Mary Powers

1655 - 1740  (85 år)    Has ingen forfædre men 60 efterkommere i dette stamtræ.

• Navn	Mary Powers
  Fødsel	1655	Littleton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
  Dåb	1663	Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
  Køn	Kvinde
  FSID	99Z5-144
  Begravelse	apr. 1740	Littleton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
  Død	5 apr. 1740	Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA
  Person-ID	I128154	AALT
  Sidst ændret	6 jan. 2021

  
  

  Familie	Joseph Wheeler,   f. 13 mar. 1656, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA d. 29 maj 1698, Stratford, Fairfield, Massachusetts, United States (Alder 42 år)
  Ægteskab	Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA   [1, 2]
  Børn	1. Mary Wheeler,   f. 24 okt. 1684, Stow, Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America d. 11 jul. 1755, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA (Alder 70 år)  [Far: natural]  [Mor: natural]   2. Esther Wheeler,   f. 1684, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States d. 1736, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA (Alder 52 år)  [Far: natural]  [Mor: natural]   3. Rebecca Wheeler,   f. 2 apr. 1687, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA d. 22 okt. 1771, Middletown, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (Alder 84 år)  [Far: natural]  [Mor: natural]   4. Ruth Wheeler,   f. 19 nov. 1682, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA d. 3 jan. 1761, Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA (Alder 78 år)  [Far: natural]  [Mor: natural]   5. Ephraim Wheeler,   f. 28 jul. 1697, Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 16 jul. 1770, Massachusetts, USA (Alder 72 år)  [Far: natural]  [Mor: natural] g. Mariah Glazier (1720)   6. Elizabeth Wheeler,   f. 8 aug. 1690, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA d. 13 sep. 1718, Middletown, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (Alder 28 år)  [Far: natural]  [Mor: natural]   7. Esther Wheeler,   f. 2 jul. 1688, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States d. 9 okt. 1769, Colchester, New London, Connecticut, United States (Alder 81 år)  [Far: natural]  [Mor: natural]   8. Ephraim Wheeler,   f. ca. 1690, Massachusetts, USA d. Ja, dato ukendt  [Far: natural]  [Mor: natural]   9. Joseph Power Wheeler,   f. Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA d. 15 okt. 1732, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA  [Far: natural]  [Mor: natural]   10. Jane Wheeler,   f. Lincoln, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA d. 14 jul. 1736, Palmer, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States  [Far: natural]  [Mor: natural]
  Familie-ID	F27233	Gruppeskema  |  Familietavle
  Sidst ændret	6 jan. 2021

  
  

• Begivenhedskort

  Fødsel - 1655 - Littleton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Dåb - 1663 - Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Begravelse - apr. 1740 - Littleton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Død - 5 apr. 1740 - Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA Ægteskab - - Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA  = Link til Google Earth

  
  

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  On Saturday, Feb. 12, 1676, the sons Isaac and Jacob were killed by the Indians on the south side of Quagana hill [Littleton, Massachusetts]. They, at the time, were threshing grain in the barn on the Shepard homestead. Being aware of the perilous times,-this was during King Philip's War-the sons had set their niece, Mary, on the summit of the hill to watch for Indians. The ground was covered with deep snow and the Indians traveled with snowshoes. Eluding the vigilance of Mary who was only about thirteen years old, they swooped down up on the Shepard barn before she was aware of their presence and slew Isaac and Jacob. She was taken captive and carried to Nashawa,-now called Lancaster, or some place in that vicinity. During the first night after her capture she escaped and reached home the next morning. In the dead of night, Mary took a saddle from under the head of her Indian keeper who was sunk in sleep increased by ardent spirits, put the saddle on a horse which the Indians had stolen at Lancaster, mounted it, swam it across the Nashawa river, rode through the forest to her home.The leader of the Indian band is supposed to have been Netus, sometimes called Nipmuck Captain. The teenaged girl is now thought to have been Mary Power, daughter of Ralph and Thankslord Shepard's daughter, Triall, who married Walter Power in 1661. The Power farmstead was next to the Shepard farm in Littleton (then called Concord Village). The age of the girl on the marker is probably close to correct - Mary Power was born in 1663, and would have been about 12-13 at the time of the attack on her uncles, Isaac and Jacob Shepard. Mary Power's adventure was surely traumatic to her. When she escaped and returned home, she tended to 'run wild' by Puritan standards. Her parents were tried for at least one of her misdeeds while she was young, but she did eventually marry and settled down to lead a responsible life. Mary Power married Joseph Wheeler in 1681, but she was dead by the time their daughter, Ruth, administered her father's estate in 1705. However, another family source said she died in 1740. Either way, no burial places were noted. As both of them were from Concord Village, which became Littleton, they may well have been buried in the Power Family Cemetery on the Walter Power farm. Several generations were buried here before the farm went out of family hands and was purchased by the Reed brothers. To the horror of the community, the Reeds plowed over the old burying ground in 1850, using the surviving tombstones to build a fence and leaving no trace of the graves. There was no law at that time about descecrating graves - there is now.

  
  

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  [S541] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch Family Tree, "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 18 May 2020, 09:04), entry for Joseph Wheeler(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LT24-MTK); contributed by various users. PersonID LT24-MTK. Joseph Wheeler [S541] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch Family Tree, Joseph Wheeler and Mary Powers Married 1 Mar 1682, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, Call No. 974.44/C4 V2, Page 24. Vital Records of Concord, Massachusetts to the year 1849, Marriages.