Wheeler (Y-DNA)
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Status summary
Completed as of October 1, 2020:
- Recruiting additional direct male-line Wheeler descendants for further SNP testing - anyone interested in submitting their DNA for testing should contact Raymond T. Wing (email: wing.genealogist AT gmail DOT com)
- Y-SNP tested to R1b-P312>>U152>L2>FGC22501
Still to do as of October 1, 2020
- NGS/WGS test multiple descendants of Obadiah Wheeler to firmly place family clade as well as test descendants to discover any subclades unique to descendants lines
Biography
First Generation
Obadiah Wheeler (II) was born before 1651 in Concord, son of Obadiah Wheeler (I) & Susanna _______. He died aft 28 Mar 1712. He married at Concord 17 Jul 1672 Elizabeth White, daughter of Resolved White & Judith Vassall. They had eight children, one daughter and seven sons: Obadiah, Josiah, Uriah, Samuel, Jonathan, Joseph, Benjamin and Joshua.
DNA results I-A9271
Previous Y-DNA testing
The Wheeler DNA Project Subgroup: CA Group 6 lists nine individuals, most known Y-DNA descendants of Dominick Wheeler (born 1525). One of these individuals (kit #140139) descends from Obadiah Wheeler (II) & Elizabeth White. One individual in the subgroup Y-SNP tested I-M253>DF29>Z58>Z59>CTS8647>Z61> Z60>FT220000>A9271
Further needed testing
We need additional direct male-line descendants of Obadiah Wheeler (II) to WGS/NGS test to both confirm the lineage as well as to refine the haplogroup further and delineate descendant clades.
References & External Links
Sherman, Ruth W. and Robert M. Sherman, comp. Robert S. Wakefield, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: vol. 13 White, 2006, Plymouth, General Society of Mayflower Descendants
Wheeler, Henry M., Genealogy of some of the descendants of Obadiah Wheeler of Concord, and Thomas Thaxter of Hingham, Printed for private circulation, Worcester, MA 1898
The Pilgrim William White Society Newsletter see page 4 of this issue which discusses one branch of this Wheeler family
