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Clements, Jacob; Charles Co. 17 Sept 1755; 21 Nov 1755
To wife Clare Clements, plantation I now dwell on, also tract called "Huckle Berry Gardin."
To son Edward Clements, plantation I now dwell on, also tract called "Huckle Berry Gardin" after my wife's decease.
To son Jacob Clements and Walter Clements, parcel of land on Chickamuxon which I bought of John Speake, being pt. of tract called "The Reserve," deed of purchase, dated 20 Apr 1730.
To sons John Clements and Charles Clements, 100 a. being pt., of Cornwallis' Neck whereon I now have a quarter.
To wife 1/3 pt of my personal estate.
To dau Jane Clements Negro wench called Beck and her dau called Pegg.
To son Edward Clements, Negro lad called Michael.
To son Jacob Clements, Negro lad called Nace.
To son Walter Clements, Negro boy called Harry.
To son Francis Clements, Negro called Turner and Negro boy called Tom.
To son John Clements, Negro boy called Joe.
To son Charles Clements, Negro boy called Andrew.
To dau Martha Clements, Negro woman called Sarah and her dau called Hannah.
To dau Clare Sanders, woman's saddle and bridle.
To granddau Anne Wheeler, Negro girl Rose.
To heirs of my dau Elizabeth Wheeler, (now deceased) 1 shl. sterl. each.
remaining pt. of estate to be divided among my sons: Edward Clements, Jacob Clements, Walter Clements, Francis Clements, John Clements, and Charles Clements.
Wife Clare Clements, and son Edward Clements, exs.
Wit: Joseph Gardner, John Carner, Thos. McPherson. 29. 541
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CLEMENTS, EDWARD, Charles Co, 26 Mar, 1764; 21 Jul, 1764
To bro. John Clements, tract called "Wickham." being the plantation I now dwell on; also tract called Huckleberry Garden ; furniture called the Church stuff, all my meat. salted,
To sister Jesse Clements, 4 large silver spoons.
To bro. Walter Clements, silver watch.
To niece Anne Wheeler, Negro lad called Tom.
To bro. Charles Clements, 5000 lbs of crop Inspected tobacco*
Remaining part of estate to be divided among bros. and sisters: Jacob Clements, Walter Clements, Francis Clements, John Clements, Charles Clements, Jean Clements, Clare Sanders and Martha Dyers
Ex.: Brother Francis Clements.
Wit: Thomas McPherson, Daniel McPherson, Charles Garner. 32.276
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WARD, Benjamin, Charles Co. 10 Oct, 1771; 10 Mar. 1772
Youngest son John, dau. Ann, eldest son Henry. Estate to wife Anne and If she should remarry she may dispose of it among her children as she thinks proper.
Tract: "Wheelers Purchase.
Exs. wife Sarah and son Henry,
Wit: Thomas Smallwood, Jr. and Sr., Walter Clements. 38. 557
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CLEMENTS, JANE, Charles Co. 23 Sept. 1775; 14 Oct, 1775
To nephew Thos. Dyar, Negro girl Bab.
To nephew Jacob Clements, silver table spoons.
To niece: Mary Clements, furniture, wine decanters, tea spoons,
To bro. Walter Clements, ex,, Negro woman Peg and Negro boy Nedr bed, bolster, counterpane, quilt.
To sisters: Clare Sanders, Martha Dyar and my niece Anne Dyar, wearing apparel,
To niece: Hilen Clements, chest of drawers at age 16.
To bro. Charles Clements, silver table spoon.
To nephew Josh'. Clements, silver table spoon,
To the poor of Portobacco Parish, 7 bbls. of corn,
To bros. and sister: Fran's, and John Clements, Clare Sanders and Martha Dyar. residue of estate equally, John Sanders, ex. Wit: Dan'l, McPherson; John Mannery; Martha Green. 40.492
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1777-1780 Charles County, Maryland Will Book AF 7 Part 1 [TLC]; Page 136a.
Jane Clements Final Account. Apr 18, 1778.
The account of Walter Clements and John Sanders, executors of Jane Clements, late of CC, decd, viz - Debts: the inventory of sd decd's estate, exhibited into the Prerogative office on Feb 14, 1777, in all, 421 £5 shillings 2 pence; tobacco left by the decd unstrapped, inspected in 1776. The whole amount: 453 £13 shillings 10 pence.
Disbursements went to Jameson Johnson and Co, Doctor Joseph Adderton, Doctor Gusta Brown, Sheriff William Hanson for levies, a legacy left by the decd to the Poor of Portobacco Parish, Deputy Commissary's fees paid Daniel Jenifer, Com Generals fees paid William Fitzhugh Esq, fees paid Walter Hanson as Register, afd Walter Clements. Balance to be disposed of according to the decd's will - 420 £12 shillings 2 pence.
Final Account: 453 £13 shillings 10 pence.
Securities: Leonard Green and John Clements.
Proved on Apr 18, 1778 by afd Walter Clements and John Sanders.
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1785-1788 Charles County, Maryland Will Book AH-9 [TLC]; Page 299. John Heard's Will.
I, John Heard of CC, am perfectly sound of mind, memory, and understanding, but low in body.
To my daughter Ann Heard - a Negro man named Clem and a Negro girl called Hannah and her increase; also a horse, saddle, & bridle.
To my daughter Helen Heard - a Negro man named Lawrance and a Negro girl named Mary and her increase; also a horse, saddle, and bridle.
To my son Joseph Heard - a Negro boy named James and a girl named Peg, daughter to Terry, and her increase; also a horse, saddle, & bridle.
To my son George Heard - a Negro man named Joe and a young boy named Harry; also a horse, saddle, & bridle, To my son John Heard - a Negro woman named Terah & her increase, and a Negro boy named Awswell, son of Jane; also a horse, saddle, & bridle.
To my son Edward Heard - a Negro girl named Clare, also a good bed & furniture, a mahogany oval table, a looking glass gilted on the inside of the frame, 6 silver teaspoons, 2 glass tea canisters, and a young horse, saddle, & bridle, and a maple desk.
To my daughter Mary Jinkins - 5 shillings sterling.
To my 5 children, viz, Ann Heard, Helen Heard, Joseph Heard,
George Heard, John Heard, and my grandson, John Jinkins
- the rest of my estate to be equally divided between them. If my sd grandson should die before he comes of age, then his part to his brothers and sisters.
It is my will and pleasure that my son Edward Heard, with his estate, shall be and remain under the care of my two children, Ann Heard and Helen Heard. But if my daughters Ann and Helen should die before Edward comes to age, then Edward should be under the care of my two sons, George and John Heard.
Executrixes: my two daughters, Ann and Helen.
Signed Oct 10, 1786 - John Heard. Wit - John Grant, Walter Clements, Luke Wheeler.
Probated on Nov 13, 1785 by both executrixes and by the oaths of all 3 witnesses,
I certify that Joseph Heard, the heir at law, a minor, was not present when the foregoing probate was taken, Signed - John Muschett, Regr of Wills.
On Nov 13, 1786, Letters Testamentary were granted to both executrixes; their securities were Walter Clements & John Grant. Appraisers: Raphael Boarman, Josias Smoot.
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1756-1761 Charles County, Maryland Land Records; Liber G#3 [TLC]; Page 174, Lease, Feb 20, 1758 from John Pye of CC, to Walter Clements, the lease of a tract of 106 acres of land called Pyes Rest, bounded by the bank of Potomack River, a Huckleberry branch, the Sycamore Botoms. This lease is for the natural life of Walter Clements and for the natural life of his son, Walter Clements. The rent is 1000 lbs of good, sound, merchantable, pricked, culled, leaf tobacco in 1 hogshead, to he paid each May 1 beginning in 1759, and also, 2 bushels of good, well-cleaned wheat to be paid each Sep 1 & 1 fat turkey at Christmas and 6 fat chickens at mid summer, payment to begin in 1759. within 5 years, Walter Clements shall plant 200 apple trees on sd premises, of good winter fruit. Clements will leave the premises in tenantable condition. Clements shall not cut down timber or sell any timber or wood off sd premises, or cut down wood or timber in a wasteful manner further than to clear the land for planting or any other use for the plantation. If more timber is cut down than is needed, Pye may enter the premises and carry it away. Pye may cut down any white oak timber that may be proper to saw into plank or to convert it into heading pipe hogsheads or barrels, staves, or any plank, warnutt, or crooked ship timber which shall be at any time to be standing or growing on sd premises, having always sufficient timber for the use of sd plantation. Clements agrees that 5 acres in one corner of sd premises shall be left uncut of the timber thereon. Clements shall assist in his proportionable part towards the preserving and keeping up the Neck Fence so as to keep other people's creatures out of the inclosure, Walter Clements or his son Walter shall not assign over to any other tenant sd lease unless leave is first had of sd Pye, Signed - Lino Pye. Wit - Walter Hanson, Dan of St. Thos Jenifer. Recorded Feb 25, 1758
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1776 Census Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh Colonial Records Vol 1
PORT TOBACCO WEST HUNDRED, TAKEN BY P. FARNANDIS, CONSTABLE
Clements, Francis (of Jacob)
Clements, Leonard
Clements, Joseph
Clements, John
Clements, A.John
Clements, Walter
Clements, Walter (of Jacob)
Clements, Charles
Clements, Francis
Clements, Clement
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POMONKEY HUNDRED, TAKEN BY W. MCPHERSON, CONSTABLE
CENSUS OF 1775-1778
Clements, Samuel
Clements, Walter
Clements, Leonard
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1765-1770 Charles County, Maryland Land Records; Liber O#3 [TLC]; Page 155. Bill of Sale. I, Charles Clements of CC, tavern keeper, for 600 £ have sold to Walter Clements & John Clements, sons of Jacob, 6 beds and furniture, 12 pair sheets, 24 chairs, 1 desk, 6 tables, 3 large iron pots, 1 frying pan, 6 pewter dishes, 18 pewter plates, 6 earthen dishes, 60 earthen plates, 6 drinking glasses, 12 delph howls, 36 knives and forks, 6 bedsteads, 3 chamber pots, 6 candle sticks, 2 Dutch ovens, and all other my household [&] kitchen furniture. Also, 1 bay horse, 2 cows, 1 Negro man named Peter, and a Negro woman named Nell, a Negro boy named James, together with all my personal estate. Signed Feb 10, 1767 - Charles Clements, Wit - Thomas How Ridgate, Alexr McPherson Jr, Thomson Mason. Recorded Feb 21, 1766.
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1765-1770 Charles County, Maryland Land Records; Liber O#3 [TLC]; Page 270. Sep 16, 1767 from Jacob Clements of CC, planter, to Walter Clements of CC, planter, for 40 £ a tract of 234 acres (being part of a parcel of land called the Reserve, first granted to John Speaks for about 383 acres, which parcel of land, the moiety whereof, hereby granted, was conveyed by sd John Speake to Jacob Clements, father of them, sd Jacob and Walter, by cc deed dated Apr 20, 1730, recorded in Liber M#2 1765-1770 Charles County, Maryland Land Records; Liber O#3 [TLC]; Page 207 and 208 on May 21, 1730, which parcel is in Chicamuxon [Cr] in CC) was afterwards, by sd Jacob Clements, devised to his 2 sons, sd Jacob and Walter, to be equally divided between them. Signed - Jacob Clements. Wit - Walter Hanson*, Dan Jenifer*. Elizabeth, the wife of the sd Jacob, relinquished her right of dower. Recorded Sep 17, 1767.
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1765-1770 Charles County, Maryland Land Records; Liber O#3 [TLC]; Page 704. Lease and Release. May 28-29, 1770 from Walter Clements of CC, planter, to John Maddox of CC, planter, for 220 £, about 196 acres, being part of a tract of land called the Reserve, first granted to John Speak for about 383 acres, situated in CC at Chiccamuxon, bounded by the SW side of a Great Branch of Chiccamuxon Cr. Signed - Walter Clements. The Reserve was first granted to John Speak for about 383 acres in CC at Chiccamuxon. The land was conveyed by sd John Speak to Jacob Clement, by deed dated Apr 20, 1730, recorded in CC Liber M#2 folios 207 & 208 on May 21, 1730, and was by sd Jacob, in his will, devised to his 2 sons, Jacob and sd Walter, party to these presents, to be equally divided between them. sd Jacob, by his deed dated last Sep 16, conveyed his moiety to sd Walter- Wit - Dan Jenifer*, Ja Adderton. Recorded May 29, 1770.
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1770-1775 Charles County, Maryland Land Records; Liber S#3 [TLC]; Page 29. Bill of Sale. I, Walter Clements, son of Jacob, of CC, planter, for 400 have sold to Messrs John Barnes & Thomas How Redgate, Negro men called Harry, Nace, and Jack, and Negro wench Nan and her 2 children, Mary and Joe. Signed Sep 17, 1770 - Walter Clements. Wit - W. Thompson_ Recorded Sep 26, 1770.
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1770-1775 Charles County, Maryland Land Records; Liber S#3 [TLC]; Page 113. Bill of Sale. We, John Clements and Walter Clements, son of Jacob, of CC, planters, for 189 £, have sold to Messrs John Barnes and Thomas How Ridgate, the following Negroes: a man called Peter, a boy called Jem, a wench called Nell and her child. Signed Jan 1, 1771 - John Clements, Walter Clements. Wit - Alexr McPherson Jr, Zeph Turner. Recorded Jan 2, 1771.
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1770-1775 Charles County, Maryland Land Records; Liber S#3 [TLC]; Page 401. Assignment. We, John Barnes and Thomas How Ridgate, hereby assign to Colo. Abraham Barnes of St Mary's County, all the Negro slaves heretofore transferred by Walter Clements of CC to sd John Barnes and Thomas How Ridgate, by bill of sale recorded CC. Signed May 18, 1773 - Barnes & Ridgate. Wit - Geo Dent*. Recorded May 10, 1773.
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1786-1790 Charles County, Maryland Land Records; Liber D#4 [TLC]; Page 604. Deed of Trust, recorded at the request of Alexander Hamilton. Nov 23, 1789 from Walter Clements, son of Jacob of CC, to Alexander Hamilton of Prince George's County, on behalf of himself and of James Gordon, Henry Reddell, John Campbell, John Campbell Jr, Alexander Low, and William Ingram, creditors of the sd Walter Clements, for 10 shillings to sd Clements in hand paid by sd Alexander Hamilton, and for the sum of money herein after mentioned as due from sd Clements to the afd creditors, sd Clements has assigned to sd Alexander Hamilton, 1 Negro woman called Peg, about age 37, 1 Negro man called Ned, her son, about 22 years old, 1 sorrel horse, 1 sorrel mare, 1 bay mare colt, for the following purposes: firstly, to pay sd Alexander Hamilton the cost of executing this deed; secondly, to pay the afd creditors 82 £8 shillings and 6 pence due to them by sd Clements by bond of this date, bearing interest; thirdly, to pay sd Clements all such part of the afd property that remains. Sd Clements hereby appoints sd Alexander Hamilton his lawful atty, to sell the afd property. Signed - Walter Clements of Jacob. Wit - Geo. Lee*. Recorded Dec 1, 1789.
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1642-1753 Rent Rolls Charles County, Maryland [Mike Marshall]; Hundred - Chicamuxen: Rent Roll page/Sequence: 378-19: RESERVE: 383 acres; Possession of - 180 Acres - Speake, Thomas; 103 Acres - Winter, William Winter ; 100 Acres - Queen, Marham : Surveyed 19 Oct 1706 for John Speake beginning at a bound hiccory on the top of a hill on the South East side of a small branch called Chegunters branch being on of the small branches of Chicamuxen Creek: Conveyance notes - {mm Note; not identified to a specific Hundred. Location identified by watercourse or nearby tract.}, 210 Acres - Richard Speak from John Speak; 28 Nov 1720,143 Acres - Thomas Speake from John Speake; 28 Nov 1720, 103 Acres - Walter Winter from Richard Speak; 8 Sept 1729, 110 Acres - John Speake from Richard Speake; 8 Sept 1729, 234 Acres - Jacob Clements from John Speake; 20 Apr 1730, 103 Acres - William Winter from John Winter; 13 March 1732 100 Acres - Marham Queen from Thomas Clarke; 22 May 1745
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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
Aft 1710 - Aft 1789 (> 79 years)