Margaret (Whiting) Clark (1715 - 1798)

Born 8 Oct 1715 in Medway, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Province

Ancestors

Wife of Timothy Clark — married 20 Mar 1740 in Medway, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 13 Dec 1798 at age 83 in Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts

Biography

This profile is part of the Whiting Name Study.

From Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania:

His (Nathaniel Whiting's) will was dated April 14, 1770, and proved October 1, 1779. In it he mentioned his wife Margaret, daughter Margaret Clark, son-in-law Nathaniel Clark, husband of daughter Esther, grandsons Nathaniel Clark Jr. and Simeon Clark, two granddaughters, children of Nathaniel, deceased, and son Nathan Whiting. Margaret, born at Medway, October 8, 1715;

Birth

Margaret was born to Nathaniel and Margaret Mann Whiting on 8 Oct 1715 in Medway, Massachusetts Bay.^[1]

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Marriage and Children

Timothy Clark and Margaret Whiting were married on March 20, 1740, in Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.^[2]

Timothy and Margaret had, in Medway:^[3]

• Elias, b. Jan.4, 1746-7
• Mary, b. Feb. 24, 1750
• Margaret, b. Apr. 17, 1753
• Joseph, b. Feb. 1, 1755
• Sarah, b. Apr. 2, 1757

Death

Margaret Whiting Clark died a widow on 13 December 1798 in Medway, ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medway, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 130
2. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCC5-1X9 : 4 December 2014), Timothy Clark and Margaret Whiting, 20 Mar 1740; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 0873753 IT 3.
3. ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medway, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, pp. 36-39
4. ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medway, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 298

• Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1915, Vol 1, p. 148-153)
• Find A Grave: Memorial #56935393