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- H. Edmund DowneEst 1639 - 1669
- W. Mehitable Clarke1640 - 1701
m. Est 1660
Facts and Events
References
- ↑ Boston (Massachusetts). Record Commissioners. A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston: Containing Dorchester Births, Marriages, and Deaths to the End of 1825. (Boston, Massachusetts: Rockwell and Churchill, city printers, 1890)
p. 1.
Mehitable, the daughter of Thomas Clark & Mary his wife was Born 18th. (2d.) 1640.
[In 1640, the second month was April, so this is 18 Apr 1640]
- Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939)
148-49.
THOMAS CLARK, Major, Dorchester and Boston, deposed aged ±48 in 1655, he d. 28 July 1678.) Children, b. in Dorchester: Mehitable, m. 1st Edmund Downe (1); 2d Humphrey Warren, Councilor.
- ↑ Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers
Thomas Clarke 22 Mar 1682/3 Will volume 6, part 2, page 404 (bY new pagination, p. 649).
The will of THOMAS CLARK, dated 15 Aug 1679, proved 22 Mar 1682/3 to daughters MEHITABLE WARREN, ELIZABETH HUTCHESON; to my wife 80 pounds a year, and the use of my orchard at Dorchester; to my son WARREN; to the eldest son of daughter MEHITABLE; to son ELISHA HUTCHESON; to brother JOHN CLARKE of Welton; to sister ANN HARES; to Dorothy Muscote and to JANE Smith; to sister STOUGHTON; to cozen THOMAS SMITH; large sum of money given to build a good hospital; overseers: honored kinsman William Stoughton, Capt. John Richards, Cozen MR. WILLIAM TAILER, THOMAS SMITH; witnesses: Silvanus Davis, Jabez Salter, John Moore.
- ↑ Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939)
720.
HON. HUMPHREY Warren, Boston merchant, m. by 1674 Mrs. Mehitabel (Clarke 54) Downes. In June 1674 he contracted with Major Phillips to collect the rents from all fishermen on stages on Parker’s Neck, except Ralph Tristram’s. In 1675 among those who succes. pet. for a large gr. above Saco. Sued Henry Williams for debt in Wells ct.: 1676, Richard More jr. in Suff. ct. 1677. List 236. Adm. in Suff. ct. 20 Dec. 1680 to the wid. and Capt. Elisha Hutchinson; inv. incl. land and a wareho. at Winter Harbor; debts . ‘which we hope some time to receive’ £321; debts of fishermen and others, little worth, many of them left by Mr. Downes, £1623. See also (6). In Kittery ct., 1695, Mehitabel W. ct al. sued Joshua Downing for 5 a. betw. Watts Fort and Franks Fort. She d. in Boston 20 July 1701, and E. Hutchinson claimed Scarb. land adj. John McKenney for self and her heirs. List 188.
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