Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Benjamin Brown    
                Died: bef 1741             in Connecticut  1
              Father:
              Mother:
Notes 
                Wife: Abigail Cleveland   2  
       Also known as: Abigail Cleaveland 3
         Not married:                        
                Born: Jun- 3-1715          in Canterbury, Windham Co, CT  3
                Died: Dec-15-1782          in Canterbury, Windham Co, CT  4,5 (see note 1)
              Buried:                      in Cleveland Cemetery, Canterbury, Windham Co, CT  6 (see note 2)
              Father: Josiah Cleaveland   (1690 - 1750) 
              Mother: Abigail Paine   (1686 - 1762) 
Other spouse 2
Notes 5 
           M Child 1: Benjamin Brown      
                Born: Apr-  -1732/33       in Canterbury, Windham Co, CT  2
                Died: Jan- 1-1792          in Canterbury, Windham Co, CT  2,7,8
            Military:                      Patriotic Service in Revolutionary War in Connecticut  9
                Wife: Hannah Benjamin  b. May-22-1737  
             Married: Feb-25-1755          in Canterbury, Windham Co, CT  2,10 (see note 3)

Sources:
(1) Presumed. 
(2) Gloria Wall Bicha, The Benjamin Family in America (1977), p. 113. 
(3) Edmund Janes Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families (1899) 
(http://www.archive.org/details/TheGenealogyOfTheClevelandAndCleavelandFamilies), p. 
80. 
(4) Edmund Janes Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families (1899) 
(http://www.archive.org/details/TheGenealogyOfTheClevelandAndCleavelandFamilies), p. 
162. 
(5) New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Vol. XLVIII, 1894, p. 193. 
(6) Findagrave.com. 
(7) Connecticut Probate Records, Plainfield District, Windham County (1747-1880) (NEHGS microfilm collection, Boston). The 
will of Benjamin Brown of Canterbury, husband of Hannah and father of Rufus and other children known to be in this 
family, was dated Nov 28 1791 and proved on Feb 7 1792 in Canterbury, Plainfield District, Windham County.  Twenty-seven 
years later, in a court document dated Sep 14 1819, his real estate was distributed among his heirs as follows, 
relationships not stated:  (1) Jedediah Brown, 1/8th part thereof beginning at the northwest corner adjoing land of 
Ebenezer Cady and Luther Brown.  (2) Anna Parker, 1/16th part thereof bounded beginning at the highway at the southwest 
corner of Luther Brown's land.  (3) Luther Brown, 1/8th part thereof beginning at the southwest corner of land set off 
to Anna Parker.  (4) Daniel Brown, 1/8th part thereof beginning at the southwest corner of land set off to Luther Brown. 
(5) The heirs of Abigail Rider, 1/16th part thereof bounded beginning at the southwest corner of Benjamin Brown's land 
on the west side of the highway.  (6) The heirs of Ebenezer Brown, 1/8th part thereof bounded beginning at the northeast 
corner of Benjamin Brown's land on the west side of the highway.  (7) Rufus Brown, 1/8th part thereof bounded beginning 
at the southeast corner of land set off to the heirs of Eben [Ebenezer] Brown.  (8) Bazaruna Brown, 1/8th part thereof 
bounded beginning at the southeast corner of land set off to Rufus Brown.  (9) Thankful Peabody, 1/16th part thereof 
bounded beginning at the southeast corner of land set off to Bazaruna Brown.  (10) The heirs of Aurilla Cleaveland, 
1/16th part thereof being a lot of (illegible) land lying in the land lying in the town of Brooklyn being a lot of land 
Benjamin Brown bought of John Parish. Record #267. 
(8) National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Patriot Index, Gateway Press, Baltimore, MD (2003), Vol I, 
p. 355. 
(9) National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Patriot Index, Gateway Press, Baltimore, MD (2003), 
Patriotic Service is defined to include:  "An Associator; Collector of Provisions; Defender of Fort or Frontier; 
Delegate to a Continental Contress or to a Provincial Congress; Express Rider; Fence Viewer; Furnishing as a substitute; 
Gunsmith who gave his services; Inspection of provisions; Legislator; Member of the Boston Tea Party, or the Cherokee 
Expedition, or the Galvez Expedition, or the Kaskaskia Campaign; Member of a Committee made necessary by the War; 
Minister who made patriotic sermons; Munitions maker; Nurse; Taking an Oath of Allegiance; Patroller; Prisoner of War or 
of the Indians; Ranger; Refugee; Rendering aid to the wounded; Rendering material aid; Signer of a petition or a 
non-importation agreement; Surgeon; Wheelwright.", Vol I, p. 355. 
(10) Connecticut Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), Canterbury Vital Records, Vol. 1, p. 70. 

Event Notes
Note (1) at homestead, North Society
Note (2) "Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families (1899)," p. 163, reports
burial location of Abigail Cleveland and her husband John Adams as Morse
Cemetery in Canterbury.
Note (3) at Canterbury Congregational Church







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