 1790 - 1841 (51 years)
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| Name |
James Ripley Wheelock |
| Title |
Reverend |
| Birth |
30 Mar 1790 |
Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire  |
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James Ripley Wheelock Birth.
James Ripley Wheelock Birth. New Hampshire VR's |
| Gender |
Male |
| Biographical Information |
From the New Hampshire Steeples Project: James Wheelock's father practiced law in Hanover NH, and James practiced law in Royalton VT after his graduation from Dartmouth in 1807. In 1816, he quit the law and moved to Middlebury VT to study the ministry with the Rev. Thomas Abbot Merrill. Called by the Newport NH congregation, James Wheelock was ordained in the old meetinghouse on December 2, 1818. During 1819, he added over 100 new members to the church; among them was his new wife, Delia Bass of Middlebury.
After this auspicious beginning, his sometimes irascible and sarcastic nature started to wear thin on neighbors and church members. On February 21, 1823, a council of clergy was convened at Wheelock's own home to consider eleven charges made against him by a faction of church members. After hearing testimony, the council declared the claims unproven but acknowledged that the Rev. James Wheelock probably did possess a "warmth of temper." In any event, his bonds with the Newport congregation had been severed. He was dismissed but allowed to keep the $750 he had received upon accepting the call to settle.
Wheelock's "Farewell Sermon" was delivered on March 2, 1823. The sermon was then published ten days later?on the day before the new, brick meetinghouse was dedicated. Interestingly, the dedication ceremony's program does not identify any participants by name. The officiant was probably Dartmouth's president, the Rev. Bennet Tyler, as previously arranged.
James Wheelock served as interim minister for congregations in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Connecticut, before finding missionary work in Indiana, where doctrinal charges led to a trial and dismissal. During that sojourn, three of his children died. In 1838, he became interim minister in Barre VT, where his wife died after childbirth. A brief, failed second marriage followed, and then Rev. James Wheelock moved to Milton MA to preach occasionally. |
| Occupation |
Minister |
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Reverend James Ripley Wheelock
History of Decatur County, Indiana: Its People, Industries and Institutions, Lewis Albert Harding. B.F. Bowen, 1915 - Decatur County IN, page 250 |
| Death |
24 Nov 1841 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts |
 Siblings |
5 siblings |
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| 4. Lucia Wheelock, b. 5 May 1797, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire d. 11 Aug 1828, South Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont |
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| 5. Laura Wheelock, b. 25 May 1799, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire d. 2 Aug 1838, South Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont |
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| Person ID |
I20521 |
Nagel |
| Last Modified |
11 Dec 2014 |
| Father |
James Wheelock, b. 6 May 1759, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut d. 14 Jan 1835, Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont (Age 75 years) |
| Relationship |
Birth |
| Mother |
Abigail Kinsman, b. 1768 d. 7 Sep 1842, Montpelier, Washington, Vermont (Age 74 years) |
| Relationship |
Birth |
| Family ID |
F6761 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Delia Bass, b. Abt 1800 d. 26 Jan 1839, Barre, Washington, Vermont (Age 39 years) |
| Marriage |
11 Feb 1818 |
Middlebury, Addison, Vermont |
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Wheelock - Bass Marriage.
James Ripley Wheelock marriage to Delia Bass. Vermont Vr's |
| Children |
| + | 1. Delia C Wheelock, b. Abt 1839 [Father: Birth] [Mother: Birth] |
| | 2. Helen Wheelock, b. Abt 1820 d. 25 Sep 1839, Barre, Washington, Vermont (Age 19 years) [Father: Birth] [Mother: Birth] |
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| Family ID |
F6826 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
24 Feb 2019 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Birth - 30 Mar 1790 - Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire |
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 | Marriage - 11 Feb 1818 - Middlebury, Addison, Vermont |
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 | Death - 24 Nov 1841 - Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts |
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