CLENDENIN – Descendants of Nutfield Grantee Archibald Clendenin

Clendenin tombstone at Forest Hill Cemetery, Derry, New Hampshire
Robert Clendenin, born 11 September 1804
in Salem, New Hampshire, son of Robert Clenenin and Sukey his wife.
Probably descendants of Charter Archibald Clendenin

CLENDENIN / CLENDENEN /  CLENDENING / GLENDINNING

Archibald Clendenin was one of the sixteen men who lead their Scots Irish families to Nutfield, following Rev. James MacGregor. He married Merrian or Miriam whose maiden name is unknown.  He had a inventory of his estate filed in the Rockingham County probate 1795.  His son Robert Clendenin was ordered to sell his real estate to pay his debts. Not much is known of this family.

Children (the first two children born in Ireland? The last three births recorded in Londonderry):

      1.       Andrew, birth not in the Londonderry Vital Records, m. Jenat, and had Merrian born 13 January 1729;  David born 16 October 1731; Rebecca born 21 June 1733; Martha born 10 June 1735; Archibald born 20 May 1737; Andrew born 1 June 1739; and Janet born 16 May 1741.  Andrew was a Londonderry selectman from 1745 to 1747

      2.       William, birth not in the Londonderry Vital Records, m. Anna Morrison, daughter of Charter John Morrison, and had Mary born 15 June 1740 and Robert born 23 June 1745. William drew First Division Lot #24 in Belfast, Maine, but never lived there.

      3.       Robert, born 20 March 1720 in Londonderry, married Mary (maiden name unknown) and had John born 5 December 1749; Hannah born 17 April 1751; and James born 5 November 1754.

      4.       Archibald, twin, born 21 October 1722 in Londonderry 

  

      5.       Rebecca, twin, born 21 October 1722 in Londonderry

According to the book Ontario History: Papers and Records, by the Ontario Historical Society, 1901, Volume 3, page 120, an article “Some Presbyterian U. E. Loyalists” by D. W. Clendennan :

“Each settler received a grant of about 594 acres.  Archibald Clendenin’s lay at the foot of Senter Hill. Five successive generations occupied it.  It is now called “The Shields’ Farm”.  The First son, William, married Hannah Morrison, daughter of Charter John Morrison. Their daughter, Mrs. Mary Clendenin Steele, was living nearby in 1880, aged ninety-two. She is described as a mother in Israel who always took a warm interest in her friends and relatives in their widely separated lives.  She said:  “I remember my grandmother, Hannah Morrison Clendenin, well.  She was active and vigorous for an old lady.  She died in 1801, when I was thirteen years old.  I attended her funeral, at which two of her brothers, Joseph and --------- Morrison, were present, though very feeble.  She was the only living person who knew and conversed with three of the sixteen original settlers of Londonderry, now called Derry, N.H.”

Did some of the other children go south to Pennsylvania or Virginia? 

For more information:

Account of the Clendenin (Glendenyn) Families, 1898

Synoptical family history: giving sketches of the Clendonyn- Glendening – Clendenin- Clendening, etc. family, by Daniel W. Clendenan, 1899.

Clan Douglas Society of North America (Glendenning/Clendenon are septs): http://clandouglassociety.org/glendinning/    

Click here for links to the sketches of all sixteen first Nutfield settlers: 
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/p/nutfields-first-16-settlers.html 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “CLENDENIN – Descendants of Nutfield Grantee Archibald Clendenin”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted February 16, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/02/clendenin-descendants-of-nutfield.html: accessed [access date]).