Dorcas Cleveland

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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

From http://mhollick.typepad.com/slovakyankee/2015/07/john-wilson-ca-162...

2. Dorcas Wilson, daughter of John Wilson & Hannah James, was born 29 January 1657 at Salem, Massachusetts and died 29 November 1714 at Cambridge, Massachusetts

She married at Woburn, Massachusetts on 26 September 1675, Aaron Cleveland, born 10 January 1653/4 at Woburn and died there 14 September 1716, son of Moses and Ann (Winn) Cleveland.

Aaron and Dorcas had nine children: Dorcas, Aaron, Hannah, Moses, Sarah, Miriam, Isabel, Ann, and Benjamin.

Sources

• The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families by H.G. and E.J. Cleveland (3 vols., 1899).
• Wilsons of New England . . . Volume J: Descendants of John Wilson of Woburn, Massachusetts by Ken Stevens (1991).
• The Ancestry of Joseph Fletcher Parker 1880-1962 of Duluth, Minnesota by Marian Parker Congdon (Boston: NEHGS 2006).

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• https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dominicc...
  • Title: New England Historical & Genealogical Register Repository: Media: Book Page: 42:260
  • Title: Ancestors of American Presidents, Gary Boyd Roberts, 1995 Repository: Media: Book Page: 52
• http://mhollick.typepad.com/slovakyankee/2015/07/john-wilson-ca-162...
• http://www.ancestry.co.uk/genealogy/records/dorcas-wilson_29348102