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The first of the Clements family to come to America
was Job Clements, son of Robert Clements, who came to the Massachusetts Bay
Colony in 1639. Soon after his wife,
Lydia died in 1642 in England, Robert Clements came to New England permanently with
his sons Job and John, and his daughters Sarah and Lydia. He left behind two older sons, and a five year
old Mary who eventually came to Massachusetts and married John Osgood. Her brother,
John Clements, married Sarah Osgood, John’s sister. In 1692 Mary (Clements) Osgood
was accused of witchcraft and confessed.
Several months later she recanted, saying she was forced to confess. She
remained in prison until early 1693 when she was ordered to be released.
Robert first lived at Salisbury, and then removed
further inland and up the Merrimack River to Haverhill. The Deed for Haverhill was signed in 1642 by
six men, including Robert Clements and Reverend John Ward. Clements is listed with he first 32 grantees
in 1645, the same year he built the first grist mill. He served as a representative to the General
Court and as a Judge for Norfolk County.
One of Robert Clements’ descendants was Samuel Langhorne
Clemens (1835 – 1910), also known as the famous author Mark Twain. You can read about this connection in the article
by Frank Emerson, “Mark Twain and his Connection to the Clemens and Emersons of
Haverhill” The Essex Genealogist,
August 199, pages 139 – 142. I descend
from both the Clements and Emerson families, too!
I descend from Robert Clements’ daughter Sarah (1626 –
1694) who married Abraham Morrill of Salisbury, Massachusetts. You can read more about the MORRILL family at
this link:
Some CLEMENTS family resources:
Ancestors
and Descendants of Robert Clements, by P.W. Clement, 1927, pages
13-30
Dawes-Gates
Ancestral Lines, by Mary Walton Ferris, vol. 1 (1943) and
vol. 2 (1931)
Jeanie Thornton Roberts, “Robert Clement of Haverhill”,
The Family Connection blog, posted
January 2012, accessed 23 May 2018
Essex
Antiquarian, Volume 7 (1903), page 158 for the will
of Robert Clements of Haverhill.
My CLEMENTS genealogy:
Generation 1:
Robert Clements, son of Richard Clements and Agnes Unknown, was baptized on 14 December 1595 in Cosby,
Leicestershire, England, died 29 September 1658 in Haverhill, Massachusetts;
married first to Lydia Unknown. She died 12 March 1642 in Ansley, Warwickshire,
England; married second to Judith Unknown. Judith remarried to John Whitney in 1659. Eight Clements children with Lydia.
Generation 2:
Sarah Clements, born about 1626 in Ansley, died August 1694 in Salem,
Massachusetts; married on 10 June 1645 in Salisbury, Massachusetts to Abraham
Morrill. He was born about 1615 in
England and died 20 June 1662 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Sarah married second
to Thomas Mudgett on 8 October 1665 in Salisbury. Nine Morrill children.
Generation 3:
Isaac Morrill m. Phebe Gill
Generation 4:
Mary Morrell m. George Tuck
Generation 5:
Lydia Tuck m. Jeremiah Allen
Generation 6: Jeremiah
Allen m. Eunice Gardner
Generation 7:
Abigail Allen m. Comfort Haley
Generation 8:
Comfort Haley m. Rebecca Crosby
Generation 9:
Joseph Edwin Healy m. Matilda Weston
Generation 10:
Mary Etta Healey m. Peter Hoogerzeil
Generation 11:
Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings
Generation 12:
Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ CLEMENTS
of Haverhill, Massachusetts”, Nutfield
Genealogy, posted June 9, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/06/surname-saturday-clements-of-haverhill.html: accessed [access date]).
Thanks for sharing. This was a great find for me. I, too, descend from Robert Clements, from his son John, brother of Sarah. This stuff is fascinating. Thanks again. -Josh Clement (Saranac Lake, NY)
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing. I am descendant of Robert Clements, through his daughter Lydia. Thank you, Janine
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