Individual Details

Obadiah Wheeler

(Abt 1650/51 - Abt 1715)

They married 17 July 1672. [Elizabeth was from Scituate. Tolman implies Elizabeth was daughter of Resolved White, who came on the Mayflower – confirmed by a letter to RRW from Elizabeth Pickard. Resolved, according to Pickard, was married to Judith Vassall – known to have spoken out in favor of tolerance toward the Quakers. (JCW)] Both Obadiah 2 and his wife were living 28 March 1712, on which date they convey to son Obadiah one half their estate in Concord (Deeds XVII-467). [Obadiah died in 1715; his wife in 1732 according to Pickard. She refers to NE Registry Vol. 87 p. 115 – JCW]

By the terms of his father's will Obadiah received his father's home and the adjoining land. He lived on his father's estate in the southwesterly part of Concord until 1715, when he disposed of his lands. No trace is found of him after.

Events

BirthAbt 1650/51Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, British America
Marriage17 Jul 1672Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, British America - Elizabeth White
DeathAbt 1715

Families

SpouseElizabeth White (1652 - 1732)
ChildObadiah Wheeler (1673 - )
ChildJosiah Wheeler (1675 - 1738)
ChildUriah Wheeler (1678 - 1753)
ChildSamuel Wheeler (1680 - )
ChildJonathan Wheeler (1683 - 1747)
ChildElizabeth Wheeler (1685 - )
ChildJoseph Wheeler (1690 - 1780)
ChildBenjamin Wheeler (1693 - 1759)
ChildJoshua Wheeler (1696 - 1778)
FatherObadiah Wheeler (1609 - 1671)
MotherUNK ( - )
SiblingJosiah Wheeler (1650 - 1676)

Notes

Birth

He was probably born at Concord, Mass., although his birth is not recorded there.

Endnotes

1. Wheeler, Henry M., Genealogy of some of the descendants of Obadiah Wheeler of Concord, and Thomas Thaxter of Hingham. (Worcester, Mass.: Printed for private circulation, 1898, 80 pgs.), p. 6.

2. Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings. (Genealogical Publ, Baltimore, 2nd ed. 1995. (this reference courtesy of djoyce@clarku.edu) http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/scituate/).

3. Albert Gallatin Wheeler, The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America (American College of Genealogy, 1914), 353; digital images, Google Books, (http://books.google.com/ : accessed 27 December 2012.

4. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org: accessed 26 March 2018), Obadiah Wheeler and Elizabt. White, 17 Jul 1672; citing Marriage, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 892,249..

5. Wheeler, Henry M., Genealogy of some of the descendants of Obadiah Wheeler of Concord, and Thomas Thaxter of Hingham. (Worcester, Mass.: Printed for private circulation, 1898, 80 pgs.), p. 6.