Jethro WHEELER^[1]

1665 - 1725  (59 years)

• Name	Jethro WHEELER
  Born	28 Mar 1665	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1691	Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts
  Died	1725	Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts   [3]
  Buried	unknown
  Person ID	I34462	Main
  Last Modified	27 Nov 2023

  
  

  Father	David WHEELER,   b. 1625, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England ,   d. Abt 1699, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Sarah WYETH,   b. Abt 1625, Woolveerstone, Babergh, Suffolk, England ,   d. 13 Jan 1707, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 82 years)
  Married	11 May 1650	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F11805	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannah FRENCH,   b. 28 Oct 1666, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 1719, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 52 years)
  Married	2 Jul 1690	Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts   [4]
  Children	1. Hannah WHEELER,   b. 22 Jul 1691, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. Bef 1697  (Age < 5 years)   2. Jethro WHEELER,   b. 19 Aug 1692, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 6 Sep 1755, Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire  (Age 63 years)   3. Hannah WHEELER,   b. 9 Jun 1697, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 1699, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 1 years)   4. Benjamin WHEELER,   b. 23 May 1695, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 1 Jan 1779, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 83 years) + 5. Abijah WHEELER,   b. 21 Jun 1702, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 1 Mar 1782, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 79 years) + 6. Moses WHEELER,   b. 12 Mar 1699, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 7 Jan 1789, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 89 years)   7. Samuel WHEELER,   b. 1 Aug 1700, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. ?   8. John WHEELER,   b. 12 Sep 1710, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 13 May 1777, Boothbay, Lincoln, Maine  (Age 66 years)
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2023
  Family ID	F11774	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 28 Mar 1665 - Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Married - 2 Jul 1690 - Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts Residence - 1691 - Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts Died - 1725 - Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth
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• Photos

  Jethro Wheeler Signature

  
  

• Notes

  1712 - bought 100 acres of land near Pigeon Cove. —— This last Will & Testament of Jethro Wheeler of the town of Rowley in the County of Essex in the province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. *** is as followeth I bring at present of Reasonable understanding to think it needful to make a settlement of that estate which God hath given me & in the first place I order my executrix hereafter named to give me a decent burial as also to pay all my Just Debts out of my Estate & when that is done I will that my wife Hannah Wheeler shall have one third part of the rest of my Estate. Also I will that my son John Wheeler (serve) his Mother Hannah Wheeler until he come to age of twenty-one years & what he earneth on Sea or Land I do give unto my Said wife. I do give unto my three Daughter namely - Mary, Sarah, & Elizabeth twenty pounds apiece in good passable bills of (credet?) to be paid upon marriage or at the age of twenty years by my Executrix hereafter named. Memorandum my Daughter Hannah Marshall hath had her portion already & further I will that all the rest of my Estate not before given in this present I will shall be Equally divided amongst my four sons, namely Jethro, Benjamain, Abigah & John & my sons namely Jethro, Benjamain, & Abigah to have their parts within three years after my Decease and my son John at the age of Twenty-one years & also I make my (well beloved?) wife Hannah Wheeler my Sole Executrix to this my last will & testament. Dated the fourteenth Day of November Anno Dom Seventeen Hundred & Twenty four. Signed Sealed & Declared to be the last will & Testament of the above named Jethro Wheeler In presence of John Todd, John Bridges, John Hobson [5]

  
  

• Sources

  [S15] WHEELER Family in America, The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the , Wheeler, Albert Gallatin, Jr, (Boston, MA 1914), 400. [S108] Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ9Q-RPN. [S108] Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-3NBX. [S108] Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook. [S1] New England Historical and Genealogical Register, The, (NEHGS, Boston, MA).