Ezekiel Cheever

1614 - 1708  (94 years)

• Name	Ezekiel Cheever
  Born	25 Jan 1614	London, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	21 Aug 1708	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
  Notes	(from Goldthwaite Genealogy"; thanks to Kim Clements) "Ezekiel Cheever, the famous master of the Boston Latin School, was born in London Jan. 25, 1614, the son of William and Margaret Cheever. He was admitted a pupil of Christ's Hospital Apr. 3, 1626, and went thence to the University of Cambridge, where his name has been found enrolled in the Register of Emanuel College, Jan. 12, 1632-3. He came to Boston, in New England, in 1637, and removed probably the next year, to New Haven, where he was chosen one of the twelve foundation members of the church, June, 1639; was deputy to the Court in 1645 and 1646, occasionally preached, and, throughout his residence there of about twelve years, taught school, first in his own house, and later in a free school established by the town. "In New Haven he married, in the autumn of 1638, his wife, Mary, her maiden name unknown, who died there Jan. 20, 1649, having been the mother of six children. From New Haven he removed, about 1650, to Ipswich, Mass., where he became the first master of its grammar school, established about that time. While living there he married Nov. 18, 1652, his second wife, Ellen Lathrop, sister of Capt. Thomas Lathrop of Beverly. "After about eleven years, spent in Ipswich, he removed to Charlestown, entering upon his duties as schoolmaster there Nov. 26, 1661, and nine years later, going over to Boston, he began, Nov. 6, 1670, his last and longest period as a teacher, continuing there the remaining thirty-eight years of his life, as master of the Boston Latin School, which had been established in 1635. He had thus, at his death, which took place in Boston Aug. 21, 1708, at the age of 94, completed seventy years continuous service as a teacher, having been the Schoolmaster of most of the principal men of Boston then upon the stage." Ezekiel Cheever wrote two books: "Scripture Prophecies Explained," and his famous "Accidence" or Latin Grammar, written, it is supposed, in New Haven, and for more than a century in use in the schools of New England, passing through at least twenty editions, the last published in Boston in 1838. By his second wife, Ellen Lathrop, he had a son, also named Ezekiel Cheever, who became the famous clerk in the Salem Witch Trials and a character in Arthur Miller's "The Crucible."
  Person ID	I788	Our Family Tree
  Last Modified	26 Feb 2008

  
  

  Father	William Cheever
  Mother	Margaret
  Family ID	F2115	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary,   d. 20 Jan 1649
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Cheever,   b. 02 Apr 1645, New Haven, Connecticut, USA ,   d. 1726, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA  (Age 80 years)
  Last Modified	26 Feb 2008
  Family ID	F2070	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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