1. 2. Hepzibah SPENCER   b. Abt 1730, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 6 Mar 1825.

1. 3. Simon BRAINERD   b. 9 Nov 1752, Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 18 May 1843, Haddam Neck, Middlesex, Connecticut.
2. 4. Jephtha BRAINERD   b. 1754, Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut.
3. 5. Jabez BRAINERD   b. 17 Aug 1758, Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 10 Mar 1852, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
4. 6. Hepzibah BRAINERD   b. 1760, Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut.
5. 7. Tabitha BRAINERD   b. 1762, Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut; c. 17 Jul 1765, Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 16 Mar 1820.
6. 8. Lydia BRAINERD   b. 1764, Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut.
7. 9. Silas BRAINERD   b. Abt 1765, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 28 Jul 1847.
8. 10. Lovisa BRAINERD   b. 1769, Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut.
9. 11. Asa BRAINARD   b. 7 Mar 1771, Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 21 Jan 1844, Brooklyn, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
10. 12. Drusilla BRAINERD   b. 1773, Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut.
11. 13. Abigail BRAINERD   b. 1774, Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut.

MILITARY: Lieutenant in the Conn. Continentals.

1. 14. Warren BRAINERD   b. 25 Sep 1781, Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. Abt 1858.
2. 15. Sally BRAINERD   b. 5 Mar 1779, Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 2 Jul 1844, Rockport, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
3. 16. Newel BRAINERD   b. 6 Apr 1783, Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 23 Nov 1853.
4. 17. Talitha BRAINERD   b. 27 Mar 1786, Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 7 Oct 1872.
5. 18. Harris BRAINERD   b. 16 Mar 1788, Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 6 Sep 1804.
6. 19. Selah BRAINERD   b. 19 Sep 1791, Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. May 1842.
7. 20. Drusilla BRAINERD   b. 24 Jul 1796, Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 25 Aug 1855.
8. 21. Alice BRAINERD   b. 25 Feb 1799, Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 9 Oct 1834.

Name: Jephtha BRAINERD
Given Name: Jephtha
Surname: Brainerd
Sex: M
Birth: 1754 in Chatham,Middlesex,Conn.
Death: 3 Jul 1825 in Windaham,N. Hampton,Pa.
Change Date: 20 Apr 2003

Father: Simon BRAINERD b: 7 Oct 1730 in Haddam,Connecticut
Mother: Hepzibah SPENCER

Marriage 1 Abigail MACK
Married: 10 Apr 1760
Note: _STATMARRIED
Children
Darius BRAINERD b: Oct 1780 in E. Haddam,Conn.
Levi BRAINERD b: 29 Nov 1781 in Chatham,Middlesex,Conn.
Druscilla BRAINERD b: Aug 1783 in Chatham,Middlesex,Conn.
Jeptha BRAINERD b: 23 Jul 1787 in Chatham,Middlesex,Conn.
Henry BRAINERD b: 11 Oct 1797 in Windham,Green,NY.

MILITARY: Served seven years in the revolutionary army.

1. 22. Darius BRAINARD  

BIOGRAPHY: Source --- "Pioneer Families of Cleveland, Ohio 1796-1840", Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham, 1914 (Evangelical Publishing House) pg 604
Jabez Brainard, born 1759, son of Simon and Hepzibah Spencer Brainard, a soldier of the American Revolution, rests in Erie street cemetery at the right of the main drive, and not far from the Erie street entrance. His brother Simon Brainard was a lieutenant in the Conn. Continentals. His brother Jeptha Brainard served seven years in the revolutionary army. His brother Asa Brainard also was a soldier of the American Revolution.

The parents of these patriots lived in Chatham, Conn. Soon after the close of the war, Jabez Brainard married Lucy Bingham, daughter of Deacon Elijah and Sarah Jackson Bingham, and removed to Leamsted, N. H., where he lived many years. He was a leading member of the Presbyterian church of that town, and was familiarly known as "Deacon Brainard."

His only son Nathan Brainard established himself in business in Cleveland, and hither at the death of his wife came Jabez Brainard seeking and receiving in the loneliness of his declining years the ministrations that only kinship and love can bestow. And in this city, in 1852, in the once well known Brainard residence on Sheriff street, he died aged 94. A large part of the history of Cleveland is to be found in the lives of many old families of this city allied through marriage to the descendants of this revolutionary hero.

Deacon Jabez Brainard was of slight build, and of medium height. He had blue eyes that twinkled with mirth, or shone with intelligence. He was exceedingly original in his speech, w?thal a Puritan by inheritance and instinct, a markedly pious man even in the days when irreligion was rare in the community. His desk, a beautiful piece of Colonial furniture, stood in the library of his grandson, the late Prof. George Brainard, and doubtless is still treasured and used by the family.

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In another of his series of Cleveland's Revolutionary War hero's, Mr.
Kelley discusses Jabez Brainard, last of the suviving veterens.

The Last Leaf--

Jabez Brainard, forebear of Cleveland's musical family,born in
Connecticut in 1758, died in Cleveland in 1852, probably was the cities
last surviving veteren of the Revolutionary War. He was buried in Erie
Street Cemetery to the right of the main drive, until his remains were
removed to Lake View Cemetery.
Ninety-four when he died, his life was a story of military service,
family life in a New England town, as leader of a church and, finally of
residence in Cleveland, where he marched with other white-haired
veterens on Public Square. The date of his death, as entered by Ohio's
Military Register and approved by the State, is at variance with the one
I give. But mine, from cemetery records, undoubtedly is correct. Honah
Hanchett is said by these military records to have died here in 1860.
An orderly, in the Revolution, he lived to be 92. But his buriel place
is listed unknown and there is no record showing he lived here.
Jason Robbins of Solon, lived to be 90, and Obidiah Cooper,buried in
Warrensville, to be 92. Josia Wicox of Brecksville lived to be 91, while
Jared Farrand, buried in Fairview, and John Sheppard of North Royaton,
passed the century mark, but these lived without the city limits.

The " Deacon "--

Jabez Brainard was the son of Simon and Hepzibah Spencer Brainard of
Chatham, Conn. His brother, Simon, was Lieutenant in the Continnentials
with whom brother Asa was a marine. With peace, Jabez wedded Lucy
Bingham, daughter of Deacon Elijah and Sarah Jackson Bingham, and for
many years resided in Lemsted, N.H. Leader of the Presbyterian Church,
he was " Deacon Brainard." His son, Nathan, came here in the
mid-thirties and opened a music store on Superior Street. He bought
land on the east side of Sheriff (E. 4th) Street an with his four sons,
built a home. Like myself, many will recall the later quaint Brainard
brick terrace with mounting steps and areas on the site of McCrory's
west entrance.
When his wife died in New England, Jabez came here to pass his last
years with son Nathan. " Deacon" Jabez Brainard was of slight build and
medium height with humorous, inteligent blue eyes. H? possessed a
Puritanic manner of speaking with the piety and religious convictions of
a day when there were few churches. His ornamental colonial desk was
long treasured in the library of his grandson. Prof. George Brainard.
His desendants were many. The late Miss Annie Brainard, a prominent
member of Trinity Cathedral congregation, whose home was on Kenilworth
Drive, was a great granddaughter. Her father, Silas, and her
grandfather, Nathan, built Melodeon Hall on the site of the Wilshire
Building. Later they renamed it Brainard's Hall. All four grandsons
married, had families and were well known. Silas married Emily C. Mould,
daughter of Henry Mather, married her sister, Laura V. Mould. Prof.
George W., noted organist and music teacher, married Louise Hills,
daughter of Nathan C. Hills; Joseph Mather, the fourth granson, married
Helen Cushmen Hills, her sister, and their only child, Nelly Brainard,
became Mrs.Wilson Black Chisholm and all their decendants are all sons
and daughters of the Revolution.
Amos Brainard, buried in old Brookmere Cemetary, Brooklyn, settled
in the southwestern part of the city. Mrs. Perry Geller,1637 Holyrood
Road, tells me she is directly descended from a brother of Jabez. Her
ancestry traces back through her father, George Brainard, to Enoch
Brainard, veterinary surgeon in the Civil War. His father, Enoch
Southworth Brainard, settled in Newburg and married his cousin, Abigail
Brainard, daughter of Silas, a son of the Revoluntion.
The removal of Jabez Brainard's remains to Lake View Cemetery took
place in 1915. He rests in his original Tombstone, near the man
entrance.
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OBIT: Name: Brainard, Jabez
Date: 1852
Source: Cemetery record; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #009.
Notes: 1752 - 1852. Lakeview Cemetery Cleveland, Ohio.

1. 23. Nathan BRAINARD   b. 20 Jul 1787, Lemster,, New Hampshire; d. 1869, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
2. 24. Harriet BRAINERD   b. 3 Sep 1790, ,, New Hampshire; d. 15 Jan 1853, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio; bur. Erie St. Cemetery.

1. 25. Abigail or Abby BRAINERD   b. 22 Jun 1791, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 1 Feb 1882, Stow, Summit, Ohio.
2. 26. Erastus BRAINERD   b. 1792, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 15 Jun 1861.
3. 27. Silas BRAINERD   b. 31 Dec 1793, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. Abt 1857.
4. 28. Chauncey BRAINERD   b. 5 Oct 1795, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.

MILITARY: Soldier of the American Revolution.

1. 29. Maria BRAINERD   b. 1797, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 31 Oct 1828.
2. 30. Marvin BRAINARD   b. 9 Feb 1799, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 24 Jul 1852, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
3. 31. Marietta BRAINERD   b. 26 Sep 1801/1802, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 23 Aug 1881, Winneconne,, Wisconsin.
4. 32. Simon BRAINERD   b. Abt 1808, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. Abt 1815, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
5. 33. Martha BRAINERD   b. 28 Apr 1811, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 1838, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
6. 34. Lovisa BRAINERD   b. 29 Apr 1814, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 1888, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
7. 35. Betsey Ann BRAINERD   b. 12 Aug 1817, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.

1. 36. William BRAINARD   b. 17 Apr 1817, Cuyohoga Co., Ohio; d. 20 Apr 1899, Fairfield Twp., Shiawassee, Michigan.
2. 37. Harris BRAINERD   b. 2 Jan 1804, Haddam Neck, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 15 Dec 1880.
3. 38. Deming BRAINERD   b. Abt 1806, Haddam Neck, Middlesex, Connecticut.
4. 39. Julia Ann BRAINERD   b. 13 Nov 1810, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 1 Apr 1892.
5. 40. Sally BRAINERD   b. Abt 1812, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
6. 41. Warren BRAINERD   b. Abt 1814, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
7. 42. Lyman BRAINERD   b. 17 Apr 1817, Brooklyn, Cuyahoga, Ohio; d. 17 Feb 1892.

1. 43. Williard BRAINARD   b. Abt 1798, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. Abt 1825, Rockport, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
2. 44. Hepzibah BRAINARD   b. Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
3. 45. Hervey Hulet BRAINARD   b. 10 Aug 1800, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 11 Apr 1867, , Cuyahoga, Ohio.
4. 46. Lydia BRAINARD   b. Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
5. 47. Abigail BRAINARD   b. Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
6. 48. Lucretia BRAINARD   b. 1 Jun 1815, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
7. 49. Daniel BRAINARD   b. Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
8. 50. Alice BRAINARD   b. 25 May 1819, Brooklyn, Cuyahoga, Ohio.

Name: Darius BRAINERD
Given Name: Darius
Surname: Brainerd
Sex: M
Birth: Oct 1780 in E. Haddam,Conn.
Death: 25 Apr 1824 in East Haddam,Middlesex County,Conn.
Burial: 1824 Valley Home Cemetery,Windham,Bradford,Pa.
Change Date: 20 Apr 2003
Note:
Darius was a veteran of the War of 1812
He died in Pennsylvania at the age of44.


Father: Jephtha BRAINERD b: 1754 in Chatham,Middlesex,Conn.
Mother: Abigail MACK

Marriage 1 Tamar WILLIAMSON
Married: 1806/1807
Note: _STATMARRIED
Children
Simon BRAINERD b: 29 Sep 1813 in Windham C o,Bradford,Pa.
Betsey BRAINERD b: 30 Dec 1808 in Windham C o,Bradford,Pa.
Andrew C. BRAINERD b: 1 Sep 1811 in Windham C o,Bradford,Pa.
Horace BRAINERD b: 1817 in Windham C o,Bradford,Pa.
Philo BRAINERD b: 18 Feb 1819 in Windham C o,Bradford,Pa.
Darius BRAINERD b: 31 Mar 1821 in Windham C o,Bradford,Pa.
Henry Asher BRAINERD b: 29 Aug 1824 in Windham C o,Bradford,Pa.

RESIDENCES: 1785 - 1823 Lemster, N.H.
1823 Washington, N.H.
1834(?) 21 Prospect Street, (southeast corner of Sheriff) Cleveland, Ohio

OCCUPATION: Owned a music store, "Brainard and Mould" at 34 Superior Street, Cleveland, Ohio

1. 51. Fanny BRAINARD   b. 1812; d. 1875.
2. 52. Silas BRAINARD   b. 19 Feb 1814; d. 8 Apr 1871.
3. 53. Harriet BRAINARD   b. 1818; d. 1838.
4. 54. Henry Mather BRAINARD   b. 1823; d. 6 May 1855, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
5. 55. George W. BRAINARD   b. 1827; d. 24 Mar 1910, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
6. 56. Joseph Mather BRAINARD   b. 1830.
7. 57. Mary BRAINARD   b. 1833; d. 1837.

BIOGRAPHY: Source --- "Pioneer Families of Cleveland, Ohio 1796-1840", Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham, 1914 (Evangelical Publishing House) pg 540

BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Ozias Mather of East Haddam, son of Dr. Augustus Mather, married, in 1808, Harriet Brainard. She was the only daughter of Deacon Jabez Brainard, the revolutionary soldier, a sketch of whom appears on another page of this work. She was also the sister of Nathan Brainard, the pioneer.

BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Mather died in 1813, in Washington, N.H., and Harriet Brainard Mather was left a widow with two little sons, one of them an infant born the year his father died.

BIOGRAPHY: She married, secondly, Edm?nd Lawrence of Groton, Mass., and in 1853, while on a visit with Cleveland relatives, she died, aged 63 years, and was buried in Erie St. cemetery. Mr. Lawrence survived her but a year, his death occurring in West Danvers, Mass. Her children were:

BIOGRAPHY: Henry Brainard Mather, b.1809; married, 1840, Ellen Everett, daughter of Charles Everett. Henry B. Mather died in Boston, Mass., in 1884.
Samuel Holmes Mather, b.1813; m. Emily Washington Gregory.

1. 58. Henry Brainard MATHER   b. 1809, ,, New Hampshire; d. 1884, Boston,, Massachusetts.
2. 59. Samuel Holmes MATHER   b. 1813, ,, New Hampshire; d. 14 Jan 1894, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.

1. 60. Elizabeth BRAINARD   b. 18 Jul 1821.
2. 61. Abba BRAINARD   d. Oct 1834.
3. 62. George BRAINARD   d. 19 Jan 1865, Memphis,, Tennessee.
4. 63. Joseph Leach BRAINARD   b. Abt 1829, ,, Connecticut; d. Bef 1920, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
5. 64. Abba Lucinda BRAINARD   d. 20 Feb 1848/1849.
6. 65. John William BRAINARD   d. 11 Oct 1848/1849.
7. 66. Enoch Southworth BRAINARD   b. 6 Jul 1835, Hartford,, Connecticut; d. 30 May 1913, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
8. 67. Henry BRAINARD  

From book "Descendants of James Stanclift of Middletown, Connecticut and Allied Families", By Robert C. andature 1843/44 and a director of the Middletown Bank 1847-1861. Erastus came into possession of what had once been the "Stancliff Brownstone Quarry", and operated it under the name "E. & S. Brainerder, Silas, it became "Erastus Brainerd & Co.". He was very successful in his business enterprises and was one of the wealthiest men in the area.tland with six children and an equal number of servants. At this date Erastus called himself "a stone cutter"(4). Erastus listed himself as a "Quarryman" in 1860 and the family lived in the Town of Portland.ter the death of Erastus, Mary remained in her home in Portland with four grown children, Mary, Catherine?Ann, Corine and LeRoy. In 1870 her granddaughter, Millie, the daughter of Erastus Brainerd Jr was living in her household. It was clear that Erastus had provided generously for each of his children, as well as his widow(6).

1. 68. Mary BRAINERD   b. 12 Sep 1817; d. 8 Feb 1?02, Portland, Middlesex, Connecticut.
2. 69. Erastus BRAINERD, Jr.   b. 27 Jul 1819, Portland, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 22 Nov 1891, Portland, Middlesex, Connecticut.
3. 70. Norman Leslie BRAINERD   b. 18 Apr 1821, Portland, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 20 Aug 1877, Portland, Middlesex, Connecticut.
4. 71. Benjamin Franklin BRAINERD   b. 29 Nov 1823, Portland, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 1 Mar 1886, Portland, Middlesex, Connecticut.
5. 72. Corinne L. BRAINERD   b. 29 Dec 1825, Portland, Middlesex, Connecticut.
6. 73. Jane Maria BRAINERD   b. 21 Oct 1826; d. 10 Apr 1881, Meriden, New Haven, Connecticut.
7. 74. Catherine Ann BRAINERD   b. 26 Mar 1829.
8. 75. Jerusha Dickenson BRAINERD   b. 1 Apr 1831, Portland, Middlesex, Connecticut.
9. 76. Adelaide BRAINERD   b. 6 Nov 1832, Portland, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 20 Mar 1891, Newburgh,, New York.
10. 77. LeRoy BRAINERD   b. 12 Mar 1840, Portland, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 4 Apr 1903, Germantown,, Pennsylvania.

This family appears in the 1850 Ohio Census - Brooklyn
Marvin, Betsey, Titus N., Delia D., Jeptha, Bowles.

MARRIAGE: BRAINERD, BETSEY and BRAINERD, MARVIN 0001 0177 Cuyahoga County, Ohio

OBIT: Name: Brainard, Mr. Marvin
Date: Aug. 6, 1852
Source: Cemetery record; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #009.
Notes: Brainard- In Brooklyn township July 24th, Mr. Marvin Brainard, 53 years after a long and painful illness. Mr. Brainard was one of our earliest settlers, and was esteemed by a large circle of friends and his death was lamented by all who knew him. 1801 - 1852. Dennison Cemetery Cleveland, Ohio.

1. 78. Mary Abby BRAINARD   b. 11 Sep 1822, Brooklyn, Cuyahoga, Ohio; d. 8 Mar 1847, Brooklyn, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
2. 79. Titus Noah BRAINARD   b. 15 Jul 1825, Brooklyn, Cuyahoga, Ohio; d. 18 Feb 1910, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
3. 80. Betsey Adelia BRAINARD   b. 27 May 1828, Brooklyn, Cuyahoga, Ohio; d. 6 May 1853, Brooklyn, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
4. 81. Jeptha (Stephen) BRAINARD   b. 2 Jan 1831, Brooklyn, Cuyahoga, Ohio; d. 21 Feb 1865, Brooklyn, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA.
5. 82. Marvin Bolles BRAINARD   b. 16 Sep 1833/1834, Brooklyn, Cuyahoga, Ohio; d. 9 Jul 1856, Brooklyn, Cuyahoga, Ohio.