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- Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33 : AUGUSTINE CLEMENT
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ORIGIN: Reading, Berkshire
MIGRATION: 1635 on the James of Southampton
FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester
REMOVES: Boston 1652, Dorchester by 1668
OCCUPATION: Painter. Augustine Clement was apprenticed to Jonathan Miller about 1613 or 1614, and then to Edward Newman of Eton, beginning about 1621 and ending in 1625 [Old-Time New England 58:62, 64]. In 1629 "Astinge Clement" was paid for "painting the window" of St Lawrence, Reading, church [Old-Time New England 58:64]. In the 1660s he may have painted the portraits of Dr. John Clark, Rev. Richard Mather and Gov. John Endicott [Old-Time New England 58:70-76].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to first Dorchester church prior to 25 May 1636 implied by freemanship. "Augustine Clement" and "Elizabeth Clement" were admitted to the second church of Dorchester not long after its organization in late 1636 [DChR 3].
FREEMAN: 25 May 1636 (as "Augustine Clement") [MBCR 1:372].
EDUCATION: Signed agreement for support of free school at Dorchester, 7 February 1641[/2?] [DTR 106]. He signed his name as witness to a 1658 deed [SLR 3:201].
His inventory at Dorchester included "books" valued at £1, and his inventory at Boston included "one Bible & another book" valued at 14s.
OFFICES: Dorchester selectman (for six months), 27 June 1636 [DTR 16].
Boston constable, 13 March 1664/5 [BTR 2:24].
Dorchester highway supervisor, 7 December 1668, 6 December 1669 [DTR 155, 162]. Fenceviewer, 8 March 1668/9, 11 March 1671/2 [DTR 158, 184]. Committee on landing place, 9 March 1669/70 [DTR 164].
Committee to "join with the selectmen in the purchase of the house and lands of William Clark's," 5 December 1670 [DTR 170]. Committee to "take care of the repairing of the meeting house," 4 December 1671 [DTR 180]. Committee "to consider and pitch upon a place on the Rocky Hill for the meeting house to stand upon," 26 February 1671/2 [DTR 183]. On 7 December 1674, "Henery Leadbetter was chosen to be added to the committee concerning the meeting house in the stead of Augustin Clement which is dead" [DTR 203].
Suffolk grand jury, 30 July 1672, 29 July 1673 [SCC 127, 270].
ESTATE: Granted two acres of meadow at Dorchester, 18 February 1635/6 [DTR 15]. One of four men who relinquished "their former great lots in the fresh marsh," receiving two acres "in a lesser meadow nearer Naponset" in return, 5 July 1636 [DTR 17-18]. Granted "one acre of land joining to his home lot to be laid out in convenient place not to hinder Mr. Hawkins property," 2 January 1637/8 [DTR 26]. Granted three and a quarter acres and one rod in the Neck and the same amount in the Cow's Pasture, 18 March 1637/8 [DTR 30].
On 11 July 1649, Thomas Makepeace of Boston sold to Augustine Clement of Dorchester nine acres in Dorchester [SLR 1:105]. On 20 March 1651/2, John Capen of Dorchester, shoemaker, sold to "Augustine Clements of ... Dorchester, painter," a twenty-foot piece of ground in Boston [SLR 1:194]. On 1 March 1651/2, John Phillips of Boston, biscuit baker, sold to Augustine Clement of Dorchester, painter, an eight-acre parcel of meadow or marsh in Dorchester [SLR 1:288].
On 7 March 1652/3, it is "voted that Austyn Clement shall have a parcel of land lying on the south side of his land that he bought of Mr. Makepeace and on the north side of John Capen's lot in way of exchange for a parcel of land at the hither end of the same bought of Mr. Makepeace near the gate" [DTR 315].
On 22 February 1652[/3], Augustine Clement of Boston, painter, sold to John Phillips of Boston, biscuit baker, a shop and lands purchased by Clement from John Farnum on 17 April 1649[/50?] [SLR 1:285-86].
Assessed for land in the Great Lots and the Neck at Dorchester, 13 January 1667/8 [DTR 147-48].
On 6 March 1670/1, "it was proposed to the town by Augustin Clement (with reference to a habitation for the ministry) that if the town will lend him one hundred and fifty pounds, viz: so much in the first payment as the money part comes to, and the rest to make up one hundred and fifty pound in the second payment, then he the said Augustin Clement will purchase William Clark's accommodations; and if in case Mr. Flint likes to have it, he shall, at the price that it cost, and if not, then the said Augustin Clement shall be at liberty to sell it again, and return to the town again the one hundred and fifty pound as soon as Mr. Flint refuseth it, unless that town will buy it for themselves"; the town accepted this proposal [DTR 174].
In 1673 Augustine Clement was among the prominent Boston men who subscribed to build a wharf near Capt. Scarlett's [BTR 2:83].
In his will, dated 31 January 1671 and proved 31 October 1674, "Augustin Clement of Dorchester" bequeathed to "my son Samuell my inner room or back part of my now dwelling house in Boston namely of the old building containing a cellar & three rooms over the said cellar"; to "my dear & loving wife Elizabeth Clement during her natural life" "the rest of my housing both new & old in Boston and all my housing both dwelling house & barns, orchards & gardens & land in Dorchester both upland & meadows & common lands"; to "my wife all my moveable estate"; "after my wife's death ... my son Samuell shall have all my housing and land both in Boston & Dorchester," he to pay the following legacies: to "my daughter Elizabeth Sumner," £4 a year and £10; to "the children of my daughter Sumner, namely Hannah, William, Sarah, Experience, Elinor, Deliverance & Clement," £10 apiece at the age of 21, or to the daughters at marriage; residue to "my dear & loving wife," she to be sole executrix; "my loving friends Elder James Humfrey & Deacon John Capen" to be overseers; "if my son Samuell die then after his death it shall fall to his son to be divided as he see meet only his wife shall have her widow estate in the housing at Boston" [SPR 6:62-63].
The inventory of "the estate of Augustin Clement who died the first of October 1674 viz: that part which lyeth at Boston," taken 11 October 1674, totalled £173 4s. 6d., of which the "houses & land" were valued at £160. The "estate of Augustin Clement which lyeth at Dorchester," taken 9 October 1674, totalled £776 19s. 3d., of which £623 was real estate: "the dwelling house, barn & other housing, orchard & homelot," £100; "that lot where the old house stood with the orchard & trees in the field with the meadow plot & pasture & land & the land which was Toplif's," £100; "twenty acres of pastureland with some meadow in it," £120; "nine acres in the woodlot," £54; "six acres of land at Neck," £24; "six acres of meadow at Calves Pasture," £60; "six acres of meadow on the other side Naponsett," £60; "17 acres of land in the third division," £17; "7 acres in the first division," £21; "3 acres in the 2 division," £6; "19 acres & 1/2 at Brushhill," £17; "9 acres & 3/4 at Melton," £18; "about & acres [sic without fence at Great Lots," £24; and "one acre of fresh marsh," £2 [SPR 5:217-18].
On 27 January 1679/80, Elisabeth Clement, executrix of the last will of Augustine Clement, brought suit against Timothy Mather, but withdrew her action before its nature was recorded [SCC 1130].
BIRTH: By about 1603 based on date of marriage.
DEATH: Dorchester 1 October 1674 (from inventory).
MARRIAGE: Wokingham, Berkshire, 3 July 1628 Elizabeth [blank] [Old-Time New England 58:64]. (See ASSOCIATIONS below.)
CHILDREN:
i ELIZABETH, bp. St Lawrence, Reading, Berkshire, 2 March 1633/4 [Old-Time New England 58:64]; m. by 1652 William Sumner (eldest known child bp. Dorchester 27 June 1652 [DChR 162]).
ii SAMUEL, b. Dorchester 29 September 1635 [NEHGR 5:98; DVR 2]; m. (1) Boston 2 July 1657 "Hannah Ings daughter of Madit Ings of Boston" [MAUDIT INGLISH {1635, Boston}] [BVR 62]; m. (2) by 1669 Deborah _____ (eldest child, Augustine, b. Boston 2 April 1669 [BVR 110]; on 29 April 1679, an order for the distribution of "the estate left by Samuel Clement late of Boston deceased" referred to "Deborah his late widow" [SCC 1017; see also SJC Case #2741]).
iii JOANNA, d. Dorchester 19 November 1638 [NEHGR 5:98; DVR 2].
iv JOHN, b. Dorchester 21 October 1639 [NEHGR 5:98; DVR 2]; no further record.
ASSOCIATIONS: On 26 July 1649, "Elisabeth Clements testified on oath that Edw[ard] Bullock of Dorchester is the son of Mr. W[illia]m Bullock late of Barkham in Berkeshirre" [Aspinwall 227]. In his will of 25 July 1649, "Edward Bullock of Dorchester" appointed Augustine Clement as one of his overseers, and among the debts owed by his estate was one to "brother Clements" [SPR 1:288-89; GM 2:1:476-77].
"Elisabeth Clements" of the 1649 deposition was almost certainly the wife of Augustine Clement. In the normal course of events, we might suggest that the reference to "brother Clements" indicated a church relationship, but we have no evidence that Bullock was a member of Dorchester church. Wokingham and Barkham are adjacent parishes in Berkshire. All of this suggests that Augustine Clement had married a sister of Edward Bullock.
The registers of Barkham, Berkshire, show that the two youngest children of William Bullock, gentleman, were Edward, baptized 6 August 1595, and Elizabeth, baptized 7 July 1603 [Leslie Mahler, private communication]. Although there is a discrepancy between this baptismal date and the age given in 1635 on embarkation by EDWARD BULLOCK {1635, Dorchester} [GM 2:1:476-77], this would appear to be the immigrant, and the sister Elizabeth baptized in 1603 would be of an appropriate age for the wife of Augustine Clement.
COMMENTS: In early April 1635, "Augustine Clem[en]t, sometime of Readinge, painter," was included on the passenger list of the James of London, sailing from Southampton [Drake's Founders 55]. (Banks listed the wife and two children, Samuel and Elizabeth, as passengers [Planters 136], but this passenger list provides only the names of heads of families, and we do not know which family members were on this vessel. In particular, there is no evidence of an earlier son Samuel born in England, prior to the son of that name born in Dorchester in 1635.)
Savage states that Augustine Clement "may have been on this side of the water in 1632; yet greater is the probability that he went home in 1636, and came again in May 1637, by the Mary Ann of Yarmouth, though against either conjecture strong suggestions arise" [Savage 1:407]. First, no evidence of Augustine Clement in New England is seen before 1635. Second, the passenger of 1637 was a different man, AUSTIN KILLAM {1637, Salem} [Hotten 294].
In 1638 Augustine Clement of Dorchester, planter, leased a tenement with one orchard and one garden in Wockingham, Berkshire, formerly in the occupation of Margaret Mathew, to William Salter of Boston in New England, fisherman, for thirty days [Lechford 4]. Following this lease, on 18 October 1638, Augustine Clement made John Tinker of Boston his attorney to deal with his affairs in England and then wrote to "my loving Sister Anne Clement at Shenfield [Essex]," and to "my loving friends, Mr. John Bateman minister at Wock[ingham], and William Rutkin there dwelling," concerning lands owned with "my brother John Clement, who is dead, & they are now in the hands of my sister-in-law, his wife and executrix," Margaret Mathew, being a tenement, orchard, and garden in Wockingham, Berkshire. If Margaret Mathew was alive, Tinker was to join with her in selling the property, but if she were dead, Tinker could sell it on his own. Further, if Margaret Mathew wished to come to New England, Tinker was to assist in outfitting her and her servants. If not, Tinker was to take all the interest belonging to Augustine and Elizabeth and pay it to them. For these services, John Tinker was to be paid £5 "whether the said Margaret come over to N.E. or no" [Lechford 5-10].
On 21 July 1674, just months before he died, Augustine Clements was defendant in a suit brought by Joseph Pool and John Read; the suit was withdrawn [SCC 469].
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1968 Sidney Gold, with substantial assistance from Abbott Lowell Cummings, published a study of the artistic career of Augustine Clement, both in Old and New England ["> Mayflower Descendant, Volume 1 through present (1899-1937, 1985+)
Old-Time New England 58:61-78].
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Abt 1604 - 1674 (70 years)