Elizabeth (Cleeves) Harvey (abt. 1619 - aft. 1681)

Born about 1619 in England

Ancestors

Wife of Michael Mitton — married before 1637 in Falmouth, Cumberland, Maine

Wife of Peter Harvey — married about 1663 in Falmouth, Cumberland, Maine [uncertain]

Descendants

Died after 2 Dec 1681 after about age 62 in Boston, Massachusetts [uncertain]

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Biography

Elizabeth (Cleeve) (Mitton) Harvey was born in 1619 in England, and was the daughter of George Cleeve and Joan Price. George Cleeve who was an early settler and "founder of Portland, Maine"; Deputy President of the Province of Lygonia from 1643 until the final submission of its Maine towns to Massachusetts authority in 1658. He married Joan Price 7 September 1618. Michael Mitton was reportedly married to Elizabeth Cleeves after his arrival in Maine about 1637.

Elizabeth married first Michael Mitton before 1637 at Falmouth, Maine.^[1] She married second Peter Harvey about 1663 in Falmouth, Maine.^[2]

On October 7, 1661, Elizabeth Mitten, widow and administratrix of the estate of Micheal Mitten, conveyed Peaks Island by deed to John Phillips. ^[3]

On December 2, 1681, Elizabeth Harvey, relict widow of Micheal Mitten, sold 4 acres of upland on the North side of the Casco River to Richard Powlsand for 20 shillings, Thaddeus Clarke, witness. ^[4]

Research Notes

Elizabeth (Cleeve) (Mitton) Harvey was the daughter of George1 Cleeve and she is usually—but perhaps incorrectly—identified as the daughter of George’s second known wife, Joan Price. There is reason to think that Elizabeth’s mother may actually have been an earlier and as-yet unidentified wife of George1 Cleeve. Elizabeth’s daughter, Dorcas (Mitton) Andrews, may have been born as early as 1626 (see details further below); if so, Elizabeth was born before George Cleeve married Joan Price in 1618 and probably before George Cleeve married Alice (―) Abrook in 1612. Neither Alice nor Joan was honored by the names of Elizabeth’s daughters, as listed above, but Anne was apparently the name of George Cleeve’s mother. For more information, please refer to the message threads linked-to below: ^{[5] [6]}

In similar fashion, there is uncertainty as to whether or not Elizabeth (Cleeve) (Mitton) Harvey was the mother of Dorcas (Mitton) Andrews. Per Robert J. Dunkle (“The Andrews-Cogswell-Page Bible,” The Genealogist, 3: 45-95), Dorcas (Mitton) Andrews, wife of James Andrews, was buried in the Old Granary Burial Ground, Boston, in 1695, aged 69; if so, she was born about 1626. Michael Mitton was reportedly married to Elizabeth Cleeves after his arrival in Maine about 1637; if so, Elizabeth could not have been Dorcas’s mother. However, Dorcas’s maternity is ambiguous, given the ambiguity associated with the age etched on Dorcas’ grave marker. According to Ogden Codman (Gravestone Inscriptions And Records of Tomb Burials In the Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass. Salem, Mass.: The Essex institute, 1918.), the age stated on her grave marker is 60, rather than 69; if so, she was born about 1635. Given the general lack of precision in tracking one’s own age in that era, if Dorcas (Mitton) Andrews was actually born after Michael Mitton immigrated, it remains possible that Elizabeth (Cleeve) (Mitton) Harvey was her mother.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Torrey's New England Marriages to 1700, (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. Reference Volume 2, page 1047
2. ↑ Torrey's New England Marriages to 1700, (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. Reference Volume 2, page 712
3. ↑ Book XI: Folder 167: Maine: Early Wills and Deeds, 1640-1760: Volume 11: p. 402: CD-ROM. Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2006. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.)
4. ↑ Book III: Folder 13: Maine: Early Wills and Deeds, 1640-1760. Volue, 3: p. 263-5: CD-ROM. Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2006. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.)
5. ↑ GEN-MEDIEVAL-L Archives
6. ↑ GEN-MEDIEVAL-L Archives
7. ↑ American Ancestors: Cleeve mtDNA Project (https://web.archive.org/web/20130903192549/http://www.americanancestors.org/discussions.aspx?g=posts&t=28354 : accessed Sep 27, 2013: wayback machine archive)

• Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). Reference George Cleeve featured name, page 385. Discusses her marriages to Mitton and Harvey.

• Jim Roaix Web Family Cards on RootsWeb [archived page].

• Maine Historical Society: Collections, vol. 1. Potland, 1831

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:M492-VJH : accessed 2017-09-17), entry for Elizabeth CLEEVES.

• (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cleeve : accessed 16 Oct 2013)