Francis Clements of Isle of Wight

Francis Clements of Surry County was NOT a son of Jeremiah Clements. In book 7, page 703, Land Patents Records, Rich., there is granted to Francis Clements, year 1689, 450 acres of land, due for the transportation of nine persons into the colony, and the list is headed with his own name, showing him to be an emigrant.

Captain Francis Clements was elected to the House of Burgessess from Surry County, Virginia for the session assembled 2 March 1692-93.[2] He served as clerk of the General Assembly 1699. (Journal H. B.)

He was clerk of Surrey County from Oct. 1697 to July 1708 (Surrey Records) and his signature as Clerk to Court proceedings reads "Fra. Clements."

Francis Clements married 1st Elizabeth Meriweather, sister of Wm. and Major Nicholas Merweather. (Surrey Records, Deed Book 4, page 46.) and, Lydia , probably Blighton, for at Surrey Court held August 11, 1711, Francis Clements and wife Lydia administer the estate of George Blighton.

Prior to 1715, Francis Clements, Senior, moved over into Isle of Wight County, for in that year he deeds, "for love and affection, 516 acres to son Francis Clements, Junior," and states "I, Fra. Clements, of Isle of Wight, appoint loving friend Nicholas Mogget of Surrey to be my true and lawful attorney to acknowledge the deed," etc.

According to YDNA Test Results from FTDNA Francis Clements is Group #8 along with his cousin, Benjamin Clements of Gloucester Co., Virginia, (born abt. 1655- died abt. 1712), who was married to Grizzell Coleman Website: https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/clements-clemmons-dna/about/ba...

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Elizabeth Meriwether was the daughter and only known child of Nicholas Meriwether I and his first wife, Elizabeth (?). She married, first, Rev. John Clough and, second, Capt. Francis Clements (not John Francis Clements, just Francis Clements). For more details on the Meriwether, Clough and Clements families, see the book "The Meriwether Family in America, Vol. I: The Colonists" available of the Meriwether Society homepage: http://MeriwetherSociety.org.

Francis Clements was the son (and only known child) of Francis Clements and his first wife, Elizabeth Meriwether. He was not the son of the second wife, Lydia. For more details on the Meriwether and Clements families, see the book "The Meriwether Family in America, Vol. I: The Colonists" available at the Meriwether Society website: http://MeriwetherSociety.org.

Benjamin Clements was the son of Francis Clements, Sr. I Born c.1660 in England who came to America in 1682 as as an apprentice. He married Elizabeth Meriwether Clough, widow in 1685 only one child was born from this marriage, Francis Clements, Jr. After the death of Francis, Sr.'s 1st Wife Elizabeth he remarried a 2nd time before 1703 to Lydia Laker Bleighton, widow of George Bleighton and possibly the daughter of Benjamin Laker. It is through this union that Benjamin was born abt. 1703 in Surry County, Virginia.