Ezra Cleveland (1726 - 1802)

Born 30 May 1726 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Jerusha (Newcomb) Cleveland — married 1745 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 7 Nov 1802 at age 76 in Burlington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Ezra Cleveland, the son of Joseph Cleveland and his second wife, Sarah Ensworth, was baptized April 17, 1726. Ezra married Jerusha Newcomb.^[1]

Ezra Cleveland, in 1772, was "late of Tolland, but now of Worthington, Massachusetts. " Ezra was deeded land, 1753, by his father. Jerusha, wife of Ezra, admitted to Congregational church, Canterbury, May 1745. Assembly, May 1760, releases Ezra Cleveland and other dissenters from church taxes. Enlisted in war on July 20, 1777; was discharge July 31, 1777. Marched on expedition to Manchester.

He died 7 January 1802 in Burlington, Connecticut.^[2]

Buried at Burlington, but in 1882, when his great, great grandson James Monroe Cleveland (realizing that the gravestones would soon crumble), transported the remains of Ezra and his son Ezra to his lot in Elmwood Cemetary, Adams, Jefferson Co., NY.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Horace Gillette Cleveland, “A Genealogy of Benjamin Cleveland”, Chicago, 1879, page 7.
2. ↑ "Connecticut, Charles R. Hale Collection, Vital Records, 1640-1955", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F72D-2ZZ : 16 September 2020), Ezra Cleveland, 1802.
3. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54086275/ezra-cleveland : accessed 05 November 2021), memorial page for Ezra Cleveland (30 May 1726–7 Nov 1802), Find A Grave: Memorial #54086275, citing Elmwood Cemetery, Adams, Jefferson County, New York, USA ; Maintained by Dave Weller (contributor 47070868) .

• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F742-3FL : 7 January 2020), Ezra Cleveland in entry for Ezra Cleveland, 1748.

• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F742-3G7 : 7 January 2020), Ezra Cleveland in entry for Tyxhall Cleveland, 1750.

• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F742-3JR : 7 January 2020), Ezra Cleveland in entry for Thomas Cleveland, 1752.

• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7WF-HXL : 7 January 2020), Ezra Cleveland in entry for Sarah Cleveland, 1754.

• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F742-34Z : 7 January 2020), Ezra Cleveland in entry for Newcombe Cleveland, 1756.

• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7WF-HZT : 7 January 2020), Ezra Cleveland in entry for Jerusha Cleveland, 1758.

• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7WF-H88 : 7 January 2020), Ezra Cleveland in entry for Arunah Cleveland, 1763.

• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7WF-H22 : 7 January 2020), Ezra Cleveland in entry for Zerviah Cleveland, 1765.

• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7WF-HV5 : 7 January 2020), Ezra Cleveland in entry for Dorothy Cleveland, 1767.

• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F742-SHR : 7 January 2020), Ezra Cleveland in entry for Frederick Cleveland, 1770.

• "Connecticut, Charles R. Hale Collection, Vital Records, 1640-1955", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F72D-2ZZ : 16 September 2020), Ezra Cleveland, 1802.

See Also:

• "The genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland families" page 138
• "Descendants of Governor William Bradford, Through The First Seven Generations (n.p., 1951 page 61