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Joseph Clark (1720 - abt. 1760)

Joseph Clark
Born 25 Mar 1720 in Medfield, Suffolk, Massachusettsmap
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of Joseph Clark and Experience (Wheeler) Wedge
Brother of Joseph Clark, Rowland Clark, Hephzibah (Clark) Albee, Jephthah Clark, Experience (Clark) Wheelock and Jepthah Wedge [half]
Husband of Elizabeth (Puffer) Clark — married 9 Feb 1739 in Medfield, Suffolk, Massachusettsmap
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Joseph Clark, Thomas Clark, Jephthah Clark, Ichabod Clark, Abigail (Clark) Aldrich, Elizabeth Clark, Josiah Clark, Elizabeth (Clark) Freeman and James Clark
Died about 1760 at about age 39 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts Baymap
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1 Biography
1.1 Birth
1.2 Marriage
1.3 Life Story
1.4 Death
2 Sources
Biography

Birth

Joseph was born 25 Mar 1720. He was the son of Joseph Clark and Experience Wheeler. [1] [2]

Marriage

Joseph, at the age of 18, married Elizabeth Puffer of Medfield on 9 Feb 1738. [3][4] [5]

Life Story

Many settlers were now searching for expanding their settlements due to a population growth in towns. A group of settlers in Dedham, MA decided to petition for a new develpment not far from their homes. To this end, 42 families petitioned to open the settlement of Medfield. Joseph Clarke, son of Joseph Clark and Experiance moved to Medfield. Joseph met and married Elizabeth in Medfield and raised their family of 9 children. Meanwhile, settlements expanded beyond the Massachusetts boundaries and headed up north. Tensions between the native population and Europeans began as early as the first European arrivals. In 1525 Estevan Gomez raided Nova Scotia and Maine and took some 58 surviving Indians back to Spain, and subsequent explorers, whalers, fishers, and traders continued this practice into the 18th century. Early fishing settlements and trading posts further poisoned the relation between native and newcomer. Walter Bagnall was killed on Richmond Island in 1631, for instance, for repeatedly cheating his clients, and when John Winter arrived in 1632 he found the Indians so unfriendly he abandoned hope of trade. Indians, on the other hand, suspected that English colonials brought on the terrible recurring epidemics, and they found it difficult, under their own political system, to rein in those who wished vengeance for trading abuses, land grabs, murders, and enslavements. Fluctuations in the price of furs left the impression that all whites cheated them, and as the Wabanaki became more dependent on European guns, ammunition, and commodities, fur-trading – and its abuses – became an increasingly desperate matter. A heritage of mutual suspicion soured relations between Indians and whites in Maine. By 1701 France and England were engaged in what came to be known as Queen Anne's War. When France proved less willing to supply arms, the Penobscots ratified a series of neutrality agreements with Massachusetts. But in August 1703 an expedition of about 500 French and Micmac Indians from the St. Lawrence devastated the coastal towns and forts from Wells to Falmouth, and Massachusetts declared war on all Maine Indians. Militia raids in the upper Saco kept villagers from their fields and from critical foraging areas. After the cessation of hostilities in Europe, the 1713 Treaty of Portsmouth quickly brought peace to the Maine frontier. By this time it was apparent that English population expansion would engulf southern Maine, and most Indians in the area withdrew to the St. Lawrence settlements under the command of Governor Vaudreuil. The sixth and final Anglo-Abenaki war, known as the Seven Years, or French and Indian war (1754-1760), was largely fought in the Ohio Valley. In Maine, Governor William Shirley used rumors of French maneuvers on the Kennebec to construct Fort Halifax above Norridgewock at Winslow. Many Penobscots withdrew from the St. Georges area when both Massachusetts and the French demanded that the Indians take up arms against the other.

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In 1759, English forces defeated the French at Quebec, ending the long struggle for control of North America. During the next few years Indian family bands re-occupied tribal grounds on the upper Penobscot, Kennebec, and Saco rivers.

Governor Bernard banned white hunters and trappers from the upper Penobscot and sent surveyor Joseph Chadwick to mark the limits of English settlement at the falls above the Kenduskeag, but theft, murder, poaching, land encroachment, and an explosion of white settlement up the river valleys made a return to the old ways all but impossible.

Between the late 17th century and the early 19th century, Great Britain, France, and others in Europe engaged in nearly constant warfare. The battles for economic and political power spilled into North America, catching the native populations in the middle. By the time a lasting peace came between France and Britain, European descendants had permanent settlements in North America and the native populations were relegated to the fringes. The British monarch sought a monopoly on tall, straight white pines and other timber from Maine, all to go to the royal shipbuilding enterprise to help protect British interests around the globe. Merchant Joshua Scottow and a crew sailed from Boston to Pemaquid in August 1677 to complete peace negotiations with Indians along the coast. [7]

Death

The exact death record remains elusive. However, wife Elizabeth Puffer Clark remarried in 1762. [8]

Sources

↑ Massachusetts Births and Christenings,1639-1915 Retrieved from Family Search.org (Available online)
↑ Massachusetts, Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1700-1850 Retrieved from Family Search.org (Available online)
↑ Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850 Retrieved from Ancestry.com (Available online)
↑ Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910 Retrieved from Family Search.org (Available online)
↑ Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910 Retrieved from Family Search.org (Available online)
↑ Norridgewock Fort and Kennebec River, 1719. Retrieved from Maine Historical Society. (Available online); accessed 2 Feb 2021.
↑ Retrieved from the MaineHistoricalSociety (Available online)
↑ Retrieved from Family Search.org (Available online); accessed 2 Feb 2021.
"Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99Z3-7HTG?cc=2106411&w... : 22 May 2014), Suffolk > Deeds 1743-1744 vol 67-68 > image 102 of 585; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts.