Sources for "The Wilder, Bullen, and Wheeler Families Move to Kent County, Michigan in 1844"

• Burrows, J. Lansing.  American Baptist Register for 1852.  Philadelphia: American Baptist Publishing Company, 1853, p. 166 (Statistics on the Indian Creek Baptist Church)

• Census and Statistics on the State of Michigan, 1864.  Lansing: John A. Kerr, 1865, p. 277 (Bullen milling business)

• Census of the State of Michigan, 1874.  Lansing: W.S. George, 1875, p. 289 (McNitt & Wilder Mill)

• The City of Grand Rapids and Kent County Up to Date.  A.W. Bowen and Company, 1900, p. 1081 (Biography of Claude Wilder, grandson of Harvey and Hannah, that tells some of the early history of the family in Michigan)

• Dillenback & Leavitt.  History and Directory of Kent County.  Grand Rapids: Steam Printing House, 1870, p. 30 (Edward Wheeler and Alpine Township) and p. 106 (the sawmill)

• Everett, Franklin.  Memorials of the Grand River Valley.  Chicago: Chicago Legal News Company, 1878, p. 169 (Two paragraph about the arrival of Edward Wheeler in Alpine Township)

• Family Search

  • Marriage of Harvey Wilder and Hannah Maria Warner on September 5, 1827

  • Obituary of Joseph Bullen

• Gravestones in Brooklawn Cemetery, Walker, Kent, Michigan (Pictures of many stones appear on the Find A Grave website)

• History of Kent County, Michigan.  Chicago: Charles C. Chapman & Co., 1880

  • p. 277 (the sawmill)

  • p. 554 (the sawmill)

  • p. 556 (Paragraph about the arrival of Edward Wheeler in Alpine Township - virtually identical to Everett, p, 169 above)

  • pp. 557-558 (lists of early officials in Alpine Township, including Edward Wheeler)

  • p. 573 (Biography of Erastus Fox, husband of Betsey Bullen)

  • pp. 579-580 (Biographies of Edward Wheeler Jr., William Wheeler, and Joseph Wilder)

  • p. 1387 (the sawmill)

  • pp. 1395-1396 (Biography of Vernon Harrington)

  • p. 1400 (Biography of William McNitt, husband of Hannah Wilder)

• Index of Awards on Claims of the Soldiers of the War of 1812 (Albany, 1860), pp. 71 (Joseph Bullen) and 226 (Samuel Hawkins)

• Kent County Land Records, Kent County Courthouse, Grand Rapids, Michigan

• Kent County Marriage Records, Kent County Courthouse, Grand Rapids, Michigan (Marriage of Melissa Harrington and William P. Warring)

• Kent County Probate Court Record 2258 (Joseph Bullen) and Record 4321 (William McNitt), Kent County Courthouse, Grand Rapids, Michigan

• Michigan State Land Office Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan

• Ottawa County Land Records, Ottawa County Courthouse, Grand Haven, Michigan

• Radasch, Katherine Warner and Radasch, Arthur Hitchcock.  Register of the Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel Warner of Wilbraham, Mass.  Springfield, MA: The Pond-Ekberg Company, 1956, pp. 79-81 (Family of Eleazer Warner and Hannah Cox)

• Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865.  Kalamazoo: Ihling Bros. & Everard, n.d.  46 volumes and Index.

• Robertson, John.  Michigan in the War.  Lansing: W.S. George & Co., 1882 

• State of Vermont, Roster of Soldiers in the War of 1812-14 (1933)

• Statistics of the State of Michigan Compiled from the Census of 1850.  Lansing: R.W. Ingalls, 1851, p. 126 (Bullen milling business)

• Statistics of the State of Michigan, 1870.  Lansing: W.S. George and Co., 1873, pp. 440-441 (McNitt & Wilder Mill)

• Tremayne, Edward.  Tremayne's Table of Post-Offices in the United States.  New York: W.F. Burgess, 1850, p. 84 (Bullen as postmaster)

• U.S. Census

  • 1820 Hartland, Niagara, New York

  • 1820 Ridgeway, Orleans, New York

  • 1830 Ridgeway, Orleans, New York

  • 1830 Somerset, Niagara, New York

  • 1830 Mount Holly, Rutland, Vermont

  • 1840 Somerset, Niagara, New York

  • 1840 Ridgeway, Orleans, New York

  • 1850 Alpine, Kent, Michigan

  • 1850 Walker, Kent, Michigan (both the population schedule and products of industry schedule)

  • 1860 Alpine, Kent, Michigan

  • 1860 Walker, Kent, Michigan (both the population schedule and the products of industry schedule)

  • 1884 State Census of Manufactures, Kent County, Michigan.  Grand Rapids Public Library, Grand Rapids, Michigan

• U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.  War of 1812 Military and Pension Records (those for Joseph Bullen and Samuel Hawkins have been digitized and are available - even for those who are not members - on the Fold3.com website)

• War of 1812 Payroll Abstracts for the New York State Militia (on the Ancestry.com website - membership required)

• Wilder, Justin C.  The Descendants of Harvey Wilder.  Winona Lake, IN: Light and Life Press, 1974 (Information appears throughout; also reproductions of two early family letters appear on pp. 37 and 167)

Table of Contents

• The Warner Family of Pittsford, Vermont

• Family Members Who Served in the War of 1812

• Two Migrations to Western New York

• The Move to Michigan

• Joseph Bullen's Milling Business (Later the McNitt & Wilder Mill)

• Family Members Who Served in the Civil War

• A Genealogical Record of the Bullen, Wheeler, and Wilder Families

• Sources used in writing this history