Record Wheelock's birth is recorded in the Dedham Vital Records as follows: "15 of 10th Month 1644"
Increase Ward and Record Wheelock resided in that section of Marlborough which became Westborough in 1717, and in that part of it which was later set off ass Northborough. His farm was by the river. It included the twenty-four acres of Abraham Williams's house-lot, purchased from Williams by William Ward (WWI). He operated a sawmill near the spot where later there were cotton factories.
Increase Ward was town clerk in 1689, and probably earlier. His tombstone is the oldest of the Ward stones preserved in Spring Hill Cemetery.
(Source: The William Ward Genealogy by Martyn, 1925. Page 72; by way of Walter T. Wheelock, "The Wheelock Family in America, 1637-1969")