Brief Life History of Jeremiah
When Jeremiah Cleveland was born in 1786, in Albemarle, Virginia, United States, his father, Capt Jeremiah Cleveland, was 40 and his mother, Mary Gentry, was 40. He married Elizabeth Moon on 24 December 1814, in Fife Family Cemetery, Albemarle, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Fluvanna, Virginia, United States for about 10 years. He died in April 1866, in Fork Union, Fluvanna, Virginia, United States, at the age of 80.
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- Jeremiah Cleveland, "United States Census, 1850"
- Jeremiah Cleveland, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Birth Records, 1853-1896"
- Cleveland, "Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1771-1989"
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1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
1788 · Becomes the 10th state
On June 25, 1788 Virginia became the 10th state.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places in Devon, Essex, or the North Yorkshire, formed from the genitive plural (clifa) of Old English clif ‘bank, slope’ + land ‘land’.
Americanized form (and a rare Norwegian variant) of Norwegian Kleveland or its variant Kleiveland, and also of Kleven or its variant Kleiven.
History: Grover Cleveland (1837–1908), 22nd and 24th president of the US, was the fifth child of a country Presbyterian clergyman. His father, Richard Falley Cleveland, a graduate of Yale College and of the theological seminary at Princeton, was descended from Moses Cleaveland who arrived in MA in 1635.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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