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Cleavelands on the Islands by Theodore C. Wyman AS I HAVE written before, any genealogy seems to be made up of bits and pieces gathered from here and there. And so it has been with the genealogies of various branches of my family. I had put to-gether a genealogy of my grandmother's family, the Cleavelands, and then while on a visit to Nantucket in 1972 I was able to put to-gether what I called Cleavelands On The Islands from records at the Whaling Museum and from records at The New England Historic Genealogical Society in 11 Boston. During the ten years before the war when I worked for the steamship company on Nantucket I had known, in a general way, that some of my grandmother's family, the Cleavelands, had lived on the Vineyard. And then as I worked on a history of the Cleaveland family I found that a very large number of her family had lived on the Vineyard and on Nantucket. Not only had they lived on Nantucket, but several of them had been Captains of whaling ships and they had descended from the same Moses Cleaveland from whom I had descended. It was on that visit to Nantucket in 1972 that I was able to find the grave of Capt. Henry Cleaveland (1798-1875) who was Captain of the whale ship Richard Mitchell. The inscription on his gravestone was: Capt. Henry Cleveland 1798-1875 Rebecca, wife of Henry Cleveland 1809-1878 From records in the whaling museum there is: 1835 — Ship Richard Mitchell — 385 tons Captain Henry C. Cleveland Managing owner or agent — P. Mitchell & Sons Whaling ground — Pacific Ocean Date of sailing — July 20 Arrival — Dec. 27, 1838 Result of voyage — Sperm-oil-1172 bbls Whale-oil-937 bbls
