This book covers all that can be learned of the immigrant Thomas Clemence who arrived in Providence ca. 1644, roughly the same time as Pardon Tillinghast. Readers who enjoyed Tillinghasts in America, The First Four Generations by Wayne G. Tillinghast will welcome the patient exploration of the Clemence family at that time in Rhode Island history. The discussion of Thomas Clemence’s English background and possible connections with other settlers is particularly fascinating. The book does not stop with the very early generations but includes accounts of Thomas Clemence’s descendants in the male line to the twelfth generation, right down to the present day. Marriages for Clemence daughters are given, with information about children, but the married names are not carried forward. Descendants include many families still in the Providence area, as well as concentrations in Kansas, Maryland, and elsewhere in the United States.
Thomas Clemence of Providence, Rhode Island and his descendants to the year 2007
$27.00
Jane Fletcher Fiske for Roberta Stokes Smith (Greenville, R.I.: Rhode Island Genealogical Society, 2007). Hardcover, 433+xxx pages, indexed, black-and-white illustrations. ISBN 0-9604144-6-5.
