Person:William Clarke (43)

BIOGRAPHY: Clarke Genealogies The “Clarke” Families of Rhode Island By George Austin Morrison, Jr., Press of The Evening Post Job Printing House New York 1902 - Page 27

  William Clarke (Joseph 4, Thomas 3, John 2, John 1), of Jamestown, R.I. Died 1683, September 30. He married Hannah Weeden, daughter of William Weeden. After his death she married (2d) Thomas Peckham and (3d) Joseph Clarke, brother of her first husband. She died 1722.
 1677, November 22, the land in Boston Neck, North Kingstown, formerly belonging to John Paine, containing about 350 acres was conveyed to William Clarke; said land was between land of Captain Thomas Willet, deceased, on the south, and John Brown on the north, (History of Washington County, p. 390, by Cole). 1679, August 1, William Clarke petitioned the Assembly concerning several Indians, by him and his company taken in time of war, and recites he was “ commander of one of the sloops in 1676 which was taken from him by the government and for which he now asks indemnity.” The case was referred to the Town Councils of Newport and Portsmouth, R. I.
  By a letter of Roger Williams in the Connecticut archives, dated 1675, June 25, it would appear that the naval force “was composed of sloops,” and that it was sent out nearly a year before it appears upon the Rhode Island records (Conn. MSS., Vol. 1. p. 200, in R.I. Hist. Soc.).
  1683, Oct. 19. Administration to widow Hannah. Inventory, 15 head of neat cattle, 60 sheep, 3 horsekind, 10 swine, feather bed, silk grass bed, flock bed, iron, pewter, musket, etc.

BIRTH: I found this bit in Austin's Genelogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: pg. 494 Clarke. Families of Jeremiah Clarke, p. 44, 3rd colume, and of Joseph Clarke, p. 47, 3rd colume. William Clarke, born 27 May 1673, was not the son of Latham2 Clarke [Jeremiah] but the son of William2 Clarke [Joseph1] of Jamestown, R.I., and his wife Hannah Weeden. William3 married 15 Apr. 1700 Hannah Knight. They later removed to Westerly, R.I., in that part later set off as Charlestown and still later as Richmond, R.I. [See the evidence in New England Hist. & Gen. Register, 85: 418] Anne Townsend Moravia, New York

1.   Morrison, George Austin. Clarke genealogies--the "Clarke" families of Rhode Island: a compilation of the descendants of: (1) Joseph Clarke of Westerly, (2) Jeremiah Clarke of Newport, (3) John Clarke of Newport, (4) Laurence Clarke of Newport, (5) Abraham Clarke of Bristol, (6) John Clarke of Westerly, (7) Ephraim and Ichabod Clarke of Westerly, (8) Ephraim, Ichabod and Samuel Clarke of Cumberland, (9) Timothy Clarke of Bristol Clarke of Cumberland, (IX) Timothy Clarke of Bristol. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1979).
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   Letters of Administration given to widow Hannah Oct. 19, 1683.