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Valentine Wheeler

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Valentine Wheeler

Birth
Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
26 Aug 1791 (aged 66)
Windsor, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Dover Plains, Dutchess County, New York, USA Add to Map
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Valentine married Sarah Goff, 15 Jan 1747, in Rehoboth, MA. They had 14 known children:

-Martha Wheeler (1747-1837)
-Sarah Virginia Wheeler (1749-1841)
-Bethana Wheeler (1751-1751)
-Mary Wheeler (1752-1835)
-Anna Wheeler (1754-1810)
-Valentine Wheeler Jr. (1756-1845)
-Charles Wheeler (b.1758)
-Rufus Wheeler (1759-1835)
-Samuel Wheeler (1762-1839)
-Salisbury Wheeler (1764-1856)
-Comfort Wheeler (1766-1855)
-Nathaniel Wheeler (1767-1840)
-Ruth Wheeler (1770-1849)
-James Wheeler (b.1770)

Sarah filed for divorce in 1772, charging, "adultery, desertion, & cohabitation with another". The divorce was granted by the court in Plymouth in 1780. (William & Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 586-614)
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From the book "New England families, genealogical and memorial, Vol. 4":

Valentine Wheeler was a soldier in the revolution, in Captain Samuel Bliss' company, on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775; in Captain John Paine's company, 1776; in Captain Israel Hix's company, Colonel Thomas Carpenter's regiment, at Bristol, Rhode Island, 1776; in Captain John Perry's company, Colonel Abiel Mitchell's regiment, in 1780, reinforcing the Continental army.
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"The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America", pg. 435.
Valentine married Sarah Goff, 15 Jan 1747, in Rehoboth, MA. They had 14 known children:

-Martha Wheeler (1747-1837)
-Sarah Virginia Wheeler (1749-1841)
-Bethana Wheeler (1751-1751)
-Mary Wheeler (1752-1835)
-Anna Wheeler (1754-1810)
-Valentine Wheeler Jr. (1756-1845)
-Charles Wheeler (b.1758)
-Rufus Wheeler (1759-1835)
-Samuel Wheeler (1762-1839)
-Salisbury Wheeler (1764-1856)
-Comfort Wheeler (1766-1855)
-Nathaniel Wheeler (1767-1840)
-Ruth Wheeler (1770-1849)
-James Wheeler (b.1770)

Sarah filed for divorce in 1772, charging, "adultery, desertion, & cohabitation with another". The divorce was granted by the court in Plymouth in 1780. (William & Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 586-614)
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From the book "New England families, genealogical and memorial, Vol. 4":

Valentine Wheeler was a soldier in the revolution, in Captain Samuel Bliss' company, on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775; in Captain John Paine's company, 1776; in Captain Israel Hix's company, Colonel Thomas Carpenter's regiment, at Bristol, Rhode Island, 1776; in Captain John Perry's company, Colonel Abiel Mitchell's regiment, in 1780, reinforcing the Continental army.
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"The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America", pg. 435.

Inscription

"Capt. Valentine", d ae 42 y

Gravesite Details

Listing from Old Gravestones of Dutchess County



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