Each  individual  colonist,  if  a  man  of  character
and  worth,  like  Moses  Cleveland,  came  to  the  col-
ony of  his  choice  to  found  a  family,  and  the  history
of  this  Republic  groups  itself  very  readily  among
the  roots  and  the  widely  spreading  branches  of  these
old  family  trees.
Moses  Cleveland  came  from  the  town  of  Ipswich,


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Suffolk  County,  England,  which  had  already  sent
out  so  many  emigrants  that  one  New  England  town
had  borrowed  its  name.  He  did  not  at  once  be-
come a  citizen,  but  deferred  taking  the  "  freeman's
oath"  required  by  colonial  law  until  1643.  He
married,  September  26th,  1648,  Ann  Winn,  daugh-
ter of  Edward  and  Joanna  Winn,  of  Woburn,  where
he  made  his  home,  and  where  he  died,  January  9th.
1 701.  The  Cleveland  family  in  America  was
founded,  for  seven  sons  and  four  daughters  came  to
the  Woburn  homestead.  Among  their  descendants
there  have  been  many  good  men  and  noble  women  ;
citizens  of  every  reputable  occupation  and  profes-
sion ;  farmers,  mechanics,  lawyers,  and  physicians  ;
sailors  and  ship  captains  ;  soldiers  and  army  officers
up  to  the  grade  of  major-general  ;  ministers  of  the
Gospel  and  missionaries  to  foreign  lands.  Through
generation  after  generation,  among  the  older  colonies
and  States,  and  as  pioneers  of  new  States  that  they
helped  to  found  and  form,  the  descendants  of  the
sons  and  daughters  of  Moses  Cleveland  were  scat-
tered far  and  wide,  until  the  most  distinguished  of
them  all  grew  to  manhood  in  a  region  which,  in
1635,  was  held  by  a  nation  of  red  warriors  strong
enough  to  have  swept  away  the  infant  colony  of
Massachusetts  Bay.
