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Elder Jonas Clark
b.Abt 1620
Facts and Events
| Name[1][2] |
Elder Jonas Clark |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1][2][3] |
Abt 1620 |
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| Marriage |
Bef 1642 |
Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child (Thomas).
to Sarah _____ |
| Residence[1] |
1642 |
Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Marriage |
30 Jul 1650 |
Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Elizabeth Clark |
| Marriage |
19 Aug 1673 |
Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Elizabeth Cook |
| Ordination[1] |
15 Nov 1682 |
Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United StatesRuling Elder of Cambridge Church. |
| Death[1][2][3] |
11 Jan 1699/00 |
Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Alt Death[1] |
14 Jan 1699/00 |
Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 3. Jonas Clark, in Paige, Lucius Robinson. History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877: With a Genealogical Register. (Boston, Massachusetts: H. O. Houghton, 1877)
510.
"3. Jonas (Clark), the 'famous' ruling Elder of the Cambridge Church, was here in 1642, and Selectman in 1679 and 1690. He seems to have been a ship-master in early life. The General Court Records, under date of Oct. 18, 1654, contain a report made by 'Mr. Jonas Clarke and Mr. Samuel Andrews, both well skilled in the mathematics, having had the command of ships upon several voyages, being appointed to take an observation at the northerly bounds of our Patent upon the sea-coast,' etc. This report, doubtless made by two residents of Camb., is dated Oct. 29, 1653; the observation was taken Oct. 13, 1653. The residence of Elder Clark was on the southerly side of South Street near its junction with Holyoke Street. He was three times married; …
Jonas the f. was ordained Ruling Elder of the Church 15 Nov. 1682. His associate, Elder John Stone, ordained at the same time, died within a year afterwards, and Elder Clark held the office alone until 14 Jan. 1700, when he died a. 80 years; and the office was never again filled. Judge Sewall notices his death thus: 'Lord's-day, January 14 1699/1700 Elder Jonas Clark of Cambridge dies; a good man in a good old age, and one of my first and best Cambridge friends. He quickly follows the great patron of Ruling Elders, Tho. Danforth, Esq.'"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 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)
1:397.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year of 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1914-15)
Vol. 2, p. 506.
CLARK, Jonas Elder, [died] Jan. 11, 1699, a. 80 y. GR1a
[Birth about 1619-1620. GR1a=Cemetery at Harvard Square, as compiled in 1845 by William T. Harris]
- Elder Jonas Clark, in Find A Grave.
- Harris, William Thaddeus. Epitaphs from the Old Burying Ground in Cambridge: with Notes. (Cambridge, Mass.: J. Owen, 1845)
27.
"Here lyeth buried the
Body of Mr. JONAS CLARK
Ruling Elder of [ye] Church
of Christ in Cambridg
Deceased ye 11 of January
1699 and Ætat. 80."
"Jonas Clark, freeman 1647, member of the church; Sarah, his wife, died Feb. 20, 1649 (0. S.), and he married, July 30, 1650, Elizabeth Clark."
NOTE: Not included in Paige's list of freemen.
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