When Hannah Wheeler was born on 1 September 1739, in Stonington, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Isaac Wheeler, was 25 and her mother, Mary Wheeler, was 19. She married Nathaniel Chesebrough on 22 February 1759, in Stonington, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 5 July 1762, in her hometown, at the age of 22.
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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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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