Notes:

Buried:
Medfield Cemetery

Died:
Vine Lake Cemetery at Medfield

Dorcas Benjamin Clarke 19 Nov 1665Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Benjamin (son of Joseph Clarke, The Immigrant and Alice Fenn) 09 Feb 1644 Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 01 Dec 1724Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; Vine Lake Cemetery, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

5 children@ Medfield, 9 @ Medway

Edward Hannah Adams 09 Jun 1703Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Hannah (daughter of Henry Adams and Prudence Frarie) 14 Oct 1685 Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA; 28 Oct 1775Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA; Millis, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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8 children@ Medfield

m abigail Bowers?? not Metcalf ???

Died:
Age: 67

Seth Abigail Metcalf 03 Dec 1713. Abigail 27 Jul 1694 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sarah Metcalf - M2 - 3 children @ Medfield , 7 Children @ Medway
Captain

Captain Sarah Metcalf 1705. Sarah 03 Dec 1686. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Captain Elizabeth Pratt 23 Sep 1700Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of John Pratt, Jr and Rebecca Colburn) 20 Oct 1682; 21 Sep 1702. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah Ebenezer Mason 25 Apr 1691New England, USA. Ebenezer (son of Thomas Mason) 12 Sep 1669 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 18 Mar 1754Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

Tabitha Thomas Sandford 1710. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: George Barber. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: James Knapp. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Joshua Harding. Joshua 25 May 1726. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Bathsheba Harding. Bathsheba 29 Oct 1731; 14 Sep 1819. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Prudence Joseph(I) Lovell 12 Apr 1739. Joseph(I) 26 Jul 1708 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 14 May 1789. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jonathan Metcalf. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jonathan Adams. Jonathan 1709. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David Mehitable Hale 28 Jan 1730Medway, MA. Mehitable 1714; 07 May 1754Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David Dorothy Harding 14 Nov 1754Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Deacon

Family/Spouse: Ann Nicholson. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jerimiah Daniel. Jerimiah 22 Sep 1720; 05 May 1806. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jonathan Adams. Jonathan (son of Capt. Jonathan Adams and Mary Ellis) 07 May 1696 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 06 Apr 1776Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Dorothy Morse. [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]

Notes:

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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.

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]

Family/Spouse: Isacc Smith. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Littlefield. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lettice Walker. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elisha Rockwood. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sarah Clark. Sarah 02 Apr 1757; 23 Dec 1804. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Julia Bullard. Julia 02 May 1768. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Metcalf. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Simon Hill. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Abel Clark. Abel (son of Nathaniel Clark and Mary Cummins) 24 Jan 1742 Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut, USA; 18 Sep 1769Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Captain

Joseph(II) Jemima Adams 27 Sep 1764. Jemima 11 Apr 1740 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 27 Oct 1814. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph(II) Elizabeth Wheeler Partridge 11 Jun 1817. Elizabeth (daughter of Joshua Partridge) 13 Apr 1833. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Abel Smith. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Daniel Bullard. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Stephan Clark. Stephan (son of Nathaniel Clark and Esther Whiting) 21 Mar 1743. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Following notes from FTW family pages - Ancestors of Cyrus Sanford Savage - (Stacia-Misner)

Revolutionary War - Was in Petersham by 1762.

He served 1775-1777 at Battles of Lexington & Bunker Hill

http://www.wpi.edu/Acedemics/Depts/MilSci/BTSI/Lexcon/
He servrd as Lieut. at Fort Griswold under Col. Ledyard, 1781, and with the Col., was massacred by the Brittish aftewr the surrender

Clark, David, Medway. List of men in service at various times subsequent to April 19, 1775, estimated April 13, 1778 (Mass soldiers and Sailors)

David Sarah Bacon 29 Oct 1761Barre, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Sarah 1740 Massachusetts, USA; 13 Dec 1801Petersham, Worcester, Massachusetts, 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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* From FamilySearch.org
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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]

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.

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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 https://revolutionarywar.us/continental-army/connecticut/
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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
( https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/thread.aspx?m=932&p=surnames.clark&dc=25 )
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Their children were Lucinda, Ursula, William and Julia Ann.
Lucinda married Nathaniel Hovey and stayed in Luzerne/Bradford Co.

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

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

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

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

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From ROSTER OF REVOLUTIONARY ANCESTORS, p. 121:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

Polly (Mary) married a Mr. Blanchard.

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

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

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

Ursula, to Samuel Treadway and removed to Illinois.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Benjamin 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]

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Died:
Age: 87