Winthrop Clough¹ (M)
b. 30 January 1748/49
3 Generation Pedigree

Notes and Citations:

1. [S227] Sheila Anderson, genealogist for the John Clough Genealogical Society, "Winthrop Clough Ancestry," e-mail message from e-mail address to Thomas L. Clough, 19 October 2002.
2. [S257] New England Historic Genealogical Society, Massachusetts Vital Records (transcripts) to 1850 (online), http://www.newenglandancestors.org/, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Farmington, MA, Salisbury entries.
3. [S536] Births, marriages, and deaths of Amesbury and Salisbury, Massachusetts, collected from various sources, including town records of Amesbury and Salisbury, abt. 1598-1900, John French Johnson, compiler; Microfilm number 893105, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Hereinafter cited as Amesbury and Salisbury Records.
4. [S587] Unknown author, Jr., Vital Records of Salisbury Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: The Topsfield Historical Society, 1915), page 52.
5. [S272] Rev. Henry O. Thayer, "Marriages by Rev. Samuel Perley, While Minister at Hampton, N.H. and Other Places, 1767-1782", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register vol. 51 (October, 1897), online version used, http://www.newenglandancestors.org, page 462.
6. [S90] Eva Clough Speare, editor, The Genealogy of the Descendants of John Clough of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 2 vols. (Marblehead, Massachusetts: John Clough Genealogical Society, Inc, 1952; reprint Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com), page 112, "WINTHROP (Joseph, Joseph, John, John) Born Jan. 30, 1749 at Salisbury, Mass. His father was killed at Crown Point in the French and Indian War. On Dec. 2, 1770 he married Elizabeth Mace.
   
   Among the court records that are preserved in the files at the Historical Library at Concord, N. H., is a marriage license that Winthrop was convicted of forging. He was brought before the Supreme Court at Portsmouth, N. H., on the first Tuesday in February, 1771. In a trial by jury, Samuel Brooks, foreman, he pleaded guilty and "put himself on the mercy of the Court." Winthrop was fined 8œ. 7S. 9d.
   
   He presented the forged license to Samuel Perley, minister, and was married to Elizabeth Mace. No further information is definitely known about this family, although they may have had a son, Nathan, who lived in Vershire, Vermont. Winthrop may have participated in the Revolution, for a Winthrop Clough of Haverhill, Mass., was at Ticonderoga in 1776 and this man is the only Winthrop whos dates correspond correctly."