2701   JOSEPH 1 WHEELER m. (1) ELIZABETH (2) SARAH MERIAM

Elizabeth died in childbirth on 20 Sept. 1643; her death was recorded as 20 July 1643, the copyist having rendered the 7 by July instead of September, thus transfixing Dr. Savage with astonishment, and he confesses his inability to solve the puzzle how she could have died in July and given birth to a child in September. Joseph married (2) Sarah, widow of Joseph Meriam [who died 1 Jan. 1640/1] [Joseph, son of William of Hadlow, Kent, was baptized 18 Feb. 1610 according to a note in RRW files –JCW.] [Sarah had already had seven children by Joseph Meriam - JCW] The children of Joseph 1 Wheeler were:

By Elizabeth

2702     I Ephraim 2   b.14 April 1640       d. 19 July 1642

2703     II Joseph 2   b. 1 Dec. 1641       d. 18 July 1642

2704     III Mary     b. 20 Sept. 1643     d. same day

By Sarah

2705     IV Rebecca   b. 6 Sept. 1645         m. (1) Peter Bulkeley (2) Jonathan Prescott

Lieut. Joseph Wheeler seems to have been connected with the Charlestown Wheelers, for on 17 Dec. 1678 "Joseph Wheeler, 68 years old", testifies to having been present when Thomas Wheeler of Charlestown made his will, which he died without signing. In May 1681, being then "71 years old", he makes affidavit as to the laying out of certain lots of land in Concord several years before. He had a large amount of property on the Merrimack River, and 12 Aug. 1670, Joseph Wheeler and his wife Sarah of Concord sell 700 acres there to Cornelius Waldo. In 1676 he buys of John Hull 300 acres near Dunstable, and in 1678 he buys of Joseph Wheeler of Malden and his wife Frances and in 1679 Joseph Wheeler of Malden and his wife Frances sell about 150 acres of this to John Hayward of Boston. On 12 Feb. 1660 the selectmen of Concord grant to Lieut. Joseph Wheeler a tract of land lying between the line of Chelmsford and the line of Nashoba 610 acres in all, and 4 April 1679, Joseph Wheeler and wife Frances of Concord, sell the same to Ralph Shepard. It is therefore to be inferred that he married a third wife Frances, and removed to Dunstable and afterward to Malden. He left no will.

Sources

1. The Wheeler Families of Old Concord, Massachusetts Compiled by George Tolman in 1908 Revised for editions of 1970 and 1981 and, by Joseph C. Wheeler, for this online edition of 2006. This online edition is complete up to the Joseph's second revision, July 21, 2007.

Links

1. http://trees.wmgs.org/getperson.php?personID=I101356&tree=Schirado