Ezekiel Cheever

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Between Feb 1692 and May 1693, Salem, Essex Co, Massachusetts; during Witch Trials

Notes:

Ezekiel Cheever was born at London, England, on 25 January 1614.
He married, first, in 1638, (--?--)
Ezekiel Cheever married, second, on 18 November 1652, at age 38, Ellen Lathrop
Ezekiel Cheever died on 21 August 1708 at age 94.
He was buried at Granary Burying Ground, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
Ezekiel Cheever was a schoolmaster.
He resided at New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, in 1638.
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BIRTH Ezekiel was born on 25 January 1614/15 in London, Hampstead, Middlesex, England[1]. DEATH & BURIAL He died in Boston, Suffolk co., MA on 21 August 1708; he was 94[2] and is buried in the Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk co., MA. His death record in the Boston vital records is most detailed: "Cheever, Ezekiel, schoolmaster, b. Jan. 25, 1614, in London, d. Aug. 21, 1708. M.C.". OCCUPATION & FAMILY Ezekiel is an example of how one could emigrate from England to America in the 17th century and rise far beyond what his station in life would have been had he remained in England. His grandfather was a Yeoman and father was a Skinner. But Ezekiel was most noted as Headmaster of the Boston Latin School. Boston Latin is the oldest public school in the country and still remains as a public school today. His sons graduated from Harvard College in Cambridge, Middlesex co., MA and became noted ministers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Quite a rise in a single lifetime. EMIGRATION & RESIDENCES He emigrated from London to Boston, Suffolk co., MA before 1637. The exact date and name of the ship is lost. In 1638, they moved to New Haven, New Haven co., CT, where his first wife died in 1649. In 1650, he moved the family back to Massachusetts, removing to Ipswich, Essex co., MA. Then, in November 1661, he was back in Charlestown, Suffolk co., MA. Finally, he removed to Boston, Suffolk co., MA by 6 January 1670, where he apparently remained until his death in 1708[2,3]. LEGAL WRANGLINGS AND HIS SECOND WIFE Much is known of Ezekiel's second wife Ellen Lathrop's brother Thomas, but little of her. He was a hero of the King Philip's War and was killed at the Battle of Bloody Brook. Having died intestate, the wrangling over his estate provides much of the information on Ellen. Most of this information is from her husband's depositions, and can be considered quite biased since the Cheevers were trying to get the courts to give Thomas' estate to them instead of giving it to Thomas' wife, Bethiah. After nearly a decade of legal wrangling over the estate, the estate was left to his wife Bethiah, going to his sister Ellen and her heirs after Bethiah's death.

According to her husband's testimony, she was brought over from England with her brother Thomas, arriving in Salem in 1633[20]. Ezekiel's testimony is as follows: "My brother, when he brought his sister from England with him from all her friends and relations very loathe to part with her, used this as a great argument with her mother to persuade her. Viz: That he had no children of his own, nor was likely to have any: and otherwise he must give what he had to strangers..."

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Aug 1708 - MASTER EZEKIEL CHEEVER, (or CHEEVERS,) was the father of New England schoolmasters. He died in August, 1708, having probably outlived all who with him were the founders of the New Haven Church. His funeral sermon was preached by Cotton Mather ... Show more
From American Annals of Education - Related web pagesbooks.google.com/books?id=kPn5xbH5PkwC&pg ...

1708 - (Cotton) Mather ascribed the learning of New England to Master Cheever of the Boston Latin School and Master Corlet, and in his " essay on the memory of my venerable master Ezekiel Cheever," which formed an appendix to his funeral sermon upon Cheever delivered in ... Show more
From A Brief Account of the Funds that Came from the Estate of Edward ? - Related web pagesbooks.google.com/books?id=xirn6oYWZEMC&pg=PA11 ...

Aug 26, 1708 - His will, dated Feb. 16, 1705-6, written with his own hand when he was 91 years old, in good health & understanding wonderfull in my age," is on file in the Suffolk Probate office. It was offered for probate Aug. 26, 1708, by his son Thomas Cheever and ... Show more
From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 1879 - Related web pagesbooks.google.com/books?id=sakwr8R2D0AC&pg ...


Wikipedia
Ezekiel Cheever (1614?1708) was a schoolmaster, and the author of "probably the earliest American school book", Accidence, A Short Introduction to the Latin Tongue.[1] Upon his death, it was said that "New England [had] never known a better teacher."[2] He has been called "the chief representative of the colonial schoolmaster".[1]

Cheever came to Boston, Massachusetts in June 1637. Not much later, he went to New Haven, Connecticut and taught school.[3] In 1650, Cheever moved the family back to Massachusetts. On December 29, 1670, he was invited to become Head Master of the Boston Latin School.[2] He taught for seventy years, the last thirty-eight as master of the Boston Latin School.[1] Cotton Mather gave the sermon at his funeral.[3]

Ezekiel Cheever School named in his honor
Ezekiel Cheever School was a school located on Lombard St. in the Fair Haven neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut, USA. The school opened in 1896[1] and remained as late as 1967.[2] It was named for schoolteacher Ezekiel Cheever.

Ezekiel* married Ellen* Lathrop (or Lothrop), (immigrant) on 18 Nov 1652. Ellen* (daughter of Lathrop (or Lothrop)) was born in 1625 in England; died on 10 Sep 1706 in Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: Bef 1637, Essex Co, Massachusetts
• Property: 1657, Ipswich, Essex Co, Massachusetts

Notes:

his (Capt Thomas) sister Ellen, who came with him from England, and became the second wife of Ezekiel Cheever, with her children, inherited his estate.

Immigration:
She came with her brother Thomas and Thomas was shown in a petiton that he was in the expedition against Pequods in 1636/37.

Notes:

On November 18, 1652, Ezekiel married Ellen Lathrop who was the sister of Capt Thomas Lathrop, a casualty during King Philip's War.[3][5] Ezekiel and Ellen had five children. Their son, Rev Thomas, graduated from Harvard in 1677. Their son, Ezekiel Cheever, was a resident at Salem Village during the time of the Witch Trials.
Wikipedia

Notes:

some records think he was son of John Lathrop and Hannah Howse, however, per a post-in note in rootsweb tree:

There is at least some evidence to the contrary that the famous Thomas Lathrop is a son of Rev. John Lathrop: Captain Thomas Lothrop is listed in Rev E. B Huntington's "Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop family..." in the appendix on Unconnected Immigrants, Page 401-408. Huntington says "Of the parentage of this famous pioneer in early Massachusetts history, we have not been able to learn. He was a near kinsman of Rev John of Barnstable, and had preceded him, by some months certainly, to his American home. ..." Huntington gives a lengthy report of his exploits and reports he left no children. His sister Ellen Lothrop married Ezekiel Cheever of Salem.

Whether EB Huntington is correct, I do not know.