Clement Hill, Hurt, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Notes:
The house was built by the Captain of a local militia Ranger company organized for protection against hostile Indians, Benjamin Clement, probably in the 1770's. Clement had begun amassing land holdings in the area in the 1740's. An area which at that time had recently seen intensive occupation by local natives, the rich lands just to the south of the river sprouted Clement's own early form of industrial growth: tobacco; water-powered grist mill (he obtained permission to build one, but it is not certain whether he completed it); and, in partnership with Charles Lynch from across the river, the area's first gunpowder mill.



In The History of Pittsylvania County, Virginia by Maud Carter Clement is found reprinted Charles Lynch's 1775 letter describing his success in making salt-petre, principal ingredient in gunpowder. He states, "Without [salt-petre] we can have no powder, consequently no means of defense; but with it we shall son have both." Clement and Lynch were already manufacturing 50 pounds per day.



Nearly a century later another leading Pittsylvania name, Hurt, because associated with the property when soon-to-become-State Senator John L. Hurt bought Clement Hill (the ancestral home of his wife, Nannie Clement).

Birth

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	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Birth		Person ID
1	Clement, David	1737	Clement Hill, Hurt, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA	I14448
2	Clement, Isaac	1733	Clement Hill, Hurt, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA	I14451
3	Clement, James	1745	Clement Hill, Hurt, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA	I14445
4	Clement, Rachel	1747	Clement Hill, Hurt, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA	I14444
5	Clement, Stephen	1732	Clement Hill, Hurt, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA	I14452

Death

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	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Death		Person ID
1	Clement, Benjamin	18 Apr 1780	Clement Hill, Hurt, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA	I14414
2	Hill, Susannah	Nov 1788	Clement Hill, Hurt, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA	I14413