Susanna (Ring) Clarke (abt. 1605 - bef. 1665)

Born about 1605 in England

Descendants

Died before 1665 before about age 60 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony

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Biography

Susanna (Ring) Clarke immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Susanna or Susanah Ring was born between 1605 and 1611,^[1] either in England or in Leyden, Holland, the daughter of William Ring and Mary Durrant. She came to Plymouth in 1629 with her widowed mother and two siblings. Susanna married Thomas Clarke probably in Plymouth before 1634.^[1][2][3][4] She died before 1664,^[1] and is buried at Burial Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Children

Robert Charles Anderson, in Great Migration Begins. Vol 1, A-F, states that Susanna and her husband Thomas Clarke were married by 1631, and attributes six children to them:

• William, b. about 1634,
  • m. first Sarah Wolcott 1 March 1659/60 at Plymouth
  • m. second Hannah Griswold 7 March 1677/8 at Saybrook
  • m. third Abiah Wilder, 3 August 1692 at Plymouth
• James, b. say 1636
  • m. Abigail Lothrop 7 October 1657 at Plymouth
• Susanna, b. say 1638
  • m. Barnabas Lathrop 3 November 1658 at Plymouth or 1 December 1658 at Barnstable
• John, b. about 1640
  • m. Sarah __?__ by 1668 (birth of eldest child)
• Nathaniel, b. say 1642,
  • m. Dorothy (Lettice) Gray, daughter of Thomas Lettice and widow of Edward Gray between July 1684 (account of Edward's estate) and 4 Jun 1686 (sued Nathaniel for divorce)
• Andrew, b. about 1644
  • m. by 1672 Mehitable Scotto

Death

Also per Anderson:

She died between 1646 (birth of youngest son) and 20 January 1664/5 (prenuptial agreement of husband with second wife).

Research Notes

• Possible Immigration (1629) Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
• Residence (July 1631) Marriage Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America
• As per http://familysearch.org/v1/LifeSketch Susanna was born to William and Mary ____ Ring about 1611. There is a possibility that her mother a was Marie Durante of Ufford, Co.Suffolk who married a William Ringe of Petisrey in Ufford on May 21, 1601 but this is not proven and presents some date issues.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} The Chrisman Pedigree, website created by Lonnie Chrisman (accessed 23 Jun 2021)
2. ↑ Frederick Freeman, The history of Cape Cod: Annals of the Thirteen Towns of Barnstable County, (Frederick Freeman, Boston, Massachusetts: W. H. Piper & Co., 1869), p. 524.
3. ↑ Representative men and old families of southeastern Massachusetts: containing historical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and genealogical records of many if the old families. Author: Anonymous, Chicago, Illinois: J.H. Beers & Co., 1912 Vol. 2:954 at "Clark"
4. ↑ Rev. William W. Johnson, Records of the descendants of Thomas Clarke, Plymouth, 1623 - 1697 (North Greenfield, Wisconsin, 1884) p.7

See also:

• Eugene Aubrey Stratton, former Historian General of the General Society of Mayflower Descendents, Plymouth Colony, History and People (Copyright 1986, Ancestry Incorporated)
• Elijah Baldwin Huntington, Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family (J.M. Huntington: Ridgefield, CT, 1884 p. 41, at Barnabas #10, at Abigail #12

• Genealogical notes of Barnstable families, (Barnstable, MA: F.B. & F.P. Goss, 1890) Vol. II, pp. 215-216
• Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/34826812/susanna-clark : accessed 23 June 2021), memorial page for Susanna Ring Clark (1611–unknown), Find A Grave: Memorial #34826812; Maintained by Kevin Avery (contributor 47024642) Unknown. (No gravestone photo, no sources.)
• The ancestors and descendants of Johann Adam Schauss, 1620 A.D. to 2020 A.D. edited by Rev. Nelson A L Weller, Ph.D. 2020 A.D.
• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 22 October 2022, 01:15), entry for Susannah Ring (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LYYG-2MN ); contributed by various users.