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Jerusha (Clark) Brainerd

Jerusha Brainerd formerly Clark
Born [date unknown] [location unknown]
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married 21 Oct 1773 [location unknown]
Wife of — married 23 Feb 1786 [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died about [location unknown]
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Biography

Timothy Fielding and Jerusha Clark married on 21 October 1773. On 16 January 1786, she petitioned the Middlesex Courts for divorce from Timothy for desertion. Timothy had "joined the enemy of the United States" and had not returned or she had not had any support from him.[1]


Jonathan Brainard married as his third wife on 23 Feb 1786, Jerusha (Clark) Fielding, daughter of Benajah and Hannah Clark, and ex-wife of Timothy Fielding of Middle Haddam, Connecticut. Her will was probated 14 April 1825. In it she speaks of Jonathan Brainard as deceased.[2]

Sources

  1. “Divorce Papers, 1786-1797”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C348-8956-P  : 31 March 2021), , FHL microfilm 008615368, image 33-36, Middlesex, Connecticut.
  2. Lucy Abigail Brainard. The Genealogy of the Brainerd-Brainard Family in America 1649-1908. Volume I. Parts I II III Descendants of Daniel, James and Joshua Brainerd, sons of Daniel and Hannah (Spencer) Brainerd. (R.D. Brainard, 1908). p 51
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/229520524/jerusha-brainerd: accessed March 2, 2024), memorial page for Jerusha Clark Brainerd (1756–Apr 1825), Find a Grave Memorial ID 229520524, citing Old Rock Landing Cemetery, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA; Maintained by KLSchwark (contributor 47809899).




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