Person:William Clarke (113)

Note of Caution

There are 3 William Clarks who lived in a similar time and place who are often confused by researchers:

• Judge William Clark of the Indiana Territory,
• Gov. William Clark of Missouri, and
• William Clark, surveyor-in-chief of Clark's Grant.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Mentioned, in Indiana Historical Society Publications
   3:91.

   ... William Clarke; died suddenly on Nov. 11, 1802, after attending two sessions of the Governor and Judges. Was succeeded by Thomas Terry Davis. He is often confused with William Clark, brother of Gen. George Rogers Clark, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and afterwards Governor of Missouri; also with William Clark the surveyor, of Clark County, a cousin of Gen. George Rogers Clark, both of whom were for some time residents of Indiana Territory. See English's Conquest of the Northwest, p. 1015. ...

2. ↑ Death Recorded, in English, William Hayden. Conquest of the country northwest of the river Ohio, 1778-1783, and life of Gen. George Rogers Clark: with numerous sketches of men who served under Clark, and full list of those allotted lands in Clark's Grant for service in the campaigns against the British posts, showing exact land allotted each. (Indianapolis, Indiana: Bowen-Merrill Co., 1896).

   [from the records of St. Xavier's Church]
   ... In the year 1802, on the 12th of November, the body of William Clark, one of the judges of the supreme court of the territory of Indiana, was interred in the cemetery of this church. He died the day before, and although having religious convictions, the last progress of his sickness was so rapid that time was not left him to receive the Christian sacraments. An enlightened judge, firm, and incorruptible, he has taken with him the just regrets of all good people.
   
   Vincennes, 12th November, 1802.
   
   T. Sr. Rivete,
   Mission. ...