Family of Shepard Wheeler

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1.  SHEPARD6 WHEELER  (THOMAS5, ISAAC4, ISAAC3, THOMAS2, THOMAS1) was born Feb 12, 1726/27 in Stonington, New London Co., CT1, and died Mar 17, 1781 in Stonington, New London Co., CT.  He married HANNAH HEWITT Oct 18, 1751 in Stonington, New London Co., CT2, daughter of JOSEPH HEWITT and MARY CHESEBROUGH.  She was born Dec 22, 1728 in Stonington, New London Co., CT.

 

More About SHEPARD WHEELER:

Baptism: October 11, 1729, Stonington, by Rev. Ebenezer Rosseter3

 

Notes for HANNAH HEWITT:

In the 1790 census for Stonington, CT., a "Hannah Wheeler" is listed on the same page as Joshua Brown (the father of Eunice, one of Hannah (Hewitt) Wheeler's grandson's (Phineas) wife. Hannah is shown as the head of household living with two other women.

 

More About HANNAH HEWITT:

Census: 1790, New London Co., CT

 

More About SHEPARD WHEELER and HANNAH HEWITT:

Marriage: October 18, 1751, Stonington, New London Co., CT4

     

Children of SHEPARD WHEELER and HANNAH HEWITT are:

              i.   MARY WHEELER, b. Oct 7, 1754, Stonington, New London Co., CT5; d. Bef. 1811; m. PAUL WHEELER6, Apr 6, 1776, Stonington, New London Co., CT; b. Dec 26, 1755, Stonington, New London Co., CT.

 

More About PAUL WHEELER:

Census 1: 1790, New London Co., CT (i22.sid)7

Census 2: 1810, New London Co., CT (277.sid)

 

More About PAUL WHEELER and MARY WHEELER:

Marriage: April 06, 1776, Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut

 

              ii.   LIEUT. SHEPPARD WHEELER, b. Dec 5, 1756, Stonington, New London Co., CT8; d. Dec 9, 1798, Stonington, New London Co., CT9; m. LUCY WHEELER, Feb 13, 1780, Stonington, New London Co., CT10; b. Sep 27, 1757, Stonington, New London Co., CT.

 

             iii.   PHINEAS WHEELER, b. 1762, Stonington, New London Co., CT; d. Jan 10, 1764, Stonington, New London Co., CT.

             iv.   DESIRE WHEELER, b. 1768, Stonington, New London Co., CoT

 

 

 

Endnotes

 

1.  Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Barbour Collection - Stonington Vital Records prior to 1850, Vol 2, page 10.

2.  Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Barbour Collection - Stonington Vital Records prior to 1850, Vol 3, page 186, shows "... married Mrs Hannah Hewit[t] October 18, 1751 by Rev. Joseph Fish."

3.  Richard Wheeler, History of the First Congregational Church, Stonington, CT,  (Norwich, 1875).

4.  Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Barbour Collection - Stonington Vital Records prior to 1850, Vol 3, page 186, shows "... married Mrs Hannah Hewit[t] October 18, 1751 by Rev. Joseph Fish."

5.  Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Barbour Collection - Stonington Vital Records prior to 1850, Vol 3, page 186.

6.  Grace Denison Wheeler, The homes of our ancestors in Stonington, Conn,  (Salem, Mass, Newcomb & Gauss, printers - 1903).

7.  Census, 1790, CT, New London, Pg22.

8.  Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Barbour Collection - Stonington Vital Records prior to 1850, Vol 3, page 186.

9.  Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Barbour Collection - Stonington Vital Records prior to 1850, Vol 4, page 59.

10.  Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Barbour Collection - Stonington Vital Records prior to 1850, Vol 4 page 59.

11.  Census, 1790, CT, New London, Pg22.

12.  Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Barbour Collection - Stonington Vital Records prior to 1850, Vol 4 page 59.