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Hannah Beard (Cleveland)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Death: Billerica, Middlesex County, MA, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Aaron Cleveland and Dorcas Cleveland
Wife of John Beard, Sr.
Mother of John Beard, Jr.; Aaron Baird; Andrew Beard, Sr.; Mary Beard, Died Young; David Beard and 2 others
Sister of Dorcas Knight; Hannah Cleveland; Capt. Aaron Cleveland; Moses Cleveland; Sarah Richardson and 4 others

Managed by: Susan Angeline Schumacher Lostetter
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About Hannah Beard

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2/1/2021 edit uploaded to Sources tab a pdf of "Identifying Hannah, Wife of John Beard (Andrew) as Hannah Cleveland (Aaron, Moses)" published fall 2020 in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Vol 174, P 328-329.

Hannah Cleveland, d.o. Aaron and Dorcas (Wilson) Cleveland, born in Woburn 2 Jun 1687 and died sometime after the birth of last child and date of husband's will. married John Beard, born Circa 1690 and died between last known deed 2 Dec 1768 and the administration of his probate 14 Apr 1773.

Their marriage and her death were unrecorded.

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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...
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Hannah Beard's Timeline

1687
June 2, 1687
Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1716
August 26, 1716
Billerica, Middlesex County, MA, United States
1717
November 25, 1717
Billerica, Middlesex, Morocco
1719
September 11, 1719
Billerica, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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Billerica, Middlesex County, MA, United States