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]
  Birth	12 Feb 1683	Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts   [4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	15 Oct 1748	Windham, Windham, Connecticut   [4, 5, 6]
  Person ID	I19376	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  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)
  Marriage	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)
  Marriage	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)
  Family ID	F11678	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 May 2020

  
  

• 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".