Clark Genealogy

A-1 Thomas Clark, b , was of Milford, CT, d 10 Oct 1668, inventory #220.

He came from Great Mundon, Hertfordshire, England, took the oath of Fidelity in New Haven, CT in 1644. He m 1654 Ann Bishop, dau of John Bishop and widow of John Jordan, of Guilford. She was a relative of Gov Jordan. See "Record of the Descendants of John Bishop" by W. W. Cone, 1951.

After his marriage, Thomas Clark lived Guilford, where 02 Dec 1658 John Hill, of Guilford, sued him for slander. The plaintiff declared that the defendant hath slanderously reported that he John Hill laid violent hands upon him and shook him and offered to strike him with his fork and another while with his fists, which the said Hill denied, and so looks upon himself as wronged, and desires satisfaction for the slander. Mr Clark gave the truth in evidence, which he fully sustained, so the court awarded that the Defendant was not guilty of slandering Hill and awarded the Defendant his costs.

B-1 Sarah Clark
B-2 Daniel Clark, b Jan 1657/8, of Killingworth, CT, m Mary . She m 2nd Phillip Bill of New London and Groton. She d 10 Jul 1739, age 80.

C-1 Daniel Clark, b 03 Feb 1683/4
C-2 Mercy Clark, b 09 Oct 1702, m John Willett
C-3 Thomas Clark, b 1686, d 5-17-1752, and his wife Hannah , b 1695, d 6-2-1749, came to Clarks Landing from CT, to what is known as Clark's Mills Meeting House. The site is marked by the old Burying Ground or Churchyard, at what was known as Clark's Mills, now a part of Port Republic.

On the river bank, at the site of the Clark Plantation, in Clarks Landing are two headstone: "Here lyes the body of Mr. Thomas Clark who died May 17, A. D. 1752 in the 65 year of his age." "Here lyes the body of Mrs. Ruth Clark wife of Mr Thomas Clark who died June 2nd 1749 in the 53rd year of her age." The Presbyterians were at Clark's Mills Meeting House, built by Thomas Clark about 1762.

D-1 Thomas Clark, b 1722, d 10-31-1793, m 1740 Sarah Parker, b 1732, d 3-25-1800. Both are bur Churchyard Burying Grounds. Thomas Clark and his bro, David Clark, owned land inherited from their father in Galloway Twp, Gloucs Co (now Atlantic Co.)

Some of this genealogy is from the Bible of Thomas Clark and Mary, of Clark's Landing. The Bible in the possession of Mrs Anna C. Fleming, Absecon, NJ.

His will is recorded 5-25-1793. Thomas Clark, of Galloway Twp, Cloucester Co; Wife, Sarah, all household furniture, Negro wench named Peg; also jointly with son, Reuben, use of homestead and several purchases made with brother, David Clark, called the home tract, together with all farming utensils; also 3 yoke of oxen, 10 cows, 1 bull, and all hogs and sheep; also use of all male Negroes, while my widow.

Daughters, Lovice, Sarah and Elizabeth, to be supported and enjoy liberty of home while single. Son, Reuben, home plantation, live stock and movables, which wife has use of, after her decease, or marriage; also, a meadow opposite Log Point, my right to swamp and meadow from Sand Point to Landing Creek, and cedar swamp on Teal Creek, westward of swamp lately belonging to Robert Smith.

Sons, Adriel and Parker, my right to 1/2 of Clark's Mill with tract belonging to mill; also tract called Munroe's, tract of 300 acres near John Shanes, and 150 acres bought of Levi Garrish; also 109 acres of Negro Point.

Son, Parker, my 1/2 of tract 35 acres) purchased of Jonas Morse, (whereon his house now stands). Cedar swamps on Elihue's Branch and cedar swamp on Snake Branch; to be sold. Sons, Adriel, Parker, and Reuben, 40 acres of cedar swamp on Teal Creek, divided between them; they to pay their 6 sisters, i.e., Hannah Chew, Submit Kelsey, Abigail Hugg, Lovice Clark, Sarah and Elizabeth Clark, each 20 pounds. Daughters, Lovice, Sarah and Elizabeth, each 2 cows.

Sons, Adriel and Parker, right to 7 acres of cedar swamp on Teal Creek. Son, Reuben, 19 acres of cedar swamp above Mark's Bridge; also blacksmith tools. Residue divided between the 3 sons. Son, Adriel, Negro man, Dimon, after wife's death; he to pay his 6 sisters 20 pounds, or each 3 pounds 6. 8. Sons, Parker and Reuben, Negro man, Jack, after wife's death; they paying their sisters 20 pounds, or 3 pounds, 6. 8. to each sister. Executors -wife, Sarah, and son-in-law, Aaron Chew.

Wit -Samuel Odell, Thomas Clark, Jr., and Abner Clark. Proved 12-9-1793. Lib 33, p 71.

12-6-1793. Renunciation of Sarah Clark, the widow, as executrix, in favor of her son, Adriel Clark 11-21-1793. Renunciation of Aaron Chew, as executor 12-9-1793. Adm'r - with will annexed - Adriel Clark. Fellow-bondsman - Samuel Odell; both of said county, File 1845H.

His widow, Sarah, had will recorded 3-22-1800. Elisha Clark & Aaron Chew were exec. Wit: Adrial Clark, Reuben Clark, Judith Clark. Will proved 6-16-1800. Three of Thomas' sons served in the Rev War: Adrial, grandfather of the late Hon. Champ Clark; Parker, the grandfather of the late Miss Sarah N. Doughty, Organizing Regent of General Lafayette chapter DAR; and Reuben.

Brother of Thomas, David Clark, had three of his sons in the Rev War: Thomas, Benjamin, and Joseph. Atlantic Co Historical Soc, 1988, p 33: Officers and men of the third NJ Reg; Adrial, Benjamin, David, John, Joseph, Parker, Reuben, Thomas Clark. The commanding officer was Col Elias Dayton from Jan 1776 to Jan 1, 1787. General Lafayette Chapter DAR, in 1934, placed the official DAR bronze Rev Sol Grave Markers on the graves of Adrial, Parker, and Thomas Clark.

No doubt David and Reuben also are buried in this old burying ground, but are among those with headstones of native stone, from which time and weather have obliterated all lettering. Thomas (David's son) lived and died on the homestead plantation at Clark Landing: Benjamin, Joseph, and a younger brother, Abner, after the War, went to Ohio, where they have many descendants.

D-2 David Clark, b 1724 Clark's Landing, Galloway Twp, Gloucester Co, NJ, d 1803 there, m 1756Elizabeth Betts. He is approved by DAR for service as a private in the 1st Reg, Essex Co, NJ Militia, under Capt Benjamin Lang

E-1 Joseph Clark, b 10/12-15-1755/62, m Elizabeth Sooey, went to OH. He was in Rev War.
E-2 Thomas Clark, b 10-7-1757/8, d 3-28-1827 at 9:00 in the evening, m 17 Aug 1797 Mary Giberson, b 5-8-1780, d 12-24-1845, both bur Churchyard Burying Grounds. Mary was dau of James Giberson, b 1747, d 1836. Pvt NJ Troops, under Captains Higbee and Estill, under Col Somers. He was a wit for uncle's will 1793. Thomas is approved as a patriot by DAR, as a patriot in the NJ Troops.
E-3 Rachel Clark, b 1764
E-4 Nehemiah Clark, b 1766, here 1820 census.
E-5 Rebecca Clark, b 1768
E-6 Mary Clark, b 1770, m Sprong (Sprang)
E-7 Abner Clark, younger bro wit for uncle's will 1793, m 8-25-1799 Abigail Crossaboon. They show 1830 Union Twp, Clinton Co, OH: 11---1 (45-up) // 1---1. He did not show in the 1827 tax list.
E-8 Benjamin Clark, b ca 1760, d before 1847, m 1st Sarah , 2nd 9-22-1805 Lucusso Garland, who must have died before 1813, 3rd Christina Garland, who d before 1847. He was in the Rev War. He shows on est settlement of David, his father, deed book F, p 223 1800-1802, G, p 262 1902-1803. In the Colonial period and for a number of years later, live stock roamed at large. Early laws required that they be earmarked, the horns marked, or that they be branded, for identification. When livestock wandered to the wrong plantation, the law required that it be reported, also advertised. A fee of 25 cents seems to have been charged in Great Egg Harbor Twp. The note was that a yearling steer, crop off the Neigh Ear & hole in the right Ear, came to Benjamin Clark's Mill 1794.

Benjamin arrived in Tate Twp, Clermont Co, OH ca 1804. He bought land with the deed dated 1806 from Robert Tylar and Margaret, his wife. Daniel Teagarden and Robert Leeds were wit. He secured another piece of land from William Simonds and Lydia, his wife. He and his wife, Christina, sold both together on 4-7-1813 for $1400 to Timothy Folger of Hamilton Co. Wit were David Teagarden & Andrew Pirkham.

The land bordered Samuel Echarts, Robert Leeds, Daniel Echart. The land had been surveyed by Thomas Pearson and Patented to Robert Tyler and recorded on War Office Vol. N, page 133 of lands granted to the Virginia Line on Continental Establishment and conveyed to William Simmonds by deed Jun 27, 1810

Robert Leeds, mentioned above, could be the same man who showed in the NJ records. There was a large family of that name at Leed's Point in Gloucester Co. It was at the mouth of the river that the Clarks lived on - being called the Egg Harbor area. Matthew Collins was a neighbor in NJ. He may have been related to the John Collins, who came to Clermont Co to set up the church.

His next purchase bears the date of 1816, when he bought in the survey #2434 of Edward Carrington in Union Twp, to the north. He paid chattel tax 1826 & 1834: 3 cows, 2 horses, 133 acres of 2nd class land in Carrington's survey on the East Fork of the Little Miami. In 1816 he had paid on 170 acres of 2nd class land in Thomas Person survey.

Emma Doughty, Mrs. Daniel, writes to her relatives in New Jersey that Benjamin Clark farms about 18 acres, with corn 11 feet tall, and has not reached its growth yet. I mention those things that you may see how fertile the land is without manure." This is from a series of letters reprinted in a Atlantic Co, NJ history. The letters are dated 1836, and were sent from Batavia, Clermont Co, OH to her sis-in-law, Mrs. Sarah Doughty, Egg Harbor, Absecome, NJ, Co of Gloucester.

Daniel and Emma took seven children, leaving their home, which had been sold on contract to a family member. She mentions Benjamin Clark, as reprinted, p 30, Vol 7-8 of Atlantic Co Historical Soc Yearbook. A note of explanation, p 27 Vol 7-8, says these letters were to Sarah and Charlotte Doughty, wives of her husband's bros, Nathaniel and Enoch.

He was one of the men to whom Rev. John Collins and his wife, Sarah, transferred 1805 land for the purpose of starting a Methodist Episcopal known as Bethel-Bantam Church, or Bethel Methodist meeting house. Others on the deed were Robert Leeds, Thomas Page, Daniel Teagarden, William Simonds, David White. This land bordered Elias Gerard, Jonas Blackwood, Josiah O'Heroin on the Little Miami Rv. Wit were John and Richard Doughty. This is north of Mount Carmel.

The History of Clermont states "In the Bantam neighborhood Methodism has flourished since 1803, when it was introduced by the Rev. John Collins, and at his house the first meetings were held. Among the early members of the class were persons belonging to the Collins, Higbee, McCullom, Justice, Drummond, Clark, and other families living along the East Fork. About 1807 a log meeting-house was erected by the society." John Collins had come from NJ and started what was known as the New Jersey Settlement. Benjamin lived on the edge, buying from Tylar.

Benjamin's 1st wife was Sarah, who must have died ca 1805 (to be 2nd bur in church cem,) when he sold to move further north into Union Twp. His wife was Christiana when he sold in 1813. It is possible that he m 9-22-1805 Lucusso Garland and she did not live long. No marriage record is found for a Christina Garland. A history of ME Church is quoted "Mrs. Sarah Clark, wife of Benjamin Clark, a Methodist 'exhorter' and class leader, was the second person buried in Old Bethel cemetery. Mr. Chandler was the first. The records of the Bethel Church were stored in a shed, which burned in the early 1900's. Only a few items mentioned in county histories have been preserved.