Joseph Wheeler (1735 - 1793)

Born 13 Mar 1735 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Greenleaf) Wheeler — married 21 Oct 1760 in Bolton, Worcester, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 10 Feb 1793 at age 57 in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

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Biography

Joseph was born March 13, 1734/5 in Concord, Massachusetts. ^[1][2]. Joseph Wheeler ... He passed away in 1793^{[citation needed]}. ^[3]

"Joseph Wheeler was under the care of his grandmother after he was three years of age. He went to school at the age of fifteen to prepare for college and entered Harvard at the age of eighteen. He graduated in the class of 1757 and studied divinity with Rev. Mr. Woodward of Weston. He taught school in the town of Weston. In 1759 he was approbated to preach and 'ordained to the pastoral care of the Church of Christ in Harvard' December 12, 1759. Two years later he married Mary Greenleaf. Her father, Dr. Daniel and her grandfather Dr. Daniel were both physicians. The latter became a minister of the Gospel. Dr. Daniel Greenleaf Jr. was at first at Hingham, where he married and afterward removed to Bolton, MA., in which town he practiced, living to the age of ninety-three years. His second wife as Dolly, widow of Josiah Richardson. His children numbered ten, of whom Mary was the ninth."

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Research Notes

• Database error report Wheeler-4971
  • Error 308 Mother is also a spouse
  • Error 209 Father is also a sibling

- Please correct Sälgö-1 02:39, 17 May 2016 (EDT)

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
2. ↑ Entered by Darlene Bissonnette Monday, August 29, 2016
3. ↑ Entered by Owen Jones, Thursday, September 5, 2013.

• Mayflower Families Through Five Generations Volume 13 2006 p. 40, 117

Joseph's biography[1]

• U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls.

Footnotes

Acknowledgments

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