1. Isaac Cleveland, b. May 11, 1669 | See Isaac Cleveland & Elizabeth Pierce |
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According to family tradition, Moses Cleveland came to New England in 1635 as a ship's carpenter's apprentice and worked his passage over. It is generally stated that he came from Ipswich as an indentured apprentice to a joiner, housewright or master builder. Name of his master not ascertained but conjectured to be Edward Winn (whose daughter he afterwards married) for 'he went to Woburn with his master' and there settled in 1640-1. admitted a freeman in 1643, granted land at Woburn 1648-9, listed on Woburn Milita roll 1663 at age 39.
from "The American Forbears and Some of the Descendents of Charles Theron Brown and his wife Martha Elizabeth Hebbard" by Michael R. Gannett, 1978. It has also been said that Moses and the group he was with came first to VA to settle but having to much trouble with the Indians, they boarded a ship and came up the coast to Plymouth.
This is quoted from the FTM internet site as sourced earlier...