Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-08-14
CLEyELAND'S LINEAGE.

H. G. Cleveland, of Cleveland, ONO, has
furnished for publication the following
sketch of the lineage Of Grover Cleveland:
There came to this country from Ipswich,
Suffolk, England, in 1885, a carpenters ap-
prentice by the name of Moses Cleveland.
His master, Edward Winn, a houseWright
of experience and skill for those days, set
tied in Boston, and, after sojourn in Bos-
ton and vicinity for a few years he, with
young Cleveland, became one of the pio-
neer settlers of Woburn, Massachusetts, in
1911. 1911 In 1643 young Cleveland was made
q freeman, and in 1913 he married Ann
Winn, the daughter of Edward and 10:
anna Winn, by whom he had a family of
eleven children, seven sons and four daugh-
ters. One of the latter died young, but the
others grew to adult age, married and had
families. Moses Cleveland filled several re-
sponsble positions in the township, to
which he was elected by his fellow-towns.
men, and was much respected. AS the old
1902, in the SOth year of his age. His sons
were as follows: Moses, Jr., Aaron, Samuel,
Edward, Josiah, Isaac and Enoch. The
daughters were Hannah, Miriam and Jo-
anna.
Ex-Governor Cleveland, of Hampton,
Conn.,, is lineal descendant of the above
Edward as is also Hon. Orestes Cleveland,
of New Jersey.
Gen. Moses Cleveland, for whom the city
of Cleveland was named, descended from
the above Josiah. Lorenzo D. Cleveland,
from Moses, Jr. Gen. Alvin P. Horey, late
United States minister to Peru, descended
from Samuel, &c. The present Governor of
the great State of New York, who has just
been nominated to be the standard-bearer
of the Democratic party in the Presidentlai
canvass of 1884, is lineal descendant OF
Aaron Cleveland, the second son of the emf
grant Moses Cleveland.
In the old cemetery at Woburn may still
be found the tombstone of this Aaron Cleve-
land His first wife was Dorcas, a daughter
of John Wilson and the belle of the place
where she lived. By her he had large
family, and among the sons an Aaron Cleve-
land, for many years q resident of East
Haddam, Conn.,, to which place he emf
grated from Woburn, and where he was
widely known as Capt. Aaron Cleveland.
His wife was lovely and accomplished
lady of Irish parentage-Abigail Waters by
name. A large family blessed this union,
and the family name of Aaron was perpet-
uated in one of their sons, who became a
celebrated divine and married Susannahl,
daughter of Rev. Aaron Porter, of Med
ford, Mass, and where he was a clergyman
for several years.
A family of cultivated sons and daugh-
| sers were among the poor clergyman's earth.
ly blessings and the fathers and grandfath-
er's and great grandfather's given name was
perpetuated by son, Aaron Cleveland, a
distinguished writer and poet of some eel
ebrity in his day. He married Abiah,
daughter of William Hyde, of Norwich,
Conn, for his first wife, by whom he had
several children. One son, William Cleve,
land, became silversmith at Boston and
married Margaret, a daughter of Richard
Falley, whose father emigrated to this
country from the Emerald Isle about the
middle of the last century. William Cleve-
land named one of his sons Richard Falley
Cleveland, who studied divinity, married q.
Miss Anne Neale, of Baltimore, a lady OF
Irish descent, and was much esteemed
minister in Caldwell, New Jersey, where
his son, Stephen Grover Cleveland, was
born in 1887.