Mary Brinsmead is the daughter of John Brinsmead (1681-1753) and Abigail Wheeler (1680-1764, born in Milford, Connecticut). John Brinsmead is the son of Paul Brinsmead (d. 1696) and Elizabeth Hawkins (b. 1659, probably in Farmington, Connecticut). Paul Brinsmead is the son of John Brinsmead (b. 1617 in England, d. 1673) and Mary Carter.
(Source: Leslie Lienert, descendent of Mary Brinsmead and Eleazar Wheelock.)
Her tombstone inscription reads:
"Consecrated to the memory of MARY of the family of Brinsmaid in Milford, Connecticut and consort of Eleazer Wheelock S.T.D., President of Dartmouth College. She lived in the fear of God, and in the lively exercise of the Christian virtue till her departure in 1783, Anno aetatis 69. In testimony of the filial reverence this monument was erected and incribed by John Wheelock".
(Source: Marcus Warren Waite, "Eleazer Wheelock and Some of His Descendants", Dartmouth College Archives, no date.)
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_Aaron HAMMOND ______|
| (1785 - 1840) m 1806|
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|--Laura HAMMOND
| (1822 - 1877)
| _Abner WHEELOCK ______+
| | (1747 - 1831) m 1780
|_Esther WHEELOCK ____|
(1788 - 1876) m 1806|
|_Elizabeth BLANCHARD _
(1754 - 1831) m 1780
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_Henry MARTIN ________|
| (1834 - 1896) m 1865 |
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|--Minnie MARTIN
| (1867 - ....)
| _Joseph WHEELOCK ______+
| | (1798 - 1879) m 1818
|_Anna Eliza WHEELOCK _|
(1837 - 1928) m 1865 |
|_Anna Fuller CHAPPELL _+
(1799 - 1893) m 1818
_Paul WHEELOCK ______+
| (1727 - 1824)
_Paul WHEELOCK ______|
| (1750 - ....) m 1781|
| |_Thankful RAND ______
| (1727 - ....)
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|--Gardner WHEELOCK
| (1792 - 1837)
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|_Martha SIBLEY ______|
(1763 - ....) m 1781|
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Gardner was in the local militia (Grafton North Company), with his brother Leonard, under the command of John Wadsworth. (Source: "History of Grafton", by Pierce)
_Joseph WHEELOCK ____+
| (1740 - 1820) m 1795
_Joseph WHEELOCK ____|
| (1798 - 1880) m 1824|
| |_Sybil TARBELL ______
| (1771 - 1857) m 1795
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|--Jesse E. W. WHEELOCK
| (1838 - 1879)
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|_Mercy WHITMAN ______|
(.... - 1869) m 1824|
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Lived in St. Paul, Minn (Src: "Chute Genealogy")
_Joseph WHEELOCK ____+
| (1765 - 1820) m 1786
_Nahum WHEELOCK _____|
| (1788 - 1866) m 1824|
| |_Sally SLATER _______
| m 1786
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|--Mary E. WHEELOCK
| (1830 - 1918)
| _James SLYE _________
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|_Martha SLYE ________|
(1792 - 1849) m 1824|
|_Meribah BROWN ______