Person:Rachel Clarke (4)
Rachel Clark
b.6 Jul 1646 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
d.16 Nov 1653 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. Bef 1632
  1. Leah ClarkBef 1632 - Bef 1704
  2. Deborah ClarkAbt 1644 - 1717
  3. Rachel Clark1646 - 1653
  4. Elizabeth ClarkBef 1648 - Bef 1681
  5. Thomas ClarkCal 1647 - Bef 1648
  6. Thomas ClarkeCal 1648 - Bef 1650
  7. Thomas Clarke1650 - Bef 1698
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Facts and Events
Name Rachel Clark
Alt Name Rachel Clarke
Gender Female
Birth[1] 6 Jul 1646 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Christening[2] 12 Jul 1646 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Death[3] 16 Nov 1653 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Other? Speculative parents: Thomas Clarke and Elizabeth Unknown (3)
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Uncertain Lineage

There is no obvious evidence available online to place Rachel in the family of Sergeant Thomas Clarke, blacksmith, and his wife Elizabeth or the family of Captain Thomas Clarke, shopkeeper, and his wife Elizabeth. Savage[4] makes a distinction between the two families, and places Rachel in the family of the blacksmith (on what evidence, if any, is unknown). Thwing[5] conflates the two families, so is unhelpful in this regard.

Leah (Clark) Baker, daughter of Captain Thomas Clarke, shopkeeper, and his wife Elizabeth, had a daughter named Rachel, which suggests the possibility that Rachel Clark was her sister, but this is by no means definitive. If Leah's sister Elizabeth was born before their sister Deborah (a reasonable possibility), there was room for Rachel in this family.

References
  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)
    24.

    1646. Town. Rachel of Thomas & Elizabeth Clarke born 6th - 5th month. [6 July 1646]

  2. ↑ 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)
    24.

    1646. First Church. Rachel of Thomas Clarke aged about 6 day 12 day 5 mo.
    [12 July 1646]

  3. ↑ 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)
    42.

    1653. Town. Rachel of Thomas & Elizabeth Clarke died 16th - 9th month. [16 Nov 1653]

  4. ↑ 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.

  5. ↑ Thwing, Annie Haven, and Massachusetts) Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston. Inhabitants and estates of the town of Boston, 1630-1800, and The crooked and narrow streets of Boston, 1630-1822. (Boston, MA: Massachusetts Historical Society; New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001)
    pp. 5187-5189.
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