Eleazar Wheelock Jr.'s death is recounted in a personal letter from John Wheelock to his sister, dated 20 Aug 1812. "On the 7th of last December, while standing and cutting down a tree a few rods from his house, he was seized with the third shock, and fell...he expired in a few minutes." Interesting Family Letters of the late Mrs. Ruth Patten of Hartford, Conn., 1845, pp. 58-61.
Eleazar Wheelock Jr.'s death is recounted in a personal letter from John Wheelock to his sister, dated 20 Aug 1812. "On the 7th of last December, while standing and cutting down a tree a few rods from his house, he was seized with the third shock, and fell...he expired in a few minutes." Interesting Family Letters of the late Mrs. Ruth Patten of Hartford, Conn., 1845, pp. 58-61.
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