Person:John Cleveland (44)

John Cleveland
d.Aft 1782 Rhode Island
m. Bef 1717
  1. Deliverance ClevelandAbt 1722 - 1766
  2. John Cleveland
  3. Deborah Cleveland
  4. Mercy ClevelandAbt 1724 - Aft 1765
  5. Palmer Cleveland - Bef 1759
  6. John Cleveland - Aft 1782
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
Facts and Events
Name John Cleveland
Gender Male
Birth[1] 11 Dec ___ Kingstown, Rhode Island
Alt Birth[2] Abt 12 Jul 1718 Kingstown, Rhode Island
Marriage Abt 1740 North Kingstown, Rhode Islandto Mary _____
Death? Aft 1782 Rhode Island
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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)
    65.

    CLEAVELAND, John, of Palmer and Deborah, [born] Dec. 11, ____.

  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.