David
Mitchell
Born in Southowram, Yorkshire, England
Ancestors 
Son of Matthew Mitchell
and Susan (Wood) Mitchell
Brother of
Samuel Butterfield [half], Thomas Butterfield [half], Abigail (Mitchell) Pierson, Sarah (Mitchell) Sherman, Martha Mitchell, Jonathan Mitchell, Abraham Mitchell [half], Susan (Mitchell) Howell, Matthew Mitchell and Hannah (Mitchell) Elsey
[spouse(s) unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Martha (Mitchell) Baldwin, Matthew Mitchell, John Mitchell, Abraham (Mitchel) Mitchell, Elizabeth (Mitchell) Lamson and Grace (Mitchell) Pixlee
Died
at age 65
in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony
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Disputed Wife
(quote from American Ancestors - Great Migration Project by Anderson.) "DAVID MITCHELL, bp. Halifax 14 Novemer 1619; m. by an unknown date to Elizabeth _____ (in his will of 11 March 1685/6, he made his wife Elizabeth sole executrix. (Elizabeth Grave, daughter of George Grave of Hartford married a Mitchell, but her husband was John Mitchell of Hartford. Some secondary sources state that David married 'Sarah, daughter of Thomas Wheeler of Milford.' Thomas Wheeler of Milford (and his wife Joan Bryan to differentiate from Thomas Wheeler and Anne Halsey also of Connecticut who's daughter Sarah married Thomas Sherwood Jr) did not have a daughter Sarah, but his son, John did have a daughter Sarah who married Abraham Mitchell son of David, which may have been the cause of the confusion.)"[1]
Therefore from this source, Sarah Wheeler should be disconnected from David Mitchell.
Biography
1619 - November 14 - Baptized at South Ouram, County York, England
1685/6 - March 11 - Will Proved; Wife Elizabeth (Sole Exec'x); sons Mathhew, John, Abraham, Daniel; daus. Martha, Elizabeth, Susanna, Grace.[2]
Death 15 MAR 1686 Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut
Research Notes
The sentence below was included in the original profile without sources:
David Mitchell was born in England and Immigrated to the New England American Colony of Connecticut. He married Sarah Wheeler in 1653 and they were married for about 15 years when she died at the age of 41 in 1669.
Anderson in "Great Migration" lists the secondary sources which claimed David's wife was Sarah Wheeler. The first was "Wethersfield hist 2:505" i.e. " The history of ancient Wethersfield etc." by Henry Reed Stiles.[3] Stiles cites several books for Mitchell genealogy and clearly means the same family as this profile since he lists several of David Mitchell's children and their spouses. But, he simply states David's wife was Sarah Wheeler without specific primary sources and clearly did not know of David's will wherein he listed wife Elizabeth so was provably lacking in knowledge of David Mitchell specifically.
Stiles cites Cothen "History of ancient Woodbury, CT" (https://archive.org/details/historyofancient02coth/page/n8/mode/2up?) ; Orcutt "History of Stratford, CT" (https://archive.org/details/historyofoldtown01orcu/page/242/mode/2up) which have been examined and say nothing of the wife of David Mitchell; he also cites "Foote Genealogy" without stating what book or author is being referenced (presumably he did not mean the 1907 work by Nathaniel Foote since Stiles himself published in 1904). In summary, Stiles' work can be discounted as a source for Sarah Wheeler as wife of David Mitchell.
Anderson also references NYGBR 120:99 i.e. "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record" containing the article "English Origins of the Mitchell, Wood, Lum and Halstead Families". The article says that David, son of Matthew Mitchell married Sarah Wheeler, daughter of Thomas Wheeler of Milford. Anderson also discounted this source as reliable re: Sarah Wheeler as wife of David Mitchell.
Finally, Sarah Wheeler proposed as wife of David Mitchell has no sources on her profile for this marriage other than an unsourced FindAGrave page and an unsourced entry on the notoriously unreliable web page "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors & Cousins (over 193,000 names)." Royal Ancestors with a citation of "Unknown author, Family Records."
David Mitchell was the father of Martha Mitchell, who married Nathaniel Baldwin, sometime after July 1, 1685 (date of Henry Botsfords will, in which he mentions his son-n-law Nathaniel Baldwin and the four children he had with his daughter); Martha did in 1691.[4]
Sources
- ↑ Great Migration 1634-1635, M-P. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume V, M-P, p. 127. by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2007. a subscription site
- ↑ History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield]] (For the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1930) Vol. 1, Page 416.
- ↑ History of Ancient Wethersfield, Ct (Stiles) https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/180119-the-history-of-ancient-wethersfield-connecticut-comprising-the-present-towns-of-wethersfield-rocky-hill-and-newington-and-of-glastonbury-prior-to-its-incorporation-in-1693-from-date-of-earliest-settlement-until-the-present-time-vol-2?viewer=1&offset=0#page=538&viewer=picture&o=search&n=0&
- ↑ Pg 410 Baldwin Genealogy from 1500-1881
See also:
- Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Wife of Rev. Abraham Pierson." New Haven, Connecticut: The American Genealogist and New Haven Genealogical Magazine," 1932 - 1933. Vol IX, pp. 37 - 40. for information about Abigail Mitchell, sister of David Mitchell and wife of Rev. Abraham Pierson
- Orcutt, Samuel. A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, New Haven, Conn., 1886) Page 242.
- Baldwin, Charles Candee. The Baldwin Genealogy From 1500 To 1881 (Leader Printing Co., Cleveland, Ohio, 1881) Page 410.
- Baldwin, Charles Candee (1881). The Baldwin Genealogy from 1500-1881. Published by the Leader Printing Company, Cleveland, Ohio.
- Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (For the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1930) Vol. 1, Page 416.
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Has anyone researched whether any of the children's birth records list a mother? If we can ascertain that, we can perhaps make a more informed conclusion as to whether Elizabeth was the mother of some or all of the children, or whether an unnamed mother perhaps was the mother of some or all of them.
Sarah Wheeler-1198 should, I believe, be merged into Sarah Wheeler-714 who was actually the daughter of Thomas Wheeler and Anne Halsey and married Thomas Sherwood Jr (she died as Sherwood's wife in 1659 so was provably not married to David Mitchell; further there are actual sources for Sarah as wife of Thomas Sherwood). This merge was proposed and rejected in 2018, I don't know on what basis but unless I find something contrary I intend to re-propose it. That doesn't help identify Elizabeth but I wanted to note it here while researching.
His actual wife was Elizabeth Unknown. she should be attached. subscription Then the profile should be PPPd by the Puritan Great Migration Project to protect the relationship.
I'm working with the Puritan Great Migration Project to clean up the profiles of the Wood/Mitchell/Butterfield families. Please note the source and the research notes I placed on this profile. According to this research, Sarah Wheeler should be disconnected as the wife of David Mitchell. His wife should be Elizabeth Unknown.
Thanks.
edited by Cheryl (Aldrich) Skordahl