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CAPTAIN WILLIAM WHEAT (81) 
 
WHEAT GENEALOGY 
 
 A HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 WHEAT FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 WITH A BRIEF 
 
 Account of the Name and Family 
 in England and Normandy 
 
 vol. i; 
 
 1903 
 
 Edited and Published by 
 
 SIIyAS C. WHEAT, 9S7 STERLING PI.ACE, BROOKLYN, N. Y 
 \\ U.S.A. • 
 

 THE LIBRARY OF 
 CONGRESS, 
 
 Two Copies 
 
 Received 
 
 JUL 18 
 
 1903 
 
 Copyright 
 CLASS CC 
 
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 XXc. No. 
 
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 Copyright, 1903 
 BY 
 
 SILAS C. WHEAT 
 
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Go ©ur (IDotbers 
 
 we affectionately fceotcate 
 tbis volume 
 
For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, 
 This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, 
 
 Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, 
 Nor cast one lo?iging, lingering look behind." 
 
 — Thomas Gray. 
 
 i 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 Page 
 
 Abbreviations and Plan 6 
 
 Sections 
 
 Introduction i to 18 
 
 Why have a Genealogy ? I 
 
 Birthplace and Kin of the Author 2 
 
 Traditions 3 
 
 Reunions 4 
 
 The Genealogy Suggested . . 5 
 
 Searching for a Lost Pedigree 6 
 
 Noble Ancestors 7 
 
 Other Ancestors 8 
 
 Origin of the name Wheat 9 to 14 
 
 Orthography of Wheat j 7 
 
 Sources of Records 18 
 
 English Records 19 to 60 
 
 Parish Registers 20 
 
 Probate Records 2r 
 
 Herald's College Rolls 22 to 24 
 
 Wheate of Glympton 25 to 40 
 
 Wheat of Retford 41 to 49 
 
 Wheat of East Markham 53 to 60 
 
 Letters from England 50 to 52 
 
 American Records 61 to 173 
 
 Earliest Wheat Immigrants 61 to 69 
 
 Moses Wheat of Concord 70 
 
 Joshua Wheat of Lynn, and of Concord 77 
 
 Dr. Samuel Wheat of Watertown 78 
 
 Dr. Solomon Wheat of W T indham 79 
 
 Dr. Solomon Wheat of Westford 80 
 
 Captain William Wheat of Franklin 81 
 
 Descendants of Captain William Wheat 82 to 173 
 
ABBREVIATIONS AND SCHEME 
 
 b. = born m. = married 
 
 bap. = baptized rem. = removed 
 
 bu. = buried res. = resides 
 
 d. = died ux. = wife (uxor) 
 
 dau. = daughter w. p. = will proved 
 
 D. L- I. = Delaware Literary Institute at Franklin, N. Y. 
 
 Families are numbered consecutively with large figures ; children are 
 numbered with small figures. 
 
 A number following a name refers to a section where the name is 
 entered again. 
 
 The index refers to the section (paragraph), not to the page. 
 
 To avoid confusion in the index, the introduction and other parts not 
 relating to families, have been divided into sections and numbered con- 
 secutively with the rest of the work. 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 "Study the past if you would divine the future." — Confucius. 
 
 " An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to 
 form and ripen." — Emerson. 
 
 i. « Why have a genealogy ? " I am asked, "Do you think 
 there is any property coming to us ?" 
 
 Not for land, not for gold, 
 Not for gray castles old 
 Have we this story told. 
 
 We, who stand as links between Past and Future, have in- 
 scribed in this volume the names and golden deeds of our 
 parents that our children may know and practice their 
 virtues. To strengthen the bond of friendship, to keep in 
 memory the names and virtues of our departed friends, to 
 light the path of youth by the lamp of experience, has been 
 our aim. 
 
 The genealogy is not mine, but ours. All are cordially 
 invited to share the labor of completing it and to participate 
 in the satisfaction and pride which it will afford us. I have 
 but one wish concerning the genealogy— that it shall be 
 worthy of the family. 
 
 I take this opportunity to thank the many friends who have 
 so kindly aided me with records and subscriptions. The de- 
 lay of publication for five years due to insufficient subscrip- 
 tions has been to me a cause of painful regret, since so many 
 who gave hearty support to the enterprise have passed away 
 without seeing the book in which they were sincerely inter- 
 ested. 
 
 2. Birthplace and Kin of the Author.— Captain William 
 Wheat (81) removed from Connecticut after the Embargo of 
 1 807- 1 809 had ruined the fortunes of New England skippers, 
 
8 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 and settled among the hills which separate the sources of 
 the Susquehanna from those of the Deleware. Five sons and 
 a daughter married and made their homes almost within 
 sight of the paternal roof ; and their children, with few excep- 
 tions, followed the same example. 
 
 In 1852, the writer was born within three miles of the old 
 homestead where Captain Wheat was still living, and where 
 his venerable parents, Dr. Solomon and Hannah Wheat 
 (80), had died only eleven years before, having spent the last 
 eight of their seventy-and-two years of wedded life with their 
 son William. I was fourteen years of age when Captain 
 Wheat died and was one of the fifth generation of our family 
 that had lived in the vicinity. Each man in my paternal line 
 saw five generations of his line, counting both ancestors and 
 descendants, and two of them saw six generations—a circum- 
 stance which greatly favored the handing down of family 
 traditions. Not only my relatives, but the neighbors as well, 
 who were my seniors by half a century, often entertained me 
 with tales of my ancestors. 
 
 3. Traditions. — Few and vague were the accounts of an 
 earlier generation than that of Dr. Solomon and Hannah 
 Wheat. However, some hesitatingly said that he was the 
 only son of Dr. Solomon Wheat of Boston whose wife was 
 Peggy Green (79 B) ; son of Dr. Solomon Wheat from 
 England to Boston whose wife was Betsy Sullivan, a sister of 
 the man who settled and gave his name to Sullivan's Island in 
 Charleston Harbor, S. C. ; that a brother of the first Dr. 
 Solomon went from Boston to the South, and another brother 
 returned to England or died young ; that the father of these 
 brothers, a London merchant, was the first man to receive the 
 name Wheat, having been found, when an infant, in a wheat- 
 field belonging to the Prince of Wales, and was named, 
 brought up and educated by the Prince, but was dismissed 
 from court for claiming to be the son of the Prince ; and that 
 this progenitor w 7 as a Welshman. 
 
 It was generally accepted that we were the only Wheat 
 family in the world, although a Mr. Wheat of Illinois and 
 
Traditions. 9 
 
 another of Virginia had been reported to our colony ; "but 
 probably they died young or, if married, had left daughters 
 only." 
 
 Traditions, even when without foundation, are yet of value 
 to the genealogist. If widely separated families of unknown 
 origin have the same traditions, this fact indicates a common 
 origin of the families and may lead to the discovery of a com- 
 mon ancestor. Traditions are often well founded, even when 
 generations covering centuries of time have been dropped 
 from the tale. It often happens that traditions belonging to 
 a maternal ancestor are ascribed to the paternal line. 
 
 The tradition that the first Wheat was a Welshman prob- 
 ably arose from ignorance of the application of the title, 
 Prince of Wales. 
 
 4. Wheat Reunions. — As our colony gradually spread into 
 the adjoining towns it finally became difficult to keep up even 
 a yearly visit to each of the cousins ; so a Wheat picnic, or 
 family reunion, was held at the Captain William Wheat 
 homestead, or more commonly called the Bolles homestead. 
 
 The reunion has since become an annual event, and has 
 been held at the residences of the following members of the 
 family : 
 
 Aug. 14, 1885 Abial Drake Franklin, N. Y. 
 
 July 29, 1886 Col. Sylvester Wheat Franklin, N. Y. 
 
 Aug. 11, 1887 Hartson L. Wheat Treadwell, N. Y. 
 
 8, 1888 Hartson D. Wheat Treadwell, N. Y. 
 
 21, 1889 Hartson L. Wheat Treadwell, N. Y. 
 
 7, 1890 George W. Wheat Treadwell, N. Y. 
 
 5, 1891 Abial Drake Franklin, N. Y. 
 
 11, 1892 Almiron G. Wheat Sidney Center, N. Y. 
 
 9, 1893 Miss Lemira F. Wheat Franklin, N. Y. 
 
 9, 1894 Virgil D. Osborn Treadwell, N. Y. 
 
 7, 1895 Porter A. Wheat Treadwell, N. Y. 
 
 13, 1896 Dwight B. Drake Franklin, N. Y. 
 
 19, 1897 Leroy Evans Franklin, N. Y. 
 
 30, 1899 J. Frank Wheat Treadwell, N. Y. 
 
 10, 1900 Manzer Smith Treadwell, N. Y. 
 
 8, 1901 Almiron G. Wheat ... .... Sidney Center, N. Y. 
 
 20,1902 Porter A. Wheat Treadwell, N. Y. 
 
io Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 At the first reunion four generations were present, num- 
 bering in all ninety-one descendants of Captain Wheat. The 
 oldest was Silas Wheat (82), aged ninety-two, and the youngest, 
 Howard Irving Wheat (91-3), aged fourteen months. The 
 former related the adventures of the journey of two hundred 
 miles through the forest with the ox-cart which brought his 
 mother and three younger brothers and the household goods 
 from Connecticut, his father and a younger brother walking 
 all the way with him. He was the guide, having made the 
 same trip a year earlier with his grandfather Bolles (81). 
 
 With great earnestness he exhorted us to practice every 
 virtue, especially honesty and truth, assuring us that by 
 honesty our family had been established, had maintained an 
 honorable standing in the community, and had increased 
 remarkably in numbers. 
 
 5. The Genealogy Suggested— At this first reunion my 
 mother expressed a wish that some one would write a gene- 
 alogy of the family. Her remark seemed to be addressed to 
 me, and I at once began collecting material. But on seeking 
 for more definite information regarding the ancestors of Dr. 
 Solomon Wheat (80), I was told that, " like Melchizedek, he 
 was without father or mother or beginning of days." The 
 traditions seemed to have been forgotten in a day, or to have 
 been withdrawn from publication until the genealogy should 
 appear. 
 
 Complete family records of the descendants of Captain 
 William Wheat (81) were soon collected, but, owing to unex- 
 pected difficulties the matter was dropped until 1894, when I 
 determined that the genealogy must be finished. Then began 
 the search for other branches of the family, and for the 
 earliest Wheat ancestor. 
 
 6. Searching for a Lost Pedigree. — There is a fascination 
 in this search for a lost pedigree. As the angler, intoxicated 
 with the delight of landing the speckled trout and stimulated 
 with the feverish hope of taking the largest fish ever caught, 
 pursues the stream from pool to pool over rocks and fallen 
 
Searching for a Lost Pedigree. ii 
 
 trees, through briers and swamps, forgetful of distance, of set- 
 ting sun or empty lunch-bag ; so the genealogist, having 
 picked up an ancestral thread, follows it with an infatuation 
 that lends patience to unravel the tangled mazes and to search 
 for the broken ends and missing fragments which will unite 
 into a continuous pedigree. 
 
 Great is his disappointment if the work must be given over 
 before the line has been reconstructed to the period when 
 family names first became hereditary; and great is the tempta- 
 tion to follow the example of the bootless angler who returns 
 by way of the village market and buys the finest specimen on 
 the fishstand to delight the eyes of his friends at home ; for in 
 those antiquarian pools, the Saxon and Norman records, one 
 may find a name to his liking and then invent a process by 
 which it became changed to his present name. In this way, 
 with an occasional fc ' said-to-be," may be constructed a pedi- 
 gree leading back to some knight who fought at Hastings in 
 the year 1066. 
 
 7. Our Claim to Noble Ancestors. — In the search for the 
 progenitor of the Wheat line, we should not lose sight of our 
 other ancestors. Our mothers' parents are as near of kin to 
 us as are our fathers', and should be of equal interest. When 
 it happens, as it often does, that one's only ancestors of dis- 
 tinction are to be found in maternal lines, these lines are fol- 
 lowed out as faithfully as are the paternal ones. 
 
 But one who thus probes the centuries for all his progenitors 
 is soon appalled at the multitude of his forefathers and fore- 
 mothers, and begins to wonder how many there were of Adam 
 and Eve. The whole scene is changed from a world peopled 
 by the descendants of one pair to a world of one inhabitant 
 descended from millions of ancestors. In the present stands 
 himself, the individual. In the first generation, counting 
 from the present backward, are his two parents; in the second, 
 his four grandparents ; in the third, his eight great-grand- 
 parents ; in the fourth, his sixteen great-great-grandparents, 
 and so on to infinity, except where the number is decreased by 
 inter-marriage of relatives. 
 
12 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 Twenty-five generations, allowing three to a century, have 
 lived since hereditary names came into general use among the 
 nobility and the better class of yeomen in England and 
 Normandy. This would give a person of the present day 
 thirty-three million five hundred fifty-four thousand four hun- 
 dred thirty-two (33.554,432) ancestors, all of one generation 
 of the period 1066 to 1100, provided no inter-marriage be- 
 tween relatives, however distant, had taken place. 
 
 It is estimated that England had at that period a population 
 of about two million Saxons, one million five hundred thou- 
 sand Celtic people, a few thousand Danes and Normans. The 
 latter were re-info reed by such numbers of immigrants from 
 Normandy that the two millions of inhabitants of that country 
 must be included in the total number of persons among whom 
 any American of English parentage may search for ancestors. 
 The total, five million five hundred thousand, is only one-sixth 
 of the number of ancestors to which he is entitled by the ratio 
 of increase. Among the five and a half millions were princes, 
 earls and knights ; and he who delights in noble ancestors 
 should not be denied the privilege of claimimg descent from 
 some of them. But I beg him to remember the words of Sir 
 T. Overbury : "He who has nothing to boast of but his 
 ancestry, is like a potato ; the only good belonging to him 
 is underground " 
 
 8. Our Other Ancestors. — In 1066, for every person of 
 noble birth, there were hundreds of menials held at less value 
 than hawk or hound. Since that time many noble families 
 have declined, while many individuals have risen from the 
 menial class to the highest respectability. The early migra- 
 tions brought together on English soil Dane, Norman and 
 Saxon ; and the later migration to this continent mingled the 
 product of this fusion with the sons of other countries. Thus, 
 families once socially separated as widely as serf from prince, 
 and geographically as remote as Scandinavia from France, 
 have united in marriage, giving to their posterity an ancestry 
 which embraces every class of the ancient inhabitants of the 
 British Islands, Denmark and Normandy. 
 
Our Other Ancestors. 13 
 
 The American of English parentage can not be sure that 
 every parent among the five-and-a-half millions was not his 
 ancestor. Can he safely deny at least one-fourth of them ? 
 And since there were in all this number hardly five hundred 
 nobles, and only three or four thousand knights, he should 
 boast with moderation of his " blue blood." For every drop 
 of it has he not a gallon from the peasant current ? 
 
 9. Origin of the Name " Wheat." — Who would doubt the 
 proposition that our family name was borrowed from the grain, 
 wheat f It seems quite as deserving of credence as does the 
 belief that Miller, Baker, Hill, Waters, Ford, Lion, Duke, 
 Page, Long, and Fisher were first adopted because they fitted 
 the occupation, office, place of residence, or some personal 
 characteristic of the ones to whom they were applied. But a 
 writer on surnames claims that Wheat is a corruption of the 
 ancient name Waite, or de la Waite, the watchman or police- 
 man. ' Another author says that Wheat is derived from the 
 ancient name Wihtebrod, which became Whitebread, then 
 Wheatbread, and finally White and Wheat. Both of these 
 theories seem plausible, but the name Waite is still in use, 
 and, if changed, would quite as likely become Watt or Wade 
 as Wheat ; while Wihtebrod, which signified white bread, 
 would become White, rather than Wheat. 
 
 10. Hwaete and Ble. — The name of the grain was not 
 written wheat until near the close of the 13th century. For- 
 merly it was written hwcete by the Saxons, and ble by the 
 Normans, who spoke French. I have not found the name 
 Hwaete in early English records, therefore conclude that 
 there was no Saxon W T heat family prior to 1250. But the 
 noble families and the better class of yeomen had adopted 
 family names long before that period, namely, from 900 to 
 1200. Hence it follows, that, if our name was borrowed by a 
 Saxon, directly from the grain, our family is not older than 
 1250, and the progenitor of our line belonged to the menial 
 class. 
 
14 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 ii. Ble translated Wheat. — The French ble (wheat) was 
 used by the Normans as a family name at an early period. 
 1180, Unfredus de Ble resided in Normandy; 1192, Robert 
 de Blee in County Stafford, England; and Galfridusde Blie 
 in Lancaster. From " The Norman People." 
 
 From the " Armorial Universel." — "Ble (du) en Bour- 
 gogne. De gueules a trois chevrons d'or." 
 
 From the " Nouvelle Biographie Generate. " — "Ble 
 (Nicolas du) marquis d'Uxelles, marechal de France, ne le 
 24 Janvier 1652, mort le 10 avril 1730." 
 
 To have become so widely spread before 1192 the name 
 probably originated as early as the year 1000, and was car- 
 ried abroad by the migration that poured into England from 
 1040 to 1200. Among the Normans in England the name 
 gradually lost its pure French orthography, and is said, 
 finally, to have become Blake and Bleay. 
 
 During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries many Nor- 
 mans are said to have translated their names to the Saxon 
 equivalent ; as, Petit, Little ; Burnet, Brown ; le Blanc, 
 White; leVenur, Hunter; Faber, Smith; Vulpis, Fox; 
 le Cerf , Hart ; le Fort, Strong. 
 
 It is possible that some Mr. Ble took the name Wheat. It 
 may be a mere coincidence that the earliest recorded Wheat 
 family should dwell in the same county where the de Blee 
 family lived 1192, but it favors the theory of translation 
 from Ble to Wheat. See section 19. 
 
 This theory is supported by a tradition preserved by the 
 descendants of Dr. Samuel Wheat (78) residing at Cayuga, 
 N. Y. 
 
 Tradition. — The king of France offered a prize to the one 
 who should produce the best crop of wheat. The successful 
 competitor bore the name Samuel. The king gave him the 
 surname Wheat and an embroidered cradle blanket to descend 
 in his family from generation to generation, to the son named 
 Samuel. 
 
 12. The Garb. — The Wheat families of England in selecting 
 insignia for their arms chose the garb (wheat-sheaf) and ears 
 
The Garb. 15 
 
 of wheat, as if they believed the name was that of the grain, 
 and felt honored by it. If the name had come from de laWaite 
 or Wihtebrod it seems probable that, on finding they had 
 reached a significant word of very different meaning from 
 that of the original name, they would not have stopped there, 
 but would have added a syllable to destroy, or at least modify, 
 its significance. 
 
 13. Humble Origin no Shame. — If records should be 
 found showing that our progenitor belonged to that despised 
 and menial class that had no family names until the end of 
 the 13th century when the word wheat, in its present ortho- 
 graphy, first appeared in our language, would this discredit 
 him or his descendants? Would it not be the more honor to 
 him and his posterity that they had risen to a worthy station, 
 rather than, being descended from an earl, they had become 
 peasants ? 
 
 " The rank is but the guinea stamp ; 
 
 The man's the gowd for a' that." — Bnims. 
 
 To receive the name Wheat before the 15th century was no 
 mean distinction. Wheat was very rare and much sought for. 
 Its cultivation was the particular care of princes and nobles. 
 Until about the year 1700, none but the wealthy could afford 
 to eat wheat. No common tenant was entrusted with the 
 care of this precious grain. Kings and lords sought out their 
 most successful yeomen for this responsibility. 
 
 From 900 to 1400 the Saxons of England gradually adopted 
 family names in place of the old surnames. 
 
 It is easy to believe that a yeoman noted for his success in 
 wheat culture should choose or receive the surname Wheat, 
 and his sons adopt it after him, thus making it a hereditary 
 name. 
 
 14. Possibility of Independent Wheat Families. — There 
 may have been several different and unrelated Wheat families 
 in England at the time of the settlement of Virginia and New 
 England. They could have sprung from at least three sources : 
 from the du Ble family by translation of the name ; from the 
 
1 6 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 humble peasants of the 14th century by adoption of the name 
 of the grain ; or from some ancient family by corruption of 
 the paternal name. 
 
 15. Preserving Our Identity by a Genealogy. — The pro- 
 cess of adopting names is still going on. Many immigrants, 
 soon after their arrival in this country, take American names. 
 I do not know that any of them have borrowed ours ; but 
 there is noway to prevent them if they choose to do so. The 
 only way to know who is entitled to the name is to make a 
 complete genealogy of the family as now constituted, and 
 keep it revised from generation to generation. 
 
 16. Negroes Named Wheat. — After the emancipation of 
 1863, many negroes took their master's name or the names of 
 noted persons, as Washington or Jefferson. About ten years 
 ago, seeing the name of a certain Miss Wheat in a northern 
 city directory, I wrote to her address for data for the gene- 
 alogy, and received the following : " I think I am not one of 
 the Wheats you are looking for. My mother was a planta- 
 tion slave in Georgia. Who my father was, Lord o' glory 
 only knows ! ' ' 
 
 17. Orthography of Our Name. — In early times spelling 
 was not uniform. Clerks of the highest courts sometimes 
 wrote the same name with two or more different orthographies 
 in a single affidavit. Each clerk recording vital statistics had 
 his own way of spelling, and sometimes the same clerk wrote 
 the same name with a different spelling for each new entry. 
 But our name was always written with the same spelling as 
 was the name of the grain. 
 
 In 1659 the menu at Harvard College contained " wheatt 
 mealiy The inventory of the estate of Abijah Savage, who 
 died 1669, contains " Habijah Savage, Indian wheatte, sope, 
 thred, hatte, nailes" [Sibley's Harvard Graduates.] 
 
 The records of the family of Moses Wheat of Concord 
 (70) contain eleven different spellings : 
 
 Wheat, Wheeatt, Whet, Wheatt, 
 
 Wheate, Wheet, Whett, Weat. 
 
 Wheates, Wheett, Weet, 
 
Our Name. 17 
 
 Names containing the word Wheat found in city direc- 
 tories : 
 
 Wheatall, Wheathall, Wheatley, Wheatlye, 
 
 Wheatbread, Wheathill, Wheatlie, Wheaton, 
 
 Wheatcroft, Wheatland, Wheatling, Wheatonhall, 
 
 Wheatear, Wheatleigh, Wheatly, Wheatstone, 
 Wheater. 
 
 The name has two authentic orthographies, Wheate and 
 Wheat. The final e comes down from a period when wheat 
 and many other nouns had this remnant of the old Saxon in- 
 flections. Its retention by some branches through so many 
 generations is a mark of that conservatism which preserves the 
 customs of society. The dropping of the final e in conformity 
 with the new spelling of wheat denotes that radicalism which 
 insures progress by occasionally breaking the rules of con- 
 servatism. 
 
 To introduce any form not employed for the name of the 
 grain is to mutilate a fair and honorable name. It comes to 
 us with all the fragrance of the fields, with song of birds and 
 sparkle of fountains in the sunbeam. It speaks of a success 
 in husbandry that won the favor of princes. To change it 
 until its significance is lost is to destroy its worth and rob it 
 of every charm. 
 
 18. Sources of Records. — American records relating to an 
 earlier date than the year 1825 are for the most part from 
 original sources, — from town, county, state and church manu- 
 script records entered at the time the events occurred, or from 
 authentic copies of such records. Bond's Watertown and 
 Savage's Genealogical Dictionary do not present a true history 
 of the Wheats of Concord and their immediate kin. I visited 
 the places where these people lived, trod the soil they once 
 trod, identified the ruins of the old chimney-places, copied the 
 inscriptions on their tombstones, collected every record relat- 
 ing to them that I could find, and, returning to my home, 
 arranged the confused mass in order. I was able not only to 
 construct the family chart almost entire, but to form an inti- 
 mate acquaintance with the families that lived from 1640 to 
 1800. 
 
i8 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 The recent records, those relating to Captain William 
 Wheat (81) and his descendants, were sent me by some mem- 
 ber of each family. 
 
 The source of the English records is shown in each section 
 or pedigree. 
 
 THE WHEAT FAMILY IN ENGLAND 
 
 ' ' The fairest ancestry on earth 
 
 Without desert is poor, 
 And ev'ry deed of former worth 
 
 Is but a claim for more." — Hannah More. 
 
 19. Wheat as a family name was first used in England. 
 From the pedigree of Wheate of Coventry (23) allowed by 
 the Herald's Visitation, 1619, it appears that William, junior, 
 of Coventry, was then twenty-five years of age, and that his 
 grandfather, Henry of Walsall, was the fifth generation that 
 the family could name to the deputies. Allowing three 
 generations to the century, the first of this line was born 1394 ; 
 and, assuming that his home was at Walsall, co. Stafford, the 
 earliest Wheat record is from the county where Robert de Blee 
 (11) dwelt 1 192. De Blee I take to be a careless orthography 
 for du Ble= Wheat. Walsall and Coventry are near Birming- 
 ham, or midway between London and Liverpool. From this 
 elevated region streams flow outward in all directions to the 
 sea, making it probable that, before the day of railways, the 
 migrations of the people would not follow any one direction 
 or channel, but would diverge to all points of the compass, 
 following the streams for the sake of the better roads and 
 greater protection from robbers afforded by the denser popu- 
 lation. 
 
 By 1619, the name Wheat was known in counties Stafford, 
 Gloucester, Lincoln, Berks, Middlesex, and Nottingham. 
 From the records already discovered, the distribution is no 
 wider and the number of families no greater than should be 
 expected of the descendants of one Wheat ancestor residing 
 
ttt 
 
 ARMS OF WHEATE OF COVENTRY 
 

Family Name. 19 
 
 at Walsall, 1250 to 1300. It is not improbable that a Norman 
 landlord in this remote place should have found it conducive to 
 longevity to feign himself a Saxon, or that such a move at 
 least would improve his financial and social standing. 
 
 These, and other circumstances, favor the theory that a 
 Mr. de Blee translated his name to Wheat. On the other hand 
 the Saxons of this vicinity may not have adopted names so 
 early as did their countrymen along the Thames. Some 
 Saxon tiller of the soil may have been the Wheat progenitor. 
 The following records from England are only a small part of 
 the known records of the family in that country. I hope that 
 some one in closer touch with the records and with the living 
 representatives of those families will prepare a complete 
 history of Wheat in England. 
 
 20. Parish Registers — By injunction of Henry VIII., 
 issued September 29, 1538, a register of baptisms, marriages 
 and burials was required to be kept in every parish in his 
 dominions. From published copies of some of these registers 
 the following entries are taken. 
 
 1605, January 15, Joan Wheate and Thos. Wilson were mar- 
 ried at St. Mary's, Whitechapel. 
 1616, , John Wheath was buried, St. Botolph's register, 
 
 Bishopsgate. 
 1609, September 11, John Wheate, servant to John Hamner, 
 
 buried at St. Mary's. Aldermary. 
 1636, December 1, Thomas Wheate, buried at St. James 
 
 Church, Clerkenwall. 
 1669, April 4, Richard Wheate, son of Richard and Elizabeth, 
 
 baptized, St. Botolph, Bishopsgate. 
 1687, March 20, Phebey Wheate, daughter of Henary and 
 
 Phebey, baptized at Christ Church, Newgate. 
 1692, August 20, Richard Wheate of Paddington, co. Midd., 
 
 farmer, age forty, married Elizabeth Hampton. Register 
 
 of Vicar-General. 
 1687, May 24, Thomas Wheate and Anne Sawbridge were 
 
 married. Register of Vicar- General. 
 1709. June 3, Samuel Wheat, buried, St. Botolph. 
 
20 
 
 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 1748, March 11, Ann, Daughter of Jeremiah and Mary 
 Wheate, baptized, First Church, Newgate. 
 
 1742, September 26, Benj. Wheate and Mary Chamberlain 
 were married at St. George's Chapel, Hyde Park corners. 
 
 1746, March 15, Mrs. Elizabeth Wheat and Wm. Bearman 
 were married at St. George's Chapel, Hyde Park corners. 
 
 1785, January 30, James Wheat and Sarah Reed were mar- 
 ried at St. George's, Hanover Square. 
 
 1786, May 1, Samuel Wheat and Rebecca Adams were mar- 
 ried at St. George's, Hanover Square. 
 
 21. Index to Wills. 
 
 1557 Henry Wheate, of Stow ; Wills of Glouc, 1541-1650. 
 
 1565 Nicholas Wheate, of Theale ; Wills of Berks, 1508-1652. 
 
 1579 John Wheate, of Tilehurst ; 
 
 1579 John Wheate, of Tilehurst ; 
 
 1583 Thomas Wheate, of Tilehurst ; 
 
 1583 John Wheate, of Tilehurst ; 
 
 161 2 Avery Wheate, of Tilehurst ; 
 
 161 2 Richard Wheate, of Tilehurst ; 
 
 1632 Nicholas Wheate, of Tilehurst ; 
 
 1639 Richard Wheate, of Tilehurst ; 
 
 1644 William Wheate, of Tilehurst ; 
 
 1605 Wheate, of Beenham ; 
 
 1619 Nicholas Wheate, of Stratfield ; 
 
 1639 Richard Wheate, of Theale ; 
 
 1665 Nicholas Wheate, of Theale ; 
 
 1581 Henry Wheat ; Wills of Lichfield, 1516-1652. 
 
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 1611 Agnes Wheat ; " " 
 
 1653 Richard Wheate witnessed a Will, January 20th, at Ropesley, co. 
 Lincoln. 
 
 22. Herald's College was established 1483, under the 
 patronage of Richard III., to hear applications, grant or deny 
 the privilege of bearing arms, preserve the pedigrees of fami- 
 lies entitled to bear arms, and other services calculated to 
 regulate the institution of heraldry. The days of chivalry 
 were long past ; the knight in mail, the tournament, the gor- 
 
Herald's College. 21 
 
 geous pageant were but memories, still the passion for dis- 
 play reigned in the human heart as of old. Filial duty moved 
 each son as he consigned his father's ashes to the tomb, to 
 guard with jealous care every token of honors held, or deeds 
 of valor done by that sire. Weapons, mail, trophies of battle 
 or of the chase, and sacred relics brought home from the 
 crusades were carefully preserved. Perhaps the most valued 
 of these treasures were the emblems, or decorations, which 
 his chivalrous ancestor wore on shield and helmet, and which 
 served to distinguish him from others when clad in mail. 
 
 The decoration upon the shield, called arms, was also 
 embroidered on the sur-coat worn over the mail to protect the 
 wearer from the blaze of the sun, hence the expression coat of 
 arms. On the helmet was the crest. 
 
 A family possessed of such an heirloom coming down from 
 the time of Cceur de Lion had cause to be proud of its arms. 
 But families newly risen to wealth or honors coveted this par- 
 ticular badge of distinction, and began to adopt arms, some- 
 times appropriating, with slight modification, the arms of 
 some old family. This abuse led to the appointment of the 
 King at Arms, and the Knight of the Garter to regulate the 
 institution of Heraldry. 
 
 Two Wheate pedigrees from Herald's College are copied 
 below (see 23 and 24). The terms used in blazing arms are 
 Latin or French. Those used in the Wheat arms are vert = 
 green ; fess = a sash or band ; dancette = coarsely indented ; 
 or = gold ; in chief = upper part of shield ; of the second = 
 second material named, i. e. or ; couped— cut smoothly off. 
 
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 represented by diagonal lines, and gold by dots, as shown in 
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Pedigree of Wheate of GlympTon. 25 
 
 25. PEDIGREE OF WHEATE OF GLYMPTON 
 
 copied from the register in the manor house with slight addi- 
 tions from other sources. 
 
 I am indebted to Mr. Frank Henry Barnett (37-2) for the 
 copy of the register. It begins with Henry Wheate of 
 Walsall. The Herald's College roll (23) carries the pedigree 
 back four generations earlier. The two records joined, give 
 a continuous pedigree of fifteen generations. Estimating from 
 the earliest date, "William of Coventry (23), age twenty- 
 five in the year 1619," the progenitor of this line was born 
 between 1350 and 1400. For arms see 23 and 24. 
 
 26. Wheate of Walsall, co. Stafford. 
 Henry Wheate (23) of Walsall, county Stafford. 
 
 1. William (27) 5. Anna (40) 
 
 2. Thomas 6. Thomasine 
 
 3. Edmond (38) 7. Johannes 
 
 4. Isabella (39) 
 
 27. Wheate of Coventry. 
 
 William Wheate ( 26-1 ) of Coventry married Anne, 
 daughter of Adrian Quiney of Stratford-on-Avon, and widow 
 of Richard Bay ley of Lichfield. 
 
 1. William (28), bap. at St. Michael's, Coventry, Aug. 4, 
 1594, living 1657. 
 
 28. Wheate of Glympton. 
 
 William Wheate ( 27-1 ) of Coventry, and a student at the 
 Middle Temple, before 1634 removed to Glympton, co. Oxford; 
 married while a student in the Temple, Feb. 24, 1624, 
 Elizabeth Stone, d. 1657, eldest daughter of Thomas Stone 
 of London, merchant. Letters written by Mr. Wheate are 
 
26 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 still preserved at Glympton. He addressed the dean of Salis- 
 bury on behalf of Thomas Stone, who had been accused of 
 inclining toward Puritanism. 
 i. Anne (29). 
 
 2. 
 
 Isabella. 
 
 
 3- 
 
 William, 
 
 only son living 1634. 
 
 4- 
 
 Elizabeth, 
 
 m. 1652, William Jumper. 
 
 5- 
 
 Thomas (30), 
 
 d. May 14, 1668. 
 
 6. 
 
 John, 
 
 b. 1 $42. fc 
 
 7- 
 
 William, 
 
 b. 1648, d. infant. 
 
 8. 
 
 Martha, 
 
 b. Jan. 17, 1655, m. Benj. Skutt of 
 
 London, merchant. 
 
 20. Thorold of Harmiston. 
 
 Anne Wheate (28-1 ) married Charles Thorold of Har- 
 miston, Lincoln, and of London, merchant, served for Alder- 
 man, d. Nov. 13, 1691. 
 
 1. Thomas, merchant, d. at Smyrna. 
 
 2. Sir Charles, Alderman of London, knighted 
 
 1704, d. 1709. 
 
 3. George, the heir. 
 
 4. Samuel. 
 
 5. William. 
 
 30. Thomas Wheate of Glympton. 
 
 Thomas Wheate ( 28-5 ) of Glympton, High Sheriff of 
 Oxfordshire 1665, married Frances Jenkinson, d. Dec. 13, 
 1706, daughter of Sir Robert Jenkinson of Walcot, Oxon., 
 baronet, and his wife Mary (dau. of Sir John Bankes of 
 Corfe Castle and Kingston Lacy, co. Dorset, knight, Lord 
 Chief Justice of Common Pleas, whose wife immortalized her- 
 self by her heroic defense of Corfe Castle.) 
 
 1. Sir Thomas (31), b. Sept. 6, 1667, d. Aug. 25, 1721. 
 
 2. Sarah, d. 1683, m. 1675, John Morse of 
 
 Wickselme (?) co. Gloucester. (Bigland's Hist. 
 Gloucester, v. 1, p. 162). 
 
ARMS OF WHEATE OF GLYMPTON 
 
Sir Thomas of Glympton. 27 
 
 31. WHKATB OF GlyYMPTON. 
 
 Sir Thomas Wheate ( 30-1 ) of Glympton, member Par- 
 liament for Woodstock 1689, 1708 and 17 10, High Sheriff of 
 Oxford 1696, created baronet, Ma}' 6, 1696 ; married Anne 
 Sawbridge, d. June 13, 17 19, daughter and co-heir of George 
 Sawbridge of London who served as Alderman. 
 
 1. Frances, b. 1688, d. 1730, m. 1705, Sir 
 
 Francis Page, knight, Judge of the King's Bench, 
 d. 1730. 
 
 2. Anne, b. 1692, d. Jan. 31, 1724, aged 32. 
 
 3. Sir Thomas (32), b. 1693, d. May 1, 1746, aged 52. 
 
 4. Sir George (34), b. 1695, <*• June 5, 1751, aged 55. 
 
 32. Wheate of Glympton. 
 
 Sir Thomas Wheate (31-3 ) of Glympton, storekeeper of 
 the ordnance 1717-1721, M. P. for Woodstock 1724, married 
 Mary Gould, b. 1705, d. Oct. 21, 1765, aged 60, daughter of 
 Thomas (or Henry ?) Gould of Oakend, Bucks. 
 
 1. Frances, d. 1795, m. 1776, Edward Burville of Box- 
 
 ley, Kent. 
 
 2. Mary (33), d. April 4, 1803. 
 
 3. Sarah, b. 1730, d. June 13, 1805, aged 75, not m. 
 
 4. Anne, d. June 1, 1807, aged 74, not m. 
 
 33' Lloyd of Brudenham. 
 
 flary Wheate (32-2) married March 31, 1760, Richard 
 Lloyd of Brudenham, Bucks, who died 1796. Their son, 
 Francis Sackville Lloyd, took the name Wheate in order to 
 inherit the title of baronet and the manor of Glympton, but 
 died 1 81 2, four years before the direct Wheate heirs became 
 extinct. He was High Sheriff of Oxford, 18 12. 
 
 34- Wheate of Glympton. 
 
 Sir George Wheate (31-4 ) of Glympton, barrister at law, 
 Banbury records, married A vice Ack worth, living 1790 and 
 
28 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 lady of the manor of Lechlade, daughter of Sir Jacob Ack- 
 worth, knight, surveyor of the navy. (Bigland's Hist. Glouc., 
 v. 2, p. 142). 
 
 1. Sir George, b. 1744, d. Jan. 26, 1760, lieutenant R. A. 
 
 2. Sir Jacob, d. 1783, captain in the royal navy, in com- 
 
 mand of H. M.>S. Cerebus at New York during 
 the Revolution; married at New York, 1783, Maria 
 Shaw, daughter of David Shaw of New York. 
 Sir Jacob died about three months after his mar- 
 riage. 
 
 3. Rev. Sir John Thomas, rector of Great Penton and vicar 
 
 of Lechlade, Glouc, died unmarried, July 14, 
 1 8 16, and the title of baronet ceased for want of 
 male heirs. 
 
 4. Esther Henrietta, d. 1799. 
 
 5. Avice (35). 
 
 35- Barnett of Glympton. 
 
 Avice Wheate ( 34-5 ) married Benjamin Barnett who 
 
 died 1822. 
 
 1. George Henry (36), b. 1780, d. 1872. 
 
 2. Robert. 
 
 36. Barnett of Glympton. 
 
 George Henry Barnett ( 35-1 ) married Elizabeth, 
 daughter of Stratford Canning, and sister of Viscount Strat- 
 ford de Redcliffe. 
 
 1. Henry (37), b. 1815, d. 1896. 
 
 2. Charles George, b. 181 6, d. 1896, m. and resided at 
 
 Ascot. 
 
 37- Barnett of Glympton. 
 
 Henry Barnett (36-1 ) of Glympton married 1838, Emily 
 Anne Stratton, b. 1816 ; d. 1883. 
 
Edmond of Coventry. 29 
 
 1. George Wheate, b. 1841, died 1878. 
 
 2. Frank Henry, b. 1850, m. 1878 Frances Mary Davies, 
 
 daughter of Henry Tudor Davies, and have George 
 Henry, b. 1880. 
 
 3. Herbert, b. 1851, vicar Bracknell, Berks. 
 
 4. Walter Stratford, b. 1853, d. 1861. 
 
 5 to 8. Four daughters, names not on copy of register. 
 
 38. Wheate of Coventry. 
 
 Edmond Wheate 1 
 Gareway. 
 
 ( 26-3 ) of Coventry married Isabella 
 
 1. 
 2. 
 3- 
 4- 
 
 r 
 
 Anne, 
 
 Alice, 
 
 Susan, 
 
 Martha, 
 
 Maria, 
 
 Prudence. 
 
 m, 
 m. 
 m. 
 m. 
 m. 
 
 William Seaney. 
 John Armson. 
 Richard Murdock. 
 Henry Cruchloe. 
 
 5« 
 
 6. 
 
 JVcIIipc. 
 
 7- 
 
 8. 
 
 9- 
 10. 
 
 Joseph. 
 Benjamin 
 Jeremy. 
 Samuel. 
 
 
 
 39- Chudlowe. 
 Isabella Wheate ( 26-4 ) married William Chudlowe. 
 
 1. Judith, m. William Mortone. 
 
 2. Sarah, m. John Stone. 
 
 3. Anne. 
 
 4. Eliza. 
 
 40. Dighton. 
 
 Anne Wheate (26-5 ) married Thomas Dighton. 
 
 1. Jobe. 4. Martha, m. Foote. 
 
 2. John. 5. Anne, m. Barnabee. 
 
 3. Thomas. 6. Sarah. 
 
30 Wheat Genealogy 
 
 41. PEDIGREE OF WHEAT OF RETFORD 
 from a family history published by John B. Wlieat, Esq. 
 The book is entitled Wheat, and bears date 1893. A f ew 
 records of later date have been added. The family bears arms 
 like those of the family at Glympton (24). 
 
 42. Wheat of Retford. 
 
 Thomas Wheat of Retford, co. Notts., Mercator Gener., 
 buried December 1, 1727. 
 
 1. Thomas, (43), bap. Dec, 3, 1703. 
 
 2. John, (49), bap. March 5, 1705, bu. July 5, 1756. 
 
 3. Dorothy, bap. Feb. 12, 1706, d. infancy. 
 
 4 and 5, twins. Dorothy and Ann, bap. March 18, 17 10, one 
 of whom (?) m. Mr. Cockshutt and had a son 
 James. 
 
 43- Wheat of Retford. 
 
 Thomas Wheat of Retford ( 42-1 ) married Ann, daughter 
 of Rev. Thomas Cockshutt of Cawthorne, Yorks. 
 
 1. James (44), d. Jan. 24, 1805. 
 
 2. Thomas, b. and d. 1728. 
 
 3. Ann, m. Thomas Sambourne. 
 
 4. Mary, bap. December 8, 1731, m. Tho. Wells 
 
 of London, d. 1790. 
 5 to 9 died in infancy. 
 
 10. Edward, b. April 29, 1741. 
 
 11. William, bap. March 30, 1741-2. 
 
 12. Clifton, b. and d. 1744. 
 
 13. Edward, bap. Nov. 9, 1745. 
 
 44- Wheat of Sheffield. 
 
 James Wheat ( 43-1 ) of Norwood Hall, Sheffield, married 
 Sarah Milnes, b. 1747, d. August 19, 1810, only daughter 
 and heiress of John Milnes of Newark-on-Trent. 
 
James of Sheffield. 31 
 
 1. Sarah, b. May 4, 1773, d. June 30, 1846, m. September 
 
 16, 1808, Godfrey Sykes, b. 1772, d. December 31, 
 1828, and had Elizabeth who m. 1835 John Henry 
 Cooper and had Charles John who m. 1862, 
 Catharine Heath and had Godfrey Chas., Catharine 
 E. (m, Capt. Ed. Devon Caired), Francis John, 
 and four daughters. 
 
 2. Ann, b. 1774. d. 1775. 
 
 3. Mary, b. 1776, d. 1837, not married. 
 
 4. Eliza, b. 1778, d. 1865, not married. 
 
 5. James, b. 1779, d. 1855. 
 
 6. Frances, b. Aug. 2, 1780, d. May io, 1846, m. Aug. 
 
 12, 1 8 14, Skinner Wells, and had Fanny, Mary 
 and James Clifton. 
 
 7. John (45), b. Oct. 25, 1783, d. Oct. 7, 1868. 
 
 8. Thomas Clifton, b. Dec. 14, 1785, d. May 26, 1836, 
 
 m. and had three sons, all d. without issue. 
 
 9. Henry, b. Nov. 24, 1787, d. Oct. 19, 1852. 
 10. Carlos Cony (47), b. Dec. 12, 1792, d. Oct. 28, 1873. 
 
 45- Wheat of Sheffield. 
 
 John Wheat ( 44-7 ) of Norwood Hall, Sheffield, married 
 Aug. 23, 1823, Elizabeth Sanderson, d. December 31, 1880, 
 daughter of John of York. 
 
 1. John James (46), b. Jan. 31, 1825. 
 
 2. Sarah Milnes. b. Jan. 24, 1827, m. Oct. 11, 
 
 1855, Henry Waring and had Maude Marian, b. 
 
 1856, m. 1886, Thomas Baker; Edith Elizabeth, 
 b. 1857 ( m - l8 9 I Chas. L. Sanson, have John 
 Henry, b. 1892); Rosamond Ruth, b. 1858 ; Wm. 
 W., b. i860 (m. 1882 Annie S. Scobell and have 
 Melloney May, Chas. Hy., Irene M.); Alice Ada, 
 b. 1862 ; and Beatrice Bertha, b. 1866. 
 
 3. Elizabeth Sykes, d. 1864. 
 
32 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 4. Godfrey Charles, b. June 12, 1831, m. June 20, 1865, 
 Laura Georgiana Roworth and have Charles 
 Templar, b. 1866; Frederick S., b. 1868; Herbert 
 C.,b. 1877. 
 
 46. Wheat of Sheffield. 
 John James Wheat ( 45-1 ) of Norwood Hall, married 
 September 13, 1855, Mary Allatt Bristowe. 
 
 1. James Clifton, b. Dec 27, 1856. 
 
 2. John Bristowe, b. Aug. 27, 1858. 
 
 3. Mary Elizabeth, b. Aug. 9, 1859, d. Feb. 3. 1902, 
 
 m. Oct. 21, 1880, Rev. Bernard Edward Wat- 
 kins, Jr. , d. 1888 had Bernard, d. 1890; Cecil 
 Ambrose, b. Nov. 22, 1882, and Dorothy Isabel, 
 b. Oct. 18, 1883. 
 
 4. Henry A., b. Aug. 26, i860. 
 
 5. Thomas Eustace, b. Feb. 21, 1868, m. Jan. 23, 1889, 
 
 Ellen Parker Brown of Melbourne, Victoria, and 
 have John Henry, b. Jan. 14, 1890, deceased ; 
 Ernest, b. 1901. 
 
 6. Charles Francis, b. Feb. 6, 1868. 
 
 7. Gerard Stephenson, b. July 30, 1868, m. April 19, 
 
 1890, Jane Alice Nesbit Harrison and have John 
 Harrison, b. Aug. 3, 1893. 
 
 8. Frances Augusta, b. Aug. 9, 1866. 
 
 9. Mabel Grace, b. April 23, 1869, m. April 17, 1901, 
 
 Dr. Ralph Paul Williams. 
 
 10. Dorothy Anne, b. Sept. 4, 187 1, m. Aug. 9, 1893, 
 
 George Charles Brownell, son of Geo. Brownell 
 of Sheffield and of Liverpool. 
 
 11. Sarah Lillian, b. Nov. 1, 1873. 
 
 12. Margaret Helen, b. July 10, 1876. 
 
 13. Ernest Godfrey, b. June 28, 1878. 
 
 47. Carlos Cony Wheat (44-10) married Louisa Which- 
 cote, b. June 5, 1803, d. March 28, 1889, 
 daughter of Sir Thomas Whichcote baronet of 
 Aswarba, Lincolnshire. 
 
Wheat of Retford. 33 
 
 1. Samuel, m. 1, Mary Gawer Collins, m. 2, Mary Jenkins 
 
 and had by first m. Henry. 
 
 2. Thomas W., b. 1834, d. 1873. 
 
 3. Christopher Geo., b. Jan. 14, 1839, m. Constance 
 
 Harriett Pearson and had Constance Mary, b. 
 1865, who m. H. Raleigh Knight and has Julia 
 Mary, b. May 28, 1892. 
 
 4. Mary Louisa, b. 1841, d. 1852. 
 
 5. James Milnes (48) b. May 15, 1844. 
 
 6. Eliza E., b. Nov. 28, 1847. 
 
 48. James Milnes Wheat (47-5 ) married Emma Stevens. 
 
 1. Alfred James, b. Dec. 6, 1871. 
 
 2. Agnes Emma, b. and d. 1873. 
 
 3. Arthur T., b. 1874, d. infant. 
 
 4. Emma Louise, b. April 29, 1875. 
 
 5. Thomas Milnes, b. Sept. 22, 1876. 
 
 6. Ethel Maud, b. Aug. 30, 1877. 
 
 7. Francis George, b. Dec. 6, 1880. 
 
 8. Florence Ada, b. March 26, 1882. 
 
 49- Wheat of Retford. 
 
 John Wheat (42-2 ) of Retford married, Feb. 7. 1733, 
 Gertrude Woolby, baptized Oct. 1, 17 13, buried Nov. 25, 
 1773 or '4. Mr. Wheat was Alderman and Bailiff of Retford, 
 1748. 
 
 1. John, b. 1735, d. 1755. 
 
 2. Gertrude, bap. May 7, 1736. 
 
 3. William, b. and d. 1737. 
 
 4. Richard, d. 1738. 
 
 5. Clifton, b. and d. 1738. 
 
 6. William, bap. March 30, 1742 ; " about the year 1762, 
 
 being about eighteen years of age, absconded and 
 ran away from Nottingham, where he was at 
 that time apprenticed to Richard Gibson, mercer, 
 and was . . . never afterwards heard of, but is 
 
34 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 believed to have died beyond the seas. ' ' Affidavit 
 of Ann Sambourne, widow, 23 April, 18 10. See 
 ( 43-3 )• 
 
 7. Clifton, b. and d. 1743. 
 
 8. Jane, 
 
 9. Clifton, bap. Aug. 25, 1753, bu. July 24, 1807, Colonel 
 
 in the Royal Army. 
 
 LETTERS FROM ENGLAND. 
 
 50. Thomas Wheate of London wrote July 9, 1897 : " An 
 aunt, my father's sister, is the only living representative of 
 my grandfather's family. She can give but very little infor- 
 mation concerning the family. . . . My age is thirty-four 
 years. I am foreman in a large London manufacturing firm, 
 a position which my father held over thirty years before me. 
 . . I am married, have a wife and four children — three 
 boys, nine, six and three years of age, and a daughter eight 
 years of age. I was the only son of Thomas Joseph Wheate 
 who died at Abbey Wood in Kent, 1888. 
 
 My father was the eldest of two sons of John Thomas 
 Wheate, a master wood and metal turner of the city of 
 London, who died at Hanwell in Hertfordshire, 1834. 
 
 My great-grandfather was Charles Wheate, a freeman of 
 the city of London, connected with the Goldsmith's Company. 
 He died about 1840, I believe. 
 
 My father once told me that his great-grandfather was a 
 knight, Sir John Thomas Wheate, but I have never had the 
 time or the means to follow up the clue. [Evidently an error ; 
 see Rev. Sir John Thomas Wheate (34-3 J. Probably knew 
 the knight, instead of was a knight. S. C. W.] 
 
 I was delighted to receive your letter, as I have often been 
 inclined to cry with the prophet Elijah, "I, only I, am left." 
 It was, therefore, with great pleasure that I learned that the 
 Wheat family is so large and influential among our kinsmen 
 over the sea." 
 
Letters from England. 35 
 
 51. Benjamin Wheat, salesman, Spitalfields Market, 
 London, wrote Jan. 6, 1896 ; " Your questions are more 
 than I can answer. I am a descendant from Joseph Wheat 
 who was born at Gosberton in Lincolnshire. My grandfather 
 was born in Leicestershire and was buried at a small village 
 near Leicester, I think Wanlip is the name. There are but 
 very few of the name of Wheat. I can find none but myself 
 of the name in the London directory. My parents are both 
 dead some ten years ago, and were buried at Coldham near 
 Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire. I was born at Winsby, near 
 Alford, Lincolnshire. I am sixty-six years of age, married, 
 have five sons "and^two daughters. I have four brothers, 
 — John, Matthew, William, Joseph — all of whom have large 
 families, mostly males. The Wheats are a Leicestershire 
 family. . . . " 
 
 52. "Wanlip Rectory, Leicester, Jan. 30, 1896. . 
 
 In reply to your enquiry respecting the Wheats of this parish, 
 there appears from the register to have been a John Wheat, 
 labourer, and his wife Elizabeth residing in the place in the 
 year 18 19, a son William having been baptized April 16. 
 John Wheat died 1829 and was buried 25th, aged forty-eight. 
 Elizabeth, widow of John Wheat, died 1839, buried May 12, 
 aged fifty-two. 
 
 Of the present large family of Wheat now resident here I 
 believe you have full information. I can not find mention of 
 the name in the register other than as given above. lam 
 truly yours, W. H. Palmer." 
 
 PEDIGREE OF WHEAT OF EAST MARKHAM 
 supplied by Mrs. Bilbruck (57) and S. C Wheat (59). 
 
 53- Wheat, East Markham, Notts. 
 
 John Wheat, matster, born near Uddersfield, Yorkshire, 
 England, married Hary Ramsden, daughter of Rev. John 
 Ramsden of Uddersfield, a Chaplain in the Royal Army, and 
 
36 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 removed to East Markham. He had a brother, name and 
 residence unknown. 
 
 i. Samuel, a merchant. 
 
 2. Benjamin, a weaver. 
 
 3. Joseph, a weaver. 
 
 4. John, a matster. 
 
 5. William, a farmer. [1847. 
 
 6. Francis (54), b. at Rampton, April 22, 1774, d. Nov. 
 
 7. Ann, a teacher. 
 
 8. Sarah, died young. 
 
 9. Mary, died young. 
 
 54- Wheat, Laneham, Notts. 
 
 Francis Wheat (53- 6 )» tailor and merchant, married, 1795, 
 Alice Simpson, born May 10, 1774, died March 22, 1854, 
 daughter of William and Mary (Shaw) Simpson, of Rampton, 
 Notts. They resided at Laneham. 
 
 1. John, b. May 10, 1796, d. Nov. 7, 1865, tailor. 
 
 2. Francis, b. July 20, 1798, d. , laborer. 
 
 3. Ann, b. Feb. 2, 1801, d. Sept. 20, i860. 
 
 4. Mary, b. Dec. 30, 1802, d. Jan. 23, 1848. 
 
 5. George (55), b. Feb. 20, 1805, d. April 18, 1840. 
 
 6. Samuel, b. Dec. 4, 1806, d. Jan. 4, 1814. 
 
 7. Sarah, b. April 16, 1809, d. Jan. 18, 1814. 
 
 8. William, b. Oct. 3, 181 1, d. Jan. 20, 1814. 
 
 9. Charlotte (57)* b. May 11, 1814, d. May 31, 1900. 
 
 10. Thomas (58), b. Aug. 16, 1816, d. Sept. 3, 1867. 
 
 55* Wheat, Laneham, Notts. 
 
 George Wheat ( 54-5 ), shoemaker, Laneham, Notts, Eng- 
 land, married Hannah Rooke. 
 
 1. Mary, b. 1832, married Mr. Robinson and resides at 
 
 Sheffield, England. 
 
 2. Thomas (56), b. at Laneham, Aug. 12, 1837. 
 
Wheat from East Markham. 37 
 
 56. Wheat, Alton, III. 
 Thomas Wheat (55- 2 )» blacksmith, learned his trade at 
 Wheatley, 1 841 -1848, then returned to Sheffield where his 
 parents lived. He came to America 1859, and worked with 
 his uncle Thomas at Summerville, 111. Settled at Alton 1875. 
 He married first, May n, 1863, Emily Eastham, d. Oct. 7, 
 1870, daughter of George Eastham of Medora, 111.; married 
 second, Sept. 5, 187 1, Anna Elizabeth Wynkoop. 
 
 1. Laura May, b. May 18, 1864, m. Mackey,St. Louis. 
 
 2. Fannie Effie, b. Feb. 8, 1867, d. May n, 1867. 
 
 3. Edward Eugene, b. May 24, 1868, d. Dec. 13, 1868. 
 
 4. Thomas, b. May 23, 1874, d. June 18, 1874. 
 
 5. George, b. May 16, 1876, d. June 15, 1876. 
 
 57- BlLBRUCK, HETTICK, ILL. 
 
 Charlotte Wheat (54-9), married, Dec. 3, 1839, John 
 Bilbruck of Norton, near Doncaster, Yorks, England. In 
 1840 a letter came to one of our neighbors telling of good 
 times and prosperity in America. John, George and Richard 
 Bilbruck, brothers, with their families, and four other fami- 
 lies sailed April 7, 1841, and were recorded at Castle Garden, 
 May 22. All found work. 
 
 Mr. John Bilbruck became ill and by advice of his physi- 
 cian returned to England, taking his family with him, to 
 Laneham, Notts, where father Wheat lived. He recovered 
 when midway in the voyage. 
 
 In 1857 they returned to America at the proposal of her 
 brother, Thomas Wheat (58), to work his farm. In 1865 
 they bought the farm at Hettick, 111., where the family now 
 resides. Mr. Bilbruck died March 27, 1872. 
 
 1. Ann Elizabeth, b. Oct. 22, 1840, m. 1861, John 
 
 Burrell, of Carrolton, 111. 
 
 2. Mary Frances, b. Dec. 7, 1842, m. 1864, John B. 
 
 Penoyer. 
 
 3. William Thomas, b. Dec. 29, 1844, enlisted for the 
 
 Civil War, Co. B, 61st 111., and was in the Battle 
 of Shiloh. 
 
38 Whkat Genealogy. 
 
 4. Martha Clarice, b. March 13, 1847, d. J an - 6, 1880. 
 
 5. Joseph George, b. Dec. 13, 1848. 
 
 6. Israel Mark, b. Oct. 8, 1850. 
 
 7. Luke Francis, b Sept. 15, 1853. 
 
 8. Emily Alice, b. Aug. n, 1855, d. Dec. 21, 1890. 
 
 9. Charlotte Clodessa, b. March 1, 1857, d. Dec. 3, 
 
 1881. 
 
 58. Whkat, Carlinville, III. 
 Thomas Wheat (54- IO )» blacksmith, and inventor, from 
 Suton on Trent, Notts, England, to Summerville, 111., 1849, 
 removed to Carlinville, 111., 1866 ; married first, May 1838, 
 Jane Ashling, who died, leaving a son Thomas ; married 
 second at Jacksonville, 111., Feb. 15, 1853, Sarah Newby, 
 born Nov. 14, 1825, d. Feb. 11, 1884. 
 
 1. Thomas Ashling, b. Feb. 1839 ; residing in New 
 
 Zealand. 
 
 2. George N., b. Jan. 19, 1854, residing in Clearwater, 
 
 Cal. 
 
 3. John Francis, b. Apr. 26, 1856, farmer at Plainview, 
 
 111. 
 
 4. Hannah Alice, b. June 24, 1858, music teacher, 
 
 Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 5. Samuel Chester (59), b. April 4, 1861. 
 
 6. William H. (60), b. July 14, 1863. 
 
 59- Wheat, Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 Samuel Chester Wheat (58-5), dentist, degree B. S at 
 Blackburn University, Carlinville, 111., 1884, degree Doctor 
 Dental Surgery at Dental College, Kansas City, Mo., 1889; was 
 a charter member and stockholder of the Western Dental Col- 
 lege organized 1890; has occupied the chair of demonstrator 
 of Clinical and Operative Dentistry since 1891. He mar- 
 ried, Dec. 5, 1894, Clara Hynd, born Oct. 6, 1866, 
 daughter of William and Martha C. Hynd, of Des Moines, 
 Iowa. 
 
 1. William Gladstone, b. Nov. 9, 1899. 
 
Gleanings in America. 39 
 
 60. Wheat, Kansas City, Mo. 
 William H. Wheat, (58-0 ) dentist, formerly real estate 
 broker at Greensburg, Kansas, where he married, March 7, 
 1888, Minnie B. Snyder, daughter of Frederick H. Snyder ; 
 removed to Chicago 189 1, and to Kansas City, 1900. 
 
 1. Roscoe Vincent, b. Nov. 22, 1890. 
 
 2. Zelda Belle, b. Jan. 26, 1893. 
 
 THE WHEAT FAMILY IN AMERICA. 
 
 brief mention of some who were not descendants of 
 moses wheat of concord. 
 
 61. Province of Massachusetts Bay. 
 xiij° Aprilis 1635. In the Elizabeth de ho : Wm. Stagg 
 M r Prd : theis underwritten names brought Certi : from the 
 Minister at St. Saviours Southwark of their conformitie. 
 
 Tho : Millet 30 Josua Wheat 17 
 
 uxor Marie Millet 29 Jo: Smith 12 
 
 Versula Greenoway 32 Ralph Chapman 20 
 
 Henrie Bull 19 Tho : Millet 2 
 
 Hotteyi 1 s Emigrants. 
 The above Joshua Wheat, in the year 1635, being then 
 seventeen years of age, settled at Concord in Massachusetts, 
 where he acquired title to a house-lot of six acres. In 1640 
 he gave this land to his brother Moses and returned to 
 England. 
 
 The church of Saint Saviours has recently been restored 
 and converted into a cathedral church for South London. 
 
 Dr. A. F Wheat of Manchester, N. H. spent several days 
 in October, 1902, examining the records of Saint Saviours and 
 the adjoining Parish of St. Thomas. The records were diffi- 
 cult to decipher. The name Wheate occurs several times be- 
 tween 1 6 10 and 1635, but there is nothing to connect these 
 
40 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 people with Moses and Joshua of Concord. Two of the 
 records are inserted here: 
 
 Nicholas Wheate and Elizabeth Weaver were married April 
 15, 1623. 
 
 Coony (?) Wheate and Jane Hill were married July 7,1631. 
 
 62. Naughty Jane of Salem, Mass. 
 
 The ffifth Quarter Court held at Salem the 27th of the 
 ffourth month Ann° 1637. 
 Hear being p r sent Imprimis whereas 
 
 Endicott Jane Wheat 
 
 m r Roge r Connant (servant unto Peter 
 
 m r Hathorne Palfry) had not 
 
 only wronged hir neighbors in killing their poultrie, but being 
 convict for Lying, Loytering & running away fro hir master 
 was whipped. 
 
 Jane Wheat was undoubtedly a white servant brought 
 from England. Negro slaves were kept at Salem a little later. 
 At Bristol, R. I. " Peg Wheat and Joseph col. were married, 
 Feb. 24, 1733-4. I take this couple to be negro slaves. Pos- 
 sibly Peg was an Indian, taking the name Wheat from the 
 family which she served. 
 
 63. CORTE OF THE PROVINCE OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY 
 
 " In answer to y e petition of Rob r t Ensome, John Wheate, 
 
 & y e rest, this Corte having taken into 
 
 it is hereby ordered that they shall have the one halfe of the 
 customes of their wines abated them, viz., five shillings upon 
 a butt. . . . 22th 3th mo 1646." 
 
 This John Wheat was probably a merchant of Boston. No 
 
 other record or trace of him has been found. Was he that 
 
 one of the traditional three brothers who went South ? See 
 
 section 3. 
 
 64. Rhode Island. 
 
 Samuel Wheate and others signed a treaty with certain 
 Indians, Dec. 28, 1665, by which they acquired land in War- 
 wick, R. I. No other record found. See 70-2 and 38-10. 
 
Gleanings in America. 41 
 
 65. Province of New Amsterdam (New York). 
 Octob r the 30 th 1666 James Willet and M r Wheat have de- 
 clared & Testified to the Court uppon oath . . . 
 
 66. New Jersey, 1697. 
 
 The quaker members of the West Jersey legislature ad- 
 dressed the king, declaring their loyalty and congratulating 
 his majesty on his escape from an assassin. Among the 43 
 signers was Benjamin Wheate. See 38-8 . 
 
 67. New Hampshire. 
 
 " John Wheat enlisted in her Majesty's Service, Oct. 10, 
 1 7 10, and served in Maj. Gilbert Abbot's company at An- 
 napolis Royal. Died, Mar. 17, after 158 days." No other 
 record found. It is possible that he was a son of Joshua and 
 Elizabeth (77-) 
 
 68. Pennsylvania. 
 
 John Ord and Anne Wheat were married at Philadelphia, 
 5-20- 17 1 5 Records of the First Presbyterian Church. 
 
 69. Maryland. 
 
 In 1752 Benedict Calvert leased to Francis Wheate a tract 
 of land in Prince George county, Maryland, for the term of 
 his (Mr. Wheate' s) natural life and the natural lives of his 
 sons John and Francis. Many descendants of Francis Wheate 
 are living in the South and West. 
 
42 Wheat Genealogy 
 
 MOSES WHEAT OF CONCORD AND HIS 
 DESCENDANTS. 
 
 ' ' What is the story of this buried Past ? 
 Were all its doors flung wide 
 For us to search its rooms, 
 And we to see the race from first to last, 
 And how they lived and died." 
 
 — Elizabeth Drew Stoddard. 
 
 70. Wheat, Concord, Mass. 
 
 "Moses Wheat of Concord in His Majesty's Province of 
 Massachusetts Bay in New England, yeoman," was among 
 the earliest settlers at Concord, 1635 or 1636. His father re- 
 sided in England, and Moses, probably, was born there about 
 1616. He died at Concord, May 6, 1700. His wife " Tam= 
 zen " (Thomasine) died July 9, 1689. Their burial-place is 
 unknown ; probably no stones were set ; every inch of the 
 old cemeteries of Concord has been searched for them in vain. 
 Records of Middlesex county name eleven children. 
 
 1. Moses, b. , bu. June 28, 1641. 
 
 2. Samuel (71), b. Oct. 25, 1640, w. p. May 24, 1714. 
 
 3. Hannah (72), b. Feb. 12, 1641-2, living 1691. 
 
 4. Hannath, b. Jan. 15, 1642-3, d. before 1691. 
 
 5. Rebecca (73), b. June 16, 1644, d. April 5, 1721. 
 
 6. Jane, b. — , d. Oct. 13, 1648. 
 
 7. Moses (74), b. , d. Oct. 14, 1720. 
 
 8. John (75), b. Nov. 19, 1649, w. p. June 7, 1715. 
 
 9. Sarah (76), b. , living 1700. 
 
 10. Aaron, b. , ! d. June 13, 1658. 
 
 11. Joshua (77), b. , d. Dec. 15, 1708. 
 
Moses of Concord. 43 
 
 70 A. Moses Wheat probably came from Southwark (South 
 London), for his brother Joshua (61), a lad of seventeen, 
 obtained a church certificate from the minister at St. 
 Saviours, Southwark, 1635. Probably Moses was older than 
 Joshua, for he had two sons, not twins, living in 1640. In 
 the agreement with his brother (70F) he seems to have 
 avoided giving his father's name and place of residence. 
 Many New England settlers did the same, hence the difficulty 
 experienced in tracing lineage across the Atlantic. The poli- 
 tical disturbances in England may have been the cause for 
 this concealment of relatives. The date of the agreement, 
 1688, was at the period when England suffered most severely 
 the atrocious cruelties perpetrated by James II. and his Chief 
 Justice Jeffries. 
 
 As early as 1634 the king, to prevent the transplanting of 
 whole parishes to New England and the consequent depletion 
 of his realm and the creation of a rival state across the sea, 
 forbade ministers and subsidy-men (those who paid passage 
 for poor people) to leave England without a permit. Ships 
 ready to sail were entered by officers and hundreds were 
 removed. In spite of this prohibition the Rev. Peter Bulkley 
 of Odell and Simon Willard of Horsemonden induced twelve 
 families to leave England with them to settle Concord. The 
 minister left his wife in care of Thomas Dane on the " Eliza- 
 beth and Ann," which sailed May 7, 1635, and two days later 
 he sailed from London in the " Susan and Ellen." 
 
 But fear may not have been the only- motive of the Puritan 
 settlers for concealing their identity. The omission of names 
 may have been due to a stoical indifference on the part of the 
 writers, and an aversion for heraldry and pedigrees as if they 
 were forms of ancestor-worship. Whether the omission was 
 a religious principle or not, it was religiously persisted in, 
 even to the extent in some cases of omitting the names of 
 wife and children from wills which conveyed to them estates 
 of real and personal property. Unless some parish register 
 shall reveal the name of Moses Wheat's father, it is not likely 
 to be known. 
 
44 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 Why did not Moses, as well as Joshua, obtain a certificate 
 of conformity and take the oath of supremacy and thus avoid 
 the danger of detention ? Was he suspected of Puritanism ? 
 Did his conscience forbid the oath ? Perhaps he could not 
 obtain the certificate, and would not take the oath. On the 
 other hand, it is possible that he was in Boston before 1634, 
 or that, by error, his name was omitted from the list of those 
 who brought certificates. 
 
 70B. To understand the conditions under which Moses and 
 Tamzen Wheat lived one must read the many histories and 
 other books relating to Concord. From the Charles river, the 
 immigrant band, consisting of men, women and children, 
 encumbered with cattle, poultry, tools, provisions, house- 
 hold goods and the priceless family bible, toiled for days 
 through a country alternating between swamp and crag, 
 obstructed at every step by thorns and tangled vines, to reach 
 their destination only sixteen miles away. Here they made 
 " dug-outs" in the southern slope of a low hill that stretched 
 east and west along the plain for a mile or more. In these 
 miserable dwellings they passed the first winter, and some fami- 
 lies continued to use them for several years. 
 
 These hardy frontiersmen began the work of transforming 
 the swamps and ledges into the garden that smiles at Concord 
 to-day. While strong arms smote the forest, patient mothers 
 toiled and watched, and wept and prayed in homes where 
 tender infants ill endured their hard surroundings. Among 
 them, Moses and Tamzen Wheat had their share of labor, of 
 sorrow and of joy, and did their part in bringing about the 
 new conditions. 
 
 The Concord of to-day was described in ' ' Wheat Glean- 
 ings," July, 1 901, as follows : 
 
 " I have just returned from a visit to Concord, Massachu- 
 setts, for sixty years the home of Moses Wheat, whose 
 descendants are now living in nearly every state in the Union. 
 Several papers of interest were found and copied. The loca- 
 tion of " my mansion dwelling house & barne & y e land joyn- 
 ing to it lying from y e on end to y e other . . . & y e other part 
 
Moses of Concord. 45 
 
 of y e orchard," was recognized. It is a beautiful spot. The 
 heaviest crop of hay I ever saw was being harvested. The 
 air was fragrant with the odor of ripe strawberries, and scores 
 of pickers were gathering the luscious fruit. Stately elms 
 shaded the roadway. Extending for a mile or more along the 
 north side of the street and about one hundred feet distant 
 from it is a low hill of yellow clay and gravel, the terminal 
 moraine of an ancient glacier that lingered in the neighbor- 
 hood after the great ice-cap had retreated far to the north- 
 ward. At the foot of this hill, facing the south, the first set- 
 tlers built their log cabins. At the west end of the hill they 
 built their pastor's house, and almost under its eaves up 
 the sloping ground they made their earliest graves. 
 
 Before their doors stretched away a broad meadow, whose 
 soil is still black with the accumulated mold of centuries. A 
 brook of clear water which divides the meadow contributed 
 its share to the prosperity of the infant colony, for it then, as 
 now, bore the name of ' Mill Brook.' No doubt it yielded an 
 abundance of speckled trout. In every field and along the 
 roadside I was greeted by the rich note of ' Bob White. ' 
 
 Here occurred the first clash at arms of the Revolution. 
 Along the roadway stand granite monuments inscribed with 
 tales of the heroism of Paul Revere and the ' embattled 
 farmers' who 'fired the shot heard round the world.'" — 
 5. C. Wheat. 
 
 70C. When Moses Wheat came to America is unknown, 
 but both he and his brother Joshua arrived in Concord in time 
 to receive as their assignment of town lands the eleventh and 
 thirteenth houselots, being the fifth and sixth lots eastward 
 from the minister's on the north side of Mill Brook. The lots 
 were laid off in two rows on the opposite sides of Mill Brook. 
 The minister received the first lot on the north side of the 
 brook. This system of numbering is my own. It is used 
 merely to prove that Moses was one of the first fifteen settlers 
 of Concord. I do not know of any record of the first allot- 
 ment of land, but many years afterward each owner was 
 directed to prepare a description of his land and have it 
 recorded in y e Town Book. The average size of the lots was 
 ten acres. Moses Wheat's lot of sixteen acres was the largest 
 in the village. It is inferred that his original lot contained 
 but ten acres, and that Joshua's lot of six acres was adjacent 
 
46 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 to it, giving to Moses sixteen acres when the two lots were 
 united. , 
 
 Larger tracts of land could be acquired outside the village, 
 and Moses Wheat continued to add to his holdings from time 
 to time until he had 339 acres in twenty-three separate allot- 
 ments. Besides this he secured his brother Joshua's six-acre 
 houselot, and bought land of two of his neighbors. He moved 
 from the village and resided on Bedford Road about two miles 
 east of the church. 
 
 70D. Moses Wheat was made a freeman, May 18, 1642. 
 He was tithingman at church and kept people awake during 
 the long sermons that Puritan ministers were fond of deliv- 
 ering. He signed his name, not his "mark," and probably 
 composed the agreement with Joshua. He may have com- 
 posed his will and written it with his own hand. The docu- 
 ment bears internal evidence that it was not written by a pro- 
 fessional schrivener. But whatever were his attainments he 
 neglected his children's education. Only two of them, Samuel 
 and Moses, could sign their names. 
 
 70 E. Concord. Vital Records. 
 
 Samuel the sonneof moses wheate was borne 25 (8°) 1640. 
 
 moses the sonne of moses wheate buried 28 (4 ) 1641. 
 
 Hannah his daught 1 " borne 12 (12 ) 1641-2. 
 
 Hannah thedaught r of moses wheate borne 19° (12 ) 164 1-2. 
 [Should be buried, died or baptized instead of "borne," 
 or it may be a repetition of the record one week after first 
 entry] . 
 
 Hannath the daught r of Moses and Tamzen Wheat borne 
 15th (11 mo) 1642-3. 
 
 Rebecka daughter of Moses and Tamzen Wheat 16 (4) 1644. 
 
 Jane daughter of Moses and Tamzen Wheat died 13 (8) 1648. 
 
 John son of Moses and Tamzen Wheat born 19 (9) mo 1649. 
 
 Aaron son of Moses and Tamsen Wheat died 13th June 
 1658. 
 
 John Bigelow and Sarah Wheat were married 27 may 1675. 
 
Moses of Concord. 47 
 
 Samewell Stratton & hannah Wheat married 20 oct 1675. 
 
 Tamzen Wheat y e wife of Moses died July y e 9th dy 1689. 
 
 Moses Wheat senor died may y e 6th day 1700, 
 
 Sam 11 Wheat and Abigail Baker both of Concord marryed 
 April y e 7th 1703. 
 
 Joshua Wheat died Dec. 15, 1708. 
 
 Boaz Brown & Abigail Wheat married Sept. 10, 17 16, 
 
 Moses Wheat dyed October y e i4the day 1720. 
 
 Rebeckah Wheat y e daughter of Moses (Deceased) dyed 
 April y e 5 dy 1721. 
 
 Vital records were not kept at Concord before 1640; and 
 records have been lost for the periods Sept. 17, 1650 to Feb., 
 1654, and from 1675 to 1685. 
 
 70F. Agreement between Moses and Joshua 
 entered in ll y e Town Book of Concord, vol. I. p. 126. 
 
 The 24th day of if ebruary in the year one Thousand six hun- 
 dred eighty and nine ninety 
 
 Know whom it may concern y fc about forty-nine years ago 
 y* was about y e year one Thousand six hundred fourty 01 
 fourty one : that Joshua Wheat : Brother to me Moses Wheat 
 seinri went from me his said Brother then Residing & living 
 in Concord : y e s d Joshua Wheat my brother : being & goeing 
 to England to my father & his father then living : my s d 
 Bro : Joshua having some land in this Town of Concord : my 
 s d Bro 1 made this Agreement with me his s d Bro 1 : Moses 
 W 7 heat Senir : that if he y e s d Joshua Came not to new eng- 
 land againe y 4 I should have & enjoy that little land y l was 
 his lying in Concord : & improve it & looke after it as my 
 owne : also I y e s d Moses Wheat Senir made this Agreement 
 with my s d Brother Joshua : that at my fathers death if my 
 father left me any legacy or gift I y e s d Moses : did grant 
 bargain & fully allow him my s d Brother Joshua to receive 
 take and enjoy it as own : both he & his heirs — also he my s d 
 Bro : left his little land he hade in Concord to be enjoyed by 
 me & mine he not coming again to new england as above said 
 & since y e time y l my s d brother Joshua & I his s d bro 1 : moses 
 
48 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 made this Agreement y* is fourty nine years as above said : 
 I y e s d Moses Wheat senir have had none y l demanded y e s d 
 little parcel of land : though my Bro* : Joshua lived y e most 
 of ye time This the true agreement made between me y e s d 
 Moses Wheat senir & my Brother Joshua Wheat as I y e s d 
 Moses Wheat Can & will if required & put to it attest upon 
 oath Witness my hand Moses Wheat Senir. 
 
 70G. Moses Wheat's Wiel, 
 
 copied from the original document. 
 
 I Moses wheat Senior in the town of Concord in County of 
 Middlesex in New England being in perfect memory praised 
 be God : Doe make this my last will & testament in manner as 
 followeth — My soul I commite into y e hands of God my most 
 mersiful father in Jesus Christ who hath Caled me by his 
 word & Spirit to y e fellowship of his son Jesus Christ : Believ- 
 ing y e resurrection of my "body at y e last and great day of y e 
 generall assembly : : & my body to be desently buryed — by y e 
 executors of my will : for my temporall Estate as followeth : : 
 I will y e all my True Debtes be honerably paid and my funeral 
 charges satisfied I will and give to my Eldest son Samuel Wheat 
 my mansion dwelling house & barne and y e one half of y e 
 land joyning to it lying from y e on end to y e other joining to 
 nathaniel Harwood and that part of y e orchard y* that falleth 
 in to Said half of also my three acres more or less lying be- 
 tween nathaniel Hardwood and John Joans : : Also I will and 
 give to my son John Wheat my dwelling house bought of 
 Thomas Adams with ye other half of y e lots joyning to Sd 
 house & y e other part of y e orchard : : Also I will & give to 
 both my sons Samuel and John Wheat all my meadow & up- 
 land be it more or less lying in and by the meadow Commonly 
 Called y e Bridge meadow : : also my 9 acres of meadow more 
 or less at the . . land joyning to nathan Stows meadow : 
 also my four acres of meadow more or less lying pine hill with 
 y e upland joyning to it : also my meadow and upland lying 
 Cranefield also all my woodland more or less lying toward 
 chessnut field : : Also I will and give to my son Moses Wheat 
 
Moses of Concord. 49 
 
 my thirty eight acres of upland lying beyond my nine acres of 
 medow also all medow in Rochi medow : : also six acres 
 bot of my son Straton also my seven score acres of upland & 
 swamp with y e wood hill be it more or less I will and give to 
 my three sons Samuel John and Moses Wheat in equal right : : 
 also I will and give to my daughter Rebecca Wheat ^50 out 
 of my estate : five acres of upland on y e plaine joyning to 
 Nathaniel Balls land to be accounted as a part of y e s d £50 : 
 also I will to my son Joshua Wheat five pounds : : also to my 
 daughter Hannah Straton five pounds : : also to my daughter 
 Sarah Hill five pounds : : also I will & give to all my grand : 
 children ten shillings apiece : also I give to my two sons Samuel 
 and John Wheat eleven acres in y e ox pasture & my 6 A in 
 CheeSnut field : also I give and will that my land lying on my 
 plaine be improved by all my three sons whilst they live to- 
 gether : but when my son Moses goeth to dwell on his own 
 then my sons Samuel and John Wheat to possess and enjoy it 
 to themselves : also I make my two sons Samuel & John Wheat 
 joint executors of this my last will & testament : In an ac- 
 knowledgment that this my last will & testament I y e above 
 Moses Wheat Seinr set to my hand and seal this nineteenth 
 day of September in y e year one thousand six hundred ninety 
 & one. 
 
 Sealed and subscribed /? x r> 
 
 in presence of ^HyiC^fC^O ^i^CHli^ 
 
 Nathaniel Harwood c^J C\j cty 
 
 Jonathan Hubard 
 
 Proved June 11, 1700. 
 
 70H. Agreement of the Heirs. 
 
 The will when presented for probate was deemed imperfect. 
 It began with the words, " My soul I commite . . ." The 
 first sentence ending with " in manner as followeth," differs 
 from the rest of the instrument both in penmanship and in 
 ink used. It was probably added after the heirs had signed 
 
50 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 the agreement. This agreement was endorsed by the re- 
 corder as follows : 
 
 ye e Wheats agreemt for Cfiring y e will. 
 This may signify to whom it may concern that we the 
 subscribers hereof, being the children to & Heirs of our 
 honoured father, Moses wheat of Concord, in the county of 
 Midlesex, in New England, decea st the sixth day of May 
 Inst nt who did y e ninteenth of Septemb er in y e year Anno 
 Dominie one thousand, six hundred ninety & one, make 
 & sign a will, In making of w ch there was not taken (per- 
 chance) that accute methard and form as might have been at- 
 tended, yet notwithstanding we his children aforesd. do de- 
 clare that we do believe that what he then signed as aforesd 
 was no other than what he did truly Intend at the time, And 
 we the subscribers having a desire to continue peace & 
 unity amongst ourselves as hath been hitherto, as also to pre- 
 vent any future Jealoucies & disturbances that may arise or 
 be practiced amongst us, we do by these presents Declare 
 ourselves satisfyed & contented w th what our sd honoured 
 father hath done on that behalfe. And do firmly Binde & 
 oblige ourselves our Heirs executo rs & Administrato rs unto 
 each other their Heirs executo rs Administrato rs & Assigns, 
 to stand to, and abide, and Acquaess in, the sd will of our 
 sd father to all Intents & purposes, and to shew that this 
 is our free absolute & mutiall agreement we have respec- 
 tively affixed our hands & seals — this fourteenth day of May 
 Anno Domini one Thousand & seven hundred 
 
 ] his 
 
 J „ , J „ ^ , . Samuel X Stratton Sen r (Seal) 
 Signed Sealed and Declared , 
 
 ° . . marke 
 
 in presence of us 
 
 nathanail harwood 
 
 Thomas Browne Sen r 
 
 acknoled by all 
 Isaac Hill 
 
 Samuel Wheat 
 
 (Seal) 
 
 his 
 
 
 John X Wheat 
 
 (Seal) 
 
 marke 
 
 
 his 
 
 
 Joshua X Wheat 
 
 (Seal) 
 
 marke 
 
 
Moses of Concord. 51 
 
 her 
 
 
 Rebeca X Wheat 
 
 (Seal) 
 
 marke 
 
 
 her 
 
 
 Sarah X Hill 
 
 (Seal) 
 
 marke 
 
 
 Moses Wheat 
 
 (Seal) 
 
 Isaac Hill 
 
 (Seal) 
 
 this is to be recorded 
 & also y e will for 
 y e strengthig of it. 
 
 70I. The character of Moses Wheat was of a positive type. 
 On the bank of the Thames, an outspoken Puritan ; in Con- 
 cord, a man of rigid conscience and iron will, but not vindic- 
 tive ; in controversy, discreet. He remained in Concord 
 through all the bitter doctrinal strife which rent that little 
 community and drove half its families into exile. Its swamps 
 were more inviting to him than was his birth-right in England ; 
 for this was the price he paid for Joshua's six acres (six shil- 
 lings' worth) of town land. From one point of view he was 
 a land-miser, ever getting, but never selling ; denying his 
 children an education and forbidding them to marry in order 
 to keep them at home and thus aid in increasing the estate in- 
 stead of reducing it by division. With what complacence he 
 consented to undertake the responsibility of ownership for 
 "that little parcel of land that was my sd Bro : Joshua's." 
 Several of his children could not sign their names. The son 
 who married received by his father's will but £5, while the 
 three others received together more than 330 acres of land 
 with buildings and stock. The daughters who married re- 
 ceived £5 each, while their unmarried sister received ^50. 
 
 From another viewpoint he was an excellent provider, 
 having the most productive farm and the best house, team, 
 wagons and implements in the neighborhood — a man who 
 took pride in himself, his property and his family, with, pos- 
 sibly, the fault of putting property before family, and of in- 
 cluding both within the corporate entity SELF, forgetting that 
 his children would be far happier if allowed or assisted to set 
 up homes for themselves. But many fathers in all times and 
 places have had this fault. 
 
52 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 The failure to educate one's children was only too common 
 a fault in his day. Many who grew up with them also made 
 their " mark" The unequal division of property in his will 
 may not be a sign of displeasure with those who married, for 
 they may have received gifts at the time of their marriage, 
 and they were apparently prosperous at the writing of the 
 will ; besides, the unmarried sons and daughter had remained 
 at home more than twenty years helping to acquire and im- 
 prove land. By giving the estate mainly to them he was only 
 just. 
 
 It may have been mere chance that the three marriages 
 took place within a few weeks ; Sarah, May 27, Joshua, June 
 10, and Hannah, Oct. 20, 1775. Their father has left on 
 record no word or sign that can be taken without reservation 
 as a token of displeasure with their act, yet one cannot fail to 
 " read between the lines " of the will. 
 
 70 J. So far as I have discovered, the name of Thomasine 
 Wheat occurs only in Concord vital records. For more than 
 fifty years she was to her family all that is comprehended in 
 the word MOTHER. 
 
 71. Wheat, Concord, Mass. 
 
 Samuel Wheat (70- 2 ), yeoman, admitted a freeman March 
 12, 1689-90, remained single until after his father's death, by 
 whose will he received the homestead and an interst in other 
 lands. At the age of sixty- three he married, April 7, 1703, 
 Abigail Ballard {Abigail Baker in Concord records) and three 
 years later made a will bequeathing his entire estate to his 
 young wife. He had sold nothing that came to him by his 
 father's will, but had bought much that fell to the other heirs 
 from parties to whom they had conveyed it. His will was 
 proved May 24, 17 14. They had no children. 
 
 Widow Abigail Wheat received a year later by will of John 
 Wheat (75) his entire " property of every sort." After sell- 
 ing most of her land she married, Sept. 10, 17 16, Boaz 
 Brown, a widower seventy-five years of age. '* Boaz Brown 
 husband to Abigail his wife Died April y e 7 : 1724." She 
 
Moses of Concord. 53 
 
 had no children. Her will gives personal property to the 
 value of ,£159-19-7 to her relatives, and all her real estate to 
 the heirs of Joshua Wheat (77) and Isaac Hill (76). She 
 died July 20, 1726. 
 
 In these wills the name Wheat has two fs, Wheatt. The 
 three wills seem to be the product of one head, possibly of 
 one hand. 
 
 72. Stratton, Concord, Mass. 
 
 Hannah Wheat ( 70-3 ) married, Oct. 20, 1675, Samuel 
 Stratton, a widower. They had several children all of whom 
 died young. She did not sign at the settlement of her father's 
 estate, but her husband signed his mark. 
 
 "Samuel Stratton y e husband of Hannah his Late wife 
 dyed Decemb r y e 5th day 1707." 
 
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 73. Wheat, Concord, Mass. 
 
 Rebecca Wheat ( 70-5 ) never married. After her mother's 
 death in 1689 she was housekeeper until 1703 when Samuel 
 brought a young wife to be mistress of ' ' my mansion house. ' ' 
 There is no other record of Rebecca until her death in 1721, 
 but from the fact that she was not remembered in the will of 
 either Samuel or John, who lived on the homestead, it seems 
 probable that she lived with one of Joshua's sons. 
 
 74. Wheat, Concord, Mass. 
 
 Moses Wheat ( 70-7 ), husbandman, served in the war 
 against King Philip under Captain Wheeler at Groton gar- 
 rison, June 24, 1676, and in the Narragansett expedition. For 
 this service he was entitled to a grant of public land, but the 
 grant was not made until April 18, 1735, fifteen years after 
 his death. His allotment passed to his heir, his nephew 
 Joseph Wheat ( 77-3 ). His father in his will alludes to the 
 time when ' ' my son Moses Wheat shall go to live on his own 
 land." Probably this refers to the expected grant for mili- 
 tary service. 
 
54 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 Aug. 8, 1700, he sold for twenty shillings a year a half in- 
 terest in seven acres " to my cousin Joseph Wheat." Joseph 
 was his brother Joshua's son. The word nephew was not 
 then in use. Feb. 20, 1706, he deeded all his lands "to my 
 cousin Joseph Wheat," the latter to care for Moses during 
 life or forfeit the land to the Selectmen, who would then 
 provide for Moses Perhaps he was a cripple or an invalid 
 and unable to care for himself. 
 
 75. Wheat, Concord, Mass. 
 
 John Wheat (70-s ), yeoman, was never married. Within 
 two years after his father's death he had transferred to his 
 brother Joshua and to Joshua's son Joseph all the land in- 
 herited from his father, and the five acres bought of Rebecca. 
 His will reads, "I . . . do give and bequeath unto my 
 sister Abigail Wheatt her heirs .... all my estate 
 whatsoever and wheresoever it is or may be found of all sorts 
 and kinds with all my wearing apparel arms and all things 
 else whatsoever." Abigail was his brother's widow. His 
 own sister Rebecca was then living, either under the same 
 roof or with " cousin " Joseph in the same town. 
 
 A petition from Captain Wheeler ' ' To the Honorable 
 Governor and Council in Boston," June 28, 1677, prays tnat 
 certain youths from Concord may be dismissed from the 
 militia and sent home, having been pressed into service for 
 light duty for one week, but kept a long time in the fort at 
 heavy duty. The " youths " were Samuel Stratton Jr., 
 John Wheat, aged twenty-eight, John Bull and Thomas 
 Wooly. 
 
 76. Hill, Malden, Mass. 
 
 Sarah Wheat (70-9) married first, May 27, 1675 John 
 Bigelow, and probably removed from Concord. In her 
 father's will she is Sarah Hill. She made her " marke," and 
 her husband signed Isaac Hill. 
 
 Nov. 27, 1726, the heirs of Joshua Wheat (77) sold their in- 
 terests in lands willed to them by Abigail (Wheat) Brown 
 (71) to the heirs of Sarah Hill. The Hill heirs are : 
 
Joshua of Concord. 55 
 
 1. Moses Hill, ] 
 
 2. Abraham Hill, V all of Maiden, Mass. 
 
 3. Phineas Upliam, J 
 
 4. Jonathan Sprague, ) t ,« r TT7 t ._ 
 
 * i , w . , > both of Woburn, Mass. 
 
 5. Joseph Wright, J 
 
 77- Wheat, Concord, Mass. 
 Joshua Wheat (70-n), yeoman, married at Lynn, Mass. 
 June 10, 1675, Elizabeth Hansfield, d. Feb. 3, 1703-4, 
 daughter of Joseph Mansfield of Lynn and Elizabeth Need- 
 ham. The record at Lynn says "Joshua Weat and Eliza- 
 beth Mansjeald." The}' had at least five sons, three of whom 
 were living 1726. It is possible, but hardly probable, that 
 John Wheat (67) was their son. 
 
 1. Moses, b. at Lynn, May 30, 1676, d. June 15, 
 
 1676. 
 
 2. Samuel (78), b. at Concord, July 31, 1677, d. 1735. 
 
 3. Joseph, bought and sold land, 1700 to 1741, mar- 
 
 ried Priscilla Flegg and left many descendants 
 who will be described in a later volume. 
 
 4. Joshua (77A), d. March 2, 1762, a physician. 
 
 5. Moses (77A), b. at Groton, Sept. 1686. 
 
 77 A. Joshua and Elizabeth Wheat resided for a short 
 time at Lynn, then at Concord. He bought land at Groton, 
 Mass. 1679, and resided there until 1691, possibly until 1700. 
 After his father's death he exchanged his land in Groton 
 with his brother John for a part of their father's estate. The 
 same day, Dec. 19, 1701, he deeded half of this land "to 
 my eldest son Samuel Wheat ; " and five years later sold the 
 rest to his son Joseph. He made no will. 
 
 He was enrolled March 17, 169 1-2 in the West Regiment 
 and served in garrison. 
 
 Middlesex Deeds. — The heirs of Joshua Wheat deeded, Nov. 
 22, 1726, to the heirs of Sarah Hill (76) for ^63, "all our 
 right to anything given us in the last will of our aunt Abigail 
 Brown (71) of Concord, deceased, except what she hath given 
 or sold by deeds. " Signed by 
 
56 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 Samuel Wheat of Cambridge, Mass., pr^sician ; 
 
 Joseph Wheat of Concord, Mass., farmer ; 
 
 Joshua Wheat of Weston, Mass., physician. 
 
 Lynn Intentions of Marriage. — "June 10, 17 10, Moses 
 Wheat and Deborah Mansfield both belonging to Lynn." 
 
 This Moses Wheat is believed to be the son of Joshua born 
 at Groton, 1686, and brought up by the Mansfields. He did 
 not sign the deed with his brothers, 1726. 
 
 Needham Marriages. — " vSamuel Glover and Ruth Wheat 
 both of Needham, were married, September 28, 1752." The 
 Glover Memorial calls Ruth a daughter of Moses Wheat of 
 Needham. She had a son Samuel born 1755 or 1756. 
 
 First Church of Needham. — "Doctor Joshua Wheat died 
 March 2, 1762, at Mr. Jonathan Huntting's." This is prob- 
 ably the Dr. Joshua who signed the deed, 1726. No other 
 record of him is known. 
 
 77B. The character of Joshua Wheat is in striking contrast 
 with that of his father and brothers. His brothers remained 
 at home ignorant and unmarried ; his father labored appar- 
 ently with the sole object of possessing land and bequeathing 
 it to his sons. But Joshua left the paternal roof in youth, 
 married, and educated his sons for a profession. Not one of 
 the eight succeeding generations of his line has failed to pro- 
 duce physicians, ministers, or lawyers. A delight in learning 
 for the love of knowing seems almost universal among his 
 descendants. 
 
 What led the steps of the young adventurer to Lynn ? By 
 whom was he introduced to the Mansfields ? Did his mother 
 discover the spirit of expansion budding in his youthful heart, 
 watch and nurse it until, grown to manhood, she sent him to 
 her kinspeople ? Was it the ambition of the young father, or 
 the strong purpose of the tender mother that determined and 
 accomplished the education of their sons? It may never be 
 possible to answer these queries, but it is altogether probable 
 that his mother laid the foundation of Joshua Wheat's ambi- 
 tion, and that Elizabeth Mansfield was his inspiration. 
 
Dr. Samuel Wheat. 57 
 
 77C. Mansfield Lineage. 
 
 Elizabeth /lansfield, b. at Lynn, d. at Concord, Mass., Feb. 3, 
 1703-4, m. June 10, 1675, Joshua Wheat, d. Dec. 15, 1708 ; daughter of 
 Joseph, d. at Lynn, Mass., April 22, 1694, m. Elizabeth Needham, d. 
 8, 7 mo, 1674 ; son of Robert of Lynn, d. Dec. 16, 1666. 
 
 xiij Aprilis 1635 : In the Susan & Ellin Edward Payne Mr for New 
 England theis pnies hereunder expressed have brought Certificate from 
 the Minister & Justice of their Conformitie & that they are no Subsedy 
 Men. 
 
 Among the " hereunder expressed " is the name " Jo : Mansfield 34 " 
 (years of age). 
 
 John Mansfield of Lynn was admitted a freeman 1643 \ Robert of 
 Lynn, 1642 ; Andrew of Lynn from England 1636 or earlier, said to be 
 from Exeter in Devon. 
 
 Among the Mansfields were college graduates, schoolmasters, physi- 
 cians and representatives in the colonial legislature. Andrew of Lynn 
 was Town Clerk 1666, Representative 1680-1683. Samuel graduated at 
 Harvard 1690. A Mr. Mansfield opened a private school in Charles- 
 town and drew many pupils from the public school, for which complaint 
 was made against him 1666. 
 
 77D. Needham Lineage. 
 
 Elizabeth Needham, d. 8, 7 mo., 1674, m. Joseph Mansfield, d. April 
 22, 1694 ; daughter of Edmund from England, d. at Lynn, Mass., May 
 16, 1677, m. Jone who d. Oct. 24, 1674, aged 65. 
 
 Widow Hary Needham of Hampstead, county Middlesex, England, 
 in her will, April 12, 1660, left a legacy " to my son Edmund in New 
 England." (w. p. 20 March 1661). 
 
 A favorite physician of William the Conqueror was Frodo Needham, 
 brother of the Abbot of St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Frodo held estates in 
 Suffolk and in Essex 1086. To a younger son he gave Mendham and 
 Needham. From this son descended the families of Mendham and 
 Needham in Norfolk. 
 
 78. Wheat, Watertown, Mass. 
 Doctor Samuel Wheat (77-2 ), physician, was successful 
 in his profession and acquired considerable wealth. He mar- 
 ried first Lydia, "who joined the church in Concord." — 
 Bond' 's Watertown. She died April 6, 1720, aged 44, and was 
 buried at Dedham. He married second at Needham, Nov. 8, 
 1720, Mary Chadwick, who survived him The names of 
 the twins suggest that Lydia was a Jemrison, or possibly her 
 mother was Lydia Jennison. 
 
58 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 i. Samuel, b. Watertown, Oct. 2, 1703, d. Aug. 9, 
 1770. 
 
 2. Salmon, b. Watertown, Jan. 7, 1705-6. 
 
 3. Benjamin, b. d. Norwich, Ct. Jan. 27, 1758, 
 
 aged 49. 
 
 4. Solomon (79), b. d. about 1797. See 79 A. 
 
 5. Jennison, ) , „ , „ 
 
 6 Lvdia \ ' Watertown, May 8, 17 13, d. before 
 
 1735- 
 Samuel, Salmon and Benjamin left families. They will be 
 described in a later volume. 
 
 78 A. Dr. Samuel Wheat bought land in several towns, all 
 near Boston. He resided in turn at Concord, Newton, 
 Watertown, Needham, Cambridge and Roxbury. From his 
 widow's statement it appears that he visited the Bermuda 
 Islands. Land was sold 1733, for ,£ioo. He died 1735, at 
 the age of fifty-eight, while many of his ancestors and 
 descendants have exceeded ninety years. Possibly he went 
 to Bermuda for his health, and may have died there. As 
 landmarks in his history a few quotations from Middlesex 
 Deeds are presented. 
 
 Dec. 19,1701, " I Joshua Wheat of Concord .... hav- 
 ing purchased the Housings, Land & Tenements which 
 belonged to my brother John Wheat of Concord, given unto 
 him by our honored father Moses Wheat, deceased, in his last 
 will . . . ; to show my care .... for my eldest son 
 vizt : Sam'l Wheat of Concord .... do give .... 
 unto him one half of sd Tenements . . . " ; April 3, 1703, 
 Samuel Wheat of Newton bought one rood in Newton for 
 twenty shillings ; Aug. 23, 1703, Samuel Wheat of Water- 
 town bought two lots, twenty-seven acres, in Watertown for 
 ,£24; Oct. 11, 1712, of Watertown bought seven acres in 
 Watertown "with mansion house, barne and orchard" for 
 ^91 ; Feb. 14, 1715, of Watertown, and wife Lydia, sold 
 seven acres (above) for ^130; June 6, 1722, of Needham, 
 bought "lot, house and smith shop " in Cambridge for ^"46- 
 
Dr. Solomon Wheat 59 
 
 10-00 ; April 25, 1733, of Roxbury, and wife Mary, sold land 
 for £ 100. 
 
 From probate records of Suffolk county, Mass. , it appears 
 that, Aug. 1, 1735, Dr. Samuel Wheat of Newton was made 
 administrator for the estate of Dr. Samuel Wheat, late of 
 Roxbury, deceased. Widow Wheat accepted ^166 as her 
 dower, and called herself " Mary Wheat of Watertown, widow 
 of Dr. Samuel Wheat late of Bermudas in the West Indies." 
 The heirs divided the remainder of the estate into five equal 
 parts, two for Samuel who must pay all debts, and one for 
 each of his brothers. They signed in the following order : 
 
 1. Samuel Wheat of Newton, Massachusetts, physician ; 
 
 2. Salmon Wheat of Canterbury, Connecticut ; 
 
 3. Benjamin Wheat of Norwich, Connecticut ; 
 
 4. Solomon Wheat of Sea Brook, New London county, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 79. Wheat, Windham, Conn. 
 
 Doctor 5olomon Wheat (78-4 ), physician, married first 
 Annie who died after 1747. He married second Margaret 
 who probably died before 1770 for she is not mentioned in the 
 " warning out " at Westford. Records so far as discovered, 
 give him four children with a probable fifth, Jemima. The 
 daughters are the children of Annie ; the son is probably the 
 child of Margaret, for tradition (3) makes him " the only son 
 of Dr. Solomon Wheat and Peggy Green." 
 
 i. Annie, b. at Windham, Ct., July 8, 1736. 
 
 2. Hannah, b. at Windham, Ct., July 16, 1738. 
 
 3. Jemima (?), Uxbridge intentions of marriage, 79B. 
 
 4. Elizabeth, b. at Windham, Nov. 14, 1747, [d. at Need- 
 
 ham, Mass., Dec. 16, 1807 (?) ] 
 
 5. Solomon (80), b. 1750 (?) d. March 1841, aged 89. 
 
 79 A. Dr. Solomon Wheat was a "rolling stone" and gath- 
 ered little " moss.'' He left footprints in the various towns 
 in which he sojourned in the form of deeds recorded in the 
 land offices, and of vital records on the town books. 
 
60 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 June 18th, 1734, he mortgaged his place in Saybrook, Conn, 
 to Benjamin Wheat and John Carew, both of Norwich, Conn. ; 
 June 2, 1735, he sold this property to Sarah Martyn of Boston ; 
 Aug. 1, 1735, he signed the settlement of his father's estate 
 at Boston and was then of Saybrook ; three daughters were 
 born to Solomon and Annie Wheat at Windham, Conn., 1736, 
 1738 and 1747; July 1, 1738, he bought sixty-five acres 
 in Needham, Mass. for ^600 and was of Windham ; June 14, 
 1739, he sold land in Needham and was of Ashford, Conn.; 
 Aug. 17, 1752, he bought land in Ashford, and was of Wind- 
 ham ; 1753, he bought in Uxbridge, Mass. and was of Men- 
 don, Mass.; July 8, 1759, he sold the Uxbridge land, and wife 
 "Margery" signed; March 13, 1759, " Benjamin Robinson 
 of Providence, R. I., Cordwainer, .... in consideration 
 of Two Thousand pounds . . . grant, sell ... to 
 Solomon Wheate of Uxbridge, County of Worcester, Province 
 of Massachusetts Bay in New England, practicioner in physics 
 . . . . lot with dwelling house in Providence;" 1761, 
 forty-seven residents of Providence subscribed for a township 
 on Tantimar river in Nova Scotia ; Nov. 29, 1762, " Solomon 
 Wheat of Hopkinton, County of Middlesex, Province of 
 Massachusetts Bay in New England, Physician, .... 
 in consideration of Three Hundred Fifty Spanish Milled 
 Dollars .... give, grant .... to Amos Horton 
 of Providence, R. I., mason, .... lot with dwelling 
 house in Providence .... wife signed, Margret 
 Wheat" ; Aug. 24, 1767, of Needham, he bought land in 
 Westford, Mass., and was taxed therefrom 1768 to 1771 and 
 again in 1774; In September 1770 he was "warned out" 
 of Westford by the selectmen who called him ' 'Solomon Wheat 
 from Needham"; Oct. 24, 1797, "Solomon Wheat of Chatham, 
 Conn., Clerk " and wife Hannah (80) sold land at Westford, 
 Mass., being the whole tract that my honored father lately 
 owned." 
 
 Being " warned out" is not proof that he was an undesir 
 able citizen. It was a legal form which relieved the town of the 
 care of the persons warned should they become paupers. To 
 
Solomon and Hannah Wheat. 6i 
 
 protect the town, some boards of selectmen warned out nearly 
 every new-comer. No one was expected to leave for the 
 warning. Each member of the family was named in the 
 warning. Since Solomon Wheat is named alone he certainly 
 had no wife or child dependent on him in 1 770. Where he lived 
 from 1775 to 1797 is not known. He is not on the muster 
 rolls of Westford for the Revolution, nor on the list of tories. 
 
 79B. Uxbridge records: John Burnap of Hopkinton, Mass. 
 and Anna Wheat of Uxbridge were married May 1, 1755- 
 Intention of marriage between Joseph Taler of Concord, Mass. 
 and Hannah Wheat of Uxbridge was published, Aug. 18, 
 1758 ; and between Abraham Taylor of Concord and Jemima 
 Wheat of Uxbridge, Nov. 18, 1758. 
 
 Needham records : Elizabeth Wheat died Dec. 16, 1807. 
 
 80. Wheat, Chatham, Conn. 
 
 Doctor Solomon Wheat, (79-5), physician and baptist 
 elder, studied and practiced the healing art with his father at 
 Westford, Mass. He married Oct. 31, 1769, Hannah 
 Richardson, baptized 1750, died June 6, 1842, aged ninety- 
 two, daughter of Thomas Richardson and Rebecca Read 
 (80J). They resided at Westford 1774 and, possibly, later. 
 From 1 78 1 to 1834 they resided in the town of Chatham, 
 Conn., near the border of Glastonbury. In the summer of 
 1834 they removed to Franklin, N. Y., and spent the remain- 
 der of their days at the home of their son William. 
 
 In Connecticut he was called Doctor Wheat; at Franklin he 
 was Elder Wheat. Their family bible contains the names of 
 thirteen children with dates of births : 
 
 I. 
 
 Solomon, 
 
 b. Aug. 24, 1770, d. Jan. 28, 
 
 1777. 
 
 2. 
 
 William (81), 
 
 b. Jan. 19, 1772, d. March 7, 
 
 1868. 
 
 3- 
 
 Thomas, 
 
 b. Jan. 14, 1774. 
 
 
 4- 
 
 Samuel, 
 
 b. May 25, 1776. 
 
 
 5- 
 
 Solomon, 
 
 b. April 24, 1778. 
 
 
 6. 
 
 John, 
 
 b. Nov. 17, 1779. 
 
 
 7- 
 
 James, 
 
 b. Nov. 18, 1781. 
 
 
 8. 
 
 Rebecca, 
 
 b. Oct. 17, 1783. 
 
 
 9- 
 
 Hannah Richardson 
 
 b. Nov. 3, 1785, d. 1827. 
 
 
62 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 io. Benjamin Eovell, b. Sept, 17, 1787. 
 
 11. Elizabeth, b. Feb. 17, 1789. 
 
 12. Sally, b. Jan. 21, 1791, d. Mar. 21, 1825. 
 
 13. Aaron, b. Feb. 12, 1793. 
 
 80 A. The only record of a tax-bill presented to Dr. Wheat 
 at Westford is dated Nov. 11, 1774, and is for one poll and 
 personal property. Probably this bill was presented the first 
 year after he reached his majority, which supports the tradi- 
 tion that he was married before he was eighteen. Where he 
 resided from 1775 to 1780 is not known. Tradition says he 
 was a surgeon in the patriot army. No record of such ser- 
 vice can be found in Washington or in any New England 
 state. The records, however, are incomplete, especially in 
 regard to surgeons, chaplains and musicians. Perhaps he 
 served his country as he did his church — " in °A free State 
 .... at my own opsion When & Where I Please on Seeing 
 A Call of God therefor." 
 
 June 20, 1781. " Solomon Wheat of Windsor" purchased 
 a farm in the northern part of the town of Chatham, Conn. 
 No record of him has been found at any Windsor in New 
 England. The farm was near East Glastonbury with which 
 place he was identified rather than with Chatham. 
 
 80B. At what time he abandoned the practice of medi- 
 cine to become a clergyman is not known. Probably the 
 transition was gradual, and he ministered alike to the physical 
 and the spiritual infirmities of his people. A history of Mid- 
 dlesex county says, " A baptist church was organized in the 
 northern part of Chatham in 1783 and had members from 
 Glastonbury. It ceased to exist many years ago." While 
 pastor of a church he took up the work of evangelist, 
 traveling on horseback to all parts of Connecticut, and 
 preaching wherever he could find an audience. 
 
 80C. When age and failing strength compelled him to 
 give up preaching and the loss of his property obliged him to 
 seek a new home, he made a journey alone on horseback to 
 visit his sons at Franklin, Owego and Sacketts Harbor in the 
 
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 state of New York. At the latter place lived his son Aaron, 
 who had become a prominent citizen and politician, and had 
 held the office of sheriff. One afternoon while surrounded 
 by a group of his townsmen the ex-sheriff was surprised and 
 deeply mortified at the unexpected appearance of the vener- 
 able parson clad in a suit that had long since proved its merit 
 for durability and sitting bestride an enormous pair of saddle- 
 bags, which almost hid from view the faithful steed whose 
 best days, like his master's, were flown. 
 
 The son lost no time in getting the aged pilgrim and his 
 mount into comfortable quarters and then upbraided his father 
 for not sending word of his intended visit and of his misfor- 
 tune, for then money would have been sent so that the journey 
 might have been made in comfort, and his appearance in keep- 
 ing with his son's estate. Doctor Wheat regarded the inci- 
 dent as an amusing joke at his son's expense, and a much 
 needed lesson in humility. 
 
 80D. After a year spent with their daughter Rebecca (Mrs. 
 David Matson) at Owego, Doctor and Hannah Wheat found a 
 home with their son William at Franklin, where the balance 
 of their four-score-and-ten years passed quietly by. After 
 the lapse of half a century the older people of both Franklin 
 and Glastonbury were fond of relating anecdotes of this 
 worthy couple. Their zeal in the cause of religion and their 
 " good looks " were the chief subjects of these anecdotes. 
 
 From anecdotes related by those who knew Doctor and 
 Hannah Wheat. — Doctor Wheat in preaching was always 
 aglow with emotion ; in conversation his theme was always 
 religion, impressing everyone with his sincerity and constancy; 
 a zealous sectarian and somewhat egotistical ; on entering a 
 house he always said, " Peace be unto this house." Hannah 
 Wheat was an excellent example of the Christian mother ; 
 she seemed the embodiment of peace ; she was indeed a beau- 
 tiful woman at eighty-eight ; her faculties were much better 
 preserved than her husband's ; she was then (at 88) superior 
 to him in intellect, good sense and consistency. 
 
64 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 Doctor Wheat was vain of good looks. He was fond of 
 calling attention to the beauty of his wife, for which every- 
 body excused him on the ground of sufficient reason ; and of 
 repeating that the venerable Thomas Whiting said, ' ' You are 
 the handsomest couple I ever married." 
 
 80 E. Their courtship has a touch of romance. Some time 
 after their settlement at Westford he asked his father, " Who 
 is the first lady in Westford? " " Hannah Richardson," was 
 the reply. There was an accident — a runaway or something 
 of the sort — and the young physician, going to the street, 
 assisted to carry in and restore the unconscious Hannah Rich- 
 ardson. " Then and there began a love which never waned, 
 and was never marred by an unkind word, but grew brighter 
 and sweeter with age." (Doctor Wheat at eighty-eight.) 
 
 When a lad he was converted by the preaching of a sect 
 called New Lights. He persuaded his father to attend ser- 
 vices with him the next Sabbath. They rose early for the 
 ride of ten miles on horseback. As they drew near and heard 
 the singing the father became deeply agitated and exclaimed, 
 1 ' I woke this morning from a dream in which I heard a con- 
 gregation singing that very hymn." He, too, became a con- 
 vert to the new sect. 
 
 80F. A fragment of Elder Wheat's diary for 1787-8 was 
 found several years ago. The penmanship was a model of 
 neatness ; there were no marks of punctuation, and capitals 
 were tossed about in wildest confusion. He wrote as well as 
 most men of his time. Quotations from the diary give some 
 light on his work and character. The first line relates to 
 Dec. 5, 1787. The first part of the entry for that date is 
 missing. 
 
 "3C&3 V Except A man be born Agan &c it was good to 
 be there Next Day Reached Tolland & the next Day at 
 Eavening Preached at Deacon Mungers House Spake from 
 Luke 13 C & 34 Vers O Jerusalem &c I think the Lord Did 
 not Leave us Comfortles there Was I humbly think a Brease 
 of the holy Speret 8 Next Day Road to mansfield Altho I was 
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Solomon and Hannah Wheat. 65 
 
 Prest me hard to stay & Finally I Agreed if there was as 
 Grait A freadom in Mr Coddingtons mind or at Least he de- 
 sired it or was free & I was informed that one of his Church 
 was So Desierus as to go 3 or 4 miles to See & ask him but 
 the Pint turned here if my Name was found Encluded in the 
 Number of the Association well I might Preach & Not Elsese 
 The Lord Deliver us from Parish Lines I Bere my Testimony 
 Against such Bondes I reached mansfield that Day & Preached 
 on the Sabath Day folowing was Kindly Receaved & Made 
 Welcom I was free in Preaching found the Lord Did Not Send 
 me Where he himSelf Did not Come Preached Again in the 
 
 Eavening O how Sencabely Did the Lord Draw neare 
 
 of A truthe my hart was Enlarged to speake to them The 
 next Day I preached in y e meating hous at 2 Oclok held meat- 
 ing in the Eavening Again & Being Ready to Depart on the 
 morrow took my Leave of them in the feare of the Lord I 
 Think the Lord has begun a Work there 12 Day Reached my 
 Own house & found my family All well may I never forget 
 
 the Lordes Benefits 16 Day Road to Oxford to 
 
 Break Bread. . . 17 Break Bread in the Afternon. . . . 
 the Lord Did Crown the feaste 18 Day Returned to Eastbeary 
 . . . . y e Saboth folowing [Dec. 23, '87] it was Very 
 Snowy & Dificult however I went to meating a menester must 
 be an Ensampel to the flock Surely the Care is Grait . . . 
 27 Day set out on a journey to New London 
 . . . . at Evening Came to Deaken Bikets one of Elder 
 Minors Deakens at Lime of the Congregational order Was 
 
 Kindly Receaved & Well Entertaned 30 Sabath 
 
 Day Road on into New London Preached in the State House 
 to a Large Asembeley it was a blesed season Both in the 
 former and Later Part of the Day the Lord I trust was Pleased 
 to Draw Near and Cause our hartes to Rejoice & Exult in his 
 truthe many Spake of his glory in the temple .... the 
 Lord is dowing a Grait worke there • . . my heart re- 
 joices. . . how love I thy Law o Lord Ride forth Con- 
 
 quoring and to Conquer January 1 Day Road 
 
 to Elder Darracks Meating House Preached there at 1 oclock 
 
66 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 the Lord is to work there & Santes Rejoice it was good to be 
 there Road thre miles farther and Preached Again in the 
 Evening & the Lord did Bow the tented heaven his Glory did 
 Seam to fill the House one soul did say he had Bin a ship in 
 Distress that Discovered the Light house & Rejoiced in the 
 Love of Christ . . . first Sabath in may Preacht to my 
 own flock & Peopel A Good Day Endead . . . monday 
 12 Day of may Atended a Church meating at Hartford five 
 miles & At That Time Asked a Dismission from my Church 
 or the oversight of it as there pastor . . . that I Mighte 
 be in A free State to Evangelis Preach Baptis & Brake Bread 
 at my own opsion When and W T heare I Please on Seeing A 
 Call of God therefor Which I think Apears to bee my Great- 
 est Liberty & Alotment." 
 
 What action, if any, was taken on the petition is not 
 stated. He went on as before making journeys, preaching 
 " all Day & at Eavening Again," rejoicing " to see the Work 
 florish," blessing <; God for the Earnest of his Speret " and 
 for the joy of seeing " the Bretheren Graitly Engaged & 
 Many Poor Sinners Crying to God for Mercey," and return- 
 ing again ' ' home to my family ... & Preached to my 
 own flock & Brake Bread." 
 
 May 15 he set out for Norwich and other places ; returned 
 May 30 and wrote — " the Lord hath Enlarged my steps under 
 me .... at Evening time the light shines Gloresly I 
 expect that the Santes Are About to Stand (or Hand ?) in 
 there lot in the Last Dayes ; " and returning from the next 
 journey — " I have seen much of y e Goodness of God in this 
 journey Not one Dry meating ; " and June 27 — " Road home 
 to my own house found my family in Good health the Lord 
 Doth Keep them all I can do is to Pray for & give them up 
 to God [who] Wonderfully Preserves them in my absence 
 .• . . the Lord enable me to do my duty to & for them as 
 fare as I am Required I have enjoyed a free mind in all these 
 ten meatings & one Baptism." 
 
 80Q. Under the prayers of an absent father, and the 
 watchful care of a patient mother whose prayers were not 
 
Solomon and Hannah Wheat. 67 
 
 omitted because she was present, their eight sons and four 
 daughters grew up. The self-denial of the father in aban- 
 doning the practice of medicine and foregoing the comforts 
 of home to bear the gospel to needy souls is dwarfed by the 
 fortitude of the mother who, without complaint, assumed the 
 care of her household amid dangers which were neither few 
 nor trifling. 
 
 The deadly rattlesnake lurked in every field. The neigh- 
 bors — none lived within sight — were mostly self-respecting 
 people; but there were enough of the ruder sort to keep un- 
 protected women in a constant state of apprehension. For 
 example ; — a young women asleep with her mother was 
 awakened at midnight, not by soft music under her window, 
 but by her lover shouting, " Now or never ! " 
 
 "Dress quick," says her mother, "Don't stop for shoes 
 and stockings, but run along with them in your hand." Soon 
 the ardent lover was knocking at Elder Wheat's door, while 
 his lady sat on the steps clothing her feet. They were mar- 
 ried about one o'clock A. M. 
 
 80H. Elder Wheat claimed to have "presentiments." 
 Sometimes they came as audible words, and the forms of the 
 speakers were visible. "Three angels fairer than Eve," he 
 said, " visit me and speak tome." Miss Arvilla Blair, for 
 more than half a century a teacher in Franklin, and under 
 whose instruction it was my good fortune to come, said, " On 
 a pleasant day in early spring, Elder Wheat came from the 
 field to Mr. Harvey Scott's house, being apparently quite 
 well, and in my hearing, said, among other things, ' I have 
 seen my angels this morning. They tell me in one week I 
 shall walk no more ; I shall fly. I heard music from an un- 
 seen choir excelling earthly music' A week from that day 
 his spirit went to join the unseen choir." His aged com- 
 panion caught the failing form in her arms and entreated, 
 " Don't go, daddy ; Don't leave me; wait a little longer and 
 I will go with you." All day she wept not, but spoke to him 
 often and seemed fully persuaded that he could hear her and 
 would rise and speak to her. 
 
68 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 Dr. Wheat may have been visionary and possessed of a 
 vivid imagination, but he was not unbalanced in mind ; for 
 he followed the well established practices of society and 
 sought to save souls by preaching and exhorting in con- 
 formity with the rules and doctrines of an old and well-estab- 
 lished denomination instead of setting up some new scheme of 
 his own. He was ever full of the spirit, but was never a 
 spiritualist. 
 
 8oI. Hannah Richardson. — In Concord records : Solo- 
 mon Wheat & Hannah Richardson both of Westford were 
 Marr d by Thos. Whiting Esq. Oct. 3 1, 1769. At her decease, 
 1842, Mrs. Wheat's age was set down as 92 years. By the 
 church record at Westford, Hannah, daughter of Thomas and 
 Rebecca Richardson, was baptized 1750. The burial records 
 of Westford do not contain the name of Hannah, daughter of 
 Thomas and Rebecca Richardson. The Richardson Memorial 
 by Vinton does not record any Hannah of Westford whose 
 age agrees with Hannah Wheat's age. Vinton supposes (p. 
 68) that Hannah, b. Feb. 17, 1739, dau. of Benj. and Eunice 
 of Vermont m. Solomon Wheat. But she would be thirty at 
 the marriage, and one hundred two at the decease of Hannah 
 Wheat. Vinton's Hannah is rejected as ineligible on three 
 counts — age, residence, mother's name, Eunice. 
 
 Hannah Wheat named her first daughter Rebecca, which 
 was the name of her mother and her only sister. I find no 
 other Hannah Richardson of that generation whose mother 
 was named Rebecca. Thomas Richardson died seven years 
 before the marriage of Solomon Wheat, leaving no will, nor 
 was there any administration recorded in the probate office ; 
 but his sons petitioned the court for a guardian, and Joseph 
 Read of Westford was appointed, Sept. 9, 1762. 
 
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 80J. Richardson Lineage. 
 
 Hannah Richardson, baptized at Westford, Mass. 1750, d. at 
 Franklin, N. Y. June 6, 1842, aged 92, m. Oct. 31, 1769, Dr. Solomon 
 Wheat ; daughter of Thomas of Westford (304 Vinton), b. 29-1-1719, 
 d. 1762, m. Aug. 1, 1745, Rebecca Read (had 1. Thomas, b. 1746; 2. 
 Abijah, b. 1748 ; 3. Hannah, b. 1750 ; 4. Rebecca, b. 1752 ; 5. Wiley, 
 
 b. 1754) ; son of James of Dracut, b. about 1687, m. Mary ; son 
 
 of Thomas of Dracut, b. Oct. 26, 1661, d. Feb. 10, 1770, m. Sept. 28, 
 1682, Hannah Colburn (dau. of Edward of Dracut) ; son of Lieut. 
 James, bap. at Charlestown, July 11, 1641, had care of Wamesit Chris- 
 tian Indians 1675, was in the encounter with hostile Indians July 31, 
 1675, na( l command of the fort at Lowell, m. Nov. 28, 1660, Bridget 
 Henchman (dau. of Maj. Thomas); son of Ezekiel from England 1630, 
 settled at Woburn, Mass. d. Oct. 21, 1647, m. Susanna. 
 
 81. Wheat, Franklin, N. Y. 
 Captain William Wheat ( 8o- 2 ), mariner, followed the 
 sea from 1786 to 1809, trading chiefly with the West Indies 
 and South America. Hemarried, 1792, Hary Bolles, d. 1839, 
 daughter of Joshua Bolles and Eunice Shepard. Their home 
 was at Marlboro, Conn, until 181 1, when they removed to 
 Franklin, N. Y., the skipper having forsaken the wheel for 
 the plow, the dancing waves for the rocky hillsides. They 
 died at Franklin and were buried in the old Baptist cemetery. 
 
 1. Silas (82) , b. June 24, 1793, d. Dec. 6, 1888. 
 
 2. William (102), b. Sept. 23, 1796, d. Feb. 27, 1872. 
 
 3. Maria (118), b. June 19, 1799, d. Aug. 4, 1875. 
 
 4. Eunice , b. April 12, 1801, d. Feb. 9, 1803. 
 
 5. Solomon (126), b. Feb. 12, 1804, d. Aug. 1, 1874. 
 
 6. Sylvester (142), b. Nov. 6, 1806, d. July 27, 1887. 
 
 7. Eliza (154), b. March 3, 181 1, d. Dec. 10, 1883. 
 
 8. Cyrus (162), b. March 28, 1813. 
 
 9. Edward (173), b. July 14, 1816, d. 1876 (?). 
 
 81 A. When a lad of fourteen, William and his brothers set 
 traps for quails. A good deacon of his father's " flock " also 
 set traps and laid trails of wheat chaff in a V form leading to 
 his gins. The boys crossed the deacon's chaff with trails of 
 real wheat and got many birds, while the deacon got none. 
 When Doctor Wheat came home the deacon complained that 
 
7<d Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 the boys had stolen his quails, and passed judgment that they 
 should be flogged. 
 
 William was punished, and at once began to look about for 
 a chance to set up for himself and thus avoid similar conse- 
 quences for business sagacity. He arranged with a sea-cap- 
 tain to go on a voyage, and asked his father if he might be a 
 sailor. "Yes," said the doctor, believing that the question 
 related to future years. In the night, William, to avoid leave- 
 taking, threw his bundle from the window, dropped to the 
 ground and was off on his first voyage. 
 
 At eighteen he was mate on a vessel owned by a Connecticut 
 merchant whose son was captain. The ship, with a cargo of 
 horses, was caught in a storm off the Bahamas. The mate, 
 who had directed the shortening of sail, was surprised by an 
 order to turn the horses loose on the deck and "make all 
 sail;" at the same time the cry of the watch, "Breakers 
 ahead ! " was not heeded by the captain at the wheel. Call- 
 ing a sailor to take the wheel, the mate seized the terror- 
 stricken captain, thrust him below and closed the hatch. 
 When the danger was passed the captain was restored to his 
 command. He had much to say about " mutiny " and " tak- 
 ing the ship ' ' ; but when the circumstance was reported to 
 the owner of the vessel the captain was given a berth on land, 
 and the mate was promoted. 
 
 81B. Being on the sea from 1786 to 1809 he did not escape 
 the British " right of search " and the French "spoliation." 
 To prevent the danger of impressment in the British navy 
 American sailors carried a paper called Protection. Plate 2 is 
 a facsimile of Captain Wheat's protection. His ship was 
 searched by the British six times. He was captured by the 
 French and held for ransom, but was released after the 
 American navy had destroyed three French men-o-war. His 
 ship and cargo were not restored to him, but France paid the 
 United States $5,000,000 for the damage done to American 
 commerce. Captain Wheat estimated his loss due to the 
 French seizure at $40,000. The government is still holding 
 
JAMES MADISON, 
 
 Prefident van de V&eenigde SlaaUn jhan America, 
 
 Aan allc de gcemn die deeze tttegen wourdjff fullen }jjen SALUT; 
 
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 EeveJhebber van het Schip (of vaartuig^geriaamt Ctf<*//& £/ 
 
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 groot tJ (? Tonneu of daar omtrent, leggende tecgenfwoordig 
 in de Imven van/^ efafrt y^*^ U <* gedeftincert naar 
 
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 omte vertreVken, en met zyn voorooemd Schip of vartuig deficits 
 gemelde reize vocrt te zetten, zodanig Schip of Vaartuig gevtii- 
 teert zynde, en de voornoemdc Schipper of Beveihebber onder Ee*l6, 
 voor den daar toe geftclden oiheier verkjaart hebbende dat ket ge- 
 melde Schip of vartuig aan ecn or meerder ondcrdanen^ volk, of 
 Ingezeetenen van dc Vcreenigde Staaten van America, totbehoort, 
 en aan hem (of hun ;) aileen. 
 
 Is cetuicenis waar van ik deeze teegenfrukriigt met n$m /tatir\ 
 htbbe ondtrteeLent) en bet Xfegel van ovle l^tretmrtx^dt Sinatin* i>nj) 
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Captain Wiluam Whkat. 71 
 
 the money in trust. The sufferers have long since ceased to 
 complain. 
 
 Afterward in company with Mr. Julius Curtis (?) and 
 another landsman, he bought a ship, the "Betty," or some 
 say the " Marlboro," which he was sailing when the embargo 
 of 1807 was proclaimed. Returning to New London, Con- 
 necticut, from a voyage to the West Indies the vessel and 
 cargo were confiscated for violation of the embargo proclaimed, 
 it is said, during his absence. The Embargo Act was passed 
 Dec. 1807 and repealed Feb. 1809, the Non-intercourse Act 
 forbidding trade with either England or France and the coun- 
 tries allied with them being substituted for it. The clearance 
 from St. Bartholomew, Oct. 21, 1809, plate 3, shows that 
 Captain Wheat made at least one voyage after the repeal of 
 the Embargo. It may have been a violation of the Non- 
 intercourse Act which deprived him of vessel and cargo. In 
 either case he was financially ruined, and the laws made it 
 impossible for him to recover his fortune on the sea. Failing 
 to secure any redress from the government he removed to 
 Franklin, N. Y., in the autumn of 181 1. 
 
 81C. The oxen were yoked to the cart, the household goods 
 were loaded, the mother and the daughter of twelve climbed 
 to the seat, the baby of five months was passed up to her 
 mother's arms, two boys were stowed among the goods, the 
 father and William walked behind, while Silas, who had been 
 over the road before, drove the team. The family of eight 
 souls and their entire earthly possessions were on the road. 
 The carriage had no springs, the road was not always smooth ; 
 it led straight up hill and straight down, through forests and 
 across fords. The Hudson was crossed at Catskill by horse- 
 power ferry-boat. Beyond Catskill the oxen became foot- 
 sore, and a kind-hearted Quaker returning to Pennsylvania 
 with an empty wagon took the cart in tow. 
 
 Captain Wheat reached port with all souls well, and the 
 cargo safe. They settled on Handsome Brook about four 
 miles southeast of Franklin village, where Mrs. Wheat's 
 father had settled a year earlier. The farm was long known 
 
72 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 as the Bolles homestead, and is now the property of D. B. 
 Drake (86). It lies in a region of deep, narrow valleys with 
 steep slopes, the hilltops being the only level ground. At that 
 time the whole region was a vast forest of hard-wood timber — 
 the range of the deer, the haunt of the black bear. 
 
 81D. As a story-teller Captain Wheat was a decided success. 
 Grave and reserved in manner, never demonstrative or bois- 
 terous, yet never failing to bring down the house with peals 
 of laughter. His tales were always entertaining, generally 
 humorous, with well laid plot and skilfully developed charac- 
 ters. They were made for, and fitted to, the occasion, the 
 purpose generally being to ridicule some boaster or some 
 opponent of his views. 
 
 Of his courtship it is related that, when he sought the hand 
 of Polly Bolles, her father replied, " It is an ancient custom 
 in our family to give a daughter to that suitor who shall prove 
 himself most worthy by a contest in athletic exercises open to 
 all his rivals." The contest came off with running, leaping, 
 hurling the discus, and wrestling. The young sailor was 
 declared the victor and received his bride. 
 
 81E. Bolles Lineage. 
 
 nary Bolles, d. 1839, m. 1792, William Wheat ; — daughter of Joshua, 
 b. Dec. 26, 1746, d. at Franklin, N. Y., 1812, m. Eunice Shepard of 
 Hartford, Conn, and had Mary, m. Wheat and Harriet, m. Benj. S. 
 Root; — son of Joshua, b. Aug. 5, 1717, d. Sept. 18, 1800, farmer on 
 Bolles Hill, New London, Ct. m. 1, 1739, Joanna Williams, d. Oct. 28, 
 !777> aged 55, daughter of Thomas, and had fifteen children ; m. 2. 
 Grace, no child ; — son of John, b. 1677, d. Jan. 7, 1767, m. 1, 1699, 
 Sarah Edgecomb daughter of John of New London, Ct. granddaughter 
 of Nicholas of Plymouth, Eng., and had 10 children; m. 2, Elizabeth 
 Wood of Groton, Ct., and had four children ; his mother was murdered 
 1678, by a lad to whom she refused to lend an ax ; believing that he had 
 been preserved for a special mission he devoted his life and fortune to 
 the cause of religious freedom against the oppressive laws of Con- 
 necticut ; — son of Thomas, b. at Wells, Maine, Dec. 1, 1644, d. at New 
 London, Ct. May 26, 1727, m. Zipporah Wheeler of Groton, Ct, and had 
 three children, two of whom were murdered with their mother 1678 ; m. 
 three times but had no more children ; — son of Joseph, b. 1608, d. 1678, 
 
Silas Wheat. 73 
 
 from England, was a trader on the Saco river, Maine, 1640 ; m. Mary 
 (to whom Morgan Howell of Cape Porpoise, Maine, willed his entire 
 estate and made her executor of his will) probably Mary Howell, and 
 had eight children. He settled at Wells, Maine, and was town clerk 
 from 1654 to 1664. 
 
 Bolles ancestors from Bolles Genealogy, Boston, 1865. 
 
 The name Bolles, spelled Boll, Bowls, etc. is on the Roll of Battle 
 Abbey and in Domes Da)' Book. Several families of distinction bore 
 the name from 1066 to 1700. 
 
 Sir George Bolles, b. 1538, Lord Mayor of London 1618, stopped the 
 king's carriages and retinue when they were " proceeding through the 
 streets with clatter and noise on the Sabbath in time of divine service." 
 His Majesty remarked that till then he had supposed " there had been 
 no more kings in England but himself." 
 
 82. Wheat, Franklin, N. Y. 
 
 Silas Wheat( 81-1 ), farmer, married 1816, Eunice Dewey, 
 
 b, Feb. 24, 1794, d. Nov. 26, 1857, daughter of Aaron Dewey 
 and Sibyl Cadwell from Westfield, Mass. to Franklin, N. Y. 
 They began life in a log house. After the forest had been 
 cleared away a frame house was built, and finally a third 
 house was erected and occupied. They were buried in the 
 new cemetery at Franklin village. 
 
 1. Sibyl Ann, b. Jan. 20, 1817, d. Nov. 7, 1817. 
 
 2. Cordelia Eliza (83), b. Oct. 8, 1818, d. Nov. 28,1887. 
 
 3. George Washington (88), b. April 1, 1821. 
 
 4. Sylvanus Addison (97), b. April 7, 1323^. Aug.29, 1897. 
 
 5. James Madison (99), b. April 5, 1825. 
 
 6. William Dwight, b. May 8, 1827, d. Sept. 9, 1843. 
 
 7. Mary Amanda (101), b. May23, 1829, d. April 17,1901. 
 
 8. Maria Louise, b. June 1 1,1831, d. Feb. 15, 1845. 
 
 9. Clarinda Rebecca, b. Nov. 22,1833^. Feb. 23, 1845. 
 10. Lemira Frances, b. Oct. 4, 1835, graduated from 
 
 D. L. I., resides at Franklin. 
 
 82 A. Mr. Wheat grew up under the care of his mother, 
 his father being on the sea. At the age of sixteen he drove 
 the ox-team that conveyed his grandfather Bolles to his new 
 home on Handsome Brook in the town of Franklin, N. Y. 
 
74 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 The following year he drove over the same road with his 
 parents. 
 
 He enlisted in the 69th regiment New York militia ; was 
 commissioned Ensign, March 22, 1816, and Lieutenant, March 
 4, 1817. 
 
 He taught school in Owego, N. Y., had 60 pupils of all 
 grades " from A-B-abs to the Rule of Three and the Roots." 
 
 In 1 8 14 he bought and began clearing a farm near the 
 source of Handsome Brook about two miles from his father's 
 place. A log house was built, to which he brought his wife 
 in 1 8 16. Deer and small game were abundant ; bears and 
 wildcats sometimes visited the barnyard. Mr. Wheat was 
 not a roving hunter, but had a good rifle and often dined on 
 venison. He was enterprising and progressive. The best 
 was none too good for him. He selected and bought the best 
 land in the neighborhood, paying $2.50 per acre, double the 
 price asked for adjoining land ; he was the first to own 
 a spring wagon ; his residence was the largest and most 
 imposing house for miles around. Mr. and Mrs. Wheat 
 were active members of the Baptist church, and were ex- 
 amples of piety, temperance and public spirit. They were 
 first in the town of Franklin to abandon the practice of " treat- 
 ing " callers and of furnishing rum to their farm laborers. 
 The innovation produced much excitement among the farm- 
 ers who feared that laborers would avoid the neighborhood 
 and leave the crops unharvested. But more men applied than 
 he could employ. Soon other families joined them in the 
 total abstinence movement, and Franklin became a "no 
 license " town. 
 
 82B. Dewey Lineage. 
 
 Eunice Dewey, b. at Westfield, Mass., d. at Franklin, N. Y., Oct., 
 26, 1857, m. 1816, Silas Wheat ;— daughter of Aaron, b. at Westfield, 
 January 15, 1751, d. Feb. 17, 1824, m. March 12, 1777, Sibyl Cadwell, 
 b. Aug. 7, 1755, daughter of Abel and Anna (Dwight) Cadwell, of 
 Franklin, N. Y.; — son of Aaron of Westfield, Mass. b. April 28, 1721, 
 d. June 11, 1768, estate ^582, m. June 12, 1747, Sarah Noble, b. Aug. 11, 
 1723, d. May 26, 1796, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Root) Noble ; 
 
Wheat of Franklin. 75 
 
 —son of Israel, b. July 9, 1686, d. Jan. 26, 1728, estate /Si 2, m. Sarah 
 Root, b. July 27, 1683, daughter of Thomas Root of Westfield ; — son of 
 Thomas of Westfield, b. at Windsor, Ct. Feb. 16, 1640, d. April 27, 1690, 
 held town offices, represented town in General Court, hotelkeeper with 
 license, engaged in war against King Philip, m. at Dorchester, June 1, 
 1663, Constant Hawes, b. July 16, 1642, d. April 27, 1702, daughter of 
 Richard and Ann Hawes from England ;— son of Thomas from Sand- 
 wich, Kent, England 1633, settled at Dorchester, Mass., rem., -1635 to 
 Windsor, Ct. m. March 22, 1639, widow Frances Clark and had 1. 
 Thomas, 2. Anna, 3. Josiah, 4. Israel, 5 Jedediah. 
 
 Admiral George Dewey is eighth in descent from Thomas and Frances 
 Dewey, the line being Thomas from Eng.; Josiah, b. 1641 ; Josiah, 1666; 
 William, 1692; Simeon, 1718; William, 1746 ; Simeon, 1777 ; Julius Y., 
 1801 ; George 1837. ["Life of George Dewey and Dewey Family His- 
 tory" by L. M. Dewey, Westfield, Mass.] 
 
 83. Drake, Franklin, N. Y. 
 
 Cordelia Eliza Wheat ( 82-2 ) married, Jan. 7, 1846, 
 Abial Drake, Jr., farmer, b. Sept. 18, 1816, d. Oct. 7, 1891, 
 son of Abial Drake, Sr. and Fanny Maynardof Franklin. Mr. 
 and Mrs. A. Drake, Jr. lived and died on their farm on 
 Handsome Brook four miles from the village. They were 
 members of the Methodist ' Episcopal church and were liberal 
 in the support of churches and schools. About 1862 they 
 bought the Bolles homestead (81C) which joined their farm 
 and is now the property of their son Dwight B. 
 
 1. William Abial (84), b. Jan. 29, 1848. 
 
 2. Dwight Benson (86), b. Nov. 11, 1850. 
 
 3. EllaE., b. Oct. 27, 1853, artist, resides in 
 
 New York city, member of the Art Students' 
 League. 
 
 4. Frances L. (87), b. Mar. 4, 1857. 
 
 84. Drake, Pueblo, Colo. 
 
 William Abial Drake (83-1), civil engineer, graduated 
 from D. L. I. 1868; was employed on survey for N. Y. , 
 Ont. & W. Ry to 1871 ; on Lake Ont. Shore Ry. to 1876 ; 
 was division engineer between Pueblo and Canon City 1878- 
 '9 ; was locating the Atlantic and Pacific Ry. i88o-'i, and 
 had charge of construction of same to 1883 ; was chief 
 
76 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 engineer of same road to 1885 when a change in manage- 
 ment relieved all employes ; was employed by the Sante Fe, 
 Prescott and Phoenix Ry. Co. to 1891, being superintendent 
 of the western division i888-'9i ; is now general superinten- 
 dent with headquarters at Prescott, Arizona. 
 
 He married, Sept. 10, 1873, Julia Harvin, daughter of 
 Geo. Marvin of Northfield, N. Y. 
 
 1. Mattie Marvin (85), b. July 3, 1874. 
 
 2. Nellie Hells, b July 26, 1876. 
 
 3. Dorothy Lois, b. July 27, 1890. 
 
 85. McClung, Pueblo, Colo. 
 
 riattie flarvin Drake (84-1) married, Nov. 28, 1900, 
 Herbert James flcClung, banker, b. Aug. 24, 1869, son of 
 James S. McClung and Lois Clark of Pueblo. 
 
 86. Drake, Franklin, N. Y. 
 
 Dwight Benson Drake (83-2 ), farmer educated at D. L. I., 
 married, Jan. 7, 1880, Emily F. Treadwell, b. Dec. 25, 
 1847, daughter of Chas. L. Treadwell (son of Herman 
 and Lavina Treadwell of New Milford, Conn., and bro. of 
 Hartson Treadwell) and Margaret Merrick from Monson, 
 Mass. to Franklin. Mr. and Mrs. Drake live on the home- 
 stead, which includes the Bolles homestead. 
 
 1. Mary Margaret, b. Nov. 26, 1881. 
 
 2. Grace Cordelia, b. Feb. 21, 1884. 
 
 87. Frothingham, Delta, Colo. 
 
 Frances L. Drake ( 83-4 ) graduated from D. L. I., married. 
 May 21, 1884, Rev. Harold J. Frothingham, b. in Indian 
 Ty. May, 5, 1858. 
 
 His father was a preacher and now lives in Chicago. Rev. 
 H.J. Frothingham graduated from Hamilton College and 
 from Auburn Theo. Seminary ; has been preaching since 1884 ; 
 has been pastor at Warsaw, 111., Spirit Lake, Iowa, and 
 elsewhere. 
 
 1. Ruth Hazel, b. Oct. 20, 1887. 
 
 2. Harold H., b. June 11, 1900, d. Mar, 2, 1901. 
 
Wheat of Tread well. 77 
 
 88. Wheat, TreadwELL, N. Y. 
 George Washington Wheat ( 82-3 ), farmer, educated at 
 D L- I , taught five terms; was teaching in Bovina, N. Y., 
 during the Anti-rent War of 1843 ; enlisted in the Franklin 
 light infantry, served one year as corporal, two years as 
 orderly, and four years as ensign; married, Feb. 20, 1850, 
 Alice Eliza Gay, b. July 28, 1824, d. March 4, 1893, daughter 
 of William Gay and Almira Benton of Croton (now Tread - 
 well), from Connecticut about 1820. For more than forty 
 years they were first in the support of the church and school 
 in their vicinity. Free from ostentation, they were constant 
 and consistent examples of practical Christianity and public 
 spirit. Mr. Wheat lives on the homestead which his father 
 cleared from the virgin forest. 
 
 1. William Dwight (89), b. Dec. 4, 1850. 
 
 2. Silas Carmi (91), b. Dec. 11, 1852. 
 
 3. a son b. Dec. 28, 1854, d. an infant. 
 4 Walter Dewey (92), b Jan. 8, 1856. 
 
 5. George Gay (93), b. Dec 17, 1857 
 
 6. James Edgar (94), b. April 10, i860 
 
 7. Francis Irving (95), b. Jan. 27, 1862 
 
 8. Charles Sumner (96), b. Aug. 26, 1864 
 
 88 A. Gay Lineage. 
 
 Alice Eliza Gay, b. July 28, 1824, d. March 4, 1893, tn. Feb. 20, J 850, 
 George W. Wheat ;— daughter of William, b. at Sharon, Ct. May 7, 
 1798, d. Aug. 24, 1861, m. at Northeast, N. Y., Aug. 26, 1819, Almira 
 Benton, b. March 21, 1793, d. Oct. 3, 1884, daughter of Ezra Benton and 
 Phebe White of Salisbury, Ct., rem. to Franklin, N. Y., 1820, farmer 
 and colporteur for the American Bible Society, a prominent Methodist, 
 often called "Methodist''' Gay; — son of Edward, "Master'' 1 Gay, b. 
 Sharon, Ct., Feb. 3, 1763, d. at Franklin, N. Y., taught in many 
 towns of Connecticut and New York, a soldier in the Revolution (see 
 pension paper below), m. May 13, 1783, Mary White, b. Danbury, Ct., 
 May 12, 1760, daughter of Israel White and Phebe Sanford — son of 
 Perez of Sharon, b. at Litchfield, Ct., Jan. 5, 1735, d. Dec. 15, 1784, m. 
 March 23, 1762, Margaret Fairbanks ; — son of John of Sharon, b. at Ded- 
 ham, Mass , July 8, 1699, d. Aug. 6, 1792, among first settlers of Litch- 
 field, Ct., m. Lydia Colvert, d. May 9, 1787, aged 86; — son of John of 
 Dedham, Mass., b. June 25, 1668, d. June 17, 1758, m. May 24, 1692, Mary 
 
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 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 Fisher, d. May 18, 1748; — son of Samuel of Dedham, b. March 10, 1639, 
 d. April 15, 1718, m. Nov. 23, 1661, Mary Bridge, d. April 13, 1718;— son of 
 John Gay of Dedham, Mass. from England in the " Mary & John " 1630, 
 and settled at Watertown, Mass., was one of the 19 who removed 1636 
 to found the new town of " Contentment " (Dedham), d. March 4, 1688, 
 in his will calls his wife Joanna. She died Aug. 14, 1691. They had 
 eleven children. [For Gay Lineage see "American Ancestry," Vol. 
 XI, p. 31.] 
 
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Wheat of Fair Valley. 79 
 
 89. Wheat, Fair Valley, Oklahoma. 
 William Dwight Wheat (88-1), farmer, educated at 
 
 D. L. Li taught in New York and New Jersey ; married, Feb. 
 12, 1877, Lois Orene Leach, b. Oct. 16, 1852, daughter of 
 Elias Leach and Sarah Perrin of Genessee Forks, Penn.; re- 
 moved 1878 to Broderick, Kansas, and 1901 to Fair Valley, 
 where he now resides. 
 
 1. Ernest Dwight (90), b. Nov. 16, 1877. 
 
 2. George Dewey, b. Oct 24, 1880. 
 
 3. Harry Edgar, b. Nov. 22, 1882. 
 
 4. Alice Hope, b. Oct. 16, 1884. 
 
 5. Bertha Lemira, b. June 19, 1888. 
 
 90. Wheat, Fair Valley, Oklahoma. 
 
 Ernest Dwight Wheat (89-1 ), farmer ; married, Sept. 16, 
 1901, riaude Howard, b. Feb. 18, 1881, daughter of Jasper 
 M. Howard and Vernela Yarrington. The same year he 
 filed a claim for and obtained a quarter section of goverment 
 land near Fair Valley. 
 
 1. William Howard, b June 9, 1902. 
 
 91. Wheat, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 Silas Carmi Wheat (88-2 ), teacher, graduated 1876 from 
 D. L. I.; taught in New Jersey 1874 to 1890 except the year 
 1876; after 1890 taught in Kings County, N. Y. and in the 
 City of New York ; received from New York University the 
 degree Master of Pedagogy, 1898; married, Dec. 26, 1876, 
 Josephine A. Wright, b. April 13, 1854, daughter of Seaman 
 Wright and Mary Romaine of Summit, N. J., from New York 
 city 1857. 
 
 1. Nina Ethel, b. at Summit, March 24, 1878. 
 
 2. Grace Alice, b. at Closter, N. J. July 18, 1880. 
 
 3. Howard Irving, b. at Madison, N. J. May 28, 1884. 
 
 92. Wheat, New York, N. Y. 
 
 Walter Dewey Wheat (88-4 ) f teacher, graduated 1879 from 
 D. L. I. and 1884 from Williams College ; taught in New 
 
8o Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 Jersey 1884 to 1894, since then in New York city ; married, 
 July 21, 1886, Lizzie A. Conkling, b. April 12, 1857, daughter 
 of C. N. Conkling and Lydia A. Bird of Liberty Corner, N. J. 
 
 1. Lydia Frances, b. Mar. 30, 1892. 
 
 2. Charles Conkling, b. June 20, 1893. 
 
 93- Wheat, Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 George Gay Wheat ( 88- s ), educated at D. L. L, teacher 
 and bookkeeper ; taught in Franklin and "boarded around." 
 Removed to Kansas 1880 and taught at St. Mary's ; was 
 elected Superintendent of Public Instruction for Pottawatomie 
 county 1884 and 1886 ; mayor of Westmoreland 1888, and to 
 the City Council 1890. Was assistant secretary of the state 
 senate 1891. From 1891 to 1902 was accountant in the 
 general office of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry.; since 
 January, 1903, a real estate broker in Los Angeles. 
 
 He married, May 19, 1885, Eva Stella Jenner, b. Oct. 26, 
 1863, daughter of Dr. Jacob F. Jenner (93 A) and Mary Brad- 
 shaw of St. Mary's, Kansas. Resided at Westmoreland, Kan. 
 1 884- 1 890 ; at Topeka until 1898 when they removed to Los 
 Angeles, Cal. 
 
 1. Willie Reddick, b. March 23, 1886, d. July 23, 1886. 
 
 2. George Jenner, b. March 22, 1889. 
 
 3. Willard Dewey, b. April 24, 1896. 
 
 93 A. Dr. Jacob Frederick Jenner, b. at Wurtemberg, Germany, Jan. 
 16, 1828, d. April 23, 1895, at the age of nine came to America with his 
 parents and a large family of brothers and sisters. At 13 years started 
 out for himself, earned a living, acquired a good education and the 
 degree of M. D. He m. Jan. 29, 1857 Mary Jane Bradshaw, b. Nov. 5, 
 1841 at St. Joseph, Mo., dau. of Charles and Jennie (Adair) Bradshaw. 
 
 1. Lula Bell, b. Feb. 15, 1862, m. N. W. Reddick. 
 
 2. Eva Stella, b. Oct. 26, 1863, m. G. G. Wheat. 
 
 3. David Edward, b. Feb. 2<5, 1865, res. Shawnee, Ok. 
 
 4. Kate May, b. Sept. 26, 1867, m. W. I. Boyer. 
 
 5. Jesse Fremont, b. Aug. 24, 1875, m. F. L. Baker. 
 
Wheat of California. 8i 
 
 94- Wheat, Fernando, Cal. 
 
 Doctor James Edgar Wheat (88-6 ), physician, educated 
 at D. L. I. ; taught several years in Queens county, N. Y. ; 
 removed to Los Angeles, Cal.; studied medicine at the Uni- 
 versity of Southern California ; took degree M. D. 1900 ; has 
 a successful practice at Fernando. He married, Dec. 20, 
 1901, Luna Murphy, b. at Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 1, 1870, 
 daughter of Rev. Archibald Kail Murphy and Lauretta C. 
 Wood. Mr. Murphy was a Methodist Episcopal clergyman, 
 b. Jan. 1, 1828 ; d at Los Angeles March 22, 1897. Mrs. 
 Murphy resides at Fernando. 
 
 1. Lauretta Alice, b. Feb. 20, 1903. 
 
 95- Wheat, Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 Rev. Francis Irving Wheat (88-7 ), graduated 1883 from 
 D. L- I. ; studied at Williams College and at Boston Univer- 
 sity, was pastor of the Congregational Church at Holliston, 
 Mass., and at Woodhaven, N. Y.; removed to California 1898 
 and was pastor of a church in San Francisco ; has since 
 engaged in editorial work. He married, Nov. 18, 1890, 
 Catherine Belle Pierce, b. May 3, 1864, daughter of Wash- 
 ington Pierce and Frances Clark of Northfield, N. Y. Mrs. 
 Wheat graduated from Albany (N. Y.) Normal School and 
 taught several years. 
 
 1. Charles Irving, b. Dec. 5, 1892. 
 
 96. Wheat, Treadwell, N. Y. 
 
 Charles Sumner Wheat (88-8 ;, farmer, residing on the 
 homestead ; educated at D. L. I.; taught several terms ; mar- 
 ried, Sept. 25, 1889, Lydia Francis Hall, b. July 27, 1869, 
 daughter of Roger Hall and Hannah Jester of Treadwell. 
 
 1. Irving Hall, b. Jan. 25, 1895. 
 
 2. Edgar Gay, b. June 25, 1897. 
 
 3. Harold Dewey, b. Jan. 16, 1903. 
 
82 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 97- Wheat, Treadwell, N. Y. 
 
 Sylvanus Addison Wheat (82-4 ), farmer, married, Nov. 
 12, 1849, Rachel Loveland, b. August 8, 1828, daughter 
 of Benjamin Loveland and Clarissa Mann of Franklin. He 
 enlisted in the 144th N. Y. Volunteers and served in the 
 Civil War until his health failed and he was discharged Apr. 8, 
 1863. He invented a well-bucket and windlass of superior 
 merit, but pumps coming into general use, little profit was 
 realized from it. He did much for the public school, and 
 more than any neighbor toward the improvement of roads in 
 his vicinity. 
 
 1. Louisa A., b. March 24, 1852, d. April 6, 1852. 
 
 2. Mary A., b. Aug. 26, 1853, d - Oct. 5, 1861. 
 
 3. Emma E., b. Oct. 27, 1855, d. Oct. 3, 1861. 
 
 4. Alice C, b. June 4, 1858, d. Oct. 15, 1861. 
 
 5. James W., b. Aug. 8, 1861, d. Oct. 21, 1861. 
 
 6. Emma Rachel (98), b. Sept. 15, 1862 
 
 7. Ella Frances, b. June 9, 1865. 
 
 8. Duane Dewey, b. Aug.7, 1867. On the homestead. 
 
 98. Rowell, Atlanta, Ga. 
 
 Emma Rachel Wheat ( 97-6 ), educated at D. L I., mar- 
 ried, Apr. 2, 1890, Arthur W. Rowell, b. July 3, 1866, son of 
 Chas. L. Rowell of Franklin, N. Y. He was educated at 
 D. L- I., and the Oswego (N. Y.) State Normal School. He 
 is now principal of the Normal Department of Clark Univer- 
 sity at South Atlanta, Ga. 
 
 1. Mahlon Wheat, b. March 2, 189 1. 
 
 2. Mary Avis, b. Jan. 3, 1893. 
 
 3. Glen Leon, b. April 16, 1895. 
 
 4. Edwin Clark, b. Aug. 8, 1901. 
 
 99- Wheat, Redlands, Cal. 
 Doctor James Madison Wheat (82-5), physician, edu- 
 cated at D. L. L, and at the Medical Colleges at Geneva, 
 N. Y. and at Albany, N. Y. ; married, June 10, 1862, Almira 
 Electa Foote, b. Aug. 31, 1836, daughter of Ephraim Foote 
 
Wheat of Redlands. 83 
 
 of Clinton, N. Y.; removed 1856 to Lenora, Minn., where he 
 practiced; was a member of the Minn. Assembly two terms 
 and of the Senate i877-'86 ; removed 1887 to Redlands, Cal. 
 
 1. Ida May, b. July 2, 1865. 
 
 2. James Foote (100), b. Dec. 3, 1871. 
 
 100. Wheat, Redlands, Cal. 
 
 James Foote Wheat (99-2 ), life insurance; graduated from 
 Woodbury Business College, Los Angeles ; resides at Red- 
 lands ; married, Aug. 20, 1S96, Amelia Gertrude Hasten, b. 
 at Brazil, Ind., June 14, 1876, daughter of Benj. F. Masten 
 and Amelia Wright. 
 
 1. Mildred Masten, b. Jan. 29, 1898. 
 
 2. Marjorie Elizabeth, b. May 17, 1900. 
 
 101. Reynolds, Franklin, N. Y. 
 
 Mary Amanda Wheat (82-7 ), poet and artist, was edu- 
 cated at D. L. I. and at Troy Female Seminary ; taught art at 
 Franklin, and after her marriage contributed many poems to 
 the newspapers published by her husband ; was an invalid 
 during the later years of her life. On her sixtieth birthday 
 she wrote 
 
 " Three Score." 
 
 A spray of autumn leaves, some withered flowers, 
 Hair turned to silver, sorrowful hours, 
 
 A memory of music, songster flown, 
 
 A sky serenely fair, sunlight gone ; 
 Hopes bright and golden, forever fled, 
 Friends fondly cherished, asleep with the dead ; 
 
 A barque tossed and riven, nearing the shore, 
 
 Is this what it is to be three-score ? 
 
 Loving heart and tender, in the furnace tried, 
 Made like finest silver, cleansed and purified; 
 
 Not earth's golden treasures, but, from priceless ore 
 
 Of gentle deeds and words and thoughts a precious store ; 
 Wisdom gained by failure, strength from weakness brought, 
 A victory bravely won, a deadly battle fought, 
 
 Glimpses fair and glorious of the " other shore," 
 
 This is what it is to be three-score. 
 
84 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 She married, Jan. 24, 1872, Captain George W. Reynolds, 
 
 journalist, a widower, born Jan. 31, 1818, d. Oct. 23, 1895, 
 son of Hosea Reynolds and Elizabeth Fuller, daughter of 
 Capt. Benj. Fuller of the Revolutionary Army. He was self- 
 educated but of such attainments that Hamilton College gave 
 him the degree A. B. 1856. The same year he founded " The 
 Visitor," the first newspaper printed in Franklin, and made 
 it what Horace Greeley called "an A 1 paper." He was post- 
 master and kept the village bookstore. He was a pioneer 
 abolitionist, and was the second man in Franklin to enlist for 
 the Civil War ; was Captain of Co. K, 144th Regt. N. Y. 
 Volunteers. After the War he made several changes of resi- 
 dence, but lived for many years in Oneonta, N. Y., being 
 postmaster, publisher of the Oneonta Herald, and later 
 founder of the Oneonta Press ; edited the News Letter at 
 Exeter, N. II., published the Melrose (Mass.) Journal five 
 years ; published the Clinton (Mass ) Times ; returned to 
 Oneonta and founded The Spy, which he published until fail- 
 ing health forced him to retire. " Always in advance of his 
 times, he was always receiving hard knocks from those who a 
 few years later thought so too. ' ' 
 
 102. Wheat, Treadwell, N. Y. 
 
 William Wheat (81-2), farmer and justice of the peace, 
 popularly called "Squire" Wheat, was about thirteen years 
 of age when he removed with his grandfather Bolles to Frank- 
 lin, N. Y. With only the limited school privileges of the 
 period, and with no inheritance except good health and the 
 high moral tone of his ancestors, he developed a superior 
 manhood. While a young man he worked for wages as a 
 farm hand. His habits and associates were the best. His 
 townsmen twice elected him justice of the peace, in which 
 capacity he served from 1829 to 1837. 
 
 He bought and cleared a farm on Roaring Brook, two miles 
 south of Treadwell village, on which he and his worthy com- 
 panion lived and reared their family. He married, Jan. 17, 
 1822, Altamira Wolcott, b. Aug. 27, 1802, d. Sept. 27, 1871, 
 
WM. WHEAT (102) 
 
Wheat of Treadwell. 85 
 
 daughter of Thomas and Margery (Boyd) Wolcott from West 
 Springfield, Mass., to Treadwell (then Croton) 1814. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Wheat were members of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, and were active promoters of education, temperance, 
 and practical Christianity. 
 
 1 Thomas J. (103), b. Nov. 8, 1822, d. Feb. 21, 1891. 
 
 2 - } Twin sons, b Sept. 10, 1824, d. in infancy. 
 
 4 Susan Maria (105), b Jan 8,1826. 
 
 5. William Bolles (no), b. March 9, 1828. 
 
 6. Francis M. (115), b Feb x 4> 1830. 
 
 7. Charles Lawrence (116), b. Aug. 18, 1840, d. March 
 
 15, 1864. 
 
 103. Wheat, Treadwell, N. Y. 
 Thomas J. Wheat (102-1), merchant, firm of Prime & 
 Wheat ; after the death of Mr. Prime continued the business 
 for several years alone ; married, Mar. 22, 1848, Betsey Tup= 
 per, b. Dec. 6, 1826, daughter of Elijah and Charlotte (Taft) 
 Tupper. Mrs Wheat resides with her daughter, Mrs. Thomp- 
 son. 
 
 1. Alta Genevieve (104), b March 20, 1864. 
 
 2. Erne E. , b. Feb 6, 1866, d March 26, 1875. 
 
 104. Thompson, Oneonta, N. Y. 
 
 Alta Genevieve Wheat ( 103-1 ), for several years a teacher, 
 married, Feb. 27, 1894, Richard Thompson, Jr., farmer, b. 
 March 2, 1852, son of Richard and Grace (Davidson) Thomp- 
 son of West Delhi, N. Y. 
 
 1. William Wheat, b. March 21, 1895. 
 
 105. Smith, Charles City, Iowa. 
 
 Susan Maria Wheat ( 102-4 ) married, April 4, 1850, 
 Doctor Joel Washington Smith, b. July 23, 1824, d. June 6, 
 1897, son of Silas and Lydia (Gillett) Smith of Franklin, N.Y. 
 Dr. Smith's father was a son of Darius, son of John, son 
 of Thomas Smith, who, tradition says, came from Haverhill, 
 Mass., to West Springfield, Mass., and whose wife was Aba- 
 
86 Wheat Genealogy 
 
 gail Austin of Northampton, Mass., descended from a Christian 
 Jew family. 
 
 Dr. Smith was born in a log house on a new farm cleared 
 from the virgin forest ; attended district school and D. L,. I. ; 
 taught in Connecticut and in New York state, thereby earn- 
 ing enough money to pay his way through Yale College, from 
 which he received his degree in 1850 ; studied medicine in 
 New York and Chicago ; practiced in Davenport and Croton, 
 N. Y. ; removed, 1857, to Charles City, Iowa, where he 
 practiced until his death. 
 
 He was a member of the American Medical Association ; 
 of the Iowa State Medical Society, being vice-president in 
 1872 ; of the Cedar Valley Medical Society, president in 1873; 
 of the International Medical Congress, Philadelphia, 1876, and 
 Washington, 1887 ; of the American Public Health Associa- 
 tion ; of the American Association for the Advancement of 
 Science ; and of the Iowa State Horticultural Society. He 
 was president of the school board of Charles City several 
 years, postmaster of Charles City for nine years from 1861, 
 and state weather reporter from 1889 until his death. 
 
 "Asa pioneer surgeon he was quick to improvise means to 
 accomplish the best results and performed many new and 
 delicate operations, usually attempted only by city specialists. 
 Long before sanitary science was popular as it now is, he 
 labored in that field, believing that prevention of disease was 
 as important as the cure of it. He constantly preached this 
 gospel of good and correct living, quite often to his cost, say- 
 ing that he would rather do right and be right than be 
 popular." 
 
 Mrs. Smith resides at her home in Charles City. 
 
 1. Irving Wheat (106), b. March 1, 1851, d. Oct. 29,1895. 
 
 2. Ida Elisabeth (107), b. April 16, 1853. 
 
 3. Alta Maria, b. July 8, 1855, <*• Sept. 19, 1859. 
 
 4. William Thomas (108), b. Nov. 3, 1864. 
 
 5. Charles Francis (109), b. Nov. 3, 1864. 
 
 6. Fred Edmund, b. Aug. 18, 1866, graduate of 
 
 the Iowa State University ; in Chicago with the 
 Aermotor Company (107). 
 
Smith of Charlks City. 87 
 
 106. Smith, Charles City, Iowa. 
 Doctor Irving Wheat Smith ( 105-1 ) graduated B. S., 1872, 
 from Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic 
 Arts and M. D. 1875. from Jefferson Medical College, 
 Philadelphia, and later took special professional studies at 
 Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and at Johns-Hopkins Uni- 
 versity ; practiced at Charles City, Iowa ; was government 
 physician at the Indian Agency, Fort Sill, Indian Ty., 1878-9 ; 
 was professor of Histology and Pathology in the Iowa State 
 College at Ames, 1894-5. 
 
 He married at Philadelphia, June 21, 1876, Sallie Stalker, 
 b Dec. 24, 1 85 1, daughter of George Stalker and Hannah 
 Millikan of Richland, Iowa, of Quaker parentage. (The 
 Stalkers left Randolph Co., N. C, in early life to get out of 
 a slave state). She graduated 1873 with the degree B. S. 
 from the Iowa State Agricultural College, and took two 
 courses of lectures at the Woman's Medical College, Phila- 
 delphia. For a while after her husband's death she was pre- 
 ceptress of the Girls' Department of the State Agricultural 
 College ; is now (1901) traveling in the Orient ; expects to 
 return to the U. S. in the fall. 
 
 Mr. Smith saw ten of his progenitors— two parents, four 
 grandparents, and four great-grandparents, including Capt. 
 Wm. Wheat (81) and Margery (Boyd) W T olcott (102). His 
 health failing in the spring of 1895, he gave up work and 
 went to Cottonwood, Cal., for rest, where he died Oct. 29. 
 All the business houses of Charles City closed on the after- 
 noon of the funeral. The faculty of the State College at 
 Ames adopted memorial resolutions in which they said : "He 
 was a man of strong character, sterling worth, well-founded 
 opinions, and one whose influence was invariably wielded for 
 the right ; a man whose friends equalled his circle of acquaint- 
 ances.''' Rev. Mr. Noble in the funeral sermon said: "He 
 was a man of superior integrity, whose outward life corre- 
 sponded, as in few men, to the inward man. True in word 
 and act, as very few are true Such a life is complete 
 
88 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 though its earthly course was brokeu off too soon for our 
 hopes. Such a work is finished, although we had prayed 
 that it might go on for many years more.' 1 
 
 i. Gertrude, b. Aug. 12, 1877, d. Oct. 15, 1878. 
 
 2. Hannah Agnes, b. Jan. 21, 1880, d. Jan. 19, 1896. 
 
 107. Noyes, Chicago, III. 
 
 Ida Elisabeth Smith ( 105-2 ) graduated 1874 from Iowa 
 State Agricultural College ; married, May 24, 1877, La Verne 
 W. Noyes, b. Jan. 7, 1849, inventor and manufacturer, son of 
 Leonard R. Noyes (farmer) and Jane Jessnp, from Cayuga 
 Co., N. Y. to Iowa. Mr. Noyes graduated from the Iowa 
 State Agricultural College ; began business by inventing and 
 manufacturing tools and farm implements at Batavia, 111. ; 
 invented the Noyes' dictionary holder ; rem to Chicago and 
 is manufacturer of the Aermotor ; has taken out about a hun- 
 dred patents. The Aermotor plant occupies four acres in a 
 busy part of Chicago, employs 700 hands, has its agents on 
 every continent, and branch offices in many cities. 
 
 Mrs. Noyes is an amateur artist of considerable distinction, 
 has visited Europe several times for the study of art and 
 languages ; speaks fluently French, German and Spanish. 
 
 108. Smith, Charles City, Iowa. 
 
 William Thomas Smith (105-4 ), photographer and teacher 
 of music ; married, June 30, 1898, Lura B. Decker, b. Apr. 
 13, 1878, daughter of John Decker and Flora Washburne of 
 Osage. 
 
 1. Marion Lucile, b Nov. 9, 1899, 
 
 109. Smith, Kansas City, Kansas. 
 Charles Francis Smith ( 105-5 ) pharmacist ; graduated 
 from the Chicago College of Pharmacy ; married, March 18, 
 1891, Carrie J. Walker, b. Dec. 14, 1868, daughter of Henry 
 Olin Walker and Cornelia K. White of Shell Rock, Iowa. 
 
 no. Wheat, Treadwell, N. Y. 
 William Bolles Wheat ( 102-5 ), farmer ; married, March 
 12, 1851, Eliza Richmond, b. Oct. 17, 1826, daughter of John 
 
Wheat of Treadweee. 89 
 
 Richmond and Eunice Billings. (Mr. R., whose name before 
 being Americanized was Ritsman or Ritzmann, was born Oct. 
 1787 at Schaffhausen, Switzerland ; was drafted into Napo- 
 leon Bonaparte's army at the age of 17, and fought under 
 Napoleon in the Wars with Spain and Portugal ; was taken 
 prisoner by the British and retained for two years, then 
 enlisted in the English army and drilled two years at Malta ; 
 when the War of 181 2 broke out he was sent to Canada and 
 was at the Battle of Plattsburg ; at the close of the war he 
 deserted and went to N. Y. state, finally settling at Middle- 
 burg, Scho. Co., where he married Eunice, daughter of Capt. 
 Erastus Billings from Enfield, Conn.; later rem. to Franklin, 
 N. Y.) 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Wheat resided on the Squire Wheat home- 
 stead until 1900, now live in Treadwell village ; are members 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and enjoy the esteem and 
 confidence of the community. 
 
 1. Howard Richmond (in), b. July 24, 1852. 
 
 2. John Frank (113), b. Aug. 10, 1856. 
 
 3. Julia Augusta (114) b. July 27, i860. 
 
 in. Wheat, Treadweee, N. Y. 
 
 Howard Richmond Wheat (110-1), farmer, graduated 
 1874 from D. L. I., taught school several terms, now lives on 
 the homestead two miles south of Treadwell. He married, 
 Sept. 12, 1876, Annie Rebecca Webb, b. Nov. 7, 1855, 
 daughter of Geo. Wm. Webb and Mary Esther Wood of 
 Northfield, N. Y. (Mr. Webb was born at Stamford, Conn., 
 son of James, son of Ebenezer, son of Epenetus, son of Sergt. 
 Epenetus Webb, a Conn, soldier in the Revolutionary War. 
 Mrs. G. W. Webb's mother, Elsey (Hoyt) Wood, was a 
 daughter of Ebenezer Hoyt, a Conn, soldier in the Revolution.) 
 
 1. Edwin Webb (112), b. Sept. 8, 1877. 
 
 2. Lewis Chase, b. Aug. 5, 1881. 
 
 3. Evelyn Louise, b. July 13, 1888. 
 
90 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 ii2. Wheat, Treadweee, N. Y. 
 Edwin Webb Wheat ( iii-i ), graduated 1894 from D. L,. I., 
 
 1900 at Albany (N. Y.) Business College; taught district 
 school three years ; from May, 1900 to May, 1903, was a 
 bookkeeper in Steam Engineering Dept. at U. S. Navy Yard, 
 Brooklyn. He married, Feb. 12, 1903, flartha Eliza Waring, 
 b. Feb. 12, 1882, daughter of Charles Hiram Waring and 
 Martha Ells Strong of Woodford, Del. Co., N. Y., graduated 
 1899 at Binghamton (N. Y.) School of Business, and has been 
 a stenographer in Binghamton and New York City. 
 
 113- Wheat, Treadwele, N. Y. 
 John Frank Wheat ( 110-2 ), farmer and merchant, edu- 
 cated at D. L. I.; married, Oct. 8, 1879, Ella S. Robinson, 
 b. Dec. 1, 1859, daughter of James Robinson and Sally Cook 
 of Treadwell. 
 
 1. Ethel Clare, b. Jan. 27, 1889. 
 
 2. Cora Marion, b. March 29, 1896. 
 
 114. Bourn, Treadwele, N. Y. 
 
 Julia Augusta Wheat ( 110-3 ), attended D. L. I.; mar- 
 ried, Oct. 12, 1882, Orion Reid Bourn, b. Jan. 19, 1861, son 
 of M. Reid Bourn and Emily Diefendorf of Treadwell. 6. R. 
 Bourn was a farmer until Feb. 1898 ; since then has been a 
 whip-dealer. 
 
 1. Nellie Julia, b. Dec. 28, 1887. 
 
 2. Elmer Wheat, b. Aug. 21, 1889. 
 
 115- Wheat, Taleapoosa, Ga. 
 
 Francis M. Wheat (102-6), farmer; married, Jan. 10, 
 1854, Lydia E. Richmond, b. Jan. 17, 1836, d. Feb. 1, 1890, 
 daughter of John and Eunice Richmond (no), rem. 1856 to 
 Charles City, Iowa. Owing to failing health they spent the 
 winters of i888-'9 an d i889-'90 at Hammond, La., wherein 
 Feb. Mrs. Wheat died, and was buried in the Episcopal ceme- 
 tery under the shadow of Grace Memorial Church. Mr. 
 Wheat lives at Tallapoosa. 
 
Wheat of Treadwell. 9 1 
 
 116. Wheat, Treadwell, N. Y. 
 
 Charles Lawrence Wheal ( 102 7 ), married, Aug. 21, 1862, 
 Mary P. Tread well, b. Jan. 6, 1844, daughter of Hartson S. 
 Treadwell (bro. of Chas. L. Treadwell, 86) and Esther 
 Hubbell of Treadwell. He enlisted in the 8th N. Y. Battery 
 and died at Ft. Schuyler 1864. 
 
 1. Morton Ellsworth (117), b.- Dec. 29, 1863. 
 
 117- Wheat, Treadwell, N. Y. 
 
 Morton Ellsworth Wheat ( 116-1 ), carpenter, married Oct. 
 24, 1888, Minnie F. Jackson, b. Dec. 20, 1868, daughter of 
 Lucius Jackson (son of Richard) and Hannah Farrington. 
 
 1. Charles Iy., b. Nov. 25, 1890. 
 
 I SSi } twins > b. Oct. 20 . i8 93 . 
 
 118. Sears, Maquoketa, Iowa. 
 
 Maria Wheat (81-3), married, June 12, 1827, David 
 Sears, farmer, b. July 17, 1803, d. April 15, 1870, son of 
 Benj. Sears and Ann Bigelow of Meredith, N. Y. They 
 removed 1832 to Kerjera, Pa., 1839 to Covington, Ky., 1847 
 to Maquoketa, Iowa. 
 
 1. Susan M., b. May 3, 1830, res. Maquoketa. 
 
 2 * £r?i rgeR ;' a r b. Aug. 7, 1832, res. Maquoketa. 
 
 3. William (119),) & " ° ' ^ 
 
 4. Benjamin C. (124), b. Nov. 22, 1834. 
 
 5. Sylvester, b. June 23, 1837, d. Nov. 16, 1838. 
 
 6. Mary Ann, b. Dec. 27, 1839, d. May 8, 1841. 
 
 119. Sears, Maquoketa, Iowa. 
 
 William Sears ( 118-3 ) f farmer and fruit-grower, Iowa and 
 Florida ; married at New Haven, Vt., Oct. 11, 1854, flaria 
 Cowles, b. June 27, 1833, daughter of Martin Cowles and 
 Rachel Andrews of Brattleboro, Vt. 
 
 1. Sendol B. (120), b. Nov. 3, 1855. 
 
 2. Martha Eva (121), b. Jan. 8, 1858. 
 
 3. Carrie Mabel (122), b. Nov. 20, 1859. 
 
 4. Effie (123), b. Dec. 29, 1861. 
 
9 2 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 120. Sears, Maquoketa, Iowa. 
 Sendol B. Sears ( 119-1 ), married, Nov. 15, 1877, Ella Hay 
 
 Ledoit, b. Jan. 17, 1856, daughter of James H. Ledoit and 
 Phoebe Whitney from New York to Iowa 1 850. 
 
 1. Frank Vernette, b. Aug. 3, 1878. 
 
 2. Lena Bernice, b. Oct. 17, 1882. 
 
 3. Wilbur L., b. Jan. 23, 1888. 
 
 4. Howard William, b. April 23, 1890. 
 
 121A. Thompson, Bridgewater, N. Y. 
 Martha Eva Sears ( 119-2 ), married first, May 29th, 1878, 
 E. S. Thompson who died Sept. 1880. Their son lives with 
 his mother, Mrs. Hackley. 
 
 1. Bruce E., b. March 24, 1879. 
 
 121B. Hackley, Bridgewater, N. Y. 
 Mrs. Martha E. Thompson ( 121A), married second at the 
 South, Dec. 23, 1884, H. Carl Hackley, farmer, b. Feb. 26, 
 1853, son of Salinus H. Hackley and Martha E. Boynton of 
 Bridgewater, N. Y. ; went south 1878, and lived near Selma, 
 Ala.; returned to Oneida Co., N. Y., 1894. 
 
 2. Homer Sears, b. Oct. 21, 1885. 
 3 Stella A., b. Dec. 19, 1887. 
 
 122. Fischer, Maquoketa, Iowa. 
 Carrie Mabel Sears (119-3) married, Nov. 16, 1880, Fred 
 Fischer, b. in Prussia, Jan. 15, 1857, son of Geo. F. Fischer 
 and Louise Trunper of Rauschenburg, Prussia. He came to 
 America 1873 ; has held the office of county auditor. 
 
 1. Harry C, b. Dec. 10, 1881. 
 
 2. Lena De Ve, b. Nov. 13, 1884. 
 
 3. Opal Bernice, b. March 20, 1889. 
 
 123. Hoffman, Savanna, III. 
 Effie Sears (119-4) married, Jan. 24, 1883, Harry Hoffman, 
 
 machinist, b. Jan. 16, 1857, son of Theodore Hoffman and 
 and Maria Morningstar from St. Joseph, Mo., to Cedar Rapids, 
 Iowa, 1863. He removed to Oxford Junction, Iowa, 1881, 
 and later to his present residence in Carroll Co., 111. 
 
SOLOMON WHEAT (126) 
 
Sears of Maquoketa. 93 
 
 124. Sears, Maquoketa, Iowa. 
 Benjamin C. Sears ( 118-4 ), mechanic, married, Oct. 27, 
 1859, Rhoda F. Blanchard, b. Sept. 2, 1840, daughter of 
 Chas. H. Blanchard and Jane Simons from Plainfield, N. H., 
 to Iowa 1850. 
 
 1. Silas Edwin, b. July 30, i860, d. Aug. 23, 1862. 
 
 2. Frank C. (125), b. Sept. 20, 1862. 
 
 3. George E., b. July 9, 1865. Fruit-grower and 
 
 mechanic, Narrows, Brevard Co., Fla. 
 
 125. Sears. 
 
 Frank C. Sears ( 124-2), journalist, married, Aug. 10, 1892, 
 Leonora V. Decker, daughter of Leonard Decker and Nelly 
 Reynolds of Maquoketa, Iowa, formerly of Watertown, N. Y. 
 
 1. Azuba Antoinette, b. July 18, 1895. 
 
 126. Wheat, Sidney, N. Y. 
 Solomon Wheat (8i- 5 ), farmer, born in Connecticut, came 
 with his parents to Franklin when seven years old, married, 
 June 27, 1830, Ruth n. Griswold, b. Nov. 1, 1810, d. Nov. 
 20, 1 87 1, daughter of Simeon P. Griswold of Masonville, 
 N. Y. They lived on a farm in the town of Franklin until 
 1844 when they removed to Sidney. 
 
 1. Edwin Ruthvan (127), b. Aug. 23,1831^. Dec. 27,1901. 
 
 2. Oscar F. (132), b. April 4, 1833, d. Jan. 19,1898. 
 
 3. Louise Emily (133), b. Aug. 10, 1834. 
 
 4. Adelia H. (135), b.Aug 26,1837^. April 27,1893. 
 
 5. Almiron Griswold (i36),b. July 9, 1840. 
 
 6. Eliza O. (138), b. Nov. 20, 1843. 
 
 7. George A. (141), b. June 20, 1846, deceased. 
 
 127. Wheat, Sidney Center, N. Y. 
 Edwin Ruthvan Wheat, Sr. (126-1 ), carpenter, married, 
 Nov. 17, 1859, Sarah Elisabeth Mabie, b. June 5, 1841, 
 daughter of Chas. Leet Mabie and Lucy Ann Riggs of 
 Meredith, N. Y. 
 
 1. Lucy Ruth (128), b. Aug. 19, 1861. 
 
 2. Mary Louisa (129), b. Sept. 21, 1862, 
 
94 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 3. Edwin Ruthvan, Jr. (130), b. Aug. 31, 1864. 
 
 4. Charles Almiron (131), b. March 8, 1868. 
 
 5. Grace Mabie, b. Oct. 21, 1877. 
 
 128. Amner, Sidney Center, N. Y. 
 
 Lucy Ruth Wheat ( 127-1) married, Nov. 17, 1890, Nelson 
 
 Delos Amner, farmer, b. at Sidney Center, Feb. 25, 1862, son 
 of Isaac Amner formerly of England and Harriet A. Cleve- 
 land of Kortright, N. Y. 
 
 1. Charles Nelson, b. Nov. 23, 1892. 
 
 2. Arthur Delos, b. April 3, 1894. 
 
 3. Ruth Elisabeth, b. Aug. 7, 1895. 
 
 4. Floyd Dewey, b. March 8, 1900. 
 
 129. Jenkins, Sidney Center, N. Y. 
 
 flary Louisa Wheat, (127-2) teacher from 1879 to 1894, 
 married, April 26, 1894, William Henry Jenkins, market 
 gardener, fruit-grower, and correspondent for agricultural 
 papers, b. April 21, i860, son of Smith Jenkins and Prissilla 
 Faulkner of Sidney Center. 
 
 1. Edith Faulkner, b. Feb. 14, 1895. 
 
 2. Erwin Wheat, b. Nov. 26, 1896. 
 
 130. Wheat, Sidney Center, N. Y. 
 
 Edwin Ruthvan Wheat, Jr. (127-3 ), contractor and builder, 
 married, Feb. 24, 1892, Nora E. Finch, b. Sept. 5, 1870, 
 daughter of Henry Finch and Mary Jane Carroll of Sidney 
 Center. 
 
 1. Sarah Audrey, b. Oct. 22, 1895. 
 
 2. Margery Emeline, b. Oct. 2, 1897. 
 
 131. Wheat, Youngstown, Ohio. 
 Charles Almiron Wheat (127-4 ), carpenter; married first, 
 Dec. 14, 1889, Carrie M. Crawford, b. March 26, 1868, d. 
 May 5, 1893, daughter of James Nelson Crawford and Johanna 
 Owens of Cannonsville, N. Y. For nearly a year following 
 their marriage Mr. and Mrs. W. lived at Torrington, Conn., 
 where Mr. W. and his brother Edwin worked at their trade ; 
 
Wheat of Sidney. 95 
 
 then removed to Sidney Center, N. Y. Mr. W. is now a 
 carpenter at Youngstown, Ohio. The children are living with 
 relatives of their mother. 
 
 Mr. Wheat married second, Jan. 14, 1903, Ella Sibbet of 
 Youngstown, Ohio. 
 
 1. Murray Crawford, b. April 24, 1891. 
 
 2. Ruth Leona, b. Feb. 4, 1893. 
 
 132. Wheat, Sidney Center, N. Y. 
 
 Oscar F. Wheat ( 126-2 ), farmer, married, Jan. 31, 1861, 
 Louisa De Forest, b. Jan. 29, 1828, d. Dec. 6, 1900, daughter 
 of Deacon Hiram De Forest and Aurilla Jessup of Northfield. 
 They lived on their farm at Northfield until 1876, when they 
 removed to Sidney Center where they remained until their 
 death. They had no children. 
 
 133- Whitman, Masonville, N. Y. 
 
 Louisa Emily Wheat ( 126-3 ), married, Jan. 15, 1863, 
 Roswell Brown Whitman, farmer, b. March 2, 1834. 
 1 Elizabeth P. (134), b. Jan. 26, 1864. 
 
 2. William Rowland, b. Aug. 21, 1866. 
 
 3. Lillian Ruth, b. March 13, 1869. 
 
 4. Roswell Brown, Jr., b. Jan. 5, 1871, attending Colgate 
 
 University; intends to enter the ministry. 
 
 5. AlmironG., b Oct. 7, 1874. 
 
 6. Mary Edith, b. Aug. 4, 1876. 
 
 134- OSBORN, TREADWELL, N. Y. 
 
 Elizabeth P. Whitman ( 133-1 ), graduated 1887 from 
 Cortland (N. Y.) Normal School, and taught until her mar- 
 riage ; m. Oct. 18, 1893, Virgil D. Osborn, farmer, b. Dec. 
 11, 1856, d. Dec. 22, 1897, son of Ransom Osborn and Mary 
 E. Drum of Treadwell. Mrs. Elizabeth Osborn is now one 
 of the faculty of D. L. I. at Franklin, N. Y. 
 
96 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 i35» Forsyth, Masonviele, N. Y. 
 
 Adelia H. Wheat ( 126-4 ), married, Sept. 30, 1868, Frank 
 
 Forsyth, farmer, b. Jan. 6, 1843, d. April 17, 1896, son of 
 John Forsyth and Jessie Middleton from Scotland. 
 1. Mina Adelia, b. Oct. 31, 1874, d. April 13, 1896. 
 
 136. Wheat, Sidney Center, N, Y. 
 
 Aim iron Griswold Wheat ( 126-5 ), farmer on the home- 
 stead ; was a soldier during the Civil War in Co. D, 144th 
 Reg't N. Y. Volunteers; married first, Sept. 30, 1868, Emily 
 C. Davis, b. Jan. 5, 1845, d. July 10, 1871, daughter of Stil- 
 man Davis and Betsey Whitman of Masonville. He married 
 second, Jan. 20, 1874, Mary J. Neff, b. Dec. 11, 1850, daugh- 
 ter of Chester W. Neff of Bainbridge, N. Y., and Wealtha J. 
 Whitman. The family are all members of the Baptist Church 
 at Sidney Center. Mr. W. being deacon. 
 
 1. Emilie Loverua (137), b. March 9, 1875. 
 
 2. Mary Jane, b. April 3, 1877. 
 
 3. Oscar Devilo, b. Oct. 28, 1879. 
 
 4. Wealtha Liona, b. May 1, 1882. 
 
 137- Frankein, Oakland, Cal. 
 
 Emilie Loverna Wheat ( 136-1 ), married, Aug. 6, 1902, 
 Will Cook Franklin, b. at Georgetown, N. Y., March 17, 
 1879, son of Eugene Franklin and Ida Elmira Hill. They 
 reside at Oakland, California. 
 
 138. Forsyth, Beeden, N. Y. 
 
 Eliza O. Wheat ( 126-6 ), married, Nov. 9, 1870, James fl. 
 
 Forsyth, farmer, son of John Forsyth and Jessie Middleton 
 from Scotland. They reside near Belden, Broome Co . N. Y. 
 
 I. 
 
 Mary Adelia (139), 
 
 b. Aug. 29, 1871. 
 
 2. 
 
 John Solomon, (140), 
 
 b. Feb. 15, 1873. 
 
 3 
 
 Cora Elizabeth, 
 
 b. July 23, 1875. 
 
 4 
 
 Jessie C, 
 
 b. Sept. 14, 1878 
 
 5- 
 
 Frank J. 
 
 b. June 12, 1884. 
 
Wheat of Sidney. 97 
 
 i39« Morse, White Store, N. Y. 
 flary Adelia Forsyth ( 138-1 ), married, Dec. 9, 1891, 
 Merton A. Morse, farmer, b. Dec. 13, 1870, son of Arvin H. 
 Morse and Emma J. Barber. They live in Chenango Co. 
 
 140. Forsyth, Belden, N. Y. 
 
 John Solomon Forsyth ( 138-2 ), farmer, married, Jan. io, 
 1900, flercia Yager, daughter of Loren and Hannah Yager of 
 North Fen ton. 
 
 141. Wheat, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 George A. Wheat ( 126-7 ), married, May 13, 1874, flary 
 Antoinette Reed, b. Sept. 19, 1850, daughter of John le 
 Grand Reed of Norwalk, Conn., and Matilda Tristram from 
 Willenhall, Staff, Eng. 
 
 1. Maud T., b. March 15, 1875; residence Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 142. Wheat, Franklin, N. Y. 
 
 Colonel Sylvester Wheat (81-6 ), farmer, born in Connec- 
 ticut 1806, came to Franklin with his parents 181 1, enlisted 
 in the state militia at the age of 17 and passed in seven years 
 from the ranks to lieutenant, captain, and colonel of the 151st 
 Regt. light infantry, held the latter office four years ; taught 
 seven winter terms in district schools ; married, Nov. 7, 1834, 
 Julia Haynard of Austerlitz, who died in 1836. They re- 
 sided on Handsome Brook two miles from Franklin Village. 
 In 1837 Col. W T heat married second, Martha Johnson, who 
 died in 1851. He married third, 1854, Amy Drake, daughter 
 of Abial Drake, Sr. and Fanny Maynard (sister of first wife 
 Julia Maynard). 
 
 1. Hardin (143) b. Nov. 1, 1835, d. April 4, 1876. 
 
 2. Thompson H., b. Dec. 18,1837, d. Oct. 17, 1862. 
 
 3. Floyd B. (148), b. June 9, 1839. 
 
 4. Ellen Julia (152), b. Nov. 19, 1841. 
 
 5. Morris Lambert (153), b. October 13, 1848. 
 
 6. Emerson, ) , T ( 
 
 7. Emily, } b. June 2, 1851, j d . l86o or l86l . 
 
98 Wheat GeneaeoCxY. 
 
 143- Wheat, Paemyra, N. Y. 
 
 Reverend Hardin Wheat (142-1 ), Baptist preacher at Pal- 
 myra ; married, June 19, 1862, Eliza Ann Howes, b. May 
 
 28, 1836, d. Feb. 16, 1886, daughter of Leonard Howes and 
 Lucy Brigham of Madison, N. Y. 
 
 1. Leonard Hardin (144), b. Aug. 20, 1865. 
 
 2. Lena Eliza (145), b. Feb. 27, 1868. 
 
 3. Mary Edna (146), b. June 15, 1870. 
 
 4. Carrie Julia, b. Aug. 15, 1873, d. Feb. 2, 1891 
 
 5. Helen Susan (147), b. April 16, 1876. 
 
 144- Wheat, Newark, N. Y. 
 
 Leonard Hardin Wheat ( 143-1 ), photographer, married, 
 Oct. 22, 1895, Frances Peirson, daughter of George Peirson 
 and Mary Wakeman. 
 
 145- EvEEAND, FRANKEIN, N. Y. 
 
 Lena Eliza Wheat ( 143-2 ) taught several years ; married, 
 Oct. 20, 1896, George Terry Eveland, son of Joseph Eve- 
 land and Josephine Liljeghren of Franklin. Mr. Eveland is 
 junior member of the firm of Joseph Eveland & Son, pub- 
 lishers of the Delaware County Dairyman. 
 
 146. Fraie, Erie, Penn. 
 
 Mary Edna Wheat ( 143-3 ) married, Aug. 22, 1899, Prof. 
 Elmer George Frail, b. Sept. 17, 1862, son of Perry Frail 
 and Julia Henniston of Franklin, N. Y. Mr. Frail graduated 
 from D. L. I. 1884, and from the University of Rochester 
 1888. He is now a teacher in the Erie High School. 
 
 1. Richard Julius, b. July 25, 1900. 
 
 147- MUETER, FRANKEIN, N. Y. 
 
 Helen Susan Wheat (143-5 ), graduated 1897 from Oneonta 
 (N. Y.) State Normal School, and taught from that time until 
 her marriage. She married, Aug. 7, 1900, flonte Josiah 
 riulter, b. March 13, 1873, son of Henry Multer and Mary 
 Hollenbeck of South Worcester. Mr. Multer graduated from 
 
Wheat of Millville. 99 
 
 Schenevus Academy 1891, and from Union College 1897; 
 taught at Franklin 1897-8, and at Fabius, N. Y., 1 898-1 900 ; 
 is now (1902) Principal of the Delaware Literary Institute. 
 
 148. Wheat, Millville, N. J. 
 
 Floyd B. Wheat (142-3 ), merchant, taught in Pa. and N. J. 
 
 1 858- '62 ; enlisted in the 144th Reg't N. Y. Volunteers and 
 served through the Civil War ; was in the march against 
 Richmond under Gen. Dix, in the March to cut off Gen. Lee 
 after Gettysburg ; in the R. R. disaster at Laurel Hill his 
 skull was fractured ; soon after leaving the hospital he was 
 appointed 2d lieut., Co. H, 39th Reg't U. S. Colored Troops, 
 but went with the 144th to Fla. until April, 1864, when he 
 received his commission in the 39th and joined the 9th Army 
 Corps under Gen. Burnside and was in the battles of the 
 Wilderness, Spottsylvania, seige of Petersburg, the Mine or 
 Crater, Hatcher's Run ; was in the futile expedition to Ft. 
 Fisher ; again at Petersburg ; in the successful attack on 
 Ft. Fisher, in the battles of Sugarloaf Hill, Wilmington, 
 Goldsboro, Raleigh ; saw the surrender of Gen. Johnston's 
 army ; resigned and reached home in August, 1865, almost, 
 three years from the time of enlisting. 
 
 He married, Sept. 20, 1865, Diana Potter, daughter of 
 Wilbur Potter and Angeline Lines ; rem. to Millville 1868 
 where he carried on a hardware store for twenty-five years. 
 Has retired. 
 
 1. Merton T. (149). b. July 7, 1866. 
 
 2. Luella (150), b. May 6, 1871. 
 
 3. Albert Floyd (151), b. Jan. 5, 1873. 
 
 4. Ethel Flora, b. Jan. 15, 1881. 
 
 5. Mabel, b. Feb. 16, 1883. 
 
 149. Wheat, Glenside, Penn. 
 
 ilerton Thompson Wheat ( 148-1 ) married, Jan. 17, 1895, 
 flary E. Bomhoff, d. May 7, 1896, daughter of Harry and 
 Mary Bomhoff of Millville, N. J. He married second, Feb. 
 
 LofC. 
 
ioo Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 22, 1899, Lauretta Young, b. May 4, 1869, daughter of 
 Charles and Sarah S. Young of Camden, N. J. 
 
 1. Maysie, b. May 4, 1896, d. June 7, 1897. 
 
 2. Lauretta, b. June 3, 1901. 
 
 150. Sheppard, Millviixe, N. J. 
 Luella Wheat (148-2) married, Dec. 8, 1889, W. H. Seward 
 Sheppard, b. March 14, 1866, son of Charles Sheppard and 
 Margaret Shropshires of Haleyville, N. J. 
 
 1. Reba, b. Feb. 12, 1891. 
 
 2. Myrtle, b. Aug. 8, 1894. 
 
 151- Wheat, Miixviixe, N. J. 
 Albert Floyd Wheat (148-3 ), commercial traveler, married, 
 June 14, 1894, Estella Madden, b. April 2, 1875, daughter 
 of Martin Madden and Elizabeth Clark. 
 
 1. Lillian Estella, b. May 27, 1895. 
 
 2. Floyd Martin, b. April 11, 1897. 
 
 3. Albert Leonard, b. Jan. 18, 1901. 
 
 152. Smith, Delhi, N. Y. 
 
 Ellen Julia Wheat (142-4), married, Dec. 17, 1862, Dr. 
 George Cleveland Smith, son of E. Cleveland Smith and his 
 second wife Abigail Wells of ' ' Cold Spring Farm ' ' near 
 Delhi, on which were living in June, 1895 the Doctor's grand- 
 father Peter Smith aged 100 yrs. 9 months, his father aged 
 87, and his brother J. D. Smith, a prominent dairyman and 
 writer on agriculture. The name Cleveland comes from the 
 Doctor's grandmother, whose brother was Ex-President Cleve- 
 land's grandfather. 
 
 He was educated at the Delaware Academy at Delhi ; 
 taught nine terms, studying medicine under direction of Dr. 
 Fitch, and after the Civil War graduated from Jefferson 
 Medical College. 
 
 At the second call for troops in the Civil War he enlisted 
 in Co. D, 144th Reg't N. Y. Volunteers, then at Hilton Head, 
 S. C. He was first made company clerk, then serg't of the 
 
Wheat of Colfax. ioi 
 
 Provost Marshal's Guard, having charge of receiving and for- 
 warding troops, furnishing rations, etc., and during the winter 
 of 1864 had charge of rebel prisoners held for retaliation for 
 unsoldierly treatment of federal prisoners at Charleston. He 
 declined a first lieutenant's commission in the 34th U. S. 
 Colored Troops. 
 
 After the War he was for ten years a partner with Floyd 
 B. Wheat (148), the firm being dealers in hardware, etc., at 
 Millville, N. J. He served one term there as City Superin- 
 tendent of Schools ; removed to Philadelphia, studied the 
 healing art at Jefferson Medical College, spending seven years 
 in the city connected with the college and hospitals ; removed 
 to Franklin, N. Y., and practiced four years ; rem. to Delhi 
 1880 where he continues to practice. He is an active worker 
 in the Baptist Church. 
 
 1. Kdson Levere, d. aged 17 months. 
 
 2. Alta, taught several years. 
 
 3. Lillian M., d. July 18, 1894, aged 19. 
 
 153. Wheat, Colfax, Iowa. 
 
 Morris Lambert Wheat (142-5), lawyer and politician ; 
 was admitted to the bar at Binghamton, N. Y., 1869 ; prac- 
 ticed in Iowa and Nebraska ; was elected State Master Work- 
 man of the Knights of Labor 1886 ; was General Worthy 
 Foreman and Lecturer (K. of L.) 1 888-' 91 ; was an organizer 
 of the People's Party and has been almost continually "on 
 the stump " since 1891 (July '95). 
 
 In 1872 he married Mary J. Booth, daughter of Wm. S. 
 Booth and Sarah B. Curtis from Massachusetts. 
 
 i54» Wood, Franklin, N. Y. 
 Eliza Wheat (81-7 ), married, Sept. 2, 1831, Charles Jeffer- 
 son Wood, farmer, b. at Newfield, N. Y., Nov. 14, 1804, d. 
 at Franklin, Nov. 22, 1893, son °f John Wood from Ireland 
 and Mary Sarles. They lived for fifty-two years on Hand- 
 some Brook about two miles from Franklin village. After 
 Mrs. Wood's death in 1883 the farm was exchanged for 
 village property. 
 
102 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 i. Rufus Sylvester (155), b. Nov. 21, 1832. 
 
 2. William Henry (158), b. March 8, 1834. 
 
 3. Charles Jefferson, ■ b. March 4, 1837, d. Dec. 8, 1848. 
 
 4. Mary Jane (160), b. Oct. 13, 1839. 
 
 155. Wood, Franklin, N. Y. 
 Rufus Sylvester Wood (154-1 ), farmer, educated at 
 D. L. L, married, Sept. 16, 1855, Susan Harie flann, b. 
 
 Aug. 9, 1832, daughter of Horace A. Mann of Franklin and 
 Sophronia Fitch (dau. of Col. Silas Fitch, and sister of Rev. 
 Silas Fitch, second principal of D. L. I.). Mr. and Mrs. Wood 
 lived on the homestead until 1 884, when they removed to the 
 village. 
 
 1. Charles Irving (156), b. March 9, 1857. 
 
 2. Kdson Stanley, b. Feb. 18, i860, d. Apr. 24, 1861. 
 
 3. Carrie Josephine (157), b. Apr. 30, 1867. 
 
 156. Wood, Logan, Iowa. 
 
 Dr. Charles Irving Wood ( 155-1 ), physician and surgeon, 
 graduated 1875 from D. L,. I.; studied medicine at the Uni- 
 versity of New York and at Jefferson Medical College, 
 receiving the degree of M. D. in 1880 ; was assistant surgeon 
 Pennsylvania Hospital 1 880-1 881 ; removed to Iowa 1881, 
 where he has since practiced ; has been Commissioner of 
 Insanity twelve years, and county surgeon for the Chicago 
 and N. W. Ry. He married, May 12, 1886, Florence May 
 Bolter, daughter of Senator I* R. Bolter and Caroline Rhine- 
 hart of Logan. 
 
 157. Daniels, Franklin, N. Y. 
 
 Carrie Josephine Wood (155-3), married, May 24, 1893, 
 Frank Clinton Daniels, b. Aug. 22, 1866, son of Valson 
 Daniels and Mary Eastman Wescott of Franklin. His grand- 
 father, Ralph Daniels, came from Lebanon, Conn., by ox- 
 team and cart before the year 1800. Mr. F. C. Daniels was 
 ten years in the South and West ; returned in 1891 and is 
 now an insurance agent in Franklin. 
 
Wood of Dakota City. 103 
 
 158. Wood, Dakota City, Neb. 
 
 William Henry Wood ( 154- 2 ), farmer, married, Oct. 23, 
 1855, Sarah Jane Abell of Franklin, N. Y., b. April 3, 1837, 
 daughter of Emory Stark Abell and Ruth Mills Northway ; 
 rem. 1857 to Iowa and 1858 to Dakota City, Neb. Since then 
 has lived in Franklin a part of the time. 
 
 1. Charles Emory, b. Aug. 8, 1856, d. Sept. 25, 1857. 
 
 2. Estella Dakota (159), b. Dec. 11, 1858. 
 
 3. Jennie Fanella, b. Oct. 6, 1863, d. Aug. 2, 1865. 
 
 4. George Franklin, b. April 7, 1867, d. Feb. 3, 1893, 
 
 while a student at Union Theological Seminary, 
 New York City. 
 
 5. Frederick Abell, b. May 17, 1871 ; studied law at 
 
 the University, Ann Arbor, Mich. ; is now a lawyer 
 at Dakota City, Neb. 
 
 159. White, Woodbine, Iowa. 
 
 Estella Dakota Wood (158-2), married, Oct. 20, 1880, 
 Lyman W. White, editor of the Woodbine Chronicle, b. at 
 Franklin, N. Y. March 20, 1857, son of J- Randolph White 
 and Elizabeth Bogie. 
 
 1. John Wood, b. July 31, 1881. 
 
 2. Annie Fanella, b. Nov. 5, 1890. 
 
 3. Sarah Edna, b. Jan. 27, 1893. 
 
 160. Dibble, Dakota City, Neb. 
 
 Ilary Jane Wood ( 154-4 ) married, Jan. 22, i860, Daniel 
 
 Colby Dibble, farmer and breeder of Hereford cattle, b. at 
 Meredith, N. Y., March 5, 1833, son of Charles Dibble and 
 Sally Louisa Benedict ; removed to Nebraska 1868. 
 
 1. Wilson Colby (161), b. Aug. 2, 1863. 
 
 2. Nellie Maria, b. Jan. 5, 1874; graduated 1898, 
 
 from Leland Stanford Jr. University, Cal.; is now 
 teacher in the Female Seminary at Walla Walla, 
 Wash. 
 
104 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 161. Dibble, Palo Alto, Cal. 
 
 Wilson Colby Dibble ( 160-1 ), newspaper correspondent ; 
 attended Sioux City High School, and D. L. I., and entered 
 Williams College, but after one term further attendance was 
 prevented by a long illness. At the age of twenty-two he 
 was elected Superintendent of Schools, Dakota Co., Neb., for 
 two years ; was engaged in newspaper work in Sioux City 
 three years ; was chairman of the Dem. Central Com. of Dak. 
 Co., Neb., three terms ; and member of Dist. Cong. Com. one 
 term. He married, Feb. 7, 1891, Gertrude Sharp of Spring- 
 field, Ohio, b. 1858, daughter of John Sharp and Harriet 
 Jordan. 
 
 1. Carol Sharp Dibble, b. April 8, 1892. 
 
 162. Wheat, Treadwell, N. Y. 
 Cyrus Howell Wheat ( 81-8 ), cabinet maker, married, Feb. 
 7, 1836, Amanda Rogers, b. April 6, 1817, d. March 27, 1900, 
 daughter of Rufus Rogers and Polly Cunningham of Connecti- 
 cut. He lived on the Bolles (81) homestead on Handsome 
 Brook where he was born, until i860 when he removed to 
 Croton (now Treadwell), taking with him his aged father, 
 Captain Wm. Wheat. He now lives with his daughter, Mrs. 
 Manzer Smith. 
 
 I. 
 
 Amos Watson, b. Aug. 12, 1839, d. July 9, 
 
 1863, 
 
 
 Soldier. 
 
 
 2. 
 
 Marion Eunice (163), b. June 19, 1841. 
 
 
 3- 
 
 Hartson L. (164), b. March 18, 1843. 
 
 
 4- 
 
 Porter Asbury (168), b March 24, 1845. 
 
 
 5- 
 
 Herbert L., b. Aug. 26, 1847, d. July 13, 
 
 1867. 
 
 6. 
 
 Iveroy C, b. Jan. 22, 1849, d. Aug. 11, 
 
 1864. 
 
 7- 
 
 Orton W. (172), b.'Jan. 30, 1852. 
 
 
 163. Smith, West Meredith, N. Y. 
 riarion Eunice Wheat (162-2) married, Jan. 1, 1863, 
 Manzer C. Smith, farmer, b. Jan. 7, 1838, d. Jan. 10, 1903, 
 son of David Smith and Louisa F. Gould. 
 
 1. Herbert Leroy, b. Dec. 29, 1867, d. April 6, 1868. 
 
 2. Emma L,ouesa, b. Sept. 25, 1879. 
 
CYRUS WHEAT (162) 
 
Wheat of Treadweel. 105 
 
 164. Wheat, Treadwell, N. Y. 
 
 Hartson L. Wheat ( 162-3 ). farmer, married, Dec. 7, 1864, 
 Francis Haria Knapp, b. Aug. 9, 1843, daughter of Alanson 
 Knapp and Maria Drake. 
 
 1. Nellie Ino (165), b. June 2, 1866. 
 
 2. Frances Edna (166), b. Sept. 2, 1874. 
 
 3. Hardin Harold (167), b. May 5, 1876. 
 
 4. Millicent Marie, b. Aug. 29, 1879. 
 
 165. Whitten, Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 Nellie Ino Wheat ( 164-1 ) married, Nov. 7, 1888, Arthur 
 Sherburne Whitten, barber, b. i860, son of Andrew S. 
 Whitten, and Julia A. Fish from Maine to Boston, to New 
 Jersey, and later to Minnesota. He attended D. L. I.; went 
 to Sioux City, Iowa, where he engaged in painting and 
 decorating. After his marriage he remained in Sioux City, 
 but left painting for the tonsorial art on account of his health; 
 later rem. to Minn. 
 
 1. Roland Arthur, b. Sept. 1, 1889. 
 
 2. Harold Clayton, b. July 28, 1891. 
 
 3. Clayton Delwin, b. Oct. 7, 1895. 
 
 166. Bender, Treadwell, N. Y. 
 
 Frances Edna Wheat ( 164-2 ), teacher for several years, 
 married, Jan. 8, 1902, Frederick Ernest Bender, farmer, b. 
 Feb. 8, 1874, at Laufren, Wurtemburg, Germany, son of 
 Peter Carl Bender and Louise Sommer. 
 
 167. Wheat, Minneapolis, Minn. 
 Hardin Harold Wheat ( 164-3) married, Sept. 5, 1901, Alice 
 Biddel Ayer, daughter of F. Wayland Ayer, pres. of Mer- 
 chants' National Bank of Philadelphia. After their marriage 
 Mr. and Mrs Wheat removed to Minneapolis. 
 
 168. Wheat, Treadwell, N. Y. 
 Porter A. Wheat (162-4 ) teacher and mechanic; married 
 Dec. 22, 1866, Lydia Maria Southworth, b. July 24, 1847, 
 
106 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 daughter of Rev. Nelson Southworth and Jemima Finch of 
 Masonville, N. Y. He taught for sixteen years, and after- 
 wards was a manufacturer of butter firkins. He was Justice 
 of the Peace sixteen years ; and was elected Justice of the 
 Sessions in 1895, and was appointed postmaster in 1885, and 
 in 1895. 
 
 1. Cora Marion (169), b. Oct. 10, 1867. 
 
 2. Homer E., b. April 27, 1870. 
 
 3. Bertha Lydia (170), b. Aug. 31, 1871. 
 
 4. Horatio Seymour, b. April 6, 1876. 
 
 5. Roscoe Conklin (171), b. Nov. 10, 1880, 
 
 169. Evans, Leonta, N. Y. 
 Cora flarion Wheat (168-1 ) married, Mar. 2, 1892, Le Roy 
 Evans, farmer, b. Dec. 9, 1867, son of Ezra Evans and Susan 
 Stewart of Treadwell. 
 
 1. Stewart Wheat, b. June 30, 1894. 
 
 2. Blanche M., b. Sept. 1, 1895. 
 
 3. Hazel J., b. Feb. 1, 1898. 
 
 170. Whitney, Pittsburg, Penn. 
 
 Bertha Lydia Wheat ( 168-3 ) graduated 1891 from the 
 Delaware Literary Institute, Franklin, N. Y., and taught 
 several years; married John Howard Whitney of Downsville, 
 N. Y. 
 
 1. Howard Erwin. 
 
 17' • Wheat, Treadwell, N. Y. 
 Roscoe Conkling Wheat ( 168-5 ) married, Nov. 27, 1902, 
 Laura E. Fleming, daughter of Manning Fleming and Emma 
 Gillett of Franklin, N. Y. 
 
 172. Wheat, Franklin, N. Y. 
 Orton W. Wheat ( 162-7 ), carpenter, married, Nov. 3, 
 1881, Betsey A. Palmer, b. July 12, 1857, daughter of John 
 Palmer and Parmelia Tuttle of Andes, N Y. 
 
 1. Eeo C , b. March 28, 1884 
 
 2. Herbert O., b. Oct. 12, 1885. 
 
 3. Tracy Elmer, b. Sept. 30, 1892, d. Jan. 26, 1893. 
 
 4. Merton, b. Sept. 5, 1893. 
 
Wheat of California. 107 
 
 i73- Wheat, California. 
 
 Edward Hatson Wheat ( 8i- 9 ), carpenter, married, Oct. 
 1, 1840, Albina Hawley, b 1822, at South Franklin, N. Y. 
 They lived at S. Franklin, until 1853 when Mr. Wheat went 
 to California, and some years later Mrs Wheat and daughter 
 went to Pennsylvania. Mr. Wheat sent money to Mr. 
 Reuben Parish to bring his family to California, but his wife 
 refused to go. His daughter determined to go as soon as she 
 became of age, but died in her nineteenth year. Nothing has 
 been heard of the mother since. The postmaster at Tread- 
 well (then Croton) received a letter from California in 1876 
 announcing the death of Edward Wheat, aged 60. 
 
 1. Selen Berenice, b. 1843, d. 1862. 
 
 2. Edward Eralburn, b. 1848, d. 1855. 
 
io8 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 Continued from page 6. 
 
 The dates of birth and of death, when known, are placed immediately 
 after the name of each person at the first entry of the name, and are not 
 repeated in any following entry of the same name. 
 
 Instead of repeating anything once stated of a person the number of 
 the paragraph in which the statement is entered is placed in parenthesis 
 after his name. By following these key numbers one may trace a lineage 
 without once referring to the index, and as rapidly as he can turn the 
 leaves. 
 
 DATES — OLD STYLE AND NEW STYLE. 
 
 For more than a century after the settlement of Boston New Year's 
 Day was the twenty-fifth of March ; March was the first month, 
 December the tenth, and February the twelfth. This was the Old Style. 
 
 At the same time the Latin countries used the New Style with January 
 for the first month. Many people in the colonies combined both styles 
 by writing all dates between Dec. 31 and March 25 with a hyphen thus, 
 Feb. 9, 1666-7 ; i. e. Feb. 9, 1666 in English countries, and Feb. 19, 1667 
 in Latin countries, for the old style was ten days behind the new from 
 1601 to 1700, and eleven days behind from 1701 to 1752. 
 
INDEX 
 
 Numbers refer to the paragraph 
 
 WHEAT 
 
 Aaron 70, 80, 80C 
 
 Abigail 71, 75 
 
 Adelia H 126, 135 
 
 Addison S 82, 97 
 
 A. F., Dr 61 
 
 Agnes 21, 48 
 
 Albert F 148, 151 
 
 Albert L 151 
 
 Albina 173 
 
 Alfred J 48 
 
 Alice 54 
 
 Alice B 167 
 
 Alice C 97 
 
 Alice E 88 
 
 Alice H 89 
 
 Alice N 46 
 
 Alicia 23 
 
 Almira E 99 
 
 Almiron G 4, 126, 136 
 
 Alta G 103, 104 
 
 Altamira 102 
 
 Amanda 162 
 
 Amelia G 100 
 
 Amos W 162 
 
 Ann 20. 42, 43, 44, 53, 54 
 
 Anna 23, 26, 56 
 
 Anne . 20, 24, 28, 29, 31, 32, 38, 40 
 
 68 
 
 Annie 27, 79 
 
 Annie R in 
 
 Arthur T . . 48 
 
 Avery 21 
 
 Avice 34, 35 
 
 Benjamin . 20, 23, 38, 51, 53, 66, 
 78, 79A 
 
 Benjamin L, 80 
 
 Bertha L 89, 168, 170 
 
 Betsy 103 
 
 Betsy A 172 
 
 44 Captain " . 81, 81A, 81B, 106, 162 
 
 Carlos C 44, 47 
 
 Carrie J 143 
 
 Carrie M 131 
 
 Catherine B 95 
 
 Charles 50 
 
 Charles A 127, 131 
 
 Charles C 92 
 
 Charles F 46 
 
 Charles 1 95 
 
 Charles L 102, 116, 117 
 
 Charles S 88, 96 
 
 Charles T 45 
 
 Charlotte 54, 57 
 
 Christopher, G 47 
 
 Clara 59 
 
 Clarinda R 82 
 
 Clifton 43, 49 
 
 " Colonel " 142 
 
 Constance H 47 
 
 Cooney 61 
 
 Cora M n3, 168, 169 
 
 Cordelia E 82, 83 
 
 Cyrus 81, 162 
 
 Delmer T 117 
 
 Dewey, W 88, 92 
 
 Diana 148 
 
 " Doctor" 80, 81A 
 
 Dorothy ... 42 
 
 Dorothy A 46 
 
I IO 
 
 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 Duane D 97 
 
 Edgar G 96 
 
 Edgar J 94 
 
 Edmond 23, 26 
 
 Edward 43, 81, 173 
 
 Edward E 56, 173 
 
 Edward M 81, 173 
 
 Edwin R 126, 127, 130 
 
 Edwin W 111,112 
 
 Effie C 103 
 
 " Elder" 80 
 
 Eliza 44, 81, rro, 154 
 
 Eliza A ... 143 
 
 Eliza E 47 
 
 Eliza O 126, 138 
 
 Elizabeth, 20, 24, 28, 45, 52, 61,67, 
 77, 79, 80, 127 
 
 Elizabeth S 45 
 
 Ella T 97 
 
 EllaS 113 
 
 Ellen P 46 
 
 Ellen J 142, 152 
 
 Elmer J 117 
 
 Emerson .142 
 
 Emilie L . . . . . 136, 137 
 
 Emily 56, 142 
 
 Emily C 136 
 
 Emma 48 
 
 Emma E 97 
 
 Emma L 48 
 
 Emma R 97, 98 
 
 Ernest D 89, 90 
 
 Ernest G . . 46 
 
 Ernest 46 
 
 Esther H 34 
 
 Ethel C 113 
 
 Ethel F 148 
 
 Ethel M 48 
 
 Ethel N 91 
 
 Eunice 81, 82 
 
 Eva S 93 
 
 Evelyn L, in 
 
 Fannie E 56 
 
 Florence A 48 
 
 Floyd B T42, 148, 152 
 
 Floyd M 151 
 
 Frances . . 30, 31, 32, 44, 144 
 
 Frances A 46 
 
 Frances E 164, 166 
 
 Fsances L 92 
 
 Frances M 164 
 
 Francis 48, 54, 69 
 
 Francis I 88, 95 
 
 Francis M 102. [15 
 
 Frank I 95 
 
 Frank J 4, no, 113 
 
 Frederick S 45 
 
 George, Sir 31, 34 
 
 George 54, 55,56 
 
 George A 126, 141 
 
 George D 89 
 
 George G 88, 93 
 
 George J 93 
 
 George N ... 58 
 
 George W 4, 82, 88 
 
 Gerard S . 46 
 
 Gertrude 49 
 
 Godfrey C 45 
 
 Grace A 91 
 
 Grace M 127 
 
 Hannath 70 
 
 Hannah . 2, 55, 70, 72, 79, 79A, 80 
 
 Hannah A 5 8 
 
 Hannah R 80 
 
 Hardin 142, 143 
 
 Hardin H 164. 167 
 
 Harold D 96 
 
 Harry E 89 
 
 Hartson L 4, 162, 164 
 
 Helen S 143, J 47 
 
 Henary 20 
 
 Henry 19, 21, 23, 24, 44 
 
 Henry A 46 
 
 Henry of Walsall 19 
 
 Herbert L 162 
 
 Herbert O 172 
 
 Homer E 168 
 
Wheat. 
 
 hi 
 
 Horatio S 168 
 
 Howard I 4, 91 
 
 Howard R no, 11 1 
 
 Ida May 99 
 
 Irving H 96 
 
 Isabella 23, 26, 28, 38, 39 
 
 Jacob, Sir 34 
 
 James 20, 43, 44, 80 
 
 James C 46 
 
 James E 88, 94 
 
 James F 99 
 
 James M 47, 48, 82, 99 
 
 James W 97 
 
 Jane 58, 61, 62, 70 
 
 Jemima 79 
 
 Jennison 78 
 
 Jeremiah 20, 23 
 
 Jeremie 23, 38 
 
 J. Frank 4, no, 113 
 
 Joan 20 
 
 Jobe 23 
 
 Johannes 23, 26 
 
 Joh'es 23 
 
 John, 20, 21, 28, 42, 44, 49, 51, 52, 
 
 53, 54, 63, 67, 69, 70, 71, 73, 75, 
 
 77A, 78A, 80 
 
 John B 46 
 
 John F 58, no, 113 
 
 John H 46 
 
 John J 45, 46 
 
 John T 50 
 
 John T., Sir 34, 50 
 
 Joseph . . . 38, 51, 53, 74, 75, 77A 
 
 Josephine A 91 
 
 Joshua, 61, 67, 70, 70A, 70F, 71, 
 73, 75, 76, 77 
 
 Judith 23 
 
 Julia 142 
 
 Julia A no, 114 
 
 Laura E 171 
 
 Laura G 45 
 
 Laura M 56 
 
 Lauretta 149 
 
 Lauretta A 94 
 
 Lemira F 4, 82 
 
 Lena E 143, J 45 
 
 Leonard H 143, 144 
 
 Leo C 172 
 
 Leroy C 162 
 
 Lewis C in 
 
 Lillian E 15 1 
 
 Lizzie A 92 
 
 Lois O 89 
 
 Louisa 47, 132 
 
 Louisa A 97 
 
 Louisa E 126, 133 
 
 Lucy R 127, 128 
 
 Luella . . 148, 150 
 
 Luna 94 
 
 Lydia 7§, 96 
 
 Lydia E 115 
 
 Lydia F 92 
 
 Lydia M 168 
 
 Mabel 148 
 
 Mabel G 46 
 
 Margaret 79 
 
 Margaret H 46 
 
 Margery H 130 
 
 Maria 23, 81, 118 
 
 Maria L 82 
 
 Marion E 162, 163 
 
 Marjorie E 100 
 
 Martha 23, 28, 38, 142 
 
 Martha E 112 
 
 Mary, 20, 32, 38, 43, 44, 53- 54, 55, 
 
 78,81 
 Mary A . . . .46, 82, 97, 101, 141 
 
 Mary E 46, 143, J 46, 149 
 
 Mary G 47 
 
 Mary J 47, 136, 153 
 
 Mary L 47, 127, 129 
 
 Mary P 116 
 
 Matthew 51 
 
 Maud T 141 
 
 Maude 90 
 
 May 149 
 
112 
 
 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 Maysie T 49 
 
 Merton i7 2 
 
 Merton T 148, 149 
 
 Mildred M . . . 100 
 
 Millicent M 164 
 
 Minnie 60 
 
 Minnie F 117 
 
 Morris L 142, 153 
 
 Morton E 116, 117 
 
 Moses 61, 70, 74, 77, 78A 
 
 "Mr" 65 
 
 Murray C 131 
 
 Nellie I 164, 165 
 
 Nicholas 21, 23, 61 
 
 Nina E 9 1 
 
 Nora E 13° 
 
 Oliver 21, 23 
 
 Orton W 162, 172 
 
 Oscar D 136 
 
 Oscar F 126, 132 
 
 Peg 62 
 
 Phebey 20 
 
 Porter A 4, 162, 168 
 
 Prudence 23, 38 
 
 Rachel 97 
 
 Rebecca 20, 70, 73, 75, 80 
 
 Richard 20, 21, 23 
 
 Roscoe V 60 
 
 Roscoe C 168, 171 
 
 Ruth L 131 
 
 Ruth M 126 
 
 Sally 80 
 
 Salmon 78 
 
 Samuel, n, 64, 70, 70E, 71, 73, 78, 
 
 80 
 Samuel (Eng.) n, 20, 23, 38, 47, 
 
 53, 54 
 
 Samuel C 58, 59 
 
 Sarah, 20, 30, 32, 44, 53, 55, 58, 70, 
 
 76 
 
 Sarah A 130 
 
 Sarah E 127 
 
 Sarah h 46 
 
 Selen B 173 
 
 Sibyl A 82 
 
 Silas 4, 81, 8iC, 82, 82A 
 
 Silas C 88, 91 
 
 Solomon. .2, 3, 5, 78, 79, 80, 81, 126 
 
 "Squire" 102 
 
 Susan M 102, 105 
 
 Susanna 23, 38 
 
 Sylvanus 82, 97 
 
 Sylvester 4, 81, 142 
 
 Tamzen 70, 70B, 70E, 70I 
 
 Thomas, 20, 21, 23, 26, 28, 30, 42, 
 43, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 80 
 
 Thomas A 58 
 
 Thomas C 44 
 
 Thomas E 46, 50 
 
 Thomas J 50, 61, 102, 103 
 
 Thomas M 48 
 
 Thomas W 47 
 
 Thomasine 23, 26, 70, 701 
 
 Thompson H 142 
 
 Tracy E 172 
 
 Walter D 88, 92 
 
 Wealtha L 136 
 
 Willard D 93 
 
 William, 2, 4, 5, 18, 19, 21, 23, 24, 
 
 27, 28, 43, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 80, 
 
 Sod, 81, 102, 162 
 
 William B 102, no 
 
 William D 82, 88, 89 
 
 William G 59 
 
 William H 58, 60, 90 
 
 William of Coventry . . . . 19, 27 
 
 William of Glympton 28 
 
 Willie 93 
 
 Zelda B 60 
 
Persons. 
 
 113 
 
 PERSONS 
 
 Abbot 67 
 
 Abell 158 
 
 Ackworth 34 
 
 Adair 93A 
 
 Adam 7 
 
 Adams 20, 70G 
 
 Amner 128 
 
 Andrews . 119 
 
 Armson 23, 38 
 
 Ashling 58 
 
 Austin 105 
 
 Ayer 167 
 
 Bailey 23, 24, 27 
 
 Baker 70K, 71, 93A 
 
 Ball 70G 
 
 Ballard 71 
 
 Banks 30 
 
 Barber 139 
 
 Barnabee 23, 40 
 
 Barnett 25, 35, 36, 37 
 
 Bearman 20 
 
 Bender 166 
 
 Benedict 160 
 
 Benton 88, 88A 
 
 Bigelow 70E, 76, 118 
 
 Biket 80F 
 
 Bilbruck 57 
 
 Billings no 
 
 Bird 92 
 
 Blair 80H 
 
 Blanchard 124 
 
 Ble (du) io, n, 14, 10 
 
 Blee (de) 11, 19 
 
 Bogie 159 
 
 Bolles . 4, 81, 81D, 81E, 81F. 82A, 
 102, 162 
 
 Bolter 156 
 
 Bomhoff 149 
 
 Bonaparte, N no 
 
 Bond 18 
 
 Booth 153 
 
 Boyd 102, 106 
 
 Boyer 93A 
 
 Bourn ua 
 
 Boynton 121B 
 
 Bradshaw 93 
 
 Bridge 88A 
 
 Brigham 143 
 
 Bristowe 46 
 
 Brown 46, 70E, 71, 77A 
 
 Brownell 46 
 
 Bulkley 70A 
 
 Bull 61,75 
 
 Burnap 79B 
 
 Burrell 57 
 
 Burville 32 
 
 Cadwell 82, 82B 
 
 Calvert 69 
 
 Camden . 23 
 
 Canning 36 
 
 Carew 79A 
 
 Carroll 130 
 
 Chadwick 78 
 
 Chamberlain 20 
 
 Chapman 61 
 
 Cheever 76C 
 
 Chudlowe 23, 39 
 
 Clark 82B, 85, 95, 151 
 
 Cleveland 128, 152 
 
 Cockshutt 42, 43 
 
 Coddington 80F 
 
 Colburn 80 J 
 
 Collins 47 
 
 Colvert 88A 
 
 Conkling 92 
 
 Connant 62 
 
 Conqueror, The 77D 
 
 Cook 113 
 
 Cooper 44 
 
 Cowles 119 
 
 Crawford 131 
 
 Cruchloe 23, 38 
 
U4 
 
 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 Cunningham 162 
 
 Curtis 81B, 153 
 
 Dane 7°A 
 
 Daniels 157 
 
 Darrak 80F 
 
 Davidson 104 
 
 Davies 37 
 
 Davis 136 
 
 Decker 108, 125 
 
 De Forest 132 
 
 Dewey 82, 82B 
 
 Dibble 160, 161 
 
 Diefendorf 114 
 
 Dighton 23, 40 
 
 Drake, 
 
 Abial, Jr 4, 83 
 
 Abial, Sr 83, 142 
 
 Amy 142 
 
 Cordelia, E 83 
 
 Dorothy L, 84 
 
 Dwight B 4, 83, 86 
 
 Ella E 83 
 
 Emily F 86 
 
 Frances L 83, 87 
 
 Grace C 86 
 
 Julia 84 
 
 Mattie M 84 
 
 Maria 164 
 
 Mary M 86 
 
 Nellie E 84 
 
 William A 83, 84 
 
 Drum 134 
 
 Dwight 82B 
 
 Eastham 56 
 
 Edgecombe 81 E 
 
 Endicott 62 
 
 Ensome 63 
 
 Evans . . 4, 169 
 
 Eve 7, 80H 
 
 Eveland 145 
 
 Fairbanks 88A 
 
 Farrington 117 
 
 Faulkner 129 
 
 Finch 130, 168 
 
 Fischer 122 
 
 Fish 165 
 
 Fisher 88A 
 
 Fitch 152, 155 
 
 Flagg 77 
 
 Fleming 171 
 
 Foot 99 
 
 Foote 23, 40 
 
 Forsyth . . . 135,138, 139, 140 
 
 Frail 146 
 
 Franklyn 137 
 
 Frothingham 87 
 
 Fuller 101 
 
 Gareway 23 
 
 Gay 88, 88A 
 
 Gibson 49 
 
 Gillett 105, 171 
 
 Glover 77A 
 
 Gould 32, 163 
 
 Green 3, 79 
 
 Greenoway 61 
 
 Griswold 126 
 
 Hackley 121B 
 
 Hall 96 
 
 Hamner 20 
 
 Hampton • . 20 
 
 Harrison 46 
 
 Harwood 70G 
 
 Hathorne 62 
 
 Hawes 82B 
 
 Hawley 173 
 
 Heath 44 
 
 Henry VIII 20 
 
 Henchman 80J 
 
 Henniston 146 
 
 Hill 61, 71, 76, 77A, 137 
 
 Hoffman 123 
 
 Hollenbeck 147 
 
 Horton 79A 
 
 Howard 90 
 
 Howell 81E 
 
Persons. 
 
 ii5 
 
 Howes 143 
 
 Hoyt in 
 
 Hubbard 70G 
 
 Hubbell 116 
 
 Huntting 77A 
 
 Hyde 59 
 
 Jackson 117 
 
 Jefferson 16 
 
 Jenkins 47, 129 
 
 Jenkinson 30 
 
 Jenner 93, 93A 
 
 Jennison 78 
 
 Jester 96 
 
 Jesup 107, 132 
 
 Joans 70G 
 
 Johnson 142 
 
 Joardan 161 
 
 Jumper 28 
 
 Kempe 23, 38 
 
 King Philip 74, 82B 
 
 Knapp 164 
 
 Knight, 47 
 
 Leach 89 
 
 Ledoit 120 
 
 Lennard 23 
 
 Liljeghren 145 
 
 Lines 148 
 
 Lloyd 33 
 
 Loveland 97 
 
 Mabie 127 
 
 Mackey 56 
 
 Madden 151 
 
 Mann , . . 97, 155 
 
 Mansfield 77, 77A, 77C 
 
 Martyn 79A 
 
 Marvin 84 
 
 Masten 100 
 
 Matson 80D 
 
 Maynard 142 
 
 McClung 85 
 
 Melchizedek 5 
 
 Merrick 86 
 
 Middleton 135, 138 
 
 Millet 61 
 
 Millikan 106 
 
 Milnes 44 
 
 Minor 80F 
 
 Morningstar 123 
 
 Morse 30, 139 
 
 Mortone L-< 23, 39 
 
 Multer 147 
 
 Munger 80F 
 
 Murdack 23, 38 
 
 Murphy 94 
 
 Napoleon no 
 
 Needham 77, 77C, 77I) 
 
 Neff . . ' 136 
 
 Newby 58 
 
 Noble S2B, 106 
 
 Norman 77D 
 
 Northway 158 
 
 Noyes 107 
 
 Ord 68 
 
 Osboru 4, 134 
 
 Overbury 7 
 
 Owens 131 
 
 Page 31 
 
 Palfry 62 
 
 Palmer 5 2 » *7 2 
 
 Parish 173 
 
 Pearson 47 
 
 Pierson M4 
 
 Penoyer 57 
 
 Perrin 89 
 
 Philip, "King," 74. 82B 
 
 Pierce 95 
 
 Pierson 144 
 
 Potter 148 
 
 Prime & Wheat 103 
 
 Prince of Wales 3 
 
 Quincy 
 
 23, 24, 27 
 
n6 
 
 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 Raleigh 47 
 
 Ramsden 53 
 
 Read ...••• Sol, 8oJ 
 
 Redcliffe (de) ". 36 
 
 Reddick 93^ 
 
 Reed 20, 141 
 
 Reynolds 101, 125 
 
 Rhinehart 156 
 
 Richard III ; 22 
 
 Richardson .... 80, 80E, 80I, 80J 
 
 Richmond no, 115 
 
 Riggs 127 
 
 Ritzmaun no 
 
 Robinson 55, 79 A, 113 
 
 Rogers 162 
 
 Romaine 91 
 
 Rooke 55 
 
 Root SiE, 82B 
 
 Rowell 98 
 
 Roworth 45 
 
 Sambourne 43. 49 
 
 Sanderson 45 
 
 Sanford 88A 
 
 Sansom 45 
 
 Sarles 154 
 
 Savage 17, 18, 77C 
 
 Sawbridge 20, 31 
 
 Scobell 45 
 
 Scott 80H 
 
 Seaney 23, 38 
 
 Sears, 
 
 Azuba A 1 25 
 
 Benjamin 118 
 
 Benjamin C 118, 124 
 
 Carrie M 119, 122 
 
 David 118 
 
 Effie 119, 123 
 
 Ella M 120 
 
 Frank C 124, 125 
 
 Frank V 120 
 
 George E 124 
 
 George R 118 
 
 Howard W 120 
 
 Lena B 120 
 
 Leonora V 125 
 
 Maria 118, 119 
 
 Martha E 119, 121 
 
 Mary A 118 
 
 Rhoda F 1 24 
 
 Sendol B 119, 120 
 
 Silas E 124 
 
 Susan M 118 
 
 Sylvester 118 
 
 Wilbur L 120 
 
 William 118, 119 
 
 Sharp 161 
 
 Shaw 34 
 
 Shepard 81, 81E 
 
 Sheppard 150 
 
 Shropshire . . 150 
 
 Sibbert 131 
 
 Sibley 171 
 
 Simons 124 
 
 Simpson 54 
 
 Skutt 28 
 
 Smith 
 
 Abigail 152 
 
 Alta 152 
 
 Alta M 105 
 
 Carrie J 109 
 
 Charles F 105, 108 
 
 Cleveland E 152 
 
 Darins 105 
 
 David 163 
 
 E. Cleveland 152 
 
 Edson L . . . 152 
 
 Ellen J 152 
 
 Emma L 163 
 
 Fred E 105 
 
 George C 152 
 
 Gertrude 106 
 
 Hannah A 106 
 
 Herbert L 163 
 
 Ida E 105, 107 
 
 Irving W 105, 106 
 
 J. D 152 
 
 Jo 61 
 
Persons. 
 
 it7 
 
 Joel W IQ 5 
 
 John io 5 
 
 Lillian M l S* 
 
 Louesa x "3 
 
 Lura B Io8 
 
 Lydia io 5 
 
 Manzer C 4, l62 > 163 
 
 Marion E l6 3 
 
 Marion L Io8 
 
 Peter x 5 2 
 
 Sallie Io6 
 
 Silas IQ 5 
 
 Susan M io 5 
 
 Thomas io 5 
 
 William T 105, 108 
 
 Snyder 6o 
 
 Sommer 
 
 166 
 
 Southworth l68 
 
 Sprague 7° 
 
 Stagg 6l 
 
 Stalker I° 6 
 
 Stevens ^4? 
 
 Stewart l6 9 
 
 Stone . .- 23, 24, 28, 39 
 
 Stow 7oG 
 
 Strattou 70S. 7<>G, 72, 75 
 
 Strong II2 
 
 Sullivan 3 
 
 Sykes 44 
 
 Taf t io 3 
 
 Taler 79^ 
 
 Taylor 79 B 
 
 Thompson 103, 104, 121A 
 
 Thorold 2 9 
 
 Treadwell 86, 116 
 
 Tristram T 4* 
 
 Trumper I2 2 
 
 Tupper io 3 
 
 Tuttle J 7 2 
 
 Upham 76 
 
 Vincent 23 
 
 Waite 9 
 
 Wakeman *44 
 
 Walker io 9 
 
 Walton 77C 
 
 Waring 45, " 2 
 
 Washburn i° 8 
 
 Washington l6 
 
 Watkins 4^ 
 
 Weaver DI 
 
 Webb m 
 
 Wells 43, 44, 152 
 
 Wescott T 57 
 
 Wheat. See Wheat Index 
 
 Wheatbread 9 
 
 Wheatley I2 , 17 
 
 Wheaton 12, 17 
 
 Wheeler 74, 75, 81E 
 
 Wheet J 7, i 8 
 
 Whichcote 47 
 
 White 88A, 109, 159 
 
 Whiting 8od, Sol 
 
 Whitman 133. T 34, I3 6 
 
 Whitney I2 o, 170 
 
 Whitten l6 5 
 
 Wihtebrord 9 
 
 Willard 7oA 
 
 Willet 6 5 
 
 Williams 46, 81E 
 
 William the Conqueror . . . . 77 D 
 
 Wilson 2 ° 
 
 Wolcott io 2 , Io6 
 
 Wood 
 
 Carrie J 155, J 57 
 
 Charles E ^8 
 
 Charles I 155. 156 
 
 Charles J J 54 
 
 Edson S J 55 
 
 Eliza J 54 
 
 Elizabeth 81E 
 
 Estella D 158, 159 
 
 Florence M r 5 6 
 
 Frederick A x 5 8 
 
 George F J 58 
 
 Jennie F J 58 
 
ti8 
 
 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 Lauretta C . . . 94 
 
 Mary E in 
 
 Mary J 154, 160 
 
 Rufus S 154, 155 
 
 Sarah J 158 
 
 Susan M 155 
 
 William H 154, 158 
 
 Woolby 94 
 
 Wooly 75 
 
 Wright 76, 91, 100 
 
 Wynkoop 56 
 
 Yager 140 
 
 Yarrington 90 
 
 Young 149 
 
Places. 
 
 ti9 
 
 Abbey Wood, Eng 5° 
 
 Alford, Eng 5* 
 
 Alton, 111 56 
 
 America 56, 57 
 
 Ames, la i° 6 
 
 Andes, N. Y, 172 
 
 Annapolis Royal • • 67 
 
 Ascot, Eng 3 6 
 
 Ashford, Ct 79 A 
 
 Aswarba, Eng 47 
 
 Atlanta, Ga 9 8 
 
 Austerlitz H2 
 
 Bahama Is 81A 
 
 Batavia, 111 io 7 
 
 Beenham, Eng 21 
 
 Belden, N. Y 138, 140 
 
 Berks, co. Eng 19. «. 37 
 
 Bermuda Is 78A 
 
 Birmingham, Eng 19 
 
 Boston, Mass. . . 3, 6 3> 78A, 79A 
 
 Bovine, N. Y 88 
 
 Boxley, Eng 3 2 
 
 Bracknell, Eng 37 
 
 Brattleboro, Vt "9 
 
 Brazil, Ind 100 
 
 Bridgewater 121 
 
 Bristol, R. 1 62 
 
 Broderick, Kan 89 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y 9 1 . J 4* 
 
 Brudenham, Eng 33 
 
 Bucks co., Eng 3 2 , 33 
 
 California *73 
 
 Cambridge, Mass. . . . 77 A , 78A 
 
 Cambridgeshire 5 1 
 
 Camden, N. J *49 
 
 Cannonsville I 3 I 
 
 Canterbury, Ct 78A 
 
 Cape Porpoise, Me 81 E 
 
 Carlinville, 111 58 
 
 Carrolton, 111 57 
 
 PLACES, 
 
 Catskill, N. Y. 81C 
 
 Cawthorne, Eng 43 
 
 Cayuga co., N. Y. II 
 
 Cedar Rapids, la. 123 
 
 Charles City, la. . . . 105, 106, 108 
 
 Charleston, S. C 3 
 
 Charlestown, Mass ... 77^, 80J 
 
 Chatham, Ct 80 
 
 Chelmsford, Mass 80J 
 
 Chicago, 111 87, 107 
 
 Clearwater, Cal 5 8 
 
 Clinton, Mass 101 
 
 Clinton, N. Y 99 
 
 Closter, N. J 91 
 
 Coldham, Eng 5 1 
 
 Colfax, la 153 
 
 Concord, Mass. . . 18, 61, 70-80, 80 
 
 Connecticut 2, 4 
 
 Contentment, Mass 88A 
 
 Cottonwood, Cal 106 
 
 Corfe Castle, Eng 30 
 
 Coventry, Eng . 19, 23, 24, 25, 38 
 
 Croton, N. Y. (Treadwell) . 88, 162, 
 
 105, 173 
 
 Dakota City, Neb 158, 160 
 
 Danbury, Ct 88A 
 
 Davenport, N. Y 105 
 
 Dedham, Mass 7 8 , 88A 
 
 Delhi, N. Y I5 2 
 
 Delta, Colo 87 
 
 Denmark . 7 
 
 Des Moines, la 59 
 
 Doncaster, Eng 57 
 
 Dorchester, Mass 82B 
 
 Dorset co. , Eng 3° 
 
 Downsville, N. Y 170 
 
 Dracut, Mass 80J 
 
 "Eastbeary," Ct 80F 
 
 East Glastonbury, Ct 80A 
 
 East Markham, Eng 53 
 
 Enfield, Ct no 
 
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 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 England. .3, 7, 8, 11 , 14, 19,58, 
 61, 62, 70A, 70F 
 
 Erie, Pa 146 
 
 Essex, Eng 77 D 
 
 Exeter, Eng 77C 
 
 Exeter, N. H 101 
 
 Fair Valley, Okla 89, 90 
 
 Fenton, N. Y 140 
 
 Fernando, Cal 94 
 
 Fort Sill 106 
 
 France 8, 11 
 
 Franklin, N. Y . .4, 79, 80, 81, 82, 
 86, 88, 97, 105, 137, 142, 145, 146, 
 147, 154, 155, 157, I7*i !72, 173 
 
 Genessee Forks 89 
 
 Georgetown 137 
 
 Georgia 16 
 
 Glastonbury, Ct 80 
 
 Glenside, Penn 149 
 
 Gloucester co., Eng. 19, 21, 30, 34 
 Glympton, Eng . 24, 25, 28, 30, 31, 
 
 32, 37 
 
 Gosberton, Eng 51 
 
 Great Penton, Eng 34 
 
 Greensburg 58, 60 
 
 Groton, Ct SiE 
 
 Groton, Mass 74, 77 
 
 Hammond, La 115 
 
 Hampstead, Eng 77D 
 
 Handsome Brook . . 81C, 82A, 83, 
 
 154 
 
 Hanwell, Eng 50 
 
 Hartford, Ct 80F, 81E 
 
 Harvard College 17 
 
 Harmiston, Eng 29 
 
 Hastings, Eng 6 
 
 Hastings. N. Z 58 
 
 Haverhill, Mass 105 
 
 Heralds College ... 22, 23, 24, 25 
 
 Hertfordshire, Eng 50 
 
 Hettick, 111 57 
 
 Holliston, Mass 95 
 
 Hopkinton, Mass 79B 
 
 Horsemonden, Eng 70 A 
 
 Illinois 3 
 
 Ireland 154 
 
 Kansas City, Mo 58, 59, 60 
 
 Kansas City, Kan 109 
 
 Kent co., Eng 30, 82 
 
 Kingston, Eng 30 
 
 Kortright, N. Y 128 
 
 Lancaster, Eng n 
 
 Laneham, Eng 54, 55, 57 
 
 Lebanon, Ct 157 
 
 Lechlade, Eng. 34 
 
 Leicester, Eng 51 
 
 Lenora, Minn 99 
 
 Leonta, N. Y 169 
 
 Liberty Corner, N. J 92 
 
 Lichfield, Eng 21, 24, 27 
 
 Lime, Ct 80F 
 
 Lincoln, Eng 21, 29, 47 
 
 Lincoln co., Eng 51, 19 
 
 Litchfield, Ct 88A 
 
 Liverpool, Eng 46, 19 
 
 Logan, Iowa 156 
 
 London, Eng . . 3, 19, 24, 28, 29, 
 31. 43, 5o, 51, 81E 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal 93, 94 
 
 Lynn, Mass . . 77, 77A, 77C, 77D 
 
 Madison, N. J 91 
 
 Madison, N. Y 143 
 
 Maiden, Mass 76 
 
 Malta, Island no 
 
 Manchester 61 
 
 Mansfield, Ct 80F 
 
 Maquoketa, la . . 118, 119, 120, 122, 
 
 124, 125 
 
 Marlboro, Ct 81 
 
 Maryland 69 
 
 Masonville, N. Y . . . 126, 133, 135, 
 
 136, 168 
 Massachusetts Bay 63 
 
Places. 
 
 121 
 
 Medora, 111 56 
 
 Melbourne, Victoria ». . 46 
 
 Melrose, Mass 101 
 
 Mendham, Eng 77 D 
 
 Mendon, Mass 79 A 
 
 Meredith, N. Y . . . . 118, 127, 160 
 
 Middleburg, N. Y no 
 
 Middlesex co., Eng 19, 20 
 
 Middlesex co., Conn 80B 
 
 Middlesex co., Mass 77A 
 
 " Middle Temple " 23, 28 
 
 Mill Brook 70B, 70C 
 
 Millville, N. J . . 148. 149, 150, 151, 
 
 152 
 
 Minneapolis 165, 167 
 
 Monson, Mass 86 
 
 Narraganset 74 
 
 Narrows, Fla 124 
 
 Needham, Eng 77D 
 
 Needham, Mass . . 78, 78A, 79, 79B 
 
 Newark, Eng 44 
 
 Newark, N. Y 144 
 
 New Amsterdam 65 
 
 New England 70, 70F 
 
 New Hampshire 67 
 
 New Jersey 66 
 
 New London, Ct . . 78B, 80F, 81B, 
 
 81E 
 
 New Milford, Ct 86 
 
 New York 34, 83, 92 
 
 Newton, Mass 78A 
 
 New Zealand 58 
 
 Norfolk, Eng 77D 
 
 Normandy 7 
 
 Northampton 105 
 
 Northeast, N. Y 88A 
 
 Northfield, N. Y 84, 95, in 
 
 Norton, Eng 57 
 
 Norwalk, Ct 141 
 
 Norwich, Ct 78A, 79A, 80F 
 
 Nottingham, Eng 49 
 
 Nottingham, co. Eng . . 19, 42, 53, 
 
 54, 55 
 
 Oakend, Eng 32 
 
 Oakland, Cal 137 
 
 Odell, Eng 70A 
 
 Oneonta, N. Y 101, 104 
 
 Osage, la 108 
 
 Owego, N. Y . . . . 80C, 80D, 82A 
 
 Oxford, Ct 80F 
 
 Oxford co., Eng . . . 24, 30, 31, 33 
 
 Paddington, Eng 20 
 
 Palmyra, N. Y 143 
 
 Palo Alto, Cal 161 
 
 Philadelphia 68, 152 
 
 Pittsburg, Pa 170 
 
 Plainview, 111 58 
 
 Plymouth, Eng 81E 
 
 Portugal no 
 
 Pottawatomie co., Kan 93 
 
 Prescott, Arizona 84 
 
 Prince George co., Md 69 
 
 Providence, R. I 79 A 
 
 Pueblo, Colo 84, 85 
 
 Rampton, Eng 53, 54 
 
 Randolph co., N. C 106 
 
 Rauschenburg 122 
 
 Redlands, Cal 99, 100 
 
 Retford, Eng 41, 42, 49 
 
 Rhode Island 64 
 
 Richland, la 106 
 
 Roaring Brook 102 
 
 Ropesley, Eng 21 
 
 Roxbury, Mass 7 8A 
 
 Sacketts Harbor, N. Y 80C 
 
 St. Bartholomew 81B 
 
 St. Edmonds, Eng 79D 
 
 St. Joseph, Mo 93A 
 
 St. Louis, Mo 56 
 
 St. Mary's, Kan 93 
 
 Salem, Mass 62 
 
 Salisbury, Ct 88A 
 
 Salisbury, Eng 28 
 
 Sandwich, Eng 82B 
 
 Savanna, 111 123 
 
122 
 
 Wheat Genealogy. 
 
 Saybrook, Ct 78A, 79A 
 
 Scandinavia 8 
 
 Schaffhausen no 
 
 Selma, Ala 121 
 
 Sharon, Ct 88A 
 
 Shawnee, Okla 93A 
 
 Sheffield, Eng.,41, 44, 45, 46, 55, 56 
 
 Shell Rock, la 109 
 
 Sidney, N. Y 126 
 
 Sidney Center, N. Y . .4, 127, 128, 
 129, 130, 132, 136 
 
 Smyrna 29 
 
 Sommerville, 111 56 
 
 South America 81 
 
 Southwark, Eng 61, 70A 
 
 Spain no 
 
 Springfield, Mass 77C 
 
 Springfield, 161 
 
 Stafford co., Eng . . . 11, 19, 23, 25 
 
 Stamford, Ct in 
 
 Stockton, Cal 95 
 
 Stow, Eng 21 
 
 Stratfield, Eng 21 
 
 Stratford, Eng 23, 27 
 
 Suffolk co., Eng 77D 
 
 Summit, N. J 91 
 
 Suton-on-Trent 58 
 
 Switzerland no 
 
 Tallapoosa, Ga 115 
 
 Thames river 19 
 
 Theale, Eng 21 
 
 Tilehurst, Eng 21 
 
 Tolland, Ct 80F 
 
 Topeka, Kan 93 
 
 Tread well, N. Y . 4, 88, 96, 97, 102, 
 103, no, in, 112, 113, 114, 116, 
 117, 134, 162, 164, 165, 166, 168, 
 169, 171, 173 
 
 Uddersfield, Eng 53 
 
 Uxbridge, Mass 79, 79B 
 
 Virginia 3, 14 
 
 Walcot, Eng 30 
 
 Walla Walla 160 
 
 Walsall, Eng. . . 19, 23, 24, 25, 26 
 
 Wanlip, Eng 51, 52 
 
 Warwick co., Eng 23 
 
 Warwick, R. 1 63 
 
 Watertown, Mass . 76, 80J, 78, 78A 
 
 Watertown, N. Y 125 
 
 Wells, Maine 81 E 
 
 West Delhi, N. Y 104 
 
 Westfield, Mass . . . . 82, 82B 
 Westford, Mass. . . . 79A, 80, 80J 
 
 West Indies 78A, 81, 81B 
 
 West Jersey 66 
 
 West Meredith, N. Y 163 
 
 Westmoreland, Kan 93 
 
 Weston, Mass 77 A 
 
 West Springfield .... 102, 105 
 
 White Store, N. Y 139 
 
 Wheatley, Eng 56 
 
 Wickselme, Eng 30 
 
 Willenhall, Eng 141 
 
 Windham, Ct 79, 79B 
 
 Windsor, Ct 80A, 82 B 
 
 Wisbeach, Eng 51 
 
 Woburn, Mass 76, 80J 
 
 Woodbine, la 159 
 
 Woodford, N. Y 112 
 
 Woodhaven, N. Y 95 
 
 Woodstock, Eng 31, 32 
 
 Wurtemburg 93 A, 166 
 
 York, Eng 45 
 
 Yorkshire, Eng 43, 53, 57 
 
 Youngstown, 131 
 
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