Saturday, May 4, 2013

Surname Saturday - CLEAVELAND (England > colonial Massachusetts)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  

I am in the 7th great-grandmothers, up to number 585: Joanna CLEAVELAND (1670-1758). [Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 7th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two American generations of this CLEAVELAND family line is:

1.  Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)


18.  Edward Hildreth (1831-1899)
19.  Sophia Newton (1834-1923)

36.  Zachariah Hildreth (1783-1857)
37.  Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857)

72.  Zachariah Hildreth (1754-1828)
73.  Elizabeth Keyes (1758-1793)

146.  Jonathan Keyes (1722-1781)
147.  Elizabeth Fletcher (1720-1761)


292.  Joseph Keyes (1698-172)

293.  Elizabeth Fletcher (1698-1775)


584.  Joseph Keyes, born 24 May 1667 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 09 June 1757 in Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 1168. Solomon Keyes and 1169. Frances Grant.  He married 28 May 1690 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
585.  Joanna Cleaveland, born 05 March 1669/70 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 18 March 1758 in Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  
Children of Joseph Keyes and Joanna Cleaveland are:
*  Lydia Keyes (1693-????), married Mudge.
*  Joanna Keyes (1695-1787), married (1) Thomas Kidder, (2) Samuel Fitch
*  Joseph Keyes (1698-1744), married Elizabeth Fletcher
*  Miriam Keyes (1700-????), married John Lawson.

1170.  Moses Cleaveland, born 1624 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England; died 09 January 1701/02 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He married 26 September 1648 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
1171.  Ann Winn, born 1626 in England; died before May 1682 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  She was the daughter of 2342. Edward Winn and 2343. Joanna.
Children of Moses Cleaveland and Ann Winn are:
*  Moses Cleaveland (1651-1718), married Ruth Norton.
*  Hannah Cleaveland (1653-????), married Thomas Henshaw
*  Aaron Cleaveland (1655-1716), married (1) Prudence; (2) Dorcas Wilson
*  Samuel Cleaveland (1657-1736), married (1) Jane Keyes; (2) Persis Hildreth; (3) Margaret
*  Miriam Cleaveland (1659-1735), married Thomas Koskett.
*  Joanna Cleaveland (1661-1667)
*  Edward Cleaveland (1664-1746), married (1) Deliverance Palmer; (2) Zeruiah Church.
*  Josiah Cleaveland (1667-1709), married Mary Bates.
*  Isaac Cleaveland (1669-1714), married Elizabeth Curtis.
*  Joanna Cleaveland (1670-1758), married Joseph Keyes.
*  Enoch Cleaveland (1671-1729), married (1) Elizabeth Counts; (2) Elizabeth Wright.

Information for these families were obtained from:

*  Edmund James Cleveland and Horace Gillette Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families (Hartford CT : Lockwood and Brainerd Co., 1899).  

* G. Molyneaux Wheeler, The Wheeler Family of Cranfield, England and Concord, Massachusetts and Some Descendants of Sgt. Thomas Wheeler of Concord (Long Beach, Calif. : the author, 1992).

*  Massachusetts Town Vital Record books

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Copyright (c) 2013, Randall J. Seaver

1 comment:

SearchShack said...

Have a distant connection here

My lineage:
MOSES CLEVELAND m. ANN WINN through son JOSIAH CLEVELAND m. MARY BATES
LYDIA CLEVELAND m. OBADIAH JOHNSON
OBADIAH JOHNSON m. LUCY CADY SPAULDING
OBADIAH JOHNSON m. LUCINDA COBB
LUCINDA JOHNSON m. JOHN BACKUS
LUCINDA BACKUS m. AMARIAH NELSON BEMIS
MARY ELIZA BEMIS m. ALBERT CHACE GREENE
EDWARD CHACE GREENE m. AGNES ELEANOR DENSMORE
EDWARD CHACE GREENE m. HELEN REBECCA MATHIS
my mother
me

not quite so elegantly sourced (yet...)