The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-08-12
A Sketch Of the Clev elMm d Family
Ii heage of OAR stai IA ssr d4beareF.

I'll ere came to this counrrv from Ipswich, ,Snf-
folk, England, in 1885. a ca penter's appre1tice
by the name of Moses Cle' eland. His master,
Edward Winn, WAS hnuses Frigh,iof experience
and kill for those days, and after IL sojour2 in
Bos IN and vicinity for ew years he, riih
yourg Cleveland, became ',ne of The pioAeer
settlers of Woburn, Mass, in 1s41. IL I645
young Cleveland Was made freeman ami in
1648 he married Ann Winn, the. daughter Of
Edw ard aud Joanna Win9, by whom he had
iami OF eleven children, seven sons and four
dscg lters. One OF the lat dEd young, But
the others grew to adult a;e, married aud had
families Moses Cleveland lied several respon
sible positions in the township, TO which fe we
elect ID by hls fellow townsn en, and WAS much
respt cted. As the old records show he died
there in January, 1702, in tile 80th year of his
age. His sons were as to lows Moses, Jr.,
Aartn Samuel, Edward, josiah, Isaac and
Eno,h. The daughters were Hsnnah, Miriam
and Joanna
El Governor Cleveland, ef Ha npton. Conn,
Is iiueal descendant of the above Edward, as is
also Hon. Orestes Cleveland, of New Jersey.
General Moses Cleveland, for whom the city
of Cleveland was named descended from the
above Josiah. Lorenzo D. Cleveland, late city
arch tect of Chicago. descer ded from Moses, Jr.
Gene raj Alvin P. Horey, lat, United States Min
ster 10 Peru, descended frorl Sam uel, &c. The
prest mt Governor of the ceat 3tate OF New
Yorl who has just been minated tn be the
stans ard bearer for the Dem ocraic party in The
Pres DENTAL canvass of 1884 is ineal descend
AMI tf Aaron Cleveland, the second son of the
emig 14nt Moses Cleveland.
In the old cemetery at " oburr may still; be
fOuntl the tombstone of thi, Asr IN Cleveland.
His I rsi wife was Dorcas, dsuf hter of John
Wills IN, and the belle of Il e place where she
lived BY her he had a large fami y and among
the sons an Aaron Clevelan' for many years
resid' mt OF East Haddam, Co ln., t. which place
he enligraed from Woburn, and where he was
wide y known Captain Aaron Cleveland.
His wife was lovely and az complished lady Of
Irish parentage-Abigall W tiers by name A
large family blessed this un IN, a I'D the family
name of Aaron was perpetu ted in one of their
ried tusannah, daughter Of Rev. Aaron POrtsr,
of Nj dford, Mass, and wher, he vas a cletgy-
man or several years
family of cultivated 81 rs and daughles
were among the poor clergyn lan's earthly bless
ings md the fathers, grand ather and great
granc fathers given name WI per )etuated By a
son, l.aron Cleveland the d sting,ished writer
and poet of some celebrity New England in
his dsy He married Abah, dau ghter OF Viii
liam 1yde, of Norwich COM :. for his first wife,
by W lOm he had several lildrel. One son
Willis N Cleveland, became silver mith at Jos
ton, a Id married Margaret, d ughtor Of Richard
FalleJ, whose father emlgrat d to this country
from he Emerald Isle about the n iddle of tlae
last century. William Cleve and named ORG OF
his SO as Richard Falley Clev land who stuI,ed
divinity y, married 4 Miss Ann. Nenle, Uf Palt-
more, lady of Irish descent, and vas a much
esteem ed minister in Cadv ell, New jersey
where his sen, Stephen Grow IT Gle eveland, twas
born il 1891. ... H. g CM HLANpf.
"A Hamiltop SIZE II, Gle veland, y.