James Cleveland (died young)

Not the same as James Cleland

Comments

There is no confirmed record for this man after his birth. The possible wife and child shown in the 1899 compilation (below and attached) doesn’t work out.

• Enoch Cleveland had 3 sons and 1 daughter in birth records, but 2 sons and 1 daughter in probate records, 1729 - 1731.
• Sons Jonathan and Enoch had wives and children on record after that date.
• A “James CLELAND of Lyme” married Thankful Wilder in 1738. That man’s children were recorded as Cleland also.
• There is no mention of “Cleland” as an alternative name for Cleveland (or Cleaveland) in Massachusetts Vital Records or the Cleveland Genealogy.
  • From “The genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland families” (1899), page 17: < Archive.Org > On old Woburn records the name is rendered Cleauland, 1648 to 1680, 1692; Cleiveland, 1648; Cleaueland, 1667; Cleavland, 1686 to 1697, 171 7; Cleaveland, 1701 to 1704; Cleveland 1702. In England, from a very early period, the name has always been spelled Cleveland, except in a few instances where it has been rendered Cleaveland and Clevland.
• Possible son James” (born 1745) in Rhode Island. No member of Enoch’s family was in that area, but Josiah Cleveland was.
• The Wilder family genealogy books make no mention of Thankful Wilder’s husband’s origins.

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Biography

Cleveland, Edmund Janes, and Horace Gillette Cleveland, comps. The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleveland Families. Vol. 1. Hartford: The Case, Lockwood, & Brinard Company, 1899. Archive. Boston Public Library, 18 Aug. 2009. Web. 13 Jan. 2017. Page 92. < Archive.Org >

81. JAMES3 CLEVELAND (Enoch2, Moses1) , b. Sudbury, Mass., Oct. 31, 1706, m. Bolton, Worcester co., Mass., 1738, Thankful Cleland [NO]

By reason of name and location it is thought that following was a ch:

1. -+ 281 ? James* Cleveland, b. ab. 1741, also thought to be ch. of Josiah^, +185. James Cleveland [NO]

James3 Cleveland was prob. the "James Cleveland of Lyme, Conn., married to Thankful Wilder of Bolton, 1738 " — entry on Bolton, Mass., town rec.

James Cleveland, son of Enoch Cleveland and his wife Elizabeth

Source: "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCWQ-B96 : 14 January 2020), Baptism: Place: Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Massachusetts Date: Day: 31 Year: 1706 Date: 31 Oct 1706. “Jams Cleanland, son of Enoch Cleanland and Elezebeth Cleanland His wife was born 15 of July 1706.”

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References

1. "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4D7-BTL : 4 December 2014), James Cleaveland, 31 Oct 1706; citing Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, p 40; FHL microfilm 185,455.
2. "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQ66-QD6 : 4 December 2014), Jams Cleaveland, 31 Oct 1706; citing SUDBURY,MIDDLESEX,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 1599521 IT 4.
3. Sudbury (Mass. : Town); New England Historic Genealogical Society. (1906) Vital records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. Births - Page 33. < Archive.Org > CLEAVELAND (see Cleafland), Jams, s. Enoch (Cleavland) and Elezebeth, Oct. 31, 1706. [No Cleaveland deaths recorded at Sudbury.]
4. Cleveland, Edmund Janes, and Horace Gillette Cleveland, comps. The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleveland Families. Vol. 1. Hartford: The Case, Lockwood, & Brinard Company, 1899. Page 52-53 < Archive.Org >; Page 52 < AncestrySharing >; Page 53< AncestrySharing >. (document attached). James Cleveland is not mentioned in the probate records for Enoch Cleveland in 1731. Page 92. < Archive.Org >
5. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LCCW-WPR Conflates James Cleaveland with James Cleland and also with James Cleveland
6. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cleaveland-212 Conflates James Cleaveland with James Cleland