Eliphaz, the son of Joseph and Hannah Dow, was a shoemaker, married but with no known children.
On 12 December 1754, they accidentally met at the house of Eliphaz' brother Noah Dow.
Dow picked up his brother's hoe and struck Clough with a massive blow on the side of the head which instantly killed him.
"At the February term of Superior Court, he was indicted, tried & convicted: and sentence was pronounced upon him that he should be hanged by the neck until he should be dead."
His body was buried in the road a few rods from the gallows, just at the declivity of the hill.
[5] An account in the New Hampshire Gazette, August 24, 1847, states that bones discovered near the site were "doubtless" his.