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Hi,
If my James Clarke "appeared" in Little Compton, RI, around 1827, I
guess he'd be in his late 60s or 70s somewhere and not likely to be
fathering children, but miracles do happen :-). Mine was born ca.
1755, in Westerly, RI. I have the following interesting information
from 1792:
WARRANT, 31 Dec. 1792
Westerly, Rhode Island, Probate Records, 1787-1798
Vol. 5, page 216; on microfilm at Rhode Island Historical Society
Library
Transcription of Warrant:
Voted that the Council Clerk Grant forth a warrant to the Town
Sergeant or Either of the Constables in this town to take Mrs. Hannah
Clarke and her Grandson Samuel Clarke Son to Mr. James Clarke into
his Custody and them Immediately remove And Deliver to some one of
the Town Council overseers of the Poor or Civil authority of Richmond
town where we expect to Be the Place of their Last Legal Settlement
within ten day From this Date [31 Dec. 1792]
This is a "warning out" issued when someone from another town becomes
a burden to the overseer of the poor where they are staying. Hannah
and Samuel were sent back to Richmond, but I've never been able to
find a record of them otherwise. Several of James's siblings ended up
in Madison Co., NY in the late 1790s and early 1800s, so it makes
sense to find Samuel there in the early 1800s, too. My Samuel's first
child, Alanson, was born in Madison Co. in 1806. There is lots of
circumstantial evidence, but I have had no luck finding a positive
link between my Samuel and the boy listed in the "warning out."
Steve
On Aug 9, 2007, at 3:02 AM, clark-neweng-request(a)rootsweb.com wrote:
> Today's Topics:
>
> 1. James CLARK/E, b1790-1800 "somewhere" (Betty)
>
> From: "Betty" <bbffrrpp(a)comcast.net>
> Date: August 8, 2007 7:14:56 AM EDT
> To: <CLARK-NEWENG(a)rootsweb.com>
> Subject: [CLARK-NEWENG] James CLARK/E, b1790-1800 "somewhere"
> Reply-To: clark-neweng(a)rootsweb.com
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I don't think I've posted here for a while. I'd just like to say
> briefly that I continue to look for information on this James CLARK/E.
>
> He "appeared" in Little Compton, RI, around 1827. He married in
> 1829 in the neighboring town of Westport, MA. He fathered a
> child there in 1836. He "disappeared" in the 1840's.
>
> His wife in 1829 was the widow, Mrs. Rhoda (MANCHESTER) LAVARE, and
> she was born in 1800 in Westport, MA. So, I am guessing that
> James was born in the 1790 to 1800 timeframe.
>
> I have a "gut feeling" that he was part of a New England CLARK/E
> family, but no one on-line has claimed him as part of their family.
>
> There is a possibility that he was the James CLARK who got on a
> ship in New Bedford, MA, in 1845 as a "greenhand." It was
> heading out for a 4-year voyage to the Indian Ocean. This James
> "deserted" in Australia !
>
> James is one of my "concrete-block walls put together with
> reinforced cement." (I have a few.)
>
> Betty (near Lowell, MA)
>
>
> FYI:
>
> James and Rhoda's daughter was Mary Anna "Molly" CLARK, b1836 in
> Westport, MA. When an adult, she married John DEXTER of
> Killingly, CT. I have no idea how they met. I also have no
> idea why they seem to have married in Stonington, CT. (Did
> either one have family there?) (Molly's half-sister also
> married there.)
>
> John and Molly lived in Killingly, CT, and had 3 daughters, but 2
> died as children. The surviving daughter married Abner YOUNG.
> Abner and Clara YOUNG had a son and then had a daughter who age 2.
>
> While in their 50's, John and Molly moved to Melrose, MA (1885
> ish), and in 1892 they adopted a little girl who had just turned
> 3. Unfortunately, the little girl was re-orphanaged in 1899, and
> spent the rest of her childhood in "homes."
>
> This is a long story -- which I've told on several Lists in the
> past. So, you can check the archives for .. Mary Anna Clark
> DEXTER, b1889 and she was a foundling. And, she was my grandmother.
>
> I believe that my grandmother knew some CLARK families while she
> was growing up - as she wrote William CLARK on her marriage record,
> as her birth father.
>
> (My "educated guess" is that Mrs. Clara (DEXTER) YOUNG was her
> birth-mother - without the benefit of her husband.) (Until her
> dying day, she still proclaimed that she didn't know that her
> parents had adopted a child in MA. She and her son had visited
> them many times.)
>
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