Rev. John H. ‘Preacher John’ Cleveland, II

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65890653/john-cleveland

• Daughters of American Revolution Ancestor #: A023094
• Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank: STAFF OFFICER
• Birth: 1738 ORANGE CO VIRGINIA
• Death: 3-25-1825 PENDLETON DIST SOUTH CAROLINA
• Service Source: HAUN, NC REV ARMY ACCTS, BOOK A, P 193
• Service Description: 1) PAID FOR SERVICE AS CHAPLAIN

Source: Information on this individual originated from the RootsWeb genealogy file of The Callaway Family Association at http://www.callawayfamily.org

Burried: Cleveland Family Cem, , Oconee, South Carolina

He "raised the flag of religion" in SC area and was at the foot of Kings Mountain as a chaplain.

(John was a Baptist minister and at one time paster of Brier Creek Church. He settled on Lewis Fork)

Pvt. Continental Line, Lt., NC Militia

Rev. John H Cleveland was born abt 1738 at Blue Run, Orange County, Virginia, the son of Col. John Cleveland and Martha Elizabeth Coffey. He was known as "The Father of Baptist Principles."

From "The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families," Edmund J. Cleveland and Horace G. Cleveland, Hartford, Conn. Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1899

Vol. III, P. 2058-9

1. 16009 Rev. John Cleveland. Baptist Clergyman. 1772-1785 went with his brother Larkin from VA to NC. They journeyed on pack horses and cut their way. "When he would preach, the wicked people would take him out of the house and beat him severely, but he would preach on, and when they let him go, would mount a stump or log and finish his sermon." They came to the Pickens District of SC and were the first settlers. They lived in the Pendleton Dist. of SC at Cleveland's Ferry (in what is now Oconee). He was one of the first settlers of Franklin Co., GA in about 1785 when it was inhabited by Indians. He had a home on the Tugaloo. Larkin had a home on the GA side in sight. They dwelt there for many years and raised a family, who settled at various points along the Tugaloo. He was a preacher at Chauga Church, Oconee So., and Eustonala Church, GA. "He was good to his neighbors and the poor, kind to his many darkies, who thought their master better than any other man." He was living with his son-in-law Benjamin Harrison at the time of his death.

http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/cleveland/1596/ Cleveland Ferry Cemetery

Origins

Named as son in the 1778 Will of John Cleveland:

Will record: A Digest of Orange Co., Virginia Will ecords, 1734-1838, by Speracio, 1978; 975.5372/P2sd; p. 24 - "John Cleaveland 3. 1. Will made 1 Nov 1778; rec 26 Nov 1778. Ex. Bartlett Bennett. Wit. Bartlett Bennett, Sarah Smith, Mary Smith. CH. Mary (Franklin), Benjamin, John, Betty (Claspey), Robert, Reuben (deced), Jeremiah, Patty (Smith); g-ch Betty and Austin Smith.

References

1. http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/cleveland/1596/ Cleveland Ferry Cemetery
2. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65890653/john_harrison_cleveland
3. < Birdsong Family Genealogy >