When Esther Wheeler was born about 1806, in Connecticut, United States, her father, Silas Wheeler, was 26 and her mother, Deborah Sanford, was 23. She had at least 1 daughter with Gersham Bradley Sanford. She lived in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States in 1850 and Easton, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States in 1880. She died on 10 January 1899, at the age of 94, and was buried in Easton, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Farmington Canal spans 2,476 acres, starting from New Haven, Connecticut, and on to Northampton, Massachusetts. The groundbreaking for the canal was in 1825 and opened in 1829.
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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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