Clement Weaver Sr. (abt. 1592 - 1683)

Born about 1592 in Glastonbury, Somerset, England

Ancestors

Husband of Rebecca (Holbrook) Weaver — married 19 May 1617 in St. John's, Glastonbury, Somerset, England

Descendants

Died 10 Oct 1683 at about age 91 in Newport, Rhode Island

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Clement Weaver Sr. migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Directory, by R. C. Anderson, p. 362) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography Clement Weaver Sr.

Clement Weaver Sr. has English ancestors.

This profile is part of the Weaver Name Study.

"Clement Weaver who was born circa 1592... was one of the overseers of William Holbrook's will. Clement and Rebecca (Holbrook) Weaver immigrated to New England and settled in Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony. They were next door neighbors of Thomas Holbrook, with whom Clement Weaver was in partnership in many land and othmaer business dealings."^[1]

He was first in Boston and then settled in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Clement was fined for drunkenness by the General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony in early 1640. He was shown as a property holder in Weymouth in 1643, and was next door to his brother-in-law, Thomas Holbrook. Sometime between 1643 and 1651, he left Weymouth and went to Rhode Island. It is said that he went to Rhode Island in 1650 and that he was a wall builder. He and his son, Clement, were freemen in Newport in 1655.

He owned land in Newport in that part now set off as Middletown. This land lies on the west side of the west main road at the head of Forest Avenue, about one mile from Narragansett Bay and about two and one-half miles from the Newport line. Tradition has it that Clement Weaver lived on this farm and built himself a stone house which stood until the late 1800s or early 1900s, but has ere now been pulled down. This tract was owned, at the time when the town of Middletown was set off from Newport, by Thomas Weaver, a grandson of Clement, Sr., and his sons, and at least part of it remained in the Weaver family over two hundred years thereafter.

Marriage

Date: 19 MAY 1617

Place: St. John's, Glastonbury, Somerset, England^[2]

DNA

"Descendants of the 1600s immigrant Clement Weaver of Rhode Island have compared y-DNA results and have been able to determine Clement's y-DNA markers with some certainty. Further information can be found at wikipedia. ^[3]

Research Notes

Great Migration Directory: Weaver, Clement: Glastonbury, Somerset; 1639; Weymouth, Newport [MBCR 1:297; Joseph Neal Anc 128; Weymouth Hist 4:725; M&JCH 25:69-70; Lucius E. Weaver, History and Genealogy of a Branch of the Weaver Family (Rochester, New York, 1928)].

Sources

1. ↑ A. Roberts Lord, Holbrook and Allied Families (1942), p. 7.
2. ↑ Sprague, Waldo Chamberlain. Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, MA. 1640-1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001. p. 2531
3. ↑ "DNA Studies in Progress," in American Ancestors Magazine, 14.2:57

See also:

• Savage, J., Dexter, O. P. (Orrando Perry)., Farmer, J. (186062). 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 company. Clement Weaver, p. 442
• East Greenwich Historic Preservation Society The Weaver Family & Clement Weaver House, circa 1679, on Howland Road in East Greenwich, RI : accessed 24 May 2022
• History and Genealogy of a Branch of the Weaver Family, by Lucius E. Weaver, publ. 1928 by The Du Bois Press, Rochester, NY https://archive.org/details/historygenealogy00weav/page/60/mode/2up
• Sprague, Waldo Chamberlain. Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, MA. 1640-1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001.
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/138912377/clement-weaver Please note burial unknown. Born: 1591 Somerset, England. Death 10 Oct 1683 Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

The Magna Carta Project looked into the possibility of Clement's descent from a surety baron. Following are the results.

Clement Weaver's prospective descent from Magna Carta baron Henry de Bohun depends on the following suppositions.

1. The supposition that Clement's father Thomas Weaver of Glastonbury was the same as Thomas, the second son of John and Alice (Anton) Weaver of Presteign, Radnorshire (Wale) and London. This supposition is supported by (1) the relative scarcity of the Weaver family; and (2) The ancestry of this Weaver family is Welsh, and Clement Weaver's American descendants preserved a family tradition of their Welsh origin.
2. The supposition that the pedigree given by John Weaver in the 1569 Herefordshire Visitation is basically correct, especially concerning the descent from the heiress of Gilbert Bohun, as evidenced by the Weaver coat of arms quartering Bohun. (John had a Weaver cousin, a Member of Parliament, with the same coat of arms, including the Bohun quartering.)
3. The supposition that Gilbert Bohun was the son of Gilbert, second son of Humphrey Bohun, who received land in Ireland from his father. In support of this supposition, the coats of arms of both Gilberts include scallop shells (including participation in a crusade; the elder Gilbert likely participated in the Ninth (and final) Crusade, led by Prince Edward of England (soon to become King Edward I). However, the Bohun arms as quartered by Weaver omits the six rampant lions that appear on the senior Gilbert's arms.

A bit too many suppositions to support further work at this time.