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An American Family History |
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Hannah Dwinnell Wheeler |
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Hannah Dwinnell Wheeler was born on October 17, 1761 in Boxford Essex County, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Benjamin Dwinnell and Mary Estey. She married Jesse Wheeler on September 14, 1782 in Keene, Cheshire County, New Hampshire. The Reverend Hall performed the ceremony. Jesse was born on November 24, 1757. His parents were Abraham Wheeler and Hannah Wood. Hannah and Jesse's children were listed in The History of the Wheeler Family in America published in 1914 by the American College of Genealogy. They were On October 17, 1792 Jesse and Hannah were part of the group of twenty-two original members of the First Congregational Church of Sullivan. Hannah died on November 10, 1841 in Pittsford, Rutland County, Vermont. Jesse died April 22, 1844 in Blooming Valley, Crawford County, Pennsylvania. |
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Jesse Wheeler . . .of Keene bought a part of the second lot of the sixth range, Sept. 7, 1780, . . . Mr. Wheeler must have lived nearly twenty years upon his home lot before he actually purchased it, or before the deed was signed. Such occupancy before purchase was not unusual in those days. Mr. Wheeler was a very eccentric man. Like Micawber, one of the characters of Dickens, he talked as if he were a man of means and intelligence, while being really very poor in purse and not unusually gifted intellectually. His rude house was never finished. It was only one end of what he boasted that the completed structure was to be. He used to speak of his "square room", however, as if it were actually built. One day some boys of the neighborhood called at his door and asked him if they could engage "his square room for a ball, in order that the beautiful room might have a suitable dedication". The old man was a very devout churchman, and he regarded the request as a double insult, in violating his religious scruples on one hand, and mocking his poverty on the other. Shortly after, he sold his land to Joshua Osgood, in two deeds bearing the dates of Feb. 24, 1801, and Jan. 26, 1802, respectively. In the summer of 1802, he left town and probably went to Hinsdale, in which town he had purchased land of Walter Wheeler, as early as July 9, 1799. This old cabin was never again used, and the farm was added to the already large farm of Joshua Osgood. |
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