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Hello,
I forgot about this List when I posted a query earlier this month on the
other CLARK/E Lists.
A few months ago someone e-mailed me saying that they had found the CLARK /
E name mentioned on some "wills" to do with people in Little Compton, RI !!
This means that there were CLARK families there during the 1700's !
But, so far, no one else seems to be researching them !
I am looking for a James CLARK / E probably born in the 1790 to 1800
timeframe ! The problem is that he is one of my "solidly built,
concrete-block walls, put together with reinforced-cement" !!!
All I know about him is that he lived in Little Compton, RI, before moving
to the neighboring town of Westport, MA, when he married there in 1829 !
I have "no" idea whether he was from a RI family. I only have a guess that
he was born somewhere around 1800, as his wife, the former Mrs. Rhoda
(MANCHESTER) LAVARE, was born in 1800.
I also have no idea whether he had a first marriage before marrying in 1829,
and whether there might have been children from a previous marriage.
Rhoda had 3 LAVARE children from her first marriage, and then James and
Rhoda had a daughter in 1836 in Westport, MA. I have " a hunch" that
young Mary Anna CLARK had CLARK relatives around her while she was growing
up, or after she first married. But, it is only a hunch !
Betty (near Lowell, MA)
FYI:
Mary Anna CLARK (aka Anna Mary CLARK) married in CT in ~1855 and moved to
Killingly, CT, where her husband, John DEXTER, had been born in 1831.
They lived there until 1886 when they "strangely" moved to Boston, MA.
John and "Molly" DEXTER lived in Melrose, MA, for a few years, and, while
there, formally adopted a little girl.
Recently I received a copy of a 1925 letter from the DEXTER's grandson,
Earle YOUNG, to my grandmother (the adopted girl). The letter was
informative, and one important thing he said was that his mother (still
living in CT) had recently told him that she had "no knowledge" that her
parents had adopted a little girl !
This does not "add up" as the daughter and grandson had visited in Melrose
many times during the 1880's and 1890's !
Also, my "hypothesis" (based on many things) is that Mrs. Clara YOUNG had an
"unwanted pregnancy" in the summer of 1888 in CT, and that "she" was the
birth-mother of my grandmother !
(My grandmother bore a strong family resemblance to Mrs. Rhoda (MANCHESTER)
(LAVARE) CLARK's extended family.)
New kid on the block.
Eng>Amer 1637; New Haven Colony 1638 James Clark, direct anc.
Carroll Clark (male) Snohomish, WA 30 mi NE of Seattle
w7iml(a)gte.net
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