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Facts and Events
| Name[1][2] |
Obadiah Wheeler |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
Cal 1694 |
Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States (probably) |
| Baptism[3] |
11 Aug 1695 |
Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United StatesFirst Congregational Society |
| Marriage |
Bef 1719 |
Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States (probably)Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child (Joanna).
Obadiah Wheeler and Joanna Wheeler were first cousins.
to Joanna Wheeler |
| Death[1] |
24 Feb 1770 |
Newtown, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States |
| Burial[1][4] |
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Newtown Village Cemetery, Newtown, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 5. Joseph Wheeler, in Abbott, Susan Woodruff, and Jacquelyn Ladd Ricker. Families of Early Milford, Connecticut. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1979)
799.
"Obadiah (Wheeler) died Newtown, Conn. 24 Feb 1770 ae 76 (gravestone) mar Joanna Wheeler bpt 6 Dec 1696 (church record, First Congregational Society, Milford) died 15 Jan 1758 ae 62 Newtown (gravestone) (for marriage see MLR Vol. 8, pg. 179)"
- ↑ Obadiah Wheeler, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Errors in Genealogical Books. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Jan 1934)
10:132-33.
The present writer, when compiling the first volume of Families of Old Fairfield, spent a week on the difficult Wheeler family. Since some previous accounts had badly confused the Fairfield Wheelers with those of Milford, it was decided to include what I had collected on the latter family. Though I knew my material lacked completeness, I believed it to be correct as far as it went. No sooner was it in print, than a mistake was called to my attention. I had wrongly placed Obadiah of Newtown as son of Thomas of Milford (page 682). The will of this Thomas Wheeler gave legacies to certain daughters and a granddaughter; mentioned two sons-in-law by name; gave the residue of his estate to his Executors; and appointed 'my son Obadiah Wheeler and Joanna Wheeler' Executors. Joanna had previously been mentioned as a daughter. Obadiah was baptized as son of Joseph Wheeler, so was a nephew of Thomas. Obadiah was named in the will of his father Joseph, after the latter's removal to New Jersey. Obadiah of Newtown later conveyed land in Milford which had been set out to his father Joseph. In another deed, Obadiah and Joanna of Newtown conveyed land in Milford which came in part from their father Thomas Wheeler deceased and in part from their brother Justus Wheeler. Thomas had no son Justus, but Joseph had. These facts, original record facts previously unknown to me, were quoted by my correspondent, with references to volume and page. The explanation of these apparently confusing facts is really quite simple,─when all the evidence is available. Obadiah was in truth the son of Joseph, but he married his first cousin Joanna, the daughter of Thomas. When Thomas in his will called him 'son,' he meant son-in-law. If his surname had been anything but Wheeler, this would have been apparent almost at once. The Wheeler Family History (1914), page 209, prints the entire will of Thomas Wheeler, and then falls into the same trap and makes Obadiah his son."
- ↑ Volume 071 Milford, in Connecticut, United States. Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920. (Ancestry.com (database on-line), 2013)
394.
"Wheeler, … Obadiah, Patience, Anna, Joseph, Justice & Ephraim, children of [Joseph] (In pencil) & Patience, bp. Aug. 11, 1695 [1:25]"
- ↑ Obadiah Wheeler, in Find A Grave.
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