Simeon Wheelock

After the war he was killed while on militia duty protecting the Springfield Armory during Shays' Rebellion.

Joseph Chapin's company of minutemen, he answered the alarm on April 19, 1775, and fought at the battles of Lexington and Concord.

[2] Simeon died in September 1786 at the age of 45 when his horse slipped on the ice while engaged in the suppression of Shays' Rebellion in Springfield.

[1][3] His son Jerry Wheelock was prominent in the textile industry in Uxbridge, joining forces with early woolen mill pioneer, Daniel Day.

The home that Simeon and Deborah Wheelock built is now part of Uxbridge's many historic houses.

[3] Today, it is the local home of the Daughters of the American Revolution and is named for Deborah Wheelock.