Ancestry of
Grover Cleveland

22nd and 24th U.S. President

William Cleveland

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• • Grandfather of Grover Cleveland — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • Aaron Cleveland IV 
  • Mother:
  • Abiah Hyde   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 Dec 1770 
  • Birth Location:
  • Norwich, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Aug 1837 
  • Death Location:
  • Black Rock (now Buffalo), New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Margaret Falley
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Dec 1793 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Richard Falley Cleveland (Ahnentafel No:2 )

• Sources for William Cleveland

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A023053.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Westfield Marriages, Vol. 2, Page 98, Marriage of William Cleveland and Margaret Falley.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1954, Vol. 108, p. 103.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1886, Vol. 40, p. 308.
  • ⁵ Norwich CT: Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848, Vol. 1, Page 457, Birth record for William Cleveland.
  • ⁶ Westfield, MA: Marriage Records of the First Church, 1781-1835, Page 186, Marriage record for William Cleveland and Margaret.
  • ⁷ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 521, 523.
  • ⁸ Cleveland, Edmund Janes and Horace Gillette Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families: An Attempt to Track in Both the Male and the Female . . ., Vol. 1, Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1899), 227, 504-505.
  • ⁹ Hitchcock, Mrs. Edward, Sr., The Genealogy of the Hitchcock Family: Who are Descended from Matthias Hitchcock of East Haven, Conn., and . . ., Amherst, Massachusetts: Press of Carpenter and Morehouse (1894), 235.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 312.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 500.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 39.
  • ¹³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 449, 456-457, 461, 474, 479, 580, 663.
  • ¹⁴ Waters, Henry Fitz-Gilbert, Genealogical Gleanings in England, Volume 2, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1901), 1068.
  • ¹⁵ Watkins, Walter K. and Eben Putnam, New England Ancestry of Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press (1892), 7.