Hello, Just a reminder that one of my "concrete-block walls" is James CLARK who would have been born anywhere in the 1790-1800 timeframe. A quick review: James CLARK "appears" in Little Compton, RI, ~1827. He marries in nearby Westport, MA, in 1829. He fathers a daughter there in 1836. During 1840's he "disappears." He might have been the James who got on a ship in New Bedford, MA, in 1844, which was heading out to the Indian Ocean; he signed on as a greenhand. He "deserted" in Australia in 1845. (He might have been the James who was on a small ship in the St. Lawrence River (Canada) in 1825.) (My "hunch" is that he was from a New England family.) His daughter, Mary Anna CLARK, b1836, probably married in Stonington, CT, ~1850. I don't know how she met John DEXTER from Killingly, CT, but the couple lived on the DEXTER Farm in Killingly until ~1885. (I have not heard of any other marriage for a Mary CLARK and John DEXTER ~1850.) (One curious thing is that Mary's older, half-sister, also from Westport, MA, also married in Stonington, CT.) Betty (near Lowell, MA) (I used to be able to access the "mariners data base" at the New Bedford, MA, Library. But, a couple months ago I had trouble accessing it. That's where a James CLARK was fouond.) (Information on the above families has been posted many times on the CT, MA, and RI Lists. Please see the archives of those Lists.) (on Lists for 8 years; now an Administrator for 8 Lists)