Elizabeth Clarke

Elizabeth Harris

• Birth: unknown
• Death: unknown (before 1671)
• Spouse: John Clarke (1609-1676) Note: 1st w/o Dr. John Clarke
• Burial: John Clarke Cem, Newport, Newport Co, RI, USA

No known surviving children.

John Clarke was married three times, his first wife being Elizabeth Harris, the daughter of John Harris who was lord of the manor of Westlingworth in Bedfordshire.[1] This was the wife who was with him while he was an agent in England, and she died in Newport a few years before Clarke. Following her death he was married on 1 February 1671 to Jane, the widow of Nicholas Fletcher.

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From Dr. John Clarke, b. Westhorpe, Suffolk County, England Oct...

Austin erred in claiming that Dr. John Clarke was born on Bedfordshire. Actually
he was born in Co. Suffolk, but his wife as born on Bedfordshire.

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• [John Clarke Cemetery, Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, United States Elizabeth Clarke] Find A Grave Memorial# 21596648
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Clarke_(Baptist_minister)#Ancest...
  • Moriarty, G. Andrews (January 1943). "Additions and Corrections to Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island". The American Genealogist 19 (3): 131.