Family:Michael Mitton and Elizabeth Cleeve (2)

Michael Mitton b. Est 1614 d. Bet 25 Aug 1660 and 7 Oct 1661 Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland, Maine, United States	Parents: George Cleeve and Joan Price Elizabeth Cleeve b. Est 1619 Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England d. Aft 29 May 1684 Falmouth, Cumberland, Maine, United States

m. Bef 1639

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Marriage^[2]

Bef 1639

Children

		Birth	Death
1.	Ann Mitton	Est 1640	Abt 1677 Sandy Beach, Rye, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States
2.	Nathaniel Mitton	Est 1642	11 Aug 1676 Falmouth, Cumberland, Maine, United States
3.	Elizabeth Mitton	Est 1645	27 Jan 1736/37 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
4.	Mary Mitton	Est 1646	Aft 11 Aug 1676 Canada
5.	Sarah Mitton	Est 1650	Bef 1676
6.	Martha Mitton	Est 1657	1700 Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States

References

Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
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MITTEN, MICHAEL, Falmouth 1637, then assoc. with George Cleves whose only ch. Elizabeth he m. had Ann, wh. m. Anthony Brackett; Elizabeth b. 1644, m. Thadeus Clarke; Mary, m. Thomas Brackett; Sarah, m. James Andrews; and Martha m. John Graves, wh. rem. from Kittery to Little Compton; beside only s. Nathaniel, wh. was k. by the Ind. Aug. 1676, unm. He was constable in 1640, freem. 1658; but is unhappi. at an earlier day, commemo. by Winthrop II. 302. He d. 1660. See also Folsom, 54, and especial. Willis, I. 96 and 173. His wid. m. a Harvey, and d. his wid. 1682.
↑ George Cleeve sketch, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

i ELIZABETH.. m. (1) probably say 1639 Michael Mitton (on 24 February 1650 "George Cleve of Casco" gave to "my son-in-law Michael Mitton ... that tract of land lying in Casco Bay granted unto me by Colonel Allexander Rigby Esq." [YLR 8:245]; not a happy match, as her father wrote on 1 May 1647 that "there are also some adulteries committed and yet unpunished whereof ... that of Mr. Michell Mitton and John Seares committed with Mary Martin" [WP 5:152])