Notes: Moses2 CLEVELAND


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