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Martha (Sumner) Wheelock (1710 - 1802)

Martha Wheelock formerly Sumner
Born in Mendon, Suffolk, Province of Massachusetts Baymap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 26 Oct 1733 in Mendon, Worcester, Province of Massachusetts Baymap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 91 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United Statesmap
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Biography

Martha, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Lovett) Sumner, was born in Mendon, MA on August 27, 1910. She married Obadiah Wheelock there on October 26, 1733. Martha and Obadiah resided in Mendon where they had eight children. They removed to Lancaster, MA where Martha died on May 12, 1802.

Sources

  • 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. 167 (birth); 393 (marriage)
  • Henry S. Nourse, A.M., ed., The Birth, Marriage and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1850, (Clinton: W. J. Coulter, Printer, 1890), p. 194 (death)
  • Sullivan, Rick. "Martha Sumner" on Wheelock Genealogy website.
  • Calnek, William Arthur and Savary, Alfred William.History of the county of Annapolis, including old Port Royal and Acadia, published 1897, page 263. [Text: "Obadiah [Wheelock] was born in 1712 and married in 1733, Martha, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Lovett) Sumner..."].
  • Appleton, William S. Record of the Descendants of William Sumner, of Dorchester, Mass., 1636. Boston: D. Clapp & Son, 1879.




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