In a message dated 7/13/2004 12:46:25 AM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: did Moses Wheeler have a daughter Elizabeth who married Samuel Blakeman/Blackman s/o Adam Blakeman? I have this line but do not have any of the other children of Moses WHEELER & Miriam HAWLEY. Do you have a good reference that you might share that gives Wheeler as Jane's surname? Yes, I have Elizabeth Wheeler married to Samuel Blakeman. The other children of Moses are with Elizabeth the oldest of them all: Elizabeth Miriam b. March 28, 1647 d.Oct 4 1693 married James Blakeman in Milford, CT in 1667 Samuel b. Apr 28, 1649 d.1699 married Elizabeth Harris May 19, 1678 in Stratford Moses (he took over his father's ferry business) b. July 5, 1651 d. Jan 30 1724/25 married Sarah Nichols Oct 20, 1674 in Stratford, CT Mary b.Sept 13, 1655 d.Feb 7, 1734/5 in Wallingford, New Haven, married Samuel Fairchild in 1680 in Stratford, CT Joanna b.Mar 8, 1657/8 d.1694 Some 0f my sources of the Jane and Moses Wheeler connection comes from a book called History of Stratford, CT by William Howard Wilcoxson. Jane was already married when they came to CT, so I have no CT records to show they were brother and sister. A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, CT by Rev. Samuel Orcott 1886. In Pursuit of Paradise, by Lewis Knapp under the Stratford Historial Society. James and Samuel Blakeman owned half shares in a mill in 1662 along with 20 acres of land. James also owned a sawmill on the Farmill River in 1676. From my notes: ABSTRACT OF PROBATE RECORDS AT FAIRFIELD, COUNTY OF FAIRFIELD, AND STATE OF CONNECTICUT. BY SPENCER P. MEAD, L. L. B. Volume 2, 1665 - 1675. Page 15. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctfairfi/pages/probate/vol_1-6/ctfairfi_prob.v2p015.h tml BLACKMAN, Samuel, late of _____, died Nov. 27, 1668, inventory taken Nov. 27, 1668, by Richard Booth, William Curtiss and John Picket, and filed Mch. 12, 1669, and estate ordered distributed to his widow---, and children Adam, ac 3yrs 14th last Sept., daughter, ae 5 yrs 11th last dec., and a daughter, ae 1 yr, 4th last Dec., and Mr. Sherman and Mr. Chaney, Mr. Grows, and Moses Wheeler were appointed overseers for said minors, page 36. On James Blakeman: Governor Thomas Welles Chapter of the DAR - was a farmer and miller by occupation. He purchased his first tide mill at Eagle's Nest and then teh one at Old Mill Green but sold out and removed to the Near Mill River and built the first mill at what is now Peck's Mills , receiving a large grant of land from the town. - He sold a half interest in his mill to his brother Samuel along with 20 acres of land in 1662. - His last days were spent at Farmill River (Farr Mill) where he die d and very probably buried on the top of the little hill north of the present paper mill. - In his will dated at Orenoque, 7/18/1689 proved 11/7/1689 his estate inventoried 402 pounds, 18 shillings on Jane Wheeler Blakeman: ABSTRACT OF PROBATE RECORDS AT FAIRFIELD, COUNTY OF FAIRFIELD, AND STATE OF CONNECTICUT. BY SPENCER P. MEAD, L. L. B. Volume 2, 1665 - 1675. Page 15. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctfairfi/pages/probate/vol_1-6/ctfairfi_prob.v2p015.h tml BLACKMAN, Jane, late of Stratford, will dated Sept. 20, 1671, and May 1672, probated Mch. 9, 1673/4, mentioned her children Deliverence, James and his wife and their three daughters, Benjamin and Samuel: grandson Adam Blackman, grandchildren Adam a son of Samuel, and the eldest daughter of her son Samuel: granddaughter Mary a daughter of James and grandson Joseph Blackman: legacies to Sarah Nichols, a servant, Isreal Chancy and Nathaniel, a servant. Overseers Mr. Chancy, Elder Growe, and Joseph Hawly. Witnesses John Pickit and John Besticke, page 73. Inventory taken Jan 23, 1675, by John Birdsie, Isaack Nichols and John Wilcockinson, and filed Mch. 9, 1673/4, page 73. Hope this helps. Valerie