Sylvanus Clark (1692 - 1741)

Born 1 Feb 1692 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Damaris (Hitchcock) Clark — married 22 Apr 1717 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 1741 at about age 48 in Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut

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Biography

Sylvanus Clark was born 1 Feb 1691 at Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, the 6th child of Ebenezer and his first wife Sarah (possibly Peck) Clark. Sylvanus married Damaris Hitchcock at Wallingford on 22 Apr 1717. Damaris died in Nov 1731, and Sylvanus married second, Abiah Lines, daughter of Ralph and Abiah (Bassett) Lines.^[1]

Children with Damaris:

1. Jonah Clark, born 31 Jan 1718
2. Thankful Clark, born 21 Dec 1719
3. Hannah Clark, born about 1722; baptized 6 Jun 1725.
4. William Clark, baptized 31 Oct 1725
5. Ephraim Clark, baptized 13 Sep 1730; died young.

Children with Abiah:

1. Damaris Clark, baptized Sep 1735; married Abraham Doolittle.
2. Abiah Clark, baptized Sep 1735; married Joshua Brooks; died 24 Sep 1790.

Sources

1. ↑ Jacobus, p. 409.

See also:

• New England Marriages Prior to 1700, by Clarence Almon Torrey (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011) Vol. I, p. 319. CLARK, Ebenezer (1651-1721) & 1/wf Sarah PECK (1653-1696); 6 May 1678; Wallingford, CT/New Haven. CLARK, Ebenezer (-1721) & 2/wf Elizabeth (PARKER) ROYCE/ROADS, w Josiah, m/3 Nathaniel ANDREWS; 22 Dec 1696; Wallingford, CT.

• Vital Records of Wallingford, p. 60. Connecticut Vital Records to 1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928.

• Vital Records of New Haven, 1649-1850. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org.New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2007), (Vital Records of New Haven, 1649-1850, Connecticut Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, Hartford, CT, 1917.)

• Donald Lines Jacobus. Families of Ancient New Haven.

• Beach, Joseph Perkins. History of Cheshire, Connecticut, from 1694-1840 (Lady Fenwick Chapter, D.A.R., Cheshire, Conn., 1912) Page 290: baptism of children of Sylvanus Clark

• Jacobus, Donald Lines. Hale, House, and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley (Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, 1952) Page 261.