Ancestry of
Tammy Duckworth

U.S. Senator from Illinois

Thomas Wheeler Jr.

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Tammy Duckworth — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 330 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Wheeler 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Minor   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 Mar 1721/1722 
  • Birth Location:
  • Stonington, New London, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
  • 19 Jun 1720 
  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • Dec 1760 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Stonington, New London, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mercy Williams
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Feb 1738/1739 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Stonington, New London, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Wheeler

  Mercy Wheeler

  Thomas Wheeler

  Thankful Wheeler

  Desire Wheeler

  Prudence Wheeler

  Martha Wheeler

  Mehitable Wheeler (Ahnentafel No:165 )

  Rufus Wheeler

  Zerviah Wheeler

  John Wheeler

• Sources for Thomas Wheeler Jr.

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Stonington, p. 271, Birth record for daughter Mehetable Wheeler.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Stonington, p. 273, Marriage record for Thomas Wheeler and Marcy Williams.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Stonington, p. 273, Birth record for Thomas Wheeler.
  • ⁴ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Stonington, p. 270, Birth record for daughter Marcy Wheeler.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1989, Vol. 143, p. 363.
  • ⁶ The American Genealogist, 2007, Vol. 82, p. 132.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 352.
  • ⁸ Robinson, Caroline E. and Daniel Goodwin, ed., The Gardiners of Narragansett: Being a Genealogy of the Descendants of George Gardiner The Colonist, 1638, Providence: Printed by the Editor (1919), 88.
  • ⁹ Wheeler, Albert Gallatin, Jr., The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America, Boston, Massachusetts: American College of Genealogy (1914), 303, 308.
  • ¹⁰ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 485-486.