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Wheelock, Caledonia County, Vermont Genealogy

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Wheelock, Vermont at Wikipedia

Wheelock was chartered on November 8, 1780 by the Vermont Legislature. 

The charter was issued to John Wheelock and the trustees of Dartmouth College and Moor's Charity School. Wheelock is thus the only town in Vermont ever to have been chartered to an organization wholly outside of the state.

As late as the mid-l800's the rentals paid by Wheelock tenants continued to provide a large percentage of the permanent funds for Dartmouth College, and some lands in the town are still held under long-term rentals from the college.

In 1828, Dartmouth President Nathan Lord was in Wheelock collecting rents, and was heard to invite any person of Wheelock who wanted to go to college to come down to Dartmouth, where they would get free tuition. Fifty years passed before anyone actually took him up on his invitation. In total, only eight students from Wheelock have taken advantage of Lord's offer. A man of the Class of 2005 is the most recent. [1]  [2]

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Town Clerk Vital and Town Records, 1792-2001, can be found on FamilySearch (browse only images).

The FamilySearch Library has microfilm of original records from the Wheelock Town Clerk's Office. These include Land records, 1785-1902; indexes to land records, 1785-1992, and Vital statistics, 1857-1939, indexes to vital statistics, 1785-1992.

Wheelock Town Clerk

Wheelock Town Clerk
1192 Vermont 122
Wheelock, VT 05851
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1328 Lyndonville, VT 05851
Phone:(802) 626-9094
Email: wheelocktc@charterinternet.com

Vital Records

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Resources

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Biographies

  • Biographical Encyclopædia of Vermont of the Nineteenth Century. By H Clay Williams. Boston, Massachusetts: Metropolitan Publishing & Engraving Company, 1885. Salt Lake City, Utah : Family Search International, 2018. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.
  • Biographical Sketches of Vermonters. By Vermont Historical Society. Montpelier, Vermont : Vermont Historical Society, c1947. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.
  • Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. By Hiram Carleton. New York, New York: Lewis Pub. Co., 1903. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library, Vols. 1-2.
  • Some Vermont Ancestors: The Bicentennial Project of the Genealogical Society of Vermont. Compiled and ed. by Joann H. Nichols. [S.l.]: Genealogical Society of Vermont, 1976. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.
  • The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: a Magazine Embracing a History of Each Town, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military. By ed. by Abby Maria Hemenway. Burlington, Vermont: A.M. Hemenway, 1868-1923. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library, Vol. 1-6.
  • The Vermont of Today: With its Historic Background, Attractions and People. By Arthur F. Stone. New York, New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., c1929. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library, Vols. 1-4.
  • Vermonters. By Dorman B.E. Kent. Tucson, Arizona: W.C. Cox & Co., 1974. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.
  • Vermont Biography at FamilySearch Research Wiki

Cemeteries

The following is a list of major cemeteries in present-day Wheelock. For location of all cemeteries, see Cemeteries of Vermont, Caledonia County, website at this link.  

Census

Church Records

Historically, the largest religious groups in Vermont were the Congregational, Baptist, Roman Catholic, and Methodist churches. For general information about Vermont denominations, view the New Hampshire Church Records wiki page.

To see the churches in Wheelock, visit.

Church records and the information they provide vary significantly depending on the denomination and the record keeper. They may contain information about members of the congregation, such as age, date of baptism, christening, or birth; marriage information and maiden names; and death date. The following are church records available online for the town of Wheelock:

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Local Histories

Wheelock, Vermont USGenWeb Page
Town of Wheelock, Vermont's gift to Dartmouth College, by Eleanor Jones Hutchinson (1961) - find this book in a library .

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The Caledonian Record

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Other Town Records

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Probate Records

In Vermont, most probate records are kept at the town level. The following are online probate records for the town of Wheelock:

The probate district for Wheelock is Caledonia
Caledonia Probate Division
1126 Main St, Ste 1
St Johnsbury, VT 05819
Phone: (802) 748-6605

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Northeast Kingdom Genealogy - Genealogy resources for towns in the counties of Essex, Orleans and Caledonia.

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References

  1. ↑ About Wheelock, Vermont - http://www.virtualvermont.com/towns/wheelock.html#about
  2. ↑ Wheelock, Vermont - http://sites.rootsweb.com/~vermont/CaledoniaWheelock.html
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