Thomas Clark, of Scituate & Coventry

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This Thomas Clark was previously attached as a child of early New England immigrants Thomas Clarke of Westhorpe, Suffolk, England and later Portsmouth, RI and Susanna Ring. However, there is no proof that the couple had a child Thomas and in the primary sources found for the couple and in the genealogical works about them, no son Thomas appears. This profile has been detached from those parents. Nor was he known to be a son of another early immigrant Thomas Clarke of Newport, RI (c. 1605-1684) who apparently never married and had no children and in his will bequeathed only to his brothers and their children.

Not a known child of Thomas Clark, of the Plymouth Colony

Biography

From http://trees.wmgs.org/getperson.php?personID=I229&tree=Schirado

From Deane’s History of Scituate:

"Thomas Clark was in Scituate 1674. He came hither from Plymouth, and was probably the son or grandson of Thomas Clark, the mate of the May-flower in 1620. His farm is Scituate was on the west of Walnut tree hill, (a half mile west of late Judge William Cushing's mansion), and adjoining that of Cornet Buck.”

It’s not clear to whom Deane referred by “Thomas Clark, mate of the May-flower.” Few of the Mayflower crew members’ names are known, and none of those were named Thomas Clark.

Sometime after the birth of his children, Thomas moved to Rochester, Massachusetts, then to Coventry, Connecticut.

Date and place of birth have also been (erroneously?) reported to be circa 1651 (including specifically 1650) at Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

Citations

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHHB-2RM : 5 November 2017), Thomas Clarke and Martha Curtis, 02 Jan 1676; citing Marriage, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 423,512.
• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Thomas_Clark_%2820%29 Whittemore, H. Genealogical guide to the early settlers of America: with a brief history of those of the first generation and references to the various local histories, and other sources of informatio, pg. 90. “THOMAS CLARK, of Plymouth, came in the "Ann" 1623, married Susanna, daughter of widow Mary Ring, and had Andrew, James, Susanna, William, John and Nathaniel. He was a representative 1651-5. He married second wife 1664, widow Alice Nichols, daughter of Richard Hallett, lived in 1670, at Harwich, where he had a third wife, Elizabeth Crow, and died March 24, 1697, aged 92.”

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GEDCOM Note

Biography

Sources

<references />* Dimock, Susan Whitney. Records of the Town and Churches in Coventry, Connecticut, 1711-1844 (Baker &Taylor Co., New York, 1897) Page 177

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:34QN-5WX : accessed 2016-07-10), entry for Thomas /Clark/ *.
• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHHB-2RM : 13 July 2016), Thomas Clarke and Martha Curtis, 02 Jan 1676; citing Marriage, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 423,512.
• Marriage: Thomas Clark & Martha Curtis - m. 11 or 2 Jan 1676 ::http://dunhamwilcox.net/ma/scituate_marr.htm
• http://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/thomas-clark_22426579