Beginnings by Cleadie B. Barnett
Clarke, Richard (Rev)
Richard Clarke (Rev), 3 Jul 1737, West Haven, CT; 6 Oct 1824, ae 87 yrs, St Stephen, Charlotte Co, NB; s/o Samuel Clarke. He m. 1 Sep 1767, Norwich, CT (by Rev. Jeremiah Leeming), Rebecca Sturgess, b. 15 Sep 1737; d. 7 May 1816, ae 69 yrs, St Stephen, Charlotte Co, NB
Dubeau: Rev. Richard Clarke did not enter NB until May 1787. He was an Anglican Minister, from New Milford, CT. He had attended Yale College in 1762 (05) and became Rector of Gagetown from 1786 to 1806*.[*NOTE: CBB = He was still rector when the parsonage burned in 1811, when his daughter and a niece (as well as another person) died in that fire.]
Wiggins: Richard Samuel Clark was a clergyman of the Church of England, New Milford, Connecticut. He came to St. John in 1783 and was installed rector of Gagetown, where he laboured for twenty-five years. He subsequently moved to St. Stephen's and became the first rector of St. Stephen's Church.
1. Sarah Coldwell, b. 5 Jul 1768, New Milford, CT; d. 13 Mar 1811, Gagetown, Queens Co, NB; unmarried. She died when parsonage burned down
2. Rebecca Mary [or Mary Ann ?] b. 7 Oct 1779, New Milford, CT; d. [? 1844 ae 73 yrs], Gagetown, Queens Co, NB, unmarried
3. Samuel Richard (twin) Rev. b. 22 Oct 1772, New Milford, CT; d. ca. 1839, Gagetown
4. Richard Samuel (twin) b. 22 Oct 1772, New Milford, CT
5. Elizabeth Hannah, b. 19 Feb 1775, New Milford, CT; d. 30 Jun 1839; m. 20 Aug 1795, Gagetown, Elizha Shelton Andrews
6. Abigail Sibell, b. 19 Jun 1778, New Milford, CT
7. Joseph Nehemiah, b. 26 Jan 1781, New Milford, CT
8. John Marshall, b. 26 Aug 1788, New Milford, CT; d. 19 Nov 1815
9. Mehitabel Ann, b. 6 Apr 1786, New Milford, CT; m. 9 Jul 1809, Gagetown, Dr. Levi Weston
10. Isabella Juliett, b. 14 Aug 1793, Gagetown; d. 1793, aged 24 hours
(Loyalist Collection / CBB = not proven)
Ref: - see source list for more proper citation names01: St David & St James Church, St Stephen, NB (Anglican)
02: Gagetown Anglican Church
03: History of Queens County, New Brunswick - The Watchman, 1868, by E. Stone Wiggins - see below
04: Gagetown Anglican Church Cemetery, Queens Co, NB
05: New Brunswick Loyalist, S. Dubeau
Rev. Richard Clarke did not enter NB until May 1787. He was an Anglican Minister, from New Milford, CT. He had attended Yale College in 1762 (05) and became Rector of Gagetown from 1786 to 1806*. [*NOTE by cbb: He was still rector when the parsonage burned in 1811, when his daughter and a niece (as well as another person) died in that fire.]
06: St Andrews Anglican Church Cemetery
History of Queens County, New Brunswick - The Watchman, 1868, by E. Stone Wiggins
CLARK - There were several of this name who adhered to the royal cause during the war of independence, and were, no doubt, members of the same family. Richard Clark was a graduate of Harvard University and a leading merchant in Boston. He and his sons were consignees of a part of the famous tea which was emptied into Boston Harbour by persons in the disguise of Indians. He and his sons were mobbed and insulted by the rebels in every way that demons could devise. He died in England in 1795. His grandson became Lord Chancellor Lyndenhurst. Joseph Clark was a physician of Stratford, Connecticut. He came to St. John in 1783 with his wife and nine children, and for some time practised his profession in that city. He subsequently moved to Maugerville, where he became Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Sunbury. He died in 1813, aged seventy-nine. His wife, Isabella Elizabeth, died the same year, aged seventy-one. John Clark was grantee of St. John; he obtained a city lot for executing the deed of conveyance. He was Clerk of Trinity Church upwards of thirty years. William Clark was born at North Kingston, Rhode Island, and was Captain in Colonel Whitman's Loyal New Englanders. He became an alderman of St. John and died in 1804.
Richard Samuel Clark was a clergyman of the Church of England, New Milford, Connecticut. He came to St. John in 1783 and was installed rector of Gagetown, where he laboured for twenty-five years. He subsequently moved to St. Stephen's and became the first rector of St. Stephen's Church. He died October 6, 1824, universally respected, being at that time the oldest missionary in the British American Colonies. His wife, Rebecca, died at the same place, May 17, 1816, aged sixty-nine. His only surviving daughter, Mary Ann, who was born in New Milford before the Revolution,died at Gagetown in 1844, aged seventy-three. She was a noble and pious woman. She never married.
Alexander Clark was born in Freehold, Monmouth County, in 1743. He came within the British lines for protection in December, 1776, as appears from documents now in the possession of his grandson, Jesse Clark, Esq., of Canning. He came to St. John in 1783, and was for several years master armorer in the Ordanance Department in that city. In 1787 he moved to the Maquapit Lake and settled on the farm now owned and occupied by John and Phillip Gallagher, and was the first settler on that lake. His wife's maiden name was Mary Vanderhoof. Mr. Clark died May 20, 1825, aged eighty years and 8 months, and was buried at Grand Point Cemetery. His wife died March 21, 1836, aged 91. Their children were: John; William who married Julia Balmaine; Gershom who married Sarah Sowers, and after her decease, Elizabeth Carle; George; and Abigail who married John Paul. This is the Paul who fired the first shot at Lexington and therefore the first in the Revolutionary War. He was sentenced to be shot and was confined in the camp of Lafayette, but escaped the evening previous to the day fixed for his execution. The Clark family of Canning are the descendants of William and Gershom. James Henry, son of William, is one of the most scientific farmers of Queen's. Jesse Clark, Justice of the Peace, is a son of Gershom. The latter exhibited to the writer two chairs which his grandfather brought with him to this country - thrones in which sat the good and the great of past generation. In the year 1809 Mr. Gershom Clark trapped in the woods between Maquapit Lake and Douglas Harbour an animal supposed to have been an American jaguar - known in this country as the Indian Devil. Its flesh consisted mainly of cartilage, and its strength was so great as to defy the springs of an ordinary bear-trap. In the spring of 1836, at the head of Maquapit Lake, Mr. Clark shot an otter which was as white as the snow on which it stood. Its skin is now in the museum in New York.
Clark, Elias, an old inhabitant, first settled in Waterborough and afterwards on Canaan River on the farm now owned and occupied by Lewis Keith. His children were: Joseph who married Sarah Palmer; Thomas to Rachel Perry; Elias to Edith Meriton; Levi, never married; James to Margaret Maskill; Martha to Ebenezer Munroe; Nehemiah to Elizabeth Alward; Abigail to George Keith. Of these none are now living except Mrs. Nehemiah Clark, who is as spry as a woman of fifty, though in her eighty-seventh year. The descendants of Nehemiah and Thomas are the only members of his family now living in Queen's. James, Benjamin, Samuel, Jesse and Levi, sons of Nehemiah; John and Elijah, sons of Thomas, are comfortable farmers.
Clark, Elisha, Benjamin, Jabez, Isaac and Gardener, brothers, U.E. Loyalists, came to St. John in 1783. The first three settled on the River St. John, back of Long Island. Elisha's wife's maiden name was Catherine Slipp. Their children were: Elizabeth who married Garret Vanwart; Sarah to Isaac Vanwart; William to Mary Connor; Benjamin to Jane Smith; George to Ruth Merritt; Elisha to Mary Ann Vanwart; Mary never married. William and George are reckoned among the wealthy farmers of Queen's County.
CLARK - Francis, born in the County of Cork, Ireland, in 1788, came to St. John in 1839 and settled in 1841 at Young's Creek, on the farm now owned by Dr. Cornelius Flowers. His wife's maiden name was Ellen Brady. His children who came to New Brunswick were: Francis who married Charlotte Branscombe; Kate to Robert Holmes; John to Sarah Macaulay. Francis now lives at Newcastle. William, Francis and John Clark, of Young's Cove, are sons of John.
Background from Wallpaper World / Bars from Hee Yun's Graphic Collection
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