Sarah Cleveland and Reuben Stickney were married 1 February 1785 in Bath, New Hampshire. Their marriage produced 9 children, with their daughter Lydia being my ancestor. Sarah's parents were Elisha Cleveland and Ruth Paine, who married in 1742 in Canterbury, CT. An article I found on RootsWeb said that Elisha and Ruth were cousins, as you can see in the ancestor tree below. Ruth was Elisha's second wife, with Esther Morse his first wife. Esther was born 1714/1715, and married Elisha 26 June 1740. Their only child Peter Cleveland was born 9 April 1741, but lived only 17 days.
Soloman Paine, father of Ruth Paine, was also a sibing of Abagail Paine. Soloman and Abagail have Elisha Paine and Rebecca Doane as parents. That means that Sarah Cleveland was her own second cousin. The chart below is a snip from the Ancestry.com tree of Sarah Cleveland.
Cleveland-Paine-Doane-Snow-Hopkins-Kent Tree
Related surnames: Bates, Carver, Daulton, Fairbanks, Hopkins, Kent, Leverette, Maiden.
NOTES and SOURCES
Sarah's 4th great grandfather was Stephen Hopkins, one of the passengers on the Mayflower. Elizabeth Fisher was the 2nd wife of Stephen and was also a Maylower passenger. Stephen's first wife was Mary Kent, who passed away in 1613. Their daughter, Constance, also a Mayflower passenger, is a 10th great grandmother. Constance married Nicholas Snow. Mary Snow was their daughter. See links below.
Moses Cleaveland, Josiah(1) Cleveland's father, is our common ancestor with President Grover Cleveland. Family Search's Relative Finder says I'm a 7th cousin 3x removed. Josiah's brother Aaron's descendant is the USA's 22nd and 24th President. Also, the founder of the city of Cleveland, Moses Cleveland, was a descendant of our Josiah's father Moses. See the following for more information.
There's an inconsistancy in the spelling of Cleaveland/Cleveland, as to when the first "a" was dropped. It is believed that Moses changed it and that succeeding generations didn't revert to the former spelling.
Elisha Paine, father of Abagail Paine, was noted as being among the prominent men of Canterbury, Connecticut, who were indicted for stealing "loads of hay" and had to pay 10 shillings to the Treasury and 20 shillings to John Smith.
The story above relies on information from a three-volume book printed in 1899, noted in the Sources section below.
More Sources:
Stephan Hopkins and Passenger list.
Archive.org search showing choices including "Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families, by Edmund Janes Cleveland and Horace Gillette Cleveland, printed for the authors by Case, Lockwood, Brainard and Co., Hartford, CT., 1899.
Ancestors of American Presidents, by Gary Boyd Roberts, 456 pages.
Updated 8/20/2022.
