| Birth: | Bet 1748 and 1750 |
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| Military Service: French and Indian War (John Fry Co., Willard Regiment, Crown Pt. Campaign) & American Revolutionary War (Cpt. Isaac Bolster's Co., Col. Eb. Larned Reg) 1 2 3 |
| Census - 1790: 1790 Windsor, Berkshire, Massachusetts - "All other free people" - 7 - Ichabod Odill 4 |
- Title: e-mail
Page: Richard D. Brown [richard.d.brown@uconn.edu]
Text: Dear Mr. Fleck,
I am referring your inquiry to Irene Quenzler Brown, who did the
genealogical work on which our statements rest. If you consult our recent
book, THE HANGING OF EPHRAIM WHEELER: A STORY OF RAPE, INCEST, AND JUSTICE
(Harvard University Press, 2003), in the text and footnotes you will learn
most (if not all) of what we know. Interestingly, so far as we know,
Hannah Odel Wheeler was the only one of the Wheeler sisters who married a
white Yankee. The others married mixed race men, William Martin, Michael
Pepper, and the Dunbars The book is available from Harvard University
Press: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/BROHAN.html
Or you can order it from any bookstore, Amazon, etc.
It is too bad that we live at opposite corners of the USA, as we
would be pleased to talk with you in person and to learn more about the
Dunbar family. The key information on the sisters comes from the vital
records of Sutton, Massachusetts, where Ichabod Odel and his wife and
children lived until the 1780s. He was listed as a soldier in the French
and Indian War, as well as briefly in the Revolution. The Odell sisters'
births were recorded there--from the late 1750s through the 1760s as I
recall. (I do not have a copy of the book at this office.) I do remember
that Ephraim Wheeler reports that he had a plan to more west into the
Genessee country with Asa Dunbar, and that the latter was among those who
encouraged him to marry Hannah Odel. The other person in this group that
may be of interest to you is Isaac Odel, the brother of the sisters and
brother-in-law to the Dunbars. The kinship community that these families
maintained is very interesting and not, I think, well understood.
With best wishes, Dick Brown
- Title: The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler
Author: Irene Quenzler Brown and Richard Brown
Publication: Belknap Press, Harvard University; Cambridge, 2003
Media: Book
Page: 136, Fn. 14
Text: William A. Benedict and Hiram A. Tracy, History of the Town of Sutton, Mass.from 1704-1876 (Worcester, 1887), pp.779, 782; Ichabod Odel, private in John Fry's Company, Willard Regiment, Crown Point ca
mpaign, Jul 21, 1755-Dec. 12, 1755, and other campaigns: K. David Goss and David Zarowin, eds., Massachusetts Officers and Soldiers in the French and Indian Wars, 1755-1756 ([Boston, Mass.]: Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1985), p. 66. Ichabod Odel of Sutton was a private in Captain Isaac Bolster's company, in Colonel Ebenezer Larned's regiment. He enlisted Jun 1, 1775, and appears on a muster roll Aug 1., 1775, and on the company return, Roxbury, Oct. 1, 1775, serving altogether two months and five days. Massachusetts, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (Boston: Wright and Potter Printing Co., 1896-1908), vol. 11, pg. 621.
- Title: Massachusetts Officers and Soldiers in the French and Indian Wars 1755-1756
Author: K. David Goss and David Zarowin
Publication: The Society for Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (NEHGS 1985)
Media: Book
Page: 141
Text: Odel, Ichabod Pvt. in John Fry's Company, Willard Regiment in the Crown Point Campaign from 7/21/55-12/12/55, Pg. 66 (Muster Roll Location).
- Title: 1790 Census
Page: MASSACHUSETTS , BERKSHIRE, WINDSOR
NARA Series: M637 Roll: 4 Page: 693 Text: Listed in the column of all other free people. Seven members
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