Benjamin French was from Roxbury, per Rhode Island Vital Records, by James N. Arnold.
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_Sanford GORTON _____|
| (1796 - 1832) m 1816|
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|--Burroughs GORTON
| (1823 - ....)
| _Paul WHEELOCK ______+
| | (1755 - 1840) m 1779
|_Roxa WHEELOCK ______|
(1795 - 1828) m 1816|
|_Beulah JOHNSON _____
(1752 - 1824) m 1779
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_Jeduthan STONE _____|
| (1773 - ....) m 1790|
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|--Eliza STONE
| (1805 - 1857)
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|_Azubah MERRIAM _____|
(1772 - ....) m 1790|
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The death record for Eliza indicates that she was the daughter of J. Stone and Azubah; "Gregory Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Dea. Gregory Stone of Cambridge, Mass., 1320-1917", by J. Gardner Bartlett, identifies Eliza's parents as Jeduthan Stone and Azubah Merriam, of Hubbardston, MA, and Eden, VT. Jeduthan Stone was chosen by Daniel Wheelock as his guardian in 1813, Eden, VT.
_John WHEELOCK ______+
| (1733 - 1792) m 1755
_John WHEELOCK ______|
| (1756 - ....) m 1779|
| |_Mary HOLMAN ________
| (1722 - 1818) m 1755
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|--Eliza WHEELOCK
| (1801 - 1860)
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|_Dorothy WILDER _____|
(1763 - 1818) m 1779|
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Eliza was the twin of Elijah, according to the Heath Vital Records.
_Joseph WHEELOCK ______+
| (1798 - 1879) m 1818
_Martin Seneca WHEELOCK _|
| (1830 - 1916) m 1858 |
| |_Anna Fuller CHAPPELL _+
| (1799 - 1893) m 1818
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|--Fayette Conrad WHEELOCK
| (1861 - 1903)
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|_Victoria CONRAD ________|
(1837 - 1903) m 1858 |
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_Joseph WHEELOCK ____+
| (1765 - 1820) m 1786
_Joseph WHEELOCK ______|
| (1798 - 1879) m 1818 |
| |_Sally SLATER _______
| m 1786
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|--John Jones WHEELOCK
| (1833 - 1917)
| _William CHAPPELL ___
| | (.... - 1856)
|_Anna Fuller CHAPPELL _|
(1799 - 1893) m 1818 |
|_Mary Chloe FULLER __
(1776 - 1865)
At the age of 27, John J. Wheelock moved to California and settled in Muletown, where, in 1860, he married Miss Hannah Howell. Shortly after the wedding, they moved to the settlement of Eagle Creek, which became Ono in 1883. Wheelock was on of the early merchants in Ono history. In 1913 the Wheelocks moved to Redding, where John J. Wheelock died in June 1917 at his Placer Street home. (Src: The Courier-Free Press, Friday June 29, 1917; Obituary of John J. Wheelock; from the Shasta County California GenWeb Project, www.cagenweb.com/shasta, contributed by Jeremy M. Tuggle.)
_Jesse WHEELOCK _____+
| (1731 - ....) m 1753
_Baruch WHEELOCK ______|
| (1774 - 1816) |
| |_Phoebe WHITE _______
| m 1753
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|--Marcus WHEELOCK
| (1809 - ....)
| _____________________
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|_Philadelphia ALDRICH _|
(1776 - 1854) |
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Marcus Wheelock, age 41, born in Rhode Island, is enumerated in the 1850 Census living in Painted Post, Steuben Co, NY, with Philadelphia Wheelock, age 73, born in Rhode Island; Olive Wheelock, age 32, born NY; William W. Wheelock, age 13, born NY; Marisa(?) Wheelock, age 9, born NY; and David B.(?) Wheelock, age 7, born NY.
Marcus M. Wheelock, d. 26 Jan 1891, age 83, is interred in the Congressional Cemetery, in Washington, DC. His obituary appears in "The Evening Star", 28 Jan 1898, page 8:
Death of M.M. Wheelock
Mr. M.M. Wheelock, proprietor of the Lenox, 4 1/2 street near Pennsylvania Avenue, died there about 12 o'clock on Monday night aged eighty-three years. Mr. Wheelock was a native of Bath, Stueben County, NY and for many years was engaged in the hotel business. He came here in the first years of the war and for some years was the proprietor and manager of the Pennsylvania House in the first ward. Of recent years he had engaged in real estate transactions and in the hotel business and at the time of his death was successfully conducting the Lenox, on which he as a lease for some years. He survived his wife and two children, one being the deceased wife of Mr. A.K. Brown, and leaves on son, D.B. Wheelock, who was with him when he died. The funeral will take place Thursday afternoon, Rev. G.H. Corey officiating, and the interment will be in the Congressional Cemetery.
(Source: www.congressionalcemetery.org, Aug 2003.)