BENNETT FROCK JENNINGS KISER WHEELER WOODS

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AMXROADS-D Digest Volume 04 : Issue 42

Today's Topics:
#1 Wheeler family et al ["Carolyn McDaniel" #2 Wheeler family ["Carolyn McDaniel"
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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:20:46 -0700
From: "Carolyn McDaniel"
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Dear Cousins,
I am in the process of compiling lists and profiles of people in various
"perimeters" at the website, and the Wheeler family will be my first entry
to the identity aspect of the site. I will post the URL as soon as I have
the pages up.
The Crossroads area I'm focusing on now/still is the Delaware River Valley.
This encompasses areas of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware.
Because early families lived across presentday geopolitical localities where
their records are now contained, it makes more sense to me to show them in
these Crossroads rather than state by state or county by county. Confusion
often results not only because of overlapping localities but also because
people of many different origins converged and intermarried here. It is not
a simple matter of a "British Folkway" as David Hackett Fischer asserts in
his book, "Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America." With this said,
the Wheelers are fairly typical of families within the diverse communities
that developed here. They and their descendants are connected with many of
the early families of the region. The genealogy of early Swede/Finn and
Dutch families who lived here is often distorted and misrepresented because
of colonial misspellings, patronymics and mistakes in transcriptions. Add
those conditions to multiple generations of the same names and research
becomes very difficult.
John Wheeler was part of the "Swede/Finn" community that preceeded British
and Dutch occupation along the Delaware River Valley. The Colonial Swedes
website has genealogical information on the families prepared by the very
excellent scholar Dr. Peter Stebbins Craig, and has some good maps and
supplemental historical information.
http://www.colonialswedes.org/
John Wheeler was not Swedish but lived within the Swedish Colony and was
married to Catherine Lom, a Swedish woman born ca. 1628, daughter of Måns
Svensson Lom, and he joined with others who moved to Maryland and were
granted "Denization" rights there. Maryland Archives, Vol. 3, P. 429,
"Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1660- 1661." The Lom family is
detailed by Dr. Craig at the Colonial Swedes site.
http://www.colonialswedes.org/Forefathers/Lom.html
Dr. Craig states that John Wheeler and Catherine had four children: Samuel,
John, Anders and Anna. In 1674 a Mary Wheeler "disowned" her husband John
Wheeler, and this record, contained among the Land Records of Cecil County
was witnessed by Samuel Wheeler, ostensibly John's son Samuel. (Cecil Deed
Book 1, page 72.) On the following page (p. 73) John Wheeler leaves his "now
dwelling plantation "Wheelers Point") to his son John. It is known from
several subsequent Cecil County land records regarding the disposition of
John Wheeler's patents of "Round Stone" and "Wheeler's Point," that Anne,
Sarah and Mary inherited his property "Round Stone," and are stated to be
daughters of the same John Wheeler who patented the properties. HOWEVER, if
John Wheeler the patentee was born before 1630, which seems likely, he would
have been quite ancient by the time the three daughters were born, and
therefore, his son John seems likelier to have been their father. The tract
"Round Stone" was near the Elk River, while "Wheeler's Point" was along the
Sassafras, west of Fredericktown.
Anne Wheeler married Gideon Pearce (d testate Aug 1751) of Kent County
Maryland, son of William Pearce the Cecil County Sheriff and Isabell
Hopkins. Anne was mentioned in Gideon's Pearce's will, so would seem to have
been alive that that time. According to the Pearce Resource website, Anne
and Gideon Pearce had twelve children: William, James, George, Daniel,
Andrew, Nathaniel, Mary, Sarah, Elizabeth, Isabella, Rachel and Gideon.
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~pierces/team7/ML.html
Sarah Wheeler married Thomas Christian and had John, Rebecca, Elizabeth and
Ann Christian. The only son John died before the land was being
redistributed in 1733 and 1734. Rebecca married Augustine Bowyer, (St.
Stephens Parish has a record for an Augustine Boyer, son of William Boyer
and Phyllis (Holleager) Boyer b. 15 Dec 1691,) Rebecca married Thomas Baker
and Elizabeth married John Yorkson, as denoted in several Cecil County
deeds.
Mary Wheeler married Richard Pennington 4 Sep 1711, as recorded in St.
Stephens Parish records. They had two sons Otho b. 27 Oct 1712 and William
b. 22 Jan 1713/14, whose births are also included within the St. Stephens
records. Richard Penningtons was the son of Henry Pennington (d. testate
1702 in Cecil County) and Elizabeth Boyer, daughter of Richard Boyer. Henry
Pennington was the son of Henry Pennington who came to Cecil County from St.
Mary's county and settled along the Sassafras River by 1671, patenting and
purchasing the tracts "Happy Harbour, Buntington, Pennyworth" and
"Sylvania's Folly" which encompass the general area of Fredericktown.
Richard Pennington was deceased by 1733 when a deed regarding John Wheeler's
property "Round Stone," denotes Mary once wife of Richard Pennington and now
wife of Thomas Beard. Mary Pennington's children Otho and William left many
descendants in Cecil County and toward the end of the century, some had
drifted over the boundary into Delaware.
Further confusion over the correct relationship of Anne, Sarah and Mary
Wheeler within the Wheeler family comes in 1730 when Otho Othoson deeded
property to his "grandsons" Otho Pennington and William Pennington, sons of
Richard Pennington. There are other quitclaim type deeds which attempt to
clarify these relationships, and additionally refer to the heirs of John
Wheeler and to Mary Beard. The totally perplexing question is how could Otho
Othoson be grandfather of Otho and William Pennington when John Wheeler is
their grandfather? I have speculated that perhaps Otho meant "Godfather" of
the two boys, but there was no term at that time to convey that
relationship. BUT, on the other hand, Otho Pennington was obviously named
Otho because of a special relationship with Otho Othoson. AND, the first
male child was often named for the wife's father. Probably the answer lies
in the name of a wife for John Wheeler Junior, or at least in learning
whether indeed the three daughters were his or his father's progeny.
Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 07:30:23 -0700
From: "Carolyn McDaniel"
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Dear Cousins,
Our Listmember and extraordinary researcher Marilyn F. has been
having some really negative health problems and may face neurological
surgery. I hope you will join with me in keeping all positive thoughts and
prayers going in Marilyn's direction. Despite her situation, Marilyn has
solved the Othoson-Wheeler part of the Wheeler family mysteries already. I
didn't want to bother her before positing the information! Thanks Marilyn!
Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn
Abstracts of The Inventories & Accounts of The Prerogative Court 1699-1704
(Libers 20-24)
John Wheele Cecil Feb 1 1700
Payments to: judge paid to Col. William Pearce, Kenelme Cheseldyne paid to
Thomas Browning, John Thompson, Charles Bass, James Portar, Edward
Laddemore.
Distribution to: widow (unnamed), orphans(unnamed).
Administratrix: Elisabeth Otterson (relict), wife of Otter Otterson.
This is how Otho Othoson became grandfather to Otho & Wm. Pennington.

[10461] [S81] Personal notes Marilyn Freeland

PUBLICATION: MFreeland @ b-2000.net

NOTE:
[10462] Swedish Colonial News V 1 #12; the 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware by Peter Stebbins Craig; the Stille Family in American Genealogist

Robert O WOODS

[Rin I4950] [8457] Family 1:

Helen E PHILLIPS

[8457] [S14] "History and Genealogy of the Stonesifer Family of MD and PA"

AUTHOR: Doyle F. Wildasin
PUBLICATION: Hanover, PA 1983