Eegad, my heart goes out to this family!

I have been trying to find out how exactly the children of John Clement of Amelia County (b. 1743) are connected to Richard Randolph (d. 1749), from whose estate John Clement was able to get a couple hundred acres for a rather low price that suggested a gift rather than a normal purchase, and after whom some of their descendants were named. I began to test Amelia Randolph and William Bolling as potential parents for John Clement's first wife, but thank goodness I ran into this post within a few minutes of considering them! Saved me a lot of time and false hope.

I think it most likely that John Clement married a daughter of John Pryor and Anne Bland, a descendant of Richard's sister Elizabeth, given that John Clement's daughter Anne named her child John Pryor Acker. But Mrs. Clement died before John Pryor's will, so unfortunately I am having trouble proving it either way.

Early on I thought John Clement's wife might be a daughter of Richard Randolph and Jane Bolling, but I decided to leave that couple alone, knowing all the pitfalls of trying to claim descent from someone like Pocahontas whose descendants are so well-documented. But this afternoon, while I was browsing the web for a portrait of Mary Harrison Gordon, I stumbled across this other portrait that about gave me a heart attack, because she looked so much like my grandmother and my great-great grandmother. I found out it was Mary Meade Walker, sister of Anne Meade Randolph. Now I'm wondering if maybe my earlier intuition was right. But why wouldn't John Clement's marriage to a descendant of Pocahontas be a better-known fact, if it were real? I guess we can't rule out some skeleton-in-the-closet story, like a teenage girl getting pregnant and then being forced to marry the first bachelor her father can find. But how would one begin to find out the truth about something like that?