He is married to Abigail SOUTHWICK.
They got married on October 27, 1757 at Danvers, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA, he was 20 years old.
Child(ren):
JOHN CLEMONS 2 (Isaac l) was born at Danvers, Massachusetts, prior to 1743. Dr. William Teg, Hiram historian, wrote in 1964:' "About John Clemons, Senior's youth, we know very little. The year and date of his birth have escaped us so far, but must have been recorded somewhere ... He was a colonial soldier in 1755." He came to the Saco Valley in 1779 with his wife and six children. Llewellyn A. Wadsworth wrote in his Journal in l870: "The date of their coming (to Maine) in 1779 is proved by the fact that Eli P. Clemons (son of John), who was born in Danvers, Mass., 8 Sept 1775, remembers that they passed the night at Capt. John Lane's, Eli being then four years old ... also that they had some bean porridge poured into the hollow or sag of a leather bottomed chair and the children ate it with spoons." Abigail Southwick, wife of John Clemons, is believed to be the daughter of Jonathan Southwick (b. 1697: d. 28 Aug 1786) and Hannah Osborn (m. 1735): or the daughter of John Southwick 3d (b. May 1709; d. 1 Oct 1784) and Mary Buffum, widow (b. June 1703: d. May 1790), who were married 12 Dec 1730: and a great-great granddaughter of Cassandra and Lawrence Southwick, Quakers. Dr. William Teg wrote in his History of Hiram, "Concerning John Clemons' wife Abigail, we have been better informed, thanks goes to Miss Ruth Clemons (1849-1934), the daughter of Col. Aldrick L. Clemons (1815-1892), and the last occupant of the Clemons Homestead to bear the family name. Abigail was the granddaughter of the famous Cassandra Southwick who was persecuted by John Endecott and his underlings according to Danvers, Mass., Vital Records, Abigail Southwick and John Clemons were married on 27 Oct 1757. Mrs. Cora Tebbs Marlack of Dayton, Ohio, wrote in a letter dated 7 Apr 1929 to Miss Ruth Clemons of Hiram: "This Daniel Southwick (son of Lawrence and Cassandra) had two sons, John and Jonathan. The descendants of these two sons owned the potteries and tannery at Danvers for several generations. I think Abigail was a descendant of one of these brothers. There is a 'Southwick Genealogy,' but all lines are not complete in it, and this Abigail... is not mentioned." John Clemons and his family lived first in Fryeburg, Maine, after his arrival from Danvers. In 1780 he was living in Brownfield and in October of that year while hunting he discovered the two ponds on the Notch Road in Hiram that bear his name and soon purchased land near them and moved his family there. They built a log cabin and cleared the land between the two ponds. Their only neighbors for seven years were Torn Heagon, the Indian hunter and trapper, and his squaw, who lived in their wigwam on a ridge near Big Clemons Pond. These two families were always friendly and the Heagons and Clemons are said to share the same resting place near the "Indian Mound." John Clemons died circa 1790 and was buried on his land. Shortly after his death, Tamar and Delilah, two younger daughters, died suddenly; and Mrs. Clemons traveled by trail four miles to the nearest neighbor, Mr. Daniel Boston, to get him to help bury her children. Abigail Clemons was still alive in 1826, as she conveyed property to her sons in July and August of that year. Mrs. Mary Newton Clarke, her great granddaughter from Ohio, wrote in 1903 that Abigail lived to be 104 years old and left 164 descendants when she died.
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