Person:Joseph Wheeler (69)

Joseph Wheeler

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m. 4 Dec 1769

Facts and Events

Name	Joseph Wheeler
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]^[2]	2 May 1796	Bolton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Death^[3]	Bef 1798	Bolton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United StatesAnother son named Joseph born

References

↑ Bolton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of Bolton, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. (Worcester, Mass.: Franklin P. Rice, 1910)
p. 89.

WHEELER, Joseph, s. Obadiah Jr. and Ann, [born] May 2, 1796. CR2
[CR2=Quaker church record]
↑ Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, 1916)
p. 175.

WHEELER, Joseph, s. of Obadiah Jr. and Ann, 3d day, 5th mo. 1796. CR4
[CR4=Uxbridge Monthly Meeting]
↑ Both the Bolton and Uxbridge VRs cite Quaker records in showing the birth of Joseph in 1796 and again in 1798, and then the death of Joseph after the 1798 birth. Source:Wheeler, Albert Gallatin. Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America, p. 360, applies the death date to the first Joseph, even though this makes the second Joseph born before the first one dies, and makes no sense. So either one of the births is a corrupted version of the first, and the only Joseph died young, or one death date was not recorded, and both Josephs died young? The later is most consistent with what the records literally say.