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(b) = born    (d) = died    ( f ) = father    (m) = mother    (w) wed     

f. Thomas Wheeler II
m. Ann Halsey
 

f. Joseph Meriam
m. Sarah Goldstone

f. Capt. Richard Beers
 

Thomas came to Concord from England as a boy with his father and several uncles.  When his family moved to Fairfield, CT, young Thomas was left in charge of the family farm which was later willed to him by his father.

Thomas (a.k.a. "Sergeant Thomas") was listed as a freeman on May 18, 1642, and was appointed Sergeant in that same year, and he fought with his uncle Thomas in the battle of Brookfield, and from that time until his death, his name generally showing the Sgt. prefix.

The "House of Sergeant Thomas Wheeler" on Virginia Road in Concord, built by Thomas, later owned by his son Deacon John Wheeler, and sold by John to Jonas Minot, is the birth place of Henry David Thoreau. Minot was the step-grandfather of Thoreau.  Thomas Wheeler was the original owner of the property that included Walden Pond.

Through the Concord town records we see that Thomas was busy with civic affairs; laying out causeways, roads and paths to his Elm Brook mill.  By 1690 he was a prosperous landowner with thirteen children and able to provide all his sons with property. Four of Thomas' sons also built homes along Virginia Road.

* Information found in; "The Wheeler Genealogy - The Ancestral Wheeler Family of Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England Whose Descendents Settled in Colonial New England",  "Fifty Great Immigration Colonists to New England & Their Origins" - John B. Threlfall  and  "The Wheeler Family of Cranfield, England and Concord, Massachusetts" - M. Wheeler Molyneaux