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Jonathan Wheeler (1684-1747)
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This is the Hughes home at 250 Acton Street, Carlisle. It
isn’t our ancestral house, but it appears that the one
that used to sit here was home to the first two Oliver Wheelers
in our direct line. In 1747, the year of his death, our 7GGF
Jonathan Wheeler deeded this land to his son
Oliver Wheeler I.
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According to Lapham, “In 1751, Samson [Wheeler] lived
near the Edwin Dunn place on Acton Street…. He had inherited
the land from his grandfather,
Jonathan.”1
Accounts of the events surrounding the Lexington-Concord alarm refer
to the two Olivers, sometimes indistinguishably, as
“Oliver
Wheeler of Acton”. Their neighborhood is in Carlisle now,
but it certainly appears that it was widely considered to be Acton
when the Revolution started.
1Donald A. Lapham, Carlisle, Composite
Community (Undated memoir, privately published; NEHGS copy bears
author’s autograph and date of Nov. 14, 1970), p. 74.