Duane William Wheeler's Page

Hi Duane, i was looking  for my friends from the exchange student program on the internet and find you here.

We lost contact a long time ago. i am happy to find you.

Danieli Gôngora /Brazil

This, I THINK, may be my Chesley line? There are many links back, so an error is quite possible. If you, or anyone sees an error, please tell me.

Philip Chesley, Sr. & 2nd Joanna ______
Lt. Ralph Hall & Mary Chesley
Hon. Kinsley Hall & Elizabeth Dudley
Dudley Hilton & Mercy Hall
Christopher Robinson & Elizabeth Hilton
Maj. Barnabas Palmer, Sr. & Elizabeth Robinson
LtCol. David Copp, Sr. & Margaret "Molly" Palmer
David Copp, Jr., Esq. & Mary "Polly" Watson
Lt. John (W?) Nixon & Adeline Cecelia Copp
LtCol Robert Wm. James & 2nd Jane Ann Nixon
Capt. Harry Copp James & Lelia Ogden Malone
Edward Yonge Wootten & Ruth Irrna James
My father & My mother
Me

Nixon was New Orleans City Attorney and 1811 helped found a Masonic lodge there. He was Adj. Lt. John Nixon in de Jean's 1st Louisiana Militia and fought on the far west bank in the 815 Battle of New Orleans. When the British over-ran hm, he spiked his two cannon and retreaded. The light cannon may be in the War Trophy Room, Whitehall, England? Daughter Martha Bell Nixon wed Peregrine "Perry" Snowden Warfield, of Georgetown, D.C., assistant New Orleans City attorney.He was close kin to base-born Bessie Warfield who wed King Edward VIII of England. He owned the Nixon House Hotel, Biloxi, where he is buried. See his "findagrave" entry. His tomb is still there, but Katrina washed way his broken tombstone. I hope to get him War of 1812 stone. Jim Miller, Southport, N.C.

Hi Duane, yes I was born and raised in Niagara Falls but currently live in St. Catharines nearby (which was settled by mostly Loyalists who left the colonies following the American Revolution.) I also have ancestors that fought in the War of 1812. Niagara is full of history. :)

I was looking for your other families but did not see them? Jim

P.S. And tons of 1600's French-Canadians to 1700's Mobile, Alabama.