Person:Benjamin Clarke (18)

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Benjamin Clarke
b.4 May 1656 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
 
Parents and Siblings
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  • F.  Thomas Clarke (add)
  • M.  Elizabeth (add)
m. Bef 1639
  1. Cornelius Clarke1639 -
  2. Jacob ClarkeAbt 1642 -
  3. Benjamin Clarke1656 -
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Facts and Events
Name Benjamin Clarke
Gender Male
Christening[2] 20 Apr 1656 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Birth[1] 4 May 1656 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
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Disputed Lineage

While Savage is not the most reliable source, his tentative placement of Benjamin (whose father is named as "Sargt Thomas Clarke" in Benjamin's birth record[1]) in the family of Sergeant Thomas Clarke, the blacksmith, seems more reasonable than placing him in the family of Captain Thomas Clarke, the shopkeeper (who Savage says was a Captain by 1653, but he was mistaken in other aspects of this record, so it might have been later). There is no contrary evidence to place him in the family of Captain Thomas Clarke, the shopkeeper, whose will does not mention him or any children he may have had.

References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699 (A Report of the Record Commissioners): Document 130. (Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States: Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, 1883)
    54.

    1656. Town. Benjamin of Sargt Thomas & Elizabeth Clarke born 4th May.

  2. ↑ Dunkle, Robert J., and Ann S. Lainhart. Records of the Churches of Boston and the First Church, Second Parish, and Third Parish of Roxbury: including baptisms, marriages, deaths, admissions, and dismissals: (1600s-1800s). (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001)
    p. 194.

    Beniamin the son of our brother Thomas Clarke.
    [Note recorded between baptisms dated 13 Apr 1656 and 20 Apr 1656 (this one starts the next page). The above source on p. 58 reports the baptism date as "20 day 2 mo", and so one is inclined to believe the page break in this source split a group of baptisms on the same day. In either case, the baptism date precedes the reported birth date. Possibly a birth in March was mistranscribed in May, but that is speculation, the originals not being available online.]

  3.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    1:401.

    Ano[ther] Thomas of Boston, early, adm. of the ch[urch] 18 July 1640, and perhaps the freem[an] of 2 June 1641, was a blacksmith, and may have liv[ed] on the N[orth] side of the harbor, call[ed] Winisemet, now Chelsea, by w[ife] Eliz[abeth] had Cornelius, b. Dec. 1639, bapt 19 July foll[owing]; Jacob, 16 bapt. 22 May 1642; Rachel 6 July 1646, d. at 7 yrs. and perhaps Benjamin, 4 May 1656.

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