170. Moses Wheeler, ancestor, first white man in New England to live 100 years.
One of our ancestors who helped settle New Haven and Stratford, Connecticut. Moses Wheeler was the first white person to live to be 100 in New England! MOSES WHEELER, on the Allen/Wilson/Fairchild Line Coat of Arms Moses Wheeler, immigrant ancestor, was born in England, very likely in the county of Kent, in 1598. The Wheeler family had lived there for over four hundred years. He saile d from London in 1638, when he was 40 years old, and settled in the New Haven colony. He was among the first to receive an allotment in that colony. There he married Miriam Hawley , sister of Joseph Hawley, one of the first settlers in the colony, and a very prominent man. He was expelled from the colony in 1648 because of a slight infringement of one of the Blue Laws, for which the colony was noted. According to tradition he had been away for several months, and returned on a Sunday. Forgetting the "Blue Laws" in his joy at his return, he kissed his wife and children,