Person:James Clack (1)

The earliest American Clack Ancestor of whom record has been found is the Reverend James Clack, a minister of the Established Church of England, who was rector of Ware Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia, from the year 1679 until his death in 1723. His tomb, in the church yard of Ware church, (...) reads:

“Here lyeth the body of James Clack, son of William and Mary Clack, Who was born on the Parish of Marden--- -- miles from the devizes in the county of Wilts.

He came out of England in August 1678, arrived in Virginia upon New Years Day following, came into the Parish of Ware on Easter. Where he continued Minister near forty-five years till he Dyed. He departed this life on the 20th day of December in the year of our Lord God 1723 in hopes of a joyful resurrection, to Eternal Life, which God grant him for his Beloved redeemer’s sake. Amen.”

Tombstone

1.   Bond, Octavia Zollicoffer. The Family Chronicle and Kinship Book of Maclin, Clack, Cocke, Carter, Taylor, Cross, Gordon, and Other Related American Lineages. (Nashville, Tennessee: McDaniel Printing Company, 1928).
2.   Tyler, Lyon Gardiner. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. (New York, New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., c1915)
   pg. 210.

   Clack, Rev. James, son of William and Mary Clack, of Marsden, in Wiltshire, came to Virginia in 1678, and was minister of Ware parish from 1679 to December 20, 1723, when he died. James Clack, believed to be his son, resided in Brunswick county.