Surname Saturday - WHEELER (England > Colonial Massachusetts)

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

I am in the 7th great-grandmothers, up to number 581: Thankful WHEELER (1682-1716). [Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 7th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through three American generations of 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)

18.  Edward Hildreth (1831-1899)
19.  Sophia Newton (1834-1923)

36.  Zachariah Hildreth (1783-1857)
37.  Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857)

72.  Zachariah Hildreth (1754-1828)
73.  Elizabeth Keyes (1758-1793)

144.  Zachariah Hildreth (1728-1784)
145.  Elizabeth Prescott (1734-1812)

290.  Jonas Prescott (1703-1784)
291.  Elizabeth Harwood (1701-1739)


580.  Jonas Prescott, born 26 October 1678 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 12 September 1750 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 1160. Jonas Prescott and 1161. Mary Loker.  He married 05 October 1699 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
581.  Thankful Wheeler, born 03 June 1682 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 06 November 1716 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  

Children of Jonas Prescott and Thankful Wheeler are:  Ebenezer Prescott (1700-1771); Jonas Prescott 1703-1784); Thankful Prescott (1705-????); Mary Prescott (1711-1793); Sarah Prescott (1712-1737); Dorcas Prescott (1714-1803).

1162.  John Wheeler, born 19 March 1642/43 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 27 September 1713 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.   He married 25 March 1664 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
1163.  Sarah Larkin, born 12 March 1647/48 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; died 12 August 1725 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  She was the daughter of 2326. Edward Larkin and 2327. Joanna.

Children of John Wheeler and Sarah Larkin are:  Samuel Wheeler (1664-1717); Sarah Wheeler (1666-1692); Edward Wheeler (1669-1734); Joanna Wheeler (1671-1748); Mary Wheeler (1673-????); Lydia Wheeler (1675-1720); Esther Wheeler (1678-1756); Ebenezer Wheeler (1682-1748); Thankful Wheeler (1682-1718).

2324.  George Wheeler, born before 23 March 1605/06 in Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England; died 02 June 1687 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 4648. Thomas Wheeler.  He married June 1630 in Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England.
2325.  Katherine Pin, born in England; died 02 January 1684/85 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of George Wheeler and Katherine Pin are:  William Wheeler (1631-1683); Thomas Wheeler (1633-1686); Elizabeth Wheeler (1636-1704); Sarah Wheeler (1640-1713); John Wheeler (1643-1713); Mary Wheeler (1645-1679); Ruth Wheeler (1647-1703); Hannah Wheeler (1649-1697).

Astute readers will recall that I did Esther Wheeler (1678-1756), daughter of John and Sarah (Larkin) Wheeler, last week.  

I have these resources for these Wheeler families:

*  M. Wheeler Molyneaux, The Wheeler Family of Cranfield, England and Concord, Massachusetts and Some Descendants of Sgt. Thomas Wheeler of Concord (Long Beach, Calif. : the author, 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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