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Zipporah Wheeler

Female 1648 - 1678  (29 years)


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  • Name Zipporah Wheeler 
    Birth 19 Nov 1648  Salem, Essex, MA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Gender Female 
    Death 6 Jun 1678  New London, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location
    Person ID I3093  Family Tree | 12 Generation Ancestor Chart
    Last Modified 24 Feb 2006 

    Father Thomas Wheeler,   b. 20 Nov 1603, Cranfield, Beds., England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Mar 1686, Stonington, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years) 
    Mother Mary Beckley,   b. 17 Jun 1615, Cranfield, Beds., England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1680, Stonington, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years) 
    Marriage 6 Apr 1635  Cranfield, Beds., England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F911  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family AncestorsThomas Bolles,   b. 1 Dec 1644, Wells, York, ME Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 May 1727, New London, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years) 
    Marriage 1 Jul 1669  New London, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location
    Notes 
    • Montville: Zipporah Wheeler of Groton, married 1 July 1669. "On the evening of June 6, 1678, while Thomas Bolles was absent from home, Mary and Joseph, with their mother, Zipporah, were murdered by a boy named John Stoddard. The wife and two eldest childdren were found dead, weltering in their own blood, with the infant, not a year old, wailing, but unhurt, by the side of its mother The perpetrator of this bloody deed was a vagrant youth, of uncontrolled passion, who had demanded of the wife shelter and lodging in the house, but was refused. Some angry words ensued, and the diabolical boy, seizing the axe that lay at the wood pile, rushed in and took awful vengeance on his victims. He soon afterwards confessed..." and was tried, convicted and executed at Hartford 9 Oct. 1678.

      From "History of Montville, Connecticut, formerly the North Parish of New London," by Henry A. Baker. [1]
    Children 
     1. Mary Bolles,   b. Abt 1673, New London, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Jun 1678, New London, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 5 years)
     2. Joseph Bolles,   b. Abt 1675, New London, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Jun 1678, New London, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 3 years)
    +3. John Bolles,   b. Aug 1677, New London, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Jan 1767, New London, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 89 years)
    Histories
    History of Montville including Thomas Turner
    History of Montville including Thomas Turner
    Family ID F905  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S95] Baker, Henry A., History of Montville, Connecticut : formerly the north parish of New London from 1640 to 1896, (Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford, Conn, 1896).