Augustine Clement

Augustine Clement was a painter apprenticed to Jonathan Miller about 1613 or 1614 and then to Edward Newman of Eton from 1621-1625. [3] "Astinge Clement" was paid for painting the windwo of St Lawrence, Reading church in 1629 [4]

Augustine settled first at Dorchester, where he was was granted two acres on 18 Feb 1635/6 and admitted to the Church prior to his freemanship on 25 May 1636.[5] They moved to Boston about 1652, and later returned to Dorchester in 1668, when Augustine resumed Dorchester local offices.

His will, dated 31 Jan 1671 and proved 31 Oct 1674, names:

1. his son Samuel,
2. wife Elizabeth,
3. daughter Elizabeth Sumner,
4. her children Hannah, William, Sarah, Experience, Elinor, Deliverance & Clement. [6]

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Thomas Whealer, indentured servant accompanied Augustine and family to Boston, Mass from England.

References

1. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L8RL-9T3
2. http://theclemonsfamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Publish-The-...
3. https://www.historicnewengland.org/explore/collections-access/capob...
4. https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Augustine_Clement_%281%29
   1. Augustine Clement sketch, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011) II:101-104.
      1. ORIGIN: Reading, Berkshire
      2. MIGRATION: 1635 on the James of Southampton
      3. FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester
      4. REMOVES: Boston, Dorchester by 1668
      5. OCCUPATION: Painter
      6. BIRTH: By about 1603 based on date of marriage.
      7. DEATH: Dorchester 1 Oct 1674 (from inventory)
   2. Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862) 1:407. AUSTIN or AUGUSTINE, Dorchester, a painter, came from Southampton in the James of London, Apr. 1635, but may have been on this side of the water in 1632; yet greater is the prob. that he went home in 1636, and came again in May 1637, by the Mary Ann of Yarmouth, tho. against either conject. strong suggest. arise. by w. Elizabeth he had Elizabeth prob. b. in Eng. certain. the eldest ch.; Samuel, b. 29 Sept. 1635; Joanna, 19 Nov.1638, d. soon; John, 21 Oct. 1639, wh. prob. d. young; and was freem. 25 May 1636, rem. to Boston 1652, but after some yrs. went back to D. there d. 1 Oct. 1674. He had good est. and in his will of 30 Jan. 1672 ment. w. Elizabeth s. Samuel, and d. Elizabeth w. of the sec. William Sumner, with her seven ch.
5. ↑ Great Migration, supra, citing Old-Time New England 58:62, 64.
6. ↑ Great Migration, supra, citing Old-Time New England 58:64]]
7. ↑ Great Migration, supra, citing DTR 15, MBCR 1:372
8. ↑ Great Migration, supra, citing SPR 6:62-63