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Capt. Nath. and Esther (Carver) Boardman, b. 1777; d. May 28, 1819; m. (3) Hepzibah Perry, by whom he had no ch. There were seven ch. at least by the first wife. He was listed in 1791, but held no improved land until the next year. He owned land in 2 and 11 Dutch. See "Revolutionary Roll."
i. Eunice [7], said to have m. a Back.
ii. Joseph [7], took freeman's oath in 1809.
iii. George [7], went West and all trace of him lost.
iv. Sarah [7], b. 1791; d. Aug. 14, 1883, unm., Roy .; bur. Dewey Cem.
v. Spaulding [7], living when his father d .; took freeman's oath 1802.
vi. Ezra [7], b. Aug. 28, 1795; d. Aug. 28, 1872, Hartland; m. Charlotte Spaulding, b. June 27, 1796; d. Dec. 26, 1867; lived in Roy. till about 1865, when he sold to S. C. Drew and rem. to Hartland. Ch .: (a) George W. [8], b. Nov. 25, 1826; d. Dec. 22, 1894, Roy .; m. Mrs. Anna (Culver) Hastings, a milliner of S. Roy, and sister of Seymour Culver; no ch. Ezra d. with his son George in S. Roy .; (b) Emma J. [8], b. May 7, 1834; d. July 27, 1864; (c) Thankful S. [8], b. July 15, 1825; d. July 4, 1849; (d) Azro [8], b. Oct. 14, 1828; d. Nov. 28, 1897.
vii. Martin [7], lived with Ezra.
viii. Laura [7], b. Sep. 3, 1810; m. June 10, 1840, Alex. Phelps. ix. John [7], b. Mar. 6, 1812; d. Jan. 22, 1892, Waitsfield; m. Nov. 5, 1840, Mary A., dau. Capt. Robert and Abigail (Dow) Leach, b. Apr. 25, 1820; d. 1902; ch .: (a) Alice B., b. 1842; d. Waitsfield; (b) Sarah A., b. 1844; (c) Elnora M., b. 1846; (d) Melvin J., b. 1848; (e) Albert, b. 1850; (f) Charles Winfield, b. Nov. 2, 1860; m. June 18, 1890, Anna R., dau. Marcus D. and Julia G. (Rankin) Cook.
X. Hannah [7], d. with brother Joel, Fort Worth, Tex., unm. xi. Mary [7], or Polly, d. in the 1890's, Lebanon, N. H., unm. xii. Joel [7], b. 1818; m. Jan. 8, 1843, Waitsfield, Belinda, dau. Hooker and Lucia (Davidson) Joslyn, b. June 3, 1822; six ch .; went to Ill. abt. 1844; settled in Chippewa Falls, Wis .; rem. to Fayetteville, Ark.
3. ALBERT [8] WATERMAN, son of Benj. Franklin, b. Apr. 30, 1830, Dearing, N. H .; m. (1) Aug. 22, 1852, Lucina, dau. Ransom and Phebe (Stanton) Searls, b. Mar. 17, 1834, Crown Point, N. Y .; d. Jan. 1, 1885; m. (2) Oct. 31, 1889, So- phia Lucy, dau. Asa and Lucy Brooks, b. Oct. 31, 1832; d. Jan. 16, 1911, Roy .; bur. Bethel. Mr. Waterman has lived in Crown Point, N. Y., Tunb., and Roy. He is still active and goes into the hayfield to work with the boys. He served in the Civil War in a N. Y. Regt. i. Ransom Franklin, b. Sep. 27, 1853, Crown Point; m. Dec. 6, 1873, Elizabeth, dau. Robert and Mary Clydesdale, b. June 20, 1852, Moriah, N. Y .; ch .: (a) Albert Alverton, b. July 1875; d. at age of nine months; (b) Robert, b. Oct., 1877; d. at age of nine months; (c) Franklin Albert, b. Nov., 1879; d. abt. May, 1889; (d) David Clydes- dale, b. Mar. 25, 1881; (e) Thomas Raymond, b. Dec. 1, 1886; Ransom F. is a musician of ability and leader of a band; res., Hartford, Conn. ii. Mary Elizabeth, b. June 6, 1860; d. Feb. 1, 1889, Tunb .; m. May 17, 1875, Don Chappell; ch .: (i) Clayton A., b. Dec. 13, 1877; (ii) Sarah Lucina, b. Sep. 4, 1879; (iii) Franklin Clarence, b. Jan. 1, 1881; (iv) Charlotte May, b. June 13, 1884; (v) Clinton Albert, b. June 4, 1885.
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iii. Sarah Ann, b. June 4, 1863; d. abt. Sep. 20, 1879.
4. ROBERT SMITH [8] WATERMAN, son of Benjamin Franklin, b. Apr. 24, 1832; m. May 30, 1872, Marcia A., dau. James A. and Mehitable (Chapman) Reynolds, b. Aug. 1, 1844, Tunb. Mr. Waterman rem. from Crown Point, N. Y., to Roy. in 1889, and in the next few years bought several farms, in- cluding the Lasell and Arunah Adams farms. In 1907 he pur- chased of the heirs of William Rix, Esq., what had been the residence of Mr. Rix in the village, and has since made his home there. He enlisted Aug. 12, 1862, from Crown Point, N. Y., in Co. E, 118th N. Y. Vols., and participated in the battles of that regiment until discharged June 13, 1865, except a 60-days' fur- lough on account of illness. He is pensioned for blindness. i. John Edward, b. Feb. 15, 1873, Crown Point; m. Mar. 6, 1895, Jennie Isabelle, dau. Dr. James and Jane M. (Brockway) Morse, b. Sep. 21, 1873, Roy .; ch .: (a) Louise, b. June 17, 1896, Roy .; (b) Robert James, d. an infant; (c) Mabel Vera, b. July 29, 1907, Roy. John E. has a talent for music; farmer in Roy.
ii. James Franklin, b. Feb. 5, 1875, Tunb .; clerk in A. P. Skinner's store; unm.
iii. William Robert, b. Dec. 22, 1878, Crown Point; m. Juliette Jones, and has two ch., Robt. and Marcia; res., Colorado Springs, Col. iv. Charles Francis, b. Aug. 29, 1881, Crown Point.
v. George Albert, b. Nov. 14, 1883, Crown Point; m. Apr. 7, 1909, Harriet Maria, dau. John Bartlett and Cornelia E. (Belcher) Taggart, b. in Gaysville; no ch .; res., Roy. village; both musicians.
vi. Mabel Alzina, b. Oct. 14, 1887; d. Oct. 28, 1903, Bethel.
WEBSTER FAMILY.
WALTER ELBERT WEBSTER, son of Moses and Ellen (Ordway) Webster, grandson of Moses, the son of Benonia Webster, b. July 20, 1863, Tunb .; m. Dec. 5, 1893, Bethel, Kath- erine Oliver, dau. George Henry and Elizabeth Malyn (Oliver) Kimball, b. Mar. 23, 1870, Rand. Mr. Webster settled in Roy. in 1893, and has been a resident of the town ever since except two years, 1895-96, when he was in Bethel. He owns the place where William Goff lived and died. He has served the town a number of years as lister, and was selectman, 1902-04. On account of his health Mr. and Mrs. Webster spent the winter of 1909-10 in Cal.
i. Lawrence Albert, b. June 21, 1904.
ii. Paul Kimball, b. Oct. 17, 1905.
ISAAC WEBSTER of Ellington, Conn., m. May 25, 1796, Roy., Desire Baker, b. 1768; d. Feb. 9, 1797; bur. N. Roy. Cem. Mr. Webster was listed in 1796 only. The only Bakers listed in town at that time were Lot and Hezekiah.
WELLS FAMILY.
DAVID WEBSTER WELLS, son of Samuel, the son of Stephen, son of Philip, the son of Lieut. Thomas Wells of Ames-
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bury, Mass., b. Dec. 9, 1795, Plymouth, N. H .; d. Feb. 25, 1870, Roy .; bur. N. Roy. Cem .; m. Feb. 5, 1818, Sally, dau. Daniel and Anna Eaton, b. Dec. 28, 1796, Rumney, N. H .; d. July 12, 1875, Burlington, N. J. Mr. Wells came to Roy. from Hart- land in 1837, and went into the mercantile business at N. Roy. with Isaac Brown. They continued the business but a few years. Mr. Brown rem. to Bethel, but Mr. Wells elected to re- main as a citizen of Royalton. He rem. to Roy. village and became a useful officer of the town, and an influential member of the community. i. Nancy Eaton, b. Dec. 18, 1819; d. Dec. 4, 1874; m. Isaiah Aldrich.
ii. Samuel, b. May 13, 1823; m. and had ch., one of whom is David W., a prosperous dentist in Boston. In 1909 Samuel was living in Hebron, N. H., and kindly furnished the record of his father's family. * iii. Louisa, b. May 18, 1825; m. Edward Rix.
iv. Elvira Ann, b. July 1, 1827; d. Aug. 13, 1828. v. David Eaton, b. Oct. 21, 1829; d. Dec. 30, 1879.
The line of descent from David W. is (Sam. [7], Stephen [6], Philip [5], Lieut. Thos. [4], Titus [3], Thos. [2], Thos. [1]). Thos. [1] was born in Eng., 1605, and came in the "Susan and Ellen" from London in 1635 to Ipswich, Mass. His son Thos. was the first settled minister in Amesbury, Mass.
WEST FAMILY.
CHARLES WEST, son of Darius and Sarah (Hazen) West of Norwich, and grandson of Caleb, the son of Caleb, Tolland, Conn., b. Aug. 13, 1826, Norwich; d. July 3, 1910, Roy .; bur. S. Roy. Cem .; m. Jan. 3, 1853, Dorcas, dau. John and Betsey (Bailey) Dutton, b. Sep. 4, 1824, Pomfret; d. Feb. 11, 1897, S. Roy. The town was most fortunate in welcoming to its citi- zenship in 1867 a man of such character as Mr. West. During his more than forty years of active life in Royalton, he bore the reputation of being reliable, honest, and capable. He was never self-assertive, but the town entrusted him with its highest offices. Mrs. West was his equal in all the qualities that make good citizens, and was essentially a "motherly" woman. They lived on the old Dana farm in the edge of Royalton, next to Sharon. i. Ellen Elizabeth, b. Jan. 23, 1854, Norwich; m. Oct. 8, 1891, Frank S., son Luther and Betsey (Silsby) Ainsworth, b. 1856, Rox- bury; res. on the Dana farm; ch .: (a) Ida Nell, b. Aug. 10, 1892, Roy .; grad. from S. Roy high school, 1910. Mr. and Mrs. Ainsworth are active members of the Cong'l church.
* ii. Lucy Sarah, b. Feb. 16, 1855, Norwich; m. Fred D. Free- man.
iii. Mary Dorcas, b. June 6, 1856; d. Sep. 12, 1890, Roy; m. Dec. 25, 1877, Frank D. Ainsworth, who, after her death, m. her sister Ellen; ch .: (a) George West, b. Mar. 21, 1882, Roy .; unm .; (b) Frank Raymond, b. July 11, 1885, Brookfield; m. Dec. 9, 1908, Fanny Gladys, dau. Sherman Washburn and Ruth (Putnam) Chad- wick, b. W. Lebanon, N. H., 1890; farmer in Roy.
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iv. Ada Electa, b. Nov. 27, 1859, Norwich; d. Mar. 19, 1884,
Roy.
v. Laura Ella, b. Feb. 11, 1864, Hartford; d. May 30, 1880,
Roy.
vi. Lizzie Alice, b. Sep. 22, 1866, Hartford; d. Jan. 21, 1885,
Roy.
George West, a brother of Charles, made his home with them, and owned part of the farm. He was born June 11, 1819, Norwich, and d. June 27, 1904, Roy., unm.
Caleb West, the grandfather of Charles, was a Revolutionary soldier, and rem. from Tolland, Conn., to Norwich. He married a Ruth Benton of Hanover, N. H.
WHEAT FAMILY.
JONATHAN WHEAT, parentage unknown, b. Sep. 13, 1775; d. Oct. 2, 1861, Roy .; m. Feb. 1, 1801, Elizabeth Durkee, b. July 17, 1783; d. July 9, 1860, Roy .; both bur. Howe Cem. Mr. Wheat was in Roy. as early as 1797, but does not seem to have resided here continuously until some time later. In 1799 he bought land of Henry Burbank. His home was in District Thirteen.
i. Ira, b. Feb. 12, 1802, Roy .; d. Mar. 11, 1825, Roy.
* ii. Lucy, b. Nov. 4, 1803, Roy .; m. Isaac S. Shepard.
iii. Malinda, b. 1805, Roy .; d. Mar. 2, 1825. iv. Emma, b. 1807; d. Oct. 18, 1826.
* v. Pamela, b. Mar. 11, 1809, Pittsfield; m. Ralph Waldo. vi. Arvilla, b. Aug. 14, 1811, Pittsfield; m. 1838, Richard Bedford.
vii. Samuel, b. 1813; d. 1814.
viii. George Fletcher, b. Feb. 23, 1816, Roy .; d. 1863; m. (1)
Mary , b. 1814; d. May 31, 1845, Roy. prob .; m. (2) Oct., 1846, Polly M. Pearson, b. Oct. 8, 1820, Rand .; d. 1877; all bur. Howe Cem. ch .: (a) Minnie W., b. Sep. 15, 1847; m. Jan. 26, 1872, James Henry, son John and Mary (Smith) Darrow, b. 1844, Poultney; (b) George Ira, b. Jan. 25, 1850, Woodbury; m. May 3, 1883, Roy., Lena E., dau. John and Harriet A. Alexander, b. 1850, Middlebury; ch .: (i) Gertrude May, b. June 5, 1884, Roy .; (ii) Frank I., b. Oct. 4, 1886, Roy .; farmer in Roy .; (c) Lucy E., b. May 5, 1852; m. May, 1865, R. D. Celley, who d. Sep., 1883; (d) Ruth L., b. Apr. 29, 1855; m. Dec. 22, 1883, Byron Allen; she d. according to Wheat record Nov. 2, 1896, according to Allen record, in 1898; (e) Fletcher J., b. Feb. 16, 1858; m. Mar. 14, 1893, Jennie Hurlburt; two sons living in Barnard; (f) Henry W., b Aug. 18, 1860; living unm. in Calais.
ix. Mary Warner, b. Dec. 19, 1817, Roy .; m. Harvey Ains- worth, 1840. She was drowned in Lake Michigan, Sep. 24, 1856, with her three children at the time the steamboat, "Lady Elgin," was burned.
THOMAS WHEAT, prob. the brother of Jonathan, b. Mar., 1777; d. Sep. 12, 1863, Roy .; m. Aug. 14, 1803, Thankful Bel- ding of Bethel, b. May, 1782; d. Nov. 26, 1854, Roy. Thomas Wheat was first listed in 1804. At the time of his marriage he was in Bethel. In 1806 he bought a farm of Silas Burbank, and later added 120 acres in 36 L. A. He was in Bethel in 1839, when he sold land to his son William H. H.
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i. Horatio Nelson, b. Aug. 16, 1806, Roy .; m. Sep. 2, 1829, Betsey, dau. Jonathan and Betsey (Bacon) Dyer, b. Jan. 29, 1806. ii. Elizabeth Fletcher, b. Jan. 24, 1808, Roy .; d. Dec. 18, 1841, Roy. (?); bur. Howe Cem.
iii. Julia, b. May 23, 1809, Roy .; d. June 17, 1869, Roy. ( ?); m. Daniel Lewis, b. Nov., 1804; d. Oct. 18, 1858, Roy. ( ?); both bur. Howe Cem .; ch .: (a) Francis O., b. Sep., 1830, Roy .; d. May 3, 1852; (b) Thankful Ormenda, b. Sep. 12, 1832; d. Oct. 12, 1883; (c) Albert E., b. Nov. 18, 1844; d. Jan. 6, 1869, Roy .; (d) Solon B., b. 1845; d. in N. Dakota; m. Oct. 19, 1875, Gertrude C., dau. Horace E. and Abbie Louise (Eaton) Stoughton, b. May 13, 1856, Roy .; d. in N. Dak .; ch .: (i) Mary Gertrude, b. Mar. 29, 1878, Roy .; (ii) Robert Stoughton, b. Feb. 19, 1880, Roy .; prob. other ch. of Solon and his father, Daniel.
iv. Amanda or Ormenda, b. July 5, 1810, Roy. v. William H. H., b. Oct. 26, 1813, Roy .; m. Jan. 17, ., Mary Howard of Barnard; ch .: (a) Elizabeth Fletcher, b. Mar., 1843; d. Feb. 7, 1876; (b) Willie, b. Nov. 30, 1845; d. Sep. 18, 1847; both ch. bur. in Howe Cem. William H. H. rem. to Bethel.
The Wheat Genealogy by Silas C. Wheat, Brooklyn, N. Y., gives the following tradition regarding the origin of the name Wheat: 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, and the King gave him the surname Wheat. The author says in searching for the ancestry of one of the family, he was told that "like Melchize- dek he was without father or mother or beginning of days." The an- cestry of the Wheat family of Royalton is likewise uncertain.
WHEELER FAMILY.
1. JOSIAH WHEELER, birth and parentage unknown, except he was a native of Plainfield, Conn .; d. Apr. 11, 1827, Barnston, Can .; m. (1) Elizabeth ; m. (2) Hannah W. Howe, b. Plainfield, Conn .; d. Sep. 6, 1846, Barnston. Mr. Wheeler first settled in Sharon, and was elected pound keeper there Apr. 14, 1778. Mar. 14, 1782, he was still in Sharon, when he bought 25 and one-quarter of 26 Dutch, and rem. to Roy. between that date and Nov. 15, 1782, when he sold some of his Sharon land. Two years later he bought 100 acres in N. 53 T. P. and made his home there until 1794, when he sold this farm, and in 1803 he sold his other farm and rem. to Barn- ston. He was probably in Sharon at the time of the Indian raid, and he and his family participated in the general flight and fright. If the record of births is correct, he had four ch. at that time, one of whom was but four days old. These were prob. born in Sharon, and most of the others in Roy. He had one ch. by his first wife and thirteen by his second.
i. Elizabeth, b. June 14, 1774.
ii. Howe, b. Dec. 30, 1777; m. Amy Parkhurst, prob. Anna, the dau. of Benjamin and Sarah Shepard Parkhurst, b. July 21, 1778, Roy .; m. May 7, 1797, Roy .; no record of ch., but Dr. Jo A. Denison has charges for ch. born on the following dates: June 3, 1814; Aug. 20, 1815; May 23, 1816; May 26, 1817; Aug. 11, 1823. Howe was not listed for ten or more years previous to 1813, and there were doubtless other ch.
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iii. Zanna (?), b. July 18, 1779; d. Oct. 9, 1779.
iv. Weston, b. Oct. 12, 1780; m. Sarah Fuller.
2. v. Calvin, b. Feb. 8, 1783.
vi. Elias, m. Sarah Howe, dau. Squire and Phoebe (Paine) Howe, b. July 12, 1787, Roy.
vii. John, b. Jan. 14, 1786.
viii. Sally, b. Apr. 15, 1788; m. Parley Wheeler.
ix. Abigail, b. 1793; d. Apr. 14, 1815.
Sylvester, b. Jan. 20, 1795, Roy .; m. Patience Hill, b. Mar. 25, 1801; d. Apr. 2, 1843; m. (2) Oct. 23, 1843, Martha Webster, b. Sep. 23, 1808; eleven ch. by (1) and three by (2); res., Barnston.
xi. Phila, m. Philo Barke (Back?).
xii. Squire, d. at abt. the age of twenty-four.
xiii. Lucy, m. Leverett Buckland.
xiv. Charity, m. Lewis Hanson.
2. CALVIN WHEELER, son of Josiah, b. Feb. 8, 1783, Roy .; d. Oct. 7, 1856, Roy .; m. Mar. 30, 1806, Philena, dau. Lyman and Eunice (Bennett) Back, b. Apr. 11, 1786; d. Jan. 26, 1875; both bur. Havens Cem., as is also his dau. Abigail and sister Abigail. Calvin remained in Roy. with his sister Abigail and Howe, when the family rem. to Barnston, and was brought up by his uncle, William Waterman, and about 1827 bought the farm, where he had lived. i. Hiram, b. Nov. 30, 1806; m. Apr. 12, 1838, Betsey Rowell; in Roy. as late as 1841.
ii. Charles, b. Mar. 28, 1808; m. Jan. 1, 1834, Martha B. Pea- body. Charles bought land in Simpson with his brother Hiram and was here in 1853, when he sold one-half of 20 Dutch; ch. b. in Roy .: (a) Wm. Wallace, b. Dec. 1, 1834; (b) Martha Ann, b. Oct. 27, 1837; (c) Juliette, b. July 3, 1839; (d) Orin Marcellus, b. Feb. 7, 1842; (e) Chas. Henry, b. July 15, 1844.
iii. Lucia, b. Oct. 25, 1809; m. Feb. 6, 1838, Josiah A. Her- rick; ch .: (a) Annie Chapin, b. Mar. 2, 1839; d. Mar. 29, 1906; (b) Jonathan E., b. Nov. 20, 1843; m. (1) July 12, 1869, Abbottsford, Que- bec, Can., Rachel M. Baugh; m. (2) Jan. 18, 1875, Mary Baugh; (c) Laura Dana, b. Sep. 6, 1846; d. Nov. 20, 1877; (d) Josephine A., b. Dec. 10, 1851.
iv. Priscilla T., b. Aug. 21, 1811.
v.
William, b. Mar. 9, 1813.
vi. Lyman, b. Jan. 5, 1815; d. Jan. 9, 1891; m. and has a son, Chas. W., in Claremont, N. H.
vii. Abigail, b. Aug. 8, 1816; d. Oct. 20, 1818.
viii. Emily, b. June 5, 1818; m. Oct. 14, 1858, David L. Beck- with of Beekmantown, N. Y.
ix. Orin Tracy, b. Feb. 24, 1820.
X. Horace D., b. June 9, 1822.
xi. Henry B., b. Nov. 15 or 16, 1823.
xii. Laura Dana, b. Oct. 25, 1825; m. Sep. 8, 1851, George H. Perry, b. Oct. 8, 1829, Windham, Conn .; d. Nov. 17, 1904, Holyoke, Mass .; ch .: (a) Franklin W., b. June 27, 1852; d. June 20, 1898; (b) Ella H., b. Jan. 27, 1857; d. Jan. 4, 1893; (c) E. Elizabeth, b. Sep. 13, 1861.
xiii. Calvin, b. Aug. 29, 1827.
xiv. Philena Elizabeth, b. July 16, 1831.
1. MINOT WHEELER, b. May 16, 1777, Hollis, N. H .; d. Dec. 22, 1849, Roy .; m. Sarah Farley, b. Apr. 23, 1783; d.
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Feb. 11, 1867, Roy. Mr. Wheeler was first listed in 1800 and paid poll tax until 1806, and again in 1809, and at other periods of time. He had a farm in the west part of the town, a part of David Bean's estate, but he lived in Bethel the greater part of his life, and he and his wife are buried there.
i. Sarah, b. June, 1800; d. 1801.
ii. Sarah, b. Apr. 19, 1802, Roy., prob .; d. Aug. 18, 1811.
iii. Royal, b. July 4, 1804, Roy .; d. Jan. 20, 1869, unm.
*iv. Rebecca, b. Oct. 10, 1806, Hollis, N. H .; m. Joel Day.
V. Mary Ann, b. Dec. 25, 1808, Roy .; d. Jan. 25, 1880; m. John Wallace.
vi. Susan, b. Aug. 11, 1810; d. Mar. 25, 1816.
vii. George, b. Feb. 15, 1812; d. June 29, 1816.
2. viii. Minot, b. Feb. 14, 1814, Roy.
ix. George, b. Apr. 16, 1821; d. Apr. 12, 1873; m. Emma Locke. x. Gardner, b. Jan. 26, 1824; d. Apr. 1, 1898, Bethel; m. Mar. 15, 1843, Jane E. Woodbury of Bethel, b. Dec., 1823; d. May 11, 1898, Bethel; five ch., all dying under twenty-one; one son, Charles M., b. June 17, 1846; d. Feb. 3, 1865. Gardner was a farmer and cooper in Bethel.
2. MINOT WHEELER, son of Minot, b. Feb. 14, 1814, Roy .; d. Feb. 5, 1882, Roy .; m. Apr. 15, 1841, Bethel, Sarah B., dau. Dr. Alfred and Sarah (Bigelow) Paige, b. Mar. 22, 1813, Roy .; d. Jan. 16, 1862, Roy. In 1840 Minot, Jr., bought of his father one-half of the home farm. He was of considerable political influence in town, and a successful farmer. He held offices of responsibility, and was constable ten or more years and also lister. He never did things by the halves, and was open- handed in cases of need. i. Henry Herbert, b. Jan. 6, 1842, Roy .; d. in Ohio; m., but no ch.
ii. Frederick, b. June 13, 1844, Roy .; d. Mar. 20, 1893, in Bethel, from injuries received at S. Roy. while working on the cars; m. Dec. 6, 1865, Hattie Cornelia, dau. H. B. and Cornelia (Sanders) Hatch, b. 1848, Bethel; three ch .; one, Katie Cornelia, b. Nov. 8, 1866. iii. Dudley, b. Dec. 28, 1849, Roy .; d. July 2, 1852.
iv. James Dudley, b. Aug. 12, 1852, Roy .; d. Jan. 26, 1909, Bethel; m. Oct. 12, 1901, Fanny A. Dwyer. He lived on the old farm in Roy. for forty years; no ch.
v. John D., b. Sep. 12, 1856; m. (1) Josephine Tucker; one son, Gardner Tucker, b. in Rochester; m. (2) June 23, 1906, Bessie, dau. James and Eleanor (Copeland) Mudgett of Pomfret; no ch. John D. lives in Bethel and carries on the business of selling carbonated beverages, a business his brother James had followed.
SOLOMON WHEELER, son of Solomon, m. Nov. 3, 1819, Roy., Tryphena Hincher of Bethel. This marriage may possi- bly be a second marriage of his father, but not probable. Solo- mon, Sen., was in Roy. from 1803 to 1818. He rented 200 acres of Jabez Lyman in 1814. In 1820 the son or father sold a cooper shop in the village. Dr. Denison, under date of Mar. 2, 1818, says that Solomon began again to board, and on Dec. 6, 1819, charges him with 18 months' board, all of which seems to indicate that the father left town or died, and the son re- 65
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mained. The births of the following ch. are recorded in Roy. Solomon, Jr., took freeman's oath in 1817.
i. Edward, b. Jan. 28, 1821; d. July 28, 1823.
ii. Martha, b. Mar. 1, 1823.
iii. George F., b. Nov. 8, 1825.
iv. Joseph A., b. Sep. 24, 1827.
v. Edward, b. Mar. 2, 1830.
vi. Mary S., b. Aug. 20, 1832.
vii. Harriet E., b. Jan. 28, 1835; d. July 31, 1851.
WHEELOCK FAMILY.
PETER WHEELOCK, son of Jonathan and Thankful (Haskell) Wheelock, b. May 19, 1766, Lancaster, Mass .; d. Sep. 29, 1851, Newbury; m. June 1, 1786, Sarah, dau. Abner and Dorcas (Belding) Graves, b. Nov. 3, 1765, Swanzey, N. H .; d. Oct. 16, 1854, Milwaukee, Wis. Peter settled first in Barnard, and rem. from there to Roy., 1793-94. His first farm was made up of portions of 24, 25, and 29 L. A. He sold most of this and bought W. 20 L. A. He contracted with his son David for support in 1824, but released him in 1836, and seems to have left town about that time. i. Haskell, b. Apr. 5, 1787, Swanzey; d. June 6, 1870, Hart- ford, Wis .; m. Sep. 27, 1809, Roy., Lydia, dau. Jesse and Lois (Hatch) Dunham, b. Nov. 1, 1789. Just before his marriage he had formed a partnership with Luther Howe for the purpose of erecting carding and nail machines at Gilbert's mills. He sold his interest to Mr. Howe in Nov., 1810, and rem. to Hartford, Wis. He became a minister. ii. Jonathan, b. July 11, 1790; d. Jan. 12, 1869, Green Bay, Wis .; m. Apr. 13, 1815, Barnard, Lydia Bowman, b. Sep. 19, 1793; d. Feb. 11, 1871; ch .: (a) Emily Jane, b. 1817; d. Nov. 25, 1857, Beaver Dam, Wis .; m. (1) 1835, Joseph Dickinson; m. (2) Lieut. Wm. Root; two daughters by (1); both d. young; by (2) Erastus, Chas., Augusta, Frank Desnoyers, Henley Chapman; (b) Abby Anna, b. Feb. 18, 1819; d. Apr. 6, 1872, Green Bay, Wis .; m. July 21, 1836, Lieut. Wm. Chap- man; ch., Henry, Mary, Annie Leola; (c) Carlton, b. May 7, 1822; d. Jan. 24, 1884; m. June 16, 1847, Caroline Cox, and had Wm. Chap- man and Henry Cox; (d) Charles Lafayette, b. May 11, 1824; d. Dec. 20, 1897; m. Maria Jane Irwin, and had three ch., Francis, Chas., Kate Irwin.
iii. David, b. Oct. 3, 1791; d. prob. before 1795.
iv. Ira, b. Nov. 18, 1794; d. young.
*v. Sukey, b. Feb. 3 or 4, 1796, Roy .; m. Amos Bosworth.
vi. David, b. July 3, 1801, Roy .; d. June 11, 1874; m. Almina , b. July, 1802, Mass .; d. Dec. 16, 1889, Roy. After his father went away, David bought a part of the Lindley farm, and in 1847 he sold this with the home farm to Daniel Woodward. He was an influ- ential member of the M. E. church and sold his last pew in 1852. He rem. to Roy. village and d. there. Ch .: (a) Aldula, b. Nov. 11, 1826; d. Mar. 21, 1849; (b) Sarah, b. Sep. 13, 1833; m. Mar. 14, 1858, David Copeland; ch .: (i) S. Aldula, b. Springville, N. Y .; m. Jan. 3, 1884, Nelson G. Pringle of Kingston, Pa .; (ii) Nellie Boyd, b. Hillsboro, O .; d. Aug. 6, 1884, at age of 12 yrs. and 10 days.
vii. Peter, b. Oct. 8 or 9, 1802-3, Roy .; d. Apr. 8, 1880, Sioux Falls, S. D .; m. a dau. of Prof. Amasa Buck of Bath, Wis., b. Mar. 18, 1811, Lyme, N. H .; d. May 30, 1886, Sioux Falls. In 1825 Jeter, Jr.,
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HISTORY OF ROYALTON, VERMONT
bought a carding outfit and clover mill of Amos Robinson, Broad Brook, and formed a partnership with David Adams. He sold out to Ichabod and Joseph E. Davis in 1828. He prob. left town soon after, and the Newbury History says he came there about 1833. He kept a hotel, was in the hardware business there, agent for Fairbanks Scale Co .; rem. to Milwaukee, Wis., in 1853. Ch .: (a) Martha R., b. Oct. 6, 1830, Rochester; m. Wm. S. Trowbridge of Milwaukee; (b) Arthur Buck, b. Apr. 19, 1832, Roy .; served three months in Co. A, 1st Wis. Vols .; re-en. as 2nd Lieut. in 7th Wis. Light Artillery; taken prisoner Aug. 21, 1864; exchanged in October; prom. to Capt., Apr. 18, 1865; city justice of Sioux Falls; (c) Mary Elizabeth, b. Nov. 29, 1834, New- bury; d. Jan. 13, 1865, Milwaukee; (d) Sarah Frances, b. May 11, 1839; m. Henry E. Southwell of Chicago; (e) Wm. Henry, b. Dec. 11, 1841, Newbury; left home as a schoolboy, and never heard of afterwards.
The line of descent of Peter Wheelock is Jonathan [5], Jonathan [4], Joseph [3], Gershom [2], Ralph [1]. Ralph [1] is said to be the progenitor of all the Wheelocks in America. He was a Puritan clergy- man, a graduate of Cambridge Univ., Eng. He came to Watertown, Mass., with his wife Rebecca, and rem. to Dedham, later to Medfield, where he held the first house lot granted in that town. He was the first schoolmaster of Medfield in 1655, and held almost every office in the gift of the town.
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