George Cleeve

Abt 1586 - Aft 1666  (~ 80 years)

• Name	George Cleeve  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1586	Stogursey, Somersetshire, England   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft 13 Nov 1666	Falmouth, Cumberland, Maine   [3]
  Person ID	I42498	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2025

  
  

  Father	John Cleeve
  Family ID	F24858	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joan Price,   b. Abt 1584   d. Aft 3 Jun 1662 (Age ~ 78 years)
  Marriage	7 Sep 1618	St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England   [2, 3]
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Cleeve,   b. Abt 1619   d. Aft 1682 (Age ~ 64 years)
  Family ID	F24857	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Arrived in 1630; first at Spurwink, then to Falmouth in Maine. In England he had been a vintner. He is described by Walter Goodwin Davis (citation details below) as "the patentee and founder of the seventeenth-century settlement which, after several changes of name, is now the city of Portland", and as "a well-known and controversial character in Maine's colonial history."

  
  

• Sources

  [S7605] Ancestry of Edward Wales Blake and Clarissa Matilda Glidden with Ninety Allied Families by Edith Bartlett Sumner. Los Angeles, 1948. [S8221] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Romance and George Cleeve." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 102:169, 1948. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.