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CLOUGH, John

CLOUGH, John

Male 1613 - 1691  (78 years)

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  • Name CLOUGH, John  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Birth 1613  England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4] 
    Gender Male 
    Arrival 1635  Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Departure 1635  [5] 
    Residence 1639  Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 5] 
    Death 26 Jul 1691  Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Burial Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Person ID I4452  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 4 Feb 2024 

    Father CLOUGH, John Prester,   b. 1587, Manchester, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 May 1642, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother COWPER, Alice Susanna,   b. 1589, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1640, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 12 May 1610  Manchester Cathedral, Manchester, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1214  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 UNKNOWN, Jane,   b. 1620   d. 16 Jan 1679, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years) 
    Marriage 1641  Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. CLOUGH, Benjamin,   b. 30 Sep 1662, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1739 (Age 76 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     2. CLOUGH, Mary,   b. 30 Jul 1644, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1646, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 1 year)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     3. CLOUGH, Samuel,   b. 20 Feb 1657, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Dec 1709, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 52 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     4. CLOUGH, Sarah,   b. 28 Jun 1646, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Mar 1706, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     5. CLOUGH, Joseph,   b. 5 Mar 1647, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Feb 1684, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 36 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     6. CLOUGH, Martha,   b. 22 Mar 1654, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 May 1683, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 29 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     7. CLOUGH, Benjamin,   b. 30 Sep 1662, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1739, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     8. CLOUGH, John,   b. 9 Mar 1649, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Apr 1718, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     9. CLOUGH, Thomas,   b. 29 May 1651, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Feb 1749, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 97 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +10. CLOUGH, Elizabeth,   b. 16 Dec 1642, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Sep 1707, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F1211  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Feb 2024 

    Family 2 Living 
    Family ID F1258  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Feb 2024 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1613 - England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsArrival - 1635 - Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1639 - Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 1641 - Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 26 Jul 1691 - Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
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    John Clough
    book title clough
    John and Jane Clough
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    john jane clough3

    Documents
    The Story of the Family of John Clough    		The Story of the Family of John Clough

    Histories
    JOHN AND JANE    		JOHN AND JANE

    Albums  Founding Families of Salisbury & Amesbury (0)

  • 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/

  • Sources 
    1. [S1357] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts Applications of Freemen, 1630-91, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2000;).

    2. [S1280] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), Source number: 1325.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: TDM.

    3. [S1289] Ancestry.com, U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Place: Massachusetts; Year: 1635; Page Number: 105.

    4. [S1259] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).

    5. [S2635] Ancestry.com, New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2013;).
      New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635      		 New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635



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