Elizabeth (UNKNOWN) Clark (bef. 1625 - 1692)

Born before 1625 in England

Wife of Hugh Clark — married 1640 (to 11 Dec 1692) in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America

Descendants

Died 11 Dec 1692 after age 67 in Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Elizabeth ______^[1] and Hugh Clark were named as parents at the birth of their first three children. The first was born Oct 1641.^[2]

Elizabeth and Hugh lived in Watertown, Massachusetts, when their children were born and then later in Roxbury, Massachusetts. "Elizabeth Clerk y^e wife of Hugh Clark [was admitted to the Roxbury Church] being dismissed from Watertown Church" on 19 July 1657.^[1][3]

16 April 1681, Hugh and his wife Elizabeth gave for "love, good will & affection which we have and bear unto our loving son John Clarke of Muddy River in the Township of Boston ... yeoman... all the our messuage ... in New Cambridge ... by estimation sixty acres ... Also six acres of Fresh meadow land ... And also one acre of salt marsh meadow land lying in Cambridge salt marsh..."^[1][4]

The wife of Hugh Clark died 11 Dec 1692. Hugh died 20 July 1693, both in Roxbury, Massachusetts.^[5]

Children of Hugh and Elizabeth (_____) Clark, born at Watertown, Massachusetts:^[1]

1. John Clark b. 13 Oct 1641;.^[2] d. Newton 6 Jan 1694/5; m. (1) Abigail _____; m. (2) 18 Nov 1680, Roxbury, Lydia Buckm,inster; m. (3) 18 Dec 1684, Newton, Elizabeth Norman.
2. Uriah Clark b. 5 June 1644;.^[2] d. Watertown 26 July 1721 age 77y,1m 21d; m. (1) abtyo Oct 1674, Joannah Holbrook; m. (2)Mary (Twells/Twelves) King; m (3) Martha (Trescott) (Hewin) Adams
3. Elizabeth Clark b. 31 Jan 1647/8;.^[2] died after 9 Dec 1703; buried in Framingham; m. (1) about 176675 Joseph Buckminster; m. (2) by 28 Feb 1674/5 Abial Lamb
4. Hester/Esther Clark b. abt 1651; d. Pomfret, Connecticut, 15 June 1738 aged about 87; m. about 1672 John Grosvenor

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Early New England Families, 1641 – 1700. (Original Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013. (By Alicia Crane Williams, Lead Genealogist.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB501/i/40201/1/1085576403
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Historical Society of Watertown (Mass.). Watertown Records: Comprising the First And Second Books of Town Proceedings, With the Lands, Grants And Possessions, Also the Proprietors' Book, And the First Book And Supplement of Births, Deaths And Marriages. (Watertown, Mass.: Press of F.G. Barker, 1894.) John p. 9; Uriah p. 11; Elizabeth p. 13; Esther not in the vital records.
3. ↑ Boston (Mass.). Registry Dept A report of the Record Commissioners, containing the Roxbury land and church records (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1894) p. 87
4. ↑ ENEF cites Middlesex Deeds 10:589
5. ↑ Essex Institute. Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute, 1926.) p. 490

• Wood. William S., Descendants of the Brothers Jeremiah and John Wood (Press of Charles Hamilton, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1885) 292 pages - Part II beginning on page 217 (re: dtr Elizabeth)