John Wheeler (1644 - 1713)

Born 19 Mar 1644 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Larkin) Wheeler — married 25 Mar 1663 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 27 Sep 1713 at age 69 in Concord, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

John Wheeler son of George and Catherine (Pinn/Penn) Wheeler was born at Concord, Massachusetts on March 19, 1643/4. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

John married Sarah Larkin on March 25, 1663/4 at Concord. ^{[2] [1] [3] [4]} Sarah was born at Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay Colony (now part of Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts) on March 12, 1647/8. She was a daughter of Deacon Edward Larkin and Joanna (____) Larkin. ^[5]

1664 - 1682 -- John and Sarah Larkin Wheeler had nine children: six daughters (Sarah, Joanna, Mary, Lydia, Esther, and Thankful) and three sons (Samuel, Edward, and Ebenezer). ^[6]

1684 -- John Wheeler was Constable of Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. ^[7]

John Wheeler died at Concord, Massachusetts on September 27, 1713. ^{[1] [8] [9]}

In the Concord town records he was called “John Wheeler Senior." ^[10]

October 21, 1713 -- an agreement for the settlement of his estate is made by his widow Sarah, and his children Samuel, Edward and Ebenezer, on their own accounts, and Wm Woodbury, John Meriam, Timothy Wheeler, Sam'l Prescott and Jonas Prescott on behalf of their wives, as named below.

John Wheeler of Concord died intestate, and the only probate record in Middlesex County Probate Records, Packet #24,290 was an agreement for settlement of the estate dated October 21, 1713. That document reads [transcribed from FHL Microfilm 0,432,078]:

Know all men by these presents that we the subscribers Beeing the Children of the late deceased our Honored father John Wheeler and meeting together with our mother as at Her House after the death of our father and finding that he has made disposall of All his Lands with the buildings there upon by Deeds of Gift unto his three sons yet notwithstanding finding there was left considerable of moveable estate & that our Honored mother was well provided for by what was secured in our Brother Ebenezers hands during her life & for a Honorable buriall did then agree with the consent and at the desire of our Honored mother to make devision of two thirds of the movable Estate amongst us with this pro...all that wee do Engage mutaly to pay all debts that can legaly be claimed. ^[11]

From sd Estate the other third part our Honored mother is to enjoy as long as she lives & & it is her will & pleasure that at her death Her thirds shall be equaly devided amongst her children the subscribers or their heirs and the abovesd Ebenezer Wheeler doth by these presents promise & engage that he wil not devide nor dispose of any part thereof namely of his mothers thirds but at his mothersdeath Resign up what Remaineth to be devided amongst them except such things as are worn out. ^[11]

And as to our mothers waring clothes as it is her pleasure they they should be equaly devided amonst her five daughters or their children in case of their decease or any one of them so likewise the sd Ebenezer Wheeler doth engage as of the other estate so of them faithfuly to deliver them to whom they shal belong & & wee do all promise and engage firmly by these presents to stand by & bee well satisfied with what Devision or distribution we have now made without making any further claime excepting what is spesified in the promises in writing whereof and for the further confirmation of this our mutuall agreement we have set to our hands & seals this twenty first day of october in the year of our lord oned thousand seven hundred and thirteen and in the twelfth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Ann Queen of Great Britain &c. ^[11]

efore ensealing herof Sarah Wheeler widow to the late deceased John Wheeler in token of her free consent to the promisses doth sign & seall with her children. ^[11]

her

"Signed Sealed & Delivered Sarah X Wheeler (seal)

In the presence of us mark

John Heywood Samuel Prescott (seal)  :: Samuel Wheeler (seal)

John Dakin

Jonas Prescott (seal)

Edward Wheeler (seal)

John Meriam (seal)

Ebenezer Wheeler (seal)

William Woodbery (seal)

John Meriam (seal)

Timothy Wheeler (seal)"

The actual settlement terms are not described. ^[12]

Widow Sarah Larkin Wheeler died at Concord on August 12, 1725. ^[1]

Children

1. Samuel born on July 6, 1664 ^[1]; married Mary Hosmer on January 27, 1689/90. ^[1]
2. Sarah born in December 12, 1666 ^[1]; died in 1692; married John Meriam in 1691. [#16 in Meriam genealogy – b. 1666 d. 1748 (JCW)]
3. Edward born on July 17, 1669 ^[1]; married Sarah Meriam, daughter of Samuel Meriam.
4. Joanna born at Littleton on December 21, 1671 ^[13] married William Woodbury of Beverly, Massachusetts on September 29, 1689. ) ^[14]
5. Mary born on September 16, 1673 ^[1]; married Jacob Wood at Littleton on November 14, 1688. ^[13]
6. Lydia Born on October 27, 1675 ^[1]; married Timothy Wheeler.
7. Esther born on December 1, 1678 [1: 10: 1678] ^[1]; married Samuel Prescott.
8. Joseph b. 27. 11. 1679, Littleton.^[13]
9. Ebenezer born on June 3, 1682 [3: 4:1682] ^[1]; married Mary Minot.
10. Thankful born on June 3, 1682 [3: 4:1682] ^[1] ; died on November 1, 1716; married Jonas Prescott of Littlton on October 16, 1699. ^[13]
11. John b. 6-12 1685; probably d. Dec 1 1736. Concord records say Dec 26th^[13]
12. Sarah b. 11 Nov 1686^[13]
13. Abigail b. 29 Dec 1689^[13]
14. Thomas b. 24 Jun 1692.^[13]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12} Tolman, George compiler. Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850, Printed by the Town, T. Todd Printer, Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusetts, 1891, p. 3,: 10-12: 14: 17: 19: 22: 25: 32: 82: 110
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Threfall, John Brooks. Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England & their origins. J. B. Threfall. Madison, Wisconsin, 1990, p. 495-7
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} History of Westmoreland (Great Meadow), New Hampshire 1741 - 1970 and Genealogical Data. Westmoreland Historical Committee. 1976, Second Printing August 2007, p. 574.
4. ↑ Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. page 800
5. ↑ Charlestown Vital Records: Volume 1. p. 10 in: Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850, (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2010).
6. ↑ Warden, William Albert, and Robert L. Dexter. Genealogy of the Dexter Family in America: Descendants of Thomas Dexter; Together with a record of other allied families (The Blanchard Press, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1905), p. 102
7. ↑ source needed
8. ↑ Title: Vital Record Transcripts: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook). [1]
9. ↑ Notes: Probate Papers, 24285-24391; Massachusetts County, District and Probate Courts.https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/9069/007676332_00145?pid=465874
10. ↑ Tolman, George: "The Wheeler Families of Old Concord Mass." Concord Antiquarian Society 1908, page 3.
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3} Case 24290:p. 1-4: Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org)
12. ↑ source needed
13. ↑ ^{13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 13.7} Records of Littleton, Massachusetts: Births and Deaths: Printed by the Town. Littleton, Massachusetts, 1900, p. 493-4
14. ↑ Vital Records of Beverly Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, Vol. II Marriages and Deaths, Topsfield Historical Society, Topsfield, Massachusetts, 1907, p. 351

• History of Westmoreland (Great Meadow), New Hampshire 1741 - 1970 and Genealogical Data. Westmoreland Historical Committee. 1976, Second Printing August 2007. Page 574.
• George Tolman (compiler), Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1635 - 1850 (Concord, Massachusetts: Committee on Printing, 1894), page 10, "John wheeler and Sarah larken wear marryed 25 March, 1663"
• John Brooks Threlfall, 50 Great Migration Colonists to New England (Madison, Wis.: published by author, 1990)
• History of the Wheeler Family in America, Descendant of George Wheeler, of Concord, Massachusetts. Pages 21 & 107.
• New England Historic Genealogical Society (99-101 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116, USA). [2]
• Family records of A L HOYT
• Shattuck, Lemuel: "History of Concord, Mass."; page 386 (marriage and death)
• Massachusetts Town & Vital Records 1620-1988; "Concord Births & Deaths Recorded in Boston", page 3 (birth - 19th day of first month 1643)

See also:

• Pope, Charles Henry, et al. Merriam Genealogy in England and America, C. H. Pope, Boston, Massachusetts, 1906
• findagrave for Sarah
• http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Concord/aDeathsW.shtml page 82
• Caution: Incorrect DOB: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 20 March 2019), memorial page for John Wheeler (19 Jan 1643–27 Sep 1713), Find A Grave: Memorial #32683147, citing South Burying Place, Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Nareen, et al (contributor 46613568) . -no photo
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/166902638/katherine-wheeler findagrave for Katherine Pinn]
• New England Historic Genealogical Society. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston: The New England Historic Genealogical Society. image