Individual Details
Elizabeth "Betsey" Downer
(17 Apr 1739 - Nov 1822)
Per "The genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland families..etc." by Edmund James Cleveland dated 1899, page 2281, found at Heritage Quest Online: John Cleveland was born in Canterbury, CT 28 Feb 1735, died Upper Coos, Colebrook, Coos Co., NH, 15 Feb 1818, married Canterbury, 17 Feb. 1762, Betsey Downer of Windham, CT, born Hebron, CT, 17 Apr. 1739, died Colebrook, Nov 1822, daughter of Caleb Downer. He was in the French and Indian War; under Gen. James Wolfe at taking of Quebec, Can., 13 Sept 1759. John Cleveland, before the Revoiloution, moved up the Connecticut River to Bath, Grafton Co., NH, lived there many years, farmer. He and his wife are buried at Upper Coos. Children were born in Canterbury.
Source: LDS Ancestral File. See Selham file.
Events
| Birth | 17 Apr 1739 | Hebron (Tolland), Connecticut, British America |  |  | |
| Living | Windham, Connecticut, British North America | ||||
| Marriage | 17 Nov 1762 | she is of Windham, Conn., Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut, British America - John Cleveland | | | |
| Death | Nov 1822 | Colebrook, Coos, New Hampshire, United States | | | |
| Burial | Nov 1822 | Columbia Bridge Cemetery, Colebrook, Coos, New Hampshire, United States | | ||
| LDS Family Tree ID | KK1P-PY4 | ||||
| WikiTree | Downer-254 |
Families
| Spouse | John Cleveland (1735 - 1818) |
| Child | Martha Cleveland (1763 - 1836) |
| Child | John Cleveland (1764 - 1809) |
| Child | Abigail Cleveland (1766 - ) |
| Child | Downer Cleveland (1768 - 1787) |
| Child | Caleb Cleveland (1770 - ) |
| Child | Anson Cleveland (1772 - ) |
| Father | Caleb Downer (1710 - ) |
| Mother | Martha Smith (1714 - ) |
| Sibling | Jerusha S. Downer (1735 - 1827) |
| Sibling | Martha Downer ( - ) |
Notes
Birth
Per "The genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland families..etc." by Edmund James Cleveland dated 1899, page 2281, found at Heritage Quest Online: Betsey Downer of Windham, Windham Co., CT, born Hebron, Tolland Co., CT, 17 Apr. 1739, daughter of Caleb Downer.Tolland Co. was not created until 13 Oct. 1785.
Marriage
From "A Genealogy of Benjamin Cleveland, etc" by Horace Gillette Cleveland dated 1879, page 239, found at Heritage Quest Online: the Township Records of Canterbury, CT shows the marriage of John Cleaveland and Betsey Downer on 17 Nov 1762.See "The Downers of America, with Genealogical Record" by David R. Downer dated 1900, page 38: Elizabeth daughter of Caleb Downer and Martha Smith, born ?, married 17 Nov. 1762, John Cleveland, at Scotland.
Per "The genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland families..etc." by Edmund James Cleveland dated 1899, page 2281, found at Heritage Quest Online: John Cleveland married Canterbury, 17 Feb. 1762, Betsey Downer of Windham, CT.
Death
Per "The genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland families..etc." by Edmund James Cleveland dated 1899, page 2281, found at Heritage Quest Online: died Colebrook, Nov 1822, daughter of Caleb Downer.Endnotes
1. Edmund James Cleveland, Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland families: ect (Hartford, Conn.: Printed for the subscribers by the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1899), Vol 3 page 2281 item 18656; digital images, my e-book, Heritage Quest Online ( : accessed .
2. Edmund James Cleveland, Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland families: ect (Hartford, Conn.: Printed for the subscribers by the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1899), Vol 3 page 2281 item 18656; digital images, my e-book, Heritage Quest Online ( : accessed .
3. Edmund James Cleveland, Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland families: ect (Hartford, Conn.: Printed for the subscribers by the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1899), Vol 3 page 2281 item 18656; digital images, my e-book, Heritage Quest Online ( : accessed .
4. Edmund James Cleveland, Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland families: ect (Hartford, Conn.: Printed for the subscribers by the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1899), Vol 3 page 2281 item 18656; digital images, my e-book, Heritage Quest Online ( : accessed .
5. Dorothy M. Titus, Titus Family in America: Eleven generations of the direct line from Robert Titus I to Dorothy Madalene Tittus and Bursley Howland Titus XI (Weston, Mass.: Published by the editor Percy Hobart Titus, July 1943), page 3 note 2; my ebook, Heritage Quest Online, Los Angeles Public Library online ( : accessed .