151MOSES WHEELER probably came with the ship's company from London to New Haven in 1638. He was down on the Planters' List in 1641, being "Number 122, 2 in family, 50 pounds estate 7/ acres in 1st Division, 1% in the neck, 372 in the meadow. 14 acres in second division in New Haven." [Atwater's History of City of New Haven, p. 10]. Moses was among the first who received an allotment of land in New Haven, 1643. He removed to Stratford before 1648, and owned the ferry across the Housatonic, granted by General Court, also was a farmer and ship carpenter. He was an extensive land holder and one of the leading influential men of Stratford township. He gave his prop. mostly to his children in 1680, ten years before his death. Moses Wheeler's will, dated February 16, 1689-90, after disposing of his real estate and most of his property to Samuel, says: I give to my daughter Mirriam two pewter dishes to my son Moses, his wife, ye great pewter platter to my daughter Mary a bres kettle houlding ten or twelve gallons, the Abridgment of the marters bootie and Mr. Brooks his devices of Satan : to Elizabeth, ye wife of my son Samuel, ye greate kittle : to Mr. Israel Chauncey twenty shillings in silver. [Orcutt History of Stratford]. |