New Hampshire was first settled by Europeans in 1623. It was separated from Massachusetts in 1679.
Women played an essential role in American society as mothers and homemakers.
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 Aaron 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 included:
Jesse Wheeler (May 17, 1783, married Sally Morgan),
Aaron Wheeler (May 30, 1785),
Hannah Wheeler (1787),
Philectia Wheeler (1789, married John M. Stevens),
Benjamin Wheeler (1790, died age 23), Abraham Wheeler (1792, married Amanda Taylor),
Abel Wheeler (1795),
Dolly Wheeler (1797),
Archibald Wheeler (1800),
Lyman Wheeler (1800),
Almon Wheeler (1802, married Olive Lucina Freelove),
Harry Wheeler (1805), and
Maryane Wheeler (1808).
On September 7, 1780, they purchased some land below the Dimicks in Sullivan, Cheshire County, New Hampshire on the west side of Hubbard Hill, and settled there.
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.
Keene, Cheshire County, New Hampshire was settled after 1736 and was a fort protecting Massachusetts during the French and Indian Wars. It was called Upper Ashuelot. When New Hampshire separated from Massachusetts in 1741 it became Keene, New Hampshire.
During King George's War, the village was attacked and burned.
Three daughters of William Towne and Joanna Blessing were wrongly accused of practicing witchcraft in Salem. Rebecca Towne Nurse, Mary Towne Estey, and Sarah Towne Bridges Cloyes were persecuted in 1692. The children of people in the line below are all descendants of Mary Estey.
