Person:Edward Cleveland (2)

Edward Cleveland according to all traditions and fragmentary records existent, migrated early in life from Woburn, went first to Narraganset Bay, Mass., later settled at North Kingston, where evidently his children were born and duly recorded in the N. Kingston old town record books,which were destroyed by fire in 1870. About 1709 he accompanied his son Edward to Canterbury, where Edward (the latter) appears a proprietary inhabitant by the patent of 1710--Larned's Windham Co. 1:156.^[3]

Edward was 57 years old when he married Zerviah Church in 1722, four years after the death of his first wife. They removed to Pomfret, CT by 1738, as they were accepted into the Old Congregational Church there. In his will Edward divided his large property among his wife and six children by his first wife, the three youngest not being named.^[3][4]

1. ↑ Johnson, Edward F. Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages . (Woburn, Massachusetts: Andrews, Cutler & Co., 1890-1919)
   1:51.

   'CLEVELAND. ...
   Edward s. of Moses, May 20, 1664.'

2. ↑ Cleveland, Edmund Janes, and Horace Gillette Cleveland. The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families: an attempt to trace, in both the male and the female lines, the posterity of Moses¹ Cleveland who came from Ipswich, County Suffolk, England, about 1635, was of Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; of Alexander Cleveland of Prince William County, Virginia; and of ancient and other Clevelands in England, America and elsewhere; with numerous biographical sketches; and containing ancestries of many of the husbands and wives; also a bibliography of the Cleveland family and a genealogical account of Edward Winn of Woburn and of other Winn families. (Hartford, Connecticut: Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1899)
   1:23.

   'Children, all born at Woburn : ...
   Edward2 Cleveland borne ye 20th of 3d month [May] 1664.'

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Cleveland, Edmund Janes, and Horace Gillette Cleveland. The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families: an attempt to trace, in both the male and the female lines, the posterity of Moses¹ Cleveland who came from Ipswich, County Suffolk, England, about 1635, was of Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; of Alexander Cleveland of Prince William County, Virginia; and of ancient and other Clevelands in England, America and elsewhere; with numerous biographical sketches; and containing ancestries of many of the husbands and wives; also a bibliography of the Cleveland family and a genealogical account of Edward Winn of Woburn and of other Winn families. (Hartford, Connecticut: Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1899)
   1:47.

   'd. Pomfret, Windham co., Conn., Aug. ab. 26 or Sept., 1746'

4. ↑                    WILL OF EDWARD CLEVELAND (from source 3)
   "In the name of God amen. I, Edward Cleaveland of Pomfret in y^e co. of Windham,
   colony of Conn. in N. E. calling to mind my mortality and knowing that it is appointed
   unto all men to Dye and being grown aged and weak in body, but sound in mind and
   memory do make and ordain these presents to be my last will and testament, first of all
   I recommend my soul to God that gave it and my body to y^e earth to be decently buried
   at y^e discretion of my executrix. Concerning my worldly estate I dispose of y^e same as
   followeth. That is to say I give to my well beloved children namely EDWARD, PALMER,
   ABIGAIL, ISAAC, SAMUEL, and y^e heirs of [my son?] DELIVERANCE [viz:?] JOSIAH,
   MARY, HANNAH, ENOCH and ELIZABETH all my moveable estate which I have that was
   mine when I marry^d to my now beloved wife Zeruiah to 'be equally divided amongst
   them after my decease. Item - I give to my dearly beloved wife Zeruiah all ye rest of
   my est. both real and personal to be at her disposal and use forever as she shall think fit
   she paying all my just debts, and I make my wife Zeruiah my sole executrix of this my
   last will ratifying and confirming this to be my last will and testament and I declare all
   other wills to be voided w^ch ever I have made and I y^e said EDWARD CLEAVELAND, do
   by these presents publish pronounce and declare this to be my last will and testament
   as witness my hand and seal y^e 3^d day of October 1744. Signed sealed and delivered in
   presence of us.
   
     JOSEPH ADAMS                                                      his      
                   his                                               EDWARD X CLEAVELAND
   THOMAS X ENSWORTH                                          mark
                 mark
   
   PARKER ADAMS
   
   Will proved in Canterbury Sept y^e 6^th day 1746. Will probated Sep. 9 1746. Estate
   appraised Inventory £234.5.0 Appraisers: Deliverance Brown, Henry Bacon, John
   Pike; John Crery Clk. of Probate