Gregory Clark (abt. 1750 - abt. 1837)

Born about 1750 in North Carolina

Descendants

Died about 1837 at about age 87 in South Carolina

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Biography

Gregory, or Grigg, as he [is] commonly called, was a soldier in General Green's army in the Revolutionary war, and tradition says that he was married when he came to S.C.; he was mustered out of the army at Hilton's Head on the seacoast of S.C. and liked the country there so well, he went back to N.C. and persuaded his father, Charles Clark and family to move to that place. The climate on the coast proving sickly for them, they started back to their old home in North Carolina. But when they got to Congaree Creek in Lexington County they stopped to rest and recruit, but they never went any further.Grigg bought him a home on a small branch of the Congaree called Turkey Creek and lived there until he died about 1835. He was about 85 year old when he died and was buried at Nazareth then known as Lybrand's church six miles south of Lexington, S.C ...... Gregory and his wife Lurena nee Parker had nine children, Sally, Rachel, Cornelius, Parker, Clarissa, Nancy, Fanny, Katy and Charity.Sally married John Berry, Cornelius married Nancy Lee, Parker, the writer does not know if he ever married; Rachel married Johnathan Taylor, Clarissa married Michael M Seay, Nancy married Dave Shotts; Fanny and Katy married Arnolds and

Charity married a Harman.

Grigg Birth: ABT 1752 at Hillsborough District, North Carolina 1 Death: Jan 1837 at Lexington Co., South Carolina 2 Burial: Nazareth Evangelical Lutheran Church cemetery, Lexington Co., South Carolina 3 Sex: M Event: Revolutionary War Patriot, registered with the DAR Military Service 4 5 Notes: Was a Patriot, registered with the DAR under National Number 670338 Sources: 6 7

I also found a reference to Grig Clark in a book, Random Recollections of a Long Life by Edwin J. Scott, in which Clark is referred to as an old Revolutionary War soldier. Clark is mentioned on page 133 of the book.

• Find A Grave: Memorial #33484747 for Gregory "Grig" Clark. 1752-Jan 1837, Buried: Nazareth Lutheran Church Cemetery, Lexington, Lexington County, South Carolina

• Fact: Burial Red Bank, Lexington, South Carolina

Notes

Future DAR applicants must prove correct service. Pension R1998-Heirs applied & rejected for no proof of service.

Sources

1790 United States Federal Census for Grigory Clark South Carolina Orangeburg

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 29 November 2016, 22:41), entry for Gregory Clark(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LWXS-HPC); contributed by various users.

source http://sc-families.org/tree/I41.html

BIOGRAPHIES, The Seay Family (also spelled See and Sea). Steven Butler's Family History Website. copyright 1995-2015. p. 2.

• Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension Statements & Rosters Pension application of Gregory Clark R1998 Luraney fn19NC Transcribed by Will Graves 11/17/10 [Methodology: Spelling, punctuation and/or grammar have been corrected in some instances for ease of reading and to facilitate searches of the database. Also, the handwriting of the original scribes often lends itself to varying interpretations. Users of this database are urged to view the original and to make their own decision as to how to decipher what the original scribe actually wrote. Blanks appearing in the transcripts reflect blanks in the original. Folks are free to make non-commercial use this transcript in any manner they may see fit, but please extend the courtesy of acknowledging the transcriber—besides, if it turns out the transcript contains mistakes, the resulting embarrassment will fall on the transcriber. I use speech recognition software to make all my transcriptions. Such software misinterprets my southern accent with unfortunate regularity and my poor proofreading fails to catch all misinterpretations. I welcome and encourage folks to call those and any other errors to my attention.] State of South Carolina Lexington District On this second day of August A.D. 1855 personally appeared before me James J Clark a Magistrate of said District Rachel Taylor formerly Rachael Clark before her marriage aged sixty- seven years, and who is physically unable to attend court being unable to leave home at this time who being duly sworn according to law makes oath and says that she is the child of Gregory Clark who was a Soldier of the American Revolutionary War that he performed service in said war for about 10 months as she is informed and believes and as appears from the Army certificate returned to the Treasury by the Sheriff of Randolph County and Hillsboro District North Carolina as appears by a certificate from the Comptroller of North Carolina here with presented. That her father Gregory Clark and her mother Lurany Parker were married in the year 1781 that he died January 1837, that she died June 1849, leaving Sarah intermarried with John Berry, Cornelius Clark, Parker Clark, Nancy intermarried with David Shots, Santee intermarried with Jacob Herrold, Catherine intermarried with David Herrold , Clarissa intermarried with Michael See and this deponent children of the said Gregory Clark and his wife Lurany Clark all of whom survived the said Gregory and Lurany & are now living (except Nancy who died previous to her father & mother). Sworn to and subscribed before me the day & year above written. S/ James J. Clark, Magistrate S/ Rachel Taylor, X her mark [fn p. 9: certificate dated July 18, 1855 from the North Carolina Comptroller showing payments made to one G. Clark during the revolutionary war for military services.] [facts in file: a James H Taylor who gave his post office address as New prospect, Winston County Mississippi in 1856 and as of 1858 in Leighton, Alabama referred to G. Clark and Lurany Clark as his grandfather and grandmother.] Revearapps.org