Person:Job Clements (2)

m. Bef 1615
  1. Job ClementsAbt 1615 - 1682
  2. Lydia ClementsAbt 1618 - 1673/74
  3. Abraham ClementsAbt 1622 - 1677
  4. Daniel Clements1625 -
  5. Sarah ClementsEst 1626 - 1694
  6. Robert ClementsCal 1634 - Aft 1714
  7. Mary ClementsCal 1637 - 1710
  8. John Clements
m. 25 Dec 1644
  1. Susanna Clements1645 -
  2. John Clement1646 - Abt 1646
  3. Job Clements1648 - Abt 1716
  4. Mary Clements1651 - Abt 1672
  • HJob ClementsAbt 1615 - 1682
  • W.  Lydia (add)
m. Bef 1658
  • HJob ClementsAbt 1615 - 1682
  • WJoanna SilsbyAbt 1617 - 1703/04
m. 16 Jul 1673
Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Job Clements
Alt Name Job Clement
Gender Male
Birth[2] Abt 1615 Leicestershire, England
Alt Birth[1] Abt 1618 England
Marriage 25 Dec 1644 Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United StatesFirst marriage recorded in town
to Margaret Dummer
Marriage Bef 1658 to Lydia (add)
Marriage 16 Jul 1673 Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, United Statesto Joanna Silsby
Will[1] 4 Sep 1682
Death[2] 4 Sep 1682 Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, United StatesSuspect, see source
Probate[2][3] 9 Nov 1683 Will proved

Job Clement arrived in America about 1638, four years before his father and siblings would arrived. Whether Job's early arrival was planned so that he might prepare for the arrival of the family or his family hearing of the colonial experience made the decision after Job's departure is not known. He took the oath of fidelity in 1639 at Ipswich, Massachusetts. The following year, he with eleven others founded Haverhill, Massachusetts. He was made a Freeman in 1647 and served as Haverhill's first Constable. By trade a tanner, in 1652, Newbury (Massachusetts) offered him a freehold is he would move and ply his trade there, an offer which he refused.

Perhaps his decision to reject Newbury's offer stems a controversy between the town and Major Robert Pike, who despite his highstanding in the community was disenfranchised and fined for publicly disagreeing with the religious authorities. Job was among the Haverhill signers of a petition for the remission of the fines and penalties laid against Major Pike. Signing such a petition was the act of a confident man, as a number of petitioners would be called to answer for their support of Major Pike.

However, his support for Major Pike may not have gone unnoticed by the Massachusetts Bay Colony, for in 1654, we find him Dover, New Hampshire. There he would become prominent in the affairs of the town and colony serving as constable (1660), selectman (6yrs between 1667-1677), and commissioner for four terms.

In 1679, New Hampshire became a separate Royal Colony and that year, Job was elected Royal Councillor, assuming his duties on 16 Feb 1680. He would serve in this position until his death 2 years later.

He is known to have had three wives and four children, all from his first marriage. Only two of his children would reach adulthood. His will is dated 4 Sep 1682 and was proved 9 Nov of that year.

Principal source "Robert Clements of Haverhill and Some of His Descendants"

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Greely, A. W. (Adolphus Washington). Robert Clements of Haverhill, Massachusetts, and some of his descendants. Essex Institute Historical Collections (Essex Institute Press). (Essex Institute, Oct 1911)
    v 47, p. 317-332.

    Job Clements, s/o Robert Clements born "presumably in Warwickshire" [sic, see source #2] and wife "her name is unknown", b. England about 1618, d. Dover, NH, in 1682 [will 4 Sep 1682, proved 9 Nov 1682], m. (1) Haverhill, MA, 25 Dec 1644 Margaret Dummer d/o Thomas, m. (2) bef 1658 Lydia ---, m. (3) Dover 16 Jul 1673 Joanna Leighton widow of Thomas.

  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Clement, Percival Wood; Caroline Clement Brown; Clements Markham; Henry John Beresford Clements; Eléonore Wickham Clements; and Mary Lovering Holman. Ancestors and Descendants of Robert Clements of Leicestershire and Warwickshire, England: First Settler of Haverhill, Massachusetts. (Philadelphia, Pa.: Patterson & White Co., 1927)
    p. 30.

    Job Clements [#2], s/o Robert Clements and first wife Lydia ---, b. England about 1615, d.Dover, NH, 4 Sep 1682 [sic, while proving of will in given as 9 Nov 1683 on p. 37, death is given as the very date will was written?], m. (1) Haverhill, MA, 25 Dec 1645 Margaret Dummer, m. (2) abt 1658 Lydia ---, m. (3) 16 Jul 1673 Joanna Leighton.
    [Note about birth location: p. 13: father "probably grew to manhood in the parish of Cosby", in 1617 bought "land in Huncote ... in the parish of Narboroough, Leicestershire".]

  3. New Hampshire; Albert Stillman Batchellor (ed.); Otis Grant Hammond (ed.); and Henry Harrison Metcalf (ed.). Probate Records of the Province of New Hampshire. (New Hampshire: The State [et al], 1907–1941)
    Vol. 1 (Vol. 31 of state papers), p. 259.

    Will of "Job Clement", dated Dover "4. 7'br 1682" [4 Sep 1682], proved 9 Nov 1683, names son Job Clement, wife Joanna Clement, grandchild Jane Kenney half a lot given by her father. Son Job to be executor. Friends Rich'd Waldron p'r'sident and Rev'd mr John Pike to be overseers.