Abigail Clark

Abigail (Lothrop) Clark was baptized in Barnstable on November 2, 1639. Her parents were John Lothrop and Ann.

She married James Clark (or Clarke) on October 7, 1657. James was born in about 1639 in Plymouth. His parents were Thomas Clark and Susanna Ring. Abigail's brother, Barnabas Lothrop married James' sister Susanna Clark. James was made freeman in 1670.

Abigail and James' children were

1. Thomas Clark (1660),
2. Susanna Clark (1662),
3. Abigail Clark (1664),
4. Joanna (Clark) Holmes (1678, married Nathaniel Holmes, Jr. grandson of John Holmes, Sr.),
5. James Clark (1680) and
6. Bathsheba (Clark) Litchfield (1682, married Nicholas Litchfield).

notes

Fifty Ancestors of Henry Lincoln Clapp, Parts 1-2 by Henry Lincoln Clapp;

Abigail [Lothrop] married Oct. 7, 1657, James Clarke, son of Thomas Clarke who came to America in the Ann in 1623, and was a prominent citizen of Plymouth, Representative in 1651 and 1655, Deacon from 1654 to 1657, over 40 years. Thomas Clarke married in 1624 Susanna, daughter of widow Mary Ring of Plymouth and sister of Andrew Ring. Mary Ring died July 15 or 19, 1631; her will is printed in the Mayflower, Vol. 1, p. 29.

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The descendants of William and Elizabeth Tuttle, who came from old to New England in 1635, and settled in New Haven in 1639, with numerous biographical notes and sketches : also, some account of the descendants of John Tuttle, of Ipswich; and Henry Tuthill, of Hingham, Mass. (1883)

http://www.archive.org/stream/descendantsofwil01tutt#page/n71/mode/2up

• A fellow passendger in the "Angel Gabriel" with John Tuttle of Dover was John Cogswell "of Chebasco." He had been a merchant in London. He lost considerable property in the wreck. After living ashore some time in a tent he embarked, a passenger, in a vessel commanded by Capt. Galleys, and took up his abode in Ipswich. He had an unusually large grant of land, 300 acres at Chebasco the next Oct., when there were only two families residing in that parish. He was a wealthy and prominent inhabitant of Ipswich. He d. Nov. 29, 1669, a. about 58. His wife, Elizabeth, d. June 2, 1676; chil.

I. William, b. 1621; dea. at Ipswich, and d. thr. Dec. 15, 1700, a. 81; m. Susanna __. As an evidence of his standing, the historian of Ipswich says that after his d. his wid. sat in the meeting with the minister's wife. His s. John was f. of Nathaniel, f. of Col. Amos, f. of Francis, who d. 1881, in his 91st year. A sis. of Francis, was mo. of Hon. John Wentworth of Chicago, Author of the Wentworth Genealogy.

II. John, b. 1623; d. 1653, leaving 3 chil.

III. Edward.

IV. Mary, "perhaps," says Savage, "that maid servant of Gov. Bellingham that joined the Boston chh., Aug. 29, 1677;" m. Godrey Armitage of Boston.

V. Hannah, m. Cornelius Waldo, who moved to Chelmsford, Mass. 1657, and was deacon there. All lived at Ipswich.

VI. Abigail, m. Thomas Clark.

VII. Sarah, m. Simon Tuttle.

VIII. Elizabeth, m. 1657, John Paine.

Besides the above chil. of John Cogswell, the Rev. E. O. Jamieson, genealogist of the Cogswell family, says there was an elder dau. who m. and lived in London.