Person:John Clark (409)
Major John Clark
b.17 Nov 1655 Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
d.17 Feb 1735/36 Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 16 Oct 1650
  1. Rebecca Clark1652/53 - 1704
  2. Major John Clark1655 - 1735/36
  3. James Clark1657 - 1659
  4. Joseph ClarkEst 1662 - Bef 1692
  5. Sarah ClarkAbt 1668 - 1723
  6. Samuel Clark1675 - Bet 1750 & 1752
Spouse and Children
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m. 17 Sep 1684
  1. Nathaniel Clarke1694 - 1772
  2. Samuel Clark1702 -
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Facts and Events
Name[1] Major John Clark
Gender Male
Birth[1] 17 Nov 1655 Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Marriage 17 Sep 1684 Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, United Statesto Rebecca Beamon
Alt Marriage 17 Dec 1684 Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, United Statesto Rebecca Beamon
Death[1] 17 Feb 1735/36 Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Burial[2] Cypress Cemetery, Old Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 John1 Clark, in Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. (Hartford: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1952)
    496.

    "John (Clark), b. 17 Nov. 1655; d. at Saybrook, 17 Feb. 1735/6; m. 17 Sept. 1684, Rebecca Beamon, … dau. of William and Lydia (Danforth) Beamon. He served as Deputy at eighteen sessions of Conn. General Assembly between 1694 and 1728; Lieutenant of the Saybrook Fort, 1694, and of the local trainband, 1699; Captain of the Fort, 1702, and of the 2d Company at Saybrook, 1708; and Major of the New London County Regt., 1709."

  2. ↑ Maj John Clark, in Find A Grave.
  3.   Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College With Annals of the College History. (New York / New Haven: Holt / Yale University Press, 1885-1912)
    Oct 1701-May 1745, 121-122.

    NATHANIEL CLARKE was born in Saybrook, Connecticut, July 19, 1694, the sixth child and fourth son of Major John Clark, Jr., and of his wife Rebecca, daughter of William Beamont, of Saybrook.

    His father was one of the legatees to whom Joshua, Sachem of the Western Niantic Indians, gave (by his will, February, 1675–6) large tracts of land in various unsettled parts of Connecticut; and Major Clark is said to have given, as early as February, 1701–2, a 2,000-acre right in his portion of these lands to the Trustees of the infant College [Yale], if it should be permanently located at Saybrook. ...

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