This heavily watermarked package includes Peter Craig’s annotated family group sheets for the ancestors of Gabriel Clements.  It is 13 pages long and contains materials relating the Gabriel Clements branch of the Anders Clementson family.

You may view this set of group sheets and download them for free. To view, download, or save this free PDF sample, please click here.

A complete version is available for $99. It is 317 pages long and contains materials relating to Gabriel Clements (-1733) m. Sarah; his parents Clement Clements m. Margaret; grandparents Anders Clementson (-1687) m. Ingebor.  Also included is all relevant correspondence about Clements in the South.

It also contains a Dictionary (MS Word doc) of the abbreviations used by Peter Craig for many of the references in his family group sheets.

The complete package documents the line of Gabriel Clements who died early after siring 5 children baptized at St. Stephens Church in Cecil County, MD, 1722 to 1732. Andrew, Joseph and Cornelius Clements appear as settlers involved in an Indian incident in Georgia in 1756. These are likely three sons of Gabriel from Cecil County. Baptismal records and Revolutionary War pension applications document the movements of a few members of the family in the next generation to Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. A very dedicated group of Clements descendants has pursued documentation, and their Y-DNA proves them to be of Swedish ancestry. Peter Craig was of the opinion that their documentation was good enough to approve a Forefather application for one such descendant.

The complete package presents ALL of the materials in Peter Craig’s correspondence relating to these Southern Clements. It includes Peter’s statement that he was 90% certain that the three Clements involved in the Indian affair in Georgia were the sons of Gabriel. Their Y-DNA proves that these particular Southern Clements are of Swedish descent, but it fails to determine the lineage of Preston Clements, the patron’s earliest proven ancestor. Buried in this huge pile of documentation is the clue that Preston is a Goforth family name. The best route forward is through autosomal DNA, the Family Finder test, but that analysis is time consuming and technical.

To purchase the complete package, please navigate to: http://craigcollection.colonialswedes.net/docs/gabriel-clements-family-sheets/

Using Adobe’s free Reader software or Adobe Acrobat (which you have downloaded from adobe.com, opened and on cue designated as the default for opening PDFs), you will be able to key word search and print this indelibly watermarked read-only PDF once it is downloaded.  The search will highlight the approximate location(s) on the page(s) where the key word appears.  Some “hits” may be missed due to OCR errors.

These packages were prepared by SCS Genealogist Ron Beatty for those who want to see all Peter Craig’s detail around their earliest Swedish colonial ancestors.

We thank our member Sandra Bourassa of Murrieta, CA for sponsoring this package.