Joanna Cleaveland (1670-1758) is number 585 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandmother, who married #584 Joseph Keyes (1667-1757) on 28 May 1690 in Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
I am descended through:
* their son #292 Joseph Keyes (1698-1744) who married #293 Elizabeth Fletcher (1698-1775) in 1720.
* their son #146 Jonathan Keyes (1722-1781) who married #147 Elizabeth Fletcher (1720-1761) in 1746.
* their daughter #73 Elizabeth Keyes (1759-1793) who married #72 Zachariah Hildreth (1754-1829) in 1777.
* their son #36 Zachariah Hildreth (1783-1857) who married #37 Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857) in 1810.
* their son #18 Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) who married #19 Sophia Newton (1834-1923) in 1852.
* their daughter #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) who married #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) in 1874.
* their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) who married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.
* their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
* their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)
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1) PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Name: Joanna Cleveland[1–3]
* Alternate Name: Joanna Cleaveland[8]
* Alternate Name: Joanna Keyes[6]
* Alternate Name: Joannah Keyes[5]
* Alternate Name: Joanna Cleveland Keyes[4]
* Sex: Female
* Father: Moses Cleveland (1624-1702)
* Mother: Ann Winn (1626-1682)
2) INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Birth: 5 March 1670, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1–4]
* Distribution: 11 July 1757 (age 87), husband's will proved; Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[5]
* Death: 18 March 1758 (age 88), Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1-2,4,6–7]
* Burial: after 18 March 1758 (after age 88), Fairview Cemetery, Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[4]
3) SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Marriage 1: 28 May 1690 (age 23), Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1-2,8-10]
* Child 1: Miriam Keyes (1691- )
* Child 2: Lydia Keyes (1693-1762)
* Child 3: Joanna Keyes (1695-1787)
* Child 4: Joseph Keyes Jr. (1698-1744)
4) NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
: The Cleveland family genealogy book has an excellent record of the Moses and Ann (Winn) Cleveland family[1], and also the Joanna (Cleveland) Keyes family[2].
Joanna Cleveland was born 5 March 1670 in Woburn, Massachusetts, the 10th child (of 11) and 4th daughter of Moses and Ann (Winn) Cleveland of Woburn[1-4].
On 28 May 1690, Joanna Cleaveland (1670-1758) married Joseph Keyes in Chelmsford, Massachusetts[1-2,8-10]. He was the son of Solomon and Frances (Grant) Keyes of Chelmsford. They had four children, all born and recorded in Chelmsford:
* Miriam Keyes (1691-????), married 1728 John Lawson (1705-????).
* Lydia Keyes (1693-1762), married 1712 John Mudge (1686-1762).
* Joanna Keyes (1695-1787), married (1) 1716 Thomas Kidder (1690-1729); (2) 1732 Samuel Fitch (1699-1775).
* Joseph Keyes (1698-1744), married 1720 Elizabeth Fletcher (1698-1775).
Her husband, Joseph Keyes, died 9 June 1757 at age 90 in Westford, Massachusetts (which had split off from Chelmsford in about 1730). In his will dated 29 June 1745, and proved in Middlesex County Probate Court on 11 July 1757[5], he bequeathed to Joanna:
"Imprimus I Give and bequeath to Joannah my Dearly Beloved Wife all my Houshold goods During her Life..."
Joanna (Cleveland) Keyes died 18 March 1758 at age 88 in Westford, Massachusetts[1-2,4,6-7]. The gravestones of Joseph and Joanna (Cleveland) Keyes are in the Fairview Cemetery in Westford. Her gravestone in Fairview Cemetery in Westford says[4]:
"Here lies the Body of
Mrs Joanna Keyes
the Grandmother of
Mr. Jonathan Keyes
who departed this Life
March ye 18th 1758.
Being 87 Years & 11 months old"
5) SOURCES
1. Edmund James Cleveland and Horace Gillette Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families, (Hartford, Conn. : 1899), pages 23-32, Moses Cleveland family sketch.
2. Edmund James Cleveland and Horace Gillette Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families, (Hartford, Conn. : 1899), page 52, #11, Joanna Cleveland family sketch.
2. Edward F. Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths [5 Volumes], (Woburn, Mass.: The News Print, 1893), Volume 1, page 51, Joanna Cleveland birth entry, 5 April 1670.
4. Find A Grave, indexed database and digital image, (http://www.findagrave.com), Fairview Cemetery (Westford, Mass.), Joanna Cleveland Keyes memorial # 36127476.
5. "Middlesex County, Mass.: Probate Papers, 1648-1871," digital images, American Ancestors (http://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed, 10 February 2018), Probate Packet #13,196 (6 images), Joseph Keyes of Westford, 1757.
6. Vital Records of Westford, Massachusetts to the Year 1849 (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute, 1915), Deaths, page 293, Joanna Keyes entry, 18 March 1758.
7. "Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com), "Westford Births, Marriages and Deaths," Page 81 (Image 47 of 1750), Joanna Keyes death entry.
8. "Massachusetts, Town Records, 1620-1988," digital images, Ancestry.com, "Chelmsford, Town and Land Records, with Births, Marriages and deaths," page 30 (penned) (image 37 of 230), Joseph Keyes and Joanna Cleaveland marriage entry.
9. Town of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute, 1914), Marriages, page 262, Joseph Keyes and Joanna Cleaveland entry, 28 May 1690.
10. Asa Keyes, Genealogy: Robert Keyes of Watertown, Mass., 1633; Solomon Keyes of Newbury and Chelmsford, Mass., 1653, and Their Descendants; Also, Others of the Name (Barattleboro, Vt. : Geo. E. Selleck, Printer, 1880), page 148, #II (8) Joseph Keyes family sketch.
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NOTE: In 2014, Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog. I have extended this theme in 2021 for an eighth year to 416 Ancestors in 416 Weeks. The list of 52 Ancestors biographies from my great-grandparents to the 7th great-grandparents (in work) is in https://www.geneamusings.com/p/ancestor-biographies.html.
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