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Rachel (Partridge) Clarke (1669 - 1717)

Rachel Clarke formerly Partridge
Born in Medfield, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 1691 (to 1717) in Medfield, Suffolk, Massachusetts Baymap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 48 in Medway, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Provincemap
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Contents

Biography

Birth

Rachel was born to John and Magdalen Bullard Partridge on 12 Jul 1669 at Medfield, Suffolk (now Norfolk), Massachusetts[1]

Marriage

Theophilus Clark married Rachel Partridge in Medfield before 1693, probably in 1691. The marriage does not seem to be recorded in any town's records, but Torrey records it without question.[2]

NOTE: Rachel Partridge did not marry Joseph Daniells. Many family trees claim a first brief marriage between Joseph Daniells and this Rachel Partridge. This claim is included in histories by Ephraim Orcutt Jameson and William Cutter. But there is no support for it in the vital records, it is called doubtful in Torrey's exhaustive study of early New England marriages, and it is impossible because Rachel, far from dying before 1693 when Joseph actually married Bethia, instead produced 12 children with her actual husband Theophilus Clark between 1692 and 1712, before dying in Medway in December 1717. For those reasons, that purported marriage has been removed from this profile.

Children

Theophilus and Rachel had, in Medfield:[3] [4]

  • Rachel, b. Dec. 13, 1692
  • James, b. Mar. 7, 1693-4
  • Rebecka, b. Jan. 23,? 1694-5 , died Aug. 13, 1716
  • Benjamin, b. Oct. 10, 1696, died Aug. 24, 1716
  • Theophilus, b. Apr. 16, 1698, died Aug. 28, 1716
  • Ebenezer, b. Jan. 21, 1699-1700
  • Deborah, b. Oct. 12, 1701
  • Zebiah, b. Nov. 1, 1703
  • Caleb, b. Sept. 24, 1705
  • Dorcas, b. Mar. 13, 1706-7
  • Mary, b. May 5, 1710, m.?? Joseph Whiting , Nov. 21, 1727 or William Province, Dec. 29, 1738??
  • Abigail, b. Apr. 20, 1712

Death

Rachel Partridge Clark died 1 Dec 1717, at Medway, Suffolk, Massachusetts[5]

Burial

Burial: Vine Lake Cemetery, Medfield, Massachusetts

Christening

Baptism: 12 Jul 1669, at Medfield, Suffolk (now Norfolk), Massachusetts

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Sources

  1. Medfield VR's, p.78.
  2. Torrey, New England Marriages prior to 1700, p. 203
  3. Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the year 1850, p. 33-39
  4. Norfolk, Vital Records of Medway, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 , pp. 169,
  5. Norfolk, Vital Records of Medway, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 , p. 298

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Scott Harris for creating WikiTree profile Partridge-747 through the import of Harris Family Tree.ged on Mar 19, 2013.

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Partridge-788 and Partridge-371 appear to represent the same person because: These profiles were rejected as a match. Is there a reason? There appears to be no conflicts.
posted by Daniel (Bernfeld) Ash
Changed birth place to Medfield [Medfield VR's, p.78]

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