When Samuel Wheeler was born in 1760, in Niagara, Ontario, Canada, his father, Isaac Wheeler, was 25 and his mother, Mrs Isaac Wheeler, was 24. He married Hannah Vanhusen about 1780, in New York City, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died in 1787, in Albany, Albany, New York, United States, at the age of 27.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
New York is the 11th state.
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
English: occupational name for a wheelwright, a maker of wheels (primarily for carts and other vehicles, but also other kinds of wheels, for use in spinning or other manufacturing processes), from Middle English wheler, whegheler, a derivative of Old English hweogol, hweowol, hwēol ‘wheel’.
History: A founder of Salisbury, NH, in 1634 was John Wheeler.
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