Sarah (Wyth) Wheeler (abt. 1630 - 1707)

Born about 1630 in Woolverstone, Suffolk, England

Ancestors

Wife of David Wheeler — married 11 May 1650 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 13 Jan 1707 at about age 77 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts

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Biography

This profile is part of the Wheeler Name Study.

Sarah Wise was born about 1630^[1] (based on her 1650 marriage), most likely in Woolverstone, Suffolk, England as that is where her older and younger siblings were baptized.

Immigration

Based on her father's first known record in New England, Oct 1635, the family immigrated by that date.^[2]

Marriage and Children

Sarah married 18 Jun 1650 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony.^[3][4] According to records of Newbury and Rowley, the couple lived in Newbury from the time of their marriage, or shortly thereafter, until 1668 or 1669, when they moved to Rowley. They had 12 children, one of whom died in infancy; the first nine were born in Newbury, and the last three in Rowley:^[5]

1. Sarah Wheeler, b about 1651
2. John Wheeler, b 5 Dec 1653
3. Abigail Wheeler, b 2 Feb1655/6
4. Jonathan Wheeler, b 6 Jan 1656/7
5. Nathan Wheeler, b 27 Dec 1659
6. Lydia Wheeler, b 7 May 1662
7. Jethro Wheeler, b 28 Mar 1664
8. a son (Benjamin Wheeler), b 21 Apr 1666
9. a son (Boy Wheeler)
10. Joseph Wheeler, b 15 Sep 1669
11. Mary Wheeler, bp 4 Sep 1670
12. David, bp 1 Oct 1676

Death and Burial

It is claimed she died 13 Jan 1707 at Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts and is buried in Concord, Massachusetts.{citation needed}

Sources

1. ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y 7:551 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012);profile of her father, Humphrey Wythe, p. 551 by subscription AmericanAncestors.org.
2. ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y 7:548 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012);profile of her father, Humphrey Wythe, p. 551 by subscription AmericanAncestors.org; citing Ipswich, Massachusetts, Town Records.
3. ↑ Vital records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Inst., 1911. 2:506. Archive.org link.
4. ↑ Births, Marriages and Death, Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988; image 617 of 2384 by subscription Ancestry.com.
5. ↑ Blodgette, George B. Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts, Including All Who Were Here Before 1692, with a Few Generations of Their Descendants. The Essex Institute, 1887. p. 403. Archive.org link.

• Gary Boyd Roberts, Ancestors of American Presidents (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009).

• Humphrey Wise, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862), 4:614.