Notes: Moses CLEVELAND

NOTE 1: Moses CLEVELAND was one of the earliest settlers in Woburn, Massachusetts and the "father' of the northern Clevelands.

NOTE 2: Moses is the 5th great grandfather of Stephen Grover CLEVELAND(1837-1908), the 22nd and 24th U. S. President

NOTE 3: The 2nd great grandson of Moses Cleveland, General Moses Cleveland was the founder of Cleveland, OH

NOTE 4:  He was an apprenticed joiner, and went to Woburn with his master, and there settled in 1634. His master is not identified, but thought to be Edward Winn, as he married Winn's daughter. In 1643 he became a freeman, and later a man of some prominence in New England as he was identified with all the political movements of the day. His signature as witness to a document of 1762 shows that he spelled his name Cleveland.

NOTE 5: Moses Cleveland came to New England in 1635 as "a ship's carpenter's apprentice, and worked his passage over.

NOTE 6:  It has also been said that Moses and the group he was with came first to Virginia to settle but having to much trouble with the Indians, they boarded a ship and came up the coast to Plymouth.

NOTE 7:  After remaining a few years in Boston, Moses, along with Edward Winn his father-in-law, founded the town of Woburn in 1640. Moses became a freeman in 1643. (At that time a freeman was required "to be of godly walk and conversation, to be at least twenty years of age, to take an oath of allegiance to the government of Massachusetts Bay Colony, to be worth 200 pounds, to hold office if elected or pay a fine of forty shillings, and to vote in all elections or pay the same fine." Because these restrictions were so severe, many eligible apprentices chose not to become freemen with so little freedom!)

NOTE 8:  The 1663 Woburn Militia Muster Roll gives his age as thirty-nine. —1993 by Vikki L. Jeanne Cleveland and Cleveland Family Chronicles

NOTE 9: Ipswich, the town Moses immigrated from, is one of England's oldest nautical towns. For a time perspective, construction on a local castle (Orford Castle) began in 1165, was nearly 500 years old when Moses left England. The St Steven’s Church dates from the 15th century and retains many of its original features and monuments. Rev. Joseph Downing was Rector of St. Stephen's Church, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, in 1626 and may have been Moses' pastor.

NOTE 10: Moses had numerous descendents who were pastors, deacons, and leaders in the church.