Person:Daniel Clark (76)

He is not DANIEL CLARK JUNIOR, but the NEPHEW of Col. DANIEL CLARK who came to America before him. To add to the confusion, Uncle Daniel Clark may have had a son named Daniel as well.

1. ↑
   12, 1976.

   The Natchez District and the American Revolution
   By Robert V. Haynes
   University Press of Mississippi
   preview on Google Books

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2}
   47,264.

   The South in the New Nation, 1789-1819, Volume 4
   By Thomas Perkins Abernethy
   preview on google books

3. ↑
   311.

   Adventurism and Empire: The Struggle for Mastery in the Louisiana-Florida ...
   By David Narrett
   see google books

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4} .

   Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005: The ...
   By United States. Congress
   Government Printing Office

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   Daniel Clark
   Birth: 1766
   County Sligo, Ireland
   Death: Aug. 16, 1813
   New Orleans
   Orleans Parish
   Louisiana, USA
   
   US Congressman. He was educated at Eton College and immigrated to New Orleans in 1786. He was active in land speculation, banking, slave dealing, and the import and export of manufactured goods and food items including sugar and flour. New Orleans was under Spanish and then French control, so Clark made use of his relationships with members of the government to became a broker for US businessmen. When Orleans Territory was organized Clark was appointed to its Legislative Council, but declined to serve. In 1805 and 1806 he was accused of taking part in Aaron Burr's alleged plot to sever New Orleans and surrounding territory from the United States, a charge Clark denied, with Clark being the first to accuse General James Wilkinson and others of lying about Burr's intent. In 1806 he was elected as Orleans Territory's Delegate to the US House of Representatives and served one partial term and one full term, December 1806 to March 1809. In 1807 Clark's dispute with Governor William Claiborne over control of territorial politics and culpability in the Burr affair ended in a duel, with Clark wounding Claiborne in the thigh. Clark was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1808 and returned to his business interests. Settling his estate, valued at over $35 million dollars by the 1860s, led to a series of landmark lawsuits that were not resolved until the 1870s. (bio by: Bill McKern)
   
   Family links:
   Spouse:
   Marie Julie Zulime Carriere Gardette (1781 - 1853)*
   
   Children:
   Caroline Clark Barnes (1802 - 1845)*
   Myra Clark Gaines (1806 - 1885)*
   
   *Calculated relationship
   
   Burial:
   Saint Louis Cemetery Number 1
   New Orleans
   Orleans Parish
   Louisiana, USA
   
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   Maintained by: Find A Grave
   Originally Created by: Bill McKern
   Record added: Sep 19, 2007
   Find A Grave Memorial# 21658218

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   Louisiana, Slave Records, 1719-1820 (part of the Ancestry database)
   WE SEE THE DANIEL CLARK NAME REPEATEDLY IN THIS DATABASE AS BUYER AND SELLER BEFORE HIS 1813 DEATH AND IN HIS ESTATE CASE AFTERWARDS. Here are just a few of the names of the slaves reported in this database.
   Name: Jenvier
   Gender: Male
   Race: Black
   Age: 60
   Birth Year: abt 1754
   Other History: sold or inventoried as an individual
   Document Date: 3 Jun 1814
   Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).
   Document Number: 441
   Notary: Quinones
   Document Language: French
   Document Depository: housed in parish courthouses.
   Seller: Richard Relf
   Buyer: Manete Badon Roberion
   Selling Value: 100
   Selling Value US$: 100
   Estate Number: 03-A-410-124-1813
   Deceased Master of Estate: Daniel Clark <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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   Louisiana, Slave Records, 1719-1820
   Louisiana, Slave Records, 1719-1820 No Image
   Text-only collection
   Name: Boynared?
   Gender: Male
   Race: Black
   Age: 56
   Birth Year: abt 1758
   Name Explanation: IS: may be a misspelling of Boy Naar. Very common among Wolof to use the English word ""boy"" with one's ethnicity to coin nicknames/e.g. Boy Bambara, a former wrestler in Senegal.
   Name Origin: African
   Maladies: sick for a long time; sickly; infirme; enfermo, enfermiso, valetudinario
   Other History: sold or inventoried as an individual
   Document Date: 7 Apr 1814
   Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).
   Document Number: 395
   Notary: Quinones
   Document Language: French
   Document Depository: housed in parish courthouses.
   Seller: Richard Relf
   Buyer: Marie Olive (free black)
   Selling Value: 50
   Selling Value US$: 50
   Estate Number: 03-A-410-124-1813
   Deceased Master of Estate: Daniel Clark<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
   ===============
   Louisiana, Slave Records, 1719-1820
   Louisiana, Slave Records, 1719-1820 No Image
   Text-only collection
   Name: Betty
   Gender: Female
   Race: Black
   Age: 60
   Birth Year: abt 1759
   Other History: sold or inventoried as an individual
   Document Date: 10 Aug 1819
   Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).
   Document Number: 314
   Notary: Carlile Pollock
   Document Language: English
   Document Depository: housed in parish courthouses.
   Buyer: Isaac L. McCoy
   Selling Value: 150
   Selling Value US$: 150
   Estate Number: 03-A-410-124-1813
   Deceased Master of Estate: Daniel Clark<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
   Louisiana, Slave Records, 1719-1820
   Louisiana, Slave Records, 1719-1820 No Image
   Text-only collection
   Name: Bazile
   Gender: Male
   Race: Black
   Age: 50
   Birth Year: abt 1760
   Other History: sold or inventoried in a group
   Members of Group: 9 slaves
   Document Date: 15 Mar 1810
   Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).
   Document Number: 118
   Notary: Pierre Pedasclaux
   Document Language: French
   Document Depository: housed in parish courthouses.
   Seller: Louis DeBellegarde
   Buyer: Daniel Clark<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
   Selling Value: 6000
   Selling Value US$: 6000

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   Harper's Weekly
   13 April 1861
   volume V
   number 224
   page 1, column 1, includes portrait of Mrs. General Gaines.
   
   THE GREAT GAINES CASE.
   WE publish herewith a portrait of Mrs. General Gaines, the heroine of the most remarkable lawsuit ever prosecuted in our civil courts. This lady has just won a case which entitles her to a property variously estimated at from ten to fifteen millions of dollars. The circumstances which gave rise to that case constitute a romance stranger than the boldest fancies of novel writers.
   Just sixty years ago a young man, handsome, polished, brave, energetic, who, from some strange whim, had devoted himself to a life of trade among the Indians and French settlers on the Mississippi, spent a winter in the American metropolis of that day—Philadelphia. The young man's name was DANIEL CLARK. He was fond of gayety and social pleasures. In some social haunt he met a French lady of uncommon beauty and rare wit, named ZULIME CARRIER. She was living with a Frenchman named Lagrange, a common adventurer, whether legitimately married to him or not it is now not easy to discover. In 1805 this lady left Lagrange, and went to live with Daniel Clark. The theory accepted by the Supreme Court of the United States is that Zulime Carrier was never married to Lagrange, and that she was married, privately, to Daniel Clark. In 1806, at Philadelphia, the only issue of her union with Clark—Myra, the present Mrs. Gaines—was born.
   After the birth of this child it would seem that Clark sent Zulime to New Orleans, and prosecuted his amatory career at Philadelphia with the gay freedom of a bachelor. He engaged himself in marriage to the celebrated Miss Caton, who after-ward married the Marquis of Wellesley. He formed other connections, the offspring of which have figured in the Gaines case. After a time Zulime returned to Philadelphia, and claimed her rights as a wife. Clark denied her right to the title, and she was unable to maintain it. She seems herself to have recognized the feebleness of her claim ; for soon afterward she married or accepted the protection of a Dr. Gardette, with whom she lived till his death.
   Meanwhile Daniel Clark grew tired of Capua, and returned to New Orleans. He formed extensive business connections, and being gifted with rare mercantile capacity, made money in every thing he touched. He soon became the leading merchant on the Mississippi. Those were the days when fortunes were made in judicious trading with the Indians. Daniel Clark was one of the wise men who saw the opportunity and turned it to ac-
   count. When his daughter Myra was yet a child, her father was a rich man, whose wealth was daily increasing.
   It does not appear that he ever took steps to re-unite his fortunes with those of his much-loved
   Zulime. But he certainly took charge of her child Myra, had her properly educated, and testified much affection for her on all occasions.
   In 1813 Daniel Clark died, leaving an immense fortune, mostly invested in land in New Orleans
   and other cities on the Mississippi. A will was produced, bequeathing his fortune to his mother and to the city of New Orleans. The legatees and executors entered into possession. Some thirteen years afterward Myra, his daughter, married a Mr. Whitney, of New Orleans, and set up a claim as heir to the property. Thus the great Gaines suit began. Myra claimed to be the only legitimate daughter of Daniel Clark, and sought to have the above-mentioned will set aside. It was natural that, where so much property was at stake, the claim should be hotly contested. It was so; and Mr. Whitney, Myra's husband, died during the first campaign in the war. His widow —young, beautiful, and as energetic as her father —continued to prosecute the suit. Meeting General Gaines shortly afterward, she married him, and he espoused her cause with warmth. The case was tried and lost at New Orleans : it was carried to the Supreme Bench at Washington, and lost there too. In 1852 the hopes of Mrs. Gaines seemed utterly extinguished, and the death of General Gaines appeared to crush out the last ember of expectation.
   But the lady had an indomitable spirit. After the judgment of 1852 a will was discovered, duly executed by Daniel Clark, certifying that Myra was his only legitimate child, and creating her his sole heir. This will Mrs. Gaines offered for probate, and sued the possessors of her father's property thereupon. In the New Orleans Court the case went against her. She appealed again to Washington ; and after several years of tedious legal proceedings, she obtained a judgment on March 14, 1861, confirming the will, declaring her the only rightful heir of Daniel Clark, and entitling her not only to the whole property left by him, but to the rents of the same during the thirty odd years which had elapsed since she first set up her claim.
   So the case now stands. The judgment was de-livered by Mr. Justice Wayne, of Georgia, who significantly remarked that the Supreme Court would have their decree carried out in Louisiana. No one knows how far the secession of that State may have impaired the power of the United States Supreme Court within the State limits. Mr. Justice Wayne's diction looks as though the judgment would be acknowledged. If it is, Mrs. General Gaines will soon be the richest woman in America. The portrait which we publish herewith reveals something of the indomitable spirit and energetic will which has enabled this lady to prosecute her case through so many courts, and for so many weary years.
   Picture Mrs. General Gaines

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   Adventurism and Empire: The Struggle for Mastery in the Louisiana-Florida ...PAGE 248
   By David Narrett
   see google books

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   McMichael, Francis Andrew. Atlantic Loyalties. (University of Georgia Press), 58-60.
   Preview available on Google books.

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    Black Experience in Natchez 1720-1880
    By Ronald L. F. Davis
    Natchez Historical Park
    United States Department of the Interior
    National Park Service
    Denver Service Center
    Preview available on Google books.
    April 1933
    page 12

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    Residence Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, United States
    Clark Plantation; owned the land starting in 1799
    Occupation New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States
    United States Consular Agent
    Occupation New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States
    bank director
    Occupation New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States
    cordage factory owner
    Occupation c 1807 New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States
    militia leader
    Occupation Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, United States
    slave trader
    Occupation Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, United States
    cotton planter
    Occupation New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States
    US Vice-Consul
    Occupation c 1810 Feliciana, Louisiana, United States
    owned large tract of land in Feliciana

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    The Old Merchants of New York City, Volume 4
    By Joseph Alfred Scoville
    pages 179-183
    see Google books

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    Mississippi, Wills and Probate Records, 1780-1982
    Name: Daniel D Clark
    Probate Date: 27 Oct 1817
    Probate Place: Adams, Mississippi, USA
    Inferred Death Year: Abt 1817
    Inferred Death Place: Mississippi, USA
    Item Description: Letters of Administration, Vol 1-3, 1803-1870
    Lyman Harding appointed administrator.
    THE UNCLE OR THE NEPHEW? THE NEPHEW DIED IN 1813.

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    Mississippi, Wills and Probate Records, 1780-1982
    Name: D D Clark
    Probate Date: 1 Jul 1819
    Probate Place: Adams, Mississippi, USA
    Inferred Death Year: Abt 1819
    Inferred Death Place: Mississippi, USA
    Item Description: Administrator and Executor Bonds, 1815-1820
    Table of Contents 1 images
    Cover Page 1
    Source Citation
    Mississippi, Adams County Probate Records; Author: Mississippi. Chancery Court (Adams County); Probate Place: Adams, Mississippi
    Source Information
    Ancestry.com. Mississippi, Wills and Probate Records, 1780-1982 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
    
    James Clark is either added as an additional administrator (Lyman Harding was already an adminstrator) or replaces Lyman Harding. Text is difficult for a layperson to interpret. This case drags on for many years.

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    Mississippi, Wills and Probate Records, 1780-1982
    VIEW Mississippi, Wills and Probate Records, 1780-1982
    Name: Daniel D Clark
    Probate Date: 5 Jul 1819
    Probate Place: Adams, Mississippi, USA
    Inferred Death Year: Abt 1819
    Inferred Death Place: Mississippi, USA
    Item Description: Letters of Administration, Vol 1-3, 1803-1870
    
    Now James Clark has full power of administration.
    
    IS JAMES CLARK A RELATIVE OF SOME SORT?