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Ephraim blev gift med Mariah Glazier den 20 nov. 1720 i Plainfield, Windham, Connecticut, United States. Mariah blev født den 30 maj 1708 i Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; blev døbt den 30 maj 1708 i Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; døde i 1770 i Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

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• Bopæl: Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
• Bopæl: 1672, Freeman 15 May, Massachusetts Colony, MA

Joseph blev gift med Mary PowersConcord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. Mary blev født i 1655 i Littleton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; blev døbt i 1663 i Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; døde den 5 apr. 1740 i Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA; blev begravet i apr. 1740 i Littleton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

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• FSID: 99Z5-144

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On Saturday, Feb. 12, 1676, the sons Isaac and Jacob were killed by the Indians on the south side of Quagana hill [Littleton, Massachusetts]. They, at the time, were threshing grain in the barn on the Shepard homestead. Being aware of the perilous times,-this was during King Philip's War-the sons had set their niece, Mary, on the summit of the hill to watch for Indians.

The ground was covered with deep snow and the Indians traveled with snowshoes. Eluding the vigilance of Mary who was only about thirteen years old, they swooped down up on the Shepard barn before she was aware of their presence and slew Isaac and Jacob.
She was taken captive and carried to Nashawa,-now called Lancaster, or some place in that vicinity. During the first night after her capture she escaped and reached home the next morning. In the dead of night, Mary took a saddle from under the head of her Indian keeper who was sunk in sleep increased by ardent spirits, put the saddle on a horse which the Indians had stolen at Lancaster, mounted it, swam it across the Nashawa river, rode through the forest to her home.The leader of the Indian band is supposed to have been Netus, sometimes called Nipmuck Captain.

The teenaged girl is now thought to have been Mary Power, daughter of Ralph and Thankslord Shepard's daughter, Triall, who married Walter Power in 1661. The Power farmstead was next to the Shepard farm in Littleton (then called Concord Village). The age of the girl on the marker is probably close to correct - Mary Power was born in 1663, and would have been about 12-13 at the time of the attack on her uncles, Isaac and Jacob Shepard.
Mary Power's adventure was surely traumatic to her. When she escaped and returned home, she tended to 'run wild' by Puritan standards. Her parents were tried for at least one of her misdeeds while she was young, but she did eventually marry and settled down to lead a responsible life.

Mary Power married Joseph Wheeler in 1681, but she was dead by the time their daughter, Ruth, administered her father's estate in 1705. However, another family source said she died in 1740. Either way, no burial places were noted. As both of them were from Concord Village, which became Littleton, they may well have been buried in the Power Family Cemetery on the Walter Power farm. Several generations were buried here before the farm went out of family hands and was purchased by the Reed brothers. To the horror of the community, the Reeds plowed over the old burying ground in 1850, using the surviving tombstones to build a fence and leaving no trace of the graves. There was no law at that time about descecrating graves - there is now.

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wheeler-1337
Capt. Thomas Wheeler
Born before 9 Apr 1620 in Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England
ANCESTORS
Son of Thomas Wheeler and Rebecca (Sayre) Wheeler
Brother of Thomas Wheeler [half], Priscilla Wheeler [half], Ann (Wheeler) Halsey [half], John Wheeler [half], Deborah Wheeler [half], Elizabeth (Wheeler) Bread, Timothy Wheeler, Susanna Wheeler, Joseph Wheeler, Abiah Wheeler, Mary Wheeler and Ephraim Wheeler
Husband of Ruth (Wood) Wheeler - married 1640 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts
DESCENDANTS
Father of Alice Wheeler, Joseph Wheeler, Nathaniel Wheeler, Thomas Wheeler, Ruth (Wheeler) Prescott, Joseph Wheeler, Ephraim Wheeler and Deliverance Wheeler
Died 10 Dec 1676 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Disputes: ' Wheeler, Albert Gallatin Jr. The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America, Boston Massachusetts, 1914, James Savages Genealogies, and others - incorrectly identifies the relationships in this family.

Corrections: 1: The Thomas Wheeler was baptized at Cranfield on April 9, 1620, and on p. 200 of the Wheeler Family is incorrectly attached as the son of Thomas Wheeler (1591-164) and Anne Halsey. He is that Thomas' (1591-1654) half brother. The Wheeler Fam. further incorrectly continues that the Thomas bp. April, 1620, married Joan/Jane Bryan.

2: There are two Thomas's who were both the sons of Thomas of Cranfield and unknown (likely different) mother's. None of the sources found indicate the name of his mother. The half brothers are Thomas (1591-1654) married Anne Halsey and Thomas (Apr. 1620 -1676) married Ruth Wood.

3: In his father's will, Thomas the Elder left bequests to both eldest son Thomas and youngest son Thomas, so it is likely that this youngest child Thomas is the son of Rebecca.

4: This Thomas Wheeler, actually baptized on April 20, 1620; married to Ruth Wood, is addressed in the Wheeler Family on p. 1-12: parents not identified.

5: In the same text p. 143, Sergeant Thomas Wheeler, baptized December 8, 1621 at Cranfield, parent's are not identified. He is actually the correct son of Thomas (1591-1654) and Anne Halsey.

See the following:

[Anderson, Robert C. Great Migration T-Y: 2011 p. 325]
[TAG: Vol. 12: p.4-17]
[TAG: Vol 14: p. 2-4]
[Jacobus, Donald L. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Volume 1, p. 662-6]

Biography
Thomas Wheeler was the youngest of his father's children.[1]

CAPT. THOMAS WHEELER, of Concord, Mass. This "gallant and intrepid" Indian fighter was among the most interesting and important characters of our colonial period, and was preeminent among the few pioneers through whose restless daring the frontiers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony were so persistently extended. He was born in England. The date of his arrival in America and the name of the ship in which he came are not known. Several historians assert that he was a resident of Concord as early as 1640, and even before this date he was in this country trading among the Indians. The first written record that refers to him, however, is in May 18, 1642, when he took the oath of freeman at Concord, Mass. The first definite information concerning his trading with the Indians is on July 1st, 1657, when, with three others, he bought from the colony the privilege of trading with the Indians, paying there for the sum of £25.

(He was with Capt. Hutchinson during King Philip's War and wrote a long account of their battle which is included.)[2]

He died at Concord, Dec. 10, 1676, the record of his death identifying him fully by stating explicitly that he was the "husband of Ruth." His wife was Ruth Wood, a daughter of Wm. Wood. Whether they were married before or after his arrival in this country and if they were married before whether some of their children were born in England is not known ; if the children were all born in America it is more than probable that they were born in the wilderness beyond the reach of records. He is said to have been the brother of Timothy and Joseph.[3]
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Thomas blev gift med Ruth Wood i 1639 i Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England. Ruth blev født i 1618 i Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England; døde i Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; blev begravet i Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

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Thomas Wheeler and Ruth Wood were married about 1639 in Cranfield, Bedfordshire.

Their children born in Concord, Mass.

Alice Wheeler born about 1640.

Ephraim Wheeler born about 1641.

Thomas Wheeler born about 1643.

Timoty Wheeler born about 1648.

Ruth Wheeler born April 25, 1650.

Ruth Wheeler born about 1652.

Nathaniel Wheeler born about 1655.

Joseph Wheeler born March 13, 1656.

Deliverance Wheeler born about 1663.