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Sorry that this note got on the list, it was a mistake. The Clement mail
list add is next to my brother's in my add book and I obviously clicked it in
error.
Does anyone on the list have virtigo headaches/migranes?
Anita
In a message dated 5/23/1 5:00:50 AM, "Cindy Hunter"
<chunter(a)tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
<<IN 1927, THE FAMILY BIBLE OF BENJAMIN CLEMENTS WASS FOUND IN TEH
POSSESSION OF MR. S. R. ORR OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A DESCENDANT
OF CAPT. BENJAMIN CLEMENT. THE RECORD CONTAINED THE FOLLOWING
ENTRIES:
STEPHEN CLEMENTS b. 1732 m. SARAH
ISAAC CLEMENTS b. 1733 m. ANN DENHAM
BENJAMIN CLEMENTS b. 1735 m. MARY
DAVID CLEMENTS b. 1737 DIED AS INFANT
ADAM CLEMENTS b. 1739 m. AGNES JOHNSON
JERIAH CLEMENTS b. 1741 m. ______GILBERT
JOHN CLEMENTS b. 1743
JAMES CLEMENTS b. 1745 m. MARTHA
RACHEL CLEMENTS b. 1747 m. CAPT. JOSHUA ABSTON
DANIEL CLEMENTS b. 1749 DIED AS INFANT
ELIZABETH CLEMENTS b. 1751 m. ISAAC BUTTERWORTH
SUSANNAH CLEMENTS b. 1754 m. WILLIAM EVANS
__________ BUTTERWORTH b. 1768 GRANDCHILD
__________BUTTERWORTH b. 1769 GRANDCHILD
>>
Cindy, first of all, welcome to the List. I am sure you will find it
helpful in the course of your Clement research.
The Bible transcription which you posted is actually a mixed blessig to
Clement researchers. It's difficult to distinguish the actual entries from
commentary by Maud Carter Clement. Strangely, no specific dates were
transcribed, only birth years. The most glaring error in the presentation
of this information is the statement that Elizabeth Clement married Isaac
Butterworth. She did not. Elizabeth Clement married BENJAMIN Butterworth
and this is attested by deed records, etc. She was not married to Isaac
Butterworth, but this misinformation has unintentionally been perpetuated for
years.
It would be wonderful if the Clement Bible could be tracked down today.
Efforts have been undertaken, but have been unsuccessful.
I am a descendant of Elizabeth (Clement) Butterworth through her son, Stephen
Butterworth, who married Rachel Clement, daughter of Captain Isaac Clement
and his own first cousin.
Charles Ward
CMW12635(a)aol.com
Here is the note that I got from Jamie, You might be interested in what he
said about the migrane thing. Anita
Dad told me that you wanted to know how to approach your doctor about the
migraine issue.
I would just tell him that you are having headaches and vertigo with the
nausea. Tell him about dad's surgery and that it turned out to be vestiular
migraine or basilar migraine. Tell him that you would like for him or a
neurologist to check you for these.
If you have questions that you have about any of this stuff or anything else,
I will answer it the best that I can. Feel free Auntee.
Let me know if you need anything else, o.k.?
I am a new member to the list, I would like to introduce myself, I am Cindy
Hunter.
My line goes like this,
Cindy, Albert Soles, John Soles, Fronnie Clements, John Abram Clements,
Jacob Clements, Thomas Cornelius Clements, John Jr.. Clements, John
Clements, Capt. Benjamin Clements, William Clements.
Bible Records, I have my grandmother and grandfathers John and Daisy Soles,
John being the son of William Soles and Fronnie Mae Clements Soles. John
List his grandfather as Abram Clements.
Fronnie Mae is the Daughter of John Abram Clements and Julia Ann Mims. below
are the census records of Julia Ann Mims Clements and her family, She is
living beside her daughter Fronnie Mae Clements Soles, and I will also
include those census records, because in 2 separate census's Fronnie has a
different brother living with her.
1900 SMITHS DISTRICT JOHNSON CO. GA CENSUS"
JULIAN CLEMENTS HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD-b. 6/1855 AGE 44 CHILDREN 13 WITH 9
LIVING.
JAMES b. 3/1880 AGE 20
WILLIAM b. 12/1882 AGE 17
CASWELL M. b. 6/1884 AGE 15
HILLERY LESTER b. 4/1886 AGE 14
RUSHA JANE b. 8/1891 AGE 8
LOLLIE b.. 11/1892 AGE 7
ABRAM b. 10/1896 AGE 4
1910 JOHNSON CO. GA. CENSUS WITH SON WILLIAM, DAUGHTER LOLLY,
AND SON ABRAHAM. SMITHS DISTRICT. ALSO LIST LARRY OR LONNY
OR???? AS A GRANDSON.
6/6/1900 CENSUS JOHNSON CO. GA
SOLES, WILLIAM W. b. 6/1867 AGE 32 -MARRIED 9 YEARS
SAFRONIEb. 2/1877 AGE 23 MOTHER OF 6 CHILDREN WITH 5 LIVING
JOHN b. 2/1893 AGE 7
CALVIN M. b. 6/1895 AGE 4
JAMES C. b. 1/1899 AGE 3
ELZIE b. 5/1900 AGE 2 MONTHS
CLEMENTS, MARUS CASWELL (BROTHER) b. 6/1883 AGE 16
1910 CENSUS JOHNSON CO. GA, LIST 18 YEARS OF MARRIAGE.
WILLIAM W. 42
PHRONA A. 33(12 CHILDREN WITH 9 LIVING)
JOHN T. 17
CALVIN M. 14
JAMES C. 13
ELZA W. 10
HENRY L. 8
HARVEY 5
CHARLEY 5/12 MONTHS
ABRAM W. CLEMENTS-BROTHER-IN-LAW TO HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD.
John Abram Clements m. Sarah Beasley-MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE FOR JACOB CLEMENTS
AND SARAH BEASLEY IS AT
THE LIBRARY IN DUBLIN GA. SIGNED BY THOMAS BEASLEY. here are the 1850 and
1860 census records for them
1850 EMANUEL CO. GA. CENSUS JACOB 34, SARAH 23, DELILA 4,
LUCINDA 3, JAMES 1 MONTH.
1860 CENSUS OF EMANUEL CO. GA CENSUS: JACOB 44, SARAH 35, MARY
16, LILA 14, LUCINDA 12, JAMES B. 10, ELIZABETH 8, WILLIAM C. 6,
JOHN A. 3, JOSEPH R. 2.
MARY BEASLEY IN THE 1850 EMANUEL CO. CENSUS IS LIVING WITH JAMES
BEASLEY 60 AND LUCINDA 44
Jacob's parents are Thomas Cornelius Clements and Mary Polly Register
Clements. Here are the notes I have for them.
IN HIS 1812 PENSION APPLICATION, CORNELIUS CLEMENTS INDICATES
THAT HE SERVED WITH HIS BROTHER JESSE IN THE WAR. THE SAME
APPLICATION SHOWS THAT HE MARRIED MARY REGISTER IN DARLINGTON
DISTRICT, SOUTH CAROLINA ON 1/15/1806. CORNELIUS MADE HIS
PENSION APPLICATION ON 8 OCTOBER 1842 FROM IRWIN CO. GA. IT WAS
WITNESSED BY JOHN R. CLEMENTS AND JOSEPH A TURNER.
FROM THE "HISTORY OF IRWIN COUNTY" PAGE 514
CORNELIUS CLEMENTS MARRIED MARY REGISTER. THEY CAME FROM
DARLINGTON DISTRICT, SOUTH CAROLINA, TO LAURENS COUNTY, GEORGIA
AND FROM THERE TO IRWIN COUNTY, GEORGIA, WHERE HE DIED AND WAS
BURIED ON WHT IS KNOWN AS THE OLD CLAIM, THIRD DISTRICT IN IRWIN
CO. HIS SONS WERE ELIAS CLEMENTS WHO MARRIED ELIZAETH TURNER,
JESSE CLEMENTS WHO MARRIED MARGARET SMITH, JOHN CLEMENTS WHO DID
NOT MARRY, AND RICHARD CLEMENTS WHO DID NOT MARRY.
Thomas father is John Jr. b. abt. 1761 Kershaw district North Carolina,
Would love some type of documentation of this.
John Jr. son of John Clements b. abt 1743 Amelia Co. Va. LAST WILL AND
TESTAMENT OF JOHN CLEMENTS, PENDLETON DISTRICT,
SOUTH CAROLINA. (RECORDED: CLARK CO. GA WILL BOOK "A", PAGE 67.
"IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN-KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENT THAT I,
JOHN CLEMENTS, FINDING MYSELF AGED AND INFIRM OF BODY, BUT
PERFECTLY SOUND IN MIND AND KNOWLEDGE, AND NOT KNOWING HOW LONG
IT MAY PLEASE GOD TO CONTINUE ME THE SAME STATE OF MIND,
RECOMMENDING MY SOULTO GOD, WOULD DISPOSE OF MY WORLDLY GOODS IN
THE FOLLOWING MANNER: TO MY WELL-BELOVED CHILD WILLIAM CLEMENTS,
MY NEGRO MAN DICK AND MY HORSE BOB AND SADDLE AND BRIDLE,
SADDLEBAGS AND VALISE, AND THE __________, ________, AND ALL THE
SMITTY TOOLS, AND ALL MY CLOTHES; ALSO TO MY DAUGHTER ALLY
HENDON, MY NEGRO WOMAN EUDY, AND MY HORSE GODGIABY, SADDLE AND
BRIDLE AND SADDLEBAGS AND A BIG POT AND DUTCH OVEN; ALSO TO MY
WIFE MARY CLEMENTS MY TRACT OF LAND LYING IN CLARK COUNTY, STATE
OF GEORGIA, ON THE HEAD OF (SHOAL BUSH) DURING HER WIDOWHOOD OR
LIFETIME, AND THEN TO BE SOLD AND THE MONEY THENCE ARISING TO BE
EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN MY TWO DAUGHTERS RHODA POOR AND HANNAH
CLEMENTS; AND TO MY DAUGHTER NANCY ACKER MY COPER STIL HOLDING
FIFTY GALLONS AND EIGHT STAND AND ALL THE APPUSATTING THERE
___________ BELONGING , AND ALSO MY NEGRO GIRL SARAH, NOW IN THE
HANDS OF A CERTAIN ________ ______ OF LAURENS COUNTY, STATE OF
GEORGIA, FELONIOUSLY TAKEN FROM ME BY ELISHA COPELAND AND
TRASFERRED TO SAID _________ _________; AND ALSO TO MY SON JOHN
CLEMENTS THE SUM OF FIVE SHILLINGS; ALSO TO MY DAUGHTER MARTHA
COPELAND THE SOM OF FIVE SHILLINGS; ALSO TO MY DAUGHTER RACHEL
RUNNALLY THE SUM OF FIVE SHILLINGS.
I DO ALSO NOMINATE AND APPOINT MY SON WILLIAM CLEMENTS AND
NORRIS HENDON OF THE COUNTY OF CLARK AND THE STATE OF GEROGIA
JOINTLY MY SOLE EXECUTORS OF THIS MY LST WILL AND TESTAMENT,
MAKING ALL OTHER WILLS HERETOFORE MAD VOID AND OF NONE EFFECT,
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I HVE HEREWITH SET MY HAND AND AFFIXED MY
SEAL THIS THE 5TH DAY OF MAY 1816. SIGNED IN THE PRESENCE OF
PETER ACKER.
GEORGIA, CLARK COUNTY
PERSONALLY APPEARED IN OPEN COURT ________,___________, ON OF
THE SUBSCRIBING WITNESSES TO THE WITHIN WILL AND AFTER HVING
DULY SWORN ON THE HOLY GOSPEL _____ ______ AND THT HE WAS OF
SOUND MIND AND MEMORY AT THE TIME OF HIS SIGNING AND THAT HE SAW
PETER ACKER SIGN THE (PAPER) A WITNESS. SWORN TO BEFORE ME IN
OPEN COURT THIS 7TH OF OCTOBER 1816
RECORDED THIS 18TH DAY OF OCTOBER 1816
_________________________________________________
GEORGIA REVOLUTIONARY BOUNTY GRANTS: 1783-1785, PAGE 11
6 FEB 1784: CERTIFICATE NO. 116
500 ACRES TO JOHN CLEMENTS
SIGNED BY "HIS HONOR GOVERNOR HOUSTON"
_____________________________________________
JOHN CLEMENTS, SON OF CAPT. BENJAMIN CLEMENTS AND FATHER OF
RHODA CLEMENTS POOR, WS BORN IN 1743. THERE IS NO RECORD OF WHO
HIS FIRST WIFE WAS, BUT THEY WERE LIVING IN HENRY COUNTY,
VIRGINIA IN 1782. THEN HE PURCHASED LAND ON LONG CREEK IN WILKES
COUNTY, GEORGIA FROM EDWARD AND JANE ECKLES ON 29 JUNE D1789,
AND ON 22 JUNE 1792 HE MARRIED JANE ROBERTSON, HIS SECOND WIFE.
John being the son of Capt. Benjamin Clements and Susannah Hill. Here is the
notes I have on them.
CAPTAIN BENJAMIN CLEMENTS, BORN 1700, WAS THE SON OF WILLIAM
CLEMENT OF KING WILLIAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA. IN 1735, WILLIAM
PATENTED 1225 ACRES OF LAND IN AMELIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA AND MOVED
WITH HIS FAMILY THERE IN 1736. WILLIAM CLEMENT SERVED AS JUSTICE
OF THE PESCE AND SHERIFF OF AMEILIA COUNTY. HIS WILL, PROVEN IN
1780, NAMED SONS BENJAMIN, WILLIAM, JOHN, FRANCIS, DAUGHTERS
ELIZABETH FORD ELLYSON, ANNE AND BARSHEBA MAJOR.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTS MARRIED SUSANNAH HILL, DAUGHTER OF COL. ISAAC
HILL OF KING AND QUEEN COUNTY, VIRGINIA, AND MOVED WITH HIS
FAMILY TO PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY ( THEN LUNENBURG COUNTY IN 1748,
ESTABLISHING HIS HOME AT "CLEMENT HILL", A SHARP KNOLL
OVERLOOKING THE STAUNTON RIVER. THE KNOLL WAS AN EXCELLENT SITE
FOR A PIONEER SETTLEMENT IN THE WILDERNESS, FOR ITS ELEVATION
COMMANDED A VIEW OF THE RIVER AND COUNTRYSIDE AROUND, AND COULD
BE WELL DEFENDED AGAINST MARAUDING BANDS OF INDIANS. CAPATAIN
CLEMENTS DIED IN 1780, AND IS BURRIED AT THE FOOT OF CLEMENT
HILL. HIS ESTATE WAS APPRAISED AT 27,604 POUNDS STERLING. IN HIS
WILL, HE NAMED WIFE SUSANNAH, AND CHILDREN: 1. STEPHEN CLEMENTS
2. ISAAC CLEMENTS (MARRIED ANNE DENHAM)
3. ADAM CLEMENTS (MARRIED AGNES JOHNSON OF LOUISA COUNTY)
4. JAMES CLEMENTS
5. BENJAMIN CLEMENTS, JR.
6. JOHN CLEMENTS
7. RACHEL CLEMENTS (MARRIED CAPT. JOSHUA ABSTON)
8. ELIZABETH CLEMENTS ( MARRIED ISAAC BUTTERWORTH)
9. SUSANNAH CLEMENTS (MARRIED WILLIAM EVANS)
THE OLD MANSION HOUSE AT "CLEMENT HILL", WITH ITS CORNER
FIREPLACES, TYPIFIES A VERY EARLY PERIOD OF ARCHITECTURE.
CHARLES CLEMENTS, A SON OF ADAM AND AGNES CLEMENTS, INHERITED
THE PLACE. IN 1803, HE MARRIED MISS NANCY HANBY OF PATRICK AND
MADE HIS HOME THERE. THE PROPERTY PASSED INTO THE POSSESSION OF
JOHN . HURT, THROUGH HIS MARRIAGE TO NANNIE CLEMENTS,
GRANDDAUGHTER OF CHARLES CLEMENTS, SR,.AND DAUGHTER OF CHARLES
CLEMENTS JR. AND HIS WIFE LUCY HUNT.
*THE HISTORY OF PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA: BALTIMORE,
REGIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1976, PAGE 145
BENJAMIN CLEMENTS MARRIED SUSANNAH HILL AND IN 1740, SOLD HIS
LANDS IN AMELIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA AND LOCATED IN TEH STAUNTON
RIVER VALLEY, ERECTING A HOUSE ON A BEAUTIFUL KNOLL AND THERE
RESIDING UNTIL HIS DEATH, HAVING BEEN ONE OF THE EARLIEST
SETTLERS IN THAT VALLEY......** FROM VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHIES, BY
LYON G. TYPER, PAGE 150
THE LIST OF TITHABLES OF PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA
YEAR 1767 TAKEN BY GEORGE JEFFERSON IN PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY AND
CAMDEN PARISH.
TAXPAYERS INCLUDED:
BENJAMIN CLEMENT
JAMES CLEMENT
BENJAMIN CLEMENT JR.
ISAAC CLEMENT
ADAM CLEMENT
ADAM CLEMENT
JOSEPH CLEMENTS
GABRIEL CLEMENTS
VARDIMAN CLEMENTS.
___________________________________
1750 LUNENBURG COUNTY, VIRGINIA TITHES LIST PAGE 151
BENJAMIN CLEMENTS 3
ISAAC CLEMENTS
STEPHEN CLEMENTS
TITHES (TAXES) WERE DUE FOR EACH WHITE MALE 16 YEARS OF AGE OR
OLDER. BENJAMIN JR., ADAM, JOHN,AND JAMES WERE UNDERAGE. ALSO
OF INTEREST IS THAT NEXT ON THE TITHES LIST IS CAPT. LINCH. HE
AND BENJAMIN CLEMENTS DEVELOPED AN IMPROVED FORMULA FOR
GUNPOWDER AND SHARED THE SAME WITH THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS AS THE
REVOLUTIONARY WAR GREW IMMINENT. BOTH WERE RECOGNIZED FOR THEIR
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EFFORT OF INDEPENDENCE BY THE VIRGINIA
HISTORICAL COMMISSION.
___________________________________
PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA, D & W, BOKK 11, PAGE 115, PROVEN
18 APRIL 1780.
NAMED IN BENJAMINS WILL ARE" .... WIFE SUSANNAH CLEMETNS -LENDS
HER ONE-THIRD OF ALL MOVEABLE ESTATE. TO TH HEIR AT LAW OF
DAUGHTER, JERIAH GILBERT, DECEASED, ONE SHARE; TO THE HEIR AT
LAW OF DAUGHTER RACHEL ABSTON, DECEASED, ONE SHRE; TO THE HEIR
AT LAW OF DAUGHTER ELIZABETH BUTTERWORTH, DECEASED, ONE SHRE. TO
SON, JOHN CLEMENTS, THE TRACT OF LAND HE NOW LIVES ON - 50
ACRES- WHICH LAND I PURCHASED OF JOHN GOAD, LYING ON FRYING PAN
CREEK. LENDS TO WIFE SUSANNAH, THE USE OF THE TRACT OF LAND i
NOW LIVE ON, WITH ALL MY INCLUSIVE SUREVEYS JOINING OF IT, WITH
THE THIRD PART OF PROFITS OF THE MILL DURING HER LIFETIME OR
WIDOWHOOD. WIFE SHALL NOT LEASE, SELL NOR LET THE LAND NOR ANY
PART THEROF. AT HER DEATH OR MARRIAGE, THE LAND AND MILL MAY BE
SOLD TO THE BEST BIDDER AND ALL MY LEGACIES EXCEPT MOVEABLES TO
BE SOLD-NEGROES AND ALL THAT CAN BE COLLECTED BEFORE AND AFTER
THE SALE OF LAND, AND THAT THE WHOLE AMOUNT OF MY ESTATE, AFTER
CHARGES TAKEN OUT, MAY BE DIVIDED BETWEEN FRANCES ABSTON, JOHN
ABSTON, SUSANNAH ABSTON AND RACHEL ABSTON, CHILDREN OF RACHEL
ABSTON, DECEASED; ONE PART TO BE DIVIDED BETWEEN ISAAC
BUTTERWORTH, STEPHEN BUTTERWORTH, JANE BUTTERWORTH, SUSANNAH
HILL BUTTERWORTH, CHILDREN OF ELIZABETH BUTTERWORTH, DECEASED;
TO BE PAID WHEN THEY COME OF AGE. THE OTHER SEVEN PARTS OT BE
DIVIDED AMONGST MY CHILDREN: TO STEPHIEN CLEMENTS ONE PART; TO
ISAAC CLEMENTS ONE PART; TO BENJAMIN CLEMENTS ONE PART; TO ADAM
CLEMENTS ONE PART; TO JOHN CLEMENTS ONE PART; TO SUSANNAH EVANS
ONE PART; TO MARTHA CLEMENTS WIDOW OF JAMES CLEMENTS, DECEASED,
AND HER CHILDREN ONE PART.
EXECUTORS: ISAAC CLEMENTS AND ADAM CLEMENTS
SIGNED: BENJAMIN CLEMENTS
WILL PRESENTED BY ISAAC CLEMENTS ON 4/18/1780
PROVEN BY OATHS OF WITNESSES THERETO.
20 JUNE 1780 CAME ADAM CLEMENTS AND PRAYED TO JOIN IN PROBATE
THEREOF.
_________________________________
IN 1927, THE FAMILY BIBLE OF BENJAMIN CLEMENTS WASS FOUND IN TEH
POSSESSION OF MR. S. R. ORR OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A DESCENDANT
OF CAPT. BENJAMIN CLEMENT. THE RECORD CONTAINED THE FOLLOWING
ENTRIES:
STEPHEN CLEMENTS b. 1732 m. SARAH
ISAAC CLEMENTS b. 1733 m. ANN DENHAM
BENJAMIN CLEMENTS b. 1735 m. MARY
DAVID CLEMENTS b. 1737 DIED AS INFANT
ADAM CLEMENTS b. 1739 m. AGNES JOHNSON
JERIAH CLEMENTS b. 1741 m. ______GILBERT
JOHN CLEMENTS b. 1743
JAMES CLEMENTS b. 1745 m. MARTHA
RACHEL CLEMENTS b. 1747 m. CAPT. JOSHUA ABSTON
DANIEL CLEMENTS b. 1749 DIED AS INFANT
ELIZABETH CLEMENTS b. 1751 m. ISAAC BUTTERWORTH
SUSANNAH CLEMENTS b. 1754 m. WILLIAM EVANS
__________ BUTTERWORTH b. 1768 GRANDCHILD
__________BUTTERWORTH b. 1769 GRANDCHILD
__________________________________________________
IN HENNINGS STATUTES AT LARGE, VA., VOL. 7, PAGE 226 IS A RECORD
OF BENJAMIN CLEMENT OF PITTSYLAVANIA COUNTY, PAID THREE POUNDS
FOR TAKING CARE OF A WOUNDED SOLDIER, SEPT. 1758.
THE LAND OFFICE BOOK, NO. 19, IN RICHMOND, SHOW THAT BENJAMIN
CLEMENT PATENTED 129 ACRES ON TEH SOUTH SIDE OF THE STARUNTON
RIVER, ON BOTH SIDES OF SYCAMORE CREEK IN 1741. HE DID NOT MOVE
THERE UNTIL A GEW YEARS LATER. HE PROBABLY ESTABLISHED HIS HOME
ON "CLEMENT HILL"IN 1748, AND SUBSEQUENTLY ACQUIRED MANY MORE
ACRES OF LAND. IT IS SAID THAT HIS LAND EXTENDED SOME FOUR OR
FIVE MILES ALONG THE STAUNTON RIVER. IN 1750, PETER JEFFERSON,
FATHER OF THOMAS JEFFERSON, PATENTED 713 ACRES ON THE STAUNTON
RIVER " ADJOINING THE LAND OF BENJAMIN CLEMENTS"
IN PUBLIC SERVICE CLAIMS, SOUTHAMPTON CO. VA., IS THE FOLLOWING:
"RECIEVED OF THE ESTATE OF BENJAMIN CLEMENT, 360 POUNDS OF BEEF,
FOR PUBLIC USE. 13 NOV 1781
IN PUBLIC SERVICE CLAIMS, PITTSYLVANIA CO. VA., IS THE
FOLLOWING: "I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT I HAVE RECEIVED FOR PUBLIC USE
OF SUSANNAH CLEMENT, SISTY SHEAVES OF OATS. OCT 1781.
SUSANNAH HILL WAS A DAUGHTER OF COL. ISAAC HILL AND MARGARET
JENNINGS. ON 28 JULY 1708, ISAAC HILL MARRIED MARGARET JENNINGS
AT CHRIST CHURCH, MIDDLESEX COUNTY, VIRGINIA (REGISTER, PAGE 81)
JOHN BENNET BODDIE IN "HISTORICAL SOUTHERN FAMILIES, VOLUME IV,
PAGE 130, GAVE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
"....AT THE MARRIAGE , HER FATHER EDMOND JENNINGS, GOVERNOR OF
VIRGINIA, PRESENTED HER WITH A SMALL SILVER WAITER. IT IS NOW IN
THE POSSESSION OF MR. JOHN SPRUNT HILL, A DESCENDANT, AND BEARS
THE CREST OF THE JENNINGS FAMILY OF YORKSHIRE. "
I would like to Thank Harold Clements for furnishing me with all his records
on this line. He has done many years of research on the Clements family, and
started before the internet. He is a wonderful man, I am very thankful we
are related.
So, this is who I am. At least as I know it. Nice to be a member of such an
elite group of people. Cindy
No. Each year land owners, or their representatives, met to "walk the
lines", Procession the property. They'd meet with other abutting landowners
to determine if any lines have changed(ie, property sales & divisions, line
trees fallen or removed, etc....) Usually, two or three gents were appointed
to "oversee" the processions & report back to the vestry at a later date.
Jim Cooke
Decs. from William Clement via daughter Elizabeth & her husband Captain
Hezekiah Ford, Amelia, VA.
>From: DianeHomol(a)aol.com
>Reply-To: CLEMENT-Benjamin-L(a)rootsweb.com
>To: CLEMENT-Benjamin-L(a)rootsweb.com
>Subject: [CLEMENT-Benjamin] Processioner
>Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 00:53:50 EDT
>
>Today I purchased the Vestry Book of Camden Parish 1767-1820 at the NGS
>Conference in Portland. There are several entries regarding Clement
>family.
>Most state like this one " Benjamin Clement, Jr. Adam Clement, and Thomas
>Robinson are appointed to procession all the patent land up STANTON from
>the
>mouth of READ CREEK to the mouth of PIGG RIVER to ridges, &c."
>
>Does procession mean the same as survey? Were these men qualified
>surveyors
>- looks like several Clements were appointed to procession. Then Stephen
>Clements is paid 15? for services and a reader of this parish. Any ideas?
>Thanks. Diane
>
>
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Today I purchased the Vestry Book of Camden Parish 1767-1820 at the NGS
Conference in Portland. There are several entries regarding Clement family.
Most state like this one " Benjamin Clement, Jr. Adam Clement, and Thomas
Robinson are appointed to procession all the patent land up STANTON from the
mouth of READ CREEK to the mouth of PIGG RIVER to ridges, &c."
Does procession mean the same as survey? Were these men qualified surveyors
- looks like several Clements were appointed to procession. Then Stephen
Clements is paid 15? for services and a reader of this parish. Any ideas?
Thanks. Diane