Born after [location unknown]
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
William Wheat
— married
20 Mar 1765 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Descendants 
Mother of
Dorothy (Wheat) Williams
Died
before age 68
in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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| Created 14 Jun 2017
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Biography
Dorothy and William married Mar 30 1765 in Boston. Upon her death the following is stated in her biography "widow of William Wheat formerly from Boston died suddenly in Providence, Mar. 27, 1807 in her 68th year".
Sources
- Name: Mrs Dorothy Wheat
- Birth Date: abt 1739
- Spouse Name: William Wheat
- Death Date: 27 Mar 1807
- Death Place: Providence, Rhode Island, USA
- Death Age: 68
- Page Number: 404
- Name: Dorothy Bentley
- Gender: Female
- Birth Date: 22 Dec 1738
- Father: Thomas Bentley
- Mother: Susanna Bentley
Original data: Boston Registry Department. Boston Births from A.D. 1700 to A.D. 1800. Boston, MA, USA: Rockwell & Churchill, 1894. Ancestry.com. Boston, Massachusetts, Birth Index, 1700-1800 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 1997.
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