↑ Brainard, Homer W. "Captain Thomas Wheeler and Descendants", in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.) 12:135.
The will of Capt. Timothy Wheeler, dated March, 1686-87, proved by witnesses Sept. 7, 1687, contained this bequest: "I give to Jos Wheeler my brother Thomas his son all my right in ye village; also to Ephraim & Deliverance Wheeler, my brother Thomas his youngest son(s) I give ten acres of meadow, be it more or less, lying at the upper end of Elmbrook meadow, this to be equally divided between them." ...
[Here followeth the names of ye p'r'sons that dyed & were recorded ye time of their Death [by] me. T.B. [i.e., Thomas Brown Town Clerk].] Ephraim Wheeler ye son of Capt'n Thomas Wheeler & Ruth his wife Dyed February ye 19th, 1689. [This record is at the start of a list that appears to be in date order. It is followed by the rest of 1689, so the year is interpreted to be 1688/89.]
↑ The estimated birth about 1660 is based on Ephraim being named before Deliverance in his uncle Timothy's will, i.e., older, and then choosing a reasonable date to reflect that.
