Dr. John Clarke

He was the only son of the Hon. (Dr.) John' Clarke of Boston, by his first wife Sarah Shrimpton

From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for the year 1860.VOLUME XIV. (Google eBook) William B. Trask,Wm. H.Whitmore,John Ward Dean,Editors. Page 226. "Mr. JOHN CLARKE, Physician"

John Clarke, the subscriber, was born Dec. 15, 1698, and baptized on the 18th inst. in the Old North, of which church his father was a member. He was a practitioner of medicine in Boston, but owned a farm at Waltham, where the family were accustomed to retire during the summer. He was chosen Councillor or Assistant, May 27, 1741, and died of paralysis, April 6, 1768, in his 70th year.

His children were:

• 1. William b. ab. 1725, a physician of Boston; survived his father, but d. unm.
• 2. John,5 b. ab. 1729, a physician of Boston; d. before his father, and left John, b. in 1754;
• 3. Elizabeth,* b. in 1733, died in 1777. By her first husband, the Rev. Jonathan Mayhew, (m. 1756), she had a dau. who was subsequently the wife of Peter Wainwright, Esq. of Boston.

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