Fanny Cheever

Ezekiel Cheever. Born in 1614, he immigrated to Boston in 1637 to teach in Ipswich and New Haven. He later became famous as the headmaster of the Boston Latin School. Cotton Mather gave his funeral oration in 1708. His descendants lived in Marblehead and Manchester, Massachusetts for the next five generations. On September 3, 1815 his great, great grandson Samuel Cheever, married twenty one year old Fanny Allen (1794-1819), of Manchester. Fanny’s great, great grandfather had been among the founders of Manchester and her father, Captain John Allen (1757-1822), was a prosperous sea captain, as were her three older brothers, John, James and Samuel. (Captain Allen’s house, still standing today in Manchester, is one of the only brick houses of the period there. Local histories indicate that the brick was imported by him from England, as domestic brick was not to his taste

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