Lucinda was the daughter of William Clapp and Abigail Smith.
(Source: Christine Galbraith, Apr 2000)
_____________________
|
_Israel HOUGHTON ____|
| (1700 - 1777) m 1723|
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Israel HOUGHTON
| (1741 - ....)
| _Joseph WHEELOCK ____+
| | (1672 - 1752)
|_Martha WHEELOCK ____|
(1703 - 1768) m 1723|
|_Elizabeth _____ ____
(1673 - 1751)
Eliza Slade was from Harbor Creek, PA.
Clarissa was from Leicester, MA. Her headstone, located in the Greenville Cemetery, in Leicester, MA, indicates death date of 1 May 1872, aged 77 y, 1 month.
_Thomas WHEELOCK ____+
| (1749 - 1804) m 1769
_Henry WHEELOCK _____|
| (1771 - ....) m 1793|
| |_Hannah HAYWARD _____
| m 1769
|
|--Anita WHEELOCK
| (1799 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
|_Phoebe DICKINSON ___|
m 1793 |
|_____________________
There is a Vermont marriage record for Annie Wheelock of Johnson, VT, and Lorin Perry (Ferry?), 9 July 1826 in Johnson, VT. (Src: Vermont Vital Records to 1870).
_Edwin Dickinson WHEELOCK _+
| (1847 - 1926) m 1869
_Warren William WHEELOCK _|
| (1894 - 1978) |
| |_Eliza MCCLELLAND _________
| (1850 - 1925) m 1869
|
|--Clifford WHEELOCK
|
| ___________________________
| |
|_Marie BURNS _____________|
|
|___________________________
_Benjamin WHEELOCK __+
| (1762 - 1810) m 1783
_Jonathan WHEELOCK __|
| (1800 - 1870) m 1824|
| |_Prudence DIVOL _____
| (1757 - ....) m 1783
|
|--Dennis Hills WHEELOCK
| (1827 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
|_Fannie JOHNSON _____|
(1802 - 1842) m 1824|
|_____________________
_Obadiah WHEELOCK ___+
| (1712 - 1761) m 1733
_Jesse WHEELOCK _____|
| (1748 - 1816) |
| |_Martha SUMNER ______
| (1710 - ....) m 1733
|
|--Jesse WHEELOCK
| (1784 - 1873)
| _____________________
| |
|_Abigail LOVITT _____|
|
|_____________________
Jesse was the son of Jesse Wheelock, Sr. and Abigail Lovitt. He descends from Rev. Ralph Wheelock,
his Puritan immigrant ancestor, who came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637, as follows:
Jesse
In 1830 Jesse, Jr. moved
to the South Bank of the St. John River (now Aroostook
County). A survey of the lots in
that region, taken in 1831, indicate that Jesse Wheelock
and Walter Powers began cutting trees on their lot in
Aug 1830, and built a log house where they lived that winter. [1]
The 1830 Census enumerates Jesse Wheelock as the only
member of the household, age 40-50 years. [2]
He appears in the 1834 New Brunswick Census living
alone in his household, on ungranted land on the right
bank of the St. John; no livestock, no seeds sown last
spring, no crops raised. [6]
The 1840 Census enumerates him, age 50-60 years, with three
others, a male, age 15-20, a female, age 15-20, and
a female, age 20-30. [3] The 1850 Census shows Jesse, age
66, born in Mass, living with his wife, Sophronia, age 32,
born in Maine, and two children, Jesse B., age 3, and
Martha, age 1. [4]
A border dispute between Maine and New Brunswick raged
over much of the
Madawaska region, where Jesse Wheelock, along with many
other French and English settlers lived. In March, 1831
the Maine Legistlature passed an act incorporating
the town of Masardis, in the county of Penobscot, in an
attempt to gain control of the region. In accordance
with this act a writ was issued to Walter Powers, calling
a meeting of the Madawaska inhabitants on 30 Aug 1831.
In this meeting, Jesse Wheelock was chosen Town Clerk.
The lieutenant-governor, unhappy with these actions,
hastened to Madawaska with a body of soldiers, and
arrested Jesse Wheelock and three others. The prisoners
were taken to Fredericton, N.B., were tried by the Superior
Court, and sentenced to pay a fine of fifty pounds and serve three
months in prison. Through actions of the US Federal Government
in Washington, the sentences were cut short, and none of
the four served the full term. The border dispute was
finally settled in 1842, with the Webster-Ashburton Treaty
between the United States and Great Britain. [5]
Jesse died at Hancock Plantation, Aroostook County,
Maine. It is presumed the nearby
locations of Wheelock, Wheelock Island, and Wheelock
Mills derive their names from him, or his family. His ornate
headstone, located in Christ's Church Cemetery, Fort
Kent, ME, reads as follows:
Jesse Wheelock -
born in Northborough, Mass. -
Oct. 15, 1784 -
Died June 28, 1873 -
Sophronia His Wife -
Born in Mosco, Maine -
May 20, 1816 -
Died July 23, 1858
LDS records supposedly indicate that Jesse was married
once prior to his marriage to Sophronia Baker. This would
certainly explain his advanced age at the time of his
second marriage. These records show that he married
Phoebe Golden, b. abt 1788, probably in Northborough, MA,
with whom he had two children. Phoebe died sometime
after the birth of the second child. If this were true, it
would explain the two children that appear in his household
in the 1840 Census. These children, age 15 to 20, were too
old the be the children of Sophronia. [8]
(Written by Roderick B. Sullivan, Jr., Dec 2001)
Sources
[1] "State of the Madawaska and Aroostook Settlements in 1831: Report of
John G. Dean and Edward Kavanagh to Samuel E. Smith, Governor of
the State of Maine", W.O. Raymond, ed., Collections of the
New Brunswick Historical Society (St.John, N.B.) number 9
(1914), pp.344-386.
[2] 1830 Federal Census, Penobscot County, ME, Reel M19-51, Madawaska
Settlement, St. John River, pg 375. (Note: The Madawaska region
of Penobscot County later became Aroostok County.)
[3] 1840 Federal Census, Aroostok County, ME, Reel M704-136, Madawaska
North of the St. John River, pg 53.
[4] 1850 Federal Census, Aroostook County, Hancock Plantation,
Reel M432-248, pg 126a.
[5] "A History of Maine's Largest County From its Earliest Beginning
Up Through the Bloodless Aroostook War", by Clarence A. Day,
Extension Service Editor, University of Maine, Orono, Maine,
Published by Northern Maine Regional Planning Commission, 1989.
Available online at http://www.nmdc.org/day/aroos.html (see
Chapter 7).
[6] Provincial Archives of the Province of New Brunswick,
1834 Census, in RS24, Records of the Legislative
Assembly, Microfilm number F10422.
[7] Much of the information here was obtained from
"The Upper St. John River Valley Northern Aroostook County, Maine
and Madawaska County, New Brunswick: A history of the
communities and people", at http://www.upperstjohn.com, Jan 2002.
[8] Notes and research of Roger Lincoln, of Houlton, Maine, 2003.
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Nelson WHEELOCK
Father: Joseph WHEELOCK
Vermont Vital Records to 1870, Microfilm Collection, New England Historical
and Genealogical Society, Boston, MA.
Mother: Eunice RIST
_Joseph Drury WHEELOCK _+
| (1770 - 1858) m 1791
_Joseph WHEELOCK ____|
| (1794 - 1851) m 1819|
| |_Abigail BARRETT _______+
| (1774 - 1846) m 1791
|
|--Nelson WHEELOCK
| (1820 - ....)
| ________________________
| |
|_Eunice RIST ________|
(1795 - 1878) m 1819|
|________________________
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Ray Porter WHITE
Family 1
: Inez Marian NOBLE
Records of Janet Noble (White) Gibbens, a descendant of Edward Allen Noble
and Nancy Philena Wheelock, July 2001.
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Walter WILLETT
Father: Walter WILLETT
Mother: Mary WHEELOCK
_____________________
|
_Walter WILLETT _____|
| |
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Walter WILLETT
|
| _Obadiah WHEELOCK ___+
| | (1738 - 1807) m 1765
|_Mary WHEELOCK ______|
|
|_Rachel RICE ________
(1745 - ....) m 1765
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