Jasper Clements (1660) / Eleanor (Watts) (Browne) Clements

Name: Jasper Clements

Birth: c. 1613, England (MAN)

Emigration: Unknown; to Middletown c. 1660. (HMC)

Death: October 16, 1677, Middletown, Conn. (BCVR)

Occupation & Public Service: Horse-trader (MLR); benefactor to schools (MAN).

Marriage: m. (1) unknown wife in England; m. (2) Eleanor (Watts) Browne, widow of Nathaniel Browne, abt. 1660, Middletown, Conn. (b. about 1625, England; d. September 28, 1703, Middletown, Conn. (MLR). She was the daughter of Richard Watts of Hartford, Conn.

Children: None known

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The First Meeting House, Middletown, Conn. The engraving below by W.C. Butler was a fanciful illustration for David Field's Centennial Address published in 1853. In 1939 the image was used on the title page of The Log Cabin Myth by Harold R. Shurtleff. Surrounding the engraving are signatures of some of the first settlers as found on wills and deeds by Charles C. Adams in preparation of Middletown Upper Houses (1908).