Martha Clarke

Not the daughter of Samuel Saltonstall

From Records of the descendants of Hugh Clark: of Watertown, Mass. 1640-1866 By John Clark (1856). Page 9:

Dr. JOHN CLARKE, a celebrated physician of Boston, came from Newbury, Mass., about 1638. He married Martha Saltonstall, sister of Sir Richard Saltonstall (SIC: disproved) who died Sept. 19, 1680. He died Nov. 1664, ae. 66, leaving two children, John, whose family is given below, and Jemima, who married Robert Drew, of Boston.

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origins

• not the same as Martha Thorpe
• Sir Richard Saltonstall did not have a sister Martha page 5 of Ancestry and descendants of Sir Richard Saltonstall : first associate of the Massachusetts Bay colony and patentee of Connecticut by Saltonstall, Leverett, 1825-1895
• was she perhaps the Martha Saltonstall, bap 12 April 1599, Heptonstall, St Thomas, West Yorkshire, daughter of Jonas Saltonstall View at ancestry.com

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From the Genealogical Statement of William Clark

This statement is chronologically confused.

"My grandmother Clark, whose maiden name was Martha Saltonstall, was the only sister of Sir Richard Saltonstall, Knight and Baronet, [SIC: Sir Richard Saltonstall, Lord Mayor of London, who was not a Bart.] that's and was the first English virgin that landed on the spot of ground called Boston, with her brother Sir Richard, [that's his great nephew Sir Richard Saltonstall, Knight] one of the principal Patentees. She was about 12 years of age [would have been born 1612]. Her father married a daughter of the noble families of the Gurtons in Scotland [SIC: that's his son, Major Richard Saltonstall] of whom was born Sir Richard and Martha, and from her grandmother of the noble family of Gordons she received as a present my gold cup, which she called a silver double gilt goblet, which by computation must now have been in the family about 180 years. She died in the 85th year of her age, and was a most gracious woman, full of good works."

"The late Mr. H.B. Somerby, of London, who made some researches for me on the subject in 1871, says, in referring to Samuel [Saltonstall], the father of Sir Richard, "he may have had a daughter Martha, who was married to Doctor Clarke, but I have no evidence of it."

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• Torrey 1:332: CLARK, John (1598-1666?, 1664) & Martha [?SALTONSTALL/ ?KAYE] (1595-1680 (wf called Martha in will, Elizabeth in probate); ca 1627/30?; Newbury Hist./Boston {Reg. 7:334, 13:14, 27:137, 31:110, 33:19, 20, 226, 40:272, 95:390; Watertown 916-17; Fairfield Fam 1:644; Brooks Anc 48; Clark (#6) 9-10; Cutter (ms) 116, 117; Sv. 1:395}
• "1612 - will of Samuel Saltonstall, of Kingston upon Hull, Esq." from "William Clarke's Genealogical Statement.". THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER VOLUME XXXIII page 227. No daughter Martha, sister to Richard Saltonstall, listed.
• page 102 of The pioneers of Massachusetts, a descriptive list, drawn from records of the colonies, towns and churches and other contemporaneous documents by Pope, Charles Henry, 1841-1918. "died ae 85"
• The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1859, Volume 13 (Google eBook) The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 13, 1859 . New England Historic Genealogical Society. (1859), reprint, index, 387 pp. Page 189. "... Dr. John Clarke made his will August 1664, and died prior to Nov 23 1664. ... "I ordain my wife, Martha, sole Executrix ..." .
• The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 13 (Google eBook) New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1859 - Genealogy.  Vols. 37-52 (1883-98) include section: Genealogical gleanings in England, by H. F. Waters.  Page 14.  Will of John Clarke of Boston, Chirugeon, 23 August 1664. "Unto my wife, Martha Clarke, my Dwelling house, with the Land, Wharfe and appurtenances therunto Belonging, lying in Boston, with the houshold stufle and Furniture in euery prticular roome therof as it is Furnished at my Decease (with my owne goods) the said house [&c.] to be unto her & her proper use During the time she shall remaine unmarried. . My will is, that my sonne, John Clarke, shall pay unto his Mother, my now wife, ..."
• "Medicine in Art - Dr. John Clark"
• Find A Grave Memorial# 39427861