NEW ENGLAND ANCESTRY
OF
GROVER CLEVELAND
President of !be U1;ited States of America.
PRIVATELY PRINTED. From PUTNA~I'S MONTHLY. HISTORICAL MAGAZI:\'E.
ThirlJ':five Copies Pri,;ate/y Printd.
COPYRIGHTED, 1892,
BY
EBEN PUTNAM.
'i:bc $a !cm ~res,, Salem, !lr.a5s. NEW ENGLAND ANCESTRY OF GROVER CLEVELAND PRESIDENT OF- THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
MAJOR STEPHEN SEWALL. MARGARET MITCHELL,
No 49. WIFE OF MAJOR STEPHEN SEWALL. No. 55.
PHOTOGRAPHED FROM PORTRAITS IN SALEM, MASS.
CHARTS
BY
WALTER K. WATKINS A"D EBEN PUTNAM.
5 REV. AARON CLEVELAND Chart I. b. 29 Oct. li15. m. 4 Aug. li39. d. JI Aug. 1757. 4 REV, AARON CLEVE- r Chart II. LAND-b, 2 Feb. 1744.l m. 12 Apr. li68. d. Zl Sept. 1815' 43 SUSANNA PORTER b, 26 Apr. lil5-16. d, I Mar. 1788. Chart III.
3 WILLIAMCLEVELAND b. 20 Dec. 1770. m. 19 Dec. 1793. d, 18 Aug, 1837. 15 CAPT. JAMES HYDE b. 28 Feb. 1707. m. 26 Dec. 1743. 14 ABIAH HYDE --- d. 24 Apr. 1793. b. 27 Dec. 1740, Chart IV. d. 23 Aug. 1788. ( 25 SARAH llIARSHALL b. 12 Apr. li20. d. 3 !'fov. 1773. Chart V,
2 RICHARDFALLEYCLEVELAND b. 19 June, 1805. m. 10 .Sept:1829. d, 1 Oct. 1853. 13 RICHARD FALLEY of the District of Maine.
12 RICHARD FALLEY - b. 31 Jan.1740. m. 24 Dec. 1761-2( ?) d. 3 Sept. 1808. 27 lANNE LAllB.
11 l\fARGARET FALLEY - b. 15 Nov, 1776. d. 13 Aug. 18-0.
21 SAMUEL HITCHCOCK. b. 9 June, 1717. m. 26 May, 1739. 20 MARG'T HITCHCOCK-j d, 17 Apr, 1777. b. 25 May, 1741, I . Chart VI. d. 18 Feb. 1820. 28 ', RUTH STEBBINS, · d, 20 Feu. 1775.
10 ABNER NEAL-- of Baltimore.
THE
9 . ANNE NEAL------{ NEW ENGLAND ANCESTRY d. 1882, OF GROVER CLEVELAND, President oftke United States ef America, I884-I888.
Arranged by WALTER K. WATKINS, Member N. E. Hi11t -Gen. Society. 19 BARBARA REEL, -- With notes and additions by EBEN PUTNAM,
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Chart II. 8 [MOSES CLEVELAND, b. England, 1624, m. 26 Sept. 1648. a. 9 Jan. 1701-2. 7 AARON CLEVELAND - b. 10 Jan. 1654-5. 37 [ EDWARD WINN m. 26 Sept. 1675, l of Woburn, 16!1. d. 14 Sept. 1716, b. England. 36 ANN WINN- a. 5 Sept.1682. b. England.
41 JOANNA- d, 8 Mar. 1649, 6 AARON CLEVELAND - b. 9 July, 1686. m. 1 Jan, 1702.
33 [JOHN WILSON of Woburn. b. England. d. 2 July, 1687, 32 DORCAS WILSON-- d. 29 Nov. 1714.
5 REV, AARON CLEVELAND- b. 29 Oct.1715. See Chart I.
31 LAURENCE WATERS b. Englancl, 1602. m. Sept. 1645. d, 9 Dec.1687, at Charlestown.
30 SAMUEL WATERS- b. Lancaster, 14 Feb.1651. m. 21 Mar. 1672. 39 -RICHARD LINTON of Watertown, 1630· d. 2 May 1728, at rem. to Lancaster, 1645, Woburn. b. England. 38 ANN LINTON- d. 30 Mar.1665, at Lancaster. a. 16so.
42 , ELIZABETH -- 29 ABJGAILWATERS- b. i9 Nov. 1683, at Woburn. d, 6 Jan. 1761.
35 DANIEL HUDSON of Watertown and Lancaster. b. England. killed by Indians 11 Sept. 1697.
34 MARY HUDSON - b. Lancaster, 7 Sept. 1653. d. 11 Dec. 1721, at Woburn. 40 JOANNA-- 9
47 'JOHN PORTER of Windsor, 1638. Chart III. cl. 21 Apr. 1648. 46 SAMUEL PORTER of Windsor and -, Hadley. d. 6 Sept. lll89. 66 lROSE- d.l May, 1618. 45 JUDGE SAMUEL PORTER b. 6 Apr. 1660. m. 22 Feb. 1683·4, cl. 29 July, 1722. 59 [THOMAS STANLEY, d. 29 Jan. 1763.
58 HANNAH STANLEY - of Hartford, Ct. cl. 18 Sept, 1709. . 67 BENNETT REV.AARON PORTER d. aged 55. b. 19 July, 1689. m. 22 Oct., 1713, d. 23 Jan. 1722. 54 MAJOR AARON COOK of Dorchester and :Sorthampton. 6 53 CAPT, AARON COOK - ~• ~ J~pt f bapt, 21 :Feb. 1H40-l. · ' 1690 ' m. 30 May, 1661. cl. 16 Sept. 1716. 68 - FORD. !dau. of Thomas Ford who d. 18 Apr.1643. 52 JOANNA COOK -----! b. 10 July, 1665. d. 13 Nov. 1713. 61 WILLIAM WESTWOOD of Cambridge, Hart- ford, Hadley. b.1606. 60 SARAH WESTWOOD - d. 9 Apr. 1669. b. abt. 1644. ( d. 24 lliar. 1730. 69 BRIDGET- 43 SUSANNA PORTER l>. 160~. b. 1 Mar. 1716. d. U May, 1676. m.Aarou Cleveland See Chart I. 51 )HENRY SEWALL, bapt. Coventry, Eng. 8 Apr. 1576. 50 HENRY SEWALL-- cl.Rowley. Mass. b. Coventry, 1611. l Mar. 1657. m. 25 Mar. 1646. d. 16 May, 1700. 70 ANNE Hu,n.
49 MAJOR STEPHEN SEWALL b. 10 Ang. 1657. m. 13 June, 1682. 63 rSTEPHEN DU~DIER d. 17 Oct. 1725. . of ~ewbury. d. 6 Sept. 1670. 62 ,JANE DUMMER---l b. 1628. d. 18 Jan. 1701. 71 ALICE ARCHER. d. prev. 1661. 48 SUSANNA SEWALL - b. 24 Oct. 1691. d. 22 July, 1747. 57 MATTHEW MITCHELL of Charlestown, 1635, of Starnforcl, Ct. m. 16 Apr. ltll6. 56 REV. JONA. llfITCHE~L lI d. 1615. b.Hal1fax, Eng. 16c4. m. 19 Xov. 1650. d, 9 July, 1668. 72 SUSAN BUTTERFIELD of Halifax, Yorkshire, Eng. 55 ,MARGARET MITCIIELL b. 16fi4. d. 20 Jan. 1735-6. 60- JOHN BORROWDALE of London and Cork, j Gentleman. 64 MARGARET BORADEL- wid. Rev.Thos. Shep-1 ard of Cam bridge. l 11
18 WILLIAM HYDE, Chart IV. b. England. d. 6 Jan. 1681, at Norwich. Same as Jlros. 83-94. 17 SAMUEL HYDE-----, b. 1637. m. 4 June, 1669, at Say• brook. d. 1677,
16 JOHN HyDE -----1 b. Dec. 1667. m. 8 Illar. 1698. d. 21 Jnly, 1727.
i7 THOMAS LEE, d. on voyage to New England, 1641.
76 JANE LEE ------, b. England.
81 -BROWN, b. England. d. in New England. dan. of - Brown of Providence. 15 JAMES HYDE - See Chart I.
75 CALEB ABELL of Dedham, 1665. m. July, 1669, at Norwich. d. 17 Aug. 1731.
74 EXPERIENCEABEL b. Dec. 167 4. d. 24 Oct. 1763. 80 STEPHEN POST of Cambridge, 1634, Hartford, 1636. 79 JOHN POST---r d. l6 Aug. 1659• of Saybrook. l Same as No. 90. b. England, 1627, m. 111ar. 1652. d. 10 Feil. 1711. (27 Nov. 1710, at Norwich.-Sav.) Same as No. 89. 78 MARGARET POST b. 21 July (Feb. Sav.), 1653. d. Nov. 1700.
83 WILLIAM HYDE. b. England. d. 6 Jan. 1681. 82 lHESTERHYDE- SarneasNos.18-94, d, 13 Nov. 1703.
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ChartV. 26 ABIEL MARSHALL - 87 [EDWARD HOUGH. m. 18 Nov. 1708, d, 1 June, 1858. 86 WILLIAM HOUGH - from Cheshire, housewright, of l Gloucester, 1640. b. England. 85 CAPT. JORN HOUGH - m. 28 Oct. 1645. 25 SARAH MARSHALL b. New London, See Chart I, 17 Oct. 1655, m. 17 Jan, 1680. 92 [HUGH CAULKIN d. 26 Aug. 1715. of Gloucester, 1640, at Marshfield, 9l SARAH CAULKIN- ofN.L. and Norwich. d. 1690, a,, 90.
95 ANNE- 84 ABIAH HOUGH -- b. 30 Oct. 1690.
90 STEPHEN POST of Cambridge, 1634, Hartford, 1636. 89 OHN POST---f d. 16 Aug. 1659. of Sayi,rook. l Same as No. 80. b. England, 1627, m. Mar. 1652. d. IO Feb. 1711. 88 SARAH POST ----l Same as No. 79. b. 16 Nov. 1659,
94 [WILLIAM HYDE, b.England. d. 6 Jan. 1681. 93 HESTER HYDE- Same as Nos. 18-83. d. 13 Nov, li03,
Chart VI. 24 [LUKE HITCHCOCK, New Haven, 164!. d. 1 Nov. 1659, at 23 DEA.JOHN HITCHCOCK Wethersfield. of Springfield. m. 27 Sept. 1666, d. 9 Feb. l 7l2, l02 ELIZABETH GIBBONS, whom. 2d, 2 Oct.1661, Wm. Warrener, and 22 ENRIGN JOHN HITCHCOCK- 3d, Joseph Baldwin. b. 13 Apr. 1670.
100 [DEA. SAMUEL CHAPIN, Roxbury, (1638) and Weymouth. 99 · HANNAH CHAPIN-- d. 11 Nov. 1675. b. 2 Dec. 1644, at Springfield, 103 CICELY.-- 21 SAMUEL HITCHCOCK- d, 8 Feb., 1683, b. 9Jnne, 1717. m. 26 lllay, 1739, d. 27 Apr. 1777, See Chart I. gg [FRANCIS BALL, m. 1644. drowned at Spring- 97 AMUEL BALL- field, Oct. 1648. of Northamp• 105 HENRY BURT ton, b. 1646 or of Springfield ldG4?' 104 ABIGAIL BURT 1640. ' . 1689, d. 3 Apr. 1662, 96 MARY BALL ------../ 106 ULALIA - d.29 Aug ,1690.
101 MARY- m. 2d, 11 Apr. 1690, Benj, Stebbins, (15)
NOTES UPON THE FOREGOING CHARTS
BY
EBEN PUTNAM.
NOTES ON THE ANCESTRY OF GROVER CLEVELAND.
BY EBEN PUTNAM,
INDEX TO CHARTS. Abel, Chart IV. Hunt, Chart III. Archer, Chart III. Hyde, Charts I, IV, V. Ball, Chart VI. Lamb, Chart I. Boradel, Chart III. Lee, Chart IV. Brown, Chart IV. Linton, Chart II. Burt, Chart VI. Marshall, Chai:ts I and V. Butterfield, Chart III. Mitchell, Chart III. Caulkin, Chart V. Neal, Chart I. Chapin, Chart II. Porter, Charts I and III. Cleveland, Charts I and II. Post, Charts IV and V. Cook, Chart III. Reel, Chart I. Dummer, Chart III. Sewall, Chart III. Falley, Chart I. Stanley, Chart III. Folsom, Chart I. Stebbins, Chart I. Ford, Chart III. "'Waters, Chart II. Gibbons, Chart VI. Westwood, Chart III. Hitchcock, Charts I and IV. Wilson, Chart II. Hough, Chart V. Winn, Chart II. Hudson, Chart II.
No. 1. STEPHEN GROVER CLEVELAND. James Russell Lowell said in an address before the Tariff Reform League, " I feel myself strongly attached to Mr. Cleveland as the best representative of the higher type of Americanism that we have seen &ince Lincoln was snatched from us. Every word he says is weighted with what he is. vVe are here to felicitate each other that this man understands politics to mean business, not chicanery; plain language, not paltering with us in a double sense; that he has had the courage to tell the truth to the country without regard to personal or party circumstances." FRANCES FoLSOM, a lineal descendant in the ninth generation of John Folsom, who first settled at Hingham, Mass., and later at Exeter, N. H. The line of descent is as follows: John Folsom of Hingham, 1638; married Mary, daughter of Edward Gilman. Their son, Deacon John Folsom of Exeter (born 1638; died 1715), married Abigail, daughter of Abraham Perkins of Hampton. Their son, Abraham ( died about (17) 18 NOTES ON THE ANCESTRY OF GROVER CLEVELAND,
1740), mnrrie No. 8. MosEs CLEVELAND of ,Voburn, Mass., 1641; sai No. 30. SERGEANT SAMUEL WATERS of Lancaster. He accompanied his father to Charlestown after the Indian massacre at Lancaster, but finally settled in Woburn, where both he and his wife died. No. 31. LAWRENCE \VATERS, one of the proprietors of ,v atertown, 1636-7; a carpenter. He was one of the three persons sent by the Nashaway Plantation to make provision for their own coming. Tbis was in 1645. His house was the second built in the present town of Lancaster. In 1676, the inhabitants of Lancaster were exposed to the inroads of the Indians, and 'iVaters, with his family, were obliged to seek shelter in Chatlestown. Most of the name settled in Charlestown are descended from his sons who settled there. No. 33. JoHN WILSON of Woburn. He had two children born pre vious to his settlement at Woburn in 1666. He was the first of the name there. No. 35. DAMEL HUDSON, was received as an inhabitant of Lancas ter in 1664. He was a brick maker and mason. In 1697, he, his wife and two of his grandchildren suffered death at the hands of the Indians. Two of his daughte1·s, Joanna and Elizabeth, were taken captive. The uame was often spelled Hutson. No. 37. EDWARD WINN of Woburn, 1641. He brought from Eng land, three children. The \Vinns became one of the most. prominent families in ,v oburn and Burlington. A branch of this family settled in New Hampshire. No. 39. RICHARD LINTON, one of the early inhabitants of \Vater town, bntin 1645, or perhaps earlier, he, with his son-in-law, Lawrence 1Vaters, settled in Lancaster. His gt·all(lson, George Bennet, was slain by the Indians in 1675. No. 44. REv. AARON PORTER of Medford. Graduated from Har vard College, 1708, the first of the name to graduate from that College. Ordained at Medford, 11 Feb., 1712-13. Mr. Hancock1 gave the right hand of fellowship. Judge Sewall, in his diary under date of Oct. 22, 1713, notes: ''Igo to Salem. See Mr. Noyes marry Mr. Aaron Por ter and Mrs.~ Susan Sewall, at my Brother's. 'iVas a pretty deal of Company present: Mr. Hirst and wife, Mr. Blower, Mr. Prescot, Mr. Tuft, Seur. and J unr., ~fadame Leverett, Foxcroft, Goffe, Kitchen, Mr. Samuel Porter, Father of the Bridegroom, I should have said be fore, many young Gentlemen and Gentlewomen. Mr. Noyes made a Speech, said Love was the Sugar to sweeten every Condition in the mar ried Relation. Pray'd once. Did all very well. After the Sack-Posset, 1 "Bishop Hancock," so called. He was grandfather of Governor Hancock, signer of the Declara tion of Independence. • The prefix "Mrs." or "Mistress" was given by courtesy to maidens of high social rank. • Sack-Posset. a compound of milk, spirit, and other ingredients, partaken of with a spoon. NOTES ON THE ANCESTRY OF Gl{OV~,R CLEVELAND, 21 etc., Sung the 45th Psalm from the 8th verse to the end, five staves. I set it to ·windsor Tune. I ha indepenclent man especially in his religious opinions. During the last yert1·s of his life he was sometimes at loggerheads with the civil and church authorities. The father of No. 51, was Henry Sewall, a linen draper, and mayor of Coventry, England. Among the noted men of this family were the Chief-Justice Samuel Sewall, father and son, Prof. Stephen Sewall of Harvard College, Jonathan Sewall, at one time Attorney General of Massachusetts and who,;e place was filled by Hon. James Putnam, both loyalists, but both pure, upright, and patriotic men. Also, his sons Stephen, Solicitor-General, and Jonathan, Chief Justice of Canada. Gen. Henry Sewall of :\Jaine, and Ju m:m, was highly esteemed and actively employed in both military and civil affairs. His death was caused by a fall from a scaffolding, 26 Aug., 1715. No. 86. WM. HOUGH was a carpenter. He settled at Gloucester, at Trynall Cove. Selectman, 1649-1650. In 1651 he, with others, removed to New London, Conn. No. 89. Same as No. 79. No. 90. Same as No. 80. No. 92. HuaH CAULKIN (husbandman). ,Vas one of the Rev. Richard Blynman's company who was settled over the church at Glou cester. They first settled in Plymouth in or about 1641 and are said to have come from \Vales. Hugh Caulkins was selectman of Gloucester in 1642. Commissioner (Justice) to end small cases, 1645. Repre sentative, 1650. In 1651, he removed to New London, thence in 1661 to Norwich, Conn. During his residence at each ot these plnces he represented the town in the General Court. No. 94. Same as Nos. 18, 83. No. 97. SAMUEL BALL of Northampton. His widow married, 11 Apr., 1680, Benjamin Stebbins, son of Lt. Thomas Stebbins who mar ried Samuel Ball's mother. No. 98. FRANCIS BALL was early in Dorchester, but removed to Springfield. He was drowned on the Connecticut river, Oct., 1648. His widow married, 1649, Benjamin Mun and again, 14 Dec., 1676, Thomas Stebbins. There were several emigrants to New England bear ing the surname of Ball. No. 100. DEA. SAMUEL CHAPIN of Roxbury, 1638. Removed in 1642 to Springfield. One of the proprietors of Westfield in 1660. Savag(l says of him "he was a deacon and a man of distinction." His family has been quite numerous in the Connecticut valley. No. 105. HENRY BURT of Roxbmy previous to 1639. In 1640, he removed to Springfield and was there clerk of the \Vrits. A BURLESQUE ON THE PRIDE OF ~'AMILY BLOOD. WRITTEN BY REV.AARON CLRVELAND. [After hearing a conversation on the subject.] Four kinds of blood flow in my veins, Compound on compound from the flood, And govern each, in turn, my brains: Forms now my own ancestral blood, From CLKVELA...... ,D, PORTER, SEWALL, But what my sires of old time were, WATERS, I neither wish to know nor care. I had my blood distinct in quarters. Some might be wise, and others fools; My parents' parents' name I know, Some might be tyrants, others tools; But I no farther back can go. Some might be rich, and others lack; NOTES ON THE ANCESTRY OF GROVER CLEVELAND 25 Some might be white, and others black; SEWALL, perhaps, may next bear rule, No matter what in days of yore, I'm then a philosophic fool I Since they are known and sung no more. ,vith Jefferson I correspond, The name of CLEVELAND I must wear, And soar with him the stars beyond, Which some poor foundling first might While every fibre of the brain bear. To sense profound I nicely strain, PORTER, I'm told, from Scotland came, And then arise beyond the ken A bonny bare, vf ancient fame; Of common sense and common men. SEWALL, an English derivatim:i, Wise fools may soar themselves above, Perhaps some outcast from the nation; And dream in rapturous spheres they WATERS, an Irishman, I ween, move, Straight roundabout from Aberdeen But airv castles must recoil, Such is my heterogeneous "blood,'' And all their imagery despoil. A motley mixture, bad Jtnd good; Thus great was I till SEWALL'S crown Each blood aspires to rule alone, About my head came tumbling down. And each in turn ascends the throne, But who comes next? alas I 'tis Waters And rules till others tear him down. Rushing fearless to headquarters. Each change must twist about my brains, He knows no manners, nor decorum, And move my tongue in different strains; But elbows headlong to the forum, My mental powers are captive led, Uncouth and odd, abrupt and bold, And whim or wisdom rules the head. Untaught, unteachable, uucontrolleo, My character, no one can know, Devoid of wisdom, sense or wit, For none I have while things are so, Not one thing right be ever hit, I'm something, nothing, wise or fool, Unless by accident-not skill, As suits the blood which haps to rule. He blundered right, against his will Such am I now, no transmigration When CLEVELAND reigns, I'm thought a Can sink me to a lower station. wit, Come, PORTER, come, depose this clown, In making words the funny hit; And once for all assume the crown. In social glee and humorous song, If aught in SEWALL'S blood you find I charm the fools that rouud me throng; Will make your own still more refined, But soon, perhaps, this blood is down, If found in CLEVELAND'S blood a trait When PORTER next may wear the crown. To aid you in the affairs of state, Now all is calm, discreet, and wise, Select such parts, but spurn the rest, Whate'r I do, whate'r advise, Never to rule my brains or breast; What common sense and wisdom teach, Of WATERS' blood expel the whole, Direct my actions-form my speech; Let not one drop pollute my soul. The wise and good now with me stay, Then rule my head, then rule my heart, While laughing foots keep far away; From folly, weakness, wit apart; But soon, alas !-this happy reign With all such qualities I'll dispense, Must, for some other, change again. And only give me common sense.