Richard Wheeler

1611 - 1676  (65 years)

• Name	Richard Wheeler
  Born	1611	Canfield, Bedford, England
  Gender	Male
  Buried	Feb 1676	Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
  Died	9 Feb 1676	Lancaster, Norfolk, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I12004	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	21 May 2012

  
  

  Father	Richard Wheeler,   b. 1584/1585
  Mother	Elizabeth,   b. 1586/1587
  Family ID	F4467	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth (Mary) Turner,   b. Abt 1616, , England ,   d. 25 Dec 1656, Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 40 years)
  Married	4 Mar 1644	Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
  Children	1. Sarah Wheeler,   b. 4 Dec 1645, Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts ,   d. 25 Dec 1656  (Age 11 years) + 2. Mary Wheeler,   b. 5 Aug 1646, Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts   3. John Wheeler,   b. 18 Aug 1648, Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts ,   d. 17 Dec 1661  (Age 13 years)   4. Samuel Wheeler,   b. 4 Nov 1650, Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts ,   d. 25 Dec 1656  (Age 6 years)   5. Hanah Wheeler,   b. 30 Aug 1653, Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts   6. Joseph Wheeler,   b. 5 Feb 1655, Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts ,   d. 22 Aug 1676  (Age 21 years)
  Family ID	F4458	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 2	Sarah Prescott,   b. 1637, Sowerby, Yorkshire, England ,   d. 25 Aug 1714, Stowe, Middlesex County, Massachusetts  (Age 77 years)
  Married	2 Jun 1658	Lancaster, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
  Children	+ 1. Abraham Wheeler,   b. 7 Dec 1659, Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts ,   d. Oct 1695, Lancaster, Middlesex County, Massachusetts  (Age 35 years) + 2. Isaac D. Wheeler,   b. 4 May 1661, Dedham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts ,   d. 8 Feb 1730/1731, Medfield, Suffolk, Massachusetts  (Age 69 years)   3. Jacob Wheeler,   b. 25 Nov 1663, Lancaster, Middlesex County, Massachusetts ,   d. 1663   4. Zebediah Wheeler,   b. 2 Jan 1664, Lancaster, Middlesex County, Massachusetts   5. Sarah Wheeler,   b. 1 Feb 1666, Lancaster, Middlesex County, Massachusetts   6. Elizabeth Wheeler,   b. 24 May 1669, Lancaster, Middlesex County, Massachusetts   7. Samuel Wheeler,   b. 29 Apr 1671, Lancaster, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F4371	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Married - 4 Mar 1644 - Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Buried - Feb 1676 - Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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• 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. ---------- 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.