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  • Abigail Burt (1691 - 1723)
  • Elizabeth Goldthwaite (1645 - c.1726)
  • Ellen Cheever (1625 - 1706)
  • Ezekiel Cheever, I (c.1614 - 1708)
    Source: The Essex Genealogist, Vol 19. "Reverend Ezekiel Cheever and his descendants" by Alexander Dunn Accessed by Kris Stewart at americanancestors.org, Jul 1, 2012. --- From The Cambridge History ...
  • Ezekiel Cheever (c.1720 - c.1793)
    DAR Information: CHEEVER, EZEKIEL Ancestor #: A021293 Service: MASSACHUSETTS Rank(s): COMMISARY, GENERAL Birth: (BAPTISED) 5-15-1720 CHARLESTOWN MASSACHUSETTS Death: (ANTE) 1793 BOSTON MASSACHUSETT...

About the Cheever surname

English: from Anglo-Norman French chivere, chevre ‘goat’ (Latin capra ‘nanny goat’), applied as a nickname for an unpredictable or temperamental person, or a metonymic occupational name for a goatherd.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4