• Born May 25, 1750 in Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
• Parents were JONAS WHEELER and PERSIS BROOKS.
• Married RACHEL BUTTERFIELD. Rachel was born about 1754 and died in July, 1841.
• Died in 1822 in New Ipswich, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.

1. SETH WHEELER, born in 1774 in New Ipswich, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. Married POLLY STONE.

2. BETSEY WHEELER, born September 6, 1776 in New Ipswich, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire; died in 1849. Married JOHN BUTMAN.

3. PERSIS WHEELER, born February 6, 1779 in New Ipswich, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.

4. RACHEL WHEELER, born June 4, 1781 in New Ipswich, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.

5. MOSES WHEELER, born May 14, 1783 in New Ipswich, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire; died June 4, 1783.

6. STEPHEN D. WHEELER, born June 25, 1784 in New Ipswich, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire; died February 3, 1859. Married HANNAH STRATTON in 1818.

7. ASENATH WHEELER, born February 25, 1787 in New Ipswich, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire; March 29, 1873. Married DANIEL CHANDLER on January 11, 1811.

8. MILA WHEELER, born September 25, 1789 in New Ipswich, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.

9. SILAS WHEELER, born December 19, 1792 in New Ipswich, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire; died in October, 1885. Married MARY BATCHELDER on May 17, 1819 in New Ipswich, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. Married ARMENIA D. ADAMS on October 1, 1879.

10. MOSES WHEELER, born November 14, 1795 in New Ipswich, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. Married LUCY FLETCHER on October 12, 1823.

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He came to New Ipswich with his parents when only eight years old, and passed his life in the town, becoming a valuable and influential citizen. He lived for a time upon the old Ashby road, but about 1803 he returned to the region familiar in his boyhood, and built the "Wheeler tavern" upon the Turnpike, and near the east line of the town. He was selectman for thirteen consecutive years and also was town clerk. He was a leading surveyor and a contractor, building a part of the Turnpike and the meeting-house of 1811. He served in the Revolution, holding a commission as lieutenant in 1775-76, and was a captain in 1777-78.