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Tbe Oldest Inhabitant.Leslie's Illustrated this week has a good portrait of Albeit Clements, who isclaimed by the paper to be the oldestresident of Saratoga. The following letter text accompanies the picture;Mr. Clements is the oldest resident of Saratoga, N. Y. He was born seven days after the surrender of Cornwallis, in 1781, in Mabbettsville, Dutchess county, whence he removed to Saratoga when eight years old. From 1789 to 1807 heworked with his father and brothers rafting timber to New York, and in the. latter year he had a two months’ sickness, the only one in his life.In the summer of 1820 he dug Section Ten of the Lackawanna Canal in Ulster county.He is now as sprightly as nine-tenths Of the men at forty. Every day he walks from oue to one and a half miles, and occasionally makes a three mile spurt. Two years ago he walked from the Springs to his home, a distance of twelve miles, in five hours. He is the father of eight children, and his father, who died at the age of eighty-nine, had eleven. Mr. Clements was the man who first laid out the street* and lots in Schuylerville, Saratoga county, N. Y. j
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Saratoga Springs Daily Saratogian
Saratoga Springs, New York, US
Thu, Apr 06, 1876
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