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- ↑ Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903)
p. 282.
WHEELER, Asahel and Thankfull [Thankful, MR] Goodenow, Sept. 20, 1762.
- Among many errors involving Asahel Wheeler, Source:Wheeler, Albert Gallatin. Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America, p. 357, shows only one child in this family, Hayman, b. 1766. The Sudbury VRs list three more besides "Haman", namely Anna, Asahel, and Elizabeth, and it is not clear why they were not included by Wheeler.
The use of the name Hayman strongly suggests that this Asahel is not the Asahel, s/o Uriah, b. 1714, as given by Wheeler, but the Asahel b. 1741, son of the Elisha. This Elisha, whose mother-in-law had the maiden name Hayman, named a son Hayman (i.e., brother of Asahel), but this son Hayman died young, apparently providing the inspiration for Asahel's usage of that unique name for one of his children.
Alternately, the other Asahel, the one championed by Wheeler, would have been 48 at the time of his marriage, which while possible, seems unlikely. The marriages to Thankful and Jerusha do not overlap, and it is more likely that it was one Asahel who married both, i.e., m. (1) at the age of 21 Thankful Goodnow, and then m. (2) at the age of 34 Jerusha Haynes. Presumably then, Asahel and Jerusha named a daughter Thankful in honor of his deceased first wife, since otherwise the son of Elisha and Mary would have no particular reason to use that name on his first daughter with Jerusha (Elisha and Mary had 14 children, none named Thankful). Possibly Wheeler did not choose this arrangement because there is no death record for Thankful, but it seems possible that the Asahel, b. 1714, might be the "Asel", who d. 1729, so probable that his choice was not a viable one.
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