Person:Joseph Wheeler (3)

Name^[1]	Lieutenant Joseph Wheeler
Gender	Male
Christening^[1]	18 Feb 1609/10	Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England
Marriage	1636	Of, Cranfield, Bedf, Engto Elizabeth _____
Marriage	19 May 1642	of Cranfield, Bedfordshire, Englandto Sarah Goldstone
Death^[1]^[2]	Aft 17 Dec 1678	Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Origins

Likely he baptized Cranfield 18 Feb 1610 (1951 article in The American Genealogist (TAG) "The Wheelers of Bedfordshire and New England. II. The Parish Registers of Cranfield" by John Insley Coddington.)

Likely he mentioned in 1627 will of Thomas Wheeler of Cranfield as "my son" (Thomas the Elder of Cranfield who wrote his will 7 December 1627 and was buried 11 February 1634/5. The will was published in the July 1937 TAG article "The Father of the Concord Wheelers" by Donald Lines Jacobus.)

Likely he requesting freeman status on May 13, 1640 with older brother Thomas. (The History of New England from 1630 to 1649... by John Winthrop, James Savage: Mass: 1853)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Jacobus, Donald Lines, Editor, and N. Grier Parke (Compiler and Publisher). The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth. (Woodstock, Vt.: N.G. Parke, 1960)
p. 53.

Children of Thomas Wheeler and 2nd wife Rebecca ---: Lt. Joseph, bp. 18 Feb 1609/10, d. aft 1678, m. (1) Elizabeth ---, m. (2) [first wife died 1642] Sarah (Godstone) Merriam.
↑ Molyneaux, Myrtelle Wheeler. The Wheeler family of Cranfield, England and Concord Massachusetts, and some descendants of Sgt. Thomas Wheeler of Concord. (Long Beach, California: M.W. Molyneaux, c1992)
p. 16.

17 Dec 1678: Joseph Wheeler, aged 68, testified he was present and heard Thomas Wheeler, declare an unsigned will as his.
[Note: see Middlesex Probate 24355 here.]