Wheeler

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• AFN: 8W9K-P1

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• AFN: 8W8D-KJ

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Killed by the Indians at Lancaster, Massachusetts. His inventory was dated, 6
November 1695. The History of Lancaster says: "On a Lord's day morning Mr.
Abraham Wheeler, going from the garrison to his own house, on some occasion,
was then shot by an enemy that had lain in ambush for him. Though mortally
wounded Wheeler wrested the gun from the Indian, and carried it toward the
garrison till he was met by his friends." His home is supposed to have been on
the South West slope of Watoquadock, now in Bolton.
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Reference:
"History of the Wheeler Family in America", 1914, Albert Gallatin Wheeler, Jr.,
p 498.

Abraham married Tabitha Stone 1681, Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. Tabitha was born 1660/1661. [Group Sheet]

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• AFN: 8W8D-LP

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Reference:
"History of the Wheeler Family in America", 1914, Albert Gallatin Wheeler, Jr.,
p 498.

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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]

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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]

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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]

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• Also Known As: Platt

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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.