♂Samuel Wheaton

Samuel Wheaton (c. 1797 – 17 October 1831) was a man of New Berlin, Chenango County, New York, who died there without a will, leaving a young widow and two small daughters. He was the great-great-grandfather of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), through his daughter Annis Wheaton (1827–1883), her son Hubert Orestes Curtis (1868–1922) and his son Frederic Arthur Curtis (1903–1990).

His parents are not known. A memorial index gives his birth as 1797 in Chenango County; the year rests on that index alone. He married Salena Sherman (1806–1842), a daughter of Batchelder Sherman of New Berlin, whose will of January 1828 already names her as a married daughter, “Salin Wheaton”. The couple had two daughters, Annis, born in October 1827, and Elenor F., born about 1829. An index of the 1830 federal census lists a “Samuel Weeton” at New Berlin.

Samuel Wheaton died at New Berlin on 17 October 1831, “a natural death”, and intestate. On 23 January 1832 his widow, written “Celena Wheaton” in the record, applied to the Surrogate’s court^W at Oxford for letters of administration, stating that his personal estate did not exceed four hundred dollars and that he had left two children. The court set her bond at eight hundred dollars, and on 27 January 1832 the surrogate, John Tracy, granted her the letters, in which she is called “Alena Wheaton”; Waterman Mathewson and George Robinson, both of New Berlin, were named to appraise the estate. Within days she was appointed guardian of both daughters, “minors under the age of fourteen years”, whose shares were each put at under one hundred dollars. A memorial index records his burial at New Berlin.