Josiah Wheelock (1725 - 1794)

Born 30 Mar 1725 in Mendon, Suffolk, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Experience (Clark) Wheelock — married about 6 Jan 1747 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 28 Dec 1794 at age 69 in Milford, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Josiah Wheelock is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A124097.

Josiah Wheelock is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: 317589
Rank: Private

Josiah was born 30 March 1725 in Mendon, Massachusetts. He was the son of Obadiah Wheelock and Elizabeth Darling.^[1]

Josiah Wheelock married Experience Clark in Mendon on January 6, 1747/8.^[2][3]

Josiah and Experience had, in Mendon:^[4]

1. Experience, b. May 15, 1748
2. Eleazer, b. Feb. 2, 1749-50
3. Thankful, b. May 7, 1752
4. Alexander, b. Sept. 2, 1754
5. Bathsheba, b. Dec. 14, 1760 ("Basha" in birth record)
6. Josiah, b. Aug. 12, 1763
7. Joseph, b. Jun. 15, 1766
8. Olive, b. Apr. 3, 1769
9. Obadiah, b. Apr. 6, 1771
10. Ruth, b. 1773^[5].

Josiah passed away 28 December 1794 and is buried in South Hopedale Cemetery, Hopedale, Massachusetts.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29P-MNGY : 3 November 2017), Josiah Wheelock, 30 Mar 1725; citing Birth, Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 855,377.
2. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29P-MYQ7 : 3 November 2017), Josiah Wheelock and Experiance Clerk, 06 Jan 1748; citing Marriage, Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 855,377.
3. ↑ Worcester, Vital Records of Mendon Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 425: her name spelled Clerk
4. ↑ Worcester, Vital Records of Mendon Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 204-208
5. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 23 September 2018), memorial page for Ruth Wheelock (1773–3 Oct 1851), Find A Grave: Memorial #161290653, citing South Hopedale Cemetery, Hopedale, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by James Bianco (contributor 47745493) .
6. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 23 September 2018), memorial page for Josiah Wheelock (30 Mar 1725–28 Dec 1794), Find A Grave: Memorial #40350754, citing South Hopedale Cemetery, Hopedale, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Jenean Hamilton (contributor 46846305) .

See also:

• Thomas W. Baldwin, A.B., S.B., comp., Vital Records of Mendon Massachusetts, to the year 1850, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1920), p. 206
• Sullivan, Rick, "Josiah Wheelock" on Wheelock Genealogy website.
• Worcester County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1731-1881. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.). Case 63723: Will. Names beloved wife Experience, children Experience, wife of Henry Penniman, Eleazer, Alexander, Bathsheba wife of Jotham Thayer, Josiah, Joseph, Olive, wife of Abner Allen. Son Obediah given all real estate. Two children who are non compes Ruth and Thankful. Written 14 November 1793.
• "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHKL-JMD : accessed 13 January 2019), Josiah Wheelock, Milford, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States; citing p. 367, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 4; FHL microfilm 568,144.