Oliver Cleveland (1733 - 1803)

Born Oct 1733 in North Kingston, Rhode Island Colony [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Azubah (Smith) Cleveland — married 1754 in Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 5 Sep 1803 at age 69 in Fair Haven, Rutland, Vermont

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Biography

One account gives Rhode Island as Oliver's place of birth, likely North Kingston whose records were destroyed by fire. (Other accounts that he was born in Hampton, Washington County, New York seem most unlikely, as that area had not yet been settled in the 1730's.) He removed at some early point to Connecticut, and then from there to by-then-settled Hampton, which is just across the state line from Vermont, and then just across that line to Fair Haven, Vermont.^[1]

1790 Census:

Name: Oliver Cleveland

Event place: Fair Haven, Rutland, Vermont^[2]

1800 Census:

Name: Oliver Cleveland

Residence: Fair Haven, Rutland, Vermont^[3]

Military:

Name: Oliver Cleveland

Event: Military

Record type: Individual

State: Vermont

Regiment: Lee's Regiment, Militia^[4]

Marriage and Children

Oliver Cleaveland married Azubah Smith about 1750.^[1]

Oliver and Azubah had:^[1][5]

• Sarah, b. Nov. 15, 1756, married Isaac Race
• Azubah, b. 16 April 1759, married Benjamin Parmenter
• Josiah, b. 23 March 1761
• Rhoda, b. 18 Aug 1764, married Thomas Dibble
• Anna, b. 28 Feb, 1766, married John Lewis
• Esther, b. 8 Aug 1770, married James Sharp
• Albert, b. 19 June 1772, m. Alvirah/Elvira Bibbins, had 9 children in Fair Haven, Vermont
• James, b. 6 Dec 1774, m. Charity Way, had 9 children, then Mrs. Sybel Gibbs Maynard
• Lydia, b. 31 March 1776, m. Lewis Maranville.
• Sabriah, b. 16 Dec 1779, d. 12 Mar 1796

NOTE: Another Lydia, Lydia Matteson was formerly attached to this family. But she was the daughter of Joseph Cleveland, and therefore has been detached from this profile. [[Bullen-506 | Halsey Bullen]

In the 1800 Federal census of Fair Haven, Oliver Cleveland was counted, along with two women 46 or over and one girl 10-16. Josiah, James, and "Alford" Cleveland were counted as heads of separate households in Fair Haven.^[6]

Oliver died in Fair Haven on September 5, 1803, in his 70th year. His widow Azubah lived on until August 20, 1823, dying at the house of her son-in-law Lewis Maranville.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Adams, Andrew N., A History of the Town of Fair Haven, Vermont in Three Parts, (Fair Haven, 1870, Leonard & Phelps), viewed without charge on https://books.google.com/books?, pp. 316-317
2. ↑ page number: 257, line number: 7270, nara publication number: M637, nara roll number: 12, film number: 0568152, digital folder number: 004440914, image number: 00186
3. ↑ page number: 100, nara publication number: M32, nara roll number: 52, film number: 218689, digital folder number: 004440858, image number: 00089
4. ↑ nara publication title: Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War nara publication number: M881, nara roll number: 0895
5. ↑ No birth records indicating the birthplace of these children have yet been found. In particular, no Cleveland births are reported in Killingworth, Connecticut town records.
6. ↑ http://www.newhorizonsgenealogicalservices.com/1800-census-vt-rutland-fairhaven.htm

• Cleveland, Edmund Janes, and Horace Gillette Cleveland. The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families: an attempt to trace, in both the male and the female lines, the posterity of Moses1 Cleveland who came from Ipswich, County Suffolk, England, about 1635, was of Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; of Alexander Cleveland of Prince William County, Virginia; and of ancient and other Clevelands in England, America and elsewhere; with numerous biographical sketches; and containing ancestries of many of the husbands and wives; also a bibliography of the Cleveland family and a genealogical account of Edward Winn of Woburn and of other Winn families. (Hartford, Connecticut: Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company: 1899), Vol. 1 pp. 296, 723-727.)

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