Ruth (Spencer) Clark (1654 - 1744)

Born 1654 in East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Clark — married 1674 in Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 28 Nov 1744 at about age 90 in Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut

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Biography

Ruth was born in 1654. She was the daughter of Gerard Spencer. She married Joseph Clark, whose will dated 24 Oct 1716 is recorded in Haddam Deeds (2:255), son of William.^[1] She passed away in 1744.

"JOSEPH5 CLARK (WILLIAM (HARTFORD AND HADDAM FOUNDER)4, THOMAS3, JOHN2, JOHN1) was born 1653 in Hartford, Hartford, CT, and died 1723 in Haddam, Middlesex, CT. He married RUTH SPENCER 1674 in Haddam, Middlesex, CT, daughter of Gerrard Spencer and Hannah Hills.

Children of Joseph Clark and Ruth Spencer are:

15. i. KATHERINE6 CLARK, b. 1675, Haddam, Middlesex, CT; d. 1755, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.

ii. WILLIAM CLARK, b. Haddam, Middlesex, CT; m. (1) MARY; m. (2) PRUDENCE, November 14, 1699.

iii. JOSEPH CLARK, b. Haddam, Middlesex, CT; d. January 23, 1749/50.

iv. DANIEL CLARK, b. Haddam, Middlesex, CT; m. MARY.

v. JOHN CLARK, b. Haddam, Middlesex, CT.

vi. HANNAH CLARK, b. Haddam, Middlesex, CT."^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, American Genealogist, "The Four Spencer Brothers", 64 pages Spencer Genealogy.
2. ↑ William Clark Descendants of William (HARTFORD AND HADDAM FOUNDER) Clark http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wcarr1/william_clark.htm

See also:

• Spencer DNA Surname Project, Group one DNA. Spencer Genealogical and Historical Society, co-founder Dana R. Spencer (Class of 1962 R.I.T)