Faith Clarke

Thurston Clark married by about 1617, Faith Loes. She died by 1 Jun 1663. They had six children: Faith DOTY, Frances, Mary, Abigail, Thurston, & Henry.

On 1 June 1663, Plymouth Court ordered "concerning the disposing of the estate of Faith Clarke, widow, deceased, that her daughter, Faith Dotey, widow, shall have a quarter part, or one part of four, of the goods and chattels of the said Faith Clarke, her debts being discharged; and the remainder three parts of four, or three-quarters thereof, shall be equally divided betwixt her two sons, Henery and Thurston Clarke" [PCR 4:39].

On 1 April 1690, Plymouth Court "being given to understand by the selectmen of the town of Duxborough, that two of the inhabitants of their said town, viz: Henry Clarke and Thirsten Clarke, by reason of their age, indiscretion & weakness of understanding, are incapable of making necessary provision for their own support, sustenance, and livelihood, notwithstanding they have an estate in lands sufficient, as is judged, to supply their necessity during their lives ... the Court do therefore order, that John Dotey, of Plymouth, their nephew," provide for their needs and report once a year to the selectmen in return for which he shall have "full satisfaction made him out of the lands of said impotent persons" [PCR 6:236; see also PCR 6:99].

Source: The Great Migration Project

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=buszidog3...
• page 253 of The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.  New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1915 - New England.  Vols. 37-52 (1883-98) include section: Genealogical gleanings in England, by H. F. Waters.  "Clarke - Ipswich, Suffolk, England."