Frampton Genealogy

Clover Family Research Compendium

Created, Edited, and Maintained By June Clover Byrne

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Frampton and Clugh Genealogy

        The following information is from the research of Robert Frampton who did so much during the early part of the twentieth century. He wrote letters and letters and letters and gathered an enormous amount of data from the letters he received. After his death, his files went to the Archives in Pittsburg. At that time, it was sorted by families and all the letters were filed by family. I hired a professional researcher to get copies of the two file folders of letters that had to do with Clovers. She discovered that the idiot librarian had rearranged everything. The letters Frampton had received full of data were filed by date of the letter with the families jumbled up together. The only way to get copies of just the letters on the Clover families is to sit down with eight boxes, read every page, and copy just the Clover pages. I don't live there and I don't know anyone who is willing to go sort through 8 boxes of genealogical material. It would be a horrendous task. I told the librarian what I thought of their project in no uncertain terms. If I ever get there, I may have to use an assumed name because I made a lot of noise.  I can only imagine the dismay Frampton would feel if he knew his years of research had become unaccessible. It is just horrifying to me that an experienced, professional librarian or archivist would do such a thing.

This is an account of the files sent to me by the library. Frampton Files

       Luckily, an outline of his research was typed up on paper. This outline was microfilmed by the LDS Church. It is very awkward to use. But we have a of the skeleton of the information, we just don't have the sources, or the meat on the bones. Some of the letters Frampton wrote have survived and I have copies of some of them which were sent by the family. Because he worked only from letters, certain errors appeared in his research. He had no later censuses available. He did not have original records available and did not have the estate records of John Peter. He was given birth dates for several daughters of John Peter Clover. These birth dates are several years after John Peter's death. He was told that John Peter Clover came on a ship in 1752. I have him in a church record in 1747 so he did not come in 1752. I think that someone mixed up ancestors.  I often find that the story is true, it is just attached to the wrong ancestor. If we had the letters, we could tell who said this originally. Then there are the errors which crept in as people used Frampton's material. They added other errors, quoting Frampton wrongly as the source. By now, I am not even sure of the source of a lot of these errors. The errors are nearly all on John Peter Clover and New Jersey. Frampton's records on the Pennsylvania Clovers are extremely accurate as to connections. The dates are sometimes a year off, again because they came from letters. But people were writing about their parents and grandparents and knew a lot which has since disappeared.

        Frampton is THE major source of vital record information on Clovers in the state of Pennsylvania. He is of such major importance because of the lack of vital records in Pennsylvania in the early years and the disappearance of tombstones over the years. Genealogy was his passion and every researcher of the Pennsylvania Clovers should be enormously grateful to him for his work. Think of him as the father of John Peter Clover genealogy, even though he was not a Clover descendant. Our gratitude to him cannot be exaggerated.

PLEASE NOTE ERRORS.

The following are errors from letters which were sent to him.

John Peter Clover did not come ca. 1755. He was in New Jersey by 1747 when the baptism of Catherine, his daughter was in a church record.
Mary Cooper was born well before Sir Astley Cooper so could not have been descended from him. See Clover Myths page for full details.
I am pretty sure it was Ann Clover who married George Rea, not Alma. But I could be wrong about that. I am looking for more info. See Hunterdon page.

Frampton Letter

The following information is from The Genealogy of Grace (Jefferson) Wicks. It comes originally from the work of Robert Frampton. This was sent to me by Deb Ciroli. Typed by Pat Vaseska.

History of Frampton Descendants
From the record of Robert F. Frampton
Frampton-Clover Historian Falls Creek, PA

    The history of the Frampton Family goes as far back a 1666, and to the Norman Conquest. The principal seat of the English Frampton’s was at Dorsetshire, in the County of Dorset. Frampton was Knighted; had a crest and coat-of-arms. Many of the family have attained prominence. Among those of such in England today are: Sir George James Frampton, the famous sculptor; E. Reginald Frampton, the famous painter. The present head of the house is Lord Fetherstonebaugh-Frampton, of Frampton Court, House of Moreton.

    In the days of William Penn, William Frampton became a Quaker and immigrated to America. We find him a large landholder in New Your, associated with Oyster Bay, and later a landholder in Philadelphia, where he at one time owned the land where the public wharf is now situated. Later he became one of the Registrars General of Pennsylvania under William Penn, and was keeper of the Great Seal. He married Elizabeth Potter, and had three children; Elizabeth, Sarah, and Thomas.

    Thomas Frampton, William’s son and heir, married Elizabeth Ellis, and had three children; Hannah, John, and a child who died in infancy.

    John Frampton, Thomas’s son and heir, and grandson of William Frampton, was married to Elizabeth Critchfield and eight children were born to this union; William II, John Jr., Samuel, Nathaniel, Mary, Rachel, Ann, and Arthur. All of these five sons were Revolutionary Soldiers, while Mary married John Roll, also a Revolutionary Soldier, and all descendants of these children are entitled to become Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution.

    William Frampton II, married Sarah Staley, and their children were: David, married Hannah Lobaugh; Suzannah, married Isaac Fetzer; Sarah, married to Joseph Keever, and again to John Magee, after the death of her sister Anna; Anna who married John Magee; Nancy, who married John Clugh; Ellinor, who married John Connelly; Mary who died single; and Margaret who married William Stroup.

Children of William Frampton II
Of Revolutionary War Ancestry

Elizabeth C. (Nancy) b. Sept. 10, 1776 d. Apr. 21, 1821 m. John Claugh

David b. Aug. 5, 1780 m. Hannah Lobaugh

Suzannah b. Apr. 13, 1782 m. Isaac Fetzer

Sarah b. 1783 m. 1st John Joseph Keever, 2nd John Magee

Anna b. No record m. John Magee

Ellinor (Nellie) b. No record    m. John Connelly

Mary b. No record m. No record

Margaret b. No record m. Philip Stroup

Elizabeth C. (Nancy)
b. Sept. 10, 1776
d. Apr. 21, 1821
Buried Licking Cemetery, Churchville, Clarion Co., PA
m. John Clugh, Son of Philip and Elizabeth Hinkle Clugh
b. Mar. 1760
d. 1841
Buried Licking Cemetery, Churchville, Clarion Co., PA

Frances
b. Jan. 2, 1795
d. Dec. 28, 1837
Buried Cecedar Cemetery, Mechanicsville, PA
m. Philip Clover, Jr. Mar. 26, 1818 Son of Philip and Mary Cooper Clover
b. June 6, 1795 in New Jersey
d. April 12, 1888
Buried in Cecedar Cemetery, Mechanicsville, PA

Revolutionary War Service of Ancestors of Grace C. Jefferson Wicks

    William Frampton served during the Revolutionary War as a private in the Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Militia, or “Associates.” His record is found in the Pennsylvania Archives, 5th Series, Vol. 6, Page 565. His Captain was Captain Means, Col. Alexander Brown Commanding. He served during the years 1780, 1781, and 1782. He and his brother Nathaniel were comrades, and fought together. They were in the 4th Class, 8th Battalion.

    Philip Clover, Sr. was a private in Capt. Robert Means’ Cumberland County PA Militia. He lost one foot at the ankle joint in the service. His National Number is 181408. He also was in the 4th Class, 8th Battalion, under Capt. Robert Means, Col. Alexander Brown commanding. See PA Archives, 5th Series, Vol. 6, Page 652. Here he is shown in a scouting party in August and October, 1782, with Samuel and John Frampton, and Arthur Bell.

    John Clugh was a Corporal in the Revolutionary Army, shown in the Invalid Regiment of PA, under Col. Lewis Nicola, as discharged in April, 1783. See PA Archives, 5th Series, Vol. 4, Page 90.

    It is said that John Frampton, father of the five Frampton brother Revolutionary Soldiers, took part in the battle of Trenton, but this is tradition, and we have not been able to verify the fact. He would have been around 65 year of age.

    John Clugh Clover was a Civil War Soldier.

    Thomas H. Jefferson was a member of the Bucktail Regiment of Pennsylvania, in the Civil War.

References

William Frampton: The Frampton Family, by J. S. Wrightnour, Pages 93, 308, 109, & 110.
Elizabeth C. (Nancy) Frampton Clugh: above, page 109.
Frances (Fannie) Clugh Clover: The Corbett Family by E. Clark Corbett, Page 84.
Frances Elizabeth Clover Jefferson and descendants, File F-58. Book in publication by Robert Frampton, Falls Creek, Pennsylvania.
Jefferson Family Bible in possession of Barton A. Jefferson, Lake City, Pennsylvania.

From the working sheet for the DAR application of Elizabeth (Jefferson) Trumbull. She joined on William Frampton's service. This was sent to me by Deb Ciroli.

William Frampton born 15 November 1742 at Burlington, New Jersey, died 15 October 1829, near Churchville, which was later Clarion County, Pennsylvania.
William married ca. 1755, Sarah Staley, born 20 January 1755, died 6 July 1829, at Churchville.

John Clugh, born March 1760, died 1841, at Churchville, Pennsylvania. John married 12 January 1794, Elizabeth C. "Nancy" Frampton, daughter of William Frampton and Sarah Staley. Elizabeth was born 10 September 1776, died 21 April 1821 at Churchville.

Francis Clugh, their daughter, married Philip Clover. They were the parents of John Clugh Clover.

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