Samuel (Cleaveland) Cleveland (1657 - 1736)

Born 9 Jun 1657 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Jane (Keyes) Cleveland — married 17 May 1680 (to 14 Nov 1681) in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Husband of Persis (Hildreth) Cleveland — married 23 May 1682 (to 22 Feb 1698) in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Husband of Margaret (Stark) Cleaveland — married 25 Jul 1699 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 12 Mar 1736 at age 78 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut

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Research on LNAB

His birth record appears as Cleaveland^[1] His last two children are born with the name Cleveland^[2][3] His Find a Grave memorial has a picture of a source from a book written that indicates his name was Cleaveland and is buried in Cleaveland Family cemetery^[4]

Biography

Samuel Cleaveland, the third son and fourth child of Moses and Ann (Winn) Cleaveland, b. in Woburn, June 9, 1657^[5], m. first, in Chelmsford, Mass., May 17, 1680, Jane Keyes, a dau. of Solomon and Frances (Grant) Keyes. She was b. in Newbury, Mass., Oct. 25, 1660, and d. without issue in Chelmsford, Mass., Nov. 4, 1681. He m. second, in Chelmsford, May 23, 1682, Persis Hildreth, dau. of Richard and Elizabeth Hildreth. She was b. in Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 8, 1660; d. in Canterbury, Conn., Feb. 22, 1698. He m. third, wid. Margaret Fish, in Canterbury, Conn., July 25, 1699. Samuel died in Canterbury, Connecticut 12 March 1735/6.^[6] The date and place of death of third wife not learned.

Children, by wife Persis : 1. Persis, b. in Chelmsford, April 21, 1683. 2. Samuel, b. in Chelmsford, Jan. 12, 1685; m. Sarah Boswell. 3. Joseph, b. in Chelmsford, July 18, 1689; m. Abigail Hyde. 4. Elizabeth, b. in Woburn, June 26, 1603; m. John Ensworth. 5. Mary, b. in Canterbury, June 14, 1696; m. Joseph Ensworth.

by wife Margaret : 6. Abigail, b. in Canterbury, April 23, 1700; d. Feb. 23, 1718. 7. Timothy, b. in Canterbury, Aug. 25, 1702; m. Dorothy.

And perhaps there were other children not recorded, as the records were evidently very imperfectly kept during these years.

Hinman, in his Catalogue of the Puritan Settlers of Connecticut, gives two more children, Ephraim, and Margaret, to wife Persis. So far as Ephraim is concerned, he may be correct, as there was an Ephraim Cleveland who d. in Canterbury, March 13, 1711. Margaret, he says, m. Gideon Cable in 1717.

Samuel Cleveland was one of the earliest settlers in Plainfield, (or Canterbury), Connecticut, probably about 1694, and was followed by his brother Josiah, of Chelmsford, Mass., soon after, and subsequently by his brothers Edward, of Kingston, R. I., and Isaac, of Woburn. Canterbury was not incorporated as a town until 1703 and was previously a part of Plainfield. ^[7]

• Fact: Residence (1657) Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
• Fact: Burial (March 1736) Cleaveland Cemetery, Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut, British Colonial America
• Fact: http://familysearch.org/v1/LifeSketch Was known as Sergeant during King Phillip's War (1675-1676). As an adult lived at Chelmsford, then moved to Woburn, then moved his family to Canterbury. He was apparently an active participant in church and community affairs.
• Fact: AFN 8GXV-4D

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCMY-L2R : 13 July 2016), Samuel Cleaveland, 09 Apr 1657; citing Birth, Woburne, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 892,249.
2. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7WF-H35 : 3 December 2014), Samuel Cleveland in entry for Abigail Cleveland, 23 Apr 1700; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
3. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F742-35Y : 3 December 2014), Samuel Cleveland in entry for Timothy Cleveland, 25 Aug 1702; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
4. ↑ Find a Grave Memorial 61750773
5. ↑ Woburn records of births, deaths and marriages from 1640 to 1873. Vol. 1, Births = 182545569. Woburn, MA: Andrews, Cutler & Co., 1890. Open Library
6. ↑ Jacquelyn Ladd Ricker, Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006, page 3118
7. ↑ Horace Gillette Cleveland, “A Genealogy of Benjamin Cleveland, a great grandson of Moses Cleveland, of Woburn, Mass., and a native of Canterbury, Windham County, Conn.” (1879), pages 5 & 6.

• Edward F. Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths [5 Volumes], (Woburn, Mass.: The News Print, 1893) Note: Johnson, Edward F.. Woburn Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths: (5 Volumes) . Woburn, Massachusetts: The News Print, 1893.
• Vital records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. Salem, Mass: The Essex Institute, 1999. Open Library
• Stearns, Ezra S. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire (Lewis Publishing Company, 1908) Page 819
• Edmund James Cleveland and Horace Gillette Cleveland, “The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families” in three volumes, page 39.
• Cleveland, Edmund Janes, and Horace Gillette Cleveland, comps. The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleveland Families. Vol. 1. Hartford: The Case, Lockwood, & Brinard Company, 1899. Archive. Boston Public Library, 18 Aug. 2009. Web. 13 Jan. 2017. <https://archive.org/details/genealogyofcleve01clev>.
• Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1915, Vol. 3. pg. 1720-1724)

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 30 June 2019, 18:20), entry for Samuel Cleveland (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:KN4J-Z2F); contributed by various users.

Acknowledgements

• Cleveland-1275 was created by Suzane Oliver through the import of the doctor.ged on Feb 21, 2015.