Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Wheeler, Thomas

WHEELER, Thomas, soldier, b. in England about 1620; d. in Concord, Mass., 16 Dec., 1686. He emigrated to this country in 1642, settled in Concord, Mass., and participated in King Philip's war, in which he was wounded. In July, 1675, he was appointed a military escort to Capt. Edward Hutchinson, of Boston, who was commissioned by the council to treat with the sachems in the Nipmuck country. His “Narrative” of this expedition, a pious and quaintly worded document, is preserved in the “Collections” of the New Hampshire historical society.