The Delahorne/Curtis Family History

King · ◉ direct ancestor

♀Meribah King

Dates not yet known.

Meribah King (fl. 1759–1764) was the wife of Benjamin Clough of Poplin, in the Province of New HampshireW, and the mother of four children born there between 1759 and 1764. She was the fifth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her son John Clough, though no record yet names John’s parents.

Family

The New Hampshire state copies of Poplin’s births record the children of Benjamin Clough and Meribah King: a daughter Judith, born in November 1759; a son John, born on 23 November 1761; a daughter Dorithy, born in January 1763, who died that August; and a son Benjamin, born in October 1764. John’s card, a town clerk’s certified copy, gives his father as Benjamin Clough and his mother’s maiden name as “Meribah King”. No later record of the family has been found, and her own parents are not known.

Notes

The 1994 chart writes her name Meribah Ring and says that she and her husband both died at Poplin in 1772. Neither death has been found in a record.

The link to Maine

John Clough, a Revolutionary War pensioner living at Phillips, Maine, swore in 1818 that he was “born in Poplin New Hampshire”, and his wife was named Elizabeth, like the Elizabeth Savage with whom a John Clough of Hallowell filed an intention to marry on 5 April 1784. That joins the Phillips man to Poplin. That he was Meribah’s son rests on a family chart compiled in 1994, which names Benjamin and Meribah as his parents and gives his birth at Poplin on 23 November 1761, the date on the card. The other John Clough born at Poplin in those years, in February 1760, was the son of John and Mary Clough; his father’s will, made in 1782 and proved in 1787, left him “all my home place land & buildings laying in Poplin” and named him executor. The pensioner’s age, 58 in April 1818, fits that 1760 John better than the 1761 one, but the age he gave for his wife in 1820 is also two years too high for her recorded birth, so the question is open and the parentage stays probable.

Her son Benjamin, born on 7 October 1764, also went to the Kennebec. In his own pension declaration, sworn on 14 May 1818 before the same judge as his brother John a month earlier, he said he was fifty-three, born in Poplin, and living at Monmouth, in Kennebec County, Maine; he had served in the 3rd Massachusetts regiment and then Col. Henry Jackson’s regiment from 1782 until his discharge at West Point on 30 June 1784. An online grave memorial gives his death on 12 June 1840 and his burial at Monmouth, with the stone’s age of 75 years, and names his wife as Molly (Mary) Marston.

Family time line

◉ Meribah King
◉ Benjamin Clough 1740–
Married Jun 1759
○ Judith Clough 1759–1845
○ Dorithy Clough 1763–1763 ✧
○ Benjamin Clough 1764–1840 ⚔
○ Daniel Clough abt 1765–
◉ John Clough –1847 ⚔

Recorded events

No dated events are recorded yet.

Sources

  • New Hampshire, Birth Records, Early to 1900, Poplin - children of Benjamin Clough and Meribah King — about this person, family with Benjamin Clough
  • New Hampshire, Marriages, 1720-1920 - Benjamin Clough x Meribah King, June 1759 — about this person, Marriage (Benjamin Clough)

Line of descent

Descendants

  1. Judith Clough 1759–1845
  2. Dorithy Clough 1763–1763 ✧
  3. Benjamin Clough 1764–1840 ⚔
  4. Daniel Clough abt 1765–
    1. Samuel Clough 1795–1848
      1. Samuel Clough 1823–1905
        1. John Clough 1869–
  5. John Clough –1847 ⚔
    1. Relief Clough 1785–
    2. John Clough 1787–1855
      1. Harriet Clough 1809–1887
        1. Sybil A. Webster 1833–1890 ⚭
        2. Benjamin C. Webster 1836–1901 ⚔⚭
        3. John C. Webster 1839–1921 ⚭
        4. Conway H. Webster 1842–1923
        5. Eldora M. Webster 1846–1913
        6. Emma H. Webster 1850–1921
      2. John H. Clough abt 1811–1893
        1. Clarinda H. Clough abt 1833–1898
        2. Charles F. P. Clough abt 1834–
        3. Caroline A. Clough abt 1837–1907
        4. Darius Marshall Clough abt 1839–1899
        5. Albion Clough 1841–
        6. Loreda Clough abt 1842–
        7. Judson Clough abt 1846–
        8. Lyonel Clough abt 1848–
        9. John Holman Clough 1851–1906
      3. Benjamin Decater Clough abt 1814–1879
      4. Valina Hoyt Clough 1816–
      5. Matilda Clough 1819–
      6. Betsey P. Clough abt 1821–1905
      7. Lydia H. Clough abt 1823–1905
      8. Adline Clough abt 1828–1896
    3. Benjamin Clough 1792–1814
    4. Daniel Clough 1794–
      1. William Rand Clough 1818–
      2. Daniel Clough 1819–
        1. Daniel Adelbert Clough 1861–1916
        2. David Herbert Clough 1863–1939
        3. Sarah Ann Clough 1865–1942
        4. Beatrice Estel Clough 1870–1954
        5. Frederick Clough 1872–1872 ✧
        6. Emma Clough 1875–1883 ✧
      3. David Clough 1823–1895
        1. Lydia Rand Clough 1852–1890
    5. Moses Clough 1797–1870
      1. Sybil Clough 1821–1906
        1. George S. Sargent 1844–1870
      2. John A Clough 1823–1863
        1. Mary Ann Clough 1854–1931
        2. Margaret Evaline Clough 1857–1922
        3. Hannah Elizabeth Clough 1859–
        4. Moses William Clough 1860–1889
        5. John Edward Clough 1863–1911
      3. Elmira Smith Clough 1825–1899
        1. Mary Amanda Pickard 1842–1905
        2. Charles Sumner Pickard 1844–1864
        3. Increase Bleathen Pickard 1846–1882
        4. George Edwin Pickard 1848–
        5. Moses Thomas Pickard 1850–1911
        6. Willard Augustus Pickard 1853–1925
        7. James Franklin Pickard 1855–1926
        8. David Gustus Pickard 1859–1928
        9. Halbert Eugene Pickard 1864–1943
      4. Moses Davenport Clough 1827–1848
      5. Oren R Clough 1830–1842 ✧
      6. Hannah D. Clough 1832–1916 ⚭
        1. Lydia Rand Clough 1852–1890
      7. Stephen Sawyer Clough 1834–1920 ⚭
        1. Rosetta Clough 1857–1915
        2. Elizabeth Ann Clough 1861–1919
        3. Edward Sawyer Clough 1862–1948 ⚭
        4. Charles Sylvester Clough 1865–1910
        5. Minnie Bell Clough 1866–1869 ✧
        6. Oren W. Clough 1867–1892
        7. Alice Marion Clough 1870–1959
        8. Henrietta H. Clough 1872–1945 ⚭
        9. George Stephen Clough 1876–1926
        10. Fred Leslie Clough 1884–1965
        11. Benjamin Clough 1888–
        12. Grace Floy Clough 1889–1978
        13. Violet Gladys Clough 1892–1990
        14. Archie Glenn Clough 1895–1984
        15. Nina Doris Clough 1898–1993
      8. Daniel Warren Clough 1837–1918
        1. Alfred T Clough 1858–
        2. William Marion Clough 1859–1942
        3. Benjamin Blakley Clough 1861–1926
        4. Charles J. Clough 1863–1865 ✧
        5. John Chesley Clough 1866–1932
        6. Warren Webster Clough 1872–1959
        7. Theron Nelson Clough 1874–1925 ⚭
        8. Fred Elmer Clough 1875–1955
        9. Walter Seton Clough 1876–1973
        10. Myrtle Myra Clough 1882–1896 ✧
        11. Peter Roy Clough 1885–1928
      9. Benjamin Clough 1840–1923
        1. Ina Clough 1863–1866 ✧
        2. Grace I. Clough 1865–1946
        3. Infant Clough 1866–1866 ✧
        4. Martha Clough 1869–
        5. Arthur Leon Clough 1870–1946
        6. Ernest Clough 1873–1897
      10. Oren Clough 1843–1865
    6. Elizabeth Clough 1800–
    7. Zacheus Clough 1802–
    8. David Clough 1804–