Correspondence and documents related to the Wheelock estate, 1810 - 1836

This series contains letters to and from William Allen and documents written by WA as executor of the Wheelock estate. WA married the only child of John Wheelock, and so became the executor of John Wheelock’s estate. After his wife died in 1828, he became the legal guardian of his children, and thus, the executor of his children’s Wheelock estate. The papers in this series relate to WA’s function as executor of the Wheelock estate.