Isaac D. Wheeler

Notes:

Isaac Wheeler was a carpenter at Medfield, Massachusetts.

Will of Isaac Wheeler

In the name of God amen the first day of December in the year of our Lord one
thousand seven hundred twenty five. I Isaac Wheelar of Medfield in the County
of Suffolk in his Majesties province of the Massachusetts bay in New England;
Carpenter being come to a considerable age but of perfect mind and memory
thanks be unto God: and calling to mind the mortallity of my body and knowing
that it is appointed to men once to Dy: Do make and ordain this my last Will
and Testament: that is to Say and principally and first of all I give and
Recomend my Soul into the hands of God who gave it; and my body I do Recomend
to the Earth to be Decently buried: And as touching such worldly Estate
wherewith it hath pleased god to bless me in this life: I Give and dispose the
same in the following manner and forme: Imprimis: I give and bequeath to
Experience Whellar my Derly beloved wife one third part of all my housing and
lands in Medfield During the tearm of her naturall life: And one third part of
all my personall Estate to be at her dispose for ever provided that my Just
Debts & Expences be first paid: Item: I give and bequeath to Richard Wheelar
My Son all those lands and housing in the Township of Worcester which I have
already given him by deed and writing under my hand: So much of my lands So
Expressed in Such deed to be in full for his portion in my housing and lands.
Item I give and bequeath to Isaac Wheelar my son all my housing and lands
Lying in the Township of Medfield to him his heires and Assignes for Ever: he
to allow his Mothers thirds for her tearm, provided that he pay out five pounds
to Mary Boyden; and five pounds to Experience Clark his two Sisters to be paid
at his Mothers Decease

Item I Do give and bequeath to Abraham Wheelar my Son all my lands and Rights
of lands that Remain to me in the Township of Worcester aforesaid: which I
have not given to my Son Richard Wheelar my lands of all Sorts and Common
Rights in that Township to him his heires and Assignes for Ever: Also I do
will and bequeath that all my moveable Estat within dores and without doores
excepting my wifes thirds as all my stock and Cattle shall be equally divided
to and among all my Sons and Daughters that are abov named: provided that my
Son Isaac Sheeler shall have all my Carpenters tooles axes and Iron chains and
all my tackling for a teame: and also he Shall have one Cow and one horse and
two Oxen or two Steeres fit for a team -- or the worth of them out of my Stock
before Division: And if any of my Sons or daughters Shall happen to Dy before
they Receive any Legacy herein bequeathed then Such Legacy shall go to the
Children of Such Deceased Equally; And also I Do make and ordain the Said Isaac
Wheelar my Son to be the Sole Executor of this my las Will and Testament In
witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal the day and year above
written
Isaac Wheelar (Seal)

Signed Sealed and declared by the
said Isaac Wheelar as his last will
and Testament in the presence of us
Henry Adams Senr.
Thomas Adams
Eleazar Smith
Suffolk: ss. By the Nonble Josiah Willard Esqr
Judge of Probate &c
The forgoing Will being presented for Probate by the Executor therin named
Henry Adams Senr Thos. Adams & Eleizar Smith made Oath that they Saw Isaac
Wheelar the Subscriber to this Instrument Sign and & Seal and heard him Publish
& Declare the Same to be his last Will and Testament and when so did he was of
sound disposing mind & Memory According to these Deponents best discerning and
that they set to their hands as Witnesses thereof in presence of said Testator.

J. Willard
Boston Mar. 4th, 1730
A true copy, Attest,
John R. Nichols
Assistant Register.
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Reference:
"History of the Wheeler Family in America", 1914, Albert Gallatin Wheeler, Jr., p 499-500, 501.

Isaac married Experience Metcalf Abt 1690. Experience (daughter of John Metcalf and Mary Chickering) was born 16 Oct 1661, Of Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts; died 18 Feb 1730. [Group Sheet]

1. Mary Wheeler died 25 Apr 1765.
2. Experience Wheeler was born Bef 1698, Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts; died Aft 1779, Mendon, Massachusetts.
3. Richard Wheeler
4. Isaac Wheeler was born 14 May 1698, Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts; died 22 Sep 1769, Rutland, Worcester County, Massachusetts; was buried Old Burial Ground, Rutland, Worcester County, Massachusetts.
5. Abraham Wheeler was born 26 Nov 1700, Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts; died 20 Oct 1780, Worcester County, Massachusetts.

Notes:

Richard Wheeler lived in that part of Dedham, Massachusetts that was set off to
Medfield, removing later to Lancaster, Massachusetts, where he built a garrison
house at which he was massacred by the Indians, 9 February 1676.
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Reference:
"History of the Wheeler Family in America", 1914, Albert Gallatin Wheeler, Jr.,
p 498-500, 501.
"The Prescott Memorial", William Prescott, 1870, p 41.

Richard married Sarah Prescott 2 Jun 1658, Lancaster, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of John Prescott and Mary Gawkroger) was born 1637, Sowerby, Yorkshire, England; was christened 16 Apr 1637, Sowerby, Yorkshire, England; died 25 Aug 1714, Stowe, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; was buried Aug 1714. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"History of the Wheeler Family in America", 1914, Albert Gallatin Wheeler, Jr.,
p 499-500, 501.
"The Prescott Memorial", William Prescott, 1870, p 41.

Richard — Elizabeth. Elizabeth was born 1586/1587. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

John Prescott was a blacksmith from Sowerby, in the parish of Halifax, west-riding, Yorkshire, England.

John came from England to Watertown, Massachusetts about 1640 with his wife and four children. In 1645 or 1646 they removed to the foundation of a new settlement at Lancaster, Massachusetts. John Prescott took the oath of allegiance in 1652, but was not admitted freeman before 1669, was with his family removed shortly after the doleful day of 10 February 1676 and the town was wholly abandoned for several years so that no white man lived between the towns on the Connecticutt river and those on the Concord. In 1682 the number of familes was not more than one-third as large as seven years before. But of these, Prescott's was one.

NOTE: Recent data indicates that John is not son of Ralph.
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Reference:
"History of the Wheeler Family in America", 1914, Albert Gallatin Wheeler, Jr., p 498.
"Genealogical Guide to the Early Settlers of America", 1967, p 437.
"Ancestrial Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England between 1623 and 1650", 1969, Frederick Lewis Weis, p 34.
Chuck Krause, RootsL.

John married Mary Gawkroger 24 Jan 1629, Wigan, Lancaster, England. Mary (daughter of James (Gawkroger) Plat and Martha Ainsworth) was born 15 May 1607, Sowerby, Halifax, England; was christened 15 Mar 1607, Halifax, Sowerby, Yorkshire, England; died 1674, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts; was buried Abt 1674, Old Settlers Burial Field, Worcester County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Also Known As: Platt

Notes:

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Reference:
"History of the Wheeler Family in America", 1914, Albert Gallatin Wheeler, Jr., p 498.
"Ancestrial Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England between 1623 and 1650", 1969, Frederick Lewis Weis, p 34.
Chuck Krause, RootsL.

James married Martha Ainsworth 5 Sep 1601, Halifax, Sowerby, Yorkshire, England. Martha was born Abt 1579, Of Sowerby, Halifax, Yorks, England; was christened 16 Jan 1578, Bingley, Yorks, England; died Dec 1632, Halifax, Sowerby, Yorks, England; was buried 10 Dec 1632, Halifax, Sowerby, Yorks, England. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

The Ainsworth name undoubtedly takes its name from the chapelry Ainsworth commonly called Cockey Moor, which is situated in the Parish of Middleton, Salford Mundred, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, England.

So long ago as 1369, A. D. John Ainsworth was of that ilk and owned lands there.
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Reference:
"Genealogy of the Ainsworth Families in America", Francis J. Parker, 1894, p 1.