John Clark, of Beverly & Rochester

Not a child of John Clark of New Haven

Not the same as John Clark, Jr., of East Hampton who married Sarah Clark. This John Clark married Mary Clark.

Biography

http://nybirds.net/jsbailey/d56.htm#P3193

John CLARK was born on 7 Oct 1685 or 7 Oct 1687 in Beverly, Essex Co., Massachusetts. He died in 1760 in Rochester, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts.

Parents: John CLARK and Sarah SMITH.

He was married to Mary TOBEY on 2 Nov 1709 in Sandwich, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts.

Children were:

1. Ebenezer CLARK , married Mary CLAGHORN.
2. Jean Jane CLARK, married Andrew Haskell
3. Mary CLARK , married Samuel Dexter
4. Sarah CLARK, married John Crapo
5. William CLARK, married 1) Experience Doty 2) Martha Rider
6. ??Mary CLARK,
7. ??Mary CLARK .

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Notes

Wife, Mary, also bapt 12 Jan 1939 SL. All sons and dau mentioned in will of John Clark except dau., Mary.

In a 1728 deed he called himself "marriner".

From "Certain Comeoverers" by H. H. Crapo: John Clark who married Mary Tobey lived near Peter Crapo, hard by Sniptuit Pond. The place of Isaac Holmes separated their respective homesteads. John did not have far to go a-courting Sarah. Thirty-six years after John Crapo and Sarah Clark were married they joined in a deed dated 5 May 1760 by which the children of John Clark carried out the expressed wishes of their father as to the division of his estate. His widow, Mary, was then living and to her was given the use and improvement of all his cleared land and dwelling house and all his movables. After the widow's death one-half of the furniture was to go to his daughter, Sarah Crapo, and the other half to her sister, Jane Haskell, and between his sons Ebenezer and William the lands were divided. It may have been John, the son of the last named William, who was one of a committee of three appointed in Aug, 1769, by the Second Precinct of Rochester, to go to the minister and inform him that his preaching for a long time past had been to the
damage of the Precinct and the prejudice of good order and peace, and notify him not to attempt to preach again at the meeting house. This final action was the result of a protracted controversy in the church in which it is fair to presume the Clarks were active participants.

References

1. http://nybirds.net/jsbailey/d56.htm#P3193
2. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LHP9-PRL cites
   1. Vit rec, Beverly, Mass in "Mayflower Desc" (FHL 974.45 V2b;
   2. Vit rec, Sandwich, Barnstable, Mass in "Mayflower Desc" (FHL 974.4 D25md) Vol 29 p74;
   3. Vit rec, Rochester, Plymouth, Mass (FHL 974.48/R1 V2n);
   4. SG bapt (FHL 170880) Bk 2 p496;
   5. SG endowments (FHL 170567) Bk 3 p169;
   6. TIB; Deeds of Plymouth Co, Mass.; Div. of estate of husb LDS 559116 p164;
   7. SL bapt for dead done by Gertrude C.P. Nelson (FHL 183534);
   8. Prob of Plymouth (FHL 550711) V19 p358 & (FHL 551540) V13 pg 559.
   9. "Certain Comeovers" by H. H. Crapo 1912 (GR0012); TAG, Vol. 43, page 19 thru 26 - The Clark Family of Beverly and Rochester, Massachusetts by John Insley Coddington, F.A.S.G. Researched by Robert Arthur Brown. !OTHER MARRIAGES: John Clark Sr. married 2nd Mary Benjamin. !NOTES: He was a fisherman and later yeoman. He and his brother William, sailors and fishermen, lived in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts in the late 1670's and the 1680's.
   10. Genealogical Dictionary of First Settlers of New England by Savage, Page 400.
   11. Rochester Vital Records, Volume II, Page 83
   12. Information from Certain Comeovers, by H. H. Crapo 1912 (GS0012);
   13. TAG, Vol. 43, Page 19 through 26- The Clark Family of Beverly and Rochester, Massachusetts by John Insley Coddington, F.A.S.G. Researched by Gertrude Clifton Pierce Nelson and Robert Arthur Brown. !Notes: As the eldest son and executor of his father, he sold his father's right in the common land of Beverly to Robert Cleeves on 25 Dec 1728.
3. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-8NWL : Sun Mar 10 00:02:29 UTC 2024), Entry for John Clark and John Clark, 7 October 1687. Source shows that John Clark was born to John and Sarah Clark.