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- This is her entry by Otto:
Lydia Goodwill, d. Boston 21 Aug. 1752; m. there 9 May 1745 John Clough, b. Boston 7 Feb. 1719/20, d. there by 17 March 1798, “ae. 79” (obit., CC), son of Ebenezer and Ann (___) Clough (Boston Transcript, 16 March 1903, #370). John Clough was a brazier, not the mason of that name with est. admm. Boston in 1754 (Suffolk Probate #11321); he nt (2) Charlestown 16 March 1758 Abigail Edes. In John’s Prince Street household in 1789 were John Clough, brazier; another John Clough and “Elizabeth Paine, wife of John & dau. John Clough, of Boston, d. in Thomaston, Me., Aug. 6,1834 a[e]. 63,” prob. children of the later wife (A.S. Lainhart, First Boston City Directory [1789] Including Extensive Annotations by John Haven Dexter [1791-1876] [1989], p. 30).
This family does not appear in The Genealogy of the Descendants of John Clough, 2 vols. (1952-66).
Children, b. Boston (Goodwill, 8-12; J. A. Downs, William Downe of Boston, Mass. 11979-811, 7; Boston VRs):
*Lydia Clough, b. 15 Jan. 1745/6; Thomas Clough (b. d. 1747); Thomas Goodwill Clough, (1748 or 1749-by 20 Aug. 1793) (“a Minor aged about five Years” 29 March 1754, Suffolk Probate #10718; admm. 20 Aug. 1793, Suffolk Probate #20194; Goodwill, 12), a mariner, may have d. at sea; m. Second Baptist Church, Boston 30 July 1783 Mary Ann Downe (1760-1820), dau. of John & Ann (Holmes) Downe; Rebecca Clough, b. 9 Jan. 1751 (“a Minor ag’d about three Years” 29 March 1754, Suffolk Probate #10717), d. by 8 Sept. 1819 (CC), unm.; John Clough (b., d. 1752). [1]
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