"80. Joel Clark, son of Moses (29), b. July 20, 1728, in New Haven; … He settled in Southington (South End), on the place recently known as the Captain Anson Matthews place, where his son, Sidney Matthews, now lives, where he owned two or more large farms. He was a trader, and on the breaking out of the Revolutionary War, entered the army as Lieutenant-Colonel, in the regiment of which Jedediah Huntington, of Norwich, was Colonel. He was at the battle of Long Island, in September, 1776, and was there taken prisoner, and died in prison, in New York, about the close of that year, aged 48."