When Seneca Cleveland was born about 16 August 1812, in New York, United States, his father, Gardner Cleveland, was 48 and his mother, Annie Durkee, was 40. He married Delia Thompson in 1835. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Waterloo Township, Black Hawk, Iowa, United States in 1860 and Bloomington, McLean, Illinois, United States in 1880.
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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
During the years 1799 to 1827, New York went through a period of gradual emancipation. A Gradual Emancipation Law was passed in 1799 which freed slave children born after July 4, 1799. However, they were indentured until 25 years old for women and 28 years old for men. A law passed 1817 which freed slaves born before 1799, yet delayed their emancipation for ten years. All remaining slaves were freed in New York State on July 4, 1827.
Historical Boundaries: 1843: Black Hawk, Iowa Territory, United States 1846: Black Hawk, Iowa, United States
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.
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