Clement Gross

Clement married Mary before 1647. Mary died before 1669. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Isaac Gross was born on 3 Mar 1665 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 23 Jan 1717.

Clement married Anna before 1669. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Edmund Gross was born on 26 Sep 1669 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 13 Mar 1728 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Notes:

Husbandman and brewer. Emigrated in 1635; admitted to the First Church at Boston 17 Apr 1636. During the Antinomian controversy, on 20 Nov 1637, he signed the petition in defense of the Rev. Wheelwright, but after the Boston court saw fit to remove all "guns, pistols, swords, powder, shot, and match as they be owners of or have in their custody" from the signers of this petition, Isaac Gross's name appeared on a further petition (22 Nov 1637) withdrawing his name from the previous petition.

On 31 May 1647 "Isac Groose" was ordered "not to sell any beer by the quart within doors anymore."

Isaac married Ann Lobley on 5 Aug 1613 in King's Lynn St. Margaret, Norfolk, England. Ann died before 29 Dec 1653 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She evidently had an affair with Capt. James Smith of Boston, for which he was excommunicated from the Boston church on 4 Jul 1647, "for uncomely and uncleane fellowship with Anne Grosse the wife of our brother Isack Grosse and for sundry untruths in his answers about it." Smith was already notorious for a legal case in 1645 in which he and his first mate, Keysar, were charged with the kidnapping two Africans and causing the deaths of others. Anne Lobley and her husband Isaac Gross stayed together, and after his death she did not remarry.