Notes:

Alice Fenn was born about 1619 in England, was christened on 25 March 1623 in St. Mary Aldermary,London, England, and died on 17 March 1709/10 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States at age 87.

Alice married Joseph Clarke on 15 April 1640 in Banham, Norfolk, England.

Birth:
There are numerous records showing both "Fenn" and "Pepper", with all of the vital data remaining consistent. I have yet to uncover why there is a difference in the last name from her (indicated) parents.

Died:
Vine Lake Cemetery,unmarked.

Alice Joseph Clarke, The Immigrant 15 Apr 1640Banham, Norfolk, England. Joseph (son of Thomas Clarke and Mary Canne) 11 Apr 1613 Banham, Norfolk, England; 06 Jan 1684Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1681 - residence - settled west of the Charles River in the house later occupied by Deacon Elbridge Clark

John Mary Sheffield 09 Jan 1679. Mary 1652. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Age: 53

Sarah John Bowers, Sr 07 Jan 1673Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. John 1646 Massachusetts, USA; 21 Feb 1676Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah Samuel Smith 22 Feb 1677Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Samuel (son of Henry Smith and Elizabeth) 13 Oct 1641 Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 25 Oct 1691Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rebecca John Richardson 01 May 1679Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. John (son of John Richardson and Hannah Truair) 1650 Wells, York, Maine, USA; 29 May 1697Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rebecca John Hill after 29 May 1697. John Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathaniel Experience Hinsdale 26 Mar 1704Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Experience (daughter of Ephraim Hinsdale and Mehitabel Plympton) Jul 1679 Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA; 03 Feb 1754Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary Jonathan Boyden 26 Sep 1673Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Jonathan (son of Thomas Boyden and Frances) 20 Feb 1652 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; 30 May 1732Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Event 1: 18 Mar 1721, Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA; Last Will and Testament sealed

Notes:

From notes at Findagrave site:

Benjamin Clarke, second child of Joseph Clarke (1), was born in Dedham, Massachusetts, February 9, 1644. He married; 1665, Dorcas Morse. He had a grant of land in Medfield, "near the way as you go to Nantasket." His house was on Main street, opposite Pound street. The original well is said to be still in use. His house was burned by the Indians in 1676, and he built again on the same spot. What is known as the Peak House in Medfield is an addition subsequently made to his second house in or about 1762. After the old part decayed and was torn down, the present structure was moved to its present location. Its unique shape has attracted
much attention and is even believed to be one of the houses left from the burning in King Philip's war.

Benjamin Clarke was a very prominent citizen. He was for seventeen years selectman of the town and two years deputy to the general court. He died in 1724 and his widow in 1725.

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** Benjamin Clark was a wheelwright. He married Dorcas Morse in 1665, and in 1668 received a grant for a house lot "on the way as you go out at Nantasket." The original well is reputed to still be in use. He was burned out by the Indians in 1676, but rebuilt upon the same spot. What is called the "Peak House" (picture on p348, History of Medfield) is an addition subsequently made to his second house, in or about 1762. After the decay of the old part, it was moved to its present location. Its unique shape has attracted much attention, and it is even popularly believed to be one of the original houses left standing by the Indians. Benjamin was a prominent man in town affairs, served on the board of selectmen seventeen times, and as a representative two years. He died 1 Dec. 1724, his widow the following year. (Tilden)
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King Phillips War -- Attacked Feb 21, 1676

In this same area, the Benjamin Clark house was also burnt. Benjamin and his wife Dorcas were able to flee and safely make it to the garrison along with their children (twins Hannah and Benjamin age 10; Theophilus age 6, Tabitha age 4, and Timothy age 2) before their house also went up in flames. Clark's house was the original Peak House.

** FROM https://patch.com/massachusetts/medfield/uniquely-medfield-once-upon-a-town-medfield-under-attack

Medfield Historical Society

Died:
Age: 80

Benjamin Dorcas Morse 19 Nov 1665Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Dorcas (daughter of Joseph Morse and Hannah Phillips) 24 Jun 1645 Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 14 Jul 1725Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph Mary Allen 25 Jun 1663Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Mary (daughter of James Allin and Anna Guild) 11 Dec 1641 Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 05 May 1702Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mortally wounded by Indians during attack on Medfield - died about 6 weeks afterwards.

Notes:

Was a Tailor

Ephraim Mary Bullen 06 Mar 1669Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Mary (daughter of Samuel Bullen and Mary Morse) 20 Jul 1642 Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 31 Dec 1726Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ruth Jonathan Richardson 04 Jul 1728Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Jonathan (son of John Richardson and Esther Breck) 01 Feb 1704. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Aka Elsie

Alice Hugh Brown 1734Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

This Nathaniel is easily confused with his cousin Lt. Nathaniel Clark b. 1705 in Medfield (s.o. Nathaniel + Experience Hinsdell)

11 children @ Medway - 7 died young

Nathaniel Esther Whiting 21 Jun 1732. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Daniel Eliz Gould 1748Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

married in Medfield either David Lawrence 5/04/1705 or
Nathaniel Smith 5/24/1705

Mary David Lawrence 1705. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

6 children @ medway

Family/Spouse: Mary. 1775. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hannah Partridge. Hannah (daughter of William(I) Partridge and Sarah Colburn) 15 Aug 1677. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mary Adams. Mary (daughter of Capt. Jonathan Adams and Mary Ellis) 04 Aug 1681 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 25 Feb 1725. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry Ruth Barber 01 Sep 1730Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Ruth (daughter of Zechariah Barber and Abiel Ellis) 05 Mar 1696 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail John(II) Fisher 23 Apr 1705Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. John(II) (son of John(I) Fisher and Hannah Adams) 22 Dec 1677 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 14 Aug 1727Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathaniel Mary Clark 24 May 1705Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Mary (daughter of Joseph Clark and Mary Wight) 02 Feb 1687 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 17 Nov 1717Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lydia Partridge. Lydia 03 Oct 1687; 20 Jan 1773. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Age: 22

Notes:

Died:
Age: 68

Family/Spouse: Eleazer Hill. Eleazer (son of Eleazer Hill and Sarah Breck) 01 Jan 1689. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Age: 81

Family/Spouse: Hannah Barber. Hannah 25 Sep 1683; 06 Feb 1755. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Age: 79

Family/Spouse: Esther Breck. Esther (daughter of John Breck and Methitable Morse) 1679 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 17 Aug 1774. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Age: 30

Hinsdale Anna Partridge 02 Dec 1735Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Anna 21 Jul 1708 Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA; 28 Jun 1799Sturbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA; Sturbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Twin with Benjamin

Notes:

Twin with Daniel

Notes:

Twin with Experience

Notes:

Lieut. - married in Medway 2/4/1729 to Judith Mason; Judah Clark, wife of Nathaniel, died 8/4/1731 in Medway.

often confused with cousin Nathaniel (b 1701) to John Clark + Maria Sheffield

Nathaniel Judith Mason 04 Feb 1729Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Judith 04 Aug 1731. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathaniel Esther Jones 1734. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Twin with Patience

John Rebecca Paine 15 Dec 1714Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Rebecca 1682 Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas Deborah Wight 29 Apr 1707Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah David Jones 14 Nov 1710Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. David 18 Jul 1689 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph Mary Wheeler 14 Dec 1713Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Mary 1692 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 25 Apr 1765Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary Joshua Clapp 22 Dec 1696Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Joshua 1667 Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 1728Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jonathan Rachel Fisher 17 Nov 1698Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Rachel 24 Mar 1680 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 31 Mar 1712Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jonathan Esther Thurston 12 Feb 1713Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Esther 23 Jan 1674 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 10 Mar 1755Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mehitable Joshua Ornsby 22 Dec 1704Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Joshua 09 Dec 1672 Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA; 28 May 1710Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From FTW user site - Anthony D Padgett

Elizabeth Nehemiah Sabin 08 May 1702Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Nehemiah (son of Deacon Benjamin Sabin and Sarah Parker) 10 Jan 1681 Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; 05 Jul 1746Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut, 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]

Notes:

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]

David Mary Wheelock 14 Oct 1703Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Representative @ general Court

Solomon(I) Mary White 24 Dec 1698Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Mary 31 Aug 1675 Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA; 16 Apr 1740Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 1740 Vine Lake Cemetery Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Solomon(I) Elizabeth Adams 07 Nov 1740Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Twin with Daniel - also spelled Lya

Notes:

Twin with Aaron

Notes:

Twin with Moses

8 children at Wrentham

Aaron Mary Morse 08 Nov 1705Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Mary 11 May 1771Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Age: 0

Notes:

twin with LEA or LYA

Joseph Mary Wight 08 Apr 1686Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Mary (daughter of Thomas Wight and Mehitable Cheney) 20 Feb 1667 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 16 Dec 1705Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph Abigale Turner 23 Dec 1706Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. Abigale 1665; 1731. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Thurston. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Noah Susanna Hartshorn 08 May 1702Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel Sarah Pratt 30 Nov 1702Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Sarah (daughter of John Pratt, Jr and Rebecca Colburn) 01 Jan 1679 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 22 Aug 1754Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel Mehitable 1755. 1756. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jerimiah Patience Dana 12 Apr 1711Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. Patience 16 Dec 1726Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jerimiah Mehitable Morse 28 Feb 1728Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

6 children @ medfield

Ezra Margaret Morse 08 Jan 1708Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Margaret 25 Feb 1745Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mehitable Benjamin Allen 27 Aug 1703Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Benjamin 22 Aug 1754Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary Samuel Whiting about 1690. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth John Mason Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

possible spelling - Mekethiah

Melatiah Timothy(I) Hamant 19 Jan 1696Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. Timothy(I) (son of Francis Hamant and Sarah) 01 Nov 1667 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 1718Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William(II) Partridge. William(II) (son of William(I) Partridge and Sarah Colburn) 22 Feb 1669 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 18 Jun 1750. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Eunice Clark. Eunice (daughter of David Clark and Mehitable Hale) 10 Jan 1745. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unk Crother. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unk. Willey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unk Cobb. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Family/Spouse: Abigail Clark. Abigail (daughter of Joseph Clark and Abigale Turner) 23 Sep 1711; 1750. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary David Clark 13 Jun 1728. David (son of Solomon(I) Clark and Mary White) 19 Jan 1705 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 22 Jan 1771. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Moses Patience Hamant 23 Sep 1762Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Patience (daughter of Timothy(II) Hamant and Hepzibah Clark) 06 Apr 1735 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ruth Samuel Turner 25 Jun 1752Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Samuel Nov 1724 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 15 Jun 1784Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John(III) Dorcas Adams 09 Dec 1736Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Dorcas 15 Jun 1807Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joshua Silence Adams 12 Nov 1752Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail David Clark after 1770Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. David (son of Solomon(I) Clark and Mary White) 19 Jan 1705 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 22 Jan 1771. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail John(II) Plimpton 03 May 1731Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. John(II) (son of John(I) Plimpton and Susanna Draper) 18 Aug 1708 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 08 May 1756Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Susanna Hinsdale. Susanna 27 Jan 1721. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph Abiel Hamant 1734. Abiel (daughter of Timothy(I) Hamant and Melatiah Clark) 01 Dec 1708 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hannah Lovell. Hannah 26 Jan 1704. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Family/Spouse: Daniel Plimpton. Daniel (son of John(I) Plimpton and Susanna Draper) 09 Jan 1721; 1778Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Rebecca Mann. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Family/Spouse: Mary Allen. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Abagail. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Family/Spouse: Abigail Allen. Abigail 09 Nov 1716; 10 Jun 1807. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jemimah Gay. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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

Family/Spouse: Thomas Jones. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Nathaniel Clark. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jonathan Ruth Clark 04 Jul 1728Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Ruth (daughter of John Clarke and Mary Sheffield) 08 Mar 1694 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary Nathaniel Guild 12 Jun 1733Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Nathaniel (son of Nathaniel Guild and Mehitable Farrington) 20 Mar 1712 Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 10 Sep 1796Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [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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-- Elizabeth Underwood married Theophilus Clark 1716, his second wife.
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The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Vol. 126 July 1972 No. 3 pp. 157-160, "The Premature 'Death' of Elizabeth (Underwood) Cutler by Leland G. Darrow of Belmont, Mass.:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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* FROM Baker Family Tree

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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




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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hannah Aquila Robbins 1730Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah Daniel Clark 1736. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Notes on Glover VT Clark branch

Solomon Clark (II) was the father of Cephas Clark Sr. (1745 - 1791)

Cephas Clark Sr married Jemima Griggs.

2 sons:

Rufus W. Clark (1770 - 1848)

Cephas Clark, Jr. (1784 - 1858)

Cephas Clark Jr. and his wife Deborah Wilbur were married 26 Sep 1805 in Westmoreland, New Hampshire -- moved from Westmoreland NH to Glover VT

** SEE https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clark-41693

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Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mary Lovell. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ephriam Cheney. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David Mary Smith 13 Jun 1728. Mary (daughter of Henry Smith and Mary Adams) 05 Feb 1709; 17 Apr 1770. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David Abigail Fisher after 1770Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Abigail (daughter of John(II) Fisher and Abigail Smith) 10 Sep 1711 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 19 Feb 1785Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph Experience Wheeler 03 Apr 1718Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. Experience 03 Feb 1754Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hepzibah Timothy(II) Hamant 19 Oct 1717Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. Timothy(II) (son of Timothy(I) Hamant and Melatiah Clark) 25 Mar 1699 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 06 Jun 1774Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas Abigail Morse 19 Oct 1727Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. Abigail 21 Aug 1777Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Esther Ebenezer Turner 23 Jan 1715Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary Nathaniel Smith 24 May 1705Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Nathaniel (son of Samuel Smith and Sarah Clarke) 31 Oct 1684 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 16 Jan 1762Sturbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA; Sturbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mehitable Aquila Robbins 04 Apr 1709Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah John Robbins 04 Apr 1709Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry Smith. Henry (son of Henry Smith and Mary Adams) 24 Apr 1711; 02 Jul 1785. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: James Rix. James Upton, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elisha Ware. Elisha Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ephraim Abagail Partridge 1727. Abagail 23 Mar 1699; 17 Apr 1750. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah Ezra Smith 23 Feb 1728Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Ezra (son of Joseph Smith and Susannah Fisher) 26 May 1706 Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; about 1770Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Abigail Mason. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abiel Joseph Smith 1734. Joseph (son of Nathaniel Smith and Mary Clark) 02 Jun 1709. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Melatiah Michael Metcalf 02 Jul 1728Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Michael 12 Aug 1706 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 1761Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Timothy(II) Hepzibah Clark 19 Oct 1717Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. Hepzibah (daughter of Joseph Clark and Mary Wight) 02 Feb 1699 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; Aug 1791Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel Hannah Partridge 31 Dec 1728Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Hannah (daughter of William(II) Partridge and Hannah Fisher) 24 Dec 1702 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; 02 Sep 1780Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]