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Gladys Campbell

Father: James C. Campbell
Mother: Lulu Grace Wheelock

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Robert Freeman

Father: Robert Freeman
Mother: Nellie Wheelock

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Mary Osgood

Birth: 7 Apr 1718, Lancaster, Worcester, MA

Father: Hooker Osgood
Mother: Mary Wheelock

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Elizabeth Thayer

Birth: 6 Dec 1749, Mendon, Worcester Co, MA

Death: before 16 Sep 1803

Father: David Thayer
Mother: Hannah Parks

Spouse: Stephen Weld
Marriage: 21 Oct 1767, Charlton, Worcester Co, MA

  1. Josiah Weld, born 29 Oct 1768, Charlton, Worcester Co, MA
  2. Mary Weld, born 22 Jul 1772, Charlton, Worcester Co, MA

Spouse: Seth Wheelock
Marriage: 8 Apr 1784, Charlton, Worcester Co, MA

  1. Welcome Wheelock, born 26 Sep 1784, Charlton, Worcester Co, MA
  2. Wate Wheelock, born 16 Apr 1786, Charlton, Worcester Co, MA
  3. Wales Wheelock, born about 1788, Charlton, MA
  4. Wainy Wheelock, born about 1793, Charlton, Worcester Co, MA

Notes:

Elizabeth Thayer was born in Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, 6 Dec 1749, the daughter of David Thayer and Hannah Parks. Her father died before she was a year old. In his will, he left her "twenty pounds in lawfull silver money" to be paid by her brother Elijah when she reached eighteen years of age.1 On 18 April 1754, William Thayer of Mendon was appointed guardian of Elizabeth, daughter of David.2

On 4 April 1764, David Thayer of Mendon was appointed guardian of Elizabeth Thayer "a minor of the town of Pomfret [Windham County, Connecticut]." David is likely her older brother, which would explain why both ultimately resided in the same locale - i.e. Charlton. Elizabeth was apparently living in Pomfret at the time of the guardianship, perhaps with her older sister, Hannah, whose husband Josiah Fassett posted bond on the guardianship.3

Elizabeth married Stephen Weld in Charlton, Worcester County, on 21 Oct 1767, and had two children with him. Stephen died before 6 Nov 1775, when the probate judge signed the warrant of appraisal for his estate. As part of the estate settlement, Elizabeth inherited a third of her husband's land holdings (her dower property), to be used "during her natural life," after which it would pass on to her children.4

She was called "widow Elizabeth Weld" when she and Seth Wheelock filed their intentions in Charlton 15 March 1784.5 She married Seth in Charlton on 8 April 1784.

On 6 March 1793, David Thayer, Seth Wheelock, and Elizabeth his wife "in her right," all of Charlton, heirs of Zaccheus Parks of Lincoln, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, quitclaimed their rights to the estate of Zaccheus, who had recently died without a spouse and without children. Zaccheus was Elizabeth's uncle. He died with a considerable estate, at an advanced age. Most of his siblings were deceased, resulting in an estate that had to be divided between his nieces, nephews, and their heirs. This, along with one other Middlesex County deed names most of the living siblings of Elizabeth, and definitively ties her to the family of David Thayer and Hannah Parks of Mendon.6

Elizabeth was, apparently, still living on her dower property when she married Seth, and the two lived on the property after their marriage. This is made evident by a deed dated 24 March 1803 when Seth Jones, whose property abutted the southern boundary of Elizabeth's dower parcel, sold a portion of his property to Aaron Wheelock, referring to the dower parcel as "land in possession of Seth Wheelock."7

Elizabeth may have died before the above deed was transacted. If not, she certainly had died before 16 Sep 1803, when her daughter, Mary, referred to her as deceased in a deed. Upon her death, Elizabeth's dower parcel transferred to Stephen Weld's children (Josiah and Molly), as stipulated by probate. On 16 Sep 1803, while Seth was evidently still living on the property, Molly sold her share of the dower parcel to her brother, Josiah. The sale, being within the family, probably did not affect who lived on the property, or how the property was used. Indeed, the sale was not officially registered at the Worcester County land office until several years later, on 27 December 1806 - after Seth died.8

On 25 December 1806 (ten months after Seth's decease), Josiah sold a portion of the dower parcel, which he now owned in it's entirety, to Eli Curtis "reserving the one half of the house and barn ... with a privilege to improve the same which belongs to the heirs of Seth Wheelock late of Charlton deceased."9 On the same day, Eli mortgaged the property to John Wheelock, Seth's brother, once again reserving the right of Seth's heirs to use half the house and barn.10 Evidently, Seth's children continued to live on the dower parcel after both parents had died.

No gravestone has been found for Elizabeth, but it is presumed that she and her husband Seth were both buried in the Northside Cemetery in Charlton.

Sources:

  1. Worcester County, Massachusetts, probate case 58650.
  2. Worcester County probate case 58644.
  3. "Connecticut, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999," database with images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9049/ : accessed 20 Dec 2022), Elijah Thayer (1814), case no. 3983; from Pomfret District, Probate Packets, Thayer, E-Tyler, Septimus, 1752-1880, Connecticut State Library. It is unclear why the guardianship for Elizabeth is included in the probate packet for Elijah Thayer.
  4. Worcester County probate case 62851. The metes and bounds of Elizabeth's dower parcel are included in the probate documents.
  5. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620–1988, image, Ancestry.com, Charlton, marriage intention for Seth Wheelock and “widow Elisabeth Weld,” image 74 of 1179. Seth was her second cousin once removed.
  6. Middlesex County, Massachusetts, probate case 16462, Zaccheus Parks administration; also Middlesex County deed 110:320, David Thayer et al to S. Parks, image 166 of 686 at FamilySearch.org; also Middlesex Count deed 120:27, Isaac Parks, Elijah Thayer, et al. to S. Parks, image 305 of 573 at FamilySearch.org.
  7. Worcester County deeds, 158:592-3, image 332 of 712 at FamilySearch.org.
  8. Worcester County deeds 162:612, image 324 of 695 at FamilySearch.org.
  9. Worcester County deeds, 162:613, image 324 at FamilySearch.org.
  10. Worcester County deeds, 162:616, image 326.
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Amy Wheelock

Father: James Wheelock
Mother: Lucy Barker

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Anne Wheelock

Death: 5 Oct 1918

Father: Arthur Wheelock
Mother: Emogene Atchinson

Partner: Donald G. Robbins

  1. Donald G. Robbins
  2. Arthur W. Robbins

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Benjamin John Wheelock

Birth: 3 Jul 1891

Death: 15 Jan 1926

Father: John Perry Wheelock
Mother: Lucy Buchan

Partner: Margaret Jensen

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Eleazar Wheelock

Birth: 23 Feb 1807, Shrewsbury, Worcester, MA

Death: 13 Sep 1894, Amherst, Hampshire Co, MA

Burial: Long Plain Cemetery, Leverett, MA

Father: Gershom Wheelock
Mother: Priscilla Mason

Spouse: Mary W. Putnam
Marriage: DATE UNKNOWN

Notes:

Eleazar Wheelock's headstone in Long Plain Cemetery, Leverett, MA, indicates a birth date of 23 Feb 1807. This matches the Shrewsbury birth record, and is taken as sufficient evidence to identify him as the son of Gershom and Priscilla (Mason) Wheelock. This is, no doubt, the Eleazar whose death is recorded in Amherst (MA: 446:3).

Eleazar Wheelock was employed by Allen & Thurber gunsmiths of Worcester, MA in 1846. His brother, Thomas Prentice Wheelock, also employed there in the same year, would later become a partner of Allen & Wheelock.1 Eleazar witnessed Ethan Allen's first patent (number 461) on 11 Nov 1837.

Eleazar is enumerated in the 1880 Census living in Amherst, MA, with Mary W. His occupation is listed as gunsmith.

Sources:

  1. Allen & Thurber payroll records, researched by Paul Henry, 2003.
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Lyman Newton Wheelock

Birth: 10 Apr 1885, East Berlin, VT

Father: Herbert R. Wheelock
Mother: Ada A. Bradshaw

Spouse: Bessie Vaughan Wheatley
Marriage: 11 Jun 1913, Montpelier, VT

  1. Wheatleigh Wheelock, born about 1920
  2. Elsie A. Wheelock, born about 1923

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Thomas L. Wheelock

Birth: 11 Jan 1832, Grafton, Worcester, MA

Death: 16 Aug 1835, Grafton, Worcester, MA

Father: Thomas Wheelock
Mother: Sally Nurse Fairbanks

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Martha Wight

Birth: 10 Sep 1718, Medfield, Norfolk Co, MA

Death: 3 Aug 1764, Charlton, Worcester Co, MA

Father: Joseph Wight
Mother: Mercy _____

Spouse: Jonathan Wheelock
Marriage: 22 May 1735, Bellingham, Norfolk Co, MA

  1. Rhoda Wheelock, born 14 Nov 1736, Charlton, Worcester Co, MA
  2. Jonathan Wheelock, born 9 Apr 1739, Charlton, Worcester Co, MA
  3. Asa Wheelock, born 2 Oct 1741, Charlton, Worcester Co, MA
  4. Joseph Wheelock, born 12 Oct 1743, Charlton, Worcester Co, MA
  5. Azubah Wheelock, born 15 Jan 1745/46, Charlton, Worcester Co, MA
  6. Huldah Wheelock, born 9 Feb 1747/48, Charlton, Worcester Co, MA
  7. Peter Wheelock, born 16 Feb 1749/50, Charlton, Worcester Co, MA
  8. Marcy Wheelock, born 24 Apr 1752, Charlton, Worcester Co, MA
  9. Amos Wheelock, born 28 Jun 1754, Charlton, Worcester Co, MA
  10. Jonathan Wheelock, born 24 Sep 1756, Charlton, Worcester Co, MA
  11. Eli Wheelock, born 7 Jul 1760, Charlton, Worcester Co, MA

Notes:

Martha Wight, daughter of Joseph Wight and Mercy ____, was born in Medfield, but moved to Bellingham with her parents in 1729, a few years after her mother died.1 Her father, Joseph Wight, was a signer of the 1719 petition to grant Bellingham a charter. Her brother, Elnathan Wight, was the first resident minister in Bellingham, a Baptist. In 1750, Martha, her husband, Jonathan Wheelock, his brother, Silas Wheelock, and others signed the Articles of Faith of the Baptist Church in Bellingham.2

Martha (Wight) Wheelock kept a private family record book which was brought to Calais, VT, by her son Peter, and continued by him. A copy of the book was made for Marcus Waite, author of "The Wheelock Family of Calais, VT".

Sources:

  1. "History of Medfield", W. Tilden, 1887
  2. "History of the Town of Bellingham Massachusetts", by George F. Partridge, published 1919.
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