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Ebenezer Cleaveland | ||
Born: 25 Dec 1725 Canterbury, Windham, CT
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Married: 16 Oct 1745 Groton, CT
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Died: 04 Jul 1805 Gloucester, Sandy Bay, now Rockport at Cape Ann, MA |
FATHER
MOTHER
WIFE
Abigail Stevens
CHILDREN
1. Lydia Cleaveland b. 29 Mar 1747
2. Olive Cleaveland b. 17 Feb 1748-49
3. Abigail Cleaveland b. 16 Mar 1750-51
4. Filia Nata Cleaveland b. Abt 1753
5. Ebenezer Cleaveland b. 12 Oct 1754
6. Alice Cleaveland b. 06 Mar 1757
7. Mary Cleaveland b. 22 Aug 1759
8. Anna Cleaveland
9. William Pitt Amherst Cleaveland b. 15 Jan 1762
10. John Voss Cleaveland b. 08 Jul 1764
11. Alice Cleaveland b. 12 Dec 1767
12. Hepzibah Cleaveland b. 03 Oct 1769
13. Beulah Cleaveland b. 02 Feb 1772
Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating By William Richard Cutter
Published 1908
Ebenezer Cleaveland, ninth child and fourth son of Josiah and Abigail (Paine)
Cleaveland, born in Canterbury, Connecticut, December 25, 1725 (o. s.) or
January 5, 1725-6 (n. s.) died in Gloucester, Sandy Bay, now Rockport,
Massachusetts, July 4, 1805. He and his brother John were sent to Yale College,
Ebenezer entering in 1741, both were expelled for attending a Separatist meeting
while home pn vacation, but later, in 1764, received their degrees : in the
catalogue Ebenezer is entered with the class of 1748. In 1751 Rev. Ebenezer
Cleaveland first began to preach, at Sandy Bay. November 9, 1755. he was
admitted to the newly-formed First church, his wife Abigail being admitted (from
the First church of Canterbury) March 25, 1759. In November or December, 1755,
he was ordained minister of this church and attests as pastor the parish meeting
December 23, 1755, always signing his name with the initials V. D. M. (Verbis
Dei Minister), not yet having received his college degree. During the French and
Indian war, 1756-60, he served as chaplain to a Massachusetts regiment, was at
Ticonderoga July 8, 1758, and in the expedition to Canada, 1759. According to
church records it was voted December 19, 1762, that he preach at Squam. On May
15, 1768, he received consent from his parish for six months leave for a tour to
the Mohawks. and he made extensive journeyings to ascertain how favorable were
the conditions for encouraging the growth of Indian schools. The report he made
on his return was acted upon and a school established which eventually developed
into Dartmouth College. During the revolutionary war he was absent from his
people much time to serve in the army. Upon his return home he found his parish
in distressful condition from their service to their country ; they were deeply
indebted to him for past salary and able to offer him but ninety quintals of
hakefish per annum for his future support, and he was therefore compelled to
accept an offer to become superintendent of Dartmouth College lands at Llandoff.
New Hampshire, preaching in that and other towns, where he remained until about
1785. In that year he returned to Rockport and preached to his former
congregation, when not otherwise engaged, for such compensation as they could
offer. One year he spent in Maine as an evangelist. In 1792 he was settled in
the ministry at Amesbury, preached there until 1797, then returned to his old
home on Cape Ann, and there completed the remainder of his days in the house he
built at the beginning of his ministry. He died July 4, 1805, aged eighty years.
During his .various pastorates his churches were in the most flourishing
condition, materially and spiritually, and his personal qualities won for him
the highest praise
and regard from his contemporaries. Rev. Ebenezer Cleaveland married October 16,
1745, at Groton, Connecticut, Abigail, daughter of Cyprian and Abigail (Johnson)
Stevens, of Killingly, Connecticut. She was born at Canterbury, Connecticut,
1727, and died in Gloucester, Massachusetts, December 25, 1804.
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