May 27th 1741, his father conveyed 260 acres with buildings and improvements to him for £ 270, being part of his father's extensive real estate. He and his wife resided here for many years.
1768: Abraham is listed as executor of his friend Mary Swartz's (Widow of Charles) will and he and wife Catherina are also heirs to her estate along with her sister, Magdalina Landis and her children.
Died between 9 March and 31 May. Died just before the Declaration of Independence was signed, May 1776.
Drew his will up March 9 1776, was probated May 31 1776
Wills: Abstracts, Book Q: 1774 - 1784: Philadelphia Co, PA
CLEMENS, ABRAHAM. of Lower Salford. Phila. Co. Yeoman. March 9, 1776. May 31, 1776. Wife: Catherina. Children: Abraham and George (Exec.), Jacob, Gerhart, Anna, Mary, Catherina, Elizabeth, Susanna and Hester. The Meeting of Lower Salford for the use of the poor. Wit: Jacob Heffelfinger, Christian and John Barky. Q.295.
Listed as beneficiaries in the will : '" Wife Catherina. Children: Abraham and George, Exec. ; Jacob, Gerhart, Anna, Mary, Catherina, Elizabeth, Susannah, and Hester; the Meeting House of Lower Salford for the use of the poor."Abraham's Will:
ITEM: I give and devise unto my well beloved Wife, Catharine, our Bed and the Bedstead and Duppel Casses and Cuttans, all her Cloths with a Walnut Cheast, her saddle and Bridle, our small Copper Kittle and so much Household Goods as she shall want, one of the Beast Cows, which she will , and my large Biblia and Corse singing Boock and gulden Aple, all this I give her on Use and disposal and further the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds lawful money of Pennsylvania, where she is to receive interset Yearly as long as she remains my Widow. And my wife shall live withmy hereafter named son Abraham on my please which I now dwell in the Little Stone house which she is to have for her free living, so longas she remains my Widow; and my said son shall Ceep her Cow in foder and pasthur as good as he shall ceep his on and give her yearly so long as she remains my Widow Twelve bushels of Rey and Ten Bushels of Wheat and Fifty Pounds of good Beef and Fifty of good Borke and Ten Pounds of good Hackeld flax or Hamp and Ten Pounds Tow and fier Wood so much as she shall want ready cut for her Use Delivered to the house and the fourth part of the Garden and Dung Brought on the same by my said son, so much as she shall tincke fit and she is to have the Liberty of Aples in the Orchard so much as she shall want for her Use. All this shall be Ceept and paid to my Wife by my said son, Abraham his Heirs and Assigns during the Time she shall remain my Widow.ITEM: it is my Will that my Wife and Children shall sow Winter Grain on both Pleases the Least Year the Ceep House and that shall be fore the Use of my two Sons, Abraham and Jacob. Likewise shall the halfe of al the Hay and Somer Crop and my Sons, Abraham and Jacob. Rader more than half the Hay Cause he is to Ceep my Wife's Cow, and the other halfe part with all my Moveable Estate and Household goods shall be sold on Publick Vendue when the Eighteen months Expired after my Decease.
And whereas, I dit give to my son, George, at the Time when he was married to the Value of Thirty Pounds and the further sum of Two Hundred Pounds, which I dit allow to him in the Please he bought of me which sum is to be charges to his shear,
I give and Devise the further Sum of Five Hundred Pounds Lawful Money of Pennsylvania to be paid to the Elders of our Meeting in Lower Salford Township for the use of the poor in the said meeting to be paid by my Executors after my Decease
ITEM: It is Leastly my Will and I do hereby Nomnet and apoint my Two Sons, George and Abraham, Sole Executor of this my Least Will and Testament......"
Eby source has burial as: 1776 Mellinger's Mennonite Cemetery, Lower Salford Twp., Montgomery Co., PA
CATARINA 'CATHERINE' (SCHNEBELLI) BACHMAN
Some records indicate that Catarina/ Catherine was born in Ibersheimerhof (Worm) Palatine Europe.
" as a young man his father paid him his portion of his legacy and he moved from Montgomery County to Chester County, PA. He invested in real estate in both Pikeland and Charlestown Townships. In 1760 -1761 he erected a grist mill where he made a fortune." By 1780, his real and personal estate was valued for taxes at £5950."
1776: Listed as executor of his father's estate,in fathers will.
Note: A Genealogical History of the Kolb, Kulp or Culp Family and Its Branches in America with Biographical Sketches Of Their Descendants From the Earliest Available Records From 1707 To The Present Time Including Dielman Kolb in Germany, by Daniel Kolb Cassel, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Norristown, PA Morgan R. Wills, Publisher, 1895 reprint 1990:
It lists several children in the family of George and Elizabeth Carlisle Clemens viz: George, Jacob, Christian, Abraham, Catherine, Mrs Stauffer, Mrs Llyod, and Mrs Himes.
Was the daughter and heiress of Edward Carlisle. She was a cultured lady and skilled in medicine and was regarded as the doctor for miles around their home.
Was probably of English descent. There are no mention of the name in the Mennonite records of either Pennsylvania or Europe. There was in England, close to the Scottish border, a Carlisle city, borough, and county town of Cumberland.
Named in her father's will.
Notes from Genealogical and Family History of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys Pennsylvania, Volume I-II:
Jacob and Mary's marriage certificate, by Quaker ceremony, is in the possession of George Brubacker Kulp (1906) It is dated November 6 1766 and his residence was in Whitpain township, county of Philadelphia, province of Pennsylvania.
Is mentioned in his father's will:
"He received the old homestead with 180 acres of land which he retained until his death"1785 he made a purchase of another 76 acres of land. This together with the 180 acres he receved from his father, make him the owner of 256 acres of land."
1802, Feb 26: " Abraham Clements, Husband of Mary, one of the Daughters of John Stoner dec'd, Brother of Henry Stoner late of Manheim Twp. Lancaster Co." signed a release for 1/5 part of £251.9.6. (Deed P-3-672, Lancaster Co. Archives.)
Wills: Administrations 1784-1821: Montgomery Co, PA:
CLEMMENS, ABRAHAM. October 17, 1808. John Clemmens, George Clemmens, adms.
Named in her father's will.
Mathias Stauffer was a son of Christian Stauffer Jr., who died in Lower Salford in 1781, and a grandson of Christian Stauffer, a pioneer emigrant, who purchased 150 acres at the present site of Harleysville, Montgomery County, and died there in 1735, leaving a large family of children.
Seved with the Philadelpia Co. Militia during American Revalution