Ephraim Wheeler (1662)

Born 21 Oct 1662 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Spring) Wheeler — married 1 Jan 1689 in Cambridge Village, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

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Biography

Ephraim Wheeler was the second son, and oldest surviving son, of George Wheeler and Susanna Stowers Wheeler of Newbury, Massachusetts.

"Ephraim, s. Georg, Oct. 21, 1662."

Ephraim was bequeathed a legacy from his grandfather John Wheeler in his 1668 will:

"I bequeath to my Son Georgs Children Ephraim Wheeler & (SamII) Wheeler four pounds apeice that is eight-pounds between them (when) they shalbe of the age of one and twenty to be paid by my Execut(or)".

Ephraim Wheeler in the Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 Name: Ephraim Wheeler Event Type: Birth Birth Date: 1 Oct 1662 Birth Place: Newbury, Massachusetts Father Name: George Wheeler Source Information Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).

Marriage

First wife (death):
"Wheelar, Abigaill [dup. Abigail Wheeler], w. Ephraim (Wheeler), [died] Feb. 7, 1687.^[1]

Second wife:
At Cambridge Village (now Newton):
"Ephraim Wheeler & Sarah Spring both of Cambridge Village, Jan. 1, 1688[/9]."^[2][3]

Children^[4]:

1. "Wheeler, Sarah, d. Ephraim and Sarah, Oct. 28, 1689."
2. "Wheeler, Mary, d. Ephraim and Sarah, Jan. 6, 1691. [Jan. 16, M.R.]"
3. "Wheeler, Josiah, s. Ephraim and Sarah, Dec. 13, 1693."
4. "Wheler, Elizabath [dup. Elizabeth Wheeler], d. Ephraim and Sarah, Jan. 6, 1695 [dup. 1696]."
5. "Wheler, Samuel [dup. Wheeler], s. Ephraim and Sarah, May 11, 1699."

Sources

1. ↑ NEHGS, compiler, Vital Records of Newton, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1905), p. 513. Archive.org image
2. ↑ Bailey, Frederic William, Early Massachusetts Marriages Prior to 1800 Middlesex County, p. 8
3. ↑ Clarence A. Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (CD version) (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 2001) gives date as "1 Jan 1688, prob 1688/9"
4. ↑ NEHGS, compiler, Vital Records of Newton, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1905), p. 207-8.

• Vital Records of Newbury to the Year 1849, page 540.

Acknowledgements

• Thank you to Bob Nichol for creating WikiTree profile Wheeler-4084 through the import of Nichol Ancestry.GED on Feb 14, 2013.