Surname Saturday ~ CLEMENTS of Haverhill, Massachusetts

CLEMONS /  CLEMMINS / CLEMONTS / CLEMONS

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:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/06/surname-saturday-morrill-of-cambridge.html

  

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)

--------------------------------

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]). 

Surname Saturday ~ Morrill of Cambridge and Salisbury, Massachusetts

MORRILL /  MORRELL /  MORELL

My 10^th great grandfather, Abraham Morrill (about 1615 – 1662) may have come to New England from England with his older brother Isaac Morrill aboard the ship Lyon in 1632, but we have no record.  He was probably underage because only adult men signed the Oath of Allegiance.  By 1634 he was paying taxes in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  His first grant of land in Cambridge was on 20 August 1635. 

By 1640 Abraham Morrill was granted land in Salisbury, Massachusetts.  In 1645 he married Sarah Clement of Salisbury, the daughter of Robert Clement of Haverhill.  They had nine children all born in Salisbury.  The last child, a daughter named Hepzibah, was born several months after Abraham’s early death. He was buried in Roxbury, where his brother Isaac’s family lived, and the record states “Abraham Morrell of Salisbury fell sick in this town & died & was buried upon the 20^th of the 4^th [1662]” [Roxbury Church Records 177].

Abraham’s wife, Sarah Clement, was the sister to Mary (Clement) Osgood, who was accused of witchcraft in 1692 and spent three months in jail.  Sarah married second to Thomas Mudgett in 1665. Sarah died two years after the witch trials, and thirty two years after her first husband, Abraham Morrill. 

I descend from Abraham and Sarah’s oldest son Isaac Morrill (1646 – 1713).  He was a resident of Salisbury, married Phebe Gill and had three children.  My 8^th great grandmother was Mary Morrell, wife of George Tuck of Beverly, Massachusetts.

Some MORRILL resources:

Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634 -1635, by Robert Charles Anderson, Volume 5, pages 153 – 156 – a lengthy sketch on Abraham Morrill.

Ancestors and Descendants of Robert Clements, by Mary Lovering Holman and Caroline Clement Brown, pages 25 -30. 

My MORRILL genealogy:

Generation 1:   Abraham Morrill, born about 1615 in England, died 20 June 1662 in Roxbury, Massachusetts; married on 10 June 1645 in Salisbury, Massachusetts to Sarah Clements, daughter of Robert Clement and Lydia Drummer.  She was born about 1626 in Ansley, Warwick, England, and died August 1694 in Salisbury.  Nine MORRILL children.  She married second on 8 October 1665 in Salisbury to Thomas Mudgett.

Generation 2:  Isaac Morrill, born 10 July 1646 in Salisbury, died 17 October 1713; married on 14 November 1670 in Salisbury to Phebe Gill, daughter of John Gill and Phebe Buswell.  Three children.

Generation 3: Mary Morrell, born 10 September 1689 in Salisbury, died December 1750 in Beverly, Massachusetts; married about 1701 in Beverly to George Tuck, son of John Tuck and Rachel Unknown.  He was born 11 October 1678 in Beverly, and died 8 May 1751 in Beverly. Nine children.

Generation 4: Lydia Tuck m. Jeremiah Allen

Generation 5:  Jeremiah Allen m. Eunice Gardner

Generation 6: Abigail Allen m. Comfort Haley

Generation 7:  Comfort Haley m. Rebecca Crosby

Generation 8: Joseph Edwin Healy m. Matilda Weston

Generation 9: Mary Etta Healey m. Peter Hoogerzeil

Generation 10:  Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Generation 11:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

---------------------------------

Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ Morrill of Cambridge and Salisbury, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 2, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/06/surname-saturday-morrill-of-cambridge.html: accessed [access date]).