Elizabeth Clark

family

Per Jacobus & Waterman, "He (John Clarke) married first, possible Elizabeth _______; No proof that Mary (Coley) COOLEY was this wife of John..... Second: Mary: Daughter of Richard WARD and Joyce _____.

They had the following children:

• F i Elizabeth CLARK was born 1623 and died May 1682. Married 1) William Pratt 2) William Parker.
• M ii John CLARK was born 1625 and died 21 Sep 1677. Married Rebecca Porter.
• M iii Joseph CLARK 1, 2 was born 1627 in Great Munden, Hertfordshire, England. He died Aug 1663 in West Indies.
• F iv Rebecca CLARK 1 was born 1630 in Great Munden, Hertfordshire, England.
• F v Sarah CLARK was born 1632 and died 4 Jan 1721. Married Simon Huntington.

comments

John Clark mentioned "Brother Coley" in his will, probably a fellowship/church brother. He was never married to Mary Coley.

sources

• 1Backus, Mary Elizabeth Neilson, The New England Ancestry of Dana Converse Backus (Salem, Massachusetts: 1949.), p. 70, Los Angeles Public Library, 929.2 B126.
• 2Jacobus, Donald Lines, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978.), p. 492, Family History Library, 929.273 H135j 1978.
• 3Jacobus, Donald Lines, The Granberry Family and Allied Families (Hartford, Connecticut: E.F. Waterman, 1945.), p. 195, Family History Library, 929.273 G762j.
• 4Torrey, Clarence Almon, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985.), p. 156, Los Angeles Public Library, Gen 974 T694.

links

• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hwbradley/aqwg353.htm#7720