https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clarke-4766
From Wood, Michael Johnson. "The Earliest Shermans of Dedham Essex", New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume: 167 (2013), Whole Number 666, Pages 151-155.
Emanuel Clarke was a mariner of Marblehead (Massachusetts). Emanuel Clarke, aged about 45 years, was recorded in Essex County (Massachusetts Bay Colony) court records in November 1666. He appears in the records again in June 1669, when he was a defendant.[1]
He is inferred to be the husband of Mary (Sherman) Clarke, apparently of Marblehead, who filed a petition together with her brothers Samuell Sherman and Nathaniell Sherman, regarding the estate of their father, "Samuell Shearman long since deceased" of Ipswich (Massachusetts), that was accepted by the General Court of Election of the Massachusetts Bay Colony on 7 May 1662. Wood found that Emanuel Clarke was the only Clark(e) man recorded with a wife named Mary in Marblehead before 1700.[1]
The 1681 will of Mary’s uncle, Philip Sherman of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, provided for food and clothing for Benjamin Clarke until he reached age 21. Young Benjamin is inferred to be a relative of Philip Sherman who had been taken in after the death of his parents, and Mary (Sherman) Clarke is the only member of the Sherman family identified as having the name Clarke, so it is likely that she was the child's mother. This Benjamin is further inferred to be the Benjamin Clarke who first appears in records as an adult in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, in 1692. That this Benjamin Clarke gave the relatively unusual name Emmanuel to his second son (after naming his first son Benjamin) is an indication that Em(m)anuel probably was the name of Benjamin's father.[1]
I submit we go ahead and attach Benjamin Clarke, of Plainfield as son of Emmanuel Clarke, of Marblehead & Mary Clarke
It’s inferential, and there’s likely no DNA or English records that would assist; it’s probable that branch of the Sherman’s has no living descent. But the article is well praised in peer reviews. See for example https://www.geneamusings.com/2014/04/getting-mary-as-right-as-possi...
I’ll try to post the page 154 referred to, also.
