Sarah (Johnson) Wheeler (1721 - 1812)

Ancestors

Wife of James Wheeler — married 19 May 1736 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 9 Sep 1812 at age 91 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Sarah JOHNSON was born 14 Jul 1721. She died 9 Sep 1812 and was buried in Pines Bridge Cemetery, Beacon Falls, New Haven Co., Connecticut, United States. Sarah married Captain James WHEELER on 19 May 1736 in Derby, New Haven Co., Connecticut.

Sources

• Nicholls, Walter (1909) Sergeant Francis Nicholls of Stratford, Connecticut, 1639, and the Descdendants of his son, Caleb Nicholls. The Grafton Press, Genealogical Publishers, New York. page 20
• Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 3, p 604.
• Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 448.
• Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901.), 471, 472, 473, 475. . "Church Records." http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/471.html.
• Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850., General Editor, Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 82.
• W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 11. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. "Silence ye Wife of John Lumm, Elizabeth ye Wife, and Elizabeth ye Daughter of John Chatfield, Hannah ye Wife of John Riggs, Sarah ye Wife of James Wheler, Mary ye Wife of Timothy Russel, Abigail, Sibillia, and Mary Russels, all received to Communion from ye Pastor and Chh of Christ in Darby, bairing Date Janr 7th, 1746." (Oxford Congregational)
• http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/011.html.
• Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 256.
• David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #21. http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan21.html.
• David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery, #21. http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan21.html.
• Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, Barbour Collection - Derby, 256, 313. "Sarah, of Derby, m. James WHE[E]LER, of Stratford, May 19, 1736."
• Albert Gallatin Wheeler, The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America. American College of Genealogy. 1914. PAGE: 415 #5725 James Wheeler
• Find A Grave Memorial# 21568850

Acknowledgments

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