Ancestry of
Tammy Duckworth

U.S. Senator from Illinois

Mehitable Wheeler

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Tammy Duckworth — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 165 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Wheeler Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Mercy Williams   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 May 1754 
  • Birth Location:
  • Stonington, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Dec 1797 
  • Death Location:
  • East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Millington Cemetery, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Jabez Swan
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Jun 1772 
  • Marriage Location:
  • North Stonington, New London, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Asa Swan (Ahnentafel No:82 )

  • Notes: 

  • Mehitable Wheeler's given name is also seen as Mehetabel.

• Sources for Mehitable Wheeler

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Stonington, p. 271, Birth record for Mehetable Wheeler.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1988, Vol. 142, p. 176.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1989, Vol. 143, p. 363.
  • ⁴ Beach, Moses S. and Rev. William Ely, The Ely Ancestry: Lineage of Richard Ely of Plymouth, England, Who Came to Boston, Mass., About 1655 . . ., New York: The Calumet Press (1902), 392.
  • ⁵ Wheeler, Albert Gallatin, Jr., The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America, Boston, Massachusetts: American College of Genealogy (1914), 308.
  • ⁶ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 486.