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Aaron Cleveland

Also Known As: "Cleaveland"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Death: September 14, 1716 (60)
Woburn, Middlesex Countty, Province of Massachusetts
Place of Burial: Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Moses Cleveland and Ann Cleveland
Husband of Dorcas Cleveland
Father of Dorcas Knight; Hannah Cleveland; Capt. Aaron Cleveland; Hannah Beard; Moses Cleveland and 5 others
Brother of Moses Cleveland; Hannah Henshaw; Samuel Cleveland; Miriam Foskett; Joanna Cleveland, Died Young and 6 others

Military Service: Aaron was a soldier in King Philips War under Lt. Capt. John Cutier. Pg. 40 1676 King Philips War
Managed by: Richard Frank Henry
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About Aaron Cleveland

Aaron Cleveland served in King Philip's war, as did his brothers Moses and Samuel.

By trade a housewright, farmer and land speculator, he gave to his children the best educational advantages of that day.

He was made a freeman in 1680, and became a man of wealth and distinction, prominent in all public affairs.


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AARON CLEVELAND, second son and third child of Moses and Ann (Winn) Cleveland, b. in Woburn, Mass., Jan. 10, 1655, m. first, in Woburn, Sept. 26, 1675, Dorcas Wilson, probably dau. of John Wilson, who first appears upon the tax lists in Woburn, in the rate for the country, assessed Aug. 26, 1666. His two children, John Wilson, Jr., and Dorcas, must have been born before he came to Woburn, and he d. July 2, 1687. Aaron and Dorcas (Wilson) Cleveland had a family of ten children, as follows:

1. Dorcas, b. Oct. 29, 1676; m. John Knight.

2. Hannah, b. Dec. 18, 1678; d. June 13, 1679.

3. Aaron, b. July 9, 1680; m. Abigail Waters.

4. Hannah, (again), b. June 2, 1687; m. - Beard.

5. Moses,3 b. Feb. 24, 1690; m. Mary Johnson.

6. Sarah,3 b. March 5, 1692; m. Job Richardson.

7. Miriam,3 b. July 1, 1694.

8. Isabel,3' b. April 6, 1697; d. Dec. 7, 1714.

9. Ann, b. 1699.

10. Benjamin, b. May 16, 1701; m. Anna Church.

After the death of wife Dorcas, in Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 29, 1714, he m, a second wife, Prudence but had no more children, and d. Sept. 14, 1716, aged, according to gravestone, 62 years.

Bibliographic information:

  • Title A Genealogy of Benjamin Cleveland: A Great-grandson of Moses Cleveland, of Woburn, Mass., and a Native of Canterbury, Windham County, Conn
  • Compiled by Horace Gillette Cleveland
  • Publisher compiler, 1879
  • Original from UC Southern Regional Library Facility
  • Digitized Jan 29, 2016
  • Length 260 pages
  • Page 83
  • https://books.google.com/books?jtp=83&id=C2hOAQAAMAAJ#v=onepage&q&f...

Biography

Birth: 10 JAN 1655/56 in Woburn, Middlesex Co., MA 1 Death: 14 SEP 1716 in Woburn, Middlesex Co., MA 2 Note: The death of an Aaron Cleveland is found in the Woburn VRs, "Sept. 14, 1746, 62y."--is this a typo?

Father: Moses Cleveland b: ABT 1624 in perhaps Ipswich, Suffolk, England Mother: Ann Winn b: ABT 1626 in England

Marriage 1 Dorcas Wilson b: 29 JAN 1656/57 in perhaps Woburn, Middlesex Co., MA Married: 26 SEP 1675 in Woburn, Middlesex Co., MA 3 Children Aaron Cleveland b: 9 JUL 1680 in Woburn, Middlesex Co., MA Moses Cleveland b: 24 FEB 1689/90 in Woburn, Middlesex Co., MA Miriam Cleveland b: 9 JUL 1694 in Woburn, Middlesex Co., MA Benjamin Cleveland b: 16 MAY 1701 in Woburn, Middlesex Co., MA

married September 26, 1675 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Buried in the 'Old First Burying Ground at Wobun, Mass. Gravestone inscription:

"Here Lyes the Body of Mr Aaron Cleaveland who Departed This Life September the 14th 1716 in ye 62nd year of his Age"

Footstone: "Mr Aaron Cleaveland"


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Aaron Cleveland's Timeline

1623
May 1, 1623
St. Stephen, Ipswich, Suffolk, England
May 1, 1623
St. Stephen,Ipswich,Suffolk,England
1656
January 10, 1656
Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1676
October 29, 1676
Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1678
November 18, 1678
Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1680
July 9, 1680
Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1687
June 2, 1687
Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1690
February 24, 1690
Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1692
March 5, 1692
Woburn, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts