For the descendants of Josiah Cleveland and Mary Bates...
If your Mary Bates who married Josiah Cleveland is the daughter ofMary Farwell who married John Bates, then she is the daughter Mary Farwell who is the proven daughter of Olive Welby and Henry Farwell who came to Chelmsford/Massachusetts/America in 1635.
Olive Welby is the proven descendant of Charlemagne,thorough his descendant William the Conqueror, all five of the Plantagenet Kings, the Norman Kings of England, Kings of Scotland, France, Spain, and 13 of the Barons of the Magna Charta.
Her lineage is well documented on Ancestry.com
Regards to all,
Donna Crosby