Jonathan Wheeler (1683 - bef. 1747)

Born 28 Jul 1683 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Died before 24 Apr 1747 before age 63 in Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Jonathan Wheeler was born on 28 July 1683 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, the son of Obadiah and Elizabeth (White) Wheeler. ^[1][2][3]

He married Mary Fletcher, date and location not known but by 1710 (birth of first child), the daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Wheeler) Fletcher.^[3] Samuel Fletcher's will, dated 1713 and presented in 1726, named his wife Elizabeth and son Samuel who was to pay his sister Mary Wheeler. Heirs' citation of same date was "read to Jona. Wheeler (who married Mary, a daughter of the deceased)."^[4]

Mary owned the covenant in the Lancaster Church on 27 July 1712.^[5]

Mary, "wife of Jonathan," died in Bolton on 19 February 1738/9.^[6] Jonathan died before 24 April 1747 when his estate was divided. On 24 April 1747, Jonathan Wheeler (Jr.) with Jonathan Moore and his wife Mary, all of Bolton, sold to Obadiah Wheeler of Bolton, blacksmith, part of the "estate of our father Jonathan Wheeler deceased."^[7]

Children of Jonathan and Mary (Fletcher) Wheeler, first three baptized at Lancaster:

1. Mary, b. 1st day, 2nd mo. 1710,^[3] bp. 27 Jul 1712.^[5]
2. Hannah, bp. 24 May 1713 (not mentioned in division of father's estate in 1747)^[8]
3. Obadiah, b. 22nd day, 12th mo. 1716,^[3] bp. ^[9][10]
4. Jonathan, b. 22 Jun 1720 Shrewsbury^[11]

Sources

1. ↑ Concord, Massachusetts births, marriages, and deaths, 1635-1850 (Boston: T.Todd, 1895), p. 26.

   "Jonathan of Obadiah Wheeler born: 28. 5. 83"

2. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (20 May 2014), Middlesex > Concord > Births 1640-1849 > image 106 of 119; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston. Concord VRs Vol. 1, p. 707 (Copy made in 1849).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Wakefield, Robert S. (editor). Sherman, Ruth Wilder and Sherman, Robert Moody (original compilers). Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Volume Thirteen Family of William White. Third Edition. (Plymouth, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2006) pp. 13, 37-38.
4. ↑ Middlesex County Probate Records file #7920 (Samuel Fletcher)
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Nourse, Henry S., The birth, marriage, and death register, church records and epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts. 1643-1850, (Lancaster : Clinton, Printed by W. J. Coulter, 1890), p. 274.

   "1712, [July] 27. Mary Wheeler Wife of Jonathan Wheeler owned ye Covenant and had her Daughter baptized Mary."

6. ↑ Vital records of Bolton, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, (Worcester, Mass. : F.P. Rice, 1910), p. 227.

   "Wheeler, Mary, w. Jonathan, Feb. 19, 1738-9."

7. ↑ "Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (22 May 2014), Worcester > Deeds 1746-1748 vol 23-24 > image 87 of 607; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts. Worcester County Deeds Vol 23:154-55. (Jonathan & Mary More & Jonathan Wheeler to Obadiah Wheeler 1747)
8. ↑ Lancaster VRs p. 274.

   "1713, [May], 24. Hannah also the Daughter of Jonathan Wheeler."

9. ↑ Bolton VRs p. 90.

   "Wheeler, Obadiah, h. Hannah, Dec. 22, 1716."

10. ↑ Lancaster VRs p. 275.

    "[1717]. May, 26. Obediah Son of Jonathan Wheeler."

11. ↑ Vital records of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Worcester, Mass.: F. P. Rice, 1907) p. 108.

    ""Wheeler, Jonathan, s. Jonathan and Mary, June 22, 1720.

• Wheeler, Albert Gallatin, The genealogical and encyclopedic history of the Wheeler family in America, 2 vols., (Boston : American College of Genealogy, 1914) Vol. 1:354-5.
• Holman, W.L., Robert Fletcher of Concord, MS at NEHGS, Boston, 1930, p. 74.

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