Who is your family and where did they live? Who is Patrick? -------Original Message------- From: CLARKE-L@rootsweb.com Date: 04/09/05 10:40:51 To: CLARKE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Clarke-Clark] Thomas Clark of Pulaski KY DNA results are in Hi i'm not sure if my family fits in, because we know nothing about Patrick s family if you find a connection please leave me know. Thanks in advance. Fay Clark <gmcflc@bellsouth.net> wrote:I am pleased to say that we have a perfect 25-marker dna match to another descendant of Thomas Clark SR who was in Pulaski County, KY, 1799-1809. My husband, a direct descendant of Samuel Clark b. 1775 VA (wife Polly Williams), son of Thomas Clark SR, has a perfect match with a direct descendant of James Clark b. ca. 1777 VA or NC (wife Agnes Henderson), also a son of Thomas Clark SR. We are in the process of upgrading to the 37 marker test, which I fully expect to be a perfect match, as well. Thomas Clark b. ca. 1755: Earliest mention I have found so far is the 1795 tax list for Madison Co KY, where he is polled with a son 16+ years of age. The following year Thomas is polled with two sons 16+ years of age (presumably James and Stewart) and Samuel, now age 21, is polled with Thomas. (Note: 1796 - 21 = 1775 year of birth. The 1850 Clinton Co KY census states Samuel was born in 1775 in VA.) In 1797 Thomas & Samuel are missing from the tax lists. In 1798 Thomas & Samuel are polled together in Lincoln County KY. Samuel Clark married Polly Williams on 03 Sep 1798 in Lincoln County, KY. (Note: On 10 Jul 1792 James Clark b. 1761-1764 married Leannah Ross, d/o Sarah Ross. This same family settled upstream from Samuel Clark in Wayne County, and by 1829 had migrated to Bond Co IL with two of Thomas' children--William Clark and Deborah Clark McGinnis, who had married Abraham McGinnis. The nature of the relationship between this James Clark and Thomas Clark SR is unknown.) In 1799 Pulaski Co KY was formed from Lincoln Co, and Thomas & Samuel were polled in Pulaski. Subsequent tax lists reveal that they were living on Cabbin Branch of Pitman Creek. In 1806 Elinor Clark was polled on Pitman Creek with Thomas Clark. (The daughter of James and Elizabeth Clark of Orange Co, NC, Elinor married her cousin John Clark. They sold property in Randolph Co NC in 1786 and migrated to Madison Co KY in 1789. John & Elinor Clark lived near Thomas Clark on Paint Lick Creek in the part of Madison Co that would become Garrard Co. Also nearby was Elinor's sister Catherine Clark, who also married an unknown Clark, and Baptist(e) Clark, who (by all appearances) was related to old Samuel Clark who died in Randolph Co, NC, in 1783. Old Samuel and Baptist Clark originally came to Rowan Co NC from York Co PA ca. 1759. Old Samuel's son Thomas b. 1743 York Co PA married Sarah Clark, another sister of Elinor Clark.) Elinor removed to Warren Co TN after 1807, where several of Thomas' sons also settled. She died in Rutherford Co TN ca. 1843. Thomas Clark disappeared from Pulaski Co KY after 1809. We are uncertain if he died at this time or also moved to Tennessee. His son Samuel settled in Wayne Co KY after the War of 1812 and died in Clinton Co KY 1850-1860. Sons Thomas and Stewart were in Warren Co TN in 1820; James was in Smith Co TN in 1820 & Warren Co in 1830; William and daughter Deborah McGinnis were in Bond Co IL in 1820. Indications are that John & Alexander also went to Tennessee; and youngest son Benjamin died in Van Buren Co TN before 1850. Thomas Jr died in Dade Co GA ca. 1848. James, Stewart, William and Deborah all died in Arkansas. Joseph Clark, York Co SC: It has recently come to my attention that Joseph Clark of York Co SC may have been a close relation of James Clark who died 1796 in Orange Co NC. <County, South Carolina. He was the son of William Clark and Unknown. He married Margaret Faver Bef. 1764 in Unknown.>> His descendants may have migrated into Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama. If there are any descendants of this line, I'd like to compare notes. I also would like to invite any Clark male who may be connected to these lines to participate in the Virginia Clark DNA project to see if there is a possibility of a common ancestor. Fay Clark ==== CLARKE Mailing List ==== Search, Subscribe & Unsubscribe http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/c/clarke.html http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/c/clark.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ==== CLARKE Mailing List ==== Search, Subscribe & Unsubscribe http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/c/clarke.html http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/c/clark.html