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Notes for Gershom WHEELOCK

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The baptism record for Gershom was found in the Register at the village of Eccles, near Banham, Norfolk, England. The record reads as follows:

"Gersham Wheelocke filius Radolphi Wheelocke baptisatus fuit 3 die Jan:1632/33" (Source: "Mr. Wheelock's Cure", by Christopher Gleason Clark, published in the July 1998 issue of New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol 152.)

William S. Tilden, "History of Medfield, Massachusetts, 1650-1886", 1886, writes the following about Gershom:

"Gershom was in the list for Mr. Wilson's rate in 1657 [1], and probably came of age about that time. He married Hannah Stodder, daughter of John of Hingham, in 1658. In 1663, he had liberty from the town to cut "200 sedar plank" in the common swamp. His house stood on the Harbor Island road, a short distance south-west of the present residence of Charles Hamant. He rung the bell and swapt the meeting-house in 1674, for which the town paid him 2 pounds, 15 shillings. The next year, he assisted in thatching the meeting-house. His house was burned by the Indians in 1676, and it appears to have been rebuilt on the same spot. He died in 1684, and in 1690 his heirs sold the homestead to Joseph Plimpton."

Note [1]: Mr Wilson was the first minister in Medfield.