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             Husband: Abel WHEELER (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15)
                Born: 18 DEC 1765 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (16 17 18)
          Christened: 09 FEB 1766 in First Congregational Church Of Derby (19)
             Married: 01 OCT 1786 in Oxford Congregational Church (33 34)
                Died: 27 OCT 1830 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (20 21 22)
              Buried: in Oxford Congregational Cemetery (23 24)
              Father: Samuel WHEELER
              Mother: Lois FAIRCHILD
             Spouses: 
               Title: Esquire
                Wife: Eunice RIGGS (25 26 27)
                Born: 25 JUL 1771 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (28 29)
                Died: 14 MAY 1861 (30)
              Buried: in Oxford Congregational Cemetery (31 32)
              Father: Ebenezer RIGGS
              Mother: Anna THOMPSON
             Spouses:

Footnotes

  1. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 10.
    1803 ... Sept. 4, Capt Abel Wheeler & Eunice his wife, recvd to Communion.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/010.html.]
  2. Ibid., 177.
    [Oxford Legislature - 1802, 1807-1810, 1812, 1818-1821
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/177.html.]
  3. Ibid., 181.
    [Member of Masonic Morning Star Lodge, No. 47 - Oxford
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/181.html.]
  4. Ibid., 175.
    ..House of Representatives ten times..Justice of the Peace..Judge of the County Court..State Senator..
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/175.html.]
  5. Historic House Committee of The Bicentennial Commission, Oxford, Connecticut, Early Houses of Oxford (Derby, CT, The Bacon Printing Company, 1976), #89.
    [ Academy Road, Oxford, CT
    Available at http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm.]
  6. Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 70.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/070.html.]
  7. Ibid., 144.
    Oxford Masonic Societies.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/144.html.]
  8. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Oxford's Record: The First 175 Years (Oxford, CT, Oxford Record, Inc., 1973), 18.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/p18.htm.]
  9. WEBSITE, http://www.electronicvalley.org/tour/oxforduppergreen.htm.
    [Photograph of Abel Wheeler house on Academy Rd., Oxford, CT
    http://www.electronicvalley.org/tour/oxforduppergreen.htm.]
  10. Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, 65.
  11. Oxford Land Records Vol. I, 1798-1805, 40.
    ... Edward Riggs of Oxford ... to Abel Wheeler of Oxford ...
    [1799.]
  12. 1790 Derby Census.
    Thomas Riggs
    Joseph Fairchild
    Abel Wheeler
    Lewis Wheeler.
  13. 1800 Oxford Census.
  14. 1810 Oxford Census.
  15. 1820 Oxford Census.
  16. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 72.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/072.html.]
  17. Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 312.
  18. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 81.
    ... Abel, [s. Sam[ue]l], Jr. & Lois], b. Dec. 18, 1765.
  19. Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901), 476.
    Church Records.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/476.html.]
  20. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 76.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/076.html.]
  21. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 8.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan8.html.]
  22. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 81.
  23. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 8.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan8.html.]
  24. Congregational Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem6889.html.]
  25. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 10.
    1803 ... Sept. 4, Capt Abel Wheeler & Eunice his wife, recvd to Communion.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/010.html.]
  26. Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, 65.
  27. 1860 Oxford Census.
    [Living w/ Orrin and Harriet Tucker.]
  28. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 72.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/072.html.]
  29. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 65, 81.
  30. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 8.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan8.html.]
  31. Ibid., 8.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan8.html.]
  32. Congregational Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem6890.html.]
  33. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 33.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/033.html.]
  34. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 65, 81.

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