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.

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.

[4] In it Mather praised Cheever for his "untiring abjuration of the devil.

Their son, Ezekiel Cheever, was a resident at Salem Village during the time of the Witch Trials.