CLOUGH, John

Other Events and Attributes:

• Arrival: 1635, Massachusetts, USA
• Departure: 1635
• Residence: 1639, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

Notes:

Salem Witch Trials connection:

John Clough and his wife signed the petition in favor of Mary Bradbury. Mary was tried, convicted, and sentenced to hang, but managed to evade the sentence being carried out until after the trials had ended. She lived until 1700.

Interestingly, my direct ancestors John Allen and Robert Pike supported Mary Bradbury as well.

Our ancestor John Clough, sometimes spelled Cluff and Cluffe,
was born about 1613.

John Clough’s descendants have wondered if they were related to the Welsh Clough family, but despite much effort, could trace no connection.
Richard Clough Yr Hen (meaning “Senior”) from Denbigh, Wales, was the father of three daughters and seven sons. One son, Richard (Jr.) made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land on crusade. He returned to Great Britain, where he accumulated a considerable fortune, and was knighted…becoming Sir Richard Clough.
Members of the John Clough Genealogical Society (descendants of John Clough of Salisbury, Massachusetts) contacted Oxford ancestors to start a Clough Y-line DNA study. The Y chromosome of a male member of the Society (surnamed “Clough”) was analyzed, as was the Y chromosome of a direct male descendant of Sir Richard’s son by a Dutch mistress. The results were exactly the same.

Meanwhile, our John Clough sailed from London, England, to America on the ship Elizabeth in 1635.

Unlike many of the other settlers in New England, the passengers on the Elizabeth were not an organized company, but rather a group of individuals seeking land and a new home.

“John Clough evidently came from a prosperous family as he paid at least 25 pounds for his passage on the Elizabeth and 50 pounds to become a proprietor of Salisbury.”

He arrived at the age of 22.

His name is first found on the records of Charlestown, Massachusetts, from there he went to Watertown, Massachusetts, and became a proprietor.
Later, Clough removed to Salisbury.

In 1639, John Clough was among original settlers of a new township named Colchester near the mouth of the Merrimack River. The name of this new town was changed to Salisbury the following year.

There is a record of the general court granting to John Clough, land at Salisbury in 1639.

Like most of the 20,000 Englishmen who migrated to New England between the years 1620 and 1640, John Clough was a Puritan, yet he was even more of a dissenter than the Pilgrims or the Puritans of the Bay Colony.

John Clough was a Presbyterian, a member of a religious sect that was forbidden to assemble in England by order of the King in 1610.
Nevertheless, he was quickly admitted to the church of Salisbury and was made a freeman in 1640.

John received his land in the “first division” and acquired additional land in 1640. He paid 50 pounds to become a proprietor in Salisbury. To receive his share of the second division of upland land, he had to possess at least another 150 pounds.

John married Jane Sanders in 1642.

John received land in the first division at Salisbury and again in 1640; he was a taxpayer in 1650 and he subscribed to the oath of fidelity in that year; he was admitted freeman in 1642.

By 1650, then 37 years old, John Clough was firmly established in Salisbury, where he became prominent in public affairs.

He was appointed as the “Jury of Tryals,” an office he filled many times before 1677.

That he was involved in other activities is indicated by this note in a town meeting: “Liberty be granted to John Clough, Robert Pike and Henry True to transport so many plank as will serve for the deck of a vessel building in Boston.”

Pike, a wealthy business man, True and Clough were in an enterprise of building a “vessel in Boston,” probably for the coastal trade, which was a means of rapidly accumulating one’s income.

All these outlays suggest that John Clough received considerable money from an inheritance in England, yet he left no record of his lineage or birthplace.
About 1656, he became a pioneer on Salisbury Plains where he bought a farm of several hundred acres. This is where he erected his homestead.
Salisbury Plains was a distance about two miles northwest into the wilderness.

His rights as a commoner in the divisions of “upland” probably permitted him to purchase shares of land that is now part of Kingston, New Hampshire, where his grandchildren lived in the early 1700s.

Before his death, John Clough acquired hundreds of acres of land in Salisbury, Amesbury, and Haverhill, which he distributed either by gift during his lifetime or by will to his children and grandchildren.

John and Jane Clough were the parents of seven children. All were born in Salisbury.

Both boys and girls attended the school that was taught first by the minister and then by Thomas Bradbury.

Bradbury is highlighted in a chapter of the book titled Mary Bradbury.

Jane died in 1679. John then married Martha Blaisdell, the widow of Thomas Cilley, in 1686.

Martha is part of the Shipwreck Survivors chapter of this book, while Thomas is featured in the Cilley Family chapter.

John Clough died in 1691 in Salisbury.

His will was witnessed by Henry Blaisdell, the brother of Martha.

Thomas Clough, the second son and fifth child of John and Jane, is our next direct ancestor. He was born in 1651.

Their oldest child, Elizabeth, was born in 1642. She married William Horne.

Elizabeth had the distinction of being the only woman to sign her own name, among many signers of a petition to Massachusetts to set up a temporary government. All other women made their mark.

Horne was killed in the Indian massacre at Oyster River, New Hampshire, in 1689 when the Waldron Garrison House and several other garrisons were burned.
Elizabeth was taken by Indians in Dover in 1707 and killed.

from https://vandenheedemarkfamily.wordpress.com/gilman-family/clough-family/

John married UNKNOWN, Jane in 1641 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. Jane was born in 1620; died on 16 Jan 1679 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: Elizabeth had the distinction of being the only woman to sign her own name, among many signers of a petition to Massachusetts to set up a temporary government. All other women made their mark.

Notes:

Elizabeth's husband was killed in the Cocheco Massacre in New Hampshire, in 1689 when the Waldron Garrison House and several other garrisons were burned.
Elizabeth was taken by Indians in Dover in 1707 and killed.

Died:
Elizabeth was taken by Indians in Dover in 1707 and killed.

Elizabeth married HORNE, William in 1659 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. William (son of HORNE, Johannes and TROWLECH, Martina) was born on 9 Jun 1609 in Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England; died on 28 Jun 1689 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1667, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA

Mary married HAYES, John on 28 Jun 1686 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. John was born on 15 Jul 1660 in Inveresk, Midlothian, Scotland; died on 25 Oct 1708 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; was buried in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married HAM, Mary on 30 Jun 1686 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. Mary (daughter of HAM, John Lt. and HEARD, Mary) was born on 2 Oct 1668 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died on 1 Aug 1742 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Relation to Me: 8 GGF
• Name: John Hayes Deacon
• Occupation: Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; Deacon at the First Church in Dover
• Residence: Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; Lived at Tole-end in Dover
• _DNA: Match (Michelle - M)
• Birth: Between 1686 and 1687, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA
• Death: 3 Jul 1759, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA

John married WENTWORTH, Tamsen in 1711 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. Tamsen (daughter of WENTWORTH, Ezekiel and KNIGHT, Elizabeth) was born in 1687 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died on 30 Dec 1753 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; was buried in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]