Our Members
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The Deborah Wheelock Chapter was organized on February 14, 1899, and was incorporated in January 1911. Charter members were Katherine Mary Capron, L. Jennie Dudley, Beatrice Putnman, Mary B. Hayward, Emogene Cone Sayles, Alice Huntley Capron, Anna Lonas Capron, Marica Peck Griswold, Helen Wheelock Taft, Jane Frances Wheelock, Sylvia Luarana Capron, and Catherine A. C. Johnson.
The house to the left is known as the Simeon Wheelock house and is owned by the Deborah Wheelock Chapter. |
History of the Simon Wheelock House
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Set slightly back from the street under sheltering elms (as if retreating from modern traffic), there stands on North Main Street, Uxbridge, Massachusetts, a typical New England country home. This modest, low-roofed, red house is owned by Deborah Wheelock Chapter, NSDAR, a gift to the Chapter in 1910 from Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hayward.
In renovating the house, the chapter kept its lines unchanged, replacing timbers only where necessary because of decay. The broad gables, massive central chimney, original narrow windows set with small panes of wavy hand-blown glass, and simple but beautiful doorway are all as they were built in 1768 by Simeon and Deborah (Thayer) Wheelock. The interior is all preserved as nearly as possible like the original, except in the arrangement of the floor plan, and the addition of modern heat and light. The assembly room’s low ceiling is supported by the original, hand hewn, oak beams. The removal of a fireboard disclosed the large brick fireplace, pot hooks and crane, flanked by a brick warming oven. Simeon & Deborah Wheelock Simeon Wheelock, who built the original house in 1768, was a farmer, and a blacksmith. At 22 years of age he married Deborah Thayer and eight children were born. Simeon’s smithy stood just across the street. In April 1775, he answered the call for the Minutemen at Lexington and Concord as First Lieutenant of the Uxbridge Company. In 1786, Simeon and his son, Royal, answered the call to arms in Shay’s Rebellion. Simeon never returned, the son Royal coming back to his mother with the gun and knapsack of his father. This left Deborah to provide for the family, the youngest just two years old. Deborah Wheelock was buried in the old part of Prospect Hill Cemetery, her grave marked by DAR. The Tea Room In the early years of ownership of this historic homestead, funding restoration, and maintenance was critical, and one fascinating way was the Wheelock House Tea Room. Open during the summer months they attracted interest far and wide, as patrons appeared from surrounding towns, and even out of state. One remarkable lady supplied signs which she posted when the tea room was open, and removed when closed. Two of those signs, now over 100 years old proclaimed the delights of the tea room “only 1 mile to go” and the other “only ½ a mile to go." Tea-time at Wheelock House! |
Our Patriots and their Spouses
Silas Wheelock – MA , Hannah Albee
Noah White – MA, Rebecca Trask
Ichabod Thayer, Jr – MA, Mary Marsh
Elias Thayer – MA, Hanna Ellis
Amos Palmer – RI, Mary York
Simeon Wheelock – MA, Deborah Thayer
Ebenezer Taft – MA, Molly Hayward
Matthew Lackey – MA, Dorcas Woodbury
Willoughby Nason – MA, Mary Barden
John Jacobs – CT, Sarah Plank
Adam Wideman – SC, Millie Harris
George Macomber – MA, Susannah Paul
Job Benson – NY, Mary Richardson
Zachariah Sheldon – MA, Polly Mary Jones
David Board – NJ, Mary Ford
James Humphrey – MA, Deborah Tirrell
Joseph Watkins – MD, Ann Brown
Peleg Luther – RI, Mary Nichols
Jacob Shepard – MA, Bathsheba Puffer
Joseph Cady – CT, Lucy Leavens
Heinrich Bartholomew – PA, Hannah Zimmerman
Japheth Corttis – CT, Mary Upham
Solomon Wood - MA, Hannah Fish
Ezra Beaman – MA, Persis Keyes
Joseph Daby, Sr – MA, Elizabeth Nourse
John Aycock – NC, Mary Brewer
Stephen Goldthwaite – MA, Chloe Aldrich
Davis Lillibridge – RI, Marion Moore
Noah White – MA, Rebecca Trask
Ichabod Thayer, Jr – MA, Mary Marsh
Elias Thayer – MA, Hanna Ellis
Amos Palmer – RI, Mary York
Simeon Wheelock – MA, Deborah Thayer
Ebenezer Taft – MA, Molly Hayward
Matthew Lackey – MA, Dorcas Woodbury
Willoughby Nason – MA, Mary Barden
John Jacobs – CT, Sarah Plank
Adam Wideman – SC, Millie Harris
George Macomber – MA, Susannah Paul
Job Benson – NY, Mary Richardson
Zachariah Sheldon – MA, Polly Mary Jones
David Board – NJ, Mary Ford
James Humphrey – MA, Deborah Tirrell
Joseph Watkins – MD, Ann Brown
Peleg Luther – RI, Mary Nichols
Jacob Shepard – MA, Bathsheba Puffer
Joseph Cady – CT, Lucy Leavens
Heinrich Bartholomew – PA, Hannah Zimmerman
Japheth Corttis – CT, Mary Upham
Solomon Wood - MA, Hannah Fish
Ezra Beaman – MA, Persis Keyes
Joseph Daby, Sr – MA, Elizabeth Nourse
John Aycock – NC, Mary Brewer
Stephen Goldthwaite – MA, Chloe Aldrich
Davis Lillibridge – RI, Marion Moore
Our Activities
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