James F. LAFRENIERE

• BIRTH: 20 AUG 1963, Montpelier, VT
  Records of Arlene (Jeronime) Fitzgerald, granddaughter of Omar Wheelock and Hattie Collier, Mar 2000.

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Rev. Benjamin POMEROY

• OCCUPATION: Minister
  
• BIRTH: 19 NOV 1704, Suffield, Hartford, CT
  Records of Sandra Ball, descendent of Benjamin Pomeroy, May 1998. From: "History and Genealogy of the Pomeroy Family", by Albert A. Pomeroy, 1912
• DEATH: 21 DEC 1784, Hebron, Tolland, CT
  Records of Sandra Ball, descendent of Benjamin Pomeroy, May 1998. From: "History and Genealogy of the Pomeroy Family", by Albert A. Pomeroy, 1912
• BURIAL: 21 DEC 1784, Hebron, Tolland, CT
  Records of Sandra Ball, descendent of Benjamin Pomeroy, May 1998. From: "History and Genealogy of the Pomeroy Family", by Albert A. Pomeroy, 1912

1.  Benjamin POMEROY
2.  Ralph POMEROY
3.  Eleazar Wheelock POMEROY
4.  Josiah POMEROY
5.  Abigail POMEROY
6.  Josiah POMEROY
7.  Hannah POMEROY
8.  Hezekiah POMEROY
9.  John POMEROY
10.  Elihu POMEROY
11.  Augustus Wheelock POMEROY

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Benjamin Pomeroy was a contemporary of the Rev. Eliazer Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth. He obtained a A.B. from Yale in 1733; a D.D. from Dartmouth, 1774. Rev. Pomeroy was a minister in Hebron, Conn. from 1734 to 1784; a chaplain in the army during the French and Indian wars; and a chaplain in the 3rd regiment Connecticut Line, from Jan. 1777 to July 1778. His tombstone in Hebron bears the following inscription:

"Along the gentle slope of life's decline, He bent his gradual way; Till full of years, he drops Life's mellow fruit into the grave."

"Here lies the body of Rev. Benj. Pomeroy, D.D. minister of the First Church of Hebron, and a trustee of Dartmouth College. Native of Suffield. Ob. Dec. 21st. 1784; aged 81. For 50 years a zealous preacher of the gospel, and eminently successful [...]. A Patron of learning, a firm and active Pastor and a friend to the distressed."

(Source: "History and Genealogy of the Pomeroy Family", by Albert A. Pomeroy, 1912)

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Mary WHEELOCK

• BIRTH: 31 DEC 1738, Mendon, Worcester, MA
  Mendon Vital Records
• DEATH: 3 MAR 1814, Milford, Worcester, MA
  Milford Vital Records

• MARRIAGE: 9 MAY 1758, Mendon, Worcester Co., MA
  Mendon Vital Records

1.  Artemas CHENEY
2.  Mary CHENEY
3.  Relief CHENEY
4.  Calvin CHENEY
5.  Elizabeth CHENEY
6.  Caleb CHENEY
7.  Olive CHENEY
8.  Rachel CHENEY
9.  Obadiah CHENEY
10.  Charles CHENEY
11.  Hannah CHENEY
12.  Sarah CHENEY

                       _Obadiah WHEELOCK ___+
                      | (1685 - 1760) m 1708
 _Samuel WHEELOCK ____|
| (1714 - 1792) m 1737|
|                     |_Elisabeth DARLING __+
|                       (1685 - ....) m 1708
|
|--Mary WHEELOCK 
|  (1738 - 1814)
|                      _____________________
|                     |                     
|_Hannah AMMIDON _____|
  (1717 - ....) m 1737|
                      |_____________________
                                            

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