Phoebe Wheeler was the daughter Joseph Wheeler and Abigail Butterfield. She was born in Concord, Massachusetts, but removed to Lancaster, Massachusetts with her parents in 1742. Her marriage intention states she was from Leominster; Leominster had been set off as a separate town from Lancaster in 1740.
She married Jotham Wilder and by him had eight Children. They removed to Brattleboro, Vermont where his gravestone with a Revolutionary War marker can be seen.
Birth
Born: 11 January 1728 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
"Phebe ye Daughter of Joseph Wheeler and Abigail his wife was born January 11 : 1727/8."[1]
Marriage and Children
Married: Jotham Wilder on 3 March 1746/7 in Leominster, Worcester, Massachusetts.
↑ Concord. Concord Massachusetts Births, Marriages and Deaths 1635-1850. (Boston: The Town, 1895): page 120.
↑ Leominster. Vital Records of Leominster, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Worcester, MA: Franklin P. Rice, 1911): page 272.
↑ Lancaster. Henry S. Nourse, ed. The Birth Marriage and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts 1643-1850. (Lancaster, MA: 1890): page 31.
↑ 4.04.14.2 Wakefield, Robert S. ed. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, vol. 13: William White. (2006): page 91.
Lancaster. Henry S. Nourse, ed. The Birth Marriage and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts 1643-1850. (Lancaster, MA: 1890). Archive.org LINKBooks.Google.comHathiTrust.org LINK
Wakefield, Robert S. ed. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, vol. 13: William White. (2006): page 91.
Henry M. Wheeler, Genealogy of Some of the Descendants of Obadiah Wheeler of Concord and Thomas Thaxter of Hingham, Franklin P. Rice, Worcester MA, 1898.
Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCCW-GYD : accessed 22 December 2015), Jotham Wilder and Phebe Wheeler, 03 Mar 1746; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 0874029 IT 2.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Phoebe by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Phoebe:
Per "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCCW-GYD : 4 December 2014), Jotham Wilder and Phebe Wheeler, 03 Mar 1746; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 0874029 IT 2. Marriage is March 3, 1746
Wheeler-9723 and Wheeler-9453 are not ready to be merged because: The manager of the other profile has incorrect links that would cause much confusion for the Wheeler ancestry. I tried to clean it up but found the remedy with a merge would cause a serious problem in the generational alignment.