Clement Documents

In addition to documents transcribed in this notebook, the archives include:

• A receipt for payment by Daniel Clement (1796-1872) to Sam Lovejoy for something unreadable "administered to his arm", 25 June 1818. This is probably related to the 📄 Letter excusing Daniel Clement from military service, 1818.
• Some pages of poetry, unsinged but kept with other 19th century Clement documents.
• Two documents titled "Rules for Pronouncing Words", written in different hands, neither signed.
• "The Acts of the Hebronites", which describes the participation of people from Hebron NY in the US Revolutionary War. The style is highly allergorial and roughly imitates the style of a King James bible, so it's hard to get much detailed information from it.
• A receipt saved by Daniel Clement in 1827, "Received of Daniel Clement five dollars & fifty cents for a kittle". Or maybe a kettle? $5.50 was worth a lot more then. Just six years earlier Daniel bought ninteteen acres for $25.

• A certificate dated December 12 1891 from the state of Vermont on the Revolutionary War service of Comfort Starr, presumably an ancestor of Nettie Starr Clement (1852-1930).

  Comfort Starr served as a Cpatain, 2 days, "who went from Guildford into the service of the State of Vermont in the alarm in the month of October, 1780", And served as a Captain 1 day "who marched in an alarm, about the last of October 1780, in the service of the State of Vermont."

• "A Tribute to the Memory of Elmer E. Ellsworth", a short poem signed R. P. Clement, 1861. Elmer E. Ellsworth "...was a United States Army officer and law clerk who was the first conspicuous casualty and the first Union officer to die in the American Civil War".

• A letter to Daniel Clement (1796-1872) from a friend in Lunenburg (Nova Scotia) dated May 14 1818. The sender misses Daniel and continues about their religious beliefs for a while. The letter is signed "Affectionately your friend" with a name that's probably "E. Lunus".
• A receipt, "Daniel Clement to John Preston" dated March 15 1832 for several itemized details, mostly unreadable, coming to $127.13 in total.
• A long poem titled "The Golden Wedding", commemorating the 50th anniversary of Asa Clement (1813-1894) and Hannah Peabody (1818-1898). A handwritten note says "Nov. 30 1887, Written by J. B. C." who is probably Jesse Clement (1815-1883), Asa's brother. A few details from it include their residence in Dracut.
• An undated newspaper article titled "HEBRON PATRIOTS IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION" which covers the history of Hebron-area participants in the US Revolution. Many names are listed, but nobody in my family tree lived in the area at the time. Some names in the article may have been ancestors of family friends.
• A one-page handwritten Clement genealogy covering births from 1759-1804. A note at hte top reads "From Aunt Eames Estate", which suggests Esther Eames (1817-1842) as the source. Multiple old photocopies are also included.
• Two handwritten genealogies tracing Daniel Clement (1796-1872)'s descendants as far as Preston Meeker Harrington III (1934-2017) and George Tone Harrington (1940-2007).