Person:Job Clements (5)

Greely states that Job was prominent in local and colonial affairs. In 1683, we was on the grand jury that would indict Edward Gove on charges of high treason for leading an "armed rebellion" against the despised Royal Governor Edward Cranfield. The Gove Rebellion is remembered as possibly the first armed rebellion against a Royal Governor in the New England colonies; for the extreme penalty imposed of being drawn and quartered; and that Edward Gove would be imprisoned in the Tower of London until his pardon by King James II. Job's cousin Abraham Clement would marry Edward Gove's daughter.

Like his father, he too heeded his conscience in the face of colonial displeasure for in 1693, he and another refused to take an "oath by laying their hands on the Holy Evangelists .. declaring that they would swear by lifting up the hands, but not otherwise." This occurring while he served as a representative from Dover to the New Hampshire provincial assembly.

Job would marry Abigail Heard and together they would raise at least five children (those being named in his will).

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} 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 324.
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Topsfield, Mass.: Topsfield Historical Society, 1910)
   v 1, p 67.
3. ↑ Wentworth, John. The Wentworth Genealogy: English and American. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1878)
   1:125.