William Clarke, of Lynn

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Probable Children of William Clarke with his First Wife

William Jr. was born about 1608 and died at Lynn, Massachusetts on March 5, 1682/3.[2] About 1641[7] he married Mary Unknown, who died at Lynn on August 19, 1693. Children: Lydia, Hannah, Sarah, Mary, Elizabeth, Martha, John.[3][2]

Biography

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William Clarke Jr. was the son of William Clarke and an Unknown mother. He was born in England around 1608. By 1641 he had married Mary Unknown and was working a farm in Lynn, Massachusetts. William Jr. and Mary had at least seven children.[1] Savage hesitates with a possible number up to nine, including a son William and an unknown daughter who died young.[2] However, the a William is not mentioned in his 1679 Will.[1] William passed away in Lynn on 5 March 1682/1683.[3]

Children of William Clarke Jr. and Mary Unknown

Based on work by Frances Davis McTeer, A.M. and Frederick C. Warner, B.S.[1]

• Lydia (Clarke) Gott (1641-1717) married Lieut. Charles Gott Jr.
• Hannah Clarke (1643-1693)
• Sarah (Clarke) Roots (1645-1683) married Thomas Roots
• Mary Clarke (est. 1649-????)
• Elizabeth (Clarke) Wallfax (1652-????) married Richard Walfax
• Martha Clarke (1655-1661)
• John Clarke (1658-1685) married Susannah Story, who after John's death marries Cornelius Browne.

Will of William Clarke Jr.

Essex County Probate Case: 5532

• Will is dated 14 September 1679
• Mentions:
• Wife: "beloved wife"
• Son: John
• Daughters: Lydia, Hannah, Sarah, Mary and Elizabeth
• Sons in law: Charles Goot (Gott, Jr.) and Richard Wallfax (Wallfox?)
• Executors: "My Wife" and son John[4]

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• September 14th 1679
• The Last will and Testement of William Clarke...
• my beloved Wife and My Daughter Hannah halfe my Land and Meddow: and howsing for there maintenance
• and the Other halfe to my sonne John...
• Only to my Daughter Lidea Sarah Mary and Elizebeath I doe give Each of them A sheepe and It is to bee understood that I give them noe more because I have given to them there Dowry before
• And I Doe make my wife and my sonne John Clarke my Exectors of this my will
• And I make my sonne Charles Goot & my sonne Richard Wallter my Overseeres
• Recorded 1683 April 11th

Research Notes

• 7 December 1664 - George Davis calls him his brother when he appoints him in his Will.[5]
• 23 January 1667 - Possibly involved in the inventory of Charles Gott of Wenham Estate Inventory [6]

Sources

• ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The American Genealogist, V39 pgs 101-102. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .)
• ↑ Savage, James, 1784-1873., A genealogical dictionary of the first settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May, 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1860-62, 1, 405.
• ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016), Lynn VRs - Deaths, V2-pg 457.
• ↑ Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)
• ↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, V16, p55. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.)
• ↑ The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995).
• Other Sources
• Lewis, Alonzo, 1794-1861, Newhall, James R. (James Robinson), 1809-1893, History of Lynn, Essex county, Massachusetts: including Lynnfield, Saugus, Swampscott, and Nahant, J. L. Shorey, Boston, 1865, 185. Archive.Org
• Hoyt, David Webster (1833-1921),[Hoyt, David Webster (1833-1921), The old families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts .., Snow & Farnham, printers, Providence, R.I.,1897-1917 , 1, 261.