Sally's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great Grandparents:

the emigrants

Children of Thomas Wheeler and wife Joan :
1. John Wheeler  ca 1635 - 3 Dec 1716 Woodbury CT in 81 yr
           baptized Aug 16 1640 Milford         
    married 1st Dec 1662 Sarah Sherwood d 12 Mar 1703/04 [dau of Thomas]
      children bapt at the Woodbury Church
     a. Sarah Wheeler 24 Feb 1663/4 [bp 19 June 1670]
       married by 1687 Abraham Mitchell
        i. Nathan Mitchell
        ii. Hannah Mitchell
        iii. Sarah Mitchell
     b. Mary Wheeler 26 Aug 1666 [bp 19 June 1670] - 20 June 1701 dsp Woodbury 
     c. Elizabeth Wheeler Feb 1669/70 [bp 19 June 1670]
        married June 1696 [rec. Stratford]  Jeremiah Burch
         i. children
    d. Thomas Wheeler 2 Apr 1673 [bp 25 May 1673] 21 Mar 1727/28
              killed by fall of a tree at Woodbury
           married at Woodbury 20 Aug 1701 Sarah Stiles dau of Benjamin Stiles
         i. Prudence Wheeler 19 Sept 1702 - 
             married 10 Jan 1729 Isaac Tuttle
         ii. Benjamin Wheeler 21 July 1706 -
         iii. Lemuel Wheeler 6 June 1709 -
         iv. Thomas Wheeler 13 June 1715 -
         v. Obadiah Wheeler 11 Nov 1716 - 26 Aug 1718
         vi. Sarah Wheeler 1 Aug 1719 - 8 June 1720
         vii. Sarah Wheeler 22 April 1721 - 8 April 1727
         viii. Mary Wheeler Aug 1725 -
    e. Ruth  Wheeler bp 30 June 1678 - 10 Feb 1701/2 Waterbury
        married [rec Woodbury] 23 Apr 1701 John Richardson
         i. Ruth Richardson
    f. Dinah Wheeler bp 9 Jan  1680/1 - aft 1747
        married at Woodbury 13 Feb 1706/7 Ephraim Tuttle
         i. Joseph Tuttle
    g. John Wheeler bp 11 May 1684 Stratford - 19 May 1727 Woodbury CT
        married at Woodbury 17 Nov 1704 Ruth Stiles May 1682/83
         i. Caleb Wheeler 21 March 1704/05 - 
             married Martha ---- d 21 April 1744
                  1. Sarah Wheeler Sept 1727 -
                  2. Ruth Wheeler 5 July 1729 - 4 Dec 1730
                  3. Caleb Wheeler bapt 17 Oct 1731 - Jan 1737
                  4. Simon Wheele Nov 1733 -
                  5. Preserved Wheeler bapt 28 March 1736 - 1769
                      married 1 May 1757 Lucy Parks
                   6. Caleb Wheeler 9 Nov 1737 - Feb 1738
                   7. David Wheeler 13 Sept 1739 -
                   8. John Wheeler 14 Oct 1741 - 
                       married 1763 Lois Dudley
                        a. Lydia Wheeler
                   9. Peter Wheeler 16 April 1744 -
             married 2nd 26 June 1744 Lydia Clark
                   1. Gideon Wheeler bapt 13 March 1745 - 25 March 1745
                   2. Martha Wheeler bapt 27 April 1746 -
                   3. Abigail Wheeler bapt 30 June 1748 -
                   4. Ashbel Wheeler bapt 12 Nov 1749 - 24 Feb 1751
                   5. Ruth Wheeler bapt 5 April 1752 -
         ii. Abigail Wheeler 15 Feb 1707/08 -
         iii. Obadiah Wheeler 28 May 1709 - 1 Oct 1715 [drowned]
         iv. Samuel Wheeler 24 June 1712 - 19 March 1786
              married 21 Dec 1732 Rebeckah Johnson 26 June 1716 - 
                    dau of Moses Johnson and wife Prudence Jenner
                     1. Justus Wheeler 2 Oct 1733 -
                     2. Mabel Wheeler bapt 4 Aug 1735 -
                           married ---- Pierce
                     3. Patience Wheeler 
                           married 17 July 1780 Ambrose Sperry
                     4. Ann Wheeler bapt 14 Sept 1743 - 
                          married 21 July 1768 Parmlee Allen
                     5. Ruth Wheeler bapt 24 March 1745 -
                          married Nehemiah St. John
                    6. Seth Wheeler bapt 26 July 1747 -
                    7. Johnson Wheeler 4 July 1753 -
         v. Lois Wheeler 10 Mar 1714/15 - 5 Feb 1715/16
         vi. Lois Wheeler 2 May 1716 - 
              married 12 Nov 1740 Oliver Atwood
         vii. Obadiah Wheeler bapt 27 April 1718 - 9 Jan 1806
               married 1st 13 May 1740 Agnes Tuttle who died at age of 49
                      1. Truman Wheeler 26 Nov 1741 -
                      2. Martha Wheeler 12 July 1742 -
                      3. Adin Wheeler 20 Nov 1743 -
                      4. Gideon Wheeler 27 July 1745 -
                      5. Betty Wheeler 15 May 1747 - 26 Jan 1752
                      6. Olive Wheeler 21 Sept 1749 - 14 Jan 1752
                      7. Currence Wheeler 20 Jan 1752 - 20 Jan 1752
                      8. Obadiah Wheeler 1 May 1753 -
                      9. Betty Wheeler 1 Jan 1755 - 
                          married 30 July 1777 Jude Molthrop
                     10. Olive Wheeler 14 June 1757 - 
                           married 2 Oct 1777 Samuel Drakeley
               married 2nd Sarah --- who died 30 Jan 1816 aged 87
         viii. John Wheeler 5 March 1720/21 - 22 May 1811
               married 30 Jan 1752 Deliah Sanford who died 6 Feb 1802 aged 67
                       1. Amos Wheeler 18 Jan 1753 -
                       2. Elizabeth Wheeler 11 Oct 1754 -
                           married 13 Feb 1781 William Hues
                       3. Rachel Wheeler 14 Jan 1757 -
                           married ---- Stevens
                       4. Daniel Wheeler 3 Aug 1758 -
                       5. Annis Wheeler bapt 4 May 1760 -
                       6. Zophar Sanford Wheeler bapt 6 May 1764 - 
                           married at Greenfield, Saratoga Co NY 26 Oct 1794 Dorcas Gilbert
                       7. Ruth Wheeler bapt 2 April 1766 -
                       8. Amarillis Wheeler bapt 26 Jan 1772 -
                            married 10 Feb 1793 Hezekiah Gilbert
                       9. John Wheeler 1775 -
         ix. Jesse Wheeler bapt 22 April 1722 -
         x. Seth Wheeler 1724 - 1746 dsp
          Ruth married 2nd John Hurlbut
          Source: Jacobus -" additions and corrections to the Families of old Fairfield" p38
    married 2nd 3 July 1706 Ruth Clark Fitch Plumb bp 20 Feb 1642 -
     [dau of George "farmer" and widow of Thomas Fitch of Norwalk CT whom she married ca 1662 and Robert Plumb whom she married 1685]
2. Samuel Wheeler  ca 1638 - 1668
           baptized Aug 16 1640; Inv. 24 June 1668
3. Nathaniel Wheeler ca 1642 -  4 Oct 1726 Newark NJ
           baptized 20 Feb 1642  removed to Newark, NJ
    married at Milford 27 June 1665  Esther Botsford d of Henry
     a. Esther Wheeler ca 1666/7 - 1706
         married Samuel Williams 4 Jan 1653/4 CT - aft 4 May 1706 of Elizabethtown NJ
            son of Matthew Williams and wife Susanna of Weathersfield CT
          i. Joseph Williams
         ii. Samuel Williams
         iii. Nathaniel Williams
         iv. David Williams
          v. Josiah Williams
         vi. Susanna Williams
         vii. Hester Williams
         viii. Sarah Williams
     b. Hannah Wheeler ca 1675 - 13 Nov 1719
         married Amos Williams
          i. David Williams
     c. Nathaniel Wheeler 1677 - 13 March 1761 NJ
          married Jemina  --- 1682 - 22 Jan 1721
           i. David Wheeler
          ii. Nathaniel Wheeler bapt 13 Sept 1707 -
          iii. Joanna Wheeler
               married --- Foster
           iv. Sarah Wheeler
               married John Ross
     d. Samuel Wheeler ca 1678 - 1 May 1762
          married Olivia Hall dau of Col. John Hall
            i. John Hall Wheeler
           ii. Daniel Wheeler ca 1732 - March 1735
           iii. Richard Wheeler ca 1734 - 1 March 1735
           iv. Samuel Wheeler ca 1736 -
            v. Mary Wheeler
                married ---- Ogden
           vi. Sarah Wheeler
                married Daniel Linsley
                   son of Moses Linsley and Erany Raynor
     e. Elizabeth Wheeler 1681 -
         married John Ogden
4. Obadiah Wheeler  ca 1644 - 1668 Milford - no issue
            baptized  10 March 1644 
       married Ruth Rogers Goodwin bp 5 Feb 1642/3
           widow of Thomas Goodwin daughter of John Rogers
           she married  3rd July28 1669 Ephraim Stiles
5. Ephraim Wheeler baptized 26 March 1646 - 1684/5 Milford
      married 8 Sept 1675 Mary Holbrook dau of Richard
                she married 2nd Henry Summers
    a. Obadiah Wheeler b 15 bp 18 June 1676 - dec by Nov 1696
    b. Mary Wheeler bp 3 Feb 1677/8 - 31 Jan 1730/1 age 53 at Milford
         married Eliphal Gillet
    c. Thomas Wheeler bp 25 June 1680 - dy
    d. Ephraim Wheeler bp 5 Jan 1681/2 - dy
    e. Abrigail Wheeler bp 8 Feb 1683/4 -
        married 28 July 1703 [rec Derby]  John Brinsmade 1682 - 19 Jan 1753
               son of Paul & Elizabeth of Derby CT
6. Eleazer Wheeler baptized 30 April 1648 -  10 Aug 1649
7. Thomas Wheeler baptized 28 July 1650 - Apr 1727 Milford
         married 1 June 1685 Anna French d of Francis of Derby
    a. Anna Wheeler
        married Daniel Munn
          i. Anna Mun
    b. Mercy Wheeler
        married Stephen Hine 22 May 1695 Milford - ca 1773 Woodbridge
               son of Stephen & Sarah [Bristol] 
         i. Mary Hine bef 1724
    c. Joanna Wheeler 1696 - 15 Jan 1758 in 60 yr gs
        married Obadiah Wheeler 1693 - 24 Feb 1770 Newtown, CT in 76 yr gs
               her first cousin, son of her uncle Joseph
         i. Joanna Wheeler 3 May 1719 Milford CT -
         ii. Hannah Wheeler 1 Nov 1720 Milford CT-
         iii. Mary Wheeler 29 June 1724 Milford CT -
         iv. Abiah Wheeler 16 Nov 1730 Milford CT -
         v. Obadiah Wheeler 7 Oct 1732 Milford CT -
         vi. Joseph Wheeler 2 Nov 1734 Newtown CT -
         vii. Thomas Wheeler 6 Feb 1736 Newtown CT -
    d. Thankful Wheeler
         married Joseph Ashburn s of Joseph
8.  Josiah Wheeler bapt 5 June 1653 d young.
9.  Joseph Wheeler born 23 Nov 1655; bapt 2 Dec 1655; d young.
10. Joseph Wheeler  13 March 1656-7  - 1727  Newark, NJ
     married Milford June 1678 Patience Holbrook 19 Dec 1658 - ca 1710
                 dau. of Richard and Agnes
     married 2nd Dorcas Swaine Traintor
            widow of John and daughter of Daniel Swaine of Branford

  The last will & testament of me, Thomas Wheeler of Milford, in ye county of Newhaven in New England in manner & forme as followeth;
I the sd Thomas Wheeler being sicke of body, but of sound understanding & memory blessed be God, doe will as followeth:
   Imprimis: I doe give to me eldest son John Wheeler besides ye portion yt I have already given to him, the sume of twenty shillings:
   Item, a parcell of meadow lieing on Straford side in Oronacke meadow be it more or less with three acres of upland lieing on the same side both of which parcells & the whole of them with ye respective priviledges belong--unto them I doe give & bequeath unto my sd son John Wheeler for & during his natural life and then after his decease my Will is that his three eldest daughters Sarah, Mary and Elizabeth should have it equally divided amongst them or the survivors of them and their heyres forever.
   Item: To my second son Nathaniel Wheeler besides what he hath already received I doe now give him ye sume of twenty shillings and to his daughter Ester Wheeler fifty shillings.
   I doe give & bequeath unto my sons Ephraim Wheeler & Joseph Wheeler the upland & meadow, both in ye upper meadows & fresh meadows, that I brough of Mr. Zackariah Whitman, with ye respective privilidges and appurtenances belonging thereunto to be equally divided between them both for quality & quantity by casting a lot in case they canot satisfieingly agree otherwise:
   Item, ye meadow & upland I bought of Mrs Joanna Prudden lyeing by or neare to Stratford River. with all the privilidges & appurtenances therunto belonging, to be equally divided between the said Ephraim & Joseph as above sd-
   Item, I doe give unto them my two home lotts, those I bought of William Roberts, & that I bought of Ensn John Streame now lieing all together to be equally divided betweene them, as above sd both the land & fenceing according to acres.
   Item, that parcell of upland yt I bought of John Browne Senior lyeing in Stubby Playne be it more or less,
   Item, that parcell of meadow lieing on the indyan side, betweene Thomas Welch & Andrew Sanford Senr -
   Item, another parcell of meadow lieing in ye point next to Lt William Fowler & soe by ye river to ye mouth of a little creeke & soe from thence on a square to the upland on his way Northward.
   Another parcell or halfe of it, being ye upland yt lies on the northwest end or side of ye sd hill which sd halfe of theirs is to be yt pt yt lieth next unto Thomas Welch all which sd parcells of upland and meadow are to be equally divided between ye sd Ephraim and Joseph.
   I give to each of them a gun & sword & amunition according to law onely Ephraim shall have his choyce : -
   Item, unto my son Ephraim I give one feather bed, one of the best,
   Item, one coverlid & in brasse six pounds worth, & in pewter two pounds worth,
   Item, a payre of foure yeare old stears & one three yeare old heifer & one two yeare old heifer, a payre of new wheels with iron hoops, he procuring of them to be made, & my wife shall pay for them, as alsoe one plow with irons to it & one chayne & iron braces for a horse, And further my Will is that in case he dyes & leaves noe heyres of his owne body then my Will is that the one halfe of his lands shall returne to his brethren: 
    And further my will is, if Joseph Dye before he comes to age to receive his portion wch is at his accomplishing of one & twenty yeares, then my will is that, Ephraim shall have the first refusall of all the land both of upland & meadow, that is now betweene them upon a moderate price & concerning the lands yt I bought of ye sd Mr. Whitman & Mrs. Prudden he shall not pay any more for it then it cost mee.
    And further my Will is that Ephraim shall have foure hogs of a yeare old & foure Sheepe,
    Item, My Will is concerning Joseph yt in case he dye after he hath received his portion without any lawful heyre of his owne body, that then ye one halfe of his lands shall returne to his brethren surviveing -
    Item, -my Will is yt my son Joseph shall continue with his mother till he come to ye age of two & twenty yeares; and yt Ephraim & Joseph tbey are to maintaine the two parcells of fence against Adding playns.
     I give to my son Thomas Wheeler the one halfe of all my lands & meadows that I have not already disposed of, with ye one halfe of the orchard, barnes, garden, yeards and well, and concerning my dwelling house, my Will is, that he shall have a part in it yet I doe reserve to my wife, the north end below with the leantoo belonging to it as alsoe her liberty to make use of the hall, cellar, & buttery with ye chamber over the hall with the chimmey & oven according to her need & desire, dureing the time of her naturall life, And after her decease my Will is, that the whole accomodations not already willed otherwise shal be my son Thomas Wheelers, to him & his heyres forever, and in case he dyes & leaves noe lawfull heyre of his owne body, that then my will is, as of his former brethren soe he also shall leave the one halfe of his lands to his brethern remaineing ---
      Item, my Will  is, that Thomas shall continue with his mother till he is two & twenty yeares old. 
      Item I give to my son Thomas ye one halfe of my teame, the whole being two oxen & a horse, the halfe of the cart & wheels plow & plow irons, the halfe of two chaynes & the horse braces: Alsoe my Will is that my sd son Thomas Wheeler shall not receive his portion untill he is two & twenty yeares old, And in case either of my sons  dye before they come to age, then his or their portions shal be divided among the mother & surviveing children equally.
      Item: My will is to give unto my son John Wheelers three daughters aforementioned fifty shillings apiece, or to each of them;
     Item I doe give to my brothers children here, viz: William, Thomas & Sarah ten pounds to be equally divided amongst them.
    Item: My Will is to give to ye Reverend pastor of ye church Mr. Roger Newton fifty shillings, 
    Item to ye church of Christ in Milford fifty shillings to be distributed to the poore. All which abovesd Legacys, my will is they should be payd by my Executrix within one yeare after my decease.
   Item: I give & bequeath unto my deare & loveing wife Joane Wheeler, all the rest of my goods & estate reall & personall whatsoever lyeing in Milford or elsewhere, whom I doe constitute, make & ordaine the sole executrix of this my last will & testament willing & desireing her duely to educate her children in the ways of God & to prepare for their latter ends, And in case my loveing wife shall see it her way againe to dispose of herselfe in marriage that then my Will is, that she shall have power onely to dispose of one hundred pounds of my goods to any, but the rest to my owne children or theirs.
And in case my son Thomas Wheeler shall see cause to build & set up a dwelling house either adjoining to this house, or elsewhere for his present personall use to dwell in that then my Will is that my wife shall allow him twenty pounds towards it out of her estate--
    Item, my will is to entreate and desire my loveing friends Mr. Robert Treat brother Daniell & Samuell Buckingham to be ye overseers of this my last Will and testamt, entreating them to be helpful to my Executrix, to lend their best helpe and counsell as there may be need: And to ye ratification & confirmation thereof, I have this eighteenth of November one thousand six hundred & seventy two sett to my hand & seale.
        THOMAS (his X marke) WHEELER (Seal)
published & declared to be my last will & testament in ye presence of us witnessing as well as signed & sealed
ROBERT TREATE; SAMLL. BUCKINGHAM
DANIELL BUCKINGHAM

will found in "The History of the Wheeler Family in America" compiled by Albert Gallatin Wheeler ca 1905