Rachel Clemens Gorgas

8 October 2026 - Clemens and earlier Keyser research, third round

The estate inventory of Garret Clemens lists Rachell among seven children receiving advances. The administration bond names George Gorgas, Northern Liberties lumber merchant, as a bondsman. Together with the Keyser genealogy p. 132 identifying Rachel as George's wife and Catherine's sister, these details strongly correlate this daughter with Rachel Clemens Gorgas. A father link to Garrit is recorded; no maternity or exact birth/death date is inferred.

Evidence and limits R3A - Philadelphia Register of Wills, Administration Files, 1798-1799, case 32 (1799), Garret/Garett Clemens or Clements. Bond 11 January 1799; inventory 15 January 1799, affirmed 19 April 1799; account affirmed 12 April 1800. Ancestry collection 8802, record 2477331, images 005874130_00376-00384. Original loose-paper images inspected. https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8802/records/2477331

R3E - Charles S. Keyser, The Keyser Family (Philadelphia: Wm. F. Fell & Co., 1889), printed pp. 17, 19, 30, 34, 121-123, 128-129; p. 132 for previously documented Clemens sisters. Inspected page images; historical family compilation. Dates and Dutch relationships remain attributed pending original registers. https://archive.org/details/keyserfamilydesc00keys

Status: Original record with stated correlation limits.

Archive source packet: [[evidence:WEB-20261009-015911-671df7a0|59-person findings and inspected source images]].

Earlier archive notes (preserved): 8 October 2026 - Keyser and Wallace family research, second round

The footnote on p. 132 calls Rachel, wife of Geo. Gorgas, a sister of Catherine Clemens. It reports thirteen children, of whom three survived when that account was compiled, identifying them by married names. These claims remain a historical family account; Garrit and Keturah are not automatically assigned as her biological parents merely because they are named for sister Elizabeth.

Evidence and limits Charles S. Keyser, The Keyser Family (Philadelphia: Wm. F. Fell & Co., 1889), printed pp. 129, 132-134 (PDF pages 175, 178-180). Scanned printed pages inspected. Historical family compilation, not original vital records. https://archive.org/details/keyserfamilydesc00keys

Status: Historical compilation lead. The named relationships and dates have not been independently verified from original vital or probate records. Proposed family connections are documented in these notes; they are not asserted as new biological tree links.

Archive source packet: [[evidence:WEB-20261008-214421-a180e0c0|62-person findings and inspected source images]].

Research context: [[person:person-7078897b-5cac-4b79-bd17-74638bdb2bd7|Catherine Clemens]]. Consult the relationship qualifications above.