Artemas Wheeler

Family

Sources

1. George Homer Partridge, Partridge Genealogy (1904), family #1: "John Partridge married, Dec. 18, 1655, Magdalen, daughter of John and Magdalen Bullard, early of Watertown and later of Medfield. She died in Medfield, Dec. 27, 1677." Explicit daughter-of; corroborates Tilden.

   George Homer Partridge, Partridge Genealogy: Descendants of John Partridge of Medfield, Mass. (1904), pp. 16–17: "12. Benjamin Franklin, b. Sept. 17, 1803; m. Keene, N. Y., Apr. 6, 1826, Mary Howard, b. Mch. 9, 1804, d. Jan. 19, 1878, dau. of Artemas and Esther (Cragin) Wheeler, of Temple, N. H.; removed to De Peyster, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., in 1826; resided there, where he d. Aug. 21, 1893; ten children." Explicit daughter-of claim. Matches mary-howard-wheeler-partridge: (1) exact birth 1804-03-09; (2) exact death 1878-01-19; (3) marriage Keene NY 1826-04-06 to benjamin-f-partridge-bsb already on graph; (4) Temple NH origin named. Corroborated by FPA Register 1911 (Arthur S. & Frank H. Partridge) naming grandmother Mary Howard Wheeler, and DAR Lineage Book #58545 (Grace Greenhalgh Eversman) naming "Benjamin F. Partridge and Mary Hanna Wheeler", d/o Artemas Wheeler & Esther Cragin.

2. Henry Ames Blood, History of Temple, N.H. (1860), store history: "Artemas Wheeler opened a store at the old meeting-house stand in the Spring of 1794. In 1797, he and his father, Col. Abijah Wheeler, built the large house now owned by Adam R. Searle ... Wheeler failed and fled to Lansingburgh, N.Y." Same book, Cragin register: "VII. Esther, b. Apr. 10, 1781, m., Artemas Wheeler, Jan. 29, 1799." Col. Abijah Wheeler town officer 1793-1801; m. Hepzibeth (Spaulding?) b. Concord 1763, on May 31, 1784.

   Henry Ames Blood, History of Temple, N.H. (1860), store history: "Artemas Wheeler opened a store at the old meeting-house stand in the Spring of 1794. In 1797, he and his father, Col. Abijah Wheeler, built the large house now owned by Adam R. Searle ... Wheeler failed and fled to Lansingburgh, N.Y." Same book, Cragin register: "VII. Esther, b. Apr. 10, 1781, m., Artemas Wheeler, Jan. 29, 1799." Col. Abijah Wheeler town officer 1793-1801; m. Hepzibeth (Spaulding?) b. Concord 1763, on May 31, 1784.

3. Cragun Family (Fulton Co. IN Public Library, citing DAR Lineage vol. 59 p. 185, nat. #13641 & #20918), Francis Cragin x Sybil Piper: "(a) Esther Cragin ... m. Artemas WHEELER b. 1774 son of Lieut. Abijah Wheeler (m. 1st, 1772, Mary HAYWARD) ch.: (1) Mary Hanna Wheeler m. Benjamin F. PARTRIDGE (i) Amos S. Partridge m. Eliza PEGG." Matches artemas-wheeler-bsb: wife Esther Cragin; dau. Mary H. Wheeler m. Benjamin F. Partridge; grandson Amos S. x Eliza Pegg.

   Cragun Family (Fulton Co. IN Public Library, citing DAR Lineage vol. 59 p. 185, nat. #13641 & #20918), Francis Cragin x Sybil Piper: "(a) Esther Cragin ... m. Artemas WHEELER b. 1774 son of Lieut. Abijah Wheeler (m. 1st, 1772, Mary HAYWARD) ch.: (1) Mary Hanna Wheeler m. Benjamin F. PARTRIDGE (i) Amos S. Partridge m. Eliza PEGG." Matches artemas-wheeler-bsb: wife Esther Cragin; dau. Mary H. Wheeler m. Benjamin F. Partridge; grandson Amos S. x Eliza Pegg.

4. George Homer Partridge, Partridge Genealogy (1904), family #1: "John Partridge married, Dec. 18, 1655, Magdalen, daughter of John and Magdalen Bullard, early of Watertown and later of Medfield. She died in Medfield, Dec. 27, 1677." Explicit daughter-of; corroborates Tilden.

   George Homer Partridge, Partridge Genealogy: Descendants of John Partridge of Medfield, Mass. (1904), pp. 16–17: "12. Benjamin Franklin, b. Sept. 17, 1803; m. Keene, N. Y., Apr. 6, 1826, Mary Howard, b. Mch. 9, 1804, d. Jan. 19, 1878, dau. of Artemas and Esther (Cragin) Wheeler, of Temple, N. H.; removed to De Peyster, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., in 1826; resided there, where he d. Aug. 21, 1893; ten children." Explicit daughter-of claim. Matches mary-howard-wheeler-partridge: (1) exact birth 1804-03-09; (2) exact death 1878-01-19; (3) marriage Keene NY 1826-04-06 to benjamin-f-partridge-bsb already on graph; (4) Temple NH origin named. Corroborated by FPA Register 1911 (Arthur S. & Frank H. Partridge) naming grandmother Mary Howard Wheeler, and DAR Lineage Book #58545 (Grace Greenhalgh Eversman) naming "Benjamin F. Partridge and Mary Hanna Wheeler", d/o Artemas Wheeler & Esther Cragin.

5. Henry Ames Blood, History of Temple, N.H. (1860), store history: "Artemas Wheeler opened a store at the old meeting-house stand in the Spring of 1794. In 1797, he and his father, Col. Abijah Wheeler, built the large house now owned by Adam R. Searle ... Wheeler failed and fled to Lansingburgh, N.Y." Same book, Cragin register: "VII. Esther, b. Apr. 10, 1781, m., Artemas Wheeler, Jan. 29, 1799." Col. Abijah Wheeler town officer 1793-1801; m. Hepzibeth (Spaulding?) b. Concord 1763, on May 31, 1784.

   Henry Ames Blood, History of Temple, N.H. (1860), store history: "Artemas Wheeler opened a store at the old meeting-house stand in the Spring of 1794. In 1797, he and his father, Col. Abijah Wheeler, built the large house now owned by Adam R. Searle ... Wheeler failed and fled to Lansingburgh, N.Y." Same book, Cragin register: "VII. Esther, b. Apr. 10, 1781, m., Artemas Wheeler, Jan. 29, 1799." Col. Abijah Wheeler town officer 1793-1801; m. Hepzibeth (Spaulding?) b. Concord 1763, on May 31, 1784.