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r. William Wheatley entered Magdalen College, Oxford,1705, m Annie Waring of Belfast. In 1720 William Wheatley was serving at the Dublin stationas naval surgeon. At the time there were 76 ships in the Britishnavy. And there are records of Surgeon Wheatley’s transfer toother stations. He was with the fleet sent to the West Indiesin 1727. But nothing can be learned from the records, althoughtradition claims that he died in the service about 1731. His BETSEY P. WOOD WHEATLEY. (see pg 50) THE WHEATLEY GENEALOGY, 17family remained in Dublin. John Wheatley, his only son, en-tered Trinity College, Dublin, but left before the end of the firstyear, and was apprenticed to a shipmaster named Charles Cary.His mother had hoped to fit him to fill a position in the navy. Capt. Cary sold his indenture to a farmer near Norwich,Conn , 1732.From him sprung a large branch of the Wheatley family inAmerica.86. John, b Dublin, November 15, 1718.87. Jane, b Dublin, May 12, 1720. Died young.88. Lucinda, b Dublin, September 4, 1723.
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