Samuel, second of name and son of Samuel and Hannah (Amidon) Wheelock, was probably born in Mendon, MA and was baptized in Milford, Massachusetts on September 22, 1745.[1][2] He married Dinah Leland in 1770. [3]
It appears that Dinah died and Samuel remarried to Thankful, as she is listed in probate records and deeds. Probate records list one daughter not mentioned in the Leland Genealogy. Its possible that she is the daughter of Samuel and Thankful:
Vashti
Death and Probate
Samuel's son Luther filed to be the executor of his father's estate Novemeber 2, 1819. He states that Samuel died 25 September 1819 and names widow Thankful, and heirs Azuba, Luther, Alexander and Vashti, all of Tyringham. Luther Wheelock, Alexander Wheelock and Abijah Heath signed the bond. Manassah Fairbanks also witnessed the inventory.[5]
Research notes
The Mayflower Society index lists a probate file in Tyringham for Nov 2 1819, Case #3768
More info could be found in Berkshire County deeds
Trasferred land to sons Luther and Alexander, 1810, Vol 56 page 470. Includes relinquishment of dower rights from wife Thankful Wheelock.
Sources
↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCG3-245 : 4 December 2014), Samuel Wheelock, ; citing , ; FHL microfilm 0874025 IT 1.
↑ Thomas W. Baldwin, A.B., S.B., comp., Vital Records of Milford Massachusetts, to the year 1850, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1917), p. 180 (baptism)
↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29P-MTT5 : 3 November 2017), Samuel Wheelock and Dinah Leland, 22 Sep 1770; citing Marriage Notice, Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 855,377.
↑ Leland, Sherman. The Leland Magazine: Or, A Genealogical Record of Henry Leland, and His Descendants ... Embracing Nearly Every Person of the Name of Leland in America, from 1653 to 1850. Wier & White, Boston, 1850. Page 237.
↑ Berkshire County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1761-1917.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB2725/r/1414965066
See also:
Sullivan, Rick. "Samuel Wheelock" on Wheelock Genealogy website.
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DNA Connections
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