Person:Edward Cleveland (13)

The following is excerpted from ref. 1, which is in the public domain:

Edward Cleveland, according to tradition, "the first he could remember was aboard a British man-of-war, where he remained until aged 27. While on the coast of America, deserted and went into Vermont." Was from Rhode Island, Revolution soldier and pensioner. It is quite evident to us that he is the Edward, son of John, of whom relatives say, "he went to Connecticut early in life," locality and naming of children indicate this ancestry.

WOODSTOCK, VERMONT, RECORD OF DEEDS: Asa Call to Mary Cleveland, wife of Edward, dated Nov. 5, 1787. Simeon Dunham to Edward Cleveland, Jr., Oct. 29, 1794. Simeon Dunham also bought land of ______ Hendricks. Edward Cleveland and wife to Ebenezer Dike, Apr., 16, 1802. Removed from Woodstock after 1802.

Edward Cleveland was large in stature; as a peculiarity he had 5 fingers on each hand, and 6 toes on each foot.

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)
   vol. I/p. 307, 1899.