MIDDLETOWN UPPER HOUSES
a history of the north society of Middletown, Ct.
from 1650 to 1800
with genealogical and biographical chapters
on early families.
Charles Collard Adams
New York: Grafton Press, 1908.
THE CLARK FAMILY
[transcribed by Coralynn Brown ]
1. William Clark of Hartford was one of the founders in 1662 of the town of Haddam. He had four sons.
2. John Clark , b. ____, Hartford; m. Elizabeth White (Nathaniel, John), b. Mar. 7, 1655, Upper Houses. He purchased, Mar. 21, 1681, the southern half of the Thomas Hubbard place and d. thereon July 26, 1731; on Sept. 7, 1720, he executed deeds to his three sons of all his real property and on the same day executed in one deed all his persona property to his daughters, the latter never having been recorded, but was executed before Thomas Ward, Justice of the Peace. The homestead was given to his son John. Nathaniel's ten acrs, "whereon he dwlet," was on the east side of the road to Hartford near where the Swedish church stands. His wife d. Dec. 25, 1711; he July 26, 1731, and a headstone locates his grave.
Children:
3. John Clark , b. June 14, 1679, Upper Houses; m. May 9, 1710, Sarah Goodwin of Hartford. In 1737 he sold his homestead to Henry Bassell of Newport, R.I., and removed to "Clark's Hill," the earliest settler in what is now East Hampton, a part of the town of Chatham, being then the easternmost part of the town of Miiddletown. He resided on this homestead until his death 1771; she d. Oct. 19, 1781, aged ninety-nine years. He gave each of his children a farm, having amassed considerable property.
Children:
4. Daniel Clark (John, William), b. Aug. 30, 1680; m. July 12, 1704, Elizabeth Wetmore (Whitmore), dau of John Whitmore and Abigail Warner (Andrew, Andrew). His father had puchased for him the "Anthony Martin" homestead and he puchased, 1709, the corner lot of the Samuel Hall homestead whereon he erected a cooper shop. He d. Mar., 1725, and the widow m. (2) Nov., 1726, Capt. William Savage, who d. Jan., 1727, and she m. (3) ____ Williams, and d. Jan. 31, 1743.
Children:
Children:
[Ancestry of Dr. F. H. Williams -
5. Stephen Clark, b. June 23, 1754; m. Feb. 28, 1782, Prudence Hale, who d. Oct. 3, 1852, aged ninety-eight. He was a Rev. soldier, had seen seven generations and at the time of his death had great-great-grandchildren living. He d. Oct. 3, 1852, East Hamton, Conn.
Children:
6. David Clark , b. May 23, 1760; m. (1) Sept. 19, 1782, Jerusha Hall (Capt. Abijah), who d. Aug. 24, 1800; m. (2) Nov. 15, 1801, Eunice Griffith, who d. July 27, 1811; m. (3) Mehitable Hubbard. He kept a public house after the death of his brother and was quite prominent in the affiars of the town, and was first W. M. of Warren Lodge, No. 51, F. & A.M. He d. Jan. 8, 1839. The widow d. Nov. 26, 1854. The sons by first wife were Elijah and Chauncey.
7. Horace Clark , b. Sept. 21, 1793, Chatham, Conn., m. (1) July 1, 1820, Lydia Potter, who d. ___; m. (2) Sept. 21, 1835, Phebe Bonfoey. He d. Nov. 13, 1879, Chatham, Conn.
Children:
Hannah Clark, m. William Sumner.
Hezekiah Sumner m. Desire Higgins.
Tabitha Sumner m. Nathan Havens.
Mehitable Havens m. Hezekiah Whitney.
Julia Whitney m. Jesse Williams. Also ancestor of Winfield Whitney Williams, who m. Idella Maria Case.
Orville Williams, m. Lurana Minerva Gillette.
Dr. Frederick Henry Williams, b. 1846, Barkhamstead, Conn.; m. 1885, Janette Hart, dau of Emery Curtis Hart and Eliza Lucina Persons. Dr. Williams was left an orphan at ten years of age and to care for himself. He early planned to become a physician, but as he was about to enter a medical college he was stricken with total deafness and since then has never heard the human voice.
For thirty years he has practiced medicine in Bristol, Conn., and devoted himself to writing poetry and prose.
Child:
Frances, b. Aug. 3, 1886, Bristol, Conn.; grad. 1907, Vassar College. Res. Bristol, Conn.]