Person:John Wheatley (27)
John Wheatley
b.Est 1618
d.Bef 13 Apr 1648 Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States (probably)
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  • H.  John WheatleyEst 1618 - Bef 1648
  • W.  Leah Saunders1623 - 1706/07
m. Abt 1643
  1. Rachel WheatleyAbt 1643 - 1713
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Name[1][2] John Wheatley
Gender Male
Birth[1] Est 1618 Based on estimated date of marriage.
Marriage Abt 1643 Based on estimated date of birth of only known child (Rachel).
to Leah Saunders
Other[1][2][3] 10 May 1643 Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United StatesAdmitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay (as "John Whetley").
Death[1] Bef 13 Apr 1648 Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States (probably)Wife remarried on that date.
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 [5417] John Wheatley, in Sprague, Waldo Chamberlain, comp. Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1640-1850: including the Modern Towns of Randolph and Holbrook and the City of Quincy. (Boston, Massachusetts: Published in cooperation with the Quincy Historical Society by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1983)
    1805.

    [5417] John Wheatley (Whitely/Whetly/Wheateley) Married about 1643 Leah Saunders baptized Oct. 10, 1623 at Sudbury, Co. Suffolk, England, died Mar. 24, 1706 'aged about 86', daughter of Martin & Rachel (_____) Saunders. Widow Leah Wheatly m. Robert Parmenter Apr. 13, 1648. … John Whetly or John Wheatley was made freeman of the colony May 10, 1643 and died about 1646 leaving a child Rachel who is mentioned in the settlement of the estate of Martin Saunders Sr. in Oct. 1658. … It is quite probable that he was closely related to Dorothy Wheatley, dau. of John, who married in 1614 in England Thomas Bliss who came to Braintree in 1640 from Daventry, Northamptonshire. … He was one of the Braintree residents who petitioned the General Court in 1645 for a new plantation."

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 John Wheately, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    4:495.

    "John (Wheately), Braintree, of wh. we kn. only that he was made freem. 1643, and his name then writ. Whetley, and unit. with many others of the same town for gr. of Showamet, that Gorton and others had bought. His d. Rachel m. 22 Sept. 1679, John Loring of Hingham, being then wid. of Benjamin Buckland of B. to wh. she had b. two ch. at least."

  3. ↑ Paige, Lucius R. List of Freemen. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct 1849)
    Vol. 3, p. 190.

    10 May 1643.
    …
    John Whetley

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