Frances Wheeler

5 (7) 1659 [5 Sep 1659] Thomas Green third married Frances Watson, daughter of John Watson (ca 1566-) & Mary Badwyn, in Malden, MA.216 Born ca 1600 in Cardington, Bedfordshire. Frances was baptized in Cardington, Bedfordshire, on 28 Nov 1600.

Frances first married Isaac Wheeler of Charlestown, second Richard Cook of Malden, third Thomas Green of Malden as his second wife, and fourth Joseph Wheeler of Concord as his third wife. Frances’s first and fourth husbands were first cousins. Her third husband was her daughter's father-in-law.

Family

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Watson-21981

Isaac Wheeler and Frances were the parents of four children, born Massachusetts Bay,[13]

1. Elizabeth Wheeler, born 8 July 1641.
2. Sarah Wheeler, born 13 March 1643; married Deacon John Green, son of the Thomas Green whom Frances married as her 3rd husband making Sarah both the daughter and daughter-in-law of Frances Watson
3. Isaac Wheeler, born about 1646 (died in 1712 about age 66).
4. Thomas Wheeler, born about 1647 (no date given by Savage, the 1647 estimate is from his WikiTree profile).

Children of Richard Cook and Frances,

1. Mary Cook, born May 1649.

Notes

• Isaac and Frances Wheeler arrived on the ship Jonathan in 1639. It is not known when this ship departed or arrived, but it is believed to be from the county of Hampshire and that she sailed from Southampton. Isaac is listed as bound for Charlestown. His widow, Frances, married second Richard Cook, and third, Thomas Green. (1)
• Landowner of Charlestown and Malden, Mass. "Frances (Wheeler) Cook (Green), as widow of Isaac Wheeler, made deed 1655. As wife of Richard Cook, with Thomas Moulton,(3) sold to J. Greenland ten acres description, etc. Bought of Thomas Moulton three acres 1655. To Job Lane ten acres, etc., 1657. Richard Cook died 1658 and willed his property to wife, Frances, and her children, Isaac, Thomas, Elizabeth and Sarah Wheeler, and his daughter, Mary Cook." (4)
• "The first wife of Thomas Green,, Elizabeth, whom he married in England, was mother of all his children. She died August 22, 1658, and he married (second) September 5, 1659, Frances Cook, who was born in 1608. She married (first) Isaac Wheeler, and (second) Richard Cook, who died October 14, 1648. She had children by the first two husbands, but none by Thomas. Thomas Green died December 19, 1667. His will, dated November 12, 1667, was proved January 15, 1668, bequesthing to five sons, five daughters and his wife." (5)
• A Genealogical Sketch of the Descendants of Thomas Greene of Malden, Massachusetts: Dea. JOHN GREEN,2 son of Thomas Green,1 b. (prob. in England) 1632; m. in Malden, Dec. 18, 1660; SARAH WHEELER, b. June, 1643, dau. of Isaac Wheeler, whose wife Frances afterwards m. Richard Cook, and after that m. John Green's father, Thomas Green, sen., Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith. Author: no author Call Number: CS71.S643, This book contains the history and genealogy of the Mellcene Thurman Smith family of Massachusetts. Bibliographic Information: Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith. Privately Published.
• Services: Landowner of Charlestown and Malden, Mass. "Frances (Wheeler) Cook (Green), as widow of Isaac Wheeler, made deed 1655. As wife of Richard Cook, with Thomas Moulton, sold to J. Greenland ten acres description, etc. Bought of Thomas Moulton three acres 1655. To Job Lane ten acres, etc., 1657. Richard Cook died1658 and willed his property to wife, Frances, and her children, Isaac, Thomas, Elizabeth and Sarah Wheeler, and his daughter, Mary Cook. Thomas Green, Frances' third husband, died 1667 and willed his wife and children."

References

1. According to "The History of the Wheeler Family In America, Descendants of Isaac Wheeler of Charlestown, Massachusetts, pg. 513": Isaac Wheeler is stated to have been the brother of Lieut. Joseph Wheeler and Capt. Timothy Wheeler. He was a resident of Charlestown, Massachusetts as early as 1639, and was admitted to the 1st church there, Sept. 30, 1642."
2. "No trace has been found of the passenger list for that 1639 passage of the "Jonathan" to Boston. We know of some of the passengers only due to a lawsuit that later took place in Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years following the passage. During that lawsuit some people, including many passengers of the "Jonathan", gave written statements or testified and these remained as part of the court records. It is assumed by many that all those who gave statements in the case were passengers aboard the Jonathan, but that is not the fact." Marble Ancestors database
3. The Great Migration Begins: Thomas Moulton, Preserved Puritan
4. D. A. C.--John Woodward, John Poole and Thomas Green.
5. Early Conn. Marriages, Book 1, p. 77.
6. Wyman's Charlestown, Vol. 1, pp. 235-440; Vol. 2, p. 1012.
7. Pope's Pioneers of Mass., p. 116.
8. Cutter's Geneal., Middlesex Co., Vol. 3, p. 1208.
9. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/t/h/o/Cheri-Thompson-Cal...
10. http://trees.wmgs.org/getperson.php?personID=I25760&tree=Schirado
11. http://www.pcez.com/~bigshoe/du/Stev/pierce.html says LNAB was Watson
12. The ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908. Page 292-293. < Archive.Org >