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Pamelia Hall Clement, who was born in 1815 in Pembroke, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, had six children. They were Hannah Maria, who married Sherman A. Bradley, a native of Connecticut; Ann Augusta or Anna, who married Henry C. Moore, a native of New Hampshire; Charles Benj.
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