Captain Timothy Wheeler

Captain Timothy Wheeler

• chr.28 Dec 1604 Wharley End, Bedfordshire, England
• d.30 Jul 1687 Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
• Parents: Thomas Wheeler, Elder 1561 - 1634 & Rebecca
• Married: 1) Susan Knight 2) Jane 3) Mary Brooks

Family

Children with 2nd wife

• Sarah Wheeler 1640 - 1662. Married John Farwell.

Children with 3rd wife

• Mary Wheeler 1657 - 1660
• Elizabeth Wheeler 1661 - 1683. Married Ebenezer Prout
• Rebecca Wheeler Abt 1666 - 1734. Married James Minot

Biography

From https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Timothy_Wheeler_%281%29

Lived in the East Quarter of the town in the house of the then late Rev. Peter Bulkeley, the first minister of Concord. It was in this house that the treaty with the Indians was made in 1636 by which the track of land six miles square was ceded to the "English Undertakers" to establish Concord.
He was a Captain, Rep. of Concord, 18 years and held other most important trusts in the town affairs.
He was an early proprietor of Watertown.

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From Bond, Henry, M.D. Family Memorials. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston (1855): To Which Is Appended the Early History of the Town. With Illustrations, Maps and Notes. (Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, 1855), 721.

Capt. Timothy Wheeler of Concord m. (1st) Jane ---, by whom he had dr. Sarah, b. June 22, 1640. She d. Feb. 12, 1642-3; and he m. (2d) Mary Brooks, dr. of Capt. Thomas Brooks. Captain, Rep. of Concord 18 years, and held other most important trusts in the town affairs. He was an early proprietor of Watertown. Sept. 1, 1657, for £140, he bought the house and several lots of land belonging to the estate of Dr. Richard Palgrave of Charlestown. In 1660, he was joint purchaser with his father-in-law, of a farm of 400 acres in Medford. He gave the ministerial lot to the town. He d. July 10, 1687, aged 86. It is probable that he was not much younger than his father-in-law, Capt. Brooks

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From Jacobus, Donald Lines, Editor, and N. Grier Parke (Compiler and Publisher). The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth. (Woodstock, Vt.: N.G. Parke, 1960), 52.

Children of Thomas Wheeler of Cranfield and 2nd wife Rebecca ---:
Timothy, bp. Cranfield 28 Dec 1604, d. Concord 30 Jul 1687, m. (1) Cranfield 30 Apr 1632 Susan Knight, m. (2) by 1636 Jane ---, m. (3) Mary Brooks.
Ensign at Concord 1646, Lieutenant (1657, 1661), and later Captain. Will dated 1 Mar 1687, proved 7 Sep 1687.

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From "Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England and Their Origins" by John Brooks Threlfall publ Madison, WI, 1990 pp. 504-508

"TIMOTHY, bapt. 28 Dec. 1604; m 1 , at Cranfield 30 April 1632, Susan Knight, prob. Dau. Of John Knight & bapt. At Cranfield 21 Sept. 1606; she or a 2nd wife Jane d at Concord 12 Feb. 1642/3; he m last, Mary Brooks, dau. Of Thomas & Grace Brooks of Concord. He d. at Concord 30 July 1687 aged about 85 g.s., but actually aged 82; called Captain; ch.: Deborah bapt 12 April 1637, Sarah b. 22 June 1640, Mary b 3 Oct 1657 - d 6 Oct 1660, Elizabeth b 6 Oct 1661, Rebecca b about 1666

Links

• Wheeler, Albert Gallatin The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America (American College of Genealogy, Boston, Massachusetts, 1914) “Descendants of Timothy Wheeler, of Concord, Mass.” Page 139 link
• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Timothy_Wheeler_%281%29
• http://www.sallysfamilyplace.com/Wheeler/wheelert.htm
• http://trees.wmgs.org/getperson.php?personID=I41487&tree=Schirado
• http://www.tributaries.info/p225.htm#i2244
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22546816/timothy-wheeler (Birth date showing Dec 2018 is not correct)

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GEDCOM Note

Category:Cranfield, Bedfordshire Category: Concord, Massachusetts Category: Massachusetts, Wheeler Name Study

Biography

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• Timothy Wheeler Birth: ABT 1604 Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England*Christening: 28 DEC 1604 Cranfield, Co. Bedfordshire, England<ref>The parish register of Cranfield 1600-1812 Bedfordshire County Record Office 1943 link</ref>*"TIMOTHY, bapt. 28 Dec. 1604; m 1 , at Cranfield 30 April 1632, SusanKnight,<ref>The parish register of Cranfield 1600-1812 Bedfordshire County Record Office 1943 link</ref> prob. Dau. of John Knight & bapt. at Cranfield 21 Sept. 1606; she was buried at Cranfield on 24 Feb 1632/3. <ref>The parish register of Cranfield 1600-1812 link</ref> A 2nd wife Jane d at Concord 12 Feb. 1642/3; he m last, Mary Brooks, dau. Of Thomas & Grace Brooks of Concord. He d. at Concord 30 July 1687 aged about 85 g.s., but actually aged 82; called Captain; ch.: Deborah bapt 12 April 1637, Sarah b. 22 June 1640, Mary b 3 Oct 1657 -d 6 Oct 1660, Elizabeth b 6 Oct 1661, Rebecca b about 1666.<ref>"Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England and Their Origins" by John Brooks Threlfall publ Madison, WI, 1990 pp. 504-508</ref>

Buried Old Hill Burying Ground, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts<ref>Image of stone. Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed 19 February 2020), memorial page for Capt Timothy Wheeler (1601–30 Jul 1687), 22546816, citing Old Hill BuryingGround, Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained byV. Nareen Lake (contributor 46613568) . </ref> Will & Inventory : <ref> Case1592: p. 1-6: Suffolk County, MA:Probate File Papers.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017-2019. (From records supplied bythe Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB2735/i/48697/1592-co3/69452183 </ref>

Sources

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• Wheeler, Albert Gallatin, 1914. Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America. Publisher: American College of Genealogy, page 134-141 (#1900)* The best material on this family, including all of John Brooks Threlfall's material and an excellent biography of Timothy Wheeler, was compiled by Christopher Hapgood Brooks and is maintained as part of his Tributaries: Genealogies of the Brooks Families of New England.* Ancestry.com Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;* Tolman, George. Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850 (Beacon Press, Boston, Mass., 1895) Page 432.