Mary (Clark) White (1734 - abt. 1774)

Born 10 Feb 1734 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Hugh White Esq. — married 23 Aug 1753 (to 1774) in MIddletown, Connecticut

Descendants

Died about 1774 at about age 39 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut [uncertain]

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Biography

Mary Clark was born in Middletown, Connecticut on February 10, 1733/4 ^[1][2], the only known child of Daniel Clark and Mary Wilcox; her mother died March 6, 1733/4, at Middletown, Connecticut.

On August 23, 1753, in Middletown, Connecticut, Mary married the Honorable Hugh White, Jr. ^[3][4]

Hon. Hugh White, as he is designated in the records of the family, was the youngest son of Hugh White, and was born in Middletown, Connecticut, January 25, 1733. He "settled,” in Middletown, and married Mary Clark of the same town. All of his children were born there. His wife died in 1774. ^[5]

Mary (Clark) White died in 1774, and is buried in the Old Burying Ground in Cromwell, Middlesex County, Connecticut. ^[6] The ten children of Mary and Hugh are listed in the bio on her Find A Grave memorial viewed here: https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2019/6/53175075_5e8c626d-fb65-45ff-ba22-f8fcfddb6223.jpeg

Hugh married second Mrs Lois Davenport, widow of Ebenezer Davenport, and daughter of Jonathan Marsh and Elizabeth Loomis. ^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7WF-38B : 3 December 2014), Mary Clark, 10 Feb 1733; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
2. ↑ "Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)," Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original data - White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.
3. ↑ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. Reference Middletown volume, page 489 via $American Ancestors
4. ↑ "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP73-1NBK : 15 April 2022), Mary Clark in entry for Hugh White, ; citing Marriage, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 008272249
5. ↑ "Transactions of the Oneida Historical Society at Utica, N.Y., 1881 - 1884," Printed for the Society, by Ellis H. Roberts & Co., Printers, 1885. The Whitestown Centennial, Address of WILLIAM M. WHITE. Contributed by Laura Perkins
6. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53175075/mary-magdalena-white
7. ↑ North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 for Daniel Clark - Middletown Upper Houses : A history of the North Society of Middletown, Connecticut, from 1650 to - https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61157/images/46155_b290495-00259?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.255183054.776259929.1598317044-1670828725.1591635556&pId=4006273

• Kellogg, Allyn Stanley, "Memorials of Elder John White, One of the First Settlers of Hartford, Conn., and of His Descendants" Case, Lockwood, 1860, pp 52, 86-88 accessed October 27, 2017[1]: accessed October 27, 2017

• "Connecticut, Deaths, 1640-1955", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7QQ-MPD : 11 June 2020), Daniel Clark in entry for Mary Clark, 1733.

Transcription:

Daniel Clark & Mary Willcock were joyned in marriage Septmr 21 1732

Mary daughter to Daniel Clark & Mary his wife was born Febry 10 1733/4

Mary the wife of Daniel Clark Departed this Life. March 6 1733/4

Daniel Clark Departed this Life April 30 1753

• Oneida Historical Society at Utica, Year Book

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LC5L-XJR