"Samuel3 Wheat (Joshua2, Moses1) … married 2) Nov. 8, 1720, Mary Chadwick who survived him and married 2) at Springfield, Henry Gilbert of Brookfield, Mass., son of Thomas Gilbert of Springfield. … Mary Wheat of Watertown, widow of Dr. Samuel Wheat late of Bermudas in the West Indies asked for administration on the estate, and on Aug. 1, 1735 Dr. Samuel Wheat of Newton (his son) was appointed administrator. (Suffolk Co. Probates). The widow accepted £166. as her dowry." …
'Mary Wheat is Come to Dwell in the Town of Water town and Now Dwels in The House of Benjn. Chadwick in sd Town: Shee Came Last from Newton on or about the month of August last past, the Selectman Refuse to Accipt hir as an Inhabitant … to warn the Sd Mary Wheat to Depart out of Watertown. 17 Day Nov. 1735.' (Watertown Records, III, p. 131)"