Unknown Cleveland (abt. 1620)

Born about 1620 in England

Biography

Mr. Cleveland is the protaganist of a novel by Abbé Prévost, originally published in French during 1731.^[1] It characterizes Cleveland as a natural son of Oliver Cromwell and Elizabeth Cleveland,^[2] with a wife called the daughter of a Lord Axminster.^[2] Some seem to think there is some truth in it, since the novel belongs to the genre of historical fiction.^[3][4]

While Prevost's character has no given name, some seem to correlate him with an Alexander Cleveland or the American immigrant Roger Cleveland, who married a woman named Dorcas.^[3]

Disambiguation

• Roger Cleveland, husband of Dorcas UNKNOWN.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia: Oliver Cromwell in popular culture#In literature; Prevost, A. (1741).
   Wikipedia: Antoine François Prévost#Life and works
   The Life and Entertaining Adventures of Mr. Cleveland, Natural Son of Oliver Cromwell, 2nd ed, I, pp. vi. London: T. Astley. Archive.org.; Cleveland Family Chronicles. Web.[1]
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Prévost, 1741, p. vi.[2]
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} see: Cleveland, V.L.J. The Cleveland/Cromwell connection. Web.[3]
   Original immigrant of Southern Clevelands. Cleveland Chronicles. Web.[4]
4. ↑ most records from Devonshire were bombed in WWII making it tough to trace a "Lord Axminster". ... note that Axminster is a place name.
5. ↑ According to Martin (1958), Roger Cleveland is the immigrant from England for the Clevelands of Blue Run, Virginia.