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Wheeler was a Quaker in Promfret, a community where few Quakers lived and slavery was still practiced. He tanned leather for many of the locals and made and repaired shoes for some named enslaved people and black men and women. Much of the journal is dated in the Quaker style. One named African American is "Vic of Marcy Hollow." At an unknown date, Wheeler moved to Bolton, MA, a community with a strong Quaker Community.