Birth: 20 Apr 1650 in Rehoboth, MA
Occupation: Styled blacksmith
Note: Served in the Narragansett Expedition and was listed among the grantees to land in Narragansett Township #4.
Marriage: ABT 1677
Birth of Daughter: ABT 1677
Name: Charity Wheaton
Birth of Son: 10 JAN 1678/79
Name: John Wheaton
Birth of Son: 10 Jan 1679
Name: Samuel Wheaton
Place: Swansea, Massachusetts
Birth of Son: 25 JUL 1681
Name: Nathaniel Wheaton
Birth of Son: 23 JUL 1683
Name: James Wheaton
Surveyor of Highways: 1683
Place: Swansea, Massachusetts
Birth of Daughter: 09 JUN 1684
Name: Priscilla Wheaton
Birth of Daughter: 25 JUL 1685
Name: Mary Wheaton
Birth of Son: 16 NOV 1686
Name: Joseph Wheaton
Birth of Son: 23 AUG 1692
Name: Israel Wheaton
Birth of Son: 05 MAR 1694/95
Name: Isaac Wheaton
Birth of Daughter: 06 OCT 1698
Name: Patience Wheaton
Land Rec: 08 MAR 1714
Details: Deeded land to son James (Bristol Co. Deeds, Vol. IX, p. 561)
Will: 25 MAY 1736
Details: Will written at Swansea, Bristol, MA: Blacksmith, wife Elizabeth, sons Joseph Wheaton of Rohoboth, James Weaten (dcd), Samuel Wheaten (dcd), John Wheaten (dcd.) & Isaac Wheaten. Daughters Mary Ingraham, Charity Bourn, Pricilla Hix & Patience Hix. Grandson William Hix, Grandaughter Elizabeth Chace, dau. of my son John dcd. Friends Robert Joles & Joseph Mason to be Execs. Incl. lands in Swansea & Barr. Probate Sept. 1, 1737, Swansea, Bristol, MA. Invent. dated Sept. 1, 1737. “Abstracts of Bristol Co., MA Probate Rec., 1687-1745”, Gen. Pub. Co., Baltimore, MD, p. 261. Apparently had a daughter named Charity, who married a Bourn, as indicated by will, but no record of birth or marriage found.
Death: 25 Jul 1737
Details: “Mr. John Wheaten Departed this Lif July 25:1737, abought 5 a Clok being in his Eighty Eight yers old”. “Vital Records of Swansea, Mass. to 1850”, trans. by H.L>.Peter Rounds< NEHGR 1992, p. 219.
Burial: Kickemuit Cemetery, Warren, Bristol Co, Rhode Island
Click here to see parents: Robert Wheaton and Alice Bowen
Elizabeth Thurber
Birth: 11 Nov 1652 in Stanton, Lincoln, England
Death:
Click here to see parents: John Thurber and Priscilla ?
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