MOSES WHEELER

• Birth Notes
  • Born: 1598
    Stratford Le Bow,,Middlesex,England 
    

• Death Notes
  • Died: 1689-01-15
    Stratford,Fairfield,Connecticut,USA 
    ALT Stratford, FairfieldCo, CT gravestone says aged "100" years.
    
    Info:Gerald Weaver/Boyne City, MI & Claude W. Barlow.
    

• General Notes
  • MOSES WHEELER probably came with the ship's company from London to New Haven in 1638. He was down on the Planters' List in 1641, being "Number 122, 2 in family, 50 pounds estate 7/ acres in 1st Division, 1% in the neck, 372 in the meadow. 14 acres in second division in New Haven." [Atwater's History of City of New Haven, p. 10].
    The Wheelers were residents in county of Kent, England, many generations before Moses was born there in 1598, but the Kent Wheelers emigrated from Hertfordshire or that vicinity.
    Moses Wheeler was among the first who received an allotment of land in New Haven, 1643. He removed to Stratford before 1648, and owned the ferry across the Housatonic, granted by General Court, also was a farmer and ship carpenter.
    Was an extensive land holder and one of the leading influential men of Stratford township. Moses Wheeler married Miriam Hawley, sister of Joseph Hawley, in New Haven; and his sister Jane Wheeler married Rev. Adam Blakeman.
    Moses Wheeler, Sr., died at Stratford, March 1, 1698, aged 100 years.
    His property he gave mostly to his children in 1680, ten years before his death.
    Moses, Jr., Samuel and Jacob Walker (his son-in-law) received the tract of land bought by Moses Wheeler of the Indians in Stratford, near Derby, forty years before.
    Samuel received by will the homestead and all pertaining to it. Moses, Jr., had previously received a dwelling and lands from his father. Moses Wheeler's will, dated February 16, 1689-90, after disposing of his real estate and most of his property to Samuel, says:
    
    I give to my daughter Mirriam two pewter dishes to my son Moses, his wife, ye great pewter platter to my daughter Mary a bres kettle houlding ten or twelve gallons, the Abridgment of the marters bootie and Mr. Brooks his devices of Satan : to Elizabeth, ye wife of my son Samuel, ye greate kittle : to Mr. Israel Chauncey twenty shillings in silver. [Orcutt History of Stratford].
    
    
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    Moses Wheeler CHILDREN WITH MARIAM HAWLEY
    Children
    Sarah Wheeler  F     
    Elizabeth Wheeler  F 1 Aug 1642 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA   
    Sarah Preston  F 1647 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   
    Miriam Wheeler  F 28 Mar 1647 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA   
    Mariam Wheeler  F 28 Mar 1647 in Stanford, [parish], [county], England   
    Samuel Wheeler  M 28 Apr 1649 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   
    Moses Wheeler  F 5 Jul 1651   
    Moses Wheeler  M 5 Jul 1651 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   
    Mary Wheeler  F 13 Sep 1655 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   
    Joanna Wheeler  F 5 Mar 1658 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   
    Susanna Wheeler  F 1 Mar 1659 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   
    Jane Wheeler  F 1660 in Stratford, Lebow, [county], England   
    Ephraim Oliver Wheeler  M abt 1720 in Greenwich, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA   
    

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