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Facts and Events
Name[1] |
Thomas Wheeler, Sr. |
Gender |
Male |
Birth[1] |
Est 1591 |
Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England |
Marriage |
5 May 1613 |
Cranfield, Bedfordshire, Englandto Ann Halsey |
Alt Death[1] |
Bet 5 May 1654 and 23 Aug 1654 |
Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States |
Death? |
Bef 23 Aug 1654 |
Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States |
Origins
- Considered to be "my eldest son Thomas Wheler of Warley" mentioned in the 1627 will of Thomas Wheeler of Cranfield.
Life in New England
From Donald Line Jacobus' "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield" Volume I (1930), starting with page 662:
- Wheeler, Thomas "Sr."
- ...came to Concord...to Fairfield...adjacent land to Thomas Jr. in 1649. This Thomas Jr. we take to be the brother named 1654 in his will...Will 5 May 1654, proved 23 Aug. 1654; wife Ann; elder son Thomas, property in Concord...brother Thomas Wheeler Lieutenant, Robert Lockwood, and Andrew Ward, all of Fairfield, overseers. Ephraim Wheeler was an appraiser...Will of Ann Wheeler, 21 Aug. 1659;...The Wheeler Family in America, which we cannot follow implicitly with regard to this Wheeler family, states that Thomas m. at Cranefield, co. Bedford, Eng. 5 May 1613 Ann Halsey...
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 N. Grier Parke, II. The Ancestry of LORENZO ACKLEY & his wife EMMA ARABELLA BOSWORTH. (The Elm Tree Press, Woodstock, Vermont)
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