Joseph Clark

Update 4/06/2020: I located on Family Search, from North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC , the 1801 Probate Randolph County, NC file for my 5th GGF Joseph Clark. One page from 1801 shows as administrators David Smith (brother of 5th GGM, Nancy Ann Smith), Samuel Clark (brother of Joseph Clark), and Benjamin Mendenhall (Nancy Ann Smith Clark’s second husband). No Merrill’s are stated in any of the 18 pages of the file. Three pages, two signed by Benjamin Mendenhall show payments to the children of my 5th GGF/GGM children: son my 4th GGF George Clark; daughters 6th GG Aunts Mary (Poly) Clark, Jane Clark Brown, and Nancy Clark. One page listed payments to daughter Hannah Clark. Payments to children are from 1805 to 1809. I have uploaded the 18 pages to Joseph Clark’s / Nancy Smith Clark’s profiles and relevant pages to the children in Ancestry.com (DNA). Relevant pages are uploaded. One Probate page list funds due to the Estate of Joseph Clark is dated July 18 1792.
Update 2 15 2022: "Isaac Farlow Statement of Revolutionary Events." of 10 Oct 1852. States: "Joseph Clark lived near Bells Mills and married a Smith a family of Tories." Randoph County Pubic Library, Randoph Room Digital, North Randoph Historical Society Quarterly Volume 11, Number III, 1938. transcription. Seems to point to Joesph Clark married Nancy Smith.

Updated death year to 1792 based on one Probate file page dated July. 1792.