Dorcas <I>Wilson</I> Cleveland

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Dorcas Wilson Cleveland

Birth
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
29 Nov 1714 (aged 57)
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
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Birth: Jan. 29, 1657, dau. of John Wilson and Hannah James. (source: The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland families by Edmund James Cleveland, 1899, p. 36. He states that she was born before the family came to Woburn)

Woburn marriages: CLEVELAND, Aaron and Dorcas Wilson, Sept. 26, 1675.

Cambridge deaths: CLEVELAND, Dorcas, w. Aaron, Nov. 29, 1714, a. 57 y. 10 m. GR1
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Woburn deaths: CLEVELAND, Dorcas, w. Aaron, Nov. 29, 1714.

Children, b. in Woburn:
1. Dorcas, b. Oct. 29, 1676.
2. Hannah, b. Nov. 18, 1678, d. 1679.
3. Aaron, b. July 9, 1680, d. 1714.
4. Hannah, b. June 2, 1687.
5. Moses, b. Feb. 24, 1690.
6. Sarah, b. Mar. 5, 1692.
7. Miriam, b. July 9, 1694.
8. Isabel, b. Apr. 6, 1697, d. Dec. 8, 1714.
9. Benjamin, b. May 16, 1701.

Aaron m. 2d, Prudence ___, abt. 1715 and d. in Woburn 1716. He was a farmer and a housewright.

President Grover Cleveland (Rev. Richard F.(7), William(6), Rev. Aaron(5), Rev. Aaron(4), Capt. Aaron(3), Aaron(2), Moses(1)), the 22d and 24th Presidents, descended from Aaron and Dorcas.
Birth: Jan. 29, 1657, dau. of John Wilson and Hannah James. (source: The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland families by Edmund James Cleveland, 1899, p. 36. He states that she was born before the family came to Woburn)

Woburn marriages: CLEVELAND, Aaron and Dorcas Wilson, Sept. 26, 1675.

Cambridge deaths: CLEVELAND, Dorcas, w. Aaron, Nov. 29, 1714, a. 57 y. 10 m. GR1
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Woburn deaths: CLEVELAND, Dorcas, w. Aaron, Nov. 29, 1714.

Children, b. in Woburn:
1. Dorcas, b. Oct. 29, 1676.
2. Hannah, b. Nov. 18, 1678, d. 1679.
3. Aaron, b. July 9, 1680, d. 1714.
4. Hannah, b. June 2, 1687.
5. Moses, b. Feb. 24, 1690.
6. Sarah, b. Mar. 5, 1692.
7. Miriam, b. July 9, 1694.
8. Isabel, b. Apr. 6, 1697, d. Dec. 8, 1714.
9. Benjamin, b. May 16, 1701.

Aaron m. 2d, Prudence ___, abt. 1715 and d. in Woburn 1716. He was a farmer and a housewright.

President Grover Cleveland (Rev. Richard F.(7), William(6), Rev. Aaron(5), Rev. Aaron(4), Capt. Aaron(3), Aaron(2), Moses(1)), the 22d and 24th Presidents, descended from Aaron and Dorcas.

Inscription

HERE LYES ye
BODY OF
DORCAS CLEVELAND
WIFE TO
AARON CLEVELAND
AGED 57 YEARS
& 10 MO DIED
NOVEmbr ye 29 1714



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