John Wheeler

Bef 1591 - 1670  (> 76 years)

• Name	John Wheeler  [1, 2, 3]
  Alternate birth	Abt 1589	Salisbury, Wiltshire, England   [4]
  Birth	Bef 4 Nov 1591  [5]
  Baptism	4 Nov 1591	St. Edmund's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England   [5]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Between 28 Mar 1668 and 11 Oct 1670	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [4]
  Alternate death	29 Aug 1670	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [6]
  Person ID	I22617	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of GFS
  Last Modified	9 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Dominick Wheeler,   b. Abt 1565   d. 12 Jan 1616, St. Edmund's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England (Age ~ 51 years)
  Mother	Mercy Jelly   d. Aft Dec 1615
  Marriage	3 Jun 1588	St. Edmund's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England   [4, 5]
  Family ID	F13613	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Agnes Yeomans   d. 15 Aug 1662, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
  Marriage	1 Dec 1611	St. Edmund's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England   [4, 5]
  Children	+ 1. Henry Wheeler,   b. Bef 8 Feb 1635   d. Bef 1696 (Age < 60 years)
  Family ID	F13612	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2019

  
  

• Notes

  He was a shearman and a barber. He belonged to the notably Puritanical church of St. Edmund's, Salisbury, over which Peter Thatcher was minister for many years. He was long thought to have come over with his family on the Mary and John (passenger list dated 24 Mar 1634), which seemed reasonable given that most of the emigrants on that ship inititially settled, like John Wheeler, in Newbury. But Walter Goodwin Davis pointed out that his youngest son Henry is recorded as having been baptised at St. Edmund's, Salisbury, 8 Feb 1635. And as his father's executor in 1678, Henry gave his age as 43, again placing his birth in 1635. So it's far likelier that the John Wheeler on the Mary and John passenger list was someone else of the same name.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2875] Thompson Lineage, with Mention of Allied Families by William Baker Thompson. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Press of the Telegraph Printing Company, 1911. [S2879] Harriette M. Wheeler, "The Family of Benjamin and Celia (Buffington) Wheeler as Identified Through Their Heirs." The Detroit Society for Genealogical Research Magazine 30:9, Fall 1966; 30:57, Winter 1966. [S7376] The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1636-1638 by Ian Watson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2024. [S630] Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury by Mary Lovering Holman. Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1938. [S2204] Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966) by Walter Goodwin Davis. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996. [S2775] The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America ed. Albert Gallatin Wheeler, Jr. Boston: American College of Genealogy, 1914.