Deacon Ralph Wheelock

1683 - 1748  (65 years)

• Name	Deacon Ralph Wheelock  [1]
  Alternate birth	Abt 1682	of Windham, Windham, Connecticut   [2]
  Alternate birth	12 Feb 1682	Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts   [3]
  Born	12 Feb 1683	Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts   [4]
  Gender	Male
  Died	15 Oct 1748	Windham, Windham, Connecticut   [4, 5, 6]
  Person ID	I19376	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB
  Last Modified	2 May 2020

  
  

  Father	Capt. Eleazer Wheelock,   b. 3 May 1654, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts ,   d. 24 Mar 1731, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts  (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Fuller,   b. Abt 1652, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts ,   d. 11 Jan 1689, Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 37 years)
  Married	17 Apr 1678	Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts   [4, 7, 8]
  Family ID	F11744	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ruth Huntington,   b. 28 Nov 1682, Norwich, New London, Connecticut ,   d. 1 Sep 1725, Windham, Windham, Connecticut  (Age 42 years)
  Married	8 Jan 1708	Norwich, New London, Connecticut   [5, 6, 9]
  Children	+ 1. Abigail Wheelock,   b. 3 Mar 1717, Windham, Windham, Connecticut ,   d. 8 Jan 1803, Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut  (Age 85 years)
  Last Modified	2 May 2020
  Family ID	F11678	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Deacon of Windham church in 1729. Ralph and Ruth Wheelock's son Eleazar Wheelock (1711-1779) was the founder of Dartmouth College.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2525] History and Genealogy of the Pomeroy Family...Comprising the Ancestors and Descendants of Eltweed Pomeroy by Albert A. Pomeroy. 1912. [S2531] William L. Weaver, "Standish, Wheelock, Kirtland" in "Notes and Queries." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 14:376, Oct 1860. [S3019] Vital Records of Mendon, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 by Thomas W. Baldwin. Boston, 1920. [S4089] Richard Bowen (1594?-1675), of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and His Descendants, volume 1, by William B. Saxbe, Jr. Hope, Rhode Island: Rhode Island Genealogical Society, 2011. [S1133] The Huntington Family in America: A Genealogical Memoir of the Known Descendants of Simon Huntington. Hartford, Connecticut: Huntington Family Association, 1915. [S2531] William L. Weaver, "Standish, Wheelock, Kirtland" in "Notes and Queries." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 14:376, Oct 1860., date only. [S2929] Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903., "in Rehoboth". [S4085] Genealogy of the Fuller Families Descending from Robert Fuller of Salem and Rehoboth, Mass. by Newton Fuller. New London, Connecticut, 1898. [S4089] Richard Bowen (1594?-1675), of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and His Descendants, volume 1, by William B. Saxbe, Jr. Hope, Rhode Island: Rhode Island Genealogical Society, 2011., says "8 Jan. 1708/9".