Parker Cleaveland
Born: 14 Oct 1751 Chebacco, Ipswich, MA
Married: 1st to Elizabeth Jackman on 02 Aug 1772 Byefield Parish, Rowley, MA 2nd: to Abigail Cleaveland on 09 May 1795 Canterbury, Windham, CT
Died: 10 Feb 1826 Rowley, Essex, MA
Buried: Byfield, Essex Co., Massachusetts	Doct. Parker Cleaveland Died Feb. 19, 1826 Aged 74. Abigail Cleaveland His wife, died Sept. 1, 1834 Aged 75	Gravestones & History of Byfield, Essex Co., Massachusetts

FATHER

John Cleaveland

MOTHER

Mary Dodge

WIFE

1st Elizabeth Jackman

2nd Abigail Cleaveland

CHILDREN with Elizabeth Jackman

1. Parker Cleaveland

CHILDREN with Abigail Cleaveland

1. Elizabeth Cleaveland b. 22 Apr 1797

2. John Payne Cleaveland b. 19 Jul 1799

3. Eliza Abby Cleaveland b. 31 May 1802

4. Ebenezer Cleaveland b. 06 Mar 1804

Dr. Parker Cleaveland began the practice of medicine at Danvers, MA, in 1767 and was a surgeon in the Continental army at Cambridge. He removed to Rowley before 1780, where he always after practiced medicine. He was a delegate from Rowley to frame the U. S. Constitution in 1780 and to amend the State Constitution in 1820.

Cleveland, Edmund Janes and Horace Gillette Cleveland, THE GENEALOGY OF THE CLEVELAND AND CLEAVELAND FAMILIES, 3 Vols., (Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1899), 1:355, 356.

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A Plea for the Smaller College: by David Mack Cooper, 1898

He held a position as surgeon of a company or regiment at Cambridge, Mass., in the Revolutionary struggle; also served as a representative of the General Court (as the Massachusetts Legislature was called), but was better known as "the beloved physician," ministering ever to the souls of his patients as skillfully as to their bodies. He was a Puritan in religious thought and life.