Samuel Wheat

Samuel Wheat, yeoman, admitted a freeman March 12, 1689-90, remained single until after his father's death, by whose will he receive the homestead and an interest in other lands. At the age of sixty-three he married, April 7, 1703, Abigail Ballard (Abigail Baker in Concord records) and three years later made a will bequething his entire estate to his young wife. He had sold nothing that came to him by his father's will, but had bought much that fell to the other heir from parties to who they had conveyed it. His will was proved May 24, 1714.

Widow Abigail Wheat received a year later by will of John Wheat his entire "property of every sort." After settling most of her land she married, Sept. 10, 1716, Boaz Brown, a w3idower, seventy-five years of age.

Boaz Brown, husband to Abigqail, died April 7, 1724.

Wheat genealogy; a history of the Wheat family in America: with a ..., Volume 1

By Helen Douglas Love Scranton