_Joseph ADAMS _______
| (1626 - 1694) m 1650
_Joseph ADAMS _______|
| (1654 - 1736) m 1682|
| |_Abigail BAXTER _____
| (.... - 1692) m 1650
|
|--Abigail ADAMS
| (1684 - 1722)
| _Josiah CHAPIN ______
| |
|_Mary CHAPIN ________|
(1662 - 1687) m 1682|
|_Mary KING __________
According to "A Genealogical History of Henry Adams of Braintree", by Andrew N. Adams, 1898, Abigail Adams' father, Joseph, left a small bequest to her children.
Samuel Richardson (1602-1658) & Josiah Ellsworth (1629-1689) Some Descendants, p. 565-6
_Harry WHEELOCK _____+
| (1792 - 1873) m 1819
_Austin W. WHEELOCK __|
| (1827 - ....) m 1853 |
| |_Judith GILLETT _____
| (1797 - 1867) m 1819
|
|--Charles Austin WHEELOCK
| (1871 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
|_Mary Louisa FRANCIS _|
m 1853 |
|_____________________
_Ephraim WHEELOCK ___+
| (1696 - 1785) m 1728
_Moses WHEELOCK _____|
| (1737 - 1801) m 1763|
| |_Priscilla PLIMPTON _
| (.... - 1740) m 1728
|
|--Ephraim WHEELOCK
| (1764 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
|_Abiel HAWS _________|
(1740 - 1765) m 1763|
|_____________________
Ephraim fought for the Town of Westborough in the Revolutionary War.
_Benjamin WHEELOCK __+
| (1639 - 1720) m 1668
_Obadiah WHEELOCK ___|
| (1685 - 1760) m 1708|
| |_Elizabeth BULLEN ___
| (1646 - 1689) m 1668
|
|--Josiah WHEELOCK
| (1725 - 1794)
| _Dennis DARLING _____
| |
|_Elisabeth DARLING __|
(1685 - ....) m 1708|
|_Hannah _____ _______
According to the tombstone, Josiah died of "dropsey". The Mendon Vital Records state the marriage date of Josiah and Experience as "6 Jan 1748", not using the old style notation. The Milford Vital Records give the marriage date as 6 Jan 1747/48.
Josiah served in the Revolutionary War as a private in Captain William Jennison's Company of Minute-men which marched on the Lexington Alarm, of 19 April 1775. He later served in Ichabod Thayer's Company.
At least two of Josiah's children, Eleazar and Alexander, removed to Warwick, MA, circa 1775.
_Reu WHEELOCK _______+
| (1785 - 1833) m 1805
_Emmons Howe WHEELOCK _|
| (1817 - 1899) |
| |_Rosanna SMILEY _____
| (1780 - 1874) m 1805
|
|--Martin WHEELOCK
| (1856 - 1923)
| _____________________
| |
|_Polly WILSON _________|
(.... - 1904) |
|_____________________
_Obadiah WHEELOCK ___+
| (1712 - 1761) m 1733
_Elias WHEELOCK _____|
| (1743 - 1821) m 1766|
| |_Martha SUMNER ______
| (1710 - ....) m 1733
|
|--Ward WHEELOCK
|
| _____________________
| |
|_Sarah RICE _________|
(1741 - ....) m 1766|
|_____________________