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• Name: Sallie Wheeler

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Family/Spouse: Jesse BRUNDAGE. Jesse was born on 23 May 1801 in Painted Post, Steuben, NY; died on 9 Nov 1851. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Note: 4 Mar 1831, NY

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Col. Grattan H. Wheeler, the son of Capt. Silas Wheeler, was an extensive farmer and lumberman He was always interested and largely identified with public affairs, also a successful politician. Besides filling with energy and public spirit various town offices, he represented his district in theAssembly from 1823 to 1827, and mainly through his efforts in the Legislature the property qualification of town officers was materially modified. He afterwards held the office of State Senator, and while discharging its duties, was elected Representative in Congress in which capacity he served from 1831 to 1835. Col. Wheeler was a useful and benevolent citizen. A tone time he owned 3000 or 4000 acres of land. He died on the farm on which his father settled, about 1851. His children by his first marriage were Sallie, Silas, and Grattan H. and by his second marriage, Fannie, Eliza, Ruth, Adelia, William, and Addison.

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Silas Wheeler and his son, Grattan went from Rhode Island to Wheeler, where they settled in 1799. The father and son lived together and their land holdings ran upwards of 4000 acres. Grattan was a successful politician. In addition to filling town offices, he represented his district in the Assembly, in the State Senate, and as a congressman from 1831-1832. Silas Wheeler was a soldier in the Revolutionary War as well as in the War of 1812. He served with Benedict Arnold in the assault on Quebec. He was taken prisoner four times, the last by a British privateer. At that time he was jailed in Kinsale, Ireland, where he was sentenced to be hung. He escaped with the help of the Irish statesman Henry Grattan, for whom his son was named.

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From the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
A Representative from New York; born near Providence, R.I., August 25, 1783; attended public and preparatory schools; moved to New York with his parents, who settled in Steuben County about 1800; agriculturist and lumberman near Wheeler, N.Y.; member of the State assembly in 1822, 1824, and 1826; served in the State senate 1826-1830; elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Twenty-third Congress; resumed former pursuits; presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1840; died in Wheeler, Steuben County, N.Y., March 11, 1852; interment in a private cemetery on the Wheeler homestead.

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Col. married Fanny BAKER in 1808. Fanny (daughter of Samuel BAKER) was born on 22 Feb 1788 in South Kingstown, Washington, RI; died on 21 Mar 1813 in Wheeler, Steuben, NY; was buried in Wheeler Family Cemetery, Wheeler, Steuben, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Death: 25 Nov 1827, Wheeler, Steuben, NY

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Silas Wheeler and his son, Grattan went from Rhode Island to Wheeler, where they settled in 1799. The father and son lived together and their land holdings ran upwards of 4000 acres. Grattan was a successful politician. In addition to filling town offices, he represented his district in the Assembly, in the State Senate, and as a congressman from 1831-1832. Silas Wheeler was a soldier in the Revolutionary War as well as in the War of 1812. He served with Benedict Arnold in the assault on Quebec. He was taken prisoner four times, the last by a British privateer. At that time he was jailed in Kinsale, Ireland, where he was sentenced to be hung. He escaped with the help of the Irish statesman Henry Grattan, for whom his son was named.

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"WHEELER GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The town of Wheeler was formed from Bath and Prattsburgh Feb.25, 1820, and was named from Capt.Silas Wheeler, the first settler. A part of Avoca was taken off in 1843, and a part of Urbana in 1839. It lies in the interior of the county,northeast of the centre, and has a high, rolling surface, in many places of great variety and picturesqueness, and richness of soil, particularly in the valleys. The farms are among, the finest in the county, and under a high state of cultivation, the soil being a clayey and shaly loam, well adapted both to pasture and tillage. The principal streams are the Five- and Ten-Mile Creeks, and some small lateral tributaries. EARLY SETTLEMENT.Capt. Silas Wheeler in honor of whom the town was named, was the first permanent settler. He was a native of Rhode Island,but then recently from Albany Co., N. Y. He was a soldier of the Revolution, and was with Benedict Arnold in his perilous march through the forests of Maine, and at the assault of Quebec stood near Montgomery when be fell. He was four times taken prisoner, twice by land and twice upon the high-seas as a roving, privateersman. After his second capture upon the coast of Great Britain he was confined in jail at Kinsale, Ireland,and condemned to be hanged as a pirate. He escaped by the aid of a friendly Irishman and of the distinguished orator and statesman, Henry Grattan. Mr. Grattan procured for him a passport, protected him from press-gangs and the police, and secured for him a passage to France, whence he returned to America. He settled in the town of Wheeler (then included in Bath) in 1799. Capt. Wheeler's first trip to mill is worthy of record, as it gives an insight into the hardships and privations of the new settler. There were at this time three mills in the neighboring- towns, viz., at the Friends' settlement, at Naples,and at Bath. The mill at Bath was not running for want of something to grind. Capt. Wheeler's first business was to make a cart, which he did after the most primitive style ; the wheels were sawn from the end of a log of curly maple, the box was made to correspond, and with a yoke of oxen attached to this vehicle he started for Naples. Two pioneers went before with axes to clear the road, while the captain with his bovine vehicle, bounding over logs and stumps, and floundering through the bushes, followed.The first days march was six miles, the second brought them to their destination. Capt. Wheeler was famous throughout all the land for his anecdotes, and many an otherwise weary hour has been beguiled by listening to his adventures. He died in 1828,aged seventy-eight, with his son, Gratton H. Wheeler, on the property now owned by his grandson, G. H. Wheeler. The Gulf road to Bath was opened by Capt. Wheeler, and the Kennedyville road was opened a year or two afterwards. His children were two twin daughters, Ruth and Sarah and a son, Grattan Wheeler."

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Captain married Sarah GARDNER. Sarah was born on 23 Nov 1760; died on 21 Sep 1827 in Wheeler, Steuben, NY; was buried on 24 Sep 1827 in Wheeler Family Cemetery, Wheeler, Steuben, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Birth: 20 Feb 1760

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Birth:
An alternate birth date of Feb 20, 1760 was figured from Wheeler Family Cemetery records which show a death date of 9/24/1827 and a death age of 67y 7m 4d.

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