___________________________
|
_Albert Earl CARMIEN _|
| (1885 - 1956) m 1907 |
| |___________________________
|
|
|--Beatrice Ivadel CARMIEN
| (1914 - ....)
| _Ebenezer Thomas WHEELOCK _+
| | (1856 - 1891)
|_Emma Ethel WHEELOCK _|
(1890 - 1967) m 1907 |
|_Matilda Marie DURYEA _____+
(1854 - 1939)
According to Ward, "History of the Town of Shrewsbury", Hannah was from Worcester, MA
Luther was the son of Deacon Joshua Fairbanks and Eunice White, grandson of Jabez Fairbanks and Mary Wilder.
(Source: Records of George E. Sawyer, World GenConnect Lookup, Jun 2000)
Luther Fairbanks resided in Lancaster, Northfield, and Swanzey, NH until about 1782 when he moved to Barnard, Vermont. He later resided in Pittsfield, VT.
He was a farmer and a blacksmith by trade. While residing in Northfield, MA, he responded to the Lexington alarm, and participated as a seargant in the siege of Boston that ensued.
He died in Barnard, at the house of his son Calvin, Dec 8, 1836, of typhoid fever, age 81 years. Luther's son, Calvin also took the disease, and died the same day.
In September 1775, he had permission to volunteer as sergeant under Capt. Jonas Hubbard, to join the expedition under Col. Benedict Arnold against Quebec, which sailed for Kennebec river to march through the untrodden wilderness of Maine during the inclement weather of the months of November and December. He participated, Dec. 31, 1775, in the unsuccessful assault on Quebec, under Gen. Montgomery, and while in the act of scaling the fortification, he was taken prisoner, confined in jail until September 1776, when he was transported by water to New York City, where he was paroled and soon exchanged.
He was in the severe battles at Stillwater, September 19 and October 7, 1777, which preceded the surrender, Oct. 19, 1777, of the army under Gen. Burgoyne, after which he accompanied that portion of the army that was ordered to Chesnut Hill, probably near Philadelphia, but on his regiment arriving at Albany, N. Y., he was detached to be appointed Wagon Conductor General in the Quartermaster's Department, to the Brigade commanded by Gen. Patterson of Massachusetts, in which duty he continued, after passing the winter of 1777-8 in the historic camp at Valley Forge, until July 1778, when he was discharged by order of Gen. Nathaniel Greene, Quarter Master General. He applied for a pension in Apr. 1818, and was ranked as Captain, according to the amount of pension claimed and allowed.
The above information is from the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C., Jan. 10, 1894. His report also embodies the additional facts found stated in the War Rolls, in the Appendix.
(Source: "Genealogy of the Fairbanks Family in America, 1633-1897", by Lorenzo S. Fairbanks, 1897; by way of Sandra Trapp, Mar 2001.)
James was the son of George Alfred Hodder and Mary Bethia Montgomery.
(Source: Richard Mullen, great grandson of James Brent Hodder and Edith A. Wheelock, grandson of James Merrill Hodder, Sr, June 2000)
_____________________
|
_Benjamin HOUGHTON __|
| m 1720 |
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Parnee HOUGHTON
| (1730 - ....)
| _Joseph WHEELOCK ____+
| | (1672 - 1752)
|_Ruth WHEELOCK ______|
(1701 - 1762) m 1720|
|_Elizabeth _____ ____
(1673 - 1751)
_Benjamin WHEELOCK __+
| (1704 - ....) m 1726
_Jonathan WHEELOCK __|
| (.... - 1774) m 1756|
| |_Deborah TAFT _______
| (1702 - ....) m 1726
|
|--Alpheus WHEELOCK
| (1763 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
|_Ruth DANIELS _______|
(1738 - ....) m 1756|
|_____________________
This was probably the Alpheus that fought in the Revolutionary War. He enlisted in 1780, serving in Colonel John Rand's Regiment.
_William North WHEELOCK _+
| (1863 - 1921)
_Frank Norman WHEELOCK _|
| (1889 - 1969) m 1912 |
| |_Isabel BROWN ___________
|
|
|--Dorothy May WHEELOCK
| (1926 - 1981)
| _________________________
| |
|_Gertrude WILSON _______|
m 1912 |
|_________________________
The children of Dorothy Wheelock and Lawrence Ferry (Lawrence, Gary, Gail Marie) given by Leslie (Ferry) Helger, daughter of Joseph Lawrence Ferry, Jr.
_Benjamin WHEELOCK __+
| (1678 - 1746) m 1700
_Jonathan WHEELOCK __|
| (1713 - 1783) m 1735|
| |_Huldah THAYER ______+
| (1682 - 1739) m 1700
|
|--Eli WHEELOCK
| (1760 - 1797)
| _Joseph WIGHT _______
| | (1679 - ....)
|_Martha WIGHT _______|
(1718 - 1764) m 1735|
|_Mercy _____ ________
(.... - 1725)
Eli Wheelock was a Fifer in the Revolutionary War. He fought first, at the age of 15, in Colonel Ebenezer Learned's Regiment; and later under Colonel Cushing, and Colonel Jacob Davis. He was no doubt born in his father's house, which still stands on present day 275 Stafford Rd, the oldest house in the Northside (of Charlton, MA).
Upon his father's death in 1783, Eli Wheelock took over the tavern which the Wheelocks had operated out of a room in their house. In 1792, perhaps to complement the tavern business, Eli built a distillery 100 feet to the west of his home where he distilled gin, brewed beer, ran a malthouse and operated a corn mill. The business venture was successful enough to be referenced in Rev. Peter Whitney's "History of Worcester County", published in 1793 [1].
By that time, the road on which Eli operated his tavern and distillery was becoming more heavily traveled as a major route between Worcester and towns to the east. Taking advantage of this, Eli formed a partnership with Leonard Morey (who had married Phoebe Wheelock, a distant cousin) and began construction of a tavern, just west of his distillery. He planned for this tavern to be the finest between Worcester and Hartford. On 18 Sep 1797, according to village tradition, Eli died from injuries received during a fall from the third floor of the incomplete building. The building was later completed. In 1801, Isaiah and William Rider purchased 2/3 of the building, along with the distillery that Eli had previously operated. The Rider Tavern served travelers for many years, and in 1975 was acquired by the Charlton Historical Commission, which has been engaged in a process of continuous restoration.
Hannah Streeter, Eli's widow, received as her portion of his estate the eastern third of the tavern. After a brief move to Calais, VT, she returned to live in the tavern until 1806 [2].
(Written by Roderick B. Sullivan, June 2002)
Sources
[1] "History of Worcester County", by Rev. Peter Whitney, A.M., Worcester, MA, Isaiah Thomas, Printer, 1793.
[2] "A Bicentennial History of The Rider Tavern, 1797-1997", by William O. Hultgren, issued by the Charlton Historical Society, Inc., 255 Stafford St, Charlton, MA, 01507, 1997.
[3] "New England Ancesters of Katherine-Brattle and William-Cary Harris. And the Descendants of Thaddeus-Mason and Mary (Dix) Harris. Amos and Jerusha (Robinson) Holbrook. Eli and Hannah (Streeter) Wheelock. William and Katherine-Brattle (Gannett) Bascom." Published for Private Circulation. (No date given).
_Moses Bond WHEELOCK _+
| (1768 - 1848) m 1793
_Moses WHEELOCK _____|
| (1799 - ....) m 1825|
| |_Catherine GLEASON ___
| (1774 - 1847) m 1793
|
|--Henry WHEELOCK
| (1832 - ....)
| ______________________
| |
|_Mary J. FOSTER _____|
(1801 - 1847) m 1825|
|______________________
_Paul WHEELOCK ______+
| (1750 - ....) m 1781
_Daniel WHEELOCK _____|
| (1799 - 1865) m 1826 |
| |_Martha SIBLEY ______
| (1763 - ....) m 1781
|
|--Jerome WHEELOCK
| (1834 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
|_Susanna P. PRENTICE _|
(1803 - 1884) m 1826 |
|_____________________
Jerome Wheelock was a man of considerable achievement in the Worcester County manufacturing industry, and earned himself a place of note in the local history of Grafton. At the age of 15 he ran away from home, and successfully evaded any attempt to find him. After a three year apprenticeship at the Taunton Locomotive Works, under Harrison Tweed, Esq., he obtained a position as a manager of the steam and machinery department of the Washburn Iron Works, in Worcester.
During this time, Jerome Wheelock invented and patented a means to simplify, and more efficiently manufacture steam engines. This changed the nature of steam engine manufacture, and earned a place for Jerome Wheelock in the history of steam engines and manufacturing.
A statue of Mr. Wheelock stands in the center of Grafton.
This family is enumerated in the 1880 Federal Census, living in Worcester, Worcester Co, MA, pg 117A.
(Written by Roderick B. Sullivan, Jan 1999. Source: "A History of Grafton", by Pierce.)
_Joseph WHEELOCK ______+
| (1798 - 1879) m 1818
_Jerome Slater WHEELOCK _|
| (1823 - 1908) m 1847 |
| |_Anna Fuller CHAPPELL _+
| (1799 - 1893) m 1818
|
|--John WHEELOCK
| (1856 - 1857)
| _______________________
| |
|_Fannie J. HOWELL _______|
(1826 - 1909) m 1847 |
|_______________________
__
|
_John A. WHEELOCK ___|
| (1807 - 1848) m 1837|
| |__
|
|
|--John Adams WHEELOCK
| (1848 - 1850)
| __
| |
|_Lydia E. WOOD ______|
m 1837 |
|__
The Worcester death record indicates he died at age two, scarlet fever.
_Albert R. WHEELOCK _+
| (1900 - 1989) m 1920
_Albert Norman WHEELOCK _|
| (1924 - 2005) m 1950 |
| |_Edna ST. JOHN ______
| m 1920
|
|--Kevin Andrew WHEELOCK
| (1960 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
|_Dorinda Paula ELMHIRST _|
(1930 - ....) m 1950 |
|_____________________
_Elijah WHEELOCK ____
| (1777 - 1813) m 1799
_Hiram WHEELOCK _____|
| (1809 - 1880) |
| |_Anna STRAW _________
| (1780 - 1856) m 1799
|
|--Phineaus WHEELOCK
| (1860 - 1870)
| _____________________
| |
|_Elizabeth _____ ____|
|
|_____________________
__
|
_Samuel WHEELOCK ____|
| (1797 - 1878) m 1820|
| |__
|
|
|--Willard WHEELOCK
| (1820 - ....)
| __
| |
|_Polly ADAMS ________|
(1798 - 1841) m 1820|
|__
Willard Wheelock's name is difficult to discern in the Vermont VRs, and may Williard, William, or a variation. The VRs indicate that he was the first child of Polly Adams and Samuel Wheelock. He is enumerated in the 1850 Census next to his father in Colchester, Essex Co, VT, age 30, living with Maria Wheelock, age 26, born in England. His occupation is "carpenter & joiner".
A Willard Wheelock, age 59, is enumerated in the 1880 Census living in Jamestown, Tuolumne Co, CA with his wife Maria, his children Emma, William, and a third whose name cannot be discerned. He was born in Vermont, and his occupation is listed as "carpenter".
A Willard Wheelock, born 1820, died in Jamestown, CA, in 1899, is buried in the Jamestown Cemetery with his wife Marie, born 1824, died 1882. (Src: Records of Nancy Oliver, July 2007.) This is probably the same Willard.