Thomas Clark (1686 - abt. 1752)

Born 11 Feb 1686 in Killingworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Unknown) Clark — married 1720 in Gloucester, New Jersey

Husband of Ruth (Hutton) Clark — married 20 Aug 1745 in Gloucester, New Jersey

Descendants

Died about 17 May 1752 at about age 66 in Clarks Landing, Gloucester, New Jersey, British Colonial America

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Biography

Thomas was born about 1686. He was the son of Daniel Clarke and Ruth Barber. Thomas Clark was "....the progenitor of the Clark family of Galloway Twp., Atlantic Co., was Thomas Clark Sr. (ca. 1689-1752), who is thought to have come from Connecticut to Egg Harbour, Burlington Co., by 1718. Thomas died intestate on 17 May 1752, leaving at least three sons: Thomas, David and Elijah. He is buried beside his wife Ruth at Clark's Landing, overlooking the Mullica River. The sons Thomas Jr. (ca. 1722-1793) and David (d. 1803) purchased several tracts of land, jointly, in Great Egg Harbour Twp., Gloucester County (later Galloway Twp., Atlantic Co.). Thomas Jr. died 31 October 1793, aged 71; he is buried beside his wife Sarah (Parker) at Clark's Mills, now Port Republic, Atlantic Co. Thomas Jr.'s three sons, Reuben, Adrial, and Parker, served as privates in the Gloucester County Militia during the Revolutionary War. Reuben (born ca. 1754) inherited his father's homestead plantation amounting to about 1,500 acres. He received a state military pension in 1837, and is listed on the 1840 census of pensioners in Galloway Twp.,^[1], aged 86. He was apparently the same Reuben Clark who married in 1811, Olive (-?-), and had by her four children" ^[2] See: Clark Family Papers. note: Atlantic County was part of Gloucester county before 1776.

Marriages

His first wife was Hannah ( maiden name unknown) who was the mother of all his children.

He was married secondly to Ruth Hudson/Hutton/Huttom later in life. No issue from this second marriage. ^[3][4].

Legacy

Thomas Clark's family were early settlers as witnessed by the names of nearby locations of "Clarktown", near Mays Landing, and "Clarks Landing", on the Mullica River, near Egg Harbor City. The Presbyterians met at Clark's Mills Meeting House, built by Thomas Clark about 1762.

Burial

"He is buried beside his second wife, Ruth, at Clark's Landing" ^[5][6][7]

The site is marked by the old Burying Ground or Churchyard, at what was known as Clark's Mills, now a part of Port Republic. On the river bank, at the site of the Clark Plantation, in Clarks Landing are two headstone: "Here lyes the body of Mr. Thomas Clark who died May 17, A. D. 1752 in the 65 year of his age." "Here lyes the body of Mrs. Ruth Clark wife of Mr Thomas Clark who died June 2nd 1749 in the 53rd year of her age."

Sources

1. ↑ Bible of Reuben Clark (including a family record), ca. 1820s [original in oversized box].
2. ↑ NEW JERSEY STATE ARCHIVES COLLECTION GUIDE.
3. ↑ "New Jersey, County Marriages, 1682-1956," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VKM6-PDK : 18 October 2017), Thomas Clark and Ruth Hudson, 20 Aug 1746; citing Monmouth, New Jersey, United States, New Jersey State Archives, Trenton; FHL microfilm 802,943.
4. ↑ "New Jersey Marriages, 1678-1985," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FZVP-G5T : 12 December 2014), Thomas Clark and Ruth Hutton, 20 Aug 1746; citing 1,543,474
5. ↑ They had no issue together
6. ↑ GENEALOGY OF THE CLARK FAMILY - of South Jersey (NJ). Information located at: On a USGenWeb/NJGenWeb Web site, June 2007. TRANSCRIBED BY GEORGE PRICE, a volunteer for NJGenWeb. The original source is the The Daily Union history of Atlantic City and County, New Jersey : containing sketches of the past and present of Atlantic City and county, with maps and illustrations specially prepared, by John F. Hall; Atlantic City, N.J.: Daily Union, (1900).
7. ↑ Hall, John F. The Daily Union History of Atlantic City and County, New Jersey: Containing Sketches of the Past and Present of Atlantic City and County, with Maps and Illustrations Specially Prepared. Salem, Mass.: Higginson Book Company, 1999. Print.

• familysearch.org
• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F74K-BFK : 7 January 2020), Thomas Clark, 1686.
• "New Jersey Births and Christenings, 1660-1980", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ6H-3QH : 14 February 2020), Thos. Clark in entry for Saml. Clark, 1724.
• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCM3-V44 : 10 November 2020), Thomas Clark in entry for Hannah Clark, 9 Feb 1732; citing Birth, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004329324.
• "New Jersey Marriages, 1678-1985", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZVP-G5T : 20 January 2020), Thomas Clark, 1746.

• Find A Grave: Memorial #107789460

• Clark Family fromThe Daily union history of Atlantic City and County, New Jersey : containing sketches of the past and present of Atlantic City and County. by Hall, John F., fl. 1899-1900. cn.Publication date 1900. Publisher Atlantic City, N.J. : Daily Union Printing Co.Digitizing sponsor Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. Contributor Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. note: An edition of 118 pages by John F. Hall and George W. Bloodgood, with title "The Daily union history of Atlantic City, N.J." was issued in 1899. On Google Books, accessed 12 November 2017.

• Sims, Clifford S. An Account of the Ancestors and Descendants of John Lardner Clark and Sophia Marion Ross, Who Were Married 1st August 1797. Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1994. Print. Available at Archive dot org

• Pgs. 176-177 under " Notes & Queries". The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volumes 19-20, edited by Hopper Striker Mott, John Reynolds Totten, Louis Effingham De Forest, Conklin Mann. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society., (1888, New York). On Google Books Clark Family notes.

See also:

• Clark-Sims Papers. Clark-Sims Family Papers, 1797-1908. 1 box, 4 vols., 0.45 lin. feet Collection 3073. Contact: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. Phone: (215) 732-6200 FAX: (215) 732-2680. http://www.hsp.org

• REVOLUTIONARY WAR SITES IN PORT REPUBLIC, NEW JERSEY

Footnotes

• "Genealogies of Connecticut Families: From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register." Vol. 1, pg. 417. "Thomas Clark of Milford, Conn., and His Descendants - Hon. Ralph D. Smyth: compiler, Dr. Bernard C. Steiner: communicator.