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Jacobus
Clement
Jacobus Clement was born in Schenectady in 1718. He was the eldest son of the five children born to Joseph and Anna Peek Clement. His father was a Mohawk Valley farmer and frontier trader.
In
1743, Jacobus married Jannetje Van Woert in the Albany
Dutch church. Their marriage produced at least three
children between 1747 and 1750. However, only one
son lived past childhood.
During
the 1750s, he was an interpreter of some note - serving
at a number of conferences with the Iroquois and
informing Sir William Johnson of the proceedings
and other matters. A British army census of Albany
householders in 1756 identified him as an "Indian Trader." He also may have served as a ranger during the Seven Years War.
Jacobus
Clement died between 1759 and 1766. His widow lived
in their Southside home until her death in 1796.
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Notes: The
life of Jacobus Clement is CAP biography number
7648. This profile is derived chiefly from family
and community-based resources. See Mary Ellen Van
Camp's Clement Family Ancestral History. We still
have not seen: William M. Clement, "Clement History," copy
at the Montgomery County History Center, Fonda; or
Merton L. Dillon, "The Clement Family," (1949?).
His
activities as interpreter are chonicled in volume
9 of the Johnson Papers.
The
last recorded reference to his life comes from a
baptism he witnnessed with his wife on November 15,
1759. He probably did not die in Albany. His wife
was called a widow in 1766.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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