In 1790 Living in Cheshire County, NH (Sullivan Township)213

Owner of Luther Nourse Place in Keene, NH.222
210 pg 677
223 pg 655


Col. Abraham Wheeler, son of Abraham and Hannah Wheeler of Keene, was born in 1743; married Mary; had seven children, born in Keene between 1769 and 1779; member of the militia company here in 1773, and his father was at the same time on the alarm list; was a private in Col. Ashley's regiment that marched to the relief of Ticonderoga in 1776; a private in the company of Capt. Davis Howlett of Keene, Ashley's regiment, that marched from Keene to oppose Burgoyne in June, 1777; afterwards a colonel in the militia.
He owned the farm on Beech hill known as the Luther Nourse place and built that house ... in 1773, and the barn in 1775 — raised on the 17th of June. He removed from there to Ash Swamp and kept the tavern, and probably built the house, now known as the old Sawyer tavern, two miles from the Square, where he was succeeded by his son-in-law, Josiah Sawyer.
He died in 1814, aged seventy-one. His mother, Mrs. Hannah Wheeler, lived to the age of one hundred and three, and died Dec. 3, 1824.

From: A History of the Town of Keene from 1732 by Simon Goodell Griffin, Frank H. Whitcomb, Octavius Applegate (Jr.)