Other Events:

• Moved: 1737, Ashford CT; 1737 Theophilus and family move from Medfield Mass to Ashford, CT

Notes:

The Premature Death of Elizabeth Underwood

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Vol. 126 July 1972 No. 3 pp. 157-160, "The Premature 'Death' of Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler by Leland G. Darrow of Belmont, Mass.:

The Rev. Abner Morse in his 1867 compilation, A Genealogical Record of Several Families Bearing the Name of Cutler (p. 27) stated that Nathaniel3 Cutler, son of Nathaniel2 (John1) and Mary (----) Cutler was born 12 March 1659 at Reading, Mass., and died 7 June 1714, ae. 55 years and two months, being called "Mr." on his gravestone. Morse said that Nathaniel's first wife, whom he marred (sic) 24 May 1700, was Elizabeth Underwood of Watertown, and that his second wife, whom he married 21 Feb. 1709, was Elizabeth Haines of Reading. Morse futher reported that the second wife married, secondly, 24 Feb. 1718, Theophilus Clark of Medway, "took all her children with her, and saw them trained up in the way they should go, Mr. Clark having lost his first wife Rebecca, Dec. 1, 1717, and three children, 1716." Morse lists as children of Nathaniel3 and Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler: Nathaniel, Elizabeth and John; and as the only child of Nathaniel by the alleged second wife: Jonathan.

Morse's account was followed substantially by Nahum S. Cutler in A Cutler Memorial (1889), pp. 325-6, except that a fourth child of Nathaniel and first wife is listed: Mary. The account again found its way into print in Henry Cutler's History of the Holliston Branch of the Cutler Family (1897), p. 13, which continues with the descendants of Jonathan4 Cutler.

Turning to Lucien M. Underwood's compendious The Underwood Families of America (1913), 1:6, one finds that Elizabeth3 Underwood, daughter of Joseph2 (Joseph1) and Elizabeth Underwood, was born 8 May 1679; married 24 May 1700, Nathaniel Cutler of Reading, Mass., and had children at Reading: Nathaniel Cutler, b. 8 Dec. 1702; Elizabeth, b. 20 April 1704 or 1705, and John, b. 30 Oct. 1707. Underwood continues: "She must have died soon after 1707 because Nathaniel Cutler is recorded as married to a second wife in 1709, and another child is recorded to him at Reading: Jonathan Cutler, b. 17 Feb. 1711."

A start on the right track with respect to this family group was made by Charles L. Newhall in The Record of my Ancentry (sic) (1889), p. 191, when he noted that Elizabeth Haines was the second wife of Nathaniel2 Cutler, not of his son Nathaniel3. However, Newhall perpetuated the story of Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler's predeceasing her husband, showing a second wife, name unknown, for Nathaniel3.

Vital and probate records clearly show that Elizabeth Underwood survived her first husband, Nathaniel3 Cutler; was, in fact, the mother of all of his five children; that she then married Theophilus Clark of Medway as his second wife, born him four children; and survived Clark by 20 years.

Nathaniel2 Cutler (John1) married Mary ____ at Reading 29 Sept. 1655 (V.R.) and had among others, son Nathaniel, born 12 March 1658/9 (ibid.). Mary, wife of Nathaniel, died 4 Feb. 1707/8, at Reading (ibid.). He married secondly, 21 Feb. 1708/9 at Reading Elizabeth Haines (ibid., he being called "Nathaniel, Sr." in the record). Elizabeth, wife of Nathaniel Sr., died 4 March 1714 at Reading (ibid.). He died before 1 Dec. 1724, intestate, when letters of administration in the estate of Nathaniel Cutler Sr., of Reading were granted to a daughter, widow Lydia Walker (Middlesex County Probate, No. 5548).

Nathaniel3 Cutler (Nathaniel2, John1) was born 12 March 1658/9 at Reading (V.R.) and married there 24 May 1700, Elizabeth Underwood of Watertown (ibid.) born to Joseph and Elizabeth Underwood at Watertown 8 May 1679 (Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families... of WATERTOWN, MASS., 1860), p. 610. Nathaniel Cutler Jr. died 7 June 1714 in his 56th year at Reading(V.R.) The inventory of his estate, filed 18 Oct. 1714, showed an estimated value of L750. 13s., and other papers in the file showed that the administratrix was Elizabeth Clark, "formerly widow of Nathaniel Cutler of Reading, now the wife of Theophilus Clark of Medway." The appraisers were Nathaniel, the eldest son of deceased; Samuel Harding, husband to Mary, daughter of deceased; Raham Bancroft and John Eaton, guardians of under-age children of deceased. The widow allegedly released her dower (but see her will, supra), and distribution was to the five chidren: Nathaniel, Mary, Elizabeth, John and Jonathan (Middlesex Count Probate, No. 5544).

Chidren, all recorded to Nathaniel and Elizabeth at Reading, (V.R.):

i. Mary 3, b. 18 Feb. 1711/01; mentioned as wife of Samuel Harding in record of father's estate.
ii. Nathaniel, b. 8 Dec. 1702; mentioned as deceased in mother's will in 1756 (supra).
iii. Elizabeth, b. 20 April 1705; mentioned as daughter Elizabeth Chandler in mother's will.
iv. John, b. 30 Oct. 1707; mentioned in mother's will.
v. Jonathan, b. 17 Feb. 1710/11, mentioned in mother's will.

Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler married, as her second husband, at Reading 24 Feb. 1718, Theophilus Clark of Medway (V.R.). He was the son born to Benjamin and Dorcas Clarke at Medfield 24 Sept. 1670 (V.R.). He and his first wife Rachel had 12 children recorded at Medfield between 1696 and 1710, and she died 1 Dec. 1717 at Medway (V.R.). "Mr. Theophilus Clark" was buried in the Old Cemetery at Ashford, Conn., the tombstone recording his death on 3 Oct. 1737 in his 76th year. Elizabeth Clark, "wife to Lieut. Theophilus Clark" is also buried there, she having died 25 Dec. 1757 in her 82nd year.

The will of Elizabeth Clark of Ashford, Windham County, Conn., dated 4 June 1756 and proved 2 Feb. 1758, gives:
(T)o the heirs of my son Nathanael Cutler deceased: all that is due to me from his estate as dowry out of my first husbands estate and that is all I will to them from my estate. . . to my son John Cutler (the same) . .. to my son Jonathan Cutler (the same). . . to my daughter Mary Harding (the same). . . to my daughter Elizabeth Chandler all that is due to me from her which is all the portion I will give her. . . to my son Benjamin Clark seventy six pounds old tennor which is duue to me from him by a certanin note of hand dated June 5th 1751 this I give to him to be to his proper use and benefit during his natural life and at his deceas it is my will that it shall be given to the heirs of my sone Theophilus Clark deceased and this is all the portion I give him considering what I have given him before. . . I give and bequeath to my daughter Esther Eastman all that she or her husband are indebted to me and also all my houshold goods and cloathing which are mine at my deceas and also the three hundred and thirty pounds which is now in Doct. David Holmes hand, which is in lawfull money aquivolent to three hundred and thirty pounds, old tennor, and it is my will that one hundred pound of the three above mentioned shall be given to Philip and Timothy Eastman sones to the above named Esther Eastman when they arrive to the age of twenty one years. . . to the heirs of my son Theophilus Clark deceased namedly William Theophilus Benjamin and Samuel Clark the five hundred pounds old tennor which is now due to my from my son Benjmain Clark to be made good to them when they arrive to the age of twenty one years in old tennor or lawful money aquivolent to five hundred pounds, old tennor, with the interest and to have it equally destributed to each of them as they come of age Likewise it is my will that the fifty five pound old tennor which my son Benja Clark owes me for the cow he had of me shall be given to the above heirs of my son Theophilus deceasd and that it shall be made good to them when they come to the age of twenty one years and and distributed equally to each of them. . . to my daughter Bethiah Clark all that she owes me to be given to her younger son Ebenezer Martin Clark when he come to the age of twenty one years and this is all I give to her for the child. . . inasmuch as the surcumstance of the case is such in my thought that it is not proper that either of my sons should be my executour of this my last will and testament I appoint and ordain granson Moses Chandler of Woodstock to be my sole Executor.

Witnesses were Obadiah Brown, Ruth White (by mark) and Benjamin Russell. Among debtors of the estate were Timothy Eastman, Doct. David Holmes, Jno Southworth, Edw. Marcy, Joseph Mason and Benja Clark. The appraisers were Tho. Chandler, Benja Sumner and Benja Russell (Pomfret Probate District, No. 1097; deposited at State Library, Hartford).

Children, first recorded to Theophilus and Elizabeth Clark at Medway, Mass. (V.R.):

i. Esther Clark, b. 1 Jan. 1719; mentioned as Esther Eastman in mother' will of 1756; she and husband Timothy Eastman executed release and receipt, 27 Nov. 1758.
ii. Theophilus Clark, b. 19 Apr. 1722; mentioned as deceased with four sons surviving, in mother's will.
iii. Benjamin Clark, b. 19 March 1724; mentioned in mother's will.
iv. Bethiah Clark; mentioned in mother's will as mother of at least two sons.
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BIOGRAPHY: Theophilus-3 (Benjamin-2, Joseph-1) Clark, born in Medfield in 1670, married Rachel Partridge around 1691.
By 1702, he was settled on the Wheelock Lot No. 1 in both the Old and New Grants.
His dwelling stood at the northeast corner of the present intersection of Village and School Streets in Medway, and his lands extended westerly as far as the present Peach Street, and to the east as far as the present Walker Street.
He owned 110 acres in all.
His wife Rachel died in 1717, and he married second, in 1718, Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler, widow of Nathaniel Cutler of Reading, who brought three sons with him to Medway.
Theophilus built and ran the "Bent Sawmill" a little south of his dwelling across the Mendon road.
He served as Selectman in 1714 and 1722, and was on the town committees involved in building the meeting house in the Old Grant on Bare Hill (opposite the head of Pleasant Street in wh at is now Millis), and securing a minister.
The first "warning out of town" took place in 1733 at Theophilus Clark's house, when Constable Edward Clark warned a Mary Burrit, possibly a servant, to depart from Medway.
Theophilus was called "Lieutenant" in the town records.
The original layout of Candlewood Island Road, now Oakland Street, ran easterly of his dwelling.
About 1733, he removed to Ashford, Connecticut, where he died in 1737. The year he died, he deeded his 110 acres in Medway to Jacob Parker and Thomas Corbin who later sold off the land in parcels to Medway residents.
A part of this land, including the dwelling and mill, were bought by his nephew and namesake Theophilus Clark in 1737
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Note: 1. The American Genealogist, Vol. 23 page 229. Will of Theophilus Clark: Theophilus Clark of Ashford (Windham Co.), will 5 Oct 1737, proved 7 Nov. 1737. Elisabeth, wife, and children: Ebenezer, Caleb, Deborah, Dorcas, Mary, Abigail, Theophilus, Benjamin and Esther.

From Francis D. Donovan, EARLY MEDWAY SETTLERS & LAND RECORDS, 1996, www.medwaylib.org:

In 1727, Theophilus Clark deeded 110 acres on both sides of the New and Old Grant line. His holdings ended at what is now Peach Street in Medway Village. The Clark lands, owned by Timothy and Theophilus east of the Old Grant line were holdings acquired by their grandfather Joseph Clark at the "Bent of the river" in part, and included 77 acres of the Wheelock lot. (page 5)

By 1702, he was settled on the Wheelock Lot No. 1 in both the Old and New Grants. His dwelling stood at the northeast corner of the present intersection of Village and School Streets in Medway, and his lands extended westerly as far as the present Peach Street, and to the east as far as the prest Walker Street. He owned 110 acres in all. His wife Rachel died in 1717, and he married second, in 1718, Elizabeth Cutler, widow of Nathaniel Cutler of Reading, who brought three sons with her to Medway.

Theophilus built and ran the "Bent Sawmill" a little south of his dwelling across the Mendon road. He served as Selectman in 1714 and 1722, and was on the town committees involved in building the meeting house in the Old Grant on Bare Hill and securing a minister. The first "warning out of town" took place in 1733 at Theophilus Clark's house, when Constable Edward Clark warned a Mary Burrit, possibly a servant, to depart from Medway. Theophilus was called "Lieutenent" in the town records.

About 1733, he removed to Ashford, Connecticut, where he died in 1737. The year he died, he deeded his 110 acres in Medway to Jacob Parker and Thomas Corbin who later sold off the land in parcels to Medway residents. A part of this land, including the dwelling and mill, were bought by his nephew and namesake Theophilus Clark in 1737. (page 6)


Buried:
Old Ashford Cemetery

Died:
Age: 67; Buried in Old Ashford Cemetery. Marker

Theophilus Rachael Partridge 1691Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Rachael 12 Jul 1669 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 01 Dec 1717Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Theophilus Elizabeth Underwood 24 Feb 1718Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of Joseph Underwood and Elizabeth Bond) 08 May 1679 Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; 25 Dec 1757Ashford, Windham, Connecticut, USA; 26 Dec 1757Ashford, Windham, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorcas Israel Pond 19 May 1732Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Israel 29 Mar 1702 Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Josiah Hawes. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Edward Gove. Edward 29 May 1696 Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; 10 Jul 1765Hampton Falls, Rockingham Co, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anna Fischer. Anna 1695; 1783Keene, NH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Benjamin and Samuel are mentioned in their Uncle BenjaminÕs will (1804).

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The Premature Death of Elizabeth Underwood
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The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Vol. 126 July 1972 No. 3 pp. 157-160, "The Premature 'Death' of Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler by Leland G. Darrow of Belmont, Mass.:

The Rev. Abner Morse in his 1867 compilation, A Genealogical Record of Several Families Bearing the Name of Cutler (p. 27) stated that Nathaniel3 Cutler, son of Nathaniel2 (John1) and Mary (----) Cutler was born 12 March 1659 at Reading, Mass., and died 7 June 1714, ae. 55 years and two months, being called "Mr." on his gravestone. Morse said that Nathaniel's first wife, whom he marred (sic) 24 May 1700, was Elizabeth Underwood of Watertown, and that his second wife, whom he married 21 Feb. 1709, was Elizabeth Haines of Reading. Morse futher reported that the second wife married, secondly, 24 Feb. 1718, Theophilus Clark of Medway, "took all her children with her, and saw them trained up in the way they should go, Mr. Clark having lost his first wife Rebecca, Dec. 1, 1717, and three children, 1716." Morse lists as children of Nathaniel3 and Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler: Nathaniel, Elizabeth and John; and as the only child of Nathaniel by the alleged second wife: Jonathan.

Morse's account was followed substantially by Nahum S. Cutler in A Cutler Memorial (1889), pp. 325-6, except that a fourth child of Nathaniel and first wife is listed: Mary. The account again found its way into print in Henry Cutler's History of the Holliston Branch of the Cutler Family (1897), p. 13, which continues with the descendants of Jonathan4 Cutler.

Turning to Lucien M. Underwood's compendious The Underwood Families of America (1913), 1:6, one finds that Elizabeth3 Underwood, daughter of Joseph2 (Joseph1) and Elizabeth Underwood, was born 8 May 1679; married 24 May 1700, Nathaniel Cutler of Reading, Mass., and had children at Reading: Nathaniel Cutler, b. 8 Dec. 1702; Elizabeth, b. 20 April 1704 or 1705, and John, b. 30 Oct. 1707. Underwood continues: "She must have died soon after 1707 because Nathaniel Cutler is recorded as married to a second wife in 1709, and another child is recorded to him at Reading: Jonathan Cutler, b. 17 Feb. 1711."

A start on the right track with respect to this family group was made by Charles L. Newhall in The Record of my Ancentry (sic) (1889), p. 191, when he noted that Elizabeth Haines was the second wife of Nathaniel2 Cutler, not of his son Nathaniel3. However, Newhall perpetuated the story of Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler's predeceasing her husband, showing a second wife, name unknown, for Nathaniel3.

Vital and probate records clearly show that Elizabeth Underwood survived her first husband, Nathaniel3 Cutler; was, in fact, the mother of all of his five children; that she then married Theophilus Clark of Medway as his second wife, born him four children; and survived Clark by 20 years.

Nathaniel2 Cutler (John1) married Mary ____ at Reading 29 Sept. 1655 (V.R.) and had among others, son Nathaniel, born 12 March 1658/9 (ibid.). Mary, wife of Nathaniel, died 4 Feb. 1707/8, at Reading (ibid.). He married secondly, 21 Feb. 1708/9 at Reading Elizabeth Haines (ibid., he being called "Nathaniel, Sr." in the record). Elizabeth, wife of Nathaniel Sr., died 4 March 1714 at Reading (ibid.). He died before 1 Dec. 1724, intestate, when letters of administration in the estate of Nathaniel Cutler Sr., of Reading were granted to a daughter, widow Lydia Walker (Middlesex County Probate, No. 5548).

Nathaniel3 Cutler (Nathaniel2, John1) was born 12 March 1658/9 at Reading (V.R.) and married there 24 May 1700, Elizabeth Underwood of Watertown (ibid.) born to Joseph and Elizabeth Underwood at Watertown 8 May 1679 (Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families... of WATERTOWN, MASS., 1860), p. 610. Nathaniel Cutler Jr. died 7 June 1714 in his 56th year at Reading(V.R.) The inventory of his estate, filed 18 Oct. 1714, showed an estimated value of L750. 13s., and other papers in the file showed that the administratrix was Elizabeth Clark, "formerly widow of Nathaniel Cutler of Reading, now the wife of Theophilus Clark of Medway." The appraisers were Nathaniel, the eldest son of deceased; Samuel Harding, husband to Mary, daughter of deceased; Raham Bancroft and John Eaton, guardians of under-age children of deceased. The widow allegedly released her dower (but see her will, supra), and distribution was to the five chidren: Nathaniel, Mary, Elizabeth, John and Jonathan (Middlesex Count Probate, No. 5544).

Chidren, all recorded to Nathaniel and Elizabeth at Reading, (V.R.):

i. Mary 3, b. 18 Feb. 1711/01; mentioned as wife of Samuel Harding in record of father's estate.
ii. Nathaniel, b. 8 Dec. 1702; mentioned as deceased in mother's will in 1756 (supra).
iii. Elizabeth, b. 20 April 1705; mentioned as daughter Elizabeth Chandler in mother's will.
iv. John, b. 30 Oct. 1707; mentioned in mother's will.
v. Jonathan, b. 17 Feb. 1710/11, mentioned in mother's will.

Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler married, as her second husband, at Reading 24 Feb. 1718, Theophilus Clark of Medway (V.R.). He was the son born to Benjamin and Dorcas Clarke at Medfield 24 Sept. 1670 (V.R.). He and his first wife Rachel had 12 children recorded at Medfield between 1696 and 1710, and she died 1 Dec. 1717 at Medway (V.R.). "Mr. Theophilus Clark" was buried in the Old Cemetery at Ashford, Conn., the tombstone recording his death on 3 Oct. 1737 in his 76th year. Elizabeth Clark, "wife to Lieut. Theophilus Clark" is also buried there, she having died 25 Dec. 1757 in her 82nd year.

The will of Elizabeth Clark of Ashford, Windham County, Conn., dated 4 June 1756 and proved 2 Feb. 1758, gives:
(T)o the heirs of my son Nathanael Cutler deceased: all that is due to me from his estate as dowry out of my first husbands estate and that is all I will to them from my estate. . . to my son John Cutler (the same) . .. to my son Jonathan Cutler (the same). . . to my daughter Mary Harding (the same). . . to my daughter Elizabeth Chandler all that is due to me from her which is all the portion I will give her. . . to my son Benjamin Clark seventy six pounds old tennor which is duue to me from him by a certanin note of hand dated June 5th 1751 this I give to him to be to his proper use and benefit during his natural life and at his deceas it is my will that it shall be given to the heirs of my sone Theophilus Clark deceased and this is all the portion I give him considering what I have given him before. . . I give and bequeath to my daughter Esther Eastman all that she or her husband are indebted to me and also all my houshold goods and cloathing which are mine at my deceas and also the three hundred and thirty pounds which is now in Doct. David Holmes hand, which is in lawfull money aquivolent to three hundred and thirty pounds, old tennor, and it is my will that one hundred pound of the three above mentioned shall be given to Philip and Timothy Eastman sones to the above named Esther Eastman when they arrive to the age of twenty one years. . . to the heirs of my son Theophilus Clark deceased namedly William Theophilus Benjamin and Samuel Clark the five hundred pounds old tennor which is now due to my from my son Benjmain Clark to be made good to them when they arrive to the age of twenty one years in old tennor or lawful money aquivolent to five hundred pounds, old tennor, with the interest and to have it equally destributed to each of them as they come of age Likewise it is my will that the fifty five pound old tennor which my son Benja Clark owes me for the cow he had of me shall be given to the above heirs of my son Theophilus deceasd and that it shall be made good to them when they come to the age of twenty one years and and distributed equally to each of them. . . to my daughter Bethiah Clark all that she owes me to be given to her younger son Ebenezer Martin Clark when he come to the age of twenty one years and this is all I give to her for the child. . . inasmuch as the surcumstance of the case is such in my thought that it is not proper that either of my sons should be my executour of this my last will and testament I appoint and ordain granson Moses Chandler of Woodstock to be my sole Executor.

Witnesses were Obadiah Brown, Ruth White (by mark) and Benjamin Russell. Among debtors of the estate were Timothy Eastman, Doct. David Holmes, Jno Southworth, Edw. Marcy, Joseph Mason and Benja Clark. The appraisers were Tho. Chandler, Benja Sumner and Benja Russell (Pomfret Probate District, No. 1097; deposited at State Library, Hartford).

Children, first recorded to Theophilus and Elizabeth Clark at Medway, Mass. (V.R.):

i. Esther Clark, b. 1 Jan. 1719; mentioned as Esther Eastman in mother' will of 1756; she and husband Timothy Eastman executed release and receipt, 27 Nov. 1758.
ii. Theophilus Clark, b. 19 Apr. 1722; mentioned as deceased with four sons surviving, in mother's will.
iii. Benjamin Clark, b. 19 March 1724; mentioned in mother's will.
iv. Bethiah Clark; mentioned in mother's will as mother of at least two sons.

Benjamin Hannah Tiffany 17 Dec 1747Ashford, CT. Hannah (daughter of Edward Tiffany and Tabitha Humphrey) 28 Mar 1727 Ashford, CT; 13 Dec 1813Ashford, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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THE FOURTH GENERATION: Theophilus Clark (Jr.) 1724-Before 1756)

It might be appropriate to call Theophilus Clark (Jr.) the “Mystery Clark” for there is almost no historical information readily available about his life. We know that he was born on April 19, 1722 in Medway, Massachusetts, the second child of the marriage between Theophilus and Elizabeth Clark. At the age of 23 he married 18 year old Bethiah Billings in Ashford, Connecticut where they both lived. They had four children born between the years 1746 and 1752. Theophilus died sometime before his mother’s Will was written in June of 1756 (possibly he died as early as 1754) for in her will she refers to “my son Theophilus Clark deceased. .” and to his four sons, Benjamin, William, Samuel, and Theophilus (III). There are no documents that we could find that describe the cause of his death. He was only in his early 30s when he died. It is possible that he was a casualty in the French and Indian War which had begun in 1754. We know that Theophilus had a cousin also from Medway, who was killed in the war in 1760, therefore it is not such a reach to suggest that Theophilus may have fallen to the same fate in the same cause. After Theophilus’ death, Bethiah remarried at least twice more, outliving both her second and third husbands. When and where Bethiah died could not be determined.
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The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Vol. 126 July 1972 No. 3 pp. 157-160, "The Premature 'Death' of Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler by Leland G. Darrow of Belmont, Mass.:

The Rev. Abner Morse in his 1867 compilation, A Genealogical Record of Several Families Bearing the Name of Cutler (p. 27) stated that Nathaniel3 Cutler, son of Nathaniel2 (John1) and Mary (----) Cutler was born 12 March 1659 at Reading, Mass., and died 7 June 1714, ae. 55 years and two months, being called "Mr." on his gravestone. Morse said that Nathaniel's first wife, whom he marred (sic) 24 May 1700, was Elizabeth Underwood of Watertown, and that his second wife, whom he married 21 Feb. 1709, was Elizabeth Haines of Reading. Morse futher reported that the second wife married, secondly, 24 Feb. 1718, Theophilus Clark of Medway, "took all her children with her, and saw them trained up in the way they should go, Mr. Clark having lost his first wife Rebecca, Dec. 1, 1717, and three children, 1716." Morse lists as children of Nathaniel3 and Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler: Nathaniel, Elizabeth and John; and as the only child of Nathaniel by the alleged second wife: Jonathan.

Morse's account was followed substantially by Nahum S. Cutler in A Cutler Memorial (1889), pp. 325-6, except that a fourth child of Nathaniel and first wife is listed: Mary. The account again found its way into print in Henry Cutler's History of the Holliston Branch of the Cutler Family (1897), p. 13, which continues with the descendants of Jonathan4 Cutler.

Turning to Lucien M. Underwood's compendious The Underwood Families of America (1913), 1:6, one finds that Elizabeth3 Underwood, daughter of Joseph2 (Joseph1) and Elizabeth Underwood, was born 8 May 1679; married 24 May 1700, Nathaniel Cutler of Reading, Mass., and had children at Reading: Nathaniel Cutler, b. 8 Dec. 1702; Elizabeth, b. 20 April 1704 or 1705, and John, b. 30 Oct. 1707. Underwood continues: "She must have died soon after 1707 because Nathaniel Cutler is recorded as married to a second wife in 1709, and another child is recorded to him at Reading: Jonathan Cutler, b. 17 Feb. 1711."

A start on the right track with respect to this family group was made by Charles L. Newhall in The Record of my Ancentry (sic) (1889), p. 191, when he noted that Elizabeth Haines was the second wife of Nathaniel2 Cutler, not of his son Nathaniel3. However, Newhall perpetuated the story of Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler's predeceasing her husband, showing a second wife, name unknown, for Nathaniel3.

Vital and probate records clearly show that Elizabeth Underwood survived her first husband, Nathaniel3 Cutler; was, in fact, the mother of all of his five children; that she then married Theophilus Clark of Medway as his second wife, born him four children; and survived Clark by 20 years.

Nathaniel2 Cutler (John1) married Mary ____ at Reading 29 Sept. 1655 (V.R.) and had among others, son Nathaniel, born 12 March 1658/9 (ibid.). Mary, wife of Nathaniel, died 4 Feb. 1707/8, at Reading (ibid.). He married secondly, 21 Feb. 1708/9 at Reading Elizabeth Haines (ibid., he being called "Nathaniel, Sr." in the record). Elizabeth, wife of Nathaniel Sr., died 4 March 1714 at Reading (ibid.). He died before 1 Dec. 1724, intestate, when letters of administration in the estate of Nathaniel Cutler Sr., of Reading were granted to a daughter, widow Lydia Walker (Middlesex County Probate, No. 5548).

Nathaniel3 Cutler (Nathaniel2, John1) was born 12 March 1658/9 at Reading (V.R.) and married there 24 May 1700, Elizabeth Underwood of Watertown (ibid.) born to Joseph and Elizabeth Underwood at Watertown 8 May 1679 (Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families... of WATERTOWN, MASS., 1860), p. 610. Nathaniel Cutler Jr. died 7 June 1714 in his 56th year at Reading(V.R.) The inventory of his estate, filed 18 Oct. 1714, showed an estimated value of L750. 13s., and other papers in the file showed that the administratrix was Elizabeth Clark, "formerly widow of Nathaniel Cutler of Reading, now the wife of Theophilus Clark of Medway." The appraisers were Nathaniel, the eldest son of deceased; Samuel Harding, husband to Mary, daughter of deceased; Raham Bancroft and John Eaton, guardians of under-age children of deceased. The widow allegedly released her dower (but see her will, supra), and distribution was to the five chidren: Nathaniel, Mary, Elizabeth, John and Jonathan (Middlesex Count Probate, No. 5544).

Chidren, all recorded to Nathaniel and Elizabeth at Reading, (V.R.):

i. Mary 3, b. 18 Feb. 1711/01; mentioned as wife of Samuel Harding in record of father's estate.
ii. Nathaniel, b. 8 Dec. 1702; mentioned as deceased in mother's will in 1756 (supra).
iii. Elizabeth, b. 20 April 1705; mentioned as daughter Elizabeth Chandler in mother's will.
iv. John, b. 30 Oct. 1707; mentioned in mother's will.
v. Jonathan, b. 17 Feb. 1710/11, mentioned in mother's will.

Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler married, as her second husband, at Reading 24 Feb. 1718, Theophilus Clark of Medway (V.R.). He was the son born to Benjamin and Dorcas Clarke at Medfield 24 Sept. 1670 (V.R.). He and his first wife Rachel had 12 children recorded at Medfield between 1696 and 1710, and she died 1 Dec. 1717 at Medway (V.R.). "Mr. Theophilus Clark" was buried in the Old Cemetery at Ashford, Conn., the tombstone recording his death on 3 Oct. 1737 in his 76th year. Elizabeth Clark, "wife to Lieut. Theophilus Clark" is also buried there, she having died 25 Dec. 1757 in her 82nd year.

The will of Elizabeth Clark of Ashford, Windham County, Conn., dated 4 June 1756 and proved 2 Feb. 1758, gives:
(T)o the heirs of my son Nathanael Cutler deceased: all that is due to me from his estate as dowry out of my first husbands estate and that is all I will to them from my estate. . . to my son John Cutler (the same) . .. to my son Jonathan Cutler (the same). . . to my daughter Mary Harding (the same). . . to my daughter Elizabeth Chandler all that is due to me from her which is all the portion I will give her. . . to my son Benjamin Clark seventy six pounds old tennor which is duue to me from him by a certanin note of hand dated June 5th 1751 this I give to him to be to his proper use and benefit during his natural life and at his deceas it is my will that it shall be given to the heirs of my sone Theophilus Clark deceased and this is all the portion I give him considering what I have given him before. . . I give and bequeath to my daughter Esther Eastman all that she or her husband are indebted to me and also all my houshold goods and cloathing which are mine at my deceas and also the three hundred and thirty pounds which is now in Doct. David Holmes hand, which is in lawfull money aquivolent to three hundred and thirty pounds, old tennor, and it is my will that one hundred pound of the three above mentioned shall be given to Philip and Timothy Eastman sones to the above named Esther Eastman when they arrive to the age of twenty one years. . . to the heirs of my son Theophilus Clark deceased namedly William Theophilus Benjamin and Samuel Clark the five hundred pounds old tennor which is now due to my from my son Benjmain Clark to be made good to them when they arrive to the age of twenty one years in old tennor or lawful money aquivolent to five hundred pounds, old tennor, with the interest and to have it equally destributed to each of them as they come of age Likewise it is my will that the fifty five pound old tennor which my son Benja Clark owes me for the cow he had of me shall be given to the above heirs of my son Theophilus deceasd and that it shall be made good to them when they come to the age of twenty one years and and distributed equally to each of them. . . to my daughter Bethiah Clark all that she owes me to be given to her younger son Ebenezer Martin Clark when he come to the age of twenty one years and this is all I give to her for the child. . . inasmuch as the surcumstance of the case is such in my thought that it is not proper that either of my sons should be my executour of this my last will and testament I appoint and ordain granson Moses Chandler of Woodstock to be my sole Executor.

Witnesses were Obadiah Brown, Ruth White (by mark) and Benjamin Russell. Among debtors of the estate were Timothy Eastman, Doct. David Holmes, Jno Southworth, Edw. Marcy, Joseph Mason and Benja Clark. The appraisers were Tho. Chandler, Benja Sumner and Benja Russell (Pomfret Probate District, No. 1097; deposited at State Library, Hartford).

Children, first recorded to Theophilus and Elizabeth Clark at Medway, Mass. (V.R.):

i. Esther Clark, b. 1 Jan. 1719; mentioned as Esther Eastman in mother' will of 1756; she and husband Timothy Eastman executed release and receipt, 27 Nov. 1758.
ii. Theophilus Clark, b. 19 Apr. 1722; mentioned as deceased with four sons surviving, in mother's will.
iii. Benjamin Clark, b. 19 March 1724; mentioned in mother's will.
iv. Bethiah Clark; mentioned in mother's will as mother of at least two sons.




Birth:
Age: 0

Theophilus Bethiah Billings 05 Dec 1745Ashford, Windham, Connecticut, USA. Bethiah (daughter of Reverend William Billings and Bethiah Otis) 04 Nov 1727 Ashford, Windham, Connecticut, USA; 15 Oct 1791Canterbury, CT; Cleaveland Cemetery Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut, USA . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The Premature Death of Elizabeth Underwood
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-- Elizabeth Underwood married Theophilus Clark 1716, his second wife.
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The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Vol. 126 July 1972 No. 3 pp. 157-160, "The Premature 'Death' of Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler by Leland G. Darrow of Belmont, Mass.:

The Rev. Abner Morse in his 1867 compilation, A Genealogical Record of Several Families Bearing the Name of Cutler (p. 27) stated that Nathaniel3 Cutler, son of Nathaniel2 (John1) and Mary (----) Cutler was born 12 March 1659 at Reading, Mass., and died 7 June 1714, ae. 55 years and two months, being called "Mr." on his gravestone. Morse said that Nathaniel's first wife, whom he marred (sic) 24 May 1700, was Elizabeth Underwood of Watertown, and that his second wife, whom he married 21 Feb. 1709, was Elizabeth Haines of Reading. Morse futher reported that the second wife married, secondly, 24 Feb. 1718, Theophilus Clark of Medway, "took all her children with her, and saw them trained up in the way they should go, Mr. Clark having lost his first wife Rebecca, Dec. 1, 1717, and three children, 1716." Morse lists as children of Nathaniel3 and Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler: Nathaniel, Elizabeth and John; and as the only child of Nathaniel by the alleged second wife: Jonathan.

Morse's account was followed substantially by Nahum S. Cutler in A Cutler Memorial (1889), pp. 325-6, except that a fourth child of Nathaniel and first wife is listed: Mary. The account again found its way into print in Henry Cutler's History of the Holliston Branch of the Cutler Family (1897), p. 13, which continues with the descendants of Jonathan4 Cutler.

Turning to Lucien M. Underwood's compendious The Underwood Families of America (1913), 1:6, one finds that Elizabeth3 Underwood, daughter of Joseph2 (Joseph1) and Elizabeth Underwood, was born 8 May 1679; married 24 May 1700, Nathaniel Cutler of Reading, Mass., and had children at Reading: Nathaniel Cutler, b. 8 Dec. 1702; Elizabeth, b. 20 April 1704 or 1705, and John, b. 30 Oct. 1707. Underwood continues: "She must have died soon after 1707 because Nathaniel Cutler is recorded as married to a second wife in 1709, and another child is recorded to him at Reading: Jonathan Cutler, b. 17 Feb. 1711."

A start on the right track with respect to this family group was made by Charles L. Newhall in The Record of my Ancentry (sic) (1889), p. 191, when he noted that Elizabeth Haines was the second wife of Nathaniel2 Cutler, not of his son Nathaniel3. However, Newhall perpetuated the story of Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler's predeceasing her husband, showing a second wife, name unknown, for Nathaniel3.

Vital and probate records clearly show that Elizabeth Underwood survived her first husband, Nathaniel3 Cutler; was, in fact, the mother of all of his five children; that she then married Theophilus Clark of Medway as his second wife, born him four children; and survived Clark by 20 years.

Nathaniel2 Cutler (John1) married Mary ____ at Reading 29 Sept. 1655 (V.R.) and had among others, son Nathaniel, born 12 March 1658/9 (ibid.). Mary, wife of Nathaniel, died 4 Feb. 1707/8, at Reading (ibid.). He married secondly, 21 Feb. 1708/9 at Reading Elizabeth Haines (ibid., he being called "Nathaniel, Sr." in the record). Elizabeth, wife of Nathaniel Sr., died 4 March 1714 at Reading (ibid.). He died before 1 Dec. 1724, intestate, when letters of administration in the estate of Nathaniel Cutler Sr., of Reading were granted to a daughter, widow Lydia Walker (Middlesex County Probate, No. 5548).

Nathaniel3 Cutler (Nathaniel2, John1) was born 12 March 1658/9 at Reading (V.R.) and married there 24 May 1700, Elizabeth Underwood of Watertown (ibid.) born to Joseph and Elizabeth Underwood at Watertown 8 May 1679 (Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families... of WATERTOWN, MASS., 1860), p. 610. Nathaniel Cutler Jr. died 7 June 1714 in his 56th year at Reading(V.R.) The inventory of his estate, filed 18 Oct. 1714, showed an estimated value of L750. 13s., and other papers in the file showed that the administratrix was Elizabeth Clark, "formerly widow of Nathaniel Cutler of Reading, now the wife of Theophilus Clark of Medway." The appraisers were Nathaniel, the eldest son of deceased; Samuel Harding, husband to Mary, daughter of deceased; Raham Bancroft and John Eaton, guardians of under-age children of deceased. The widow allegedly released her dower (but see her will, supra), and distribution was to the five chidren: Nathaniel, Mary, Elizabeth, John and Jonathan (Middlesex Count Probate, No. 5544).

Chidren, all recorded to Nathaniel and Elizabeth at Reading, (V.R.):

i. Mary 3, b. 18 Feb. 1711/01; mentioned as wife of Samuel Harding in record of father's estate.
ii. Nathaniel, b. 8 Dec. 1702; mentioned as deceased in mother's will in 1756 (supra).
iii. Elizabeth, b. 20 April 1705; mentioned as daughter Elizabeth Chandler in mother's will.
iv. John, b. 30 Oct. 1707; mentioned in mother's will.
v. Jonathan, b. 17 Feb. 1710/11, mentioned in mother's will.

Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler married, as her second husband, at Reading 24 Feb. 1718, Theophilus Clark of Medway (V.R.). He was the son born to Benjamin and Dorcas Clarke at Medfield 24 Sept. 1670 (V.R.). He and his first wife Rachel had 12 children recorded at Medfield between 1696 and 1710, and she died 1 Dec. 1717 at Medway (V.R.). "Mr. Theophilus Clark" was buried in the Old Cemetery at Ashford, Conn., the tombstone recording his death on 3 Oct. 1737 in his 76th year. Elizabeth Clark, "wife to Lieut. Theophilus Clark" is also buried there, she having died 25 Dec. 1757 in her 82nd year.

The will of Elizabeth Clark of Ashford, Windham County, Conn., dated 4 June 1756 and proved 2 Feb. 1758, gives:
(T)o the heirs of my son Nathanael Cutler deceased: all that is due to me from his estate as dowry out of my first husbands estate and that is all I will to them from my estate. . . to my son John Cutler (the same) . .. to my son Jonathan Cutler (the same). . . to my daughter Mary Harding (the same). . . to my daughter Elizabeth Chandler all that is due to me from her which is all the portion I will give her. . . to my son Benjamin Clark seventy six pounds old tennor which is duue to me from him by a certanin note of hand dated June 5th 1751 this I give to him to be to his proper use and benefit during his natural life and at his deceas it is my will that it shall be given to the heirs of my sone Theophilus Clark deceased and this is all the portion I give him considering what I have given him before. . . I give and bequeath to my daughter Esther Eastman all that she or her husband are indebted to me and also all my houshold goods and cloathing which are mine at my deceas and also the three hundred and thirty pounds which is now in Doct. David Holmes hand, which is in lawfull money aquivolent to three hundred and thirty pounds, old tennor, and it is my will that one hundred pound of the three above mentioned shall be given to Philip and Timothy Eastman sones to the above named Esther Eastman when they arrive to the age of twenty one years. . . to the heirs of my son Theophilus Clark deceased namedly William Theophilus Benjamin and Samuel Clark the five hundred pounds old tennor which is now due to my from my son Benjmain Clark to be made good to them when they arrive to the age of twenty one years in old tennor or lawful money aquivolent to five hundred pounds, old tennor, with the interest and to have it equally destributed to each of them as they come of age Likewise it is my will that the fifty five pound old tennor which my son Benja Clark owes me for the cow he had of me shall be given to the above heirs of my son Theophilus deceasd and that it shall be made good to them when they come to the age of twenty one years and and distributed equally to each of them. . . to my daughter Bethiah Clark all that she owes me to be given to her younger son Ebenezer Martin Clark when he come to the age of twenty one years and this is all I give to her for the child. . . inasmuch as the surcumstance of the case is such in my thought that it is not proper that either of my sons should be my executour of this my last will and testament I appoint and ordain granson Moses Chandler of Woodstock to be my sole Executor.

Witnesses were Obadiah Brown, Ruth White (by mark) and Benjamin Russell. Among debtors of the estate were Timothy Eastman, Doct. David Holmes, Jno Southworth, Edw. Marcy, Joseph Mason and Benja Clark. The appraisers were Tho. Chandler, Benja Sumner and Benja Russell (Pomfret Probate District, No. 1097; deposited at State Library, Hartford).

Children, first recorded to Theophilus and Elizabeth Clark at Medway, Mass. (V.R.):

i. Esther Clark, b. 1 Jan. 1719; mentioned as Esther Eastman in mother' will of 1756; she and husband Timothy Eastman executed release and receipt, 27 Nov. 1758.
ii. Theophilus Clark, b. 19 Apr. 1722; mentioned as deceased with four sons surviving, in mother's will.
iii. Benjamin Clark, b. 19 March 1724; mentioned in mother's will.
iv. Bethiah Clark; mentioned in mother's will as mother of at least two sons.

Family/Spouse: Timothy Eastman. Timothy 05 May 1717 Ashford, Windham, Connecticut, USA; 03 Jul 1804Barnard, Windsor, Vermont, USA; Windsor, Windsor County, Vermont, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorcas Elisha Partridge 17 Mar 1756Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Elisha (son of Edward Partridge and Sarah Jones) 08 Jul 1734 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 1787Thomaston, Knox, Maine, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jesse Hall. Jesse 1734 Wrentham, MA; 1808Keene, NH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Event 1: 23 Oct 1809, Wysox, Bradford, Pennsylvania, USA; Samuel accidentally Shot by neighbor https://pawchs.org/1809-luzerne-county-federalist/

Notes:

17 Nov 1809 - Luzerne County Federalist: Melancholy Accident — On Oct. 23rd last, Nathan COON, of Sugar Creek, in this county, took his rifle and went into the woods in pursuit of venison. Having hunted some time, he started three deer, which run round a hill near where the new state road crosses the line of Claverack Township. Mr. COON immediately crossed the hill with the view of meeting the deer as they should come round the point of the hill. Having proceeded a little distance he heard a noise of rustling in the bushes in the direction that he expected the deer to come, and eager for the game, stepped hastily forward, and seeing something move through the leaves, he fired, and the object fell. On approaching the spot, lo! Instead of a deer — a man had fallen, and was writhing in the most excruciating agonies. Capt. Samuel CLARK of Claverack had contracted to open a part of the state road, and was at work upon it alone, when the ball struck him near the right shoulder blade and penetrated to the spine of the back. When Mr. COON came in with the sad intelligence, measures were immediately taken for bringing Capt. CLARK to his place of residence at Capt. GREGORY’S. He received his wound about one o’clock P. M. and retained his senses perfectly, while he survived, which was until about eight o’clock in the evening, when he expired. Capt. CLARK was a respectable and worthy man, about 55 years of age, and has left five children to mourn his untimely death. Mr. COON appeared exceedingly afflicted; there was no doubt that the wound was entirely accidental; but such accidents occur so frequently, that it is impossible not to consider the persons who are the causes of them, if not guilty, at least extremely reprehensible for their carelessness. Hunters form such fatal consequences, ought to learn to exercise more prudence and caution for the future.

From Heaverly;s Pioneers and Patriot Families of Bradford County, Page 187: Samuel Clark came to Ulster soon after his brother, Capt. Benjamin Clark. In the census of 1790 his family is given as consisting of five males and three females. Mr. Clark met a tragic death on Christmas, 1808. He had a contract for building a section of the State Road, crossing the county from east to west, and while engaged on the Gregg place in clearing away brush, was shot in mistake for a deer by a neighbor. But little is known of his family. One son, Ebenezer P. Clark, was for a number of years a resident of Towanda and did teaming for Col. Harry Spalding. Harry S. Clark, son of Ebenezer P., born 1823, is still a resident of Towanda.

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Nathan Coon lived up Sugar creek about a mile above Mr. Rutty's. He probably left about 1809. His property described as a house, seventeen acres of improved land, one hundred and twenty unimproved, and a valuation of $153,which, on the assessment, is marked transferred to Andrew Gregg.

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Samuel Clark of Claverack lived at Capt. Gregory's in Wysox. Gregory was a licensed Inn Keeper in 1802


504 HISTORY OF BRADFORD COUNTY.

Ebenezer B. Gregory came here through the influence of Mr. Means. At all events he accompanied liim on his return trip from
Northumberland where he had gone after his sister, Nancy (Mrs. Dr.Warner). He lived in a double log house near the river, a little north-
east of the present residence of I. O. Blight, on the same lot. The building was used as a house of entertainment, and Mr. Gregory was
licensed a ''taverner" in 1802. lie seems to have also engaged in the mercantile business for a short time, being marked "merchant" on the assessment roll of 1814:. Mr. Gregory was a man of education
and "very much of a gentleman." His wife was an accomplished ladv, and'as early as 1810 or 1811 established a boarding school at her
own house for young ladies and girls. Mr. Gregory was one of the original proprietors of Towanda, and donated from his portion two
lots for an academy, which were subsequently appropriated to private uses. In about 1817 he removed to Owego, and died
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Name: Samuel Clark
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 09 Nov 1752
Birthplace: ASHFORD TWP,WINDHAM,CONNETICUT
Father's Name: Theophilus Clark
Mother's Name: Bethiah

Indexing Project (Batch) Number: 7450316
System Origin: Connecticut-ODM
GS Film number: unknown

Citing this Record
"Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F742-Q54 : 11 February 2018), Bethiah in entry for Samuel Clark, 09 Nov 1752; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.

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The following is extracted from Clement F. Heverly, Pioneer and Patriot Families of Bradford County, 1770-1800, Vol. 1, Bradford Star Print, 1913

EARLY MARRIAGES, JUSTICES AND MINISTERS IN BRADFORD COUNTY

Records From 1766 to 1811

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1798 June 26, in Sheshequin, by Judge Obadiah Gore, Ebenezer B. Gregory of Wysox (Towanda) and Mrs. Celinda (Bingham) Taylor.

** Samuel Clark living at Captain Gregory's at time of accident
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Wysox Assessment* 1796.


Wysox Assessment, 1796 13

William Dobin as a carpenter ; and Samuel Surlerhill as
a blacksmith. The following were the taxables :

Benjamin Ackley John Cranmer

John Bennett Samuel Cole

Joshua Bowman James Gurnet

Amos Bennett, Jr. William Dauherty

Joseph Ballard Paul DeWiU

Henry Bunnell John Dorman

Charles Bartley William DeWitt

Amos Bennett William Dohin

John Blanden Widow MeDale

Henry Birney Frederick Eiklor

Charles Bologhone Nathaniel Edsall

Stephen Baliard Solomon Franklin

Joseph Bennett Rudolph Fox

Nathan Bull Jehial Fat is

Feris Bod well Rufus Foster

Joshua Bailey Jehial Franklin

Thomas Bennett Isaac Foster

David Baringtou Philip Fox

Gideon Bennett Abraham Foster

Samuel Cranmer Jacob Gibson

Samuel Clark Richard Gough

Michael Crows Jacob Granteer

Ehenezer Cindle Francis Gullow

Moses Coolbaugh Richard Griffin

Moses Calkins Thomas Gibson

Amy Cranmer Daniel Hoi ley

Abisha Cole Peter Huyck

John Cole Luther Hinman

Usual Carter Elijah Head

Samuel Covel George Head, Sr.

Noadiah Cranmer John Hinman

W T illiam Coolbaugh Elisha Hurlhut

Barnabas Clark William Huyck

John Clark Nathaniel Heacock


Died:
shot by deer hunter

Family/Spouse: Sarah. [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.,
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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 Nabbe 1810. Nabbe (daughter of Ezra Niles) after 1750 unknown; 12 Mar 1777Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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:

Died:
Age: 87

Family/Spouse: Elijah Holmes. Elijah 29 Sep 1764. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Rachel Winter. Rachel about 1773; 24 Jul 1856. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Prudence Brown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sarah Crockett. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jerimiah Pratt. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Achsa Metcalf. Achsa 13 Dec 1819. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: David Fales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Isaiah Turner. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hobart Newton. Hobart 1771 Keene, NH; 1813NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Ebenezer P. Clark was assessed in Towanda in 1812. He lived near Myer's Mills, and afterwards in Towanda, thence moved down the river opposite Wyalusing.
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FROM Page 81 of book History of the Towandas, 1770-1886 : including the aborigines, Pennamites and Yankees together with biographical sketches and matters of general importance connected with the county seat by Clement Ferdinand Heverly
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Most people familiar with Towanda history know that the borough's oldest house is located at 1 York Avenue, at the bend with Main Street. An example of Federal architecture, it was built in 1812 and was originally built as a combination tavern and home by Col. Harry Spalding. It was a stagecoach stop when York Avenue was known as Post Road and once even contained a ballroom for dancing during one phase of its 192 years of service. As is the case with most of these homes, it still serves as a home and retains its historic look.

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** 1815 Petition for road construction ****

Road from Breakneck Run to State Road—
At a court of quarter sessions, county of Bradford, May 1815, the petition of John Spalding, Zephon Flower, David Paine, Lodawick Carner, Henry Boyer, Ebenezer P. Clark, Wm. Coolbaugh, David Eiklor, Wm. Fergason, Walter Wheeler, Moses Warfold, David S. Blackman, Asa Stevens, Elijah Horton, Wm. W. Spalding, Elijah Towner, Franklin Blackman, Thomas Bull, John Lent, Wilber Bennett, Ebenezer Shaw, Jonathan Stevens, Joseph Kinney and Wm. Myer, inhabitants of Ulster and Wysox, was presented, setting forth that "it would be practicable to make a road along the narrows below where the road turns off at the lower end of Breakneck to go over the mountain to Wysox: that such road would not only save traveling over a very bad mountain, but would shorten the distance a quarter of a mile and be of great public utility; that it may not be improper to inform the court that it is the expectation of the inhabitants of Ulster and Wysox to open the road (if laid out) by subscription; therefore petitioners pray for the appointment of viewers," etc.

Whereupon the court appoint Joseph Kingsbury, Richard Horton, Elijah Horton, Jr., Adonijah Warner, Stephen Patrick and Robert Ridgway.

At September sessions viewers report "that they have viewed the ground and are of the opinion that it is practicable for a road, and have accordingly laid one out agreeably to the courses and distances and plot hereto annexed, and believe the same will be of public utility."

This road began on the State road, opposite the court house, about 50 rods from the river, running nearly north along the side of the mountain toward the river to what is now the present road, about one-half mile south of the railroad bridge. From here the course of the road was the same as now along the river to Breakneck run at the Johnson place. The report was finally confirmed at December sessions and road ordered to be opened of the breadth of 30 feet.
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FROM History of Sheshequin 1777---1902
C. F. Heverly
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Ebenezer P Clark did teaming work for Col Harry Spalding. Col. Spalding married Lemira Saterlee) Hence the naming of 2 children in his honor (Harry Spalding Clark, and Lemira Satterlee Clark)

William Myer, born February 8, 1780, was the eldest son of Jacob Myer. In 1800 he went to Wysox, purchased a mill site and secured the right to control the flow of water from Lake Wysauking. He put up a hewed log house into which his father and family moved the next year. Working together, they built a grist-mill, which was supplied by water power from Wysox creek and Lake Wysauking. They soon after built a saw-mill that was run entirely by water from Wysox creek. He early took an active part in public affairs, being commissioned a justice of the peace, 1807. Upon the formation of Bradford county, he was elected one of the first county commissioners, 1812, and again elected to the same office, 1819. He was chosen a member of the Pennsylvania assembly in 1822 and also served his townsmen in many civil capacities. He married Joanna, daughter of Nathaniel Hickok, died May 15, 1842. She was born, 1783, died April 15, 1825. Their children were: Harriet, Elizabeth, Sarah, Emeline Esther, Mary Ellen, Susan, Elijah Reed and Helen Maria. Mr. Myer married for his second wife, Mrs. Lemira (Satterlee) Spalding, widow of Col. Harry Spalding. ** From Heverley Pioneer and Patriot Families of Bradford County, Page 314

Samuel Clark came to Ulster soon after his brother, Capt. Benjamin Clark. In the census of 1790 his family is given as consisting of five males and three females. Mr. Clark met a tragic death on Christmas, 1808. He had a contract for building a section of the State Road, crossing the county from east to west, and while engaged on the Gregg place in clearing away brush, was shot in mistake for a deer by a neighbor. But little is known of his family. One son, Ebenezer P. Clark, was for a number of years a resident of Towanda and did teaming for Col. Harry Spalding. Harry S. Clark, son of Ebenezer P., born 1823, is still a resident of Towanda. .... FROM Pioneer & Patriot Families of Bradford County PA 1770-1800
Vol. I - Clement F. Heverly - Page 187

Had a grandson named Ebenezer Pemberton Stranger (1837 - 1862)


Census record for his dau Adelaide Corson says her father born in Rhode Island. Same for Harry S. Clark

Died:
Age 54

Ebenezer Polly Smith 01 Sep 1814Towanda, Bradford, Pennsylvania, USA. Polly (daughter of Jesse Smith and Jane Miller) 30 Jul 1797 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA; 19 Aug 1867; Wyalusing Cemetery, Wyalusing, Bradford, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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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.

William Sylvia Mills 6 May 1812Bradford County, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Moved: 1835, Lawrence County, IL; Moved with husband Samuel and 4 children

Notes:

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

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"Knox and Daviess County History published in 1886 in the biographical sketch, pages 309 & 310:

Ursula Clark Treadway was born June 10, 1781 near Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Benjamin Clark and his second wife Keziah Yarrington Gore.
Keziah was first married to Silas Gore who was killed July 3, 1778 at the Wyoming, Massacre. When Benjamin and Keziah married they were already the parents of eight children. Four additional children were born to them: Lucinda, Ursula, William and Julia Ann.

Ursula Clark married Samuel Treadway before 1808 when their oldest daughter Caroline was born. A son John was born in 1810 and another daughter Mary was born about 1817. Ursula removed to Lawrence County, Illinois before 1837 with Caroline, John and Mary. Ursula had at least two other children who remained in Pennsylvania. Samuel Treadway was alive in 1813 when he was listed as one of the early settlers of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. By 1820 Ursula was listed in Ulster Township in Bradford County, Pennsylvania.

Ursula Clark Treadway died in Lawrence County, Illinois October 4, 1845 and is buried in the Denison Cemetery south of Bridgeport Illinois. Her daughter Caroline Treadway married James Bailey in Pennsylvania and they were the parents of at least six children. Caroline died in 1858 and is buried next to her mother. Her husband removed to Texas after her death.

Her daughter Mary married Samuel Rickard (# i64546582) in 1834 in Pennsylvania. He died in Lawrence County in 1841 and she then married Joseph Passmore. She lived in Olney for many years but removed to Memphis, Tennessee after the death of Joseph Passmore. John Ward Treadway married Rachel Neal in Lawrence County and they removed to Olney in the 1870's where they died.

In addition to her children Caroline, John and Mary two of Ursula's siblings removed to Lawrence County. William Clark and Julia Ann Overton Passmore.

Caroline Treadway Bailey was born in Pennsylvania in 1808 the daughter of Samuel and Ursula Clark Bailey. She married James Bailey and was the mother of of at least six children. She died in 1858 and is buried next to her mother Ursula Treadway in the Denison Cemetery in Lawrence County, Ilinois.

Ursula Samuel Treadway before 1808Bradford County, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Moved: After 1835, Illinois

Notes:

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Daughter of Capt. Benjamin Clark and his second wife Keziah (Yarrington) Gore Clark.

Wife of John Overton (1788-1828)
Children:

1. Mary Overton (abt 1812-?)
2. Elizabeth (Overton) Hays Thompson Bloom (abt 1814-1892)
3. Thomas Overton (abt 1815-?
4. Keziah (Overton) Banks Bloom (abt 1823-12/06/1860)

3rd wife of Joseph Passmore

Child with Joseph Passmore

5. John Passmore (1836-?) born Susquehanna County PA


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

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Married – At Sheshequin, on the 4th of July, by Jared HOLCOMB, Esq., John OVERTON to Miss Julia-Ann CLARK.

Julia John Overton 14 Jul 1815Bradford County, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Julia Joseph Passmore 1835Bradford County, PA. Joseph 25 Mar 1792 Smithfield, RI; 31 Aug 1869Sumner, IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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]

Family/Spouse: Nataniel Hovey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]