Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom may be downloaded here.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page

    Person Info
  • Name: Benjamin WHEELOCK
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 8 Jan 1639/40 in Dedham, Massachusetts b
  • Baptism: 12 Jan 1640 c
  • Death: Abt 1720 in Mendon, Massachusetts d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Ralph WHEELOCK Birth: 4 May 1600 in Shopshire, Co Salop, England Death: 11 Jan 1683/4 in Medfield, Massachusetts
    • Mother:
  • Rebecca CLARK Birth: 26 Aug 1610 in Banham, Norfolk, England Death: 1 Jan 1680/1 in Medfield, Massachusetts

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Elizabeth WHEELOCK Birth: 25 Jan 1671/2 in Medfield, Massachusetts
  2. Marie WHEELOCK Birth: 11 Jun 1674 in Medfield, Massachusetts Death: 25 Mar 1750
  3. Abial WHEELOCK Birth: 30 Sep 1676 in Medfield, Massachusetts
  4. Benjamin WHEELOCK Birth: 12 Dec 1678 in Medfield, Massachusetts Death: 13 Dec 1746 in Mendon, Massachusetts

Marriage: Children:
  1. Obadiah WHEELOCK Birth: 21 Apr 1685 in Medfield, Massachusetts Death: Before 4 Nov 1760
  2. Elizabeth WHEELOCK Birth: 2 Jan 1689 in Medfield, Massachusetts
  3. Anna WHEELOCK Birth: 18 Jun 1693 in Mendon, Massachusetts
  4. Ruth WHEELOCK Birth: 3 Nov 1695 in Mendon, Massachusetts Death: Before 1734

Bibliography
  1. Bond, Henry, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Second Edition, New England Historic-Genealogical Society, Boston, 1860. Available at http://archive.org/details/genealogiesoffam00bond Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Bond Watertown [A-Z]*[0-9 p]*].
  2. Hill, Don Gleason, The Record of Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths, Transcribed from the Church Records in the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1638-1845, Dedham, MA, 1888. Available at https://archive.org/details/cu31924028819971. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: DedhamMA vitals p[0-9]*].
  3. Farmer, John, A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England. Lancaster, MA: Carter, Andrew & Co, 1829. Available at http://books.google.com/?id=TUGHVUEbRBoC Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Farmer [A-Z][A-Z]* [A-Z][a-z]*].
  4. Lane, Marion Bridgman, Wheelock Family Line from Ralph Wheelock, Founder, to Jesse Wheelock, Patriot, LDS Film#0165998. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/008252089 images 182-4. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Lane WHEELOCK p[0-9]*].
  5. MacKenzie, George Norbury, Colonial Families of the United States of America, Grafton Press, New York, 1908 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: MacKenzie ColonialFam [A-Z][A-Z]*].
  6. Moore, Winifred H, Moore Genealogy, Report of the Genealogical Records Commttee District of Columbia Daughters of American Revolution, 1948-50. LDS Film#0874739#4. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/007831154 images 490-625. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: MooreWH MOORE p[0-9]*].
  7. Pope, Charles Henry, The Pioneers of Massachusetts, a Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns, and Churches, and other Contemporaneous Documents. Boston, MA: author, 1900. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1400537. Reprinted Baltimore: Genealogical Pub Co, 1986. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p[0-9][0-9a]*].
  8. Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register. Boston, MA: Little Brown & Co, 1860. Available at http://archive.org/details/genealogicaldic01savarich. Reprinted Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Published Co, 1965. Scanned and corrected by Robert Kraft, 1994, and available at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Sav-age [A-Z][A-Z]* [A-Z][a-z]*].
  9. Wheelock, Danford E, The Name and Family of WHEELOCK, prepared for the First Family Reunion of descendants of Alvan Wheelock, Jul 20 1980. LDS Film#1312461 item#8. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/007967884 images 581-682. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: WheelockDE WHEELOCK p[AB][0-9]*].
  10. Wheelock, Walter T, The Wheelock Family in America 1637-1969. unpublished. Sutro CS71.W565 1970Z. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/450820. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: WheelockWT WHEELOCK p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Bond Watertown WHEELOCK, Lane WHEELOCK p1, MacKenzie ColonialFam WHEELOCK, Sav-age WHEELOCK Ralph]
1639 [Ref: Farmer WHEELOCK Ralph]
8 (11) 1639 [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p490]
8 Jan 1639 [Ref: MooreWH MOORE p29]
8 Jan 1639/40 (8 Oct 1639?) [Ref: WheelockWT WHEELOCK p13],
place:
[Ref: Sav-age WHEELOCK Ralph, WheelockWT WHEELOCK p13],
parents:
[Ref: MacKenzie ColonialFam WHEELOCK, Sav-age WHEELOCK Ralph]
Ralph WHEELOCK & Rebecca ___ [Ref: WheelockWT WHEELOCK p13],
father:
[Ref: Bond Watertown WHEELOCK, Farmer WHEELOCK Ralph, Lane WHEELOCK p1, MooreWH MOORE p29, Pope PioneersMA p490]
Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information
date:
8 Oct 1639 [Ref: WheelockDE WHEELOCK pB3],
place:
Medfield, Massachusetts [Ref: Lane WHEELOCK p1]
Sources for baptism Information
date:
[Ref: Sav-age WHEELOCK Ralph]
Sources for death Information
date:
abt 1720 [Ref: WheelockWT WHEELOCK p13],
place:
[Ref: WheelockWT WHEELOCK p13]
Sources with Information about marriage to Elizabeth BULLEN
date:
[Ref: Lane WHEELOCK p1, WheelockWT WHEELOCK p13]
1668 [Ref: WheelockDE WHEELOCK pA3],
place:
[Ref: Lane WHEELOCK p1, WheelockWT WHEELOCK p13],
child:
[Ref: Lane WHEELOCK p1, WheelockWT WHEELOCK p13]
Sources with Information about marriage to Elizabeth FRENCH
date:
based on gap of birthdates [Ref: Lane WHEELOCK p1]
second marriage of Benjamin [Ref: WheelockWT WHEELOCK p13],
names:
[Ref: Sav-age WHEELOCK Benjamin],
child:
[Ref: Lane WHEELOCK p1, WheelockWT WHEELOCK p13]
Research Notes:
baptism record from Dedham First Church of Christ: Benjamin ye sone of our brother wheelocke was baptised ye 12 of ye 11th month 1639 [Ref: DedhamMA vitals p22]

settled first in Mendon, MA [Ref: Sav-age WHEELOCK Benjamin]

settled on the Rohoboth road in that part that is now Mendon [Ref: Lane WHEELOCK p1]

moved to Mendon about 1685 [Ref: WheelockDE WHEELOCK pB3]

lived in Medfield in 1678 [Ref: Sav-age WHEELOCK Benjamin]

mentioned in General Register XII 353, relating to distribution of estate of wife's father. [Ref: Sav-age WHEELOCK Benjamin]

became a large landholder and third owner of the Alby Commill in 1706 on the South West frontier. [Ref: WheelockWT WHEELOCK p95]

1713: deeded mill privileged to his sons Benjamin and Obadiah [Ref: WheelockWT WHEELOCK p95]

1719: all three sold mill to Josiah Wood. [Ref: WheelockWT WHEELOCK p95]



Pedigree of Benjamin WHEELOCK
                   /-----Humphrey WHEELOCKE
          /-----John WHEELOCK
         |         \-----Margaret WINTER
 /-----Ralph WHEELOCK
|        |         /-----Roger ROGERS
|         \-----Elizabeth ROGERS
Benjamin WHEELOCK
|         /-----Thomas CLARK
 \-----Rebecca CLARK
          \-----Mary CANNE



Descendants of Benjamin WHEELOCK
1. Benjamin WHEELOCK m1. Elizabeth BULLEN m2. Elizabeth FRENCH
m. Elizabeth BULLEN father: Samuel BULLEN mother: Mary MORSE
m. Elizabeth FRENCH father: John FRENCH

2nd generation

4. Abial WHEELOCK m. Joseph WARD
m. Joseph WARD father: Samuel WARD mother: Sarah HOWE
5. Benjamin WHEELOCK m. Hulda THAYER
m. Hulda THAYER father: Ferdinando THAYER
6. Obadiah WHEELOCK m. Elizabeth DARLING
m. Elizabeth DARLING

3rd generation

10. Phineas WARD m.
12. Benjamin WHEELOCK m. Deborah TAFT
m. Deborah TAFT father: Thomas TAFT mother: Deborah (TAFT)
21. Obadiah WHEELOCK m. Martha SUMNER
m. Martha SUMNER
22. Samuel WHEELOCK m. Hannah AMMIDOWN
m. Hannah AMMIDOWN
24. Ebenezer WHEELOCK m. Mary SLOCUM
m. Mary SLOCUM
27. Josiah WHEELOCK m. Experience CLARK
m. Experience CLARK

4th generation

28. Josiah WARD m. Sarah GOODELL
m. Sarah GOODELL
30. Jesse WHEELOCK m1. Mary TAFT m2. Phebe WHITE
m. Mary TAFT
m. Phebe WHITE father: Thomas WHITE mother: Phebe (WHITE)

5th generation

67. Hannah WARD m. Moses PEABODY
m. Moses PEABODY father: Jedediah PEABODY mother: Alice HOWLET