Surname Saturday - WHEELER (England to colonial Massachusetts)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  

I am in the 8th great-grandmothers and I'm up to Ancestor #1049 who is Elizabeth Wheeler (1636-1704) [Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two generations in this WHEELER family line is:

1. Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)

16. Isaac Seaver (1823-1901)
17. Lucretia Townsend Smith (1827-1884)

32. Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825)
33. Abigail Gates (1797-1869)

64. Benjamin Seaver (1757-1816)
65. Martha Whitney (1764-1832)

130.  Samuel Whitney (1719-1782)
131.  Abigail Fletcher (1720-1783)

262.  John Fletcher (1692-1749)
263.  Mary Goble (1694-1734)

524.  Samuel Fletcher (1657-1744)
525.  Elizabeth Wheeler (1664-1744)

1048.  Francis Fletcher, born about 1630 in England; died about 1704 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 2096. Robert Fletcher and 2097. Sarah.  He married 11 October 1656 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
1049.  Elizabeth Wheeler, born before 03 January 1636 in Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England; died 14 June 1704 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  

Children of Francis Fletcher and Elizabeth Wheeler are:
*  Samuel Fletcher (1657-1744), married 1682 Elizabeth Wheeler (1664-1744).
*  Joseph Fletcher (1661-1746), married (1_ 1688 Mary Dudley (1666-1705); (2) 1705 Elizabeth Carter (1687-1710).
*  Elizabeth Fletcher (1663-1762), married 1683 Samuel Stratton (1660-1717).
*  John Fletcher (1666-????), married 1690 Hannah Hunt (1670-????).
*  Sarah Fletcher (1669-1744), married William Wheeler (1665-1752).
*  Hezekiah Fletcher (1672-1747), married 1703 Mary Wood (1686-1748).
*  Hannah Fletcher (1674-1752), married 1702 Obadiah Wheeler (1673-1718).
*  Benjamin Fletcher (1677-1703).

2098.  George Wheeler, born before 23 March 1606 in Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England; died 02 June 1687 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 4196. Thomas Wheeler.  He married 08 June 1630 in Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England.
2099.  Katherine Pin, born about 1611 in England; died 02 January 1685 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of George Wheeler and Katherine Pin are:
*  William Wheeler (1631-1683), married 1659 Hannah Buss (1642-1693).
*  Thomas Wheeler (1633-1686), married 1657 Hannah Harwood (1632-1707).
*  Elizabeth Wheeler (1636-1704), married 1656 Francis Fletcher (1630-1704)
*  Sarah Wheeler (1640-1713), married 1665 Francis Dudley (1638-1702).
*  John Wheeler (1643-1713), married 1663 Sarah Larkin (1648-1725).
*  Mary Wheeler (1645-1679), married 1665 Eliphalet Fox (1644-1711).
*  Ruth Wheeler (1647-1703), married 1665 Samuel Hartwell (1645-1725).
*  Hannah Wheeler (1649-1697), married 1672 Samuel Fletcher (1652-1723).

Information about this Wheeler family was obtained from:

Myrtelle W. Molyneaux, The Wheeler Family of Cranfield, England and Concord, Massachusetts and Some Descendants of Sgt. Thomas Wheeler of Concord (Long Beach, Calif. : M.W. Molyneaux,  1992).

John Brooks Threlfall, 50 Great Migration Colonists in New England and Their Origins (Madison, Wis. : the author, 1990)

Dean Crawford Smith, edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908; Part III: The Ancestry of Henry clay Bartlett, 1832-1892 (Boston : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004)

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