WEAVER.

Mr. Justice states that the ancestry of Clement Weaver has been discovered by Mr. J. Gardner Bartlett, and will probably be published in the near future.

CLEMENT WEAVER, born, probably about 1585; died, 1683.

Clement Weaver was an early settler at Newport, R. I., and founder of the Rhode Island family of the name. His will was dated Nov. 4th, 1680, and proved in 1683.

Children: Clement.2

CLEMENT WEAVER, (Clement'), known as Sergeant Clement Weaver.

Married: about 1645, Mary Freeborn, born, 1627, daughter of William and Mary Freeborn. See p. 454.

Sergeant Clement Weaver's name first appears in 1655 as of Newport on "The Roule of ye Ffreemen of ye Colonie of Everie Towne." He was one of the Jurors appointed by the Assembly June 7th, 1671 to try two Indians.

In 1678 he was elected a member of the House of Deputies.

Children: Clement,3 born about 1646; died 1691.

Elizabeth, born about 1647.

William,3 born about 1651.

John,3 born about 1653; died before 1702.

(Clement, Clement'),

born, about 1647; died, 1679.

Married: about 1663, Rev. Thomas Dungan.

They were the parents of Sarah Dungan who married James Carrell. See p. 433.

ST. LAWRENCE, BARONS
OF HOWTH.

Sir AMORICUS TRISTAM DE ST. LAWRENCE is the earliest known ancestor of this noble and ancient family. He was a Norman Knight who married a sister of Sir John de Courcy, between whom and Sir Amoricus there sprang up a strong friendship. They served King Henry II in his wars in France, and when he appointed William Fitz Adelin as his Seneschal or Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Sir John de Courcy was appointed to accompany him, and in their train of Knights was Sir Amoricus. They landed at Howth, Ireland, in 1777.

De Courcy had received a grant from the King for all lands he should conquer, and shortly after landing he defeated the Irish in a battle at the bridge of Ivora. Sir Amoricus obtained the lands and Barony of Howth by tenure as a reward for his distinguished services. After a life of military violence, Sir Amoricus was killed in a desperate battle against O'Connor, King of Connaught, whose forces were overwhelmingly superior in number.

From Sir Amoricus, the title descended in successive generations to Sir Robert St. Lawrence, 15th Baron Howth, who married Lady Joan Beaufort, and whose great-granddaughter, Margaret Netterville married Walter Forster and gave birth to Margaret Forster who married Sir John Dongan. See Table of Royal Descent, p. 465. (For Barons Howth, see Burke's Peerage, ed. of 1908.)

NETTERVILLE, VISCOUNTS

OF DOWTH.

This noble family is said to derive its descent from Charles, Duke of Normandy, and to have entered Ireland with the first Norman adventurers about the year 1169.

SIR FORMAL' NETTERVILLE, married: Philadelphia, Daughter of Lord William de Vesey.

SIR RICHARD NETTERVILLE, (Sir Formal'), married: Catherine, daughter of Hugh de Lacy, Lord Justice of Ireland.

SIR HENRY NETTERVILLE, (Sir Richard, Sir Formal'), married: Agnes, daughter of Baron Richard de Burgo by his wife the Princess Una, daughter of Odo O'Connor, the son of Cahil Crovderg, King of Connaught.

A direct descendant of Sir Henry Netterville (Lodges Peerage of Ireland, 1754, Vol. II) was:

JOHN NETTERVILLE, Esq., of Dowth, son of Patrick and Ann (Travers) Netterville.

Married: Alison St. Lawrence, daughter of Sir Nicholas St. Lawrence, 16th Baron Howth, and his wife, Lady Genet Plunkett. See p. 465.

MARGARET NETTERVILLE, daughter of John and Alison (St. Lawrence) Netterville.

Married: about 1547, Walter Forster, Alderman and merchant of Dublin.

MARGARET FORSTER, daughter of Walter and Margaret (Netterville) Forster.

Married: about 1577, Sir John Dongan. See p. 441.