Person:John Wheeler (4)

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FHL film 0432078 Middlesex Probate Files File 24290: John Wheeler 1713

Know all men by these presents that wee the subscribers Beeing the children of the late Deceased our Honored father John Wheeler and meeting together with our mother at her House after the death of our father and finding that he had made disposall of All his Lands with the buildings thereupon by Deeds of Gift unto his three sons : yet not withstanding 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 moveable estate amongst us with this provisall that wee do engage mutaly to pay all Debts that can legaly bee claimed from sd Estate the other third part our Honored mother is to enjoy as long as she living & 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 aboves'd Ebenezer Wheeler doth by these presents promise & engage that he will not ??? nor dispose of any part thereof namely of his mothers thirds but at his mothers death resign up what remaind[e]th to be devided amongst them except such things as are worn out : and as to our mothers waring cloths - as tis her Pleasure they should be eqaly devided amongst her five daughters or their children in case of their decease or any one of them so likewise the s'd Ebenezer wheeler doth engage as of the other estate so of them faithfully to deliver them to whom they shal belong : & we 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 claim excepting what is specified in the promises in witness whereof and for the further confirmation of this our mutiall agreement we have set to our hands & seal this twenty first day of october in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and thirteen and in the twelfth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Ann Queen of Great Brittain &c

[???-hard to read, two words] hand of Sarah Wheelor widow to the Late deceased John Wheeler in token of her free consent to the promisses doth sign & seal with her children

Witnesses: John Heywood, Joseph Deckin

Signed by Sarah Wheelor [her mark], Samuel Wheeler, Edward Wheeller, Ebenezer Wheller, Wm Woodbury [husband of Joanna], John Meriam [husband of Sarah?], Timothy Wheeler, Samuel Prescott [husband of Esther], Jonas Prescott [husband of Thankful], John Meriam Jun'r [2nd husband of Mary?]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Wheeler, Albert Gallatin. The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler family in America. (American College of Genealogy , 1914)
   21.

   John Wheeler, s/o George and Katherine Wheeler, b. Concord 19 Jan 1643 [sic, a clear misinterpretation of the date], d. 27 Sep 1713, m. 25 Mar 1663-4 Sarah Larkin, d/o Edward and Joanna Larkin.

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Thomas Todd. Todd & Wheeler Families. (Boston, 1909,)
   33.
3. ↑ Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1891)
   3.

   John the sonne of Georg Wheeler was borne the 19 . (1.) 1643.
   [Before 1753, the first month of the year was March, and dates before March 25, New Year's Day, are double dated, so this should be written 19 Mar 1642/43.]

4. ↑ Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1891)
   82.

   mr John Wheeler ye Husband of Sarah his wife Dyed September 27 day : 1713.