Mary Wheeler
Daughter of Moses Wheeler, the Stratford ferryman, born at Stratford, Connecticut, in 1655. She married first Samuel Fairchild and bore him five children, probably among them Jonathan (1692); widowed in 1704/5, she married Benjamin Beach and then Thomas Yale, and died at Wallingford in 1747. The family's descent from her rests on Jonathan Fairchild of East Jewett being her great-grandson, which is possible only.
Life
- 1655Born13 Sep 1655, Stratford, Connecticut
Starr, from the Stratford land records.
- 1705Married Benjamin Beach5 Dec 1705, Stratford, Connecticut
- 1716Married Thomas Yale31 Jul 1716, Wallingford, Connecticut
- 1747Died17 Aug 1747, Wallingford, Connecticut
Family
- Father
- Moses Wheeler
Moses Wheeler's will of 19 Feb 1689/90 leaves "to my daughter Mary a brasse kettle"; the distribution of his estate, 14 Apr 1719, gives a share "to Mistress Mary (Yeal?)" (Fairfield probate, as Starr transcribes it).
documentedprovenSources
- Frank Farnsworth Starr, Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut (1915), vol. 2
- Reasoning:
research/mcmillan/Fairchild_Raymond_Woodworth.md
- Mother
- Miriam
Orcutt names Moses Wheeler's wife Miriam, sister of Joseph Hawley; Starr "failed to find any evidence on the subject."
- Spouse 1
- Benjamin Beachcompiledprobable
Sources
- Frank Farnsworth Starr, Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut (1915), vol. 2
- Jean Fairchild Gilmore, Early Fairchilds in America and Their Descendants (1991), with More Fairchilds in America
- Samuel Orcutt, A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut (1886)
- Spouse 2
- Thomas Yale
Starr has only "Yeal (?)."
- Spouse 3
- Samuel Fairchild
"Samuel, son of Thomas Fairchild, m. Mary, dau. of Moses Wheeler" (Orcutt). Their first known child was born in 1681.
compiledprobableSources
- Samuel Orcutt, A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut (1886)
- Frank Farnsworth Starr, Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut (1915), vol. 2
- Jean Fairchild Gilmore, Early Fairchilds in America and Their Descendants (1991), with More Fairchilds in America
1 child
Pedigree
Notes
Daughter of Moses Wheeler, the Stratford ferryman, and wife successively of Samuel Fairchild, Benjamin Beach and Thomas Yale. In his will of 19 February 1689/90 her father left her “a brasse kettle holding ten or twelve Galons more or lesse. The abridgment of the martyr booke, and Mr Brookes his devices of sathan” (source): an abridged Foxe’s Book of Martyrs and, very probably, Thomas Brooks’s Precious Remedies against Satan’s Devices (1652).
She married Samuel Fairchild, a ship’s carpenter like her father, and bore him Robert (1681), Samuel, Anna, Edward and Jonathan (1692). Widowed in January 1704/5, she married Benjamin Beach Sen. of Stratford on 5 December 1705, and Thomas Yale at Wallingford on 31 July 1716 (source). In January 1712/13, fifteen years after her father’s death, his estate was still unsettled, and “Nathan Wheeler and Samuel Fairchild” (her son, her husband being dead) “were appointed administrators to bring the matter to a final issue”; at the distribution of 14 April 1719 a single share, twenty-one and a third acres and one and a third sheep, went “to Mistress Mary (Yeal?)” (source). She died at Wallingford on 17 August 1747.
The family’s descent from her rests on the identification of Jonathan Fairchild of East Jewett with her great-grandson Jonathan, born at Norwalk in 1744, which is only possible (see Jonathan Fairchild).
Research: research/mcmillan/Fairchild_Raymond_Woodworth.md.
Connections
- Famous kin
- Lucius Fairchild
Governor of Wisconsin, 1866-1872, Union colonel who lost an arm at Gettysburg, and U.S. Minister to Spain
Lucius Fairchild is the fourth cousin, four times removed, of the centre of this tree. - James Harris Fairchild
Third president of Oberlin College, whose brothers George T. and E. Henry Fairchild led Kansas State and Berea
James Harris Fairchild is the fourth cousin, four times removed, of the centre of this tree. - David Fairchild
Botanist and plant explorer, who brought soybeans, pistachios, mangos and flowering cherries to the United States
David Fairchild is the fifth cousin, three times removed, of the centre of this tree.
- Lucius Fairchild
- In her ancestry
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Every notable ancestor and famous relative that Mary's own ancestors lead to, with the lines drawn down to her.