Clement MINER

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 10 May 1640, Hingham, Massachusetts

Clement married Frances BURCHAM on 26 Nov 1662 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA. Frances died on 06 Jan 1672/3 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Joseph MINER was born on 6 Aug 1666 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; died on 6 Apr 1752 in New London, Connecticut.
2. William MINER was born on 06 Nov 1670 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut; died on 18 Feb 1725 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut.

Clement married Martha WELLMAN on 20 Feb 1676/7 in New London, Connecticut. Martha was born in 1652; died on 05 Jul 1681 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Joanna ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1630, Sailed from England in the Ship "Arabella" and landed at Salem, June 14.
• Residence: 1634, Removed to Saybrook, in the colony of Connecticut, with the younger John Winthrop and company.
• Fact: 1646, Elected a townsman and admitted to the rights accorded freemen
• Death: 03 Oct 1690

Notes:

A long stone of rough granite lies in the ancient burial ground at Wickulequack, almost buried in the turf beneath, and bears the following inscription:

Here lyeth the body of Lieutenant Thomas Minor
Aged Eighty three years, departed 1690

Thomas married Grace PALMER on 29 Apr 1633/4. Grace (daughter of Walter PALMER and Ann/Elizabeth ?) was born in England; died on 31 Dec 1690 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Groups of Palmer Families from Walter Palmer of Charlestown and Rehoboth, Mass., Stonington, Conn. (1901) (NewEnglandAncestors.org)

Grace Palmer, daughter of Walter and Elizabeth Palmer, was born in England between the years 1608-10. She became a member of the First Church in Charlestown, Middlesex County, Mass., June 1, 1632, at the same time her father and step-mother united with it. She married, in Charlestown, Thomas Minor, who was born in Chew Magne, county Somerset, England, April 23, 1608, and was of the tenth generation in the Minor family. He came in the fleet which bore John Winthrop, future governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which put into port at Cape Ann, now Salem, Essex Co., Mass., Saturday, June 12, 1630.
Thomas Minor received Lot 18 in the first division of land at Mystic Side, now Charlestown, on the sixth of the first month, 1637. His future father-in-law, Walter Palmer, receiving Lot 15.
From Charlestown, Thomas Minor migrated, first to Hingham, Plymouth County, where four children were born, thence to Stonington, New London County, Conn., where he bouth a large tract of land lying on the borders of Wequetequack Cove, in 1652, whereon he built his house, having made a brief previous residence in Hingham, Plymouth Co. Mass. going thence to New London in 1645, where he had a grant of one home lot and built a house, but sold the whole to settle at his final abode in Stonington, where he met with some difficulty, by the fact that a grant of three hundred acres of land from the town of New London to Governor Haynes, and sold by the latter to Walter Palmer, being found to cover Minor's lot. He, however, signed the conveyance, qualifying it by the reservation that he should inhabit the place until he should have time to erect another dwelling at Mistupet. He held a very prominent place in all the stirring events which ensued in the settlement of this plantation where he died October 23, 1690. She died October, 1690, and is said to have been born the same year as her husband.