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- Accompanying the Stille family to American in 1641 was the family of Mans Svensson Lom, whose daughter Catharine Lom married an Englishman named John Wheeler. Wheeler became a freeman in New Sweden and joined 21 other freemen in signing a 1653 protest against Governor Printz' allegedly harsh rule. He fled New Sweden, moving first to the Fort Casimir area (present New Castle). By 1658 he had moved to the Sassafras River in Cecil County, Maryland, with his wife Catharine and three minor children, Samuel, John and Anna. A third son, Anders, was born in Maryland. When granted denization by Maryland in 1661, John Wheeler was described as "Swedish." His wife died by 1671. John died c.1677, leaving his "Round-stone" estate on the Elk River to his son Samuel and and his "Wheeler's Point" estate on the Sassafras to his son Joh. Samuel Wheeler remained in Maryland where he was survived by thee married daughters.
The 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware. By Peter Stebbins Craig.
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- Catharine Lom, born in Roslagen c. 1628, married John Wheeler, an Englishman, who lived in the New Sweden colony. After the 1653 protest to Printz, they moved to Swanwyck, near the Dutch Fort Casimir (New Castle), and by 1658 had moved to the Sassafras River in Cecil County, Maryland. Catharine died before 1674 when John Wheeler's second wife Mary renounced any interest in his property. Catharine had four known children:
Samuel Wheeler, born c. 1650, who remained in Cecil County on his father's "Roundstone" plantation; never married.
John Wheeler, born c. 1654, sold his father's 'Wheelers Point' plantation in Cecil County to his brother-in-law Nicholas Allum in 1677, intending to move to land acquired by his "grandfather" Lars Andersson in Blockley Township, Philadelphia County. However, he returned to Cecil County to live at "Roundstone," married Elizabeth and died in 1698, survived by 3 daughters.
Anna Wheeler, born c. 1656, married Nicholas Allum; I daughter.
Anders Wheeler, born c. 1660, moved as a young man to the Blockley Township land acquired by Lars Andersson. After inheriting part of Moyamensing from Andersson, he sold the Blockley Township lands to his cousins, the Gertsson brothers. Married Catharine Andersdotter Svensson and Anna Maria Georgen (Urian), 7 children.
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1632 - 1677 (45 years)