Sarah (Spring) Wheeler (1662)

Biography

Sarah Spring (married name Wheeler) was born in 1662 in Watertown, Massachusetts, the daughter of Hannah Spring and John Spring.^[1][2]

She married Ephraim Wheeler on 1 January 1688/9.^[3][4] At the time of their marriage, both Sarah and Ephraim lived in Cambridge Village.^[3]

Sarah and Ephraim's children were born in Newton, Massachusetts:^[5]

1. Sarah Wheeler (1689–?)
2. Mary Wheeler (1691–?)
3. Josiah Wheeler (1693–?)
4. Elizabeth Wheeler (1695–?)
5. Samuel Wheeler, (1699–?)

Sources

1. ↑ Francis Jackson. (1854). "A History of the Early Settlement of Newton, County of Middlesex," p. 416. Retrieved 4 April 2018 by Clare Spring from https://books.google.com.au/books?id=gIQxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA416&lpg=PA418&dq=thomas+spring+and+mary+upham&source=bl&ots=AcLLM_rmJg&sig=JKbJ0x8oFbDsT5_u0CYyrtvue_M&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=thomas%20spring%20and%20mary%20upham&f=false.
2. ↑ NEHGS, compiler, Vital Records of Newton, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1905), p. 179.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Bailey, Frederic William, Early Massachusetts Marriages Prior to 1800 Middlesex County, p. 8
4. ↑ Clarence A. Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (CD version) (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 2001) gives date as "1 Jan 1688, prob 1688/9"
5. ↑ NEHGS, compiler, Vital Records of Newton, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1905), p. 207-8.