Person:Dorcas Cleveland (2)

Name^[2]	Dorcas Cleveland
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]	Abt Oct 1772	Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	28 May 1795	Franklin, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto Timothy Fisher (add)
Death^[1]	6 Jul 1860	Franklin, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Massachusetts, United States. Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915
[1].

Deaths Registered in the Town of Franklin for the year eighteen hundred and sixty.
No.: 14
Date of Death: July 6th [1860]
Name: Dorcas Fisher
Age: 87 y. 9 m. [birth about Oct 1772]
Place of Death: Franklin
Cause: Old Age
Condtion: Widow
Occupation: [blank]
Place of Birth: Medfield
Parents: Edward Cleveland
Birthplaces of Parents: Medfield
↑ A Find A Grave memorial with no picture gives a birth date of 18 Dec 1773. Source:Adams, Andrew N. Genealogical History of Henry Adams, of Braintree, Mass., and His Descendants, p. 329, gives a birth date of 28 Dec 1773, and neither variation agrees with the age at death found in the death record. No birth record has been found, and in fact, she is not even mentioned in Source:Tilden, William S. History of the Town of Medfield, Massachusetts, 1650-1886, p. 362, presumably a symptom of the lack of record. Further, the Adams Genealogy, says Dorcas married 3 times, successively to Timothy Fisher, Ziba Baker and --- Nelson. Her death record shows her name as Fisher so there is no evidence she married more than once, and Ziba Baker, who married Dorcas' sister, named his wife Mille (the sister) in his will, and presumably --- Nelson is the Francis Nelson who married sister Zilpha. So this account is very confused and/or sloppy.