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             Husband: Samuel WHEELER (1 2 3)
                Born: 27 FEB 1682 in Stratford, Fairfield, CT (4)
             Married: 03 MAY 1708 in Stratford, Fairfield, CT (36 37)
                Died: 26 MAR 1721 (5 6)
              Father: Moses WHEELER
              Mother: Sarah NICHOLS
             Spouses: Lois HAWKINS
                Wife: Mary BRINSMADE
                Born: l 1684 (7)
                Died: 26 JUL 1712 in Stratford, Fairfield, CT (8)
              Father: Daniel BRINSMADE
              Mother: Sarah KELLOGG
             Spouses:
Children
01               (F): Sarah WHEELER (9 10 11 12 13 14)
                Born: 06 NOV 1710 in Stratford, Fairfield, CT (15)
                Died: 08 MAR 1756 in Waterbury, New Haven, CT (16 17)
             Spouses: Nathaniel GUNN
02               (M): Samuel WHEELER (18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30)
                Born: 25 JUL 1712 in Stratford, Fairfield, CT (31)
                Died: 24 DEC 1799 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (32 33 34 35)
             Spouses: Abigail WHEELER; Elizabeth BRADLEY

Footnotes

  1. George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 226.
  2. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 2.
  3. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
  4. Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 678.
  5. Ibid., 678.
  6. Compiled and edited by Jacqyelyn Ladd Ricker, The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006), 13633.
  7. Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 678.
  8. Ibid., 678.
  9. Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 3, p 598.
  10. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 7, p 1752.
  11. Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 449.
  12. Ibid., 321.
  13. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 5, p 1184.
  14. Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 673.
  15. Compiled and edited by Jacqyelyn Ladd Ricker, The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006), 13634.
  16. Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Ancient Cemetery, Oak St., Naugatuck, 264.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/ancemscan264.html.]
  17. Compiled by Jerri Lynn Burket, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 50 - Waterbury (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2002), 147.
  18. Historic House Committee of The Bicentennial Commission, Oxford, Connecticut, Early Houses of Oxford (Derby, CT, The Bacon Printing Company, 1976), #127.
    ... built ... by a Samuel Wheeler in 1772.
    [Riggs Street, Oxford, CT
    Available at http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm.]
  19. Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 59.
    In December 1778, a committee was appointed to provide clothing for the soldiers, consisting of: ... Lieut. Samel Wheeler ...
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/059.html.]
  20. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 19.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/019.html.]
  21. J. L. Rockey, History of New Haven County, Connecticut, 534.
    The registered freemen in the town at the time of its incorporation in 1798 and the next ten years following were: ...
  22. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 776.
    Wheeler, Samuel, who may have been brother to Capt. James Wheeler, m. Abigail Wheeler, Dec 2, 1739. Children:
    1. Samuel (probably) 3. Robert, b. May 14, 1746
    2. Abigail, b. Jan. 17, 1744. 4. Agnes, b. Sept. 26, 1748.
  23. Lt Samuel Wheeler land to grandsons.
    ... 1793
    And furthermore, I the said Samuel Wheeler name to myself the use and improvement of the whole of the above granted land during my natural life.
    The conditions of the written deed is such that in case the sd James Wheeler Jr. shall make execute and deliver to Samuel Wheeler, Jr.a good quit claim deed of all the right, title and interest he has in and unto a certain piece of land lying in Derby, in the parish of Oxford, about a mile south of Lt. Samuel Wheelers dwelling house, within one year after he shall arrive at the age of 21 years, containing about 30 acres it being the farm that Robert Wheeler purchased of Samuel Hitchcock of Derby, and shall also make and execute a good quit claim deed to Elisha Wheeler of Derby all the right, title and interest he has in and unto two certain tracts of land lying in Southbury, one being a piece which Robert Wheeler purchased of Josiah Beers and Elisha Beers containing about nine and twenty acres of land, be it more or less, bounded south and east on highway, west on Benjamin Bradley, north on the land that is or was Jehiel Preston, and also a certain piece laying in Southbury, part in the parish of Middlebury, and part in the parish of Oxford, bounded east on the highway that runs between Waterbury and Southbury, south on highway, west on highway and the land of Stone, north on Stone, containing about an hundred and thirty acres be it more or less, then the written deed to be in full force, otherwise null and void."
  24. 1790 Derby Census.
  25. Edited by Joseph Anderson, D. D., Town & City of Waterbury, Connecticut, From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five. (New Haven, The Price & Lee Company, 1896), vol 1, p 389-90.
    In October, 1760, Josiah Bronson and other inhabitants of present Middlebury and it's vicinity ...
  26. Ibid., vol 1, p 283.
    ... south bound of Waterbury in 1715 ... The chesnut trees at the southwest line had become 'two stumps' in 1753. They were 'near Samuel Wheeler's house' which was in Derby, and southwest of the 'two stumps'.
  27. Ibid., vol 1, p 398.
    ... 1760 ... inhabitants of present Middlebury and its vicinity ... In the lines given as the boundaries of the territory, mention is made of Eight Mile brook, Quassapaug pond, Israel Curtise's lot of mowing meadow land, the lane by Eliphalet Bristol's running to Lt. Samuel Wheeler's ...
  28. Ibid., vol 1, p 580-1.
    Long Meadow Brook
    This stream enters the Naugatuck from the west, a short distance below the central part of Naugatuck village ... Nathaniel Gunn had a saw mill in 1739. Osborns mill was located on this stream. Samuel Wheeler had a saw mill in 1749, and later a carding mill. Arah Ward had a grist mill soon after. The stream from Towantic pond enters Long Meadow brook near this point. Towantic pond lies to the southwest Long Meadow pond to the northwest.
  29. William Cothren, History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 751.
    Lt. Samuel Wheeler ... settled in the south-east section of 'Ancient Woodbury,' about 1740 ... had ten children, all of whom died young, except two ...
  30. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 11.
    Samuel Wheler Received to Communion from ye Pastor and Chh of Christ in Darby, bairing Date Decr 4th, 1745. ...
    Abigail ye Wife of Samuel Wheler received to Communion from the Pastor & Chh of CHrist in Ripton bairing date Augst 20, 1746.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/011.html.]
  31. Compiled and edited by Jacqyelyn Ladd Ricker, The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006), 13633.
  32. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 52.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/052.html.]
  33. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Jack's Hill Cemetery, Oxford CT, 58.
    Wheeler, Birdsey G., son of Samuel & Phebe, died Feb. 18, 1838, age 30 yrs. 6 mos.
    Wheeler, Samuel, died Jan. 31, 1853, age 83 yrs.
    Wheeler, Phebe, wife of Samuel, died Apr. 16, 1848, age 73 yrs.
    Wheeler, Samuel, died Dec. 24, 1799, age 81 yrs.
    Wheeler, Abigail, wife of Samuel, died June 15, 1792, age 70 yrs.
    Cable, Orlando, died Dec. 18, 1856, age 58 yrs. 6 mos.
    Cable, Betsey, wife of Orlando, died Aug. 23, 1860, age 57 yrs.
    Washband, Sally Maria, died June 4, 1877, age 79 yrs. 7 mos.
    Wheeler, Agniss, daughter of Lieut. Samuel & Abigail, died Aug. 2, 1764, age 15 yrs.
    Towner, Eunice, wife of Isaac, died July 23, 1818, age 30 yrs.
    Wheeler, Deborah T., wife of Elisha, died May 18, 1857, age 88 yrs.
    Wheeler, Elisha, died June 12, 1836, age 65 yrs.
    Wheeler, James, died Apr. 3, 1805, age 26 yrs. 1 mos.
    Wheeler, Joseph, son of Robert & Ruth, died July 31, 1793, age 12 yrs.
    Wheeler, Ruth, wife of Robert, died May 25, 1788, age 44 yrs.
    Wheeler, Robert, died Apr. 17, 1782 age 36 yrs.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/jhcemscan58.html.]
  34. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 82.
  35. William Cothren, History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 751.
    He d. Dec. 24, 1799, aged 81.
  36. Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 678.
  37. Compiled and edited by Jacqyelyn Ladd Ricker, The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006), 1845.

Revised: 19-Oct-08
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