Person:Deliverance Cleveland (1)

Deliverance Cleveland lived in that part of North Kingstown which in 1742 became Exeter. He was a tailor. He was a large owner of land and trader. Many of his deeds (one dated 1765) appear on Exeter and West Greenwich records, some of them of large amounts. He was once located at Nine Partners near Poughkeepsie, New York. His widow, Hannah and 5 children lived in West Greenwich, 1774, to Salem, New York, where she is buried on the homestead farm of son Job Williams.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 North Kingstown Births and Deaths, in Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636–1850: First series, births, marriages and deaths. A family register for the people. (Narragansett Hist. Publ. Co., 1891)
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   CLEAVELAND, Deliverance, of Palmer and Deborah, [born] May __, ___.

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 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)
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   'DELIVERANCE CLEVELAND (s.) ... d. West Greenwich, R. I., Mar., 1766, a. ab. 45, ...'