Person:Joanna Clark (1)

She was the daughter of James Clark and Abigail Lothrop and was on the list of members of the Plymouth Church as of July 29, 1724.

From Savage's Genealogical Dictionary

JAMES, Plymouth, s[on]. of Thomas, m[arried]. 7 Oct. 1657, Abigail, youngest d[aughter]. of Rev. John Lothrop.

THOMAS, Plymouth, a carpenter, came in the Ann 1623, m[arried]. Susanna, d[aughter]. of wid[ow]. Mary Ring, (bef[ore]. 1631, when in her mo[ther].'s will he is nam[ed].), had Andrew; James; Susanna, wh[o]. m[arried]. 3 Nov. 1658, Barnabas Lothrop; William; John; and Nathaniel. He was rep[resentative]. 1651 and 5, m[arried]. sec[ond]. w[ife]. 1664, wid[ow]. Alice Nichols, d[aughter]. of Richard Hallet, liv[ing]. in 1670 at Harwich, where he had third w[ife]. Elizabeth Crow, perhaps wid[ow]. of John, and d[ied]. 24 Mar. 1697, aged, says the gr[ave].stone, 98, or more prob[ably]. only 92, since in 1664 he made o[ath]. that he was a[bout]. 59 y[ea]rs. old. But to this suffic[ient]. longev[ity]. the " Guide to Plymouth," 255, would make alarming addit[ion]. in his note, " suppos[ed]. mate of the Mayflower." We can hardly doubt, that the oldest surv[iving]. of that memo[rable]. voyage, within the bounds of the Old Colony, would have been too well known to need a weak tradit[ion]. to lean on; and that officer of 1620 must have been older than the oldest liv[ing]. in 1697, had he not been d[ead]. many y[ea]rs. bef[ore]. In 1627 this Thomas, not the mate, had sh[ared]. in the div[ision]. of l[ands]ds. as com[ing]. in the Ann, not Mayflower.

1. ↑ National Genealogical Society Quarterly
   Vol. 74, June 1968, #2, p. 91, 100.

   Descendants of Mr. John Holmes, Messenger of the Plymouth Court by Eugene A. Stratton, C.G., F.A.S.G.

2. ↑ James Savage, Former President of the Massachusetts Historical Society and Editor of Winthrop's History of New England. 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. (1860-62 and Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1965; Corrected electronic version copyright Robert Kraft, July 1994)
   Vol. 1, p. 394, 400-401.
3. ↑ William T. Davis. Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families. (1895; 1975)
   p. 142.