Clement Weaver Sr. migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Directory, by R. C. Anderson, p. 362) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm
"Clement Weaver who was born circa 1592... was one of the overseers of William Holbrook's will. Clement and Rebecca (Holbrook) Weaver immigrated to New England and settled in Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony. They were next door neighbors of Thomas Holbrook, with whom Clement Weaver was in partnership in many land and othmaer business dealings."[1]
He was first in Boston and then settled in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Clement was fined for drunkenness by the General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony in early 1640. He was shown as a property holder in Weymouth in 1643, and was next door to his brother-in-law, Thomas Holbrook. Sometime between 1643 and 1651, he left Weymouth and went to Rhode Island. It is said that he went to Rhode Island in 1650 and that he was a wall builder. He and his son, Clement, were freemen in Newport in 1655.
He owned land in Newport in that part now set off as Middletown. This land lies on the west side of the west main road at the head of Forest Avenue, about one mile from Narragansett Bay and about two and one-half miles from the Newport line. Tradition has it that Clement Weaver lived on this farm and built himself a stone house which stood until the late 1800s or early 1900s, but has ere now been pulled down. This tract was owned, at the time when the town of Middletown was set off from Newport, by Thomas Weaver, a grandson of Clement, Sr., and his sons, and at least part of it remained in the Weaver family over two hundred years thereafter.
Marriage
Date: 19 MAY 1617
Place: St. John's, Glastonbury, Somerset, England[2]
"Descendants of the 1600s immigrant Clement Weaver of Rhode Island have compared y-DNA results and have been able to determine Clement's y-DNA markers with some certainty. Further information can be found at wikipedia. [5]
Research Notes
Great Migration Directory: Weaver, Clement: Glastonbury, Somerset; 1639; Weymouth, Newport [MBCR 1:297; Joseph Neal Anc 128; Weymouth Hist 4:725; M&JCH 25:69-70; Lucius E. Weaver, History and Genealogy of a Branch of the Weaver Family (Rochester, New York, 1928)].
↑ 3.03.1 Weaver, Lucius E. History and Genealogy of a Branch of the Weaver Family. Rochester, N.Y. : DuBois Press, 1928. Pages 62-3. Archive.org
↑ "Ancestry of Jeremy Clarke of Rhode Island and Dungan genealogy", pp. 116-117, provides that Elizabeth was the daughter of Sergeant Clement Weaver and Mary Freeborn.
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"DNA Studies in Progress," in American Ancestors Magazine, 14.2:57
See also:
Savage, J., Dexter, O. P. (Orrando Perry)., Farmer, J. (186062). A genealogical dictionary of the first settlers of New England: showing three generations of those who came before May, 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register ... Boston: Little, Brown and company. Clement Weaver, p. 442
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/138912377/clement-weaver: accessed May 6, 2024), memorial page for Clement Weaver Sr. (1591–10 Oct 1683), Find A Grave: Memorial #138912377; Burial Details Unknown; Maintained by Richard Carle (contributor 47840413). burial unknown. Born: 1591 Somerset, England. Death 10 Oct 1683 Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
Chamberlain, George Walter. History of Weymouth, Massachusetts (Weymouth, Mass. : 1923) 4 vols. Vol. 4:725. HathiTrust.
Acknowledgements
Magna Carta Project
The Magna Carta Project looked into the possibility of Clement's descent from a surety baron. Following are the results.
Clement Weaver's prospective descent from Magna Carta baron Henry de Bohun depends on the following suppositions.
The supposition that Clement's father Thomas Weaver of Glastonbury was the same as Thomas, the second son of John and Alice (Anton) Weaver of Presteign, Radnorshire (Wale) and London. This supposition is supported by (1) the relative scarcity of the Weaver family; and (2) The ancestry of this Weaver family is Welsh, and Clement Weaver's American descendants preserved a family tradition of their Welsh origin.
The supposition that the pedigree given by John Weaver in the 1569 Herefordshire Visitation is basically correct, especially concerning the descent from the heiress of Gilbert Bohun, as evidenced by the Weaver coat of arms quartering Bohun. (John had a Weaver cousin, a Member of Parliament, with the same coat of arms, including the Bohun quartering.)
The supposition that Gilbert Bohun was the son of Gilbert, second son of Humphrey Bohun, who received land in Ireland from his father. In support of this supposition, the coats of arms of both Gilberts include scallop shells (including participation in a crusade; the elder Gilbert likely participated in the Ninth (and final) Crusade, led by Prince Edward of England (soon to become King Edward I). However, the Bohun arms as quartered by Weaver omits the six rampant lions that appear on the senior Gilbert's arms.
A bit too many suppositions to support further work at this time.
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Is the only documentation of the parentage here the 1632 will of a possible godfather Clement Gutch? This seems somewhat thin by the usual PGM standards.
I added the needs research category, and also the source notation from the Great Migration in Research Notes. There doesn't seem to be any support for the attached parents in the bio, but perhaps either Joseph Neal Ancestry or Mary & John Clearinghouse might have something.
The real thing that brought me here was someone asked about the children of Clement Sr. He is supposed to only have 3 (Clement, Elner, Elizabeth), who are the others?
Edit: It looks like most of them are suppose to be the children of Elner.
I guess I was not questioning that Clement's father was named Thomas. It is that there is no evidence or reason to suppose that his father Thomas is the same person that occurs in the Visitations. Do you know of any?
Joe, why are you being so dogmatic? Why not ask for clarification? You make the arbitrary categorical statement that the History and genealogy of a branch of the Weaver family is wrong." But you don't back that up at all. The relevant page of the Weaver genealogy, citing and quoting the 1632 will of Clement Weaver's possible godfather Clement Gutch, naming Clement Weaver as son of Thomas, is right here: https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy00weav#page/30/mode/2up
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Edit: It looks like most of them are suppose to be the children of Elner.
"History and genealogy of a branch of the Weaver family" is wrong.