Joseph Clark in Dedham Town Records and History of Medfield

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Joseph Clark (bef.1613-bef.1684)

Courtesy of M. Cole (Cole-12288).

Dedham Town Records

Pages from Index, for Clark, Joseph: 3, 71, 77, 99, 103, 106, 109, 112, 113, 153, 154, 157, 158, 161, 162, 168, 174, 189, 193, 195.

• Page 3- The Covenant
• Page 71- Land Grant
• Page 77- Ralph Wheelock Jo Luson & Thomas Wight to assist in laying out the lots of Henry Wilson & Joseph Clarke and eastward
• Page 99- additional grant of small parcel adjoining his lot
• Page 103 -additional land grant, with Henry Wilson, next to John Roper
• Page 106- parcel of to be reviewed, as Joseph Clark wants to acquire to shorten his fence
• Page 109- additional land grant
• Page 112- Land granted to Samuel Milles upland next to the land granted to Joseph Clarke and Henry Wilson near Westfield
• Page 113- 11:1:1646 - listed among attendees of the general meeting of the whole town
• Page 153- 1648 Countrey rate for [ ] Clarke 0-7-6
• Page 154- house valued at 5-4
• Page 157- Joseph Clark and Henry wilson to tender their rent 10-8 in wheat for the meadow assigned to be paid to Lt Fisher in payment of the debt due him from the town
• Page 158- Town Rate 5-2
• Page 161- Countrey Rate 5-3
• Page 162- sum due for being behind on their “high work” 4-0
• Page 168-listed in “grants to be entered” 3 acres
• Page 174- 11 February 1650/1 additional land grant , grant is to Jose Clarke, 1 pcell vpland gra. Abutt Joseph Clark east. Hen. Wilson south & the west vpland north & west"; annotated in the original "apparently to indicate that they have been entered elsewhere."
• Page 189-Nathaniel Coalburn due to receive from Joseph Clarke 15-8 which is due to the town from Medfield, in payment for the 4 bushels of wheat, which sd Nathaniel did lend to the Town to pay for the Bell
• Page 193-bill due to the town for defect in their highway work. List includes Joseph Clarke 0-3-8
• Page 195-due to pay Daniel Pond 12s for payment for defect of highway work & for Medfield rate

Mentions in Tilden's History of the Town of Medfield

The Medfield Town Records are not readily accessible online, but Tilden summarizes each year in History of the Town of Medfield, Massachusetts. 1650-1886 (1887). Search results for "Joseph Clark" relating to Joseph¹ only. (No results for variations including Jos, or Clarke)

• Page 38 Image of the Medfield “Agreement” - Joseph Clark, undersigned ( first column), (appears to be by mark)
• Page 44 Original grant - Joseph Clark 10 acres abutting upon James Allen toward northwest. [Next grant, Francis Hamant 3 acres abutting Joseph Clark toward northwest]
• Page 55 1652- Valuation - Joseph Clark, 8 persons, total 183-10-0
• Page 66 1660 - Joseph Clark Selectman, serving with John Ellis, Thomas White, Edward Adams, George Barber and Benjamin Alby. Copies of the law book distributed among the families so there was one in each neighborhood: “...One book for John Turner, Joseph Clark, James Allen, and Isaac Chenery. “
• Page 73 Voted, That "the Littell plaine lying between the houses of Thos. Boyden, Thos. Thurston, Samuel Bulling, Joseph Clark, Senior, James Allen, Isaak Chenry, and Henry Smith, be hereby stated common for ever." This is the field on South Street, to this day called the " common piece," owned by F. D. Hamant.”
• Page 77- Donations to the “new brick college” (Harvard) - Joseph Clark;, sr., 2 bush. Corn
• Page 78- 1675 List of Proprietors: “The proprietors voted this year to divide six hundred acres of the common lands among them. The following is the complete list of proprietors at this time, which is important, from the fact that it was made up only a few months before the burning of the town.” List includes Joseph Clark, Senr. as well as Benjamin Clark, Ephraim Clark and Joseph Clark Jr.
• Page 338 In reference to Isaac Chenery: “His house lot was on South Street, between James Allen and Henry Smith ; very near the spot now occupied by house of Mr. Barts, probably a little farther back, as the road then ran farther west….There is no record of the sale of his original place on South Street ; but the will of Joseph Clark, 1682, speaks of land he had bought that was Goodman Chenery's.”
• Page 357 family of Joseph Clark in “Genealogies”