Richard (Clark) Clarke

Born [date unknown] in England [uncertain]

Husband of Alice (Unknown) Clarke — married Aug 1643 (to 1674) in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died before 22 Feb 1674 in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

16?? -- Richard Clarke emigrated from England to Massachusetts Bay Colony.

December 1638 -- Richard Clarke was not listed on the passenger list of the ship "John of London" on which Rev. Ezekiel Rogers and his group sailed from England to Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. They then spent the winter at Salem. ^[1]

August 1643 -- Richard Clarke and Alice Unknown married at Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. They were the second couple married at Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. ^[2][3]

Sometime between 1643 and 1650 -- Richard Clarke bought the house lot of Thomas Elithorp on Bradford Street, Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. ^[4]

Richard Clarke was a town officer. ^[5]

1656 & 1660 -- Richard Clarke was an overseer. ^[6]

1666 -- Richard Clarke was a selectman. ^[7]

The death of neither Richard nor Alice Clarke was recorded at Rowley, but his death occurred before 22 Feb 1673 when an inventory of his estate was taken and valued at £43.3.10 less debts of 21.7.0 total 21.16.10 of March 31, 1674. His wife Alice was not mentioned, it is probable that her death preceded his.^[8]

Richard Clarke's Will on file at Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts dated 7 Feb 1673 and proved 31 March 1674: "Having disposed of my children in marriage and not having much to dispose yet that all Love may be continued betwixt my son and daughter my will is that my son John Clarke shall have all my stocke in cattell horses sheepe and swine and two thirds of all my provisions and implements of husbandry he paying all my debts and funeral expeses. Itme my will further is that my daughter Esther Hobkinson shall have all my household goods (excepting the Read Ruge that is upon my bed which I give unto my son John), and the other third part of my provision and implements of husbandry. My will further is that my son John shall be the sole executor of this my last will: unto which I set my hand this 7th day of February 1673." ^{[9][8] [10]}

Children in Rowley town records:^[11]

1. Judah b. 5 4m 1644; bur 28 July 1660
2. Hester b. 10 8m 1645; m. 11 May 1666 Jonathan Hopkinson
3. Mary b. 22 10 m 1648; bur 14 Jun 1660
4. John b. 26 1m 1650; m. Mary Poore
5. Martha b. 10 1m 1656; bur 16 Jun 1660

Sources

1. ↑ Richard Clarke of Rowley, Massachusetts, pages 7 - 10.
2. ↑ Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts, page 77.
3. ↑ Vital Records of Rowley, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, Volume 1 (The Essex institute, 1928 - Registers of births, etcp. 270
4. ↑ Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts, pages 77 & 112.
5. ↑ Richard Clarke of Rowley, Massachusetts, pages 7 - 10.
6. ↑ Richard Clarke of Rowley, Massachusetts, pages 7 - 10.
7. ↑ Richard Clarke of Rowley, Massachusetts, pages 7 - 10.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.) Link at AmericanAncestors ($)
9. ↑ Richard Clarke of Rowley, Massachusetts, pages 7 - 10.
10. ↑ Richard Clarke of Rowley, Massachusetts, pages 7 - 10.
11. ↑ Vital Records of Rowley, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 pp 48, 49; p. 453; p. 270

• George Brainard Blodgette and Amos Everett Jewett. Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts. 1933. Reprint. ed by the New England History Press, Somersworth, New Hampshire. 1981. Page 77. Also available at: [1]
• Great Migration Newsletter, V.1-20.(Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2018.) Reference Vol 18, page 19 via $American Ancestors which says that he and his wife had a prescence in the town of Rowley between 1639-1643 , and suggests that he may have been part of Rogers' company on page 29 of the same volume of the publication.

• Thomas Bellows Peck. Richard Clarke of Rowley, Massachusetts: and his descendants in the line of Timothy Clark of Rockingham, Vermont. Boston, Massachusetts. 1905. Pages 7 - 9. Published in Vol 58 NEHGR (1904) pp 267-274 Also published under separate cover by Press of D. Clapp & son, 1905 At Google Books