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Josiah and others in his family who were literate spelled their last name "Wheler."

9 April 1710, Josiah Wheler and his wife were admitted to the Lancaster church from Concord. They lived on a farm on what is now South Bolton Road in a part of Lancaster incorporated as the town of Bolton in 1738.

Josiah's signature from Hezekiah Townsend's probate file (1737) and from his will (1738)

children of Josiah Wheler and Martha Prescott:

i. Martha , b. abt. 1705
ii. Experience, bap. 28 November 1708, Lancaster 273
iii. Thankful, bap. 30 September 1711
iv. Ebenezer, bap. 30 September 1711 274
v. Dinah, bap. 30 June 1717

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