Ancestral Wheeler Family of Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England, Whose Descendants Settled in Colonial New England. Raymond David Wheeler Publication: Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 94-78109
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Thomas by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
Lyle Wheeler :
Y-Chromosome Test, haplogroup I1, MitoYDNA ID Z11325[compare]
This looks to be an ancestor report from Family Tree Maker, it looks just like the ones I produce. So it's from somebody's tree on ancestry.com and fortunately they actually kept the original source citations. IMHO the best hands down which brings together prior work by Coddington, Jacobus, Brainard and earlier Wheelers along with original primary source documentation is here https://www.wikitree.com/photo.php/9/91/Wheeler_Name_Study-4.pdf by Raymond David Wheeler and Gordon Boyce Wheeler
I haven't seen a copy of the handwritten list, but the man who supposedly wrote it, John Writhe, would certainly have had the knowledge and authority to do so. He was Garter Principal King of Arms (the chief officer of the College of Arms) under three kings, Edward IV, Richard III, and Henry VII, serving from 1478 to 1504. As for the book into which it was supposedly inserted, William Caxton's "The Game and Playe of the Chesse" was first published in 1483, so Writhe could certainly have had a copy. He may even have known Caxton personally as he (Caxton) was a friend of the two Yorkist kings (Edward and Richard). None of this proves that the list existed, but the details are plausible.
https://www.geni.com/people/Sir-Thomas-Wheeler/6000000138757832480
https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/zoeken/?q=wheler&vn=thomas&pn=
https://www.geni.com/people/Sir-Thomas-Wheeler-Knight/6000000002006154444
https://mafiadoc.com/descendants-of-thomas-wheeler-9422-gulbangicom_59cc7f481723ddab3bbdff7a.html? It looks well researched (lots of footnotes) but no author is identified.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=45269965