Notes: Edward CLEVELAND


NOTE 1: Son George, died 02 Oct 1756 in Fort William Henry, New York an English fort seized and destroyed by the French in 1757. The French under the Marquis de Montcalm overwhelmed the British and forced a surrender. The Indians who fought with the French killed many retreating British, including the sick and wounded. “The Last of the Mohicans” by James Fenimore Cooper gives an account of the last days Fort William Henry.

NOTE 2: "Edward Cleaveland migrated early in life from Woburn, going first to Narraganset Bay, Massachusetts, later settling at North Kingston, Rhode Island...about 1709 he accompanied his son Edward to Canterbury —-The American Forebears and Some Descendents of Charles Theron Brown and His Wife Martha Elizabeth Hebbard, Michael R. Gannett, 1978.

NOTE 3: The grandfather of Edward's wife, Deliverance Palmer, was “Pilgrim” Walter Palmer. According to various sources Walter has roots into European royalty including England, Wales, France, Spain, Scotland, Germany, Russia, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Walter Palmer is the 9th great-grandfather of Ida Lou Cleveland.

 

NOTE 4: His 2nd great grand-son, Chauncey Fitch Cleveland, was governor of CT

 

NOTE 5: A Northern Migration

  1. Edward (1664) born Massachusetts

  2. Isaac (1697) born Rhode Island

  3. Lemuel (1725) born Connecticut

  4. Isaac (1764) born Portland, Maine

  5. Isaac (1799) born New Brunswick, Canada

  6. Subsequent generations of Canadian Clevelands