Ralph Wheelock^[1]

1600 - 1683  (82 years)

• Name	Ralph Wheelock
  Birth	14 May 1600	Dorrington, Shropshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Arrival	1637	Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA   [2]
  Death	11 Jan 1683	Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA
  Person ID	I42411	Master
  Last Modified	22 May 2021

  
  

  Father	Sir John Joseph (Willocke) Wheelock,   b. 7 Oct 1563, Dorrington, Shropshire, England d. 1 May 1637, Biddulph, Staffordshire, England (Age 73 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elizabeth Rogers,   b. 1568, Nesse Strenger, Shropshire, England d. 23 May 1606, Dorrington, Shropshire, England (Age 38 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	3 May 1595	Dorrington, Shropshire, England
  Family ID	F9857	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rebecca Clark,   b. 26 Aug 1610, Banham, Norfolk, England d. 1 Jan 1680, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	17 May 1630	Wramplingham, Norfolk, England   [3, 4]
  Children	1. Nancy Wheelock  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Mary Wheelock,   b. 1631, Banham, Norfolk, England  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Peregrina Wheelock,   b. 2 Sep 1631, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 1 Apr 1671, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 39 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Rebecca Wheelock,   b. 24 Aug 1632, Derby, Derbyshire, England d. 24 Nov 1667, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 35 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Gershome Wheelock,   b. 3 May 1634, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 28 Nov 1684, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 50 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Nancy Wheelock,   b. 1635, Atlantic, Ocean, Ocean, New Jersey, USA d. 28 Jan 1662, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA (Age 27 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   7. Mary Wheelock,   b. 3 Sep 1638, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 1 Apr 1671, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 32 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   8. Benjamin Wheelock,   b. 8 Oct 1639, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 3 Nov 1695, Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA (Age 56 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   9. Benjamin Wheelock,   b. 8 Jan 1641, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 13 Sep 1716, Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA (Age 75 years)   10. Samuel Wheelock,   b. 22 Sep 1642, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 23 Oct 1698, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 56 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   11. Peregrina Wheelock,   b. 1644, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 1 Apr 1671, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 27 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   12. Record Wheelock,   b. 15 Dec 1644, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 26 Jul 1726, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 81 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   13. Experience Wheelock,   b. 3 Sep 1648, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 27 Feb 1710, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 61 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   14. Eleazer Wheelock,   b. 3 May 1654, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 24 Mar 1731, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 76 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F9853	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 May 2021

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 14 May 1600 - Dorrington, Shropshire, England Marriage - 17 May 1630 - Wramplingham, Norfolk, England Arrival - 1637 - Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Death - 11 Jan 1683 - Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  His origins may be in Co.Shropshire, England. He was educated at Clare Hall in Cambridge. He became a preacher, but was a dissenter. When the persecutions became highest, he left England and came to New England. He often preached in Massachusetts, but never became a minister. He first settled in watertown, but went to Dedham at the time of its settlement. He was active in the church there and was freeman in 1639. In 1642 he was appointed as a local magistrate and clerk of writs. In 1645 he was authorized to perform marriages in Dedham. He came to Medfield at its settlement and his house lot was the first granted, on the corner of Main and North Streets. He built a house there by 1652. He was selectman from 1651 to 1654. In 1655, the first school was established, and Ralph was the headmaster. He was a representative to the General Court for several years and held almost every important office in the town. He died on January 11, 1684 in Medfield, his wife Rebecca died there in 1680. At this time, it is not known where Ralph was buried, but it is quite likely that he is buried in Vine Lake Cemetery in Medfield, since his wife was buried there only four years previous to his death. He married, in Wramplingham, Co.Norfolk, England on May 17,1630, Rebecca Clarke. He may have married a second time very late in life to a woman named Hannah who died in 1682. But this is very doubtful. Children: Mary Wheelock Miles, Gershom Wheelock, Rebecca Wheelock Crafts, Peregrina Wheelock Warfield, Benjamin Wheelock, Samuel Wheelock, Record Wheelock Ward(wife of Increase Ward), Experience Wheelock Warren, and Eleazer Wheelock.

  
  

• Sources

  [S761] Yates Publishing, Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree. http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=176210839&pid=136 [S747] Ancestry.com, U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc), Place: Watertown, Massachusetts; Year: 1637; Page Number: 72. [S763] Ancestry.com, England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.). [S815] Ancestry.com, U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc), Genealogical Publishing Co.; Baltimore, MD, USA; Volume Title: Third Supplement to Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700.