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Rebekah Clark (Eyre)

Also Known As: "Rebekah Ayers"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk, England
Death: Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Colonial America
Place of Burial: Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Dr. Simon Eyre and Dorothy Eyre
Wife of Captain Christopher Clark, Sr.
Mother of Susanna Clarke; Dorothy Clarke/Clark; Captain John Clark, of Boston; Peter Clark; Rebecca Clark/Clarke and 3 others
Sister of Mary Tainter; Thomas Eyre; Simon Eyre; Christian Stoddard; Anna Checkley and 6 others
Half sister of Maria Mosley and John Eyre

Managed by: Judith "Judi" Elaine (McKee) Burns
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About Rebekah Clark

Adm. to church Oct.25, 1647. Rebekah Eyre was the daugheter of Simon Eyre and dorothy Payne/Paine. Rebekah married Captain Christopher Clarke/Clarke.


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Rebecca Clarke formerly Eyre

Born about 1626 in Bury St Edmonds, Suffolk, England

Daughter of Simon Eyre and Dorothy (Paine) Eyre

Sister of Christian (Eyre) Stoddard and John Eyre [half]

Wife of Christopher Clarke — married 1647 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Mother of Susanna (Clarke) Stoddard, Rebecca (Clarke) Taylor and Mercy (Clark) Minot

Died before 1693 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Profile last modified 16 Nov 2018 | Created 3 Sep 2015

Rebecca (Eyre) Clarke migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640).

Biography

Father: Simon Eyre

Mother: Dorothy Paine

Born about 1626 to Simon Eyre & Dorothy Paine, born about 1597 , daughter of William and Agnes (N[e]ves%29 Paine.[1]. She immigrated to Massachusetts with her parents in 1635.

She married Christopher Clark on 25 December 1647 in Boston, Massachusetts.[2]

They had nine children.[3]

Susanna (1648) m. Sampson Stoddard Dorothy (1650) m Joseph Townsend John (1652) Peter (1654) m. Penelope Fairweather Rebecca (1657) m James Taylor Christopher (1660) Daniel was born 10 Feb 1661;[4] died 16 March 1662[5] Elizabeth (1663) Mercy / Mary (1667) m Stephen Minot Christopher Clark died intestate 10 Feb 1693. The division of the estate (7 Nov 1693) named all his children except Daniel (died young). It did not name his wife, definitely deceased by then and probably decesed before he died.[6][7]

Sources

↑ [NEHGR 69:250] ↑ http://www.greatmigration.org/sample_sketch_simon_eyre.html ↑ Boston, MA: Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1822 (Thwing Collection). Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630–1800 and The Crooked and Narrow Streets of Boston, 1630–1822. CD-ROM. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB530/i/14226/5134/38011479 ↑ Boston Records. Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.) p 47 ↑ Boston, MA: Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.) Originally published as: A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston Containing Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699, Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, Boston, Massachusetts, 1883. p. 85 https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1646/i/30233/85/723601488 ↑ Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Volume 12, page 175 ↑ Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org) Division of esttate

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Rebekah Clark's Timeline

1626
1626
Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk, England
1648
April 15, 1648
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
1650
1650
1651
December 3, 1651
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
1654
June 4, 1654
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
1657
May 4, 1657
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
1660
1660
South Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, United States
1662
1662
1666
March 1, 1666
Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts