Martha Wheelock

Notes for Martha Wight: Martha Wight, daughter of Joseph Wight and Mercy ____, was born in

Medfield, but moved to Bellingham with her parents in 1729, a few years after her mother died. (Src:

"History of Medfield", W. Tilden, 1887) Her father, Joseph Wight, was a signer of the 1719 petition to

grant Bellingham a charter. Her brother, Elnathan Wight, was the first resident minister in Bellingham, a

Baptist. In 1750, Martha, her husband, Jonathan Wheelock, his brother, Silas Wheelock, and others

signed the Articles of Faith of the Baptist Church in Bellingham. (Src: "History of the Town of Bellingham

Massachusetts", by George F. Partridge, published 1919.)

Martha (Wight) Wheelock kept a private family record book which was brought to Calais, VT, by her son

Peter, and continued by him. A copy of the book was made for Marcus Waite, author of "The Wheelock

Family of Calais, VT"; and this, no doubt, is where the death date for Jonathan Wheelock was recorded.

GEDCOM Note

2 AGE 45

!Family Records