and from Bishop
Sherlock, of London, from which denomination he received the following
commission:

"CHARTER HOUSE, JULY 1, 1767--Good Gentlemen: The society for the
propagation of the gospel in foreign parts have granted your
request and appointed Mr. Cleveland their missionary in your
church; but it is on the express condition, which is now a standing
rule in their missions, that you provide him with a good house and
glebe, and not less than twenty pounds sterling per annum, towards
his more comfortable support. Heartily recommending you and Mr.
Cleveland to God's blessing, I am, sirs, your very faithful, humble
servant,

PHILIP BEARCROFT.

To the church wardens and vestry of the episcopal church of New
Castle, in Pennsylvania."

Returning to America, he officiated at Lewes, Delaware, and at New
Castle, Pennsylvania, until his death, which occurred suddenly at
Philadelphia, August 11, 1757, while he was visiting his friend Benjamin
Franklin, but two years after his removal from Halifax. _The
Pennsylvania Gazette_, at that time owned and edited by Franklin,
contained the following obituary--a sober paragraph amidst the bountiful
supply of wit and ridicule with which that journal abounded.

"On Thursday last, the 11th, died here the Rev. Mr. Cleveland,
lately appointed to the mission of New Castle, by the society for
the propagation of the gospel. As he was a gentleman of humane and
pious disposition, indefatigable in his ministry, easy and affable
in his conversation, open and sincere to his friends, and above
every specie of meanness and dissimulation, his death is greatly
lamented by all who knew him, as a loss to the public, a loss to
the church of Christ in general, and in particular to that
congregation who had proposed to themselves so much satisfaction
from his late appointment among them, agreeable to their own
request."

During Mr. Cleveland's residence in Nova Scotia three children were born
to him, they being the last of a family of ten. All these survived the
father's death. The widow removed to Salem, Massachusetts, and there
made a future home for her children and herself. Aided by a relative,
Judge Stephen Sewell, Mrs. Cleveland supported her family in comfort and
respectability until the time of her death, in 1788. Aaron (5th), who
was also the fifth of the children, was born in Had