Clement Short (abt. 1640 - 1690)

Husband of Faith (Munt) Short — married 21 Nov 1660 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 18 Mar 1690 at about age 50 in Massachusetts

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Biography

Clement SHORT was born calculated 1640 married Faith MUNT on 21 Nov 1660. Of Boston in 1660. Married to Faith Munt November 21, 1660 by Gov John Endecott.

Clement and Faith had 10 children. Moved near Kittery, Maine then part of Massachusetts.

Clement and his wife and three of their children were killed in the Salmon Falls Massacre on March 18, 1689/90 during the French Indian War.

His son Thomas Short, of Boston, was granted administration of the estate on 2 November 1705. His inventory was recorded also on 2 November 1705.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ York County, Maine Probate Records, No. 1, 1687-1707, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89JS-L9ZH-F  : 7 April 2021), FHL microfilm 007600380, image 125.

• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/168780830#source : accessed 29 November 2018), memorial page for Clement Short (unknown–18 Mar 1690), Find A Grave Memorial no. 168780830, ; Maintained by Jim Stevens (contributor 47249634) Unknown.
• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHQ7-4JK : 4 November 2017), Clement Short and Faith Munt, 21 Nov 1660; citing Marriage, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 818,093.
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/168780830
• 1Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 548. " ... was in Boston before 1660 ..."
• Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 548.