link TAG 10:35 includes an abstract of the probate record of Benjamin Joseph of Preston File # 491 which includes 8 children and a "Widdow Sarah Benjamine." No clue is offered as to her maiden name.
The Great Migration the second wife Sarah is identified imply as Sarah ____ not Clark due to lack of evidence that she was a daughter of William Clark of Yarmouth.
Barnard Lumbart testified "...concerning William Clarke of the Towne of Yarmouth lately Deceased; that sometime in July last past the said William Clarke sent for Mr Gorum; and my selfe and when wee Came; hee said that occation of my sending for you att this time is that I Intend to make my will; and to give Joseph Benjamin all that I have; which hee said was but little... I spake unto him as followeth; father Clarke; wee have taken notice what you say Concerning youer wil; wee thinke it not needfull to write it..."
Wakefield, Robert S. "The Lombard Family of Barnstable, Mass." , in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.) 52 (July,1976):136, @ 138.
link Bernard Lombard: "His wife's name is unknown, and it is possible that he had two wives. A clue to the identity of the second wife may be in Bernard's deposition of 20 (12) 1668 in which he calls William Clarke of Yarmouth "Father Clarke." This probably means father-in-law. Bernard probably married in 1632 or a littler earlier, and he may have married in England, as he was about 22 when he came to New England. Bernard moved to Barnstable in 1639 with the Lothrop Group and apparently lived there the rest of his life."
These sources have been used to suggest a maiden name Clark for either the wife of Bernard Lombard or of Joseph Benjamin due to a single use of the term "father Clarke" referring to William Clarke of Yarmouth. Although we have no evidence that the man married or had any children. Unfortunately this had lead to wild speculation on the internet connecting all sorts of imagined people who probably never existed including pulling in Clark families that bear no relationship at all to William Clark. The issue remains unsolved.
