Person:John Cleveland (44)
John Cleveland
b.Abt 1717 (12 Jul) North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States
d.Abt Sep 1797 North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. Bef 1717
  1. John ClevelandAbt 1717 - Abt 1797
  2. Deborah ClevelandEst 1719 -
  3. Deliverance ClevelandAbt 1721 - 1766
  4. Mercy ClevelandEst 1723 - Aft 1765
  5. Palmer ClevelandEst 1725 - Bef 1759
  6. John ClevelandEst 1727 -
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  John ClevelandAbt 1717 - Abt 1797
  • W.  Mary _____
m. Abt 1740
  1. Lois ClevelandAbt 1741 -
  2. Phebe ClevelandAbt 1743 -
  3. Hannah ClevelandAbt 1745 -
  4. John ClevelandAbt 1747 -
  5. Edward ClevelandAbt 1749 -
  6. Catherine ClevelandAbt 1751 -
  7. Deborah ClevelandAbt 1753 -
  8. Albro Cleveland1761 - 1839
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Facts and Events
Name John Cleveland
Gender Male
Birth[1][2][3][4] Abt 1717 (12 Jul) North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States
Marriage Abt 1740 North Kingstown, Rhode Islandto Mary _____
Death[3] Abt Sep 1797 North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States

Rhode Island Colonial Records, IV: 55I-JOHN CLEVELAND made freeman in N. Kingston y. 3d Tuesday in Feb., 1739. He was a man of high standing and ability. His name appears frequently on N. K. town rec. to 1782; 1763-4, surveyor of highways, later a petit juror. Apr., 1782, grand juror.

He proxed for general officers Apr., 1781,178.2, &c.

Richmond, R. I., rec., VI: I07- JOHN CLEAVLAND and MARY his w. of N. K., Dec. 6, 1756,deeds land to Joseph Clarke, describing est. as being same formerly owned by PALMER CLEVELAND.

Either JOHN4 CLEVELAND or his son JOHN5 was Lt. of Artillery, R. I. Batt., 1776. . JOHN4 CLEVELAND admin. on est. of his honored father, PALMER3 CLEVELAND, late dec'd, and Jan. 17, 1767, joins in a deed for land in W. Greenwich with MARGARET, wid. of PALMER3. In this deed, John4 calls himself "yeoman of North Kingston."

His homestead at N. K. passed to his son Albro5.

R. I. Col. Rec.- 1783, permission granted Mrs. Elizabeth Cleveland to go from R. I. to N. Y. and return.

References
  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)
    5:65.

    CLEAVELAND, John, of Palmer and Deborah, [born] July 12, ____.

  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)
    Vol I/pp. 76,150, 1899.

    'John Cleveland, b. Jul 12, ab. 1718, rec. burned off.'
    'JOHN CLEVELAND, ... d. Rhode Island af. 1782, ...'

    This book ignores the second John born to Palmer and Deborah (born Dec. 11 in an unknown year) listed in Arnold's VR of Rhode Island (which was published about 5 years earlier). It is not clear if the author had access to Arnold's book, or did independent research and did not find the second John or interpreted the record differently.

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Newspapers: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)
    13:279.

    CLEVELAND John, Esq., at North Kingstown, in 81st year. Gazette of Sept. 16, 1797

  4. ↑ It is difficult to get the years to work out if it is assumed that the sixth child of Palmer and Deborah (the second John) was made a freeman in Feb 1739, and married and had children by the early 1740's. A birth date of Jul 1717 makes him about 21 1/2 in Feb 1739 and matches the Sep 1797 death record of a John Cleveland of North Kingston (in his 81st year, meaning he was 80 years old). This makes it look like he was the first John listed as a child of Palmer and Deborah in the Rhode Island VR, born July 12 in an unknown year.
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