Family:Isaac Bronson and Thankful Clark (1)

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Parents: John Bronson and Sarah Barnes
Deacon Isaac Bronson
b. 19 Jul 1761 Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
d. 28 Apr 1845 Wolcott, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Parents: Israel Clark and Mehitabel Unknown
Thankful Clark
b. Abt 1754 Southington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (probably)
d. 23 Jun 1847 Wolcott, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
m. 10 Feb 1783 Southington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
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Alt Marriage[1][2][3] 10 Feb 1773 Southington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Marriage[3] 10 Feb 1783 Southington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
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This marriage is not recorded in any published Connecticut Vital Records nor, notwithstanding Mr. Jacobus' sketch of Thankful Clark, in the Southington Church Records. The below excerpt from Rev. Orcutt's lengthy sketch of Deacon Brunson, places the marriage in 1783 which is probably correct since the future deacon was only 12 years of age in 1773 and the couple's eldest known child (also Isaac) was born in 1784.

"When about half way in his twenty-second year he married Thankful Clark, probably the daughter of Israel Clark, … and a few months after, was attracted to church by the 'extraordinary eloquence,' as he says, of the preaching of Rev. Edmond Mills, who was filling Mr. Gillet's pulpit, Mr. Gillet being unable to preach. During the revival which occurred in the summer of 1783, under the preaching of Mr. Mills and Mr. Miller, he entered into the Christian life with great exercises of mind, and also with great decision and earnestness. … He dates the commencement of his Christian life on the ninth day of August, 1783, and on the 27th of the same month he entered into a 'covenant of self-dedication to God,' as directed by Dr. Doddridge, …"[3]

References
  1. ↑ Clark, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974)
    2:412.

    "Thankful (Clark) … m 10 Feb 1773 (church record, Congregational Society, Southington) Isaac Bronson."

  2. ↑ 44. Isaac Bronson, in Timlow, Heman Rowlee. Ecclesiastical and Other Sketches of Southington, Connecticut. (Hartford, Conn. : Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1875)
    xxxiv.

    "Isaac Bronson, son. of John (25), … m. Feb. 10, 1773, Thankful Clark."

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 34. Deacon Isaac Bronson, in Orcutt, Samuel. History of the Town of Wolcott (Connecticut) from 1731 to 1874: With an Account of the Centenary Meeting, September 10th and 11th, 1873, and with the Genealogies of the Families of the Town. (Waterbury, Conn.: Press of the American Printing Company, 1874)
    460, 289.

    "Deacon Isaac Bronson, son of John and Sarah (Barnes) Bronson, married, Feb. 10, 1773, Thankful Clark (probably), the daughter of Israel Clark of Wolcott, …"

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