This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Clarke, Williams, Harges, Fletcher, Davis Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mBJ.2ACEB/1308 Message Board Post: 'History of the Clark Family in Chautauqua County, New York and Warren County, Pennsylvania.' By A. A. Clark Rev. John Clark, of Rhode Island, was born in England October 8, 1609, and died in April 1676. He was well educated. He was a physician and a Baptist Minister, and had knowledge of Greek and Latin and Hebrew. With his first wife, he arrived in Boston, Mass., November 1637. His first winter was spent in New Hampshire. In the spring, he returned to Boston and associated himself with a colony which settled on Conanicut Island, in what is now Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He removed to Newport and in 1644, became pastor of the First Baptist Church in that place. In 1651, he went with Roger Williams to England on matters concerning the welfare of the Colony, and remained 12 years. They obtained from King Charles a Charter that was very liberal and which was the basis of the government of Rhode Island, giving them a Constitution which secured to every one his or her freedom of conscience in matters of religious concernment, and persecution for opinions sake was forbidden. In ! June, 1664 he returned to Rhode Island. He held many offices of trust in the Colony. He was married three times. His first wife was Elizabeth Harges, second, Jane Fletcher, third, Sarah Davis, no issue survived him.

seymour784: Seymour, where? Indiana? Are you researching Clarks in IN? Please let me know, if so, we may be connected. Melanie Wayman [email protected] wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Clarke, Williams, Harges, Fletcher, Davis > Classification: Biography > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mBJ.2ACEB/1308 > > Message Board Post: > > 'History of the Clark Family in Chautauqua County, New York and Warren County, Pennsylvania.' > By A. A. Clark > > Rev. John Clark, of Rhode Island, was born in England October 8, 1609, and died in April 1676. He was well educated. He was a physician and a Baptist Minister, and had knowledge of Greek and Latin and Hebrew. With his first wife, he arrived in Boston, Mass., November 1637. His first winter was spent in New Hampshire. In the spring, he returned to Boston and associated himself with a colony which settled on Conanicut Island, in what is now Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He removed to Newport and in 1644, became pastor of the First Baptist Church in that place. In 1651, he went with Roger Williams to England on matters concerning the welfare of the Colony, and remained 12 years. They obtained from King Charles a Charter that was very liberal and which was the basis of the government of Rhode Island, giving them a Constitution which secured to every one his or her freedom of conscience in matters of religious concernment, and persecution for opinions sake was forbidden. I! n ! > June, 1664 he returned to Rhode Island. He held many offices of trust in the Colony. He was married three times. His first wife was Elizabeth Harges, second, Jane Fletcher, third, Sarah Davis, no issue survived him. > > ==== CLARKE Mailing List ==== > Message Board > Clarke > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=surnames.clarke > List Manager's address [email protected]