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Contradictory sources
“Descendants of Jonathan John Clark
JONATHAN JOHN1 CLARK was born in 1625 in King Queen, Virginia, USA. He died in 1683 in Middlesex, Virginia, USA. He married MARY BIRD. She was born in 1628 in Scotland. She died in 1683 in Jamestown, James, Virginia, USA.
Jonathan John Clark and Mary Bird had the following child:
http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/lewisandclark/students/projects/homes...
Jonathan Clark, the first Clark patriarch undeniably related to the famous explorer William and and General George Rogers Clark, patented land in Virginia in 1734 in King and Queen County, Virginia. He patented the 3,277 acres of land (Loving, 1966) with three other men, Thomas Graves, Joseph Smith, and Edwin Kickman, at the foot of what is now known as Buena Vista. Jonathan Clark and his wife gave birth to two sons, Benjamin and John. (Via, 1957)
Paternal Haplogroup
R-CTS4065
He is the great-great grandfather of US explorer William Clark of Lewis & Clark
My opinion is follow original documentation as well. I have found many older publications wrong. If we review documentation, may be able to distinguish correctly.
It’s difficult when working in this era. Certain well known descendants have had past genealogist that missed looking at the documents and used conjecture. Even the best, made mistakes, we must remember they didn’t have internet to search for documents.