CLEVELAND, Aaron

Aaron Cleveland

1654 - 1729

Cleveland, Aaron, Woburn, sec. s. of Moses the first, m. 26 Sept. 1675, Dorcas Wilson, whose f. is unkn. to me, had Dorcas, b. 29 Oct. 1676; Hannah, 18 Nov. 1678, d. next yr.; Aaron, 9 July 1680; Hannah, again, 2 June 1687; Moses, 24 Feb. 1690; Sarah, 5 Mar. 1692; Miriam, 9 July 1694; Isabel, 6 Apr. 1697, d. at 17 yrs.; and Benjamin, 16 May 1701. His w. d. at Cambridge, 29 Nov. 1714, and he had, it is said, sec. w. Prudence, but d. 14 Sept. 1716. Prob. that Rev. Aaron, H. C. 1735, wh. d. 18 Aug. 1757, at Philadelphia, in the ho. of Dr. Franklin, was his gr. s. EDWARD, and ISAAC, brs. of the preced. acc. fam. tradit. had fams. but neither the dates of m. nor of b. of ch. nor names of mos. nor residence of fs. can be found. ENOCH, youngest s. of the first Moses, was a tailor, and liv. in var. places, had w. Eliz. and eldest s. Jonathan, ano. s. and a. d. whose names are not heard. He d. at Concord 1729, and his wid. d. soon after. JOSIAH, Chelmsford 1691, br. of the preced. had serv. in Ind. war, by w. Mary had Josiah, b. 7 Oct. 1690; and Joseph, 13 June 1695; rem. to Canterbury, Conn. there had Henry, perhaps 1697; Mary, prob. 1699; John; Rachel; Lydia, 7 Dec. 1704; d. Deliverance, 13 July 1707, and d. Abiel, posthum. 9 Oct. 1709; the f. d. 26 Apr. preced. MOSES, Woburn, came, says fam. tradit. (with his master, a joiner, of wh. he was apprent.) from Ipswich, Co. Suffk. m. 26 Sept. 1648, Ann, d. of Edward Winn, had Moses, b. 1 Sept. 1651; Hannah, 4 Aug. 1653; Aaron, 10 Jan. 1655; Samuel, 9 June 1657; Miriam, 10 July 1659; Joanna, 19 Sept. 1661, d. soon; Edward, 20 May 1663; Josiah, 26 Feb. 1667; Isaac, 11 May 1669; Joanna, again, 5 Apr. 1670; and Enoch, 1 Aug. [p.407] 1671 ; and d. 9 Jan. 1702. Hannah m. 24 Sept. 1677, Thomas Hensher of W.; Miriam m. a Fosdick of Charlestown; and Joanna m. a Keyes. MOSES, Woburn, eldest s. of the preced. m. 4 Oct. 1676, Ruth Norton, had Ann, b. 7 Nov. 1677; and Joseph, 31 Mar. 1686. SAMUEL, Canterbury, br. of the preced. m. 17 May 1680, Jane, d. of Solomon Keyes of Chelmsford, wh. d. 4 Nov. 1681. He m. 23 May foll. Persis, d. of Richard Hildreth, wh. d. 22 Feb. 1698; and he prob. d. 1736. His ch. b. at Chelmsford were Persis, 21 Apr. 1683; Samuel, 12 Jan. 1685; and Joseph, 18 July 1689; but after his rem. to Canterbury in 1693, he had Mary, 14 June 1696; and by a third w. m. 25 July 1699, wid. Margaret Fish, he had Abigail, 23 Apr. 1700; and Timothy, Aug. 1702. It is suppos. that all of this name, sometimes writ. Cleveland, derive from Moses the first; and in 1834 seven had been gr. at Yale, five at Harv. and eleven at other N. E. coll. beside the honora. M. D. to eight more.

Source:  Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, - Vol. I-IV (4). Boston, 1860-1862.

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