Erlandson, Chester Theodore (b. , d. ?)

Note: Farm was near Monmouth, IL.

Occupation: Place: Farmer

Occupation: Place: Mechanic

City: Stronghurst

Note: Lonnie died from kidney disease contracted during his tour of duty in Vietnam.

Note: Farm was near Biggsville, IL.

Occupation: Place: Farmer

Note: Capt. Timothy Adams was a private from Chelmsford in Capt. John Ford's Co,. May 1775, Col. Bridge's Regiment. Enlisted 29 April 1775 and again in September 1777, Capt. John Ford, Col. Jonas Reed.

Settled in Carlisle, Mass. He made his will Dec. 14, 1820 and it was proved 7 September 1824. It names his wife Joanna, sons Joel, Timothy, Simeon, and daughters Anna Parker, Sally Bennett, Betsy and Fanny Adams, and son Benjamin.


Name:Adams, Timothy, Chelmsford.
Source Info:Volume 1 page 79
Information:Adams, Timothy, Chelmsford.Descriptive list of enlisted men; Capt. John Ford's co., Col. Ebenezer Bridge's regt.; age, 18 yrs.; stature, 5 ft. 6 in.; complexion, light; occupation, farmer; enlisted April 29, 1775; also, Private, Capt. Ford's co., Col. Bridge's (27th) regt; muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; enlisted April 29, 1775; service, 3 mos. 10 days; also, company return dated Sept. 25, 1775; also, Capt. John Ford's (Volunteer) co., Col. Jonathan Reed's regt.; enlisted Sept. 27, 1777; discharged Nov. 8, 1777; service, 1 mo. 13 days; marched to reinforce Northern army; also, descriptive list of men enlisted from Middlesex Co. for the term of 9 months from the time of their arrival at Fishkill, June 19, 1778; Capt. Minot's co., Col. Spaulding's regt.; age, 20 yrs.; stature, 5 ft. 9 in.; also, list of 9 months men returned as received July 20, 1778, by Col. Rufus Putnam.

Source: (Birth)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Chelmsford Births, p. 14

Occupation: Place: Farmer

Note: May have died 19 Oct 1597

Source: (Birth)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Carlisle Births

Source: (Birth)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Carlisle Births

Source: (Birth)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Carlisle Births

Note: [NWH: April 2001] I am uncertain if the Sarah wife of Joseph Wheeler who died 12 mar 1670/71 is this same Sarah.

Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Concord Registers - Book I. p. 15

Source: (Death)
Title: 50 Great Migration Colonists
Author: Threlfall, John Brooks
Publication: Heritage Books. Madison, WI. 1990
Media: Book

Page: 504-507

Source: (Death)
Title: 50 Great Migration Colonists
Author: Threlfall, John Brooks
Publication: Heritage Books. Madison, WI. 1990
Media: Book

Page: 504

Source: (Individual)
Title: 50 Great Migration Colonists
Author: Threlfall, John Brooks
Publication: Heritage Books. Madison, WI. 1990
Media: Book

Occupation: Place: Husbandman

Source: (Birth)
Title: 50 Great Migration Colonists
Author: Threlfall, John Brooks
Publication: Heritage Books. Madison, WI. 1990
Media: Book

Page: 497

Note: LDS has several different birth and death dates listed for Sarah Larkin Wheeler. I need to check the Charlestown Records to find out which is correct.

Source: (Name)
Title: 50 Great Migration Colonists
Author: Threlfall, John Brooks
Publication: Heritage Books. Madison, WI. 1990
Media: Book

Page: 497

Note: Probably of all of the Wheelers who came to America before the year 1640 none was of greater distinction or of more importance to the town in which he lived than George Wheeler of Concord. His name appears on the Concord records the 1st year they were kept and every year thereafter till he died. With his brother Timothy he owned considerable property jointly, and together they were in possession of most of the real estate left by the Rev. Peter Bulkeley. Authorities agree that George Wheeler came to Concord about the year 1638 with his wife Katherine and several children. Walcott in his 'History of Concord' asserts that he was one of the few men who 'were foremost in the Town's business, by virtue of their large estates as well as their integrity and good judgment.' He was a man of education, and the owner of a large amount of property, his house lot alone consisting of eleven acres, while he possessed lands in every part of the town, at Brook Meadows, Fairhaven Meadow, the Cranefield by Walden Goose Pond, Flint's Pond, on the White Pond Plain, on the Sudbury line, etc. He held as many positions of trust and was as active in the direction of the town's affairs as any individual in Concord, serving at various times on substantially every committee of consequence, and leading in all matters of moment, as is evidenced by the fact that nearly every town deed and petition of any importance from either the Church or the civic community of that time bears his signature. His will, which is given here, is dated January 28, 1684-5 and was admitted to probate June 2, 1687, thus establishing the approximate time of his death.
Will of George Wheeler, Sr.

I George Wheeler Senir in the Town of Concord in the County of Middlesex in the Massachusetts Colony in new england being in a confident measure of memory & understanding; praised be God: doe make this my last Will & Testament in manner and forme as followeth: First: My soul I commite to God yt gave it me believing in the Lord Jesus Christ my onely Lord & Savior who will raise my body att the last & great day to life eternall: & my body to decent buryall: first: I will yt my due debts be honebly paid & funnerall charges satisfied: for my temprall estate as followeth: first I will that my whole estate shall stande engaged & be responseable for my comfortable maintenance in all respects during the term of my life: & as to my funnerall charges to be borne by my whole estate also the charges of execution & all court confirmation and enroulment be borne by my whole estate: I will to my two sons Thomas Wheeler & John Wheeler my mansion dwelling house barns cow houses & orchards with yt part of the home lot joyning to said house and orchards down to the cross fence yt stood cross ye sd lot in equall riht of prpriety the lower part of sd lot down to John Scorthford house I give to my son Thomas & yt part of my lot lying between Joshua Wheller & John Scorthford I give to my son John: I give to my two sons Thomas & John my six acers bought of Gershon Bulkeley lying over the hills equally in right: also I give to my sons Thomas & John my twenty eight acers of woodland lying in the north quarter over the river equall in right: also I give to the children of my son William, deceased as a legacy out of my estate the sume of sixty six pounds seven shillings to be paid to them by the executors of this my will in equall right of propriety onely my will is yt my medow at brooke medow on both sides of the brook excepting yt pt I give to my son Thomas as also my one acer in ash swamp at Fairehaven: be by the executors of this my will be dispossed of to my son Williams children & to be as pte of ye above sd legacy: also the two acers & a halfe of a medow on the northwest side of the brake at brooke medow joyning to my son Williams pastor it is not my said son Williams but I will it to my executors to administer upon it as my estate: I give to my son Thomas my piece of medow at Brooke medow joyning to John Wheeler medow lying on the northwest side of the brooke three acers more or less: I give to my two sones Thomas & John my medow in ye medow called the great medow with my pte of the post in equall right: I give to my son John my fourteen acers at the south field on the east side of the Country way againt Compe's house also two acers in muddy medow swamp: I give to my sons Thomas & John my fourty four acers lying north of Waldon Pond in equall right: I give to my son Thomas my fourteen acers lying on the southeast of the south river joyning to Nathaniel & John Billings I give to my son John my six acers joyning to Daniel Dane southeast from mount Taber: I give to my Sones Thomas & John my eight acers joyning to Mr. Flints pond lying by the east quarter lyne in equall right: I give to my son John my four acers in John Mills pastor joyning to the south river: also I give to my two sons Thomas & John out of my moveable estate five pounds a peice: I give to my son Thomas ten pounds out of my moveable estate in consideration he is short of his brothers in receit of parts (msg) give to my daughter ffoxes children six pounds equall amongst them: I give to my four daughters Elizabeth Fletcher, Sarah Dudly, Ruth Hartwell & Hanah Fletcher the sume of fifteen pounds apiece in good & currant Countery pay to be paid to them in Concord currant price: allso I will & reserve to my selfe during my life a comfortable maintenance in all respects & ye Charge of my maintenance upon my estate viz begine in the year one thousand six hundred eighty & two on to the day of my Death: which said Charge is to come out & be leavied upon my estate I meane this my estate in ths my will given & legacyes bequeathed: & my will is yt when that all Charges concerning my maintenance & decent buryall & otherwise be satisfied: yt then each legacye & estate given doe then abate their due & true & just proportion: what ye executors of this my will shall bring in account truly due all & each of my children sons & duaghters resting contented withtheir due part of my estate in this my will given be it more or less ye whole ore but part here given: for I know not the day of my death & so not what my comfortable maintenance may spend: I give to my sons Thomas & John my seven acers lying in ye corner nere Watertown lyne also my will is that no legacy shall be required untill two years after my death: these lands I give two sons Thomas & John their heirs & assigns be it more or less also I will constitute & make my two sons Thomas Wheeler & John Wheeler the executors of this my will & equally to pay all legacys each his equall p portion: This I George Wheeler Senir make this my laste will all my former Wills to be anullity and voide. Witness my hand & seal this twenty eight day of Jenuary in the year one thousand six hundred eighty & four. George Wheeler (Seal) His x mark Signed & sealed in pr senc of Samuel Meriam Jonathan Hubard John Schorthford By his Excellency the Governor

The herunder written Samuel Meriam and Jonathan Hubard witnesses to this will personally came & appeared before me & made oath on the holy Evangelist that they saw the above written George Wheeler signe seale & declare this to be his las will & testament.

Sworne ye second day of July 1687 before me E. Andros John West, D Secr

Source: 'History of the Wheeler Family in America', 1914, Albert Gallatin Wheeler, Jr., p 17-19.

Will made 28 Jan 1684/85, probated 2 July 1687.

On 14 May 1645, a number of inhabitants of Concord went with Rev. Jones to Connecticut, leaving the town much depopulated, so much so, that those remaining asked the General Court to abate their taxes. George Wheeler was one of those who signed the petition. [full text of the petition can be found in "History of Concord, by Lemuel Shattuck, pp.16-17].

Source: (Birth)
Title: 50 Great Migration Colonists
Author: Threlfall, John Brooks
Publication: Heritage Books. Madison, WI. 1990
Media: Book

Page: 495

Source: (Birth)
Title: 50 Great Migration Colonists
Author: Threlfall, John Brooks
Publication: Heritage Books. Madison, WI. 1990
Media: Book

Page: 498

Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Page: Concord Registers, Book I, p. 17

Note: THE BENJAMIN FAMILY IN AMERICA

Compiled by
Gloria Wall Bicha
and
Helen Benjamin Brown

Chapter I
FOREBEARERS
The parentage of the John and Richard Benjamin that came to America from England in 1632 has "ever been established. Ship records show that they came from Heathfield, Cambridge, Sussex Co.. England. However, you might note the Parish Records shown on page vii . These tend to indicate they were brothers.
There are several traditions about the origin of the Benjamin family. In A Genealogy of the Family of Lieut. Samuel Benjamin by Mary Louise Benjamin, 1900, states one tradition that gives descent from a German Count of Jewish lineage. Of course, he lost his 'Jewishness" in movement through Europe to England. Another branch claims a Norman-French descent through the Barons de Lacey. Still others claim no nobility, but state rather flatly that they are of Welsh extraction. None are proved!
The most widely accepted account of descent seems to be the one concerning the de Lacey family. (Probably because it provides the "acceptable nobility" to which one can paint with pride!) This line of descent is as follows: The pedigree of the ancient house of Benjamin, originally Berington, runs back to Walter de Lacey (1074), Great Baron under William the Conqueror at the time of the Norman invasion of England.
The line seems to be the above Walter de Lacey; Roger de Lacey born 1095 under William Rufus; Ilbert de Lacey born 1137; John de Lacey born 1222 under Henry III's reign. In the time of Henry III the Confederacy of Barons was dissolved and from them emerged the caste known as "landed gentry" which became the leaders in politics and society.
The Laceys appear under the name Beryton of Stoke-Lacey, lat-er as Berington of Stoke-Lacey and Windesley Mote Hall of Sallop, Hereford, England.
In Edward III's reign, Beryton of Stoke-Lacey married the daughter and heiress of Roland de Windesey and had from her the ancient seat of Windesley, which has continued in the family ever since . In later years the family name was changed to Berington. The ancient seat of Windesley, which came into possession of the Beringtons by the above marriage lies in the Parish of Hope-under-Dinmore.
John Berington II. Esq., of Stoke-Lacey (the second John from John de Lacey of 1222) was heir of Rowland de Wyndesey of Windesley. John Berington II is supposed to have been the ancestor of the American Benjamin family. Tradition says that in 1494, owing probably to some religious dispute, a younger branch of the family moved to Lower Hereford and changed their surname to Benjamin. The coat of arms is one used conjointly by the Berrington and Benjamins, and is supposed to have been granted at the knighting of a Berington on July 21, 1403 on the field of Shrewsbury, which is just north of Hereford.
The Benjamin Coat of Arms (Burke's General Amory) has a crest which is a Duke's hat of crimson velvet, faces with ermine on the rim, and with a flame of fire on top. The flame is an emblem of ardent courage and perserverance. The motto below it is: "Poussez en Avent" which means "Press on." The ermine hat is associated with the robes of royal or noble personages, an emblem of dignity and position near royalty. The capeau or hat is the "Cap of Estate" and was anciently worn by all peers in Parliament.
The Coat of Arms also has a golden shield on a Saltire (or cross) quartering, pierced with a sable(black). Five amulets or rings couter changed (i.e., gold on black and black on gold). Andrew's cross is a symbol of resolution and the reward of such heros as have scaled walls of twons, etc. The finger ring or amulet is the emblem of fidelity. The square figure on the center of the saltire represents honesty and betokens noble birth. Amulets designate the fifth son and his descendants used as marks of cadency about the time of Henry VII.
But back to the parentage of our John Benjamin.
In the Geneaology of Park Benjamin by Hoover, 1948, he states: "Concerning John Benjamin's forebears in England, we know nothing certain." He also goes on to say that some of his earlier ancestors were inhabitants of Lower Hereford, near the Welsh border, but this has not been verified, either. There are records that would indicate that this branch lived in Heathfield Parish, County Sussex and had close connections with the adjoining county of Kent. There is a record of Peter Austin of Tenterden, Kent "who was licensed to maary December 8, 1602 Arabella Benjamin, daughter of John Benjamin of Heathfield, Sussex, yeoman." It would seem from collateral data that this would be the father of our John Benjamin and Arabella was his sister. Peter Austin and his wife are supposed to have come to America before John Benjamin.
Another possible sister is Ann, first wife of John Ellis. John Ellis came to America in 1621 on the "Fortune" and was one of the first settlers of Sandwich, Mass. In 1643. Ann probably died in England, since he married second in 1643 Elizabeth Freeman. His children from that first marriage were:
1. Ann Ellis born about 1618 in England and married Edward Culver at Dedham, Mass. In 1638. Thomas Fanning and his wife Frances (Ellis) Fanning brought the youngest daughter of John Ellis by his first wife to America with them. Edward Culver was in their company on their trip to America. This daughter was probably Ann.
2. John Ellis born 1620 in England; m/1 Susanna Lumbard in 1641. She died in 1654 at Medfield and he m/2 Joan, widow of John Clapp of Dorchester. The Lumbard and Fanning surnames are closely associated with the Benjamin family.
3. Other children were probably Joseph Ellis who m. Ruth ---- and Richard Ellis who m. Elizabeth --- and both resided in Dedham in 1645. A Richard Ellis arrived in Boston from England in 1632 aboard the same ship as did John and Richard Benjamin.
A daughter of John Ellis' second marriage, Bennet Ellis, born 1648/9 and married Obadiah Eddy, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Savery) Eddy. All these facts seem to tie the Ellis family in very closely with the Benjamin family.
However, in all the years of searching...with some done on "the spot" in England, no one has been able to come up with the actual parentage or siblings of John Benjamin. The Chalvington Parish records certainly tend to give substance to the fact that his father was named John Benjamin, but reading any other relationships into those records is most difficult. All Benjamins, who's ancestor was in this country before 1800 and are not of Jewish descent are believed to be of either the John Benjamin or Richard Benjamin line.

Source: (Birth)
Title: Vital Records of Essex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1998
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Salisbury Births, p. 96

Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Essex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1998
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Salisbury Deaths, p. 559

Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Essex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Media: Book

Page: Salisbury Deaths, p. 614