Other Events:

• Moved: 1837, Ohio; 1837 - Moved to Ohio, as per daughter Gabrielle Havens

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Mrs. Jonathan Havens. Of Grant county octogenarians the most interesting, both for age and for remarkable clarity of mind and faculties, is, properly speaking, not now eligible to that association of venerable men and women, since she is no longer an octogenarian but a nonagenarian. Mrs. Jonathan Havens is now past ninety-three years of age, is in perfect health, with mind as clear as a bell. She is one of the best known women in the county, and recalls with perfect ease her seventy years of experience. She is known and loved by everybody in the southern half of the county and the following brief record will be read and appreciated as a distinctive chapter in this history.

The Havens family comes down through a Pennsylvania stock, which during the eighteenth century was established in the southwestern part of Pennsylvania, in what was known as the Redstone section. The grandfather of Jonathan Havens was also Jonathan, and was of Welsh ancestry. The name was established in America during the Colonial days, and its first home was in New Jersey. It is thought that the name of the American settler was Abram Havens. He had twelve sons and most of them saw service in the Revolutionary war on the American side. One of them located in Connecticut, two in Virginia, and one in western Pennsylvania. The latter was Jonathan, grandfather of the Grant county citizen named at the introduction of this sketch. Another son located in Kentucky, while the other lived in New Jersey. As to religious affiliations they were all Presbyterians. Grandfather Jonathan Havens was a deacon in the church. His life was spent in farming in western Pennsylvania, and he died in 1802 when quite an old man. He married a Miss Lippencot, of Pennsylvania, and she outlived him a good many years. Among their children were James, Elisha, and Benjamin, besides some daughters, all of whom lived to be quite old, and had families of their own.

Benjamin Havens, the father, was born in Pennsylvania in 1785, was in early life apprenticed to learn the trade of harness maker, and by the death of his father was left an orphan at the age of seventeen. He later left his employer, and learned the trade of shoemaker and also of brick mason. He was a man of many trades, but was an expert in all of them, and performed a useful service in every community where he lived. He was married in 1816 in Fayette county, Ohio, to Miss Judith Davis, who belonged to the faith known as the Seven-Day Baptists. She was born in Ohio, and died in Clinton county of that state at the birth of her sixth child, being then in the prime of life. Her husband later married Mary Ann Carver, and in June, 1841, they came to Indiana and settled in Jefferson township of Grant county. Some years later they moved out to Iowa and while there his second wife died also in childbirth. Benjamin Havens then returned to Indiana with his children and died in Huntington county, February 6, 1848. His last child, a daughter, was adopted by a family in Iowa.

Jonathan Havens, the first son and second child of Benjamin and his first wife, was born in Fayette county, Ohio, November 17, 1819. He grew up in Ohio, and in November, 1841, came to Indiana, locating in Jefferson township. There his career was that of farming, and after some years he bought one hundred and twenty acres, on which he remained until his death, June 30, 1863. In religion he was a Methodist, and a strong Republican in politics.

Jonathan Havens was married in Fairmount, Jefferson township of Grant county, April 7, 1842, to Miss Gabrielle Clark. She was born in Bradford county, Pennsylvania, February 25, 1820. In 1837, when she was seventeen years of age, her family moved to Darke county, Ohio, and in 1838 to Fairmount township, Grant county. Her parents were James H. and Sarah (Simons) Clark, her father born in Bradford county, Pennsylvania, February 10, 1794, and died May 23, 1878, in Fairmount township, four miles up the creek from Jonesboro. Her mother was born March 16, 1796, and died in Grant county, October 27, 1885. They were married July 3, 1816, on the banks of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania. The Clark family were farmers, Methodists in religion, and the father first voted the Whig ticket and later the Republican. James H. Clark was a son of John T. and Cynthia (Caswell) Clark, both natives of Bradford county, Pennsylvania, where they lived and died as farmers and Methodists. When John T. Clark was seven years of age, his father, Benjamin Clark, went away to serve as an American soldier in the Revolutionary war. Some time during that war the son John at one time was lost in the woods in Bradford county, near Wilkesbarre, and was for ten years away from his family. He was finally located when seventeen years of age, having been taken up and cared for after straying about three weeks in a large woods 70 miles through, and spent the next ten years in the home of a man living 60 miles away from the Clark place. Benjamin Clark died in Bradford county, Pennsylvania, when in old age. He came of English parentage, and his first wife was a Miss Hojet who died in the prime of life. His second marriage was to a Mrs. Shaw, whose first husband had been killed in the massacre of Wyoming Valley during the Revolution.

Mrs. Jonathan Havens was educated much more liberally than was the custom for young women in her time. Since the death of her husband she has lived on the farm of eighty acres near Fowlerton, up to 1893 when she bought a home in the village of Fowlerton. Mrs. Havens is the mother of the following children: 1. Sarah E. died after her marriage to William Leach and the four living children are Scott, Kerr, Hancock and Leach. 2. Mary D. is the wife of Alonzo Roly of Grant county in Jefferson township, and their children are Bailley, Cappy, Winnie, Jesse, Jennie, and Arlee. 3. Tabitha A. died after her marriage to Samuel Carmichael, and had two children, Eva and Edward. 4. John M. married Flora Baird, and lives on a farm in Jefferson township. The children are Jesse, Glen, Charles, Benjamin, Clyde, Ethel, and Edith. 5. Cynthia M. is the wife of William H. Mann, and has children, Roy, Charles, and one other; by a former marriage to Mark Norton she has one son, Benoni. 6. Martha is the wife of John Brewer, now living on a farm in Oklahoma, and their children are Ora O., Ernest O., Arnetta G., and James T. 7. Emma E. is the wife of Davis Peck, living at Eaton in Delaware county, and their children are Arlington, Barnett, Eva and Susan. 8. Clark J., who is now connected with the State Hospital, has the following children: William, Emma, Blanche, Hazel, Russell, and Cynthia E.

The descendants of Mrs. Havens are numerous, comprising thirtyseven grandchildren, fifty-nine great-grandchildren, and of her thirtyseven grandchildren, twenty-seven are married, and all are living and have children.

Mrs. Havens has been a worker in the Methodist Episcopal church since she was twenty-one years of age, and has been devoted to the cause of religion and morality. Though born February 25, 1820, while James Monroe was still president of the United States, she still possesses "a green and smiling age," and there is hardly a tremor in her hand to indicate any break in her physical faculties. There is no woman in the state who can so accurately call up dates and facts from the early half *of the nineteenth century as Mrs. Havens. To indicate her remarkable powers of old age, in December, 1911, she made a trip alone to Oklahoma, where she celebrated her ninety-first birthday with a daughter, and on May 30, 1912, returned to Indiana, also alone.
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Gabriella Havens

(101 YEARS OLD)

“I was born in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, February 25, 1820. In 1837 my father, mother and father and their nine children came to Ohio where we remained long enough to raise a crop (or about a year) then we came on to Grant County, Indiana. Father did not like the country and did not want to stay but we children started to clearing the land and so we remained.

“When I grew older I taught four terms of school, receiving two dollars per week. By and by a man came along who had a farm and he persuaded me to come and live with him. I would have been happier if I had not gone with him. Girls, never marry; just stay in Marion and teach until you are gray-headed; Lord, you ought to be happy!

“I was twenty-two years old when I married. I have done a lot of hard work. My husband and I cleared twenty acres of land. He would get discouraged with the farm work, then. I would go out into the fields and help him. We had eight children, so I had to work hard.

“My husband died June 30, 1863, and I was left with the care of the children, the youngest one being but three years of age; but we managed to get along. I would go out into the fields and work like a man. I raised those children with my own two hands.

“I had many chances to re-marry but I did not want a man. I never ran after the men; if I had, I’d a got one. One day I was out in the orchard with my children when a neighbor man came and asked me to marry him. ‘I guess not,’ I said, and turning to my children—’I will not leave them for any man.’

“What church do I belong to? I was a Methodist all my life until 1879 when I became an Adventist. Oh, I believe in it.

“You ask if my father had slaves? No-o-o-o, I guess not. Why, I would have burned my shirt to make a light for a run-away slave. My uncle sheltered Fred Douglas for four days in an ‘underground station,’ that being his cellar. He hid behind potato barrels, and they covered him with comforts to hide him from the slave owner.

“My great grandfather was in the Revolutionary War. My grandfather was seven years old when his father was called to war. The mother soon died and left grandfather with the care of four little sisters, two of them being twins but six wec’1-s old. Some neighbors took the little girls and grand father was sent down the river seventy miles with a flock of sheep. He took a saddle horse and food enough to do him a week. He was only seven years old and got lost in the woods. At night he tied himself to his horse so he could sleep and not lose it. For three weeks he wandered about and when his food was gone he ate with the horse—roots, grass, etc. At last he came to a ‘clearing’ and begged food. They took him in, but~he never got back to his family for seventeen years.

“Yes, those were heart-rending times.

“Oh, must you go? I wish you could stay longer. Well, girls, remember what I said—DON’T marry, and may the dear Lord bless you. Tell your friends that an old woman one hundred and one years old blessed you. Good-bye.”

This dear aged old lady was interviewed by Miss Gladys Cole (Senior, 1921) and Miss Straughan. She was sitting quietly in her old chair when they entered her room, apparently asleep, but when told there were two ladies who wished to talk with her she was instantly alert and delighted to talk with them about her “early days.”

It was an inspiration to see, the “light that fades not” in her countenance-and feel the benediction of her last words.

“Of such is the Kingdom.”

Gabrielle Jonathan Havens 1842Grant County, Indiana. Jonathan 17 Nov 1819 Grant County, IN; 30 Jun 1863Grant County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. James Clark Havens 1859 Grant County, Indian; 1943Grant County, Indiana.
2. Sarah Elizabeth Havens 24 Nov 1843 Fairmount, Indiana; 17 Apr 1888Fairmount, Grant County, Indiana; Harmony Cemetery Matthews, Grant County, Indiana.
3. Mary Delcena Havens 1846 Fairmount, Indiana; 29 Jan 1936Fairmount, Indiana.
4. Tabitha A Havens
5. Cynthia M Havens 1853 Grant County, IN; 1934Grant County, Indiana.
6. Martha Havens 1856 Grant County, IN; 1944Oklahoma; Enid Cemetery Enid, Garfield County, Oklahoma.
7. Emma E Havens 1858 Grant County, IN; 1928Grant County, Indiana; Union Cemetery Eaton, Delaware County, Indiana.
8. Clark J Havens
9. John Andrew Havens 25 Nov 1850 Grant County, IN; 16 Jun 1919Grant County, Indiana; Matthews IOOF Cemetery Matthews, Grant County, Indiana,.

Other Events:

• Moved: 1837, Ohio; 1837 - Moved to Ohio, as per daughter Gabrielle Havens

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THE SEVENTH GENERATION: James Clark (1794-1878)

James Clark, the second oldest child of John T. Clark and Cynthia Campbell, was born in Bradford County in 1794. He married Sarah Simmons in 1818 and together they had at least nine children born between the years 1818 and 1835. All of their children were born in Burlington, Pennsylvania.

Sometime in late 1837, the family moved westward ultimately arriving in Fairmount Township, Grant County, Indiana in February of 1838. In a history of Fairmount it is written: “The Clark family came in two wagons, one drawn by horses and the other by an ox team.” What motivated James Clark to move his family 600 miles from Burlington, Pennsylvania to Grant County, Indiana can only be assumed. Perhaps it was to seek a better life for himself and his children; perhaps it was just in his genes to migrate. James’ 4th great grandfather, Joseph, had journeyed from England to America in 1637, his 2nd great grandfather, Theophilus, had moved from Massachusetts to Connecticut in 1733, His grandfather, Benjamin, had relocated his family from Connecticut to Pennsylvania in 1770, and now he, James Clark, had crossed 600 miles of wilderness to start over again in Indiana. The Clark family continued to display an incredible pioneer spirit.
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Family moved to Fairmount, Grant County Indiana 3 Feb 1838 (Gabrille's 8th year)

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The father of Simon Clark, James Clark, died on May 14, 1878, at a fine old age. His wife was Sarah Simons, who died some fourteen years after her husband, when she was ninety-three years of age. They were stanch old Methodist people and reared a large family, among which Simon B., father of Mrs. Wimpy, was the youngest

James Sarah Simons 1818Burlington, PA. Sarah (daughter of Adrial Simons and Sarah Bingham) 16 Mar 1796 Burlington, Bradford County, PA; 27 Oct 1885Grant County, Indiana; 30 Oct 1885Riverside Cemetery, GrantCounty Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John T. Clark came to Burlington in 1798, and located where Dr. Tracy now resides. When a child, Mr. Clark lived with his parents in the Wyoming valley, and was there at the time of the "massacre." His father being in the service, he was placed in the fort for protection and made his escape with a lady in a canoe down the river. For more than a year Mr. Clark did not know the whereabouts of his son. At the close of the war Mr. Clark, whose name was Benjamin, moved to the "Sheshequin Flats," in what is now know as Ulster and located on the place of Benjamin Ross, where he lived until the time of his death.

John T. was a young man when he came to Burlington, and share din a commendable manner the hardships of a new country. He remained a citizen of Burlington until the close of his life. After a short residence at Burlington Centre, he moved to the place now occupied by Z. Morgan, where he spent the remainder of his days. Mr. Clark had a family of twelve children, three of whom are yet living. These are Mrs. E. Gustin, Mrs. E. Nichols and Mrs. Z. Lane. Of the Clark name only B. M. Clark, a grandson, is yet living in the township.

In 1799 and 1800 another lot of emigrants from Connecticut arrived, among them Jeremiah Taylor, Moffitt and Benjamin Saxton.

Alexander Lane moved to the township of Burlington in 1801 from Ulster where he had lived for a short time, having originally moved from Poughkeepsie, N.Y. While living in Ulster in 1800, he and a gentleman by the name of Rundall marked trees in from that township to Columbia, picked out a location, the same as now owned by the Besley brothers, and erected a log cabin each, and would have gone there to live had not Mrs. Lane emphatically refused going so far in the wilderness to live. Mr. Lane then purchased the possession right of Abiel Foster, and moved thereon in 1801. He occupied this place until the time of his death, which occurred in 1844. Since then it has been occupied by his son, Rev. Alexander Lane. Mr. Lane had a family of thirteen children, these were William, Zephaniah, Alexander, Daniel, Sally, Hannah, Betsey, Ruth, Charlotte, Maria, Alvira, Anna and Emily. Of these Alexander, Daniel and Charlotte are yet living.

In 1803, Eliphalet Gustin came to Sugar Creek and located on the place no occupied by his son, E. Gustin. Mr. Gustin was a native of Vermont, and was born in 1766. When a young man he left home as a "journeying shoemaker," traveling through the Eastern States. He married in New Jersey, and lived there for a short time. Thence, removing his family to Pennsylvania, near Wilkes-Barre, where he in 1792 embarked his wife, two children and a few effects (all that he had) in a canoe, and paddled up the Susquehanna, landing at the mouth of Horn Brook, which took its name from the fact of his finding a remarkably large horn in that stream. Mr. Gustin took up land, a part of which is now included in the Isaac Horton place, also the lands occupied by the Horn Brook church, and began clearing up until about 1800 when he sold his improvements, and moved across the river to the mouth of Hemlock Run where he lived for about three years. Again desiring a change he placed his household goods and family in a canoe and paddled up Sugar Creek. Finding a recess in the bank near the creek, across which a tree had fallen, he covered it with bark and transferred his family hither where they lived the greater part of the summer. He built a log cabin on the "Rundall flats" and lived there for six or eight years, then crossed the creek and built on the place now owned by his son. Mr. Gustin occupied the place which he took up, making valuable improvements until the time of his death, which occurred in 1860 at the age of ninety-four years.



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* Born ‎ jul 8, 1770 at Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne Co., Pennsylvania, died ‎ sep 6, 1849 at Burlington, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania‎, 79 years

John T. married Cynthia, daughter of James Campbell, and settled in Burlington, where he died. They had 12 children who married as follows:

1. Billings to Charlotte Nichols;

2. James to Sally Simons;

3. Cephas to Sally Wilcox;

4. Benjamin died, aged 19, from being kicked by a horse;

5. Sally to Timothy C. Wheeler;

6. Betsey to Abraham Reeves;

7. Ursula to Earl Nichols;

8. Celestia to Harry L. Ross;

9. Polly, first to Amos Alexander, second to Zepheniah Lane;

10 Jane died unmarried;

11 Cynthia to Eliphalet Gustin;

12 Melissa to Mortimer Knapp.
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Born ‎ 1747 at Tolland Co., Connecticut, died ‎ aug 9, 1834 at Ulster, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania‎, 86 or 87 years, buried ‎ at Ulster Cemetery, Ulster, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania
Benjamin Clark, a native of Tolland, Connecticut, removed to the Wyoming Valley, and was among the very first to build a house on the town-plat of Wilkes-Barre. He was a corporal in the First Independent Company of Wyoming, under Capt. Robert Durkee, and served seven years in the Revolutionary War. He was one of the detachment sent for the relief of Wyoming after the fatal battle, and was in the army of General Sullivan against the Indians. For his services he received a pension of $96 per year. Subsequently, he was appointed a captain of militia, and was known by the older settlers as "Captain Clark." In 1784 he removed from Wyoming to Asylum, and the next year settled in Ulster on what is known as the Ross farm. His house was a place of entertainment for travelers and a home of the Methodist itinerant for many years, and in it the first preaching was held in "Old Sheshequin." Captain Clark was an ardent Federalist and a member of the Methodist church. He took an active interest in public affairs, and for years filled the most important local offices. He died at Ulster, August 9, 1834, aged 87 years.

Captain Clark was twice married. The Westmoreland town records contain the following: "Births of the children of Benjamin Clark and Nabbe, his wife--John Theophilus, born July 8, 1770; Polly, born March 3, 1774; Sally and Milly (twins), born March 5, 1777. Nabbe, wife of Benjamin Clark, departed this life, March 12, 1777, in the 24th year of her age." Their children selected partners as follows:

John T. married Cynthia, daughter of James Campbell, and settled in Burlington, where he died. They had 12 children who married as follows: Billings to Charlotte Nichols; James to Sally Simons; Cephas to Sally Wilcox; Benjamin died, aged 19, from being kicked by a horse; Sally to Timothy C. Wheeler; Betsey to Abraham Reeves; Ursula to Earl Nichols; Celestia to Harry L. Ross; Polly, first to Amos Alexander, second to Zepheniah Lane; Jane died unmarried; Cynthia to Eliphalet Gustin; Melissa to Mortimer Knapp.

Polly (Mary) married a Mr. Blanchard.

Nabby (Abigail) married George Culver and moved to the Lake country.

For his second wife, Captain Clark married Keziah Yarrington, widow of Silas Gore, who was slain at the battle of Wyoming. She died August 12, 1837, aged 91 years, and lies beside her husband in the Ulster cemetery. Their four children, who married as follows, were:

Lucinda, to Nathaniel Hovey, an officer in the War of 1812, who died at Sackett's Harbor in 1814.

Ursula, to Samuel Treadway and removed to Illinois.

William, to Sylvia, daughter of Ezra Niles and removed to Cairo, Illinois.

Julia Ann, first to John Overton, and after his death to a Mr. Passmore, with whom she moved West.

From Baker Family Tree:
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THE SEVENTH GENERATION: James Clark (1794-1878)

James Clark, the second oldest child of John T. Clark and Cynthia Campbell, was born in Bradford County in 1794. He married Sarah Simmons in 1818 and together they had at least nine children born between the years 1818 and 1835. All of their children were born in Burlington, Pennsylvania.

Sometime in late 1837, the family moved westward ultimately arriving in Fairmount Township, Grant County, Indiana in February of 1838. In a history of Fairmount it is written: “The Clark family came in two wagons, one drawn by horses and the other by an ox team.” What motivated James Clark to move his family 600 miles from Burlington, Pennsylvania to Grant County, Indiana can only be assumed. Perhaps it was to seek a better life for himself and his children; perhaps it was just in his genes to migrate. James’ 4th great grandfather, Joseph, had journeyed from England to America in 1637, his 2nd great grandfather, Theophilus, had moved from Massachusetts to Connecticut in 1733, His grandfather, Benjamin, had relocated his family from Connecticut to Pennsylvania in 1770, and now he, James Clark, had crossed 600 miles of wilderness to start over again in Indiana. The Clark family continued to display an incredible pioneer spirit.
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From Bradsby, 1891
B. M. CLARK, undertaker, Rome, was born July 22,1845, on the farm owned by his brother, and is a son of Harry and Ellen (Brown) Clark, natives of this county. His boyhood was passed on his father’s farm, and in attending school in Rome and Orwell; he afterward learned the trade of mason. His first farm was the old homestead which contained one hundred and twenty acres, which he sold to his brother, and in 1876 he built his present residence – an elegant house containing all modern conveniences. He was united in marriage October 20, 1868, with Eliza Vought, daughter of John and Esther (Horton) Vought (the former born at Standing Stone and the latter in Sheshequin), whose family consisted of six children of which Mrs. Clark is the second. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have an adopted child, May, now in her twelfth year; the family worships at the Baptist Church. Mr. Clark is an unswerving Republican in politics, and has held the office of township commissioner for two years, besides other local offices. The Clark family are well-known and highly respected by a large circle of friends.

From Bradford Reporter, October 18, 1883
Captain [Benjamin] Clark was twice married. In the Westmoreland town records are the following entries: Births of the children of Benjamin Clark and Nabbie his wife, John Theophilus, born July 8, 1770; Poly, born February 24, 1772; Nabby, born March 3, 1774; Sally and Milly (twins) born March 5, 1777, Nabbie, wife of Benjamin Clark departed this life March 12, 1777, in the twenty-fourth year of her age.

John T. married and settled in Burlington where he died. His history will be found interesting. Mary married a Blanchard, and Abagail married a Culver; both left the State.

From Bradford Reporter, July 17, 1884:
John F. [sic] Clark came to Burlington in 1798, and located where Dr. Tracy now resides. when a child, Mr. Clark lived with his parents in the Wyoming valley, and was there at the time of the "massacre." His father being in the service, he was placed in the fort for protection and made his escape with a lady in a canoe down the river. For more than a year Mr. Clark did not know the whereabouts of his son. At the close of the war Mr. Clark, whose name was Benjamin, moved to the "Sheshequin Flats," in what is now known as Ultster and located on the place of Benjamin Ross, where he lived until the time of his death.

John T. was a young man when he came to Burlington, and shared in a commendable manner the hardships of a new country. He remained a citizen of Burlington until the close of his life. After a short residence at Burlington Centre, he moved to the place now occupied by Z. Morgan, where he spent the remainder of his days. Mr. Clark had a family of twelve children, three of whom are yet living. These are Mrs. E. Gustin [Cynthia], Mrs. E. Nichols [Ursala], and Mrs. Z. Lane. of the Clark name only B.M. Clark, a grandson, is yet living in the township.

A John Clark listed in 1810 census of Burlington Township, Luzerne County (later Bradford), at age between 26 and 44, with 1 male under 10, 1 male 10 to 15, 2 males 16 to 15, 4 females under 10, and 1 female between 26 and 44.

From Baker Family Tree, Chapter 17, The Clarke Family
http://bakerfamilytree.blogspot.com/2008/02/chapter-17-clarke-family_27.html
Retrieved Jan. 15, 2011
THE SIXTH GENERATION: John Theophilus Clark (1770-1840)

John Theophilus Clark was only eight years old when the Indians and Tories attacked the Wyoming community in July of 1778 in what historians are now referring to as the “Wyoming Massacre.” Fortunately, John was with the other civilian inhabitants who fled into the forest when the militia surrendered the fort where they were living. John was in his late teens when his father and step mother moved to Bradford County further up the Susquehanna River in the late 1780s. Here he married Cynthia Campbell, of Scottish descent, in 1790 and together they parented twelve children between the years 1792 and 1824. He remained in this area as a prominent farmer for the remainder of his life. John died in 1840. Cynthia died in 1864. Cynthia Campbell’s grandfather, David Campbell, immigrated to America from Scotland in 1720. The family first settled near Boston. David’s son, James Campbell (our daughter-in-law’s 6th great grandfather), was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Massachusetts’ militia during the American Revolution. His name is included in the DAR Patriot listing which is a benefit to any of his female descendants who might be interested in joining the Daughters of the American Revolution. In 1790, he moved his family including Cynthia to Burlington, Pennsylvania. They are considered to be one of the earliest pioneer families in Burlington.

John Cynthia Campbell 1792Bradford County. Cynthia (daughter of James Campbell, Sr. and Jane Knox) 23 Jun 1772 Blandford Hampden County Massachusetts, USA; 18 Jan 1864Burlington PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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James Campbell, born November 01, 1739 in Blandford, Hampden Co., Massachusetts; died December 28, 1813 in Sugar Creek, Burlington, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania.

He was the son of David Campbell, Sr.

He married 23. Jane Knox January 10, 1760 in Blandford, Hampden Co., Massachusetts.

Jane Knox, born February 03, 1744 in Blandford, Hampden Co., Massachusetts; died October 16, 1840 in Sugar Creek, Burlington, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania.She was the daughter of John Knox, Sr and Rachel Freeland.

Children of James Campbell and Jane Knox are:

i. Betsy Campbell, born March 06, 1782 in Nobletown, New York; married (1) Stephen Smith Abt. 1790; born Abt. 1765; married (2) Oliver Sherman Abt. 1795; born Abt. 1765.

ii. Cynthia Campbell, born June 23, 1772 in Blandford, Massachusetts; died in Burlington Center, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania; married John Theophilus Clark Abt. 1785; born July 08, 1770 in Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania; died in Burlington Center, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania.

iii. David Campbell I, born July 11, 1767 in Blandford, Massachusetts; died December 15, 1848 in Burlington, Pennsylvania; married Hannah Chase Abt. 1784; born Abt. 1767.

iv. Eleanor Campbell, born May 18, 1765 in Blandford, Massachusetts; died 1855 in Burlington, Pennsylvania; married Gamaliel Jaqua 1785; born January 29, 1764 in Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Connecticut; died April 20, 1835 in Jefferson Twp., Preble Co., Ohio.

v. James Child Of James And Jane Campbell, Jr., born April 16, 1763 in Blandford, Massachusetts; died 1847 in Marion, Indiana; married Mehitable McPherson Abt. 1812; born Abt. 1765.

vi. John Campbell, born May 11, 1761 in Blandford, Massachusetts; died October 18, 1846 in Orangewille, Wyoming Co., New York; married Lydia Whiting 1784; born 1762.

vii. Rachel Campbell, born September 09, 1769 in Blandford, Massachusetts; died in North Towanda, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania; married Stephen Wilcox, Jr. Abt. 1785; born Abt. 1765; died in North Towanda, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania.

viii. Sally Campbell, born January 16, 1787 in Nobletown, New York; died October 03, 1862; married Jeremiah Miller May 17, 1808; born 1785 in Burlington, Pennsylvania; died 1859.

ix. William Campbell, born August 10, 1779 in Nobletown, New York; died 1854 in West Burlington, Pennsylvania; married Polly Miller Abt. 1802; born March 14, 1788; died March 16, 1847.

x. Cephas Campbell, born March 29, 1777 in Blandford, Massachusetts; died March 05, 1857 in Burlington Center, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania; married (1) Sally-Sarah Bingham March 1806; born 1786 in Ulster, Pennsylvania; died February 07, 1821; married (2) Eleanor Miller February 23, 1827; born January 28, 1788; died January 29, 1875.

11 xi. Jenny-Jane Campbell, born November 30, 1774 in Blandford, Massachusetts; died August 10, 1818 in Sugar Creek, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania; married George Head, Jr. 1795 in Burlington, Burlington Twp., Bradford Co., Pennsylvania.
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James Campbell, a native of Blandford, Mass., who had been a soldier in the Revolutionary war, removed from Massachusetts with his family, 1791, and settled in the wilderness on Sugar Creek in Burlington.

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He had married Jane Knox, their children being John, James, David, Cephas, William, Eleanor, Rachel, Cynthia, Jane, Betsy and Sally. John, James and David were soldiers in the struggle for Independence. Mr. Campbell died upon his farm, December 28, 1813, in his 75th year. Notice of his death says, "He was the father of 5 sons, 6 daughters, 6 sons-in-law, 93 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren, making in all 137. He was a member of the Methodist society and was much respected for his virtues." He was of Scotch descent. The farm he settled is still owned and occupied by his descendants. His wife, born February 3, 1744, died October 16, 1840. Both are buried in the family plot upon the homestead. Of the children:

John and James removed early to Indiana and died there.

David, born at Blandford, Mass., enlisted January 1, 1782, and served until December, 1783, as a private under Captain Pearsey and Col. Marinus Willet. He obtained a pension upon the ground that in the expedition to Oswego one of his feet was frozen, causing permanent lameness. He died in Burlington, December 15, 1848, aged 83 years, leaving children: Harry, James, David, Hannah (1st Mrs. Isaac Ayers, 2nd Mrs. Jesse Beals), Almira (Mrs. Isaac Marcellus), Almenia (Mrs. Clark).

Cephas, born March 29, 1777, married first Sarah, daughter of Chester Bingham of Ulster; she died, 1821, in her 35th year; married second Ellen Miller, born January 28, 1788, died January 29, 1875. Mr. Campbell died March 5, 1857 in Burlington.

Children: Josephus, who married Asenath Miller; James married Anna Robbins; Chester married Mary Ann Pratt; Owen married 1st Celinda Foster, 2nd Almira York. Letitia married Orry Burns.

William, born August 10, 1779, married Polly Miller, settled on Tom Jack Creek, West Burlington, where he died, 1854. His wife, born March 14, 1788, died March 16, 1847. Children: Alanson, George Washington, William, Lucy, Derrick, Leticia, Lenora.

Eleanor married Gamaliel Jaqua, Burlington.

Rachel married Stephen Wilcox, North Towanda.

Cynthia married John T. Clark, Burlington.

Jane married George Head, Burlington.

Betsy married 1st Oliver Sherman, 2nd Stephen Smith.

Sally married Jeremiah Miller, Burlington.

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Adrial Simons
Birth 2 Feb 1756
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Death 12 Oct 1829 (aged 73)
Ulster, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, USA
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Adrial Simons, who held on right in the Susquehanna Company's township of Ulster, came on from Connecticut (probably Brandon) in 1785, about the same time as Capt. Clark, and occupied his claim, the farm now owned by Mr. VanDyke and Adolphus Watkins.

He had served in the Revolutionary War from 1777 to 1780 and was taken prisoner by the British in one of the battles fought in the vicinity of New York. For a long time he was confined in one of the prison ship on Long Island sound, where he suffered untold hardships from confinement, hunger, cold and filth, which gave those floating dens such an unenviable notoriety.

He married Sarah, sister of Chester and Ozias Bingham. She and three children died of fever in the summer of 1803. Of the large family "Septer" who died November 20, 1798 aged 15 years, has the oldest marked grave in Ulster cemetery. Other children remembered were Adrial, Elijah, Anson, Bingham, George and Jeduthan. Mr. Simons died, 1829, aged 73 years.

He was described as a fine old gentleman, hard working, frugal and kind to the poor. Capt. Simons raised a large family. Four of his sons Elijah, Anson, Bingham and George went to the state of Ohio. Jeduthan died in Ulster.

Adrial Sarah Bingham. Sarah 24 Jul 1758 Windham, CT; 27 Jul 1803Ulster, Bradford County, PA; Ulster Cemetery Ulster, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From ROSTER OF REVOLUTIONARY ANCESTORS, p. 121:

Clark, Benjamin, b. 1747, Tolland, Conn., died 9 aug., 1834, Ulster Pa., m. 1769, (1) Nabbe (Abigail) Clark, b. 1753, d. 12 March 1777, (2) Mrs. Silas Gore (Keziah Y.) of Ulster, Pa. SERVICE: Enlisted at Wyoming, PA, 6 Sept. 1776 and served as pvt. in Capt. Robert Durkee's Independent Co. In Sept. 1777, the company was attached to Col. John Durkee's Conn. Reg. In Feb. 1778, he was Corp in same Co. then commaned by Capt. Simon Spalding in same regt. In summer of 1779, the Co. was attached to Col. Hubley's Expedition against the Indians, and in Feb. or March, 1781, the co. was restored to Col. John Durkee's Conn. Regt. and he later served in Cols. Thomas Grosvenor and Zebulon Butler's Conn. Regt. and was discharged 7 June 1783. CHILDREN: John Theophilus Clark, b. 8 July 1770, m. Cynthia Campbell; Polly (Mary) Clark, b. 3 March 1774; m. ? Blanchard; Sally and Milly CLark, b. 5-3-1777. Above children are from first marriage to Nabbe Clark. Lucinda Clark, m. Nathaniel Hovey; Ursula Clark, m. Samuel Treadway; William, m. Sylvia Niles, daugh of Ezra; Julia Ann, m. John Overton (1 mar.) Niles Passmore (2 mar.). Last 4 children are of Benjamin Clark and Keziah Yarrington.

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From the Baker Family Tree, Chapter 17, The Clarke Family:
http://bakerfamilytree.blogspot.com/2008/02/chapter-17-clarke-family_27.html
Retreived Jan. 15, 2011
THE FIFTH GENERATION: Benjamin Clark (1750-1834)

Benjamin did not remember his father; his father had died when he was only five years old. When Benjamin was twelve years old his mother remarried a Mr. Walden but Mr. Walden died suddenly after less than four years of marriage. His mother again remarried less than a year following her second husband’s death and this time she moved with her new husband to Norwick, Connecticut leaving behind Benjamin and his brothers in Ashford. Benjamin, then seventeen, went to work and live at his uncle Theophilus’ tavern on Ashford Green in the village of Ashford. Benjamin Clark met his future wife “Nabbe” from the nearby community of Tolland, shortly before his nineteenth birthday. When they married in early 1769 Nabbe was only sixteen and Benjamin had just turned nineteen. [“Nabbe” and Benjamin are our daughter-in-law’s 6th great grandparents. Unfortunately, we know little about the background of Nabbe. It is believed that her proper name was Abigail but her surname is not known. A number of sources give her name as Abigail Hunt which would be very exciting because Abigail Hunt’s great-great grandfather, Thomas Loring, was the sister of Welthean Loring who is our son’s 11th great grandmother. This, if it were true, would mean that our son and his wife, our daughter-in-law, share common ancestors, the parents of Thomas and Welthean Loring. It is also exciting because Abigail Hunt is a descendant of a Mayflower passenger. As is often the case, information found on Ancestry.com is often bogus and after some research I believe that it is unlikely that it was Abigail Hunt who married Benjamin Clark. For one thing she was born and died in a town in Massachusetts that is not located anywhere near where Benjamin lived. Furthermore, the date of her death does not match the known date of Nabbe’s death. New note added December, 2008: Based on reasearch provided by Paula Hart, a distant cousin of my daughter-in-law's and a Clark descendant, she determined that Abigail Hart actually married a cousin of Benjamin Clark's who also was named Benjamin Clark. Their fathers were brothers. This helps explain why some of the genealogists using Ancestry.com confused the names.

In Chapter 8 of our family’s history we write about two of our ancestor families, the Hammonds and the Tubbs. Both families relocated in the early 1770s from New London, Connecticut to the Wyoming Valley (along the Susquehanna River near the present day city of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania). The background for this move to the Wyoming Valley was described as follows: “In 1753, an association was formed in Connecticut, called the Susquehanna (Land) Company, the object of which was to plant a colony in the Wyoming Valley, a region claimed by Connecticut by virtue of an ancient but somewhat questionable Charter granted to it by the English Crown in the 1600s. . . In February 1769, the Susquehanna Company finally sent its first group of forty Connecticut settlers into the Wyoming Valley. They were followed in the spring of 1769 by another two hundred families . . . .” [More information about this new colony and its history in the Revolutionary War is described in Chapter 8]. The tempting offer of inexpensive and fertile farm land was enough to entice not only my ancestors, the Hammond and Tubbs families, to relocate but also Benjamin and his brother Samuel and their families, who in early 1770 made the long overland trip to this new community in the Wyoming Valley. Despite the fact that hundreds of Connecticut Yankees moved to this new community in northeastern Pennsylvania over the next four or five years, it is likely that the Clarks (our daughter-in-law’s ancestors) and the Hammonds and Tubbs (our son’s ancestors) were neighbors and well acquainted. In fact, in August of 1776 both Benjamin Clark and Samuel Tubbs enlisted together as privates in the Wyoming Company that was formed to join forces with the army of George Washington. Their Company marched to New Jersey and joined with Washington’s Continental Army on January 1, 1777. Nabbe was pregnant when Benjamin left with his regiment.

Benjamin and Nabbe Clark’s first son, John Theophilus Clark, was born on July 8, 1770 in their newly built two room log home constructed shortly after their arrival in the Wyoming Valley. In 1772, a second child, a daughter, was born to the couple and in 1774 the couple was blessed with a third child. On March 5, 1777, Nabbe gave birth to twin daughters, however the births of the twins did not go well, and her new babies died. The complications from the births were too much for Nabbe. Her husband was away at the war when she finally surrendered her life on March 12, 1777. She was just 24 years old. Benjamin was devastated when he learned a month later of his young wife’s death.

Benjamin Clark and the Connecticut Regiment from the Wyoming Valley played a very active role in the Revolutionary War. In 1777, they were engaged in actions at Milstone River and Bound Brook in New Jersey [home of another Revolutionary War patriot, our ancestor, Peter Harpending] and in battles at Brandywine and Germantown, before joining Washington’s army at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-78. In the spring of 1778, some of their regiment having heard rumors of a threatened attack upon their community in the Wyoming Valley, returned home to assist in the protection of their homes. Benjamin however, elected to stay with the Continental Army and was not present at the Battle of Wyoming on July 3, 1778. [See Chapter 8 for more details]. In June of 1778, Benjamin’s regiment was engaged in the Battle of Monmouth in New Jersey. Shortly after the battle his troops were ordered to return to Wyoming however they failed to arrive before the Indian attack and the massacre of so many of their friends. Benjamin was discharged from duty on July 5, 1778. In the summer of 1779, Benjamin joined Sullivan’s expedition against the western Indians which took him as far north as Seneca Lake in Central New York. Further military records indicate that Benjamin served in the army from March 1781 through June 1783. In 1818 at the age of sixty-nine years old, Benjamin Clark then residing in the Township of Ulster in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, applied for and was awarded a pension for his service in the Revolutionary War. In his application for the pension he noted that his discharge papers from the military were lost in February 1793 when “his home was consumed by fire together with all his effects . . “ [Chapter 9 describes Peter Harpending’s involvement in the Battle of Monmouth, Chapter 12 has a section describing the Sullivan Expedition, and Chapter 15 outlines many of our ancestors who fought alongside Benjamin Clark in the American War for Independence. If only we could go back in time to see how often the Clark family and our family crossed paths in the course of our country’s early history. It would be a fascinating adventure.]

Somehow, between the time he was discharged in July of 1778 and the time he re-enlisted in the summer of 1779, Benjamin Clarke managed to get remarried. His new wife was 28 year old Keziah Yarrington. Keziah had lost her first husband, Silas Gore, the previous year at the Battle of Wyoming. Together they had four children born between the years 1781 and 1787. In the late 1780s, the Clark family including Benjamin’s brother and his family, moved north up the Susquehanna River to settle a new community in Ulster in present day Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Joining them was Benjamin’s oldest son, John Theophilus Clark, and John’s future bride, Cynthia Campbell. Benjamin lived to the ripe old age of 87 and he is buried alongside his second wife in Ulster. Their gravesite in Ulster is located about 67 miles south of our cottage on Seneca.
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Westmoreland's Independent Companies
(Wyoming Independent Companies)

Authorized 23 August 1776 in the Continental Army as the 1st and 2d Independent Westmoreland Companies.
Organized 26 August-21 September 1776 in Westmoreland County, Connecticut, Captains Robert Durkee and Samuel Ransom commanding, and assigned to the Middle Department.

Relieved 12 December 1776 from the Middle Department and assigned to the Main Army.

Relieved 15 June 1778 from the Main Army and assigned to the Western Department. Consolidated 23 June 1778 and consolidated unit redesignated as the WyomingIndependent Company, Captain Simon Spaulding commanding.

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Disbanded 1 January 1781 at Fort Wyoming, Connecticut.
Engagements
Northern New Jersey
Defense of Philadelphia
Philadelphia-Monmouth
Iroquois 1778
Iroquois 1779
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From Ulster Township History (Tri-Counties site):

About the same time (if not together, from Wyoming) that Colonel Spalding and others went to Sheshequin in 1783 and 1784, settlers came into Ulster. Of these may be mentioned as one of the pioneers, Captain Benjamin Clark, who was among the very first to build a house on the "town-plot," of Wilkes-Barre, having emigrated from Tolland County, Connecticut. He was a Corporal in the First Independent Company of Wyoming, under Captain Robert Darkee, and served seven years in the Revolutionary war. In the battle of Mud Fort, the man in front of him had his head shot off by a cannon ball. He was one of the detachment sent for the relief of the citizens of Wilkes-Barre, and was only a day too late--to save the inhabitants from the fate of the tomahawk, and the fiendish tortures of the red men. He was in the army of General Sullivan, which devastated the Indian country in 1779. In connection with General Sullivan’s expedition, Mr. Clark gave the following among his recollections: "At the battle of Newtown, (near where Elmira now is) after the engagement had actively opened, and the Indians were being hard pressed, they knocked down a cow which they had in their possession, cut her up in pieces without skinning her, then took to their heels and made their escape. This they would not have accomplished had General Poore completed his circuit in closing the circle surrounding them. However, the Indians were easily tracked, from the blood which dropped from the cow’s flesh. They were very wrathful at their defeat, and to express it they withed together young hickories."

Mr. Clark received for his services a pension of $96 per year. Subsequently he was appointed captain of militia, and was known by the old settlers as "Captain Clark." After peace, Captain Clark remained in Wyoming one year. In the spring of 1784 he moved to the place now called Frenchtown, (Bradford County) and in the year after came up to Ulster, built a log house on the bank of the river on what is known as the "Watkins place," and moved his family into it in the spring of 1785. It will be remembered that an unusually severe rain fell in October, 1786, causing an unusual rise in the river, called the "pumpkin freshet," from the large quantity of that vegetable that floated down the river. Captain Clark’s house stood on the low flat near the river. The water began to rise rapidly, the family became alarmed and fled to the hills and Mr. Clark commenced moving his goods from the house; and so rapidly did the water rise that across a low place between his house and the hillside, where was dry ground when he went for his last load of goods, he was compelled to swim his oxen on the return. The water came up to the eaves of the house, but the building resisted the force of the current, and after the flood subsided the family moved back into it.

The winter before the great ice freshet (1784) Mr. Clark was at Sheshequin, and in company with Sergeant Thomas Baldwin, went down to Wilkes-Barre in a canoe. There had been a thaw accompanied with rain, and the river was bank full when the weather became suddenly cold. It was with great effort, the two men could keep from freezing. The reached Wilkes-Barre that same day, but so intensely cold had the weather become that, high as the river was, it froze over that night.

Like other Connecticut settlers, Captain Clark took up his farm in Ulster under the Connecticut title, but this proving worthless, he purchased the State title through Thomas Overton. Mr. Clark occupied what is now known as the "Watkins place" until 1816, when he moved to other lands of his, now included in the farm of Benjamin Ross. Here in 1817, he erected a frame dwelling which is yet standing; and our esteemed friend, Rev. S. C. Hovey, a grandson of Mr. Clark, who kindly pointed out the old land-marks for us--rode the horse when a boy nine years old that was hitched in front of the ox-team that drew the logs to the mill for this building. here Mr. Clark lived until the time of his death, which occurred in August, 1834, at the age of eighty-seven years.

Captain Clark was an ardent Federalist and a member of the Methodist church. His house was a place of entertainment for travelers, and the home of the Methodist itinerant for many years, and in it the first preaching was held in Sheshequin. Here in 1810 the preaching of Rev. Loring Grant, H. B. Bascom, late Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was converted and received into the Church. It may be said that Mr. Clark kept the first hotel in Ulster.

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From message-board posting on Ancestry.com
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Their children were Lucinda, Ursula, William and Julia Ann.
Lucinda married Nathaniel Hovey and stayed in Luzerne/Bradford Co.

Ursula was born 10 Jun 1781. She married Samuel Treadway. She died 4 Oct 1845 in Denison Twp, Lawrence Co., Ill.

Julia Ann (?-?) married (1) John Overton & (2) Joseph Passmore, his second marriage. They moved to Lawrence Co with their combined children.

William Clark was born 5 Sep 1789. He married Sylvia Niles 6 May 1810. William moved to Lawrence Co, about 1818.
Children were:
Charles Wesley b. 26 Jun 1811 mar. Mary Neal
Fidelia (twin) b. 13 Dec 1813 mar. John Lukin
Croelia(?Celia) (twin) b. 13 Dec 1813
William Asbury b. 20 Apr 1816 mar. Mrs. Mary Ann French
Sylvia Ann b. 6 Aug 1818 mar. (1) Chauncy P. Durkee (2)--Simons
Keziah b. 6 Sep 1820 mar. Charles Passmore
Hester Ann b. 12 Apr 1823 mar. ?William Mieure
Mary b. 15 Nov 1825
Margaret Curry b. 17 Feb 1828 mar. ?James s. Barbee
Benjamin H.C. b. 8 Oct 1830 mar. ? Martha M. -----
John Fletcher b. 9 Feb 1833 mar. Margaret McMahan (this is my line)
Emily J. b. 6 Jul 1835 mar. (1)William True (2)Joseph H. Bertrand

Sylvia Niles Clark died after 1850. Benjamin married 27 August 1853, Jane (Adams) Lemmons. He died after 1770 and before 1879. Jane died 3 Mar 1879, a widow at that time.
Lemmons is spelled Lemmon, Limon, Lyman, etc. Not sure what the spelling was meant to be of Janes first husband Samuel.

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From ROSTER OF REVOLUTIONARY ANCESTORS, p. 121:

Clark, Benjamin, b. 1747, Tolland, Conn., died 9 aug., 1834, Ulster Pa., m. 1769, (1) Nabbe (Abigail) Clark, b. 1753, d. 12 March 1777, (2) Mrs. Silas Gore (Keziah Y.) of Ulster, Pa. SERVICE: Enlisted at Wyoming, PA, 6 Sept. 1776 and served as pvt. in Capt. Robert Durkee's Independent Co. In Sept. 1777, the company was attached to Col. John Durkee's Conn. Reg. In Feb. 1778, he was Corp in same Co. then commaned by Capt. Simon Spalding in same regt. In summer of 1779, the Co. was attached to Col. Hubley's Expedition against the Indians, and in Feb. or March, 1781, the co. was restored to Col. John Durkee's Conn. Regt. and he later served in Cols. Thomas Grosvenor and Zebulon Butler's Conn. Regt. and was discharged 7 June 1783. CHILDREN: John Theophilus Clark, b. 8 July 1770, m. Cynthia Campbell; Polly (Mary) Clark, b. 3 March 1774; m. ? Blanchard; Sally and Milly CLark, b. 5-3-1777. Above children are from first marriage to Nabbe Clark. Lucinda Clark, m. Nathaniel Hovey; Ursula Clark, m. Samuel Treadway; William, m. Sylvia Niles, daugh of Ezra; Julia Ann, m. John Overton (1 mar.) Niles Passmore (2 mar.). Last 4 children are of Benjamin Clark and Keziah Yarrington.
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From Bradford Reporter, October 18, 1883
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Captain [Benjamin] Clark was twice married. In the Westmoreland town records are the following entries: Births of the children of Benjamin Clark and Nabbie his wife, John Theophilus, born July 8, 1770; Poly, born February 24, 1772; Nabby, born March 3, 1774; Sally and Milly (twins) born March 5, 1777, Nabbie, wife of Benjamin Clark departed this life March 12, 1777, in the twenty-fourth year of her age.
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Bradford Reporter, Towanda, Pa.,
October 18, 1883, ULSTER TOWNSHIP
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What is now Ulster township was originally a part of Sheshequin, but the latter town was soon of such importance that it was deemed best for Ulster to separate which it early did. It was settled about 1784, and among the settlers of early date may be mentioned Captain Benjamin Clark, Nathaniel Hovey, Adrial Simons, Solomon Tracy, Eli Holcomb, Isaac Cash, Abram Parmeter, Chester Bingham, Thomas Overton, Elijah Granger, Leonard Westbrook, and Joseph C. Powell. Nearly all of these men, if not all have descendants now living in Bradford County.

Among the descendants of settlers of "ye olden time" are S. C. Hovey, a descendant of Benjamin Clarke, the third settler at Ulster, who came with General Sullivan in his famous march.

About the same time (if not together, from Wyoming) that Colonel Spalding and others went to Sheshequin in 1783 and 1784, settlers came into Ulster. Of these may be mentioned as one of the pioneers, Captain Benjamin Clark, who was among the very first to build a house on the "town-plot," of Wilkes-Barre, having emigrated from Tolland County, Connecticut. He was a Corporal in the First Independent Company of Wyoming, under Captain Robert Darkee, and served seven years in the Revolutionary war. In the battle of Mud Fort, the man in front of him had his head shot off by a cannon ball. He was one of the detachment sent for the relief of the citizens of Wilkes-Barre, and was only a day too late--to save the inhabitants from the fate of the tomahawk, and the fiendish tortures of the red men. He was in the army of General Sullivan, which devastated the Indian country in 1779. In connection with General Sullivan’s expedition, Mr. Clark gave the following among his recollections: "At the battle of Newtown, (near where Elmira now is) after the engagement had actively opened, and the Indians were being hard pressed, they knocked down a cow which they had in their possession, cut her up in pieces without skinning her, then took to their heels and made their escape. This they would not have accomplished had General Poore completed his circuit in closing the circle surrounding them. However, the Indians were easily tracked, from the blood which dropped from the cow’s flesh. They were very wrathful at their defeat, and to express it they withed together young hickories."

Mr. Clark received for his services a pension of $96 per year. Subsequently he was appointed captain of militia, and was known by the old settlers as "Captain Clark." After peace, Captain Clark remained in Wyoming one year. In the spring of 1784 he moved to the place now called Frenchtown, (Bradford County) and in the year after came up to Ulster, built a log house on the bank of the river on what is known as the "Watkins place," and moved his family into it in the spring of 1785. It will be remembered that an unusually severe rain fell in October, 1786, causing an unusual rise in the river, called the "pumpkin freshet," from the large quantity of that vegetable that floated down the river. Captain Clark’s house stood on the low flat near the river. The water began to rise rapidly, the family became alarmed and fled to the hills and Mr. Clark commenced moving his goods from the house; and so rapidly did the water rise that across a low place between his house and the hillside, where was dry ground when he went for his last load of goods, he was compelled to swim his oxen on the return. The water came up to the eaves of the house, but the building resisted the force of the current, and after the flood subsided the family moved back into it.

The winter before the great ice freshet (1784) Mr. Clark was at Sheshequin, and in company with Sergeant Thomas Baldwin, went down to Wilkes-Barre in a canoe. There had been a thaw accompanied with rain, and the river was bank full when the weather became suddenly cold. It was with great effort, the two men could keep from freezing. The reached Wilkes-Barre that same day, but so intensely cold had the weather become that, high as the river was, it froze over that night.

Like other Connecticut settlers, Captain Clark took up his farm in Ulster under the Connecticut title, but this proving worthless, he purchased the State title through Thomas Overton. Mr. Clark occupied what is now known as the "Watkins place" until 1816, when he moved to other lands of his, now included in the farm of Benjamin Ross. Here in 1817, he erected a frame dwelling which is yet standing; and our esteemed friend, Rev. S. C. Hovey, a grandson of Mr. Clark, who kindly pointed out the old land-marks for us--rode the horse when a boy nine years old that was hitched in front of the ox-team that drew the logs to the mill for this building. here Mr. Clark lived until the time of his death, which occurred in August, 1834, at the age of eighty-seven years.

Captain Clark was an ardent Federalist and a member of the Methodist church. His house was a place of entertainment for travelers, and the home of the Methodist itinerant for many years, and in it the first preaching was held in Sheshequin. Here in 1810 the preaching of Rev. Loring Grant, H. B. Bascom, late Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was converted and received into the Church. It may be said that Mr. Clark kept the first hotel in Ulster.

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From the Baker Family Tree, Chapter 17, The Clarke Family:
http://bakerfamilytree.blogspot.com/2008/02/chapter-17-clarke-family_27.html
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THE FIFTH GENERATION: Benjamin Clark (1750-1834)

Benjamin did not remember his father; his father had died when he was only five years old. When Benjamin was twelve years old his mother remarried a Mr. Walden but Mr. Walden died suddenly after less than four years of marriage. His mother again remarried less than a year following her second husband’s death and this time she moved with her new husband to Norwick, Connecticut leaving behind Benjamin and his brothers in Ashford. Benjamin, then seventeen, went to work and live at his uncle Theophilus’ tavern on Ashford Green in the village of Ashford. Benjamin Clark met his future wife “Nabbe” from the nearby community of Tolland, shortly before his nineteenth birthday. When they married in early 1769 Nabbe was only sixteen and Benjamin had just turned nineteen. [“Nabbe” and Benjamin are our daughter-in-law’s 6th great grandparents. Unfortunately, we know little about the background of Nabbe. It is believed that her proper name was Abigail but her surname is not known. A number of sources give her name as Abigail Hunt which would be very exciting because Abigail Hunt’s great-great grandfather, Thomas Loring, was the sister of Welthean Loring who is our son’s 11th great grandmother. This, if it were true, would mean that our son and his wife, our daughter-in-law, share common ancestors, the parents of Thomas and Welthean Loring. It is also exciting because Abigail Hunt is a descendant of a Mayflower passenger. As is often the case, information found on Ancestry.com is often bogus and after some research I believe that it is unlikely that it was Abigail Hunt who married Benjamin Clark. For one thing she was born and died in a town in Massachusetts that is not located anywhere near where Benjamin lived. Furthermore, the date of her death does not match the known date of Nabbe’s death. New note added December, 2008: Based on reasearch provided by Paula Hart, a distant cousin of my daughter-in-law's and a Clark descendant, she determined that Abigail Hart actually married a cousin of Benjamin Clark's who also was named Benjamin Clark. Their fathers were brothers. This helps explain why some of the genealogists using Ancestry.com confused the names.

In Chapter 8 of our family’s history we write about two of our ancestor families, the Hammonds and the Tubbs. Both families relocated in the early 1770s from New London, Connecticut to the Wyoming Valley (along the Susquehanna River near the present day city of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania). The background for this move to the Wyoming Valley was described as follows: “In 1753, an association was formed in Connecticut, called the Susquehanna (Land) Company, the object of which was to plant a colony in the Wyoming Valley, a region claimed by Connecticut by virtue of an ancient but somewhat questionable Charter granted to it by the English Crown in the 1600s. . . In February 1769, the Susquehanna Company finally sent its first group of forty Connecticut settlers into the Wyoming Valley. They were followed in the spring of 1769 by another two hundred families . . . .” [More information about this new colony and its history in the Revolutionary War is described in Chapter 8]. The tempting offer of inexpensive and fertile farm land was enough to entice not only my ancestors, the Hammond and Tubbs families, to relocate but also Benjamin and his brother Samuel and their families, who in early 1770 made the long overland trip to this new community in the Wyoming Valley. Despite the fact that hundreds of Connecticut Yankees moved to this new community in northeastern Pennsylvania over the next four or five years, it is likely that the Clarks (our daughter-in-law’s ancestors) and the Hammonds and Tubbs (our son’s ancestors) were neighbors and well acquainted. In fact, in August of 1776 both Benjamin Clark and Samuel Tubbs enlisted together as privates in the Wyoming Company that was formed to join forces with the army of George Washington. Their Company marched to New Jersey and joined with Washington’s Continental Army on January 1, 1777. Nabbe was pregnant when Benjamin left with his regiment.

Benjamin and Nabbe Clark’s first son, John Theophilus Clark, was born on July 8, 1770 in their newly built two room log home constructed shortly after their arrival in the Wyoming Valley. In 1772, a second child, a daughter, was born to the couple and in 1774 the couple was blessed with a third child. On March 5, 1777, Nabbe gave birth to twin daughters, however the births of the twins did not go well, and her new babies died. The complications from the births were too much for Nabbe. Her husband was away at the war when she finally surrendered her life on March 12, 1777. She was just 24 years old. Benjamin was devastated when he learned a month later of his young wife’s death.

Benjamin Clark and the Connecticut Regiment from the Wyoming Valley played a very active role in the Revolutionary War. In 1777, they were engaged in actions at Milstone River and Bound Brook in New Jersey [home of another Revolutionary War patriot, our ancestor, Peter Harpending] and in battles at Brandywine and Germantown, before joining Washington’s army at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-78. In the spring of 1778, some of their regiment having heard rumors of a threatened attack upon their community in the Wyoming Valley, returned home to assist in the protection of their homes. Benjamin however, elected to stay with the Continental Army and was not present at the Battle of Wyoming on July 3, 1778. [See Chapter 8 for more details]. In June of 1778, Benjamin’s regiment was engaged in the Battle of Monmouth in New Jersey. Shortly after the battle his troops were ordered to return to Wyoming however they failed to arrive before the Indian attack and the massacre of so many of their friends. Benjamin was discharged from duty on July 5, 1778. In the summer of 1779, Benjamin joined Sullivan’s expedition against the western Indians which took him as far north as Seneca Lake in Central New York. Further military records indicate that Benjamin served in the army from March 1781 through June 1783. In 1818 at the age of sixty-nine years old, Benjamin Clark then residing in the Township of Ulster in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, applied for and was awarded a pension for his service in the Revolutionary War. In his application for the pension he noted that his discharge papers from the military were lost in February 1793 when “his home was consumed by fire together with all his effects . . “ [Chapter 9 describes Peter Harpending’s involvement in the Battle of Monmouth, Chapter 12 has a section describing the Sullivan Expedition, and Chapter 15 outlines many of our ancestors who fought alongside Benjamin Clark in the American War for Independence. If only we could go back in time to see how often the Clark family and our family crossed paths in the course of our country’s early history. It would be a fascinating adventure.]

Somehow, between the time he was discharged in July of 1778 and the time he re-enlisted in the summer of 1779, Benjamin Clarke managed to get remarried. His new wife was 28 year old Keziah Yarrington. Keziah had lost her first husband, Silas Gore, the previous year at the Battle of Wyoming. Together they had four children born between the years 1781 and 1787. In the late 1780s, the Clark family including Benjamin’s brother and his family, moved north up the Susquehanna River to settle a new community in Ulster in present day Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Joining them was Benjamin’s oldest son, John Theophilus Clark, and John’s future bride, Cynthia Campbell. Benjamin lived to the ripe old age of 87 and he is buried alongside his second wife in Ulster. Their gravesite in Ulster is located about 67 miles south of our cottage on Seneca.


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Born ‎ 1747 at Tolland Co., Connecticut, died ‎ aug 9, 1834 at Ulster, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania‎, 86 or 87 years, buried ‎ at Ulster Cemetery, Ulster, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania
Benjamin Clark, a native of Tolland, Connecticut, removed to the Wyoming Valley, and was among the very first to build a house on the town-plat of Wilkes-Barre. He was a corporal in the First Independent Company of Wyoming, under Capt. Robert Durkee, and served seven years in the Revolutionary War. He was one of the detachment sent for the relief of Wyoming after the fatal battle, and was in the army of General Sullivan against the Indians. For his services he received a pension of $96 per year. Subsequently, he was appointed a captain of militia, and was known by the older settlers as "Captain Clark." In 1784 he removed from Wyoming to Asylum, and the next year settled in Ulster on what is known as the Ross farm. His house was a place of entertainment for travelers and a home of the Methodist itinerant for many years, and in it the first preaching was held in "Old Sheshequin." Captain Clark was an ardent Federalist and a member of the Methodist church. He took an active interest in public affairs, and for years filled the most important local offices. He died at Ulster, August 9, 1834, aged 87 years.

Captain Clark was twice married. The Westmoreland town records contain the following: "Births of the children of Benjamin Clark and Nabbe, his wife--John Theophilus, born July 8, 1770; Polly, born March 3, 1774; Sally and Milly (twins), born March 5, 1777. Nabbe, wife of Benjamin Clark, departed this life, March 12, 1777, in the 24th year of her age." Their children selected partners as follows:

John T. married Cynthia, daughter of James Campbell, and settled in Burlington, where he died. They had 12 children who married as follows: Billings to Charlotte Nichols; James to Sally Simons; Cephas to Sally Wilcox; Benjamin died, aged 19, from being kicked by a horse; Sally to Timothy C. Wheeler; Betsey to Abraham Reeves; Ursula to Earl Nichols; Celestia to Harry L. Ross; Polly, first to Amos Alexander, second to Zepheniah Lane; Jane died unmarried; Cynthia to Eliphalet Gustin; Melissa to Mortimer Knapp.

Polly (Mary) married a Mr. Blanchard.

Nabby (Abigail) married George Culver and moved to the Lake country.

For his second wife, Captain Clark married Keziah Yarrington, widow of Silas Gore, who was slain at the battle of Wyoming. She died August 12, 1837, aged 91 years, and lies beside her husband in the Ulster cemetery. Their four children, who married as follows, were:

Lucinda, to Nathaniel Hovey, an officer in the War of 1812, who died at Sackett's Harbor in 1814.

Ursula, to Samuel Treadway and removed to Illinois.

William, to Sylvia, daughter of Ezra Niles and removed to Cairo, Illinois.

Julia Ann, first to John Overton, and after his death to a Mr. Passmore, with whom she moved West.
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History and geography of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, 1615-1924
Chapter XVIII. Ulster Township Page 209

Benjamin Clark, a native of Tolland, Connecticut, removed to the Wyoming Valley and was among the first to build a house on the town-plot of Wilkes-Barre. He was a Corporal in the first Independent Company of Wyoming under Capt Robert Durkee and served seven years in the Revolutionary War. He was one of the detachment sent for the relief of Wyoming after the fatal battle and was in the army of General Sullivan against the Indians.

In 1784, he removed from Wyoming to Asylum, and the next year, settled in Ulster on what is known as the Ross Farm. His house was the place of entertainment for travelers and the home of Methodist itinerants who held religious meetings there.

He was an ardent Federalist, captain of militia and popularly known as Captain Clark.

By his first wife, Nabbe, he had children:
John T, Polly (Mrs Blanchard) and Abigail (Mrs George Culver).

He married second, Keziah Yarrington, widow of Silas Gore, who was slain at the Battle of Wyoming, and had children:
Lucinda (Mrs Nathaniel Hovey), Urusula (Mrs Samuel Treadway), William and Julia Ann (1st Mrs John Overton, 2nd Mrs Joseph Passmore).

Captain Clark died, 1834, aged 87 years.
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From Genealogy Message Board - 2007 (user = nabbe68:
Benjamin Clark was born 15 Jun 1750 in Ashford, Bradford Co, Conn. His parents were Theophilus Clark (1722-?1754) and Bethiah Billings (1727-17--, don't have that with me right now).
Benjamin married about 1769, Nabby ????. They had five children, the last two twin girls born 5 Mar 1777. Nabby died 12 Mar 1777 in the Wyoming Valley,Pennsylvania.(The place is a long story). Benjamin became a soldier in the Revolutionary War.
Keziah Yarrington was born 24 Jun 1751 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. She married Silas Gore (1747 -1778). They had three daughters. Silas was killed at the Battle of Wyoming in July, 1778.
It is not clear when Benjamin and Keziah married. Probably 1783 after Benjamin was released from the army.
Their children were Lucinda, Ursula, William and Julia Ann.
Lucinda married Nathaniel Hovey and stayed in Luzerne/Bradford Co.
Ursula was born 10 Jun 1781. She married Samuel Treadway. She died 4 Oct 1845 in Denison Twp, Lawrence Co., Ill.
Julia Ann (?-?) married (1) John Overton & (2) Joseph Passmore, his second marriage. They moved to Lawrence Co with their combined children.
William Clark was born 5 Sep 1789. He married Sylvia Niles 6 May 1810. William moved to Lawrence Co, about 1818.
Children were:
Charles Wesley b. 26 Jun 1811 mar. Mary Neal
Fidelia (twin) b. 13 Dec 1813 mar. John Lukin
Croelia(?Celia) (twin) b. 13 Dec 1813
William Asbury b. 20 Apr 1816 mar. Mrs. Mary Ann French
Sylvia Ann b. 6 Aug 1818 mar. (1) Chauncy P. Durkee (2)--Simons
Keziah b. 6 Sep 1820 mar. Charles Passmore
Hester Ann b. 12 Apr 1823 mar. ?William Mieure
Mary b. 15 Nov 1825
Margaret Curry b. 17 Feb 1828 mar. ?James s. Barbee
Benjamin H.C. b. 8 Oct 1830 mar. ? Martha M. -----
John Fletcher b. 9 Feb 1833 mar. Margaret McMahan (this is my line)
Emily J. b. 6 Jul 1835 mar. (1)William True (2)Joseph H. Bertrand
Sylvia Niles Clark died after 1850. Benjamin married 27 August 1853, Jane (Adams) Lemmons. He died after 1770 and before 1879. Jane died 3 Mar 1879, a widow at that time.
Lemmons is spelled Lemmon, Limon, Lyman, etc. Not sure what the spelling was meant to be of Janes first husband Samuel.
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Died:
Age: 91

Benjamin Keziah Yarrington 1784. Keziah 24 Jun 1751 Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA; 12 Aug 1837Ulster, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, USA; 13 Aug 1837Ulster, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Keziah Yarrington was born 24 Jun 1751 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. She married Silas Gore (1747 -1778). They had three daughters. Silas was killed at the Battle of Wyoming in July, 1778.

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James, a farmer decended from Scottish ancestors, is the son of David Campbell and Janet (Robertson) Campbell. He married Jane Knox on January 10th, 1760 in Blandford, Hampden County, Massachusetts

James Campbell, a native of Blandford, Mass., who had been a soldier in the Revolutionary war, removed from Massachusetts with his family, 1791, and settled in the wilderness on Sugar Creek in Burlington, Bradford County, Pennsylvania.

He had married Jane Knox, their children being John, James, David, Cephas, William, Eleanor, Rachel, Cynthia, Jane, Betsy and Sally. John, James and David were soldiers in the struggle for Independence. Mr. Campbell died upon his farm, December 28, 1813, in his 75th year.

Notice of his death says, "He was the father of 5 sons, 6 daughters, 6 sons-in-law, 93 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren, making in all 137. He was a member of the Methodist society and was much respected for his virtues." He was of Scotch descent

The farm he settled is still owned and occupied by his descendants. His wife, born February 3, 1744, died October 16, 1840. Both are buried in the family plot upon the homestead.

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James Campbell, a native of Blandford, Mass., who had been a soldier in the Revolutionary war, removed from Massachusetts with his family, 1791, and settled in the wilderness on Sugar Creek in Burlington.

He had married Jane Knox, their children being John, James, David, Cephas, William, Eleanor, Rachel, Cynthia, Jane, Betsy and Sally. John, James and David were soldiers in the struggle for Independence.

Mr. Campbell died upon his farm, December 28, 1813, in his 75th year. Notice of his death says, "He was the father of 5 sons, 6 daughters, 6 sons-in-law, 93 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren, making in all 137.

He was a member of the Methodist society and was much respected for his virtues." He was of Scotch descent. The farm he settled is still owned and occupied by his descendants. His wife, born February 3, 1744, died October 16, 1840. Both are buried in the family plot upon the homestead. Of the children:

John and James removed early to Indiana and died there.

David, born at Blandford, Mass., enlisted January 1, 1782, and served until December, 1783, as a private under Captain Pearsey and Col. Marinus Willet. He obtained a pension upon the ground that in the expedition to Oswego one of his feet was frozen, causing permanent lameness. He died in Burlington, December 15, 1848, aged 83 years, leaving children: Harry, James, David, Hannah (1st Mrs. Isaac Ayers, 2nd Mrs. Jesse Beals), Almira (Mrs. Isaac Marcellus), Almenia (Mrs. Clark).

Cephas, born March 29, 1777, married first Sarah, daughter of Chester Bingham of Ulster; she died, 1821, in her 35th year; married second Ellen Miller, born January 28, 1788, died January 29, 1875. Mr. Campbell died March 5, 1857 in Burlington.

Children: Josephus, who married Asenath Miller; James married Anna Robbins; Chester married Mary Ann Pratt; Owen married 1st Celinda Foster, 2nd Almira York. Letitia married Orry Burns.

William, born August 10, 1779, married Polly Miller, settled on Tom Jack Creek, West Burlington, where he died, 1854. His wife, born March 14, 1788, died March 16, 1847. Children: Alanson, George Washington, William, Lucy, Derrick, Leticia, Lenora.

Eleanor married Gamaliel Jaqua, Burlington.

Rachel married Stephen Wilcox, North Towanda.

Cynthia married John T. Clark, Burlington.

Jane married George Head, Burlington.

Betsy married 1st Oliver Sherman, 2nd Stephen Smith.

Sally married Jeremiah Miller, Burlington.

James Jane Knox. Jane 3 Feb 1744 Blandford, MA; 16 Oct 1840Burlington, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]