Welcome To My Wheeler Ancestors!

My Wheeler family migrated from Virginia to Boone County, Missouri

They lived in Buckingham and Cumberland County In Virginia. John Wheeler appears to be the individual who had a land patent in 1745 in what is now Buckingham County, Virginia Buckingham court house was burned and many records are no longer available. I have records available of most of those believed to be John's descendants. These moved westward to Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana and Missouri as land was made available.

I have published a book that contains my research that was current in 1996. This work is still available for purchase. Contact me by email: wheeler_roy@yahoo.com or by regular mail at P. O. Box 62, Aurora, SD 57002-0062

JOHN WHEELER

[of Goochland County, Virginia; Buckingham County after 1761]

The following notes from Jodia Whitten in WHEELER COUSINS, page 3:

"Althought we have found no proof as such that the John Wheeler patent of 10 July 1745 was John Wheeler of Henrico, it seems likely that it was. The patent, already stated in the Henrico County notes, was for 400 acres "in Goochland County" on a branch of Barren Lick Creek of Willis' River, adjacent land of Henry Cary and Samuel Ridgway. The land can be placed in Buckingham County by referring to Volume 1 of "The Edward Pleasants Valentine Papers", section devoted to the Cary family, pages 271 and 273. The Henry Cary tract is described as being "on the branches of Buck river other wise called Willis's Creek in the County of Goochland commonly called and known by the name of Buckingham". Page 326 carried abstracts of two patents to Archibald Cary, dated 12 Jan. 1746 and 1 June 1750. The earlier one is for land on the north branches of Willis's River, adjoining Henry Cary, Henry Beard and John Wheeler. The one of 1750 is for a tract on both sides of Barren Lick Branch of Willis's Creek, adjoining Alexander Trent, John Hardeman, James Wilkins, John Payne, John Wheeler and Harvey (sic) Beard. A closer placing of "Barren Lick" can be found on pages 231 and 232 of the same reference."

" Whether or not the John Wheeler of the 1745 patent was from Henrico, it seems probable that the Wheelers of Buckingham County lived on or adjacent the John Wheeler patent land. Because the tract was adjacent to or near the Cumberland County line, we find almost as many reference to the Wheelers in the Cumberland Order Books as can be found in the few existing early records of Buckingham County. Although the Wheelers lived within Buckingham, they apparently had business with residents of Cumberland which brough them to Cumberland courts from time to time." -- Jodia Whitten

A Sarah Wheeler appears in Buckingham tithables in 1774, and Cumberland County Order Books and a History of Buckingham Baptist Church. She could 'possibly' be the wife of John Wheeler or daughter or widow of a son.

The number of children of John Wheeler is unknown, nor do we have any document naming them. It is only on circumstantial evidence that we suggest those children named as belonging to John Wheeler. --rwwjr.

Census Index: Colonial America, 1607-1789

Cary, Henry,Captains State : VA

County : Virginia Colony

Location : Virginia

Year : 1624