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Thomas Wheeler
b.Bef 1616
Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Thomas Wheeler |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
Bef 1616 |
Admitted freeman in 1637. |
| Marriage |
Bef 1637 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States (probably)Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child.
to Rebecca _____ |
| Other[1][2] |
17 Apr 1637 |
Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay. |
| Will[2] |
6 May 1654 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United StatesWill written |
| Death[1] |
16 May 1654 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States |
| Probate[2] |
25 Jul 1654 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States |
It's not clear how or whether he relates to the Wheelers of Cranfield who were his contemporaries. One researcher on Worldconnect claims he was son of John Wheeler and Alice Ayres of Cranfield.
Will of Thomas Wheeler
"The Last will & Testament of Thomas Wheeler of Boston being in pfect memory & understanding though weake in body, doe constitute & Appoint my beloved wife Rebecca my sole Executrix of this my Last will & Testament.
Item I give & bequeath to my said wife all my whole Estate, dureing hir naturall Life, if she continue a widdow, but if she shall mary, then I doe give unto my sonne Joseph Wheeler my house & Land only reserving unto my wife hir thirds of the said house, & Land during her life.
Item: I give unto my daughter Rebecca out of my moveables twenty pound at hir marryage, or at ye age of nineteene yeares, & I doe request my beloved Brethren & friends Richard Trusdall & Nathaniel Williams & Edward ffletcher to see this my will truly pformed according to the true Intent & meaning thereof witnes my hand This 6th of 3d mo 1654
Tho. Wheeler
witnes. Wm Colbron Nathaniel Williams
Nathaniel Williams sworne saith that to his knowledge this was the Laste will of Thomas Wheeler, & that he was of a disposing minde when he signed it, Att a County Court 25th July 1654
A true copy Attest.
JOHN R. NICHOLS.
Assistant Register."[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Thomas Wheeler, 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)
4:499-500.
"Thomas (Wheeler), Boston, a tailor, join. the ch. 11 Sept. 1636, by w. Rebecca, had Jonathan, b. 20 Oct. bapt. 12 Nov. 1637; Joseph, 15 May, but rec. of bapt. is 10 May 1640; Rebecca, 17, bapt. 25 June 1643; was freem. 17 Apr. 1637, but involv. with the gr. majority of the town, as friends of Mrs. Hutchinson and favorers of Wheelwright, for wh. he was disarm. 20 Nov. 1637; yet he did not rem. d. 16 May 1654, in his will a few days bef. naming ch. only Joseph and Rebecca. His wid. m. 10 Aug. 1654, John Pierce; and d. Rebecca m. 26 Dec. 1661, John Curtis of Roxbury."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 7700. Thomas Wheeler, in Wheeler, Albert Gallatin. The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler family in America. (American College of Genealogy , 1914)
485.
"7700. Thomas Wheeler. Nothing is known of him except that he was a tailor at Boston, Mass. He joined the church there Sept. 11, 1636; was made freeman April 17, 1637. On Nov. 20, 1637, he was disarmed as a favorer of Wheelwright. He died March [misinterpreted double dating] 16, 1654, leaving a widow, Rebecca and Joseph Wheeler, born March 15, 1640. Rebecca Wheeler, born April 17, 1643. Thomas and Rebecca also had a child Jonathan Wheeler, born Oct. 20, 1637, who had probably died before the making of the will. The widow, Rebecca, married (2) June 10, 1654, John Pierce of Dorchester, Mass."
- Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699 (A Report of the Record Commissioners): Document 130. (Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States: Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, 1883)
47.
"1654 … Thomas Wheeler died 16th ─ 3rd month [May 16, 1654]."
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