Josiah Clarke was born about 1760 in Frederick, Maryland.[1] Although census records suggest he was probably born in the 1770s. He was a son of Elias Clarke and Linnea Luckett.
Marriage
On December 13, 1798, Josiah married Jane Adams in Culpeper, Virginia, United States [2] Together they had ten children; six sons and four girls.[3] Their known children are Elias and Moses.
In 1835, Josiah and his family left Virginia to Ohio in a covered wagon and a team of horses, the party numbering thirteen persons. He settled on 80 acres of timbered land. Josiah lived on this land until he died in his nineties in about 1850.[3]
Death
Josiah Clarke died before 1850 in Coshocton, Ohio.
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