↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-YP3K : 20 May 2022), Persis Cleuland, 21 Apr 1683; citing Birth, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004934228.
↑ "The genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland families. An attempt to trace, in both the male and female lines, the posterity of Moses Cleveland ...[and] of Alexander Cleveland ... with numerous biographical sketches ... ", pages 39 and 67
↑ "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPS1-LHHZ : 15 April 2022), Cleveland in entry for Thomas Hewitt, ; citing Marriage, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States, Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 008143427. The date and location are in the image. Accessed by Scheffer-943
Find A Grave: Persis Cleveland Hewitt; BIRTH 21 Apr 1683 Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA; DEATH 22 Jun 1764 (aged 81) Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA; Spouse: Thomas Hewitt 1685–1767 (m. 1706).[5]
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. <https://archive.org/details/genealogyofcleve01clev>.
The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland families by Edmund Janes Cleveland and Horace Gillette Cleveland. Published The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, Hartford, Connecticut, 1899. Vol I. Cleveland, Vol I Persis Cleveland 39 pgs 67-68.
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