Andrew Clarke (1646 - 1706)

Born 1646 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Mehitable (Scotto) Clarke — married 1671 in Boston, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 12 Nov 1706 at about age 60 in Harwich, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Andrew Clarke (son of Thomas Clarke and Susanna Ring) was born ca 1646 at Plymouth.^[1] He married Mehitable Scottow on 1671 in Boston, Suffolk, MA, daughter of Thomas Scottow and Joan Sanford. They had six known children.^[1]

Andrew lived in Boston, where his name is found in the tax lists for 1674. He was in the shoe business, and lived in Scotto's Lane, where his father bought him a house. He was assistant counsellor, and several times representative to the general court. Four of the children's births were recorded there.^[1]

He removed to Harwich, of which he was one of the original proprietors, in 1694. Burial Old Burying Ground, Brewster, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA

Children

1. Thomas CLARK b: 10 Jul 1672 in Boston
2. Susannah CLARK b: 12 Mar 1673/74 in Boston
3. Andrew CLARK bap. 06 Jan 1676 in Boston; m Elizabeth Winslow
4. Mehitable CLARK b: 8 Dec 1676 in Boston
5. Scotto CLARK b: ca 1680 in Harwich; m Mary Haskell
6. Nathaniel CLARK b: ca 1682 in Harwich

Probate

Andrew Clark of Harwich died intestate and on 12 November 1706, his widow Mehitable was granted the administration of his estate.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Jacobus, Donald Lines. "Thomas Clark(e) of Plymouth and Boston in the line of Nathaniel³, of Lyme Connecticut." The American Genealogist. Volume 7, 1971. Page 6. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/12133/6/23906077
2. ↑ "Probate records v. 1-3 1686-1747" database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9YB-N96X  : 24 April 2024), Film# 007705400, Barnstable, Massachusetts, image 226, Vol 3, Page 34.

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