October 8, 1972

Dear James,

I knew about Clement for a very long time and am delighted to find someone else who tries to know him. A friend wrote me that you had done some work and instead of wondering if you saw Clement as i did, I wrote.

Thank you for a good job. It must take courage to publish and get picked apart. I loved what you said about him being the self appointed overseer of the morals. All his troubles seemed to stem from over-zealousness or stupidity. he was just human. And I ask you to find a better drawn figure in the 17th century. We surely don't know as much about the Norwoods as we do Clement.

I own the Quarterly Court books and some of the Vital Records by towns and i have researched at the Institute and the Registry Office.

The black arts are in the Q.C.7:335--March 1680 trial of Caleb Powell--Testimony of John Emerson: "He affirmed that Powell said he was brought up under Norwood and it was judged by the people there that Norwood studied the black art. Emerson was the minister at the green in Gloucester for 45 years.

Would anyone ever live with Dexter if he wasn't bound? It was common practice to put boys to a master. Clement could build and Dexter was busy with building. Thomas Coldam didn't leave carpenter's tools. Mr. Hartley, the authority on Iron Words at Saugus, says Clement was on the pay roll early in the history of the place which leaves him to believe he might have built mills, sluices or such.

You missed a couple of words in that indenture between Johanna and Clement--Sept. 20, 1675. Clement, my son-in-law (used as we would use step-son) and then it had Thomas, my husband's NATURAL SON.

I wondered if Clement got his name from his mother so I have been on the watch for Clement as a last name. I would want to bet on Judith Clement. They named the first born so often for his mother and the second girl for hers. Clement had two girls--Judith and Elizabeth. One day i came across Judith Clement married as second wife to John Whitney I659. Recall Richard, son of John married the Coldam's Martha.

You couldn't make a reputation as a competent researcher on such ideas.

Can't you understand Clement better if he was under the strain of being illegitimate?

You are a trifle mixed about the place names in East Gloucester. Your father lived as a boy on Highland Street and then on Rocky Pasture Road. Hammond Street is in East Gloucester as well as these other places. Eastern Point is at the end of East Gloucester beyond Nile's Beach where the big estates are. The G.V.R. says Coreilla Norwood was the daughter of James and Adeline Tarr--Aug. 26, 1842.

You asked for my lists:

Joshua Norwood

Elizabeth = Ebenezer Pool
Stephen Pool = Judith Grover
Judith Pool = Edward Witham
Mark Witham = Deborah Rowe (Edgar)
Martha Witham = Joseph Parsons
Edwin Parsons = Martha Millard
Emma Parsons

Joshua Norwood

Sarah = Thomas Harris, Jr.
Sarah Harris = Thomas Rowe
William Rowe = Mary Allen
Thomas Jefferson Rowe = Mary Hardy
Charles Rowe = Edwina Harriman
Fred Rowe = Emma Parsons
Elizabeth Harriman Rowe = John Day

I would enjoy meeting you when you come to Gloucester.

Cordially yours,

Elizabeth H. Day [signature]
(Mrs John W.)
444 Washington St.
Gloucester, Mass. 01930

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