Person:Solomon Wheeler (8)

Solomon Wheeler Son of Abijah Wheeler and Tabitha his Wife was born in weston Feb. 3. 1740:1.
[Note: this birthdate is incompatible with the age given in the baptism. While the church records are in the order recorded, the birth of the first four children are given all at once, so not recorded until some unknown time after Jonathan was born in 1743 (the births before them are dated 1745). We must assume the year in this birth record is wrong, the result of faulty memory.]

[1741-2] Feb. 28. Solomon Son to Abijah & Tabitha Wheeler. near a m. old.
[Note: this record is a baptism record in a section of baptisms. However, many of the baptisms have added notes about the children dying later. The original date is for the baptism, as later deaths show a subsequent death date. This record has no subsequent date added, nor the word died, but Source:Wheeler, Albert Gallatin. Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America, p. 706, apparently mistakes it for a death record. This Solomon appears to be the Solomon Wheeler #18110 "of Kingston, R.I." (per Wheeler, the marriage record only says "of Kingston") who m. in Concord 1764 Abigail Stratton. The far more credible George Tolman thinks so. (Since the marriage is also recorded in Kingston, Mass., i.e., not RI, to Abigail of Concord, it is apparent just how unreliable is anything found in Wheeler.) Tolman and the marriage records are cited for his marriage on Family:Solomon Wheeler and Abigail Stratton (1).]