D.A.R. # 62658, 62653
Samuel Wheeler (1758-1808) served as a private in Capt. William Brown's company, Col. John McCrea's Albany County regiment. He was born in England; died Brisben, N.Y.

WHEELER, SAMUEL Ancestor #: A124026
Service: NEW YORK Rank(s): SOLDIER
Birth: 1758 ENGLAND
Death: 5-8-1808 BRISBEN CHENANGO CO NEW YORK
Service Source: NARA, M881, COMP MIL SERV RECS, ROLL # 760, #768
Service Description: 1) COLS VAN ALSTINE, VAN WORTH
2) ALBANY CO MIL

Note:
"The history of Chenango County New York by James H. Smith, Syracuse, NY 1880 page 197 lists Samuel Wheeler as settling in Brisben in 1794.
This history lists him as an Englishman. His father served in the British army during the Revolutionary war under Burgoyne, and on the surrender of that General, remained in the country. Samuel's children were:
William; Samuel; Harry; Ephraim; Sally; Margaret and Jeanette."

Note:
"The book, "From Raft to Railroad-A History of the Town of Greene,
Chenango County, New York, 1792-1867" by Mildred English Cochrane,
page 23, states "In 1794 Samuel Wheeler bought land in the Robert C.
Livingston tract on the east side of the river in Brisben and brought his
wife and five children from Schoharie. His father, John, an officer in the
British Army, was sent over here at the beginning of the Revolution,
accompanied by his three oldest sons. Samuel, the youngest, was
nineteen. As soon as he was 21, he deserted the British, and so great
was his father's wrath that he withheld all of Samuel's wages. When the
war was over, Samuel refused to return to England with his father and
brothers, so was completely disinherited. When he saw them off on their
return voyage his father would not even say goodbye to him. Not one of
the many letters Samuel wrote home was ever answered. After being in
this country two years he married Elizabeth Daniels, a companion of
Cornelia Livingston. The Livingstons were old acquaintances of the
Wheelers in England and the reason Samuel frequented their home,
purchased land in this section of Cornelia's brother Robert, and worked
as a surveyor for their father Walter Livingston, a large landowner here,
on the Oxford-Brisben-Greene sections. Samuel Wheeler, Daniel Tremain,
Joseph Tillotson and one or two others came down the Chenango in a
canoe to select their land, and they blazed trees along the bank where
the ox teams were to travel later with their goods. Four more children
were born to the Wheelers here before their deaths in 1804. Ephraim,
the youngest, was only four, and Joseph Tillotson's sister Esther, kept
house for the children for a while, as William D., the oldest was but
Twenty. Joseph Gray succeeded the Wheelers on the farm, followed by
generations of Bartoo and Burgess families (now John Nintzel)."

Father: John WHEELER b: in ,,,England

Married: Elizabeth MCDANIEL b: 20 DEC 1747
Married: 1779 in Livingston Manor,Columbia County,New York,United States

Or
Married: Elizabeth Daniels.

Children:

1. William D. WHEELER b: 1788 in Livingston,Columbia County,New York,United States
2. Peter WHEELER b: 1789 in Livingston,Columbia County,New York,United States
3. Nancy WHEELER b: 1790 in Livingston,Columbia County,New York,United States
4. Capt. Samuel WHEELER b: 10 Feb 1791 in Livingston,Columbia County,New York,United States
5. Sally WHEELER b: 1794 in Greene,Chenango County,New York,United States
6. Margaret WHEELER b: 1797/1798 in Greene,Chenango County,New York,United States
7. Harry Daniels WHEELER b: 17 OCT 1799 in Greene,Chenango County,New York,United States c: in Greene,Chenango County,New York,United States
8. Jeanette WHEELER b: 1 Jan 1801 in Greene,Chenango County,New York,United States
9. Ephraim WHEELER b: 11 Sep 1804 in Greene,Chenango County,New York,United States