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NOTE 1:
PETITION OF
MOSES CLEAVELAND (2) FOR RELEASE OF HIS BROTHER, SAMUEL
CLEAVELAND (2) FROM THE ARMY. Massachusetts Archives, LXIX: 3232
[in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston,
Mass.] —
To ye honored Governor & Councill:
May it please your honors yt: my brother Sam" Clevland hath been
in ye service more than these twelve months & harvest & hay time
coming in & I being disenabled by ye lamnefs of my arm, request
yt you would be pleased to release my brother V we may get in
our corn & hay for ye preservation of ourselves & cattle—&
therein we shall be obliged to further service when your honors
call us thereunto. Your servt
Moses CLEVELAND Angus 1st" [16] 76
Granted E.[dward] R.[awson) S.[ecretary of the Colony of
Massachusetts] Samuel Cleaveland is released from the country's
service. E R S. 3 Source: A Genealogical Register of the
Descendants of Moses Cleveland of Woburn, Mass. – An emigrant in
1635 from England, with a sketch of the Cleveland’s of Virginia
and the Carolinas. – By James Butler Cleveland of Oneonta, N.Y.
(1881).
NOTE 2: Served as a soldier in King
Philip's War and was a sergeant of the Militia Co. in 1691.
NOTE 3:
Was a farmer
and probably became a mariner like his father; his grandson
Ebenezer was a sea captain and resided in Nantucket |