Person:Parker Cleveland (2)

1785: From «i»Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution«/i», vol 3, page 635, muster roll of field and staff officers dated Boston, Oct 31, 1785. Parker Cleveland of Ipswich. Surgeon in Col. Paul Dudley Sargent's (16th) regt. Entered service May 22, 1775 to July 31, 1775 for 2 mos. 15 days.

From: «i»The History of Woburn, Middlesex County, Mass.«/i», from the grant of its territory to Charlestown, in 1640, to the year 1860., Sewall, Samuel, 1785-1868 Part 5. p.604 5. "Rev John Cleveland, eldest son of Rev. John Cleveland of Chebacco, was born in 1750 and was fitted for college but prevented by ill health from entering. At the commencement of the Revolution he enlisted in the army, obtained a lieutenant's commission and continued in the service during the war. Having had from his youth a strong inclination for the Christian ministry his wishes in this respect were at length gratified. He was called to the pastoral office in Stoneham, 1798; over the North Parish in Wrentham where after a faithful and exemplary discharge of ministerial duty he died 1848 aged 68. [Allen's Biography.] 6. Parker Cleveland, M.D., son of Rev. John Cleveland of Chebacco, born 1751, settled as a physician in Byfield at the age of 19; and during the first year of the war of the Revolution was the surgeon of a regiment. He was skilful as a physician; often represented Rowley (to which Byfield belonged) in the Legislature; and was eminently pious, devout and benevolent as a Christian. He married for his first wife, E. Jackman in 1772 by whom he had Parker Cleveland, a graduate 1799 and subsequently a tutor of Harvard College, and an eminent professor of natural philosophy, chemistry, etc etc, for many years in Bowdoin College. For his second wife he m. Abigail Cleveland of Canterbury, CT by whom he had Rev. John P. Cleveland, D.D. successively of Salem, Cinncinnati, Providence, Northampton, Mass and Lowell, Mass. p.605 Dr. Parker Cleveland died in February, 1826 aged 74. [Letter of Rev. O. A. Taylor. Allen's Biographical Dict.]"