 March, 1605 by Winifred Lovering Holman, genealogist of Lexington, in a letter of 21 June, 1945 to RRW. She also stated that George was the son of Thomas Wheeler.]
SUSANNA, daughter of John Wheeler, was baptized 16 February, 1609/10.
OBADIAH, son of John Wheeler of Doswell, was baptized at Cranfield 5 December 1609.
KATHERINE, daughter of the same John, was baptized 25 February 1610/11.
GEORGE WHEELER and KATHERINE WHEELER were married at Cranfield 9 December 1631.
OBADIAH and SUSANNA WHEELER were married at Cranfield 20 January 1633/4.
Apparently, then, George Wheeler married a sister of Obadiah and Obadiah Wheeler married a sister of George.
The relationship between the two Johns, fathers of these four can only be guessed. The name of Wheeler was at that time the name most frequently occurring on Cranfield Parish Registers, of all the names therein recorded, and beside these two above quoted instances of intermarriages among members of the same family name (Wheeler) there are several more there recorded which it is unnecessary to mention here.
The will of “John Wheeler of Cranfield the elder of that name” was dated 18 January 1642/3 and offered for probate 22 January 1644/5. In it he names “my oldest son John”, “son of Isaac”, “son Obadiah”, “daughter Mary Barrett”, daughter Katherine Wheeler”, “son William”, and several grandchildren. Wife Elizabeth to be Executrix.
The will of “John Wheeler of East Inn Cranfield, Yeoman, the eldest of that name” is dated 29 October 1632, and offered for probate 7 January 1632/3. He mentions no wife so we may infer that she was by then deceased: also he names “eldest son Ralph” as executor. Sons Thomas, John, Henry, George and William, “daughter Susanna Wheeler” and two other daughters.
It seems that George's father John was older than Obadiah's father John, but that there was still one, or perhaps more, Johns living after the decease of George's father.
There seems to be no room for doubt that the George and wife Katherine, and Obadiah and wife Susanna, who turned up in Concord in 1638 or thereabouts are the George, Katherine, Obadiah and Susanna of Cranefield, Bedfordshire, England. The coincidence of names alone ought to go far in evidence, but there are some circumstances in confirmation of the theory.
Cranefield or Cranfield, (for it is spelled both ways on their own records), is a village in Bedfordshire, eight miles from Woodell, or Odell, the parish from which came the Rev. Peter Bulkeley of Concord. Three miles distant therefrom is an old manor, then still known as “Virginia House”. Now in Concord we had from the very earliest times, the “Virginia Road”, (over which Mr. A. E. Wood thinks the first settlers came) leading up through the “Virginia Meadows”, to a section of country known on our earliest records as “Cranefield”; and Wheelers, it may be noted, owned land just there.
George Wheeler of Cranfield, Eng. Was son of John; George Wheeler of Concord named a son John.
In October 1616, certain minor children of one Richard Wheeler of Cranfield were placed under the guardianship of one William Odell. One William Odell turns up in Concord along with the Wheelers in 1638, and settles in the easterly part of the township, in the “Virginia” and “Cranefield” locality.
Neither George nor Obadiah appears in any way on the Parish Records of Cranefield, after the record of their marriages. They must have gone somewhere. It is a fair conjecture merely that she was Mary, wife of the first Humphrey Barret, who came to Concord about the same time as did the Wheelers.
A certain Isaac Wheeler, brother of Obadiah, was born on Cranfield in 1607, and the only mention of him thereafter to be found in England turns up in Charlestown, Mass., who is proved by record evidence to be related to the Concord Wheelers.
One Richard Wheeler died in Cranfield in 1616, leaving a son Richard a minor under 17 yrs. Of age, who never again appears on Cranfield registers. But just at the time the Concord Wheelers settled here, a certain Richard Wheeler, settled at Dedham, Mass., removing later to Lancaster where he was killed by the Indians in 1675, and his children fled to Concord (perhaps to be near their own kinfolk?) [returning later to Lancaster when that town was reestablished.]
One Thomas Wheeler was baptized 20 November 1603 and Joseph was baptized 28 February 1609/10 sons of Thomas of Cranfield. They do not again appear in any way on Cranefield registers, but “Capt. Thomas” the Quaboag Indian fighter, and “Lieut. Joseph” who were demonstrably brothers, were for may years licensed to trade with the Indians on Merrimack River, and as they grew old came to Concord to live, whither Capt. Timothy, who is shown by his will to have been their brother, had already preceded them.
These considerations, taken all together, seem to prove conclusively that the Concord Wheelers came from this Parish of Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England.
Doubtless a thorough search of the registers of other parishes in the same immediate neighborhood would untangle the whole knot of relationships, but it would be very expensive and perhaps unsatisfactory in its results.
Concord, Jan. 18, 1908 George Tolman.
[RRW wrote in her copy at this point: 1683 Middlesex Deeds 13:75 Samuel Green of Charlestown, weaver, and Mary his wife, the only daughter of Thomas Wheeler of Charlestown sells to Isaac Wheeler of Maulden all of his rights in the whole estate in Charlestown by inheritance from her father Thomas.]
[The Tolman manuscript continues with the following listing of wills:]
John Wheeler of Cranfield, Bedfordshire, husbandman: will dated 9 Feb. 1566. Names “my sister Agnes”, “son Thomas”, “son John” both under 21 yrs of age. “Wife Alys”. Robert Tatham: Mathew Vaux: Robert Styrme: Test Wyllm Baker, Willy Wheeler, Richd Mowse. Prob 15 Apl 1567.
John Wheeler the elder, of same place, Will 18 Jan 1642: proved 22 Jan 1644. “My eldest son John to have my copyhold lands: son Isaac; son Obadiah; dau Mary Barrett; dau Isebel Wheeler; grandchild Sarah Nash; grandchild Obadiah Mowse (Morise?): wife Elizabeth Ex'x. Test. Thomas Baker, Robert Huckes
Henry Wheeler, of same place, Will dated 1536. Proved 14 May 1536? Wife Elizabeth: son Thomas: eldest dau Alise L. William Wheeler: John Wheeler. Seems to have had other children.
John Wheeler, Will dated 6 Nov 1500: Prob 12 Dec 1500. Body to be buried in the churchyard of Marston Mortayne, (which adjoins Cranfield) dau Ana: dau sysaell {query Isabel?): dau Jean: bro William Wheeler
Thomas Weler of Holcot, Bedfordshire, Will 17 Apl 1537, prob 15 May 1537, wife maria, son Richard. Holcot is very near Cranefield.
Henry Wheler of Cranefield: Will 9 May 1589, prob 11 July 1589: wife Jane; Son William under 21 yrs old: Sisters Margaret Wheeler & Isabel Wheeler: eldest son Richard: Test. Richard Andros, Wm Wheeler: Thos Baker Sr.: Thos Baker Jr.
Richard Wheeler of Cranfield: husbandman: will dated 4 July 1616, proved 8 Oct 1616. Wife Elizabeth: “3 rd son Lewis” sons Thomas, Henry, John & William, “eldest son Richard under 17 years of age: daus Elizabeth, Anna & Sarah, all minors. Wm Woodell of Odell is named guardian of son William.
Richard Wheeler of Kempston, Befordshire. Minister Will (nunc) admitted 6 Feb 1618. Wife Alice, son Edward. The wife had children of her own (perhaps his also, & perhaps by a previous marriage.)
John Fuller of Cranfield 2 Feb. 1620 leaves a small bequest to William Wheeler. John Wheeler Test.
William Baker (ibid) 25 Apl 1621 appoints “my cosen Thomas Wheeler of Borne and “ overseer of his last will: and some Thomas Wheeler is witness.
John Wheeler the elder, of East Inn Cranefield, Yeoman: Will 29 Oct 1632, prob 17 Jan 1632/3- names sons Thomas: John: Henry: William: George: Ralph: daus Alice Fur (?) Joan & Susan Wheeler. Ralph, ex'r. to have all the property excepting one shilling apiece to the others.
Susan Wheeler of Cranfield, will 25 July 1636: names my brothers George & Henry, the latter ex'r, and sister Joan.
William Wheeler of same place, Yeoman, will 15 mch 1636/7, prob 1 Apl 1637: son John, daus Elizabeth & Christian, sons William, Thomas, wife Christian, my uncle John Seabrook of No. Crawley & my bro Giles Jenkins of Billington.
The name of Wheeler has been found in Cranefield as far back as anno XIV Henry VIII, that is 1522 & 1523.
The Parish Register of Cranefield begins with 1601.
Baptisms
John son of John Wheeler 28 Dec 1601
William son of Richard Wheeler 27 June 1602
John son of John Wheeler, Doswell 29 Aug 1602
Thoas (sic) son of Thomas 20 Nov 1603
Lewis son of Richard Wheeler 8 Aug 1604
John son of John Wheeler 22 Jan 1603/4
Henry son of John Wheeler 6 Sept 1604
Sarah daughter of John Wheeler 16 June 1605
George son of John Wheeler 18 March 1605/6
Thomas son of Richard Wheeler 8 April 1606
Ruth daughter of John Wheeler 21 Oct 1606
William son of John Wheeler 20 April 1607
Susanna daughter of Thomas Wheeler 21 May 1607
Isaac son of John Wheeler 13 Sept 1607
Elizabeth daughter of Richard Wheeler 1 May 1608
John son of Thomas Wheeler 22 Oct 1608
Martha daughter of John Wheeler 25 Nov 1608
Anna daughter of Richard Wheeler 2 July 1609
Obadiah son of John Wheeler 5 Dec 1609
Susanna daughter of John Wheeler 16 Feb 1609/10
Joseph son of Thomas Wheeler 28 Feb 1609/10
Anna daughter of Richard Wheeler 29 April 1610
John son of John Wheeler of Doswell 24 Feb 1610/11
Katherine daughter of John Wheeler 25 Feb 1610/11
Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Wheeler 27 Feb 1610/11
Margaret daughter of Richard Wheeler 8 Sept 1611
Obadiah Morise son of Richard Morise 12 Nov 1638
Marriages
Richard Moris & Ruth Wheeler 25 June 1633
Obadiah Wheeler & Susan Wheeler 20 Jan 1633
George Wheeler & Katherine Wheeler 9 Dec 1631
Burials
John, son of John Wheeler of Doswell 9 Aug 1604
Katherine, daughter of John Wheeler of Doswell 26 Feb 1610/11
John, son of John Wheeler 3 March 1610/11
John, son of Thomas Wheeler 27 Dec 1611
In 1627 & 1628 there were taxes in Cranefield:
Thomas Wheeler, Sr. for lands XX sh for goods IIII
Thos Wheeler de Ansley for lands XX sh for goods IIII
Johannes Wheeler, Sr. for lands XL sh for goods VIII
Pichardus Wheeler, Sr. for lands XX sc for goods IIII
Pichardus Wheeler, Jr. for lands XX sc for goods IIII
The manuscript in an earlier edition was “typed by Mrs. Marian Kent at Antiquarian Society [now the Concord Museum] from blue booklet lent by Mrs. Leslie Anderson given her by her aunt Mrs. William Wheeler. Proof read by RRW [Ruth R. Wheeler] Oct.5, 1938.”
The manuscript for the 1970 edition was typed and mimeographed by Mrs. Elinor Bosworth for Joseph L. Wheeler of Bensen, Vermont, a descendant from Sergeant Thomas Wheeler. It was proof read by J.L.W. 2/17-22/70.
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