Wheat, Silas C, and Helen D. Love Scranton. Wheat genealogy: a history of the Wheat family in America with a brief account of the name and family in England and Normandy. (Brooklyn, New York: S.C. Wheat, c1903-1960), Vol. 2, Pages 16, 17.
83 viii Mary, born Dec. 29, 1757; married Robert Semple, a Tory. He and his brother John, husband of Betty Wheat, were merchants in Boston; at the outbreak of the Revolution they left for Halifax, Robert with a family of three in 1776, and in July of that year both and Robert’s wife Mary were captured on the passage from Nova Scotia to New York, were carried to Marblehead, thence to Boston, and committed to jail. In 1778 they were proscribed and banished.
(Loyalists of the American Revolution, Lorenzo Sabine, 1864)S1
