Brief Life History of Lucy
When Lucy Cleveland was born on 8 March 1789, in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Ambrose Cleaveland, was 33 and her mother, Mary Barney, was 35. She died in 1810, in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 21.
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- Lucy Cleavland, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 image 206
- Lucy Cleavland, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
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1790 · 13th State
On May 29, 1790, Rhode Island becomes the last of the original 13 colonies to become a state.
1791
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
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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