_Gershom WHEELOCK ___+
| (1693 - 1770) m 1718
_Gershom WHEELOCK ___|
| (1724 - 1806) m 1757|
| |_Abigail FLAGG ______+
| (1694 - 1762) m 1718
|
|--Alice WHEELOCK
| (1777 - 1778)
| _____________________
| |
|_Susanna KNOWLTON ___|
(1733 - 1814) m 1757|
|_____________________
_Obadiah WHEELOCK ___+
| (1685 - 1760) m 1708
_Samuel WHEELOCK ____|
| (1714 - 1792) m 1737|
| |_Elisabeth DARLING __+
| (1685 - ....) m 1708
|
|--Amariah WHEELOCK
| (1759 - 1820)
| _____________________
| |
|_Hannah AMMIDON _____|
(1717 - ....) m 1737|
|_____________________
Amariah is reported in the Mendon VRs as a child of "Samuel and Mary". Other death dates for Amariah are 27 June 1822, and 29 June 1821.
Amariah enlisted in the Revolutionary War in 26 Apr 1777 as a private out of Berkshire County in Captain Noah Lankton's Company, Colonel Ashley's Regiment. He later served 25 days at Saratoga, by order of General Gates. He served in various other campaigns during the war.
According to "Wheelock Genealogy" by Carlyle Capron Wheelock and Winifred Gonseth, Amariah died while on his way west to join his son Daniel. He is buried at Avon. This story is confirmed in "A History of Cuyahoga County and the City of Cleveland", by William R. Coates, published by The American Historical Society, Chicago and New York, 1924, page 170.