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Facts and Events
References
- Wheeler, Albert Gallatin. The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler family in America. (American College of Genealogy , 1914)
p. 21, p. 25.
Children of John Wheeler and Sarah Larkin: 5) Mary, b. 15 [sic] Sep 1673, m. Concord 15 Apr 1697 Jacob Wood.
- Todd, Thomas. The Todds, the Wheelers et id genus omne. (Boston: Thomas Todd, 1909)
p. 33.
Children of John Wheeler and Sarah Larkin: Mary, b. 16 Sep 1673, m. Jacob Wood.
- George Tolman, Joseph C. Wheeler. Wheeler Families of Old Concord, Massachusetts
p. 4.
Children of John Wheeler [#8] and Sarah Larkin: Mary [#25], b. 16 Sep 1673, m. Jacob Wood.
[Note: the agreement of heirs in 1713 does not list Mary Wood, Jacob Wood, or any of their children, but the abstract in this source only lists John Merriam once, whereas the one found in the probate file (here) is signed by John Merriam and John Merriam Jun'r. See note.]
- Holmes, Clayton Wood. A Genealogy of the Lineal Descendants of William Wood Who Settled in Concord, Mass., in 1638: Ccontaining also Revolutionary and Other Records. (Elmira, N.Y.: Advertiser Print, 1901)
12.
Jacob Wood, s/o Michael, m. 15 Apr 1697 Mary Wheeler, d/o John Wheeler and Sarah Larkin, b. Concord 15 Sep 1673, no record of her death.
- ↑ Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1891)
p. 17.
Mary daughter of John Wheler and Sarah his wife borne 15 sept 1673.
- ↑ Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Record of births, marriages, and deaths to January 1, 1898. (Boston, Massachusetts: Wright and Potter Printing, 1898)
p. 187.
Merriam, Meriam, Mirriam.
Mary, [died] Dec. 27, 1747.
- ↑ Find A Grave: Old Burying Ground, Lexington, MA, in Find A Grave
Mary Wheeler Meriam.
HERE LIES BURIED
Ye BODY OF Ye WIDOW
MARY MERIAM RELICT
OF DEACON JOHN
MERIAM WHO DECd
DECEMBR Ye 26Yth
A D 1 7 4 7
IN Ye 75Yth YEAR
OF HER AGE.
[Note: 75th year, so age 74, born about 1673.]
- ↑ Sources are almost unanimous in claiming that Mary married 1697 Jacob WoodS1,S2,S3,S4. None explain how this is known, though there is a such a marriage recorded, and this Mary is of an appropriate age. Jacob Wood died in 1723, and Mary his widow administered his estate and sold his real estate in 1725, so both Jacob and Mary were alive when the agreement of heirs of John Wheeler was signed, and yet neither participated. It appears his wife was a different Mary Wheeler.
There is a marriage record of John Merriam to a Mary Wheeler in 1688, and the age at death of John Merriam's widow works out to a 1673 birth, making her a good match to this Mary.
As noted aboveS3, Tolman did not correctly process that two different John Merriams signed the agreement of heirs. John Merriam, the older one, is presumably the wife of Mary Wheeler. John Merriam Jr. is presumably the son and only heir of Sarah Wheeler (or less likely - since the son is 21 at the time the agreement is signed, but just so - it is his father representing the son, even the father being junior to Mary's husband).
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