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Even greater antiquity is accorded the Cleve- land family than that suggested in a preceding paragraph, if we may accept the conclusions of students whose researches have carried back into the remote ages antedating the Christian era to B. C. 55, to Cæsar, who led the Romans into Britain and subdued the aborigines, which conquest was made complete A. D. 72. Then the district now known as Cleveland, in York- shire, England, was given the name Caluvium,
which name by the time of the Norman con- quest, 1066, had become Cliveland-a name descriptive of the region-and in the course of time became Cleveland, as now known, the seat of the family in the north riding of York- shire.
Such in brief is a mere outline of pre-Amer- ican history of the Cleveland ancestor who transplanted the name into the fertile region of New England in the year 1635, and from whom has sprung a numerous family of de- scendants, now scattered from ocean to ocean, from the far north to the gulf on the extreme south ; and towns and cities have been named in allusion to his descendants, while one who bears this honorable name has been twice ele- vated to the highest seat in our national gov- ernment-in its character and dignity a seat as exalted as that of any foreign potentate.
(I) Moyses Cleaveland-Moses Cleveland -the common ancestor of all who bear this surname and are of New England origin, went from Ipswich, Suffolk county, England, to London, and thence sailed for America in the year 1635, landing at Plymouth or Bos- ton, then being, according to family tradition, about eleven years old, for the court files in Woburn in 1663 state his age as thirty-nine. There are various traditions regarding his immigration to America, and the question never has been settled satisfactorily; and we only know that he was a boy of less than twelve years when he came to this country. He settled in Woburn and was admitted free- man there in 1643, had lands granted him, was a member of the trainband, married and died there. He died January 9, 1701-02. He married, September 26, 1648, Ann Winn, of whom one tradition says that she was born in Wales, and another in England, about 1626, and died in Woburn before May 6, 1682. The records of births, deaths and marriages for Woburn mentions their eleven children as fol- lows: I. Moses, born September 1, 1651, died before October 30, 1717; married, October 4, 1676, Ruth Norton. He was a soldier in King Philip's war. 2. Hannah, born August 4, 1653 ; married, September 24, 1677, Thomas Henshaw, a soldier in King Philip's war. 3.
Aaron, born January 10, 1655, died Septem- ber 14, 1716; married (first) September 26, 1675, Dorcas Wilson ; ( second) about 1714-15, Prudence He was a soldier in King Philip's war. 4. Samuel, born June 9, 1657 (see post). 5. Miriam, born July 10, 1659, died August 31, 1745 ; married, December 10, 1683, Thomas Foskett, son of John and Eliza- beth (Leech) Foskett. 6. Joanna, born Sep-
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tember 19, 1661, died March 12, 1667. 7. Ed- ward, born May 20, 1664, died Pomfret, Con- necticut, 1746; married (first) about 1684, Deliverance Palmer : (second) January I, 1722, Zeruiah Church. 8. Josiah, born Feb- ruary 26, 1666-67, died Canterbury, Connecti- cut, April 26, 1709 ; married, about 1689, Mary Bates. 9. Isaac, born May II, 1669, died Nor- wich, Connecticut, August 10, 1714; married, July 17-18, 1699, Mrs. Elizabeth Curtis, widow of John Curtis and daughter of Samuel and Mary Pierce. 10. Joanna, born April 5, 1670, died Westfield, Massachusetts, March 18, 1758; married, May 28, 1690, Joseph Keyes. II. Enoch, born August 1, 1671, died August I, 1729; married (first) October 9, 1695, Elizabeth Counce; (second) July 9, 1719, Elizabeth Wright.
(II) Sergeant Samuel, third son and fourth child of Moses and Ann (Winn) Cleveland, was born in Woburn, June 9, 1657, and died in Canterbury, Connecticut, March
12, 1735-36. He was a soldier in King Philip's war and held the rank of sergeant, serving in 1675 under Major Simon Willard, and in 1676 under Captain Joseph Sill. He was made freeman in 1689-90, and lived in Chelmsford, Massachusetts; returned to Woburn in 1693 and in the same year removed to Canterbury, Connecticut. In the latter town he took a prominent part in public affairs and was one of the men selected for considering "all that may tend to the good well fare of this town." Sergeant Cleveland married (first) in Chelms- ford, May 17, 1680, Jane Keyes, born in New- bury, Massachusetts, June 25, 1660, died No- vember 14, 1681, daughter of Solomon and Frances (Grant) Keyes. "Serg. Solomon Keies from England, of Newbury, Mass., 1653, he and his brother Joseph took up land in Chelmsford 1664-5, town clerk, tything man, his old homestead still stands in West- ford, Middlesex co., Mass .; married Oct. 2, 1653, Frances Grant." Samuel Cleveland married (second) May 23, 1682, Persis Hil- dreth, born in Chelmsford, February 8, 1660, died in Canterbury, February 22, 1698, daugh- ter of Richard and Elizabeth Hildreth. He married (third) July 25, 1699, Mrs. Margaret Fish, widow of John Fish. Samuel Cleveland had nine children : I. Jane, born about 1681, died Southborough, Massachusetts, April 12, 1745; married, 1702, Colonel William Ward. 2. Persis, born April 21, 1683; married, Octo- ber 24, 1706, Thomas Hewitt. 3. Samuel, born January 12, 1685, died Canterbury, Octo- ber I, 1727. 4. Ephraim, born April 10, 1687, died Canterbury, March 13, 17II. 5. Joseph,
born July 18, 1689, died Canterbury, March II, 1766; married ( first) February 7, 1710-II, Abigail Hyde, born Cambridge, Massachu- setts, August 8, 1688, died Canterbury, December 16, 1724; married ( second) March 31, 1725, Sarah Ainsworth, or Ensworth, born Plainfield, Connecticut, June 12, 1699, died Canterbury, June 21, 1761. 6. Elizabeth, born June 26, 1693 ; married (first) April 21, 1717, John Ensworth; married (second) May 2, 1733, Christopher Huntington. 7. Mary, born June 14, 1696, died March II, 1766; married, October 5, 1719, Joseph Ensworth. 8. Abi- gail, born April 23, 1700, died February 23, 1717-18. 9. Timothy, born August 25, 1702, died January 19, 1784.
(III) Joseph, third son and fifth child of Samuel and Persis (Hildreth) Cleveland, his second wife, was born in Chelmsford, Massa- chusetts, July 18, 1689, and died in Canter- bury, Connecticut, March II, 1766. He was called sergeant and sometimes was addressed as mister, in order, it is said, to distinguish him from his cousin of the same name. He held an important place in town affairs and served as surveyor of highways, hayward and fenceviewer. Married (first) Abigail Hyde, February 7, 1710-II. She was born in Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, August 8, 1688, and died in Canterbury, December 16, 1724, daughter of Jonathan and Dorothy ( Kidder) Hyde. Jonathan Hyde, born Newton, Massa- chusetts, April 1, 1655, was a son of Sergeant Jonathan Hyde, born 1626, and was of New Cambridge (Cambridge) Massachusetts. His wife was Mary French. For his second wife Joseph Cleveland married, March 31, 1725, Sarah Ainsworth, born in Plainfield, Connec- . ticut, June 12, 1699, died June 21, 1761. He had nine children, seven by his first and two by his second marriage: I. Ephraim, born February 3, 1711-12, died after 1781. 2. Jonathan, born May 9, 1713, died Canterbury, March 19, 1754; whether single or married unknown; inherited property from his father. 3. Benjamin, born May 20, 1714, died East Brookfield, Orange county, Vermont, 1797; married, 1736, Rachel 4. Dorothy. born March 31, 1716, died probably unmar- ried ; admitted to the church at Canterbury, October 25, 1729. 5. John, died Canterbury, March 5, 1754. 6. Elijah, born January 5, 1720-21, died Hillsdale, Columbia county, New York, September 28, 1794; married, about 1748, Alice Lawrence. 7. Persis, born 1723, baptized Canterbury, April 7, 1723 ; mar- ried, Pomfret, February 18, 1754, Henry Bacon. 8. Ezra, born 1726, baptized Canter-
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bury, April 17, 1726, died 1802. 9. Samuel, born June 7, 1730, died Royalton, Vermont, September, 1809; married (first) May 7, 1751, Ruth Darbe; married ( second) March II, 1784, Anna Welch.
(IV) Ephraim, eldest son and child of Joseph Cleveland, was born in Canterbury, Connecticut, February 3, 1711-12, and died later than 1781. He left Canterbury and set- tled at Dedham, Massachusetts, and in 1743 owned land in Hardwick. He afterward lived in West Bridgewater and in 1762 located in Hardwick, where he was a saddler. He was assessor in 1781. He married (first) Janu- ary 14, 1734-35, Abigail Curtis, born in Rox- bury, November, 1716, died at Dedham,' Au- gust 30, 1738, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Lyon) Curtis. He married (second) November 21, 1738, Ruth Nichols, who died October 14, 1744; married (third) March 26, 1746-47, Mrs. Hannah Hayward, whose fam- ily name was Paige. Ephraim Cleveland had fourteen children: 1. Ephraim, born Septem- ber 13, 1737; married, November 15, 1770, Dorothy (or Dolly, or Lydia) Whipple. 2. Jacob, born October 3, 1739, baptized First Church, Dedham, October 7, 1739. 3. Sarah, born December 21, 1740. 4. Rebekah, born July 3, 1742 ; married, 1763, Simon Chamber- lain. 5. Abigail, born May 21-28, 1744; mar- ried Amos Hunter. 6. Louis, twin, born Jan- uary 9, 1747-48, died December 22, 1752. 7. Louisa, twin, born January 9, 1747-48; mar- ried John Gardner, dwelt Hardwick. Gard- ner, Worcester county, Massachusetts, named for descendants. 8. Joseph, born April 26, 1749, died Richmond, New York, April 9, 1844; married (first) May 4, 1772, Elizabeth Wheeler, died 1827; married (second) Mrs. -, widow. 9. Benjamin, born December 18, 1751 ; reported to have settled in Oneida county, New York. 10. Elijah, born June I, 1753-54, died July 15, 1812. II. Ebenezer, twin, born December 21, 1755, died Decem- ber 7, 1800; married, November 28, 1790, Bet- sey Barnard. 12. Lucia, twin, born December 21, 1755; marriage published December 4, 1780, Ichabod Eddy. 13. Olive, born Febru- ary 14, 1759; married, April 17, 1785, Silas Whittaker. 14. Persis, born February 25, 1760, died Richmond, New Hampshire, December, 1798; married, October 9, 1783, Aaron Cooley, born 1743, died June, 1833.
(V) Elijah, son of Ephraim and Hannah (Paige) (Hayward) Cleveland, his third wife, was born June I, 1753 (or 1754) and died in Hardwick, Massachusetts, July 15, 1812. He succeeded to the farm formerly
owned by his father which afterward passed to his own son Elijah. His wife, whom he married May 15, 1789, was Sarah Marsh, who died April 2, 1842, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Olmstead) Marsh (whose baptismal name was Ephraim) was a son of Thomas and Mary (Trumbull) Marsh, grandson of Samuel and Mary (Allison) Marsh, great- grandson of John Marsh, whose first wife was Annie (Webster) Marsh, and great-great- grandson of John Marsh, of Braintree, Eng- land, who was of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, in 1638. Elijah and Sarah (Marsh) Cleve- land had seven children : I. Elijah, born October 16, 1790, died October 28, 1856; mar- ried, December 14, 1819, Lucy Barnes. 2. Royal, born March 25, 1793, died February 26, 1875 ; married, June 1, 1820, Sarah Smith. 3. Polly, born May 12, 1797, died Greenwich, Massachusetts, May 1, 1854; married, Decem- ber 31, 1818, Rufus Barnes. 4. Joseph, born August 16, 1800, died May 15, 1894. 5. Cal- vin, born October 2, 1803, or 1804, died Fitch- burg, Massachusetts, June 4, 1878; married, December 16, 1829, Sarah Eaton. 6. Alvin, born August 23, 1807, married, Surrey, New Hampshire, February 5, 1836, Rosetta Darte. 7. Cutler, born 1811, died 1812.
(VI) Joseph (2), fourth child of Elijah and Sarah (Marsh) Cleveland, was born in Hardwick, Massachusetts, August 16, 1800, died there May 15, 1894. Although but a boy, he served in the war of 1812-15 as a drummer, and the drum he used in service is still in the possession of his descendants. By occupation he was a farmer. He was twice married. His first wife, whom he married a week after Thanksgiving day in 1820, was Amy Barnes, who was born in Hardwick in December, 1806, died there March 17, 1823, a daughter of Adonijah and Chloe (Knights or Wheeler) Barnes. His second marriage, published in Hardwick, September 12, or 15, 1825, was with Bathsheba Burgess, who was born in Hardwick, January 14, 1806, died there No- vember 5, 1881, daughter of Luther and Sarah (Carpenter) Burgess. One child was born to the first wife and twelve to the second: I. Jason Welcome, born July 30, 1822, married, January 24, 1842, Lucy Harriet Smith. 2. Joseph Andrew, born February 20, 1827, died Coldbrook, Massachusetts, January 16, 1883 ; married, November 22, 1846, Mary Elizabeth Chamberlain. 3. Son, born February 24, 1828, died in infancy. 4. Henry Luther, born Au- gust 5, 1829, married, October 23, 1851, Amanda Keith. 5. Charles Cutler, born Au- gust 18, 1831, died February 22, 1885 ; mar-
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ried, 1855, Eliza Maria Lovell. 6. Charlotte Samantha, born December, 1833, died August 14, 1835. 7. Frederick Mortimer, born Jan- uary 29, 1836, died December 9, 1876. 8. Alvin Albert, born May 7, 1838; married (first ) December 22, 1858, Mary Jane Lowe, died April 28, 1878; married (second) August 25, 1879, Mrs. Mary (Bennett) Stone. 9. William Harrison, born March 25, 1841, died August 29, 1862, while being removed on a boat from Fredericksburg, Virginia, to Alex- andria, Virginia ; married, July 17, 1861, Mary Alice Atwood; served in civil war. IO. Dwight S., born November 22, 1843, served in nineteen battles in civil war; married, June 26, 1861, Sarah Jane Atwood. II. Franklin Herbert, born December II, 1846, served in civil war; married, June 11, 1870, Ida Maria Lamb. 12. Alpheus Austin, born June 3, 1852, married Arabella Warner. 13. Son, born December 29, 1854, died December 31, 1854.
(VII) Frederick Mortimer, seventh child and sixth son of Joseph (2) and Bathsheba (Burgess) Cleveland, was born in Hardwick, Massachusetts, January 29, 1836. Early thrown on his own resources, he determined to obtain a thorough education and succeeded, by dint of hard work and close application, so well that he was able to take up teaching as a business. He followed that profession for twenty-two years and won an excellent repu- tation as an educator. In 1876 he visited the centennial exposition at Philadelphia, and upon returning to his home was taken with typhoid fever and died December 9, 1876, at Hardwick. He married, in Hardwick, May 4, 1864, Ellen Jane Barnes, born at Hard- wick, March 11, 1843, daughter of William Sumner and Lucinda Howe Barnes. After the death of her first husband, Mrs. Cleveland married, at Greenwich, Massachusetts, Octo- ber 19, 1880, Hervey Walker King, who was born in Hardwick, August 16, 1852, son of John and Mary (Richardson) King. Children of Frederick Mortimer and Ellen Jane (Barnes) Cleveland : I. Eugene Sumner, born March 31, 1865; married, Charlestown, Massachusetts, December 25, 1889, Carrie Belle Poland, born Friendship, Maine, March 19, 1872, daughter of Captain Sylvester Mor- ton and Frances Ellen (Condon) Poland ; children : Frederick Eugene, Ethel Francis, Morris M. and Richard Sumner. 2. Leslie Linwood, born March 10, 1871, graduated from Athol, Massachusetts, high school, 1887; Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Massachu- setts, 1889; Williams College, 1893. 3. Heber
Howe, born September 3, 1872 (see post). 4. Ernest Elgin, born July 23, 1876, graduate of Massachusetts Institute Technology, Boston.
(VIII) Heber Howe, third son and child of Frederick Mortimer and Ellen Jane (Barnes) Cleveland, was born in Barre, Massachusetts, September 3, 1872. His father died when he was but four years old, and he was left in much the same position in which his father had been in his youth. When eleven years old he began to make his own way in the world, earning money by peddling shavings at ten cents per barrel. In this con- nection may be mentioned an incident which will show the discouragements and difficulties that even a child may meet when he faces the world alone. Setting out one day with four or five barrels of shavings, he called on a man who told him that the shavings were not pressed down properly. Mr. Cleveland in- formed him that he had trodden them down as best he could, whereupon the man began treading down the shavings, and being a heavy man, finally succeeded in getting the shavings from three barrels into one, then pompously informing him that he "called that a barrel- full," he handed him ten cents and told him to "run along." Soon after this he was given the chance to "pile staves" at eight cents per thousand; working before and after school hours he soon became expert and often on Saturday earned as much as two and a half dollars. This work he continued until he en- tered the high school, where as janitor he paid his way. After graduating from the high school he entered Cushing Academy at Ashburnham, Massachusetts, worked his way by doing whatever he could find and gradu- ated in 1891. After leaving the academy he taught school for two years, in the same school where his father had taught for so many years and where many of his pupils were children of parents who had been taught by his father. He then entered Williams College, at Willams- town, Massachusetts, and one year later, in the fall of 1895, took up the study of medicine at Harvard Medical School, where he graduated M.D. in 1899. During his college course he won a scholarship of two hundred dollars, and also earned his way through college by tutoring. While in his senior year at Harvard he passed the state medical examination, and after gradu- ation began the practice of medicine in Bos- ton, where he remained until 1900, when he removed to Auburn, Maine. In his practice he has specialized in surgery and in 1903 was appointed to the staff of attending surgeons of the Central Maine General Hospital, which
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position he still holds. He is a member of the Medical Research, Androscoggin County Medical Society, Maine Medical Association, American Health Association, National Aux- iliary Committee of Medical Legislation, Tranquil Lodge, No. 29, A. F. and A. M., Bradford Chapter, No. 38, R. A. M., Lewis- ton Commandery, No. 6, Dunlap Council .of Auburn, Kora Temple, and Conway Castle, No. 3, K. G. E.
Dr. Cleveland married, June 25, 1901, Josie L. Blanchard, born July 17, 1877, daughter of George W. and Theodosia (Hutchinson) Blanchard, and granddaughter of Calvary Blanchard. Two children have been born to this marriage, Frederick George, born March 18, 1904 ; and Theodosia Helen, born June 10, 1907.
JONES Ralph Jones, immigrant ancestor, was born in England. He was a settler at Plymouth before 1643, when his name appears on the list of those able to bear arms. He removed to Barn- stable as early as 1654 and lived in the sec- tion called Scorton. His house was on the main land a few feet from the Sandwich line, and many of his descendants have lived in the town of Sandwich. He was a farmer and owned lands with the Fuller family with which he was connected by marriage. As early as 1657 he was inclined to the Society of Friends, for in that year he was fined for not attend- ing meeting, though the meeting house of the parish was six miles away. He took the pre- scribed oath of allegiance in 1657, an oath that Quakers did not take as a rule. But he soon became a zealous member of the Society of Friends, as shown by the following quaint account by George Keith of his persecution by the Puritan zealots: "From an honest man, a Quaker, in the town of Barnstable, were taken four cows with some calves, the Quaker's name being Ralph Jones, who is yet alive, and these cattle were taken away by the Preacher of that town-his son-in-law who had married his daughter and returned to the Priest as a part of his wages. The Priest sent to Ralph Jones to tell him he might have two of his cows returned to him if he could send for them. But he never sent and so the priest used them and disposed of them as his own, killed one of the calves and sent a part of it to his daughter that lay in child bed; she no sooner did eat a little of the calf but fell into great trouble and cried: 'Return home the man's Cows. I hear a great noise of them ;' and so died in that trouble. The Priest
alleged the Quakers had bewitched the daughter although it cannot be proved that ever they had any business with her. But to what evil construction will not malice and Hypocrisie and covetousness bend a thing? Sometime after-the said Preacher killed some of these cows,to be eat in his house saying he would try if the Quakers would bewitch him, and not long after he died even before the flesh of these cows was all eat. This passage is so fresh in that town that it is acknowledged by divers of the neighbors to be true." This account was printed as early as 1693 and again in 1702. It would be explained that the Quakers refused to pay rates to support the ministers of the Puritan town churches; the cows were taken for delinquent taxes and the constable (probably Deacon Job Crocker) who took the cows was son-in-law of the min- ister. Rates were paid in cattle, grain, etc., by the citizens and received at a stipulated amount by the minister, money being not avail- able even to pay taxes and minister's salaries. Crocker was son-in-law of Rev. Thomas Walley.
Jones made his will May 1I, 1691; it was proved April 29, 1692, bequeathing to "my friends called Quackers"; to wife "land bought by my father Fuller"; to sons Shubael, Ralph, Samuel, Matthew, Ephraim and John; daughters Mercy, Mary and Mehitable (Hit- table). He married, April 17, 1650, Mary, daughter of Captain Matthew Fuller, of Plymouth. Children, born at Barnstable: I. Mehitable, born about 1651, probably at Plymouth ; married John Fuller Jr. and set- tled at East Haddam, Connecticut. 2. Matthew, married, January 14, 1694-95, Mary Goodspeed. 3. Shubael, born August 27, 1654, was living in Sandwich in 1692. 4. Jedediah, born August 14, 1656, married, March 18, 1681-82, Hannah Davis; his son Isaac had a son Jedediah, who married, April 14, 1737, Mary Fuller, of Sandwich. 5. John, born August 14, 1659, removed from Barn- stable. 6. Mercy, born November 14, 1666. 7. Ralph, born October 1, 1669. 8. Samuel, married, June 26, 1718, Mary Bliss. 9. Ephraim. 10. Mary.
(I) Eliphalet, descendant of Ralph Jones, and probably of his son Shubael who settled in Sandwich, was born and lived in Sand- wich. The condition of the records makes it impossible to trace the two or more genera- tions between Shubael and Eliphalet, but it is known that all the Sandwich family are de- scended from Ralph Jones. Eliphalet was born about 1770. He was probably a ship-
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wright by trade. He removed to Boston, where he married Prudence Hall. Their son Eliphalet is mentioned below.
(II) Eliphalet (2), son of Eliphalet (I), Jones, was born in Boston, August 31, 1797. He attended the Eliot School in Boston under Masters Little and Tileston in the palmy days of the ferule and rattan, and made a cred- itable record for scholarship. He was at graduation one of the Franklin medal schol- ars, and on selectmen's day had the honor with the other Franklin medal scholars of dining with the dignitaries in Fanueil Hall. In 18II he became junior clerk in the store of Norcross, Mellen & Company, dealers in crockery, earthenware and pottery, Boston. He became a partner of Otis Norcross, the senior member of this firm, a few years later and the firm name became Otis Norcross & Company. This name continued as long as Mr. Jones was in the firm, although Otis Nor- cross Jr. succeeded his father in the firm. The business was very prosperous and made several fortunes. In 1847 Mr. Jones retired from business to enjoy the wealth he had acquired. He made his home in Boston dur- ing and after his business activity and was a leading citizen. For seven years he was a member of the old volunteer fire department. In 1847 he was a member of the common council of Boston from ward five, and in 1850 he represented his district in the general court. In politics he was originally a Whig, but a Republican after that party was organized. He was for many years a director of the Union Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Mr. Jones was greatly respected in the business community for his intelligence, industry and integrity and highly prized by his numerous personal friends for his genial, liberal and manly characteristics. He was interested in history and was a prominent member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, a liberal contributor to the fund for the pur- chase of the present building on Somerset street. Many of the facts of this sketch are taken from a memoir in the proceedings of that society, written by George Montfort, of Bos- ton. Mr. Jones died March 17, 1873, and was buried at Mount Auburn cemetery. He mar- ried, March 28, 1824, Sally Paine Adams Rust, born April 18, 1802, died July 6, 1883. (See Rust, VII.) Children, born in Boston : I.
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