Individual Details

According to a deposition made in St. Mary's Co, MD in 1654, John Wheatley was born about 1605 and immigrated "about 12 years since" as a free man. After taking the oath of fidelity on Jan 2, 1646/47, he requested (Oct 30, 1647) two hundred acres for having transported himself, wife and son in 1641. No actual grant in that amount has been found on record; however, fifteen months after the petition (Jan 1648/49), fifty acres were surveyed for John along a waterway cited as Wheatley's Fresh, lying on the east side of Packer Creek and west side of St. George's River. The July 5, 1649, patent for that tract, denoting it as John Wheatley's Hould, states that the land was due him "for transporting himself into this Province in anno 1641" In his will of Jan 23, 1657, (probated Sept 30, 1659), he cited no wife, and requested that his children be raised Catholic. The wording of the will implies that all surviving children were minors. Eventually, some of the land came into the possession of Lord Calvert, according to the rent roll of 1707. (William S. Carley, "Using Named Lands to Extend Family Lines: As Illustrated by Wheatley's Content."


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Birth	1605	England
Birth	1605
Death	Bef 29 Sep 1659	Smc, Md
Marriage		Ann Montague
Religion		Roman Catholic
Religion		arrived in 1641 to Md

Spouse	Ann Montague (1609 - 1659)
Child	James Wheatley ( - )
Child	Unknown Wheatley (1641 - 1659)
Child	Andrew Wheatley (1652 - 1693)
Child	John Wheatley Jr. (1653 - 1717)