FATHER

Josiah Cleaveland

MOTHER

Abigail Paine

WIFE

Abigail Stevens

CHILDREN

1. Lydia Cleaveland b. 29 Mar 1747

2. Olive Cleaveland b. 17 Feb 1748-49

3. Abigail Cleaveland b. 16 Mar 1750-51

4. Filia Nata Cleaveland b. Abt 1753

5. Ebenezer Cleaveland b. 12 Oct 1754

6. Alice Cleaveland b. 06 Mar 1757

7. Mary Cleaveland b. 22 Aug 1759

8. Anna Cleaveland

9. William Pitt Amherst Cleaveland b. 15 Jan 1762

10. John Voss Cleaveland b. 08 Jul 1764

11. Alice Cleaveland b. 12 Dec 1767

12. Hepzibah Cleaveland b. 03 Oct 1769

13. Beulah Cleaveland b. 02 Feb 1772

Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating By William Richard Cutter Published 1908
Ebenezer Cleaveland, ninth child and fourth son of Josiah and Abigail (Paine) Cleaveland, born in Canterbury, Connecticut, December 25, 1725 (o. s.) or January 5, 1725-6 (n. s.) died in Gloucester, Sandy Bay, now Rockport, Massachusetts, July 4, 1805. He and his brother John were sent to Yale College, Ebenezer entering in 1741, both were expelled for attending a Separatist meeting while home pn vacation, but later, in 1764, received their degrees : in the catalogue Ebenezer is entered with the class of 1748. In 1751 Rev. Ebenezer Cleaveland first began to preach, at Sandy Bay. November 9, 1755. he was admitted to the newly-formed First church, his wife Abigail being admitted (from the First church of Canterbury) March 25, 1759. In November or December, 1755, he was ordained minister of this church and attests as pastor the parish meeting December 23, 1755, always signing his name with the initials V. D. M. (Verbis Dei Minister), not yet having received his college degree. During the French and Indian war, 1756-60, he served as chaplain to a Massachusetts regiment, was at Ticonderoga July 8, 1758, and in the expedition to Canada, 1759. According to church records it was voted December 19, 1762, that he preach at Squam. On May 15, 1768, he received consent from his parish for six months leave for a tour to the Mohawks. and he made extensive journeyings to ascertain how favorable were the conditions for encouraging the growth of Indian schools. The report he made on his return was acted upon and a school established which eventually developed into Dartmouth College. During the revolutionary war he was absent from his people much time to serve in the army. Upon his return home he found his parish in distressful condition from their service to their country ; they were deeply indebted to him for past salary and able to offer him but ninety quintals of hakefish per annum for his future support, and he was therefore compelled to accept an offer to become superintendent of Dartmouth College lands at Llandoff. New Hampshire, preaching in that and other towns, where he remained until about 1785. In that year he returned to Rockport and preached to his former congregation, when not otherwise engaged, for such compensation as they could offer. One year he spent in Maine as an evangelist. In 1792 he was settled in the ministry at Amesbury, preached there until 1797, then returned to his old home on Cape Ann, and there completed the remainder of his days in the house he built at the beginning of his ministry. He died July 4, 1805, aged eighty years. During his .various pastorates his churches were in the most flourishing condition, materially and spiritually, and his personal qualities won for him the highest praise
and regard from his contemporaries. Rev. Ebenezer Cleaveland married October 16, 1745, at Groton, Connecticut, Abigail, daughter of Cyprian and Abigail (Johnson) Stevens, of Killingly, Connecticut. She was born at Canterbury, Connecticut, 1727, and died in Gloucester, Massachusetts, December 25, 1804.

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