Found the following with a Google Book search, this seems to be their marriage and looks like your James Clark is "of Little Compton..":   Vital records of Westport, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 By Westport (Mass.) Published by New England historic genealogical society, at the charge of the Eddy town record fund, 1918 Page 185 LEVERE (see Lavare), Rhoda, Mrs., and James Clark of Little Compton, int. Oct. 10, 1829   >From what I can make out Little Compton is in Rhode Island.....so based on that it seems possible that your James Clark descends from one of the descendant lines of Nicholas Clark? Check out this link and good luck!   http://books.google.com/books?id=l-NM0IyRpREC&pg=PA152&dq=clark+little+compton&lr=&ei=o5jGSfm4EIHKkASFi4ndCA#PPA127,M1 Regards Janice --- On Mon, 23/3/09, Betty <bbffrrpp@comcast.net> wrote: From: Betty <bbffrrpp@comcast.net> Subject: [CT] CLARK in Killingly and Woodstock (long post) To: GenConnecticut-L@rootsweb.com, ct-windhamco@rootsweb.com Received: Monday, 23 March, 2009, 5:11 AM Hello, I'm thinking about my ancestor*, the mysterious James CLARK, again.    And someone has reminded me that there was a CLARK family in Woodstock, CT, with someone born there at around the same time as James was born.     And, I was wondering if there was information about the CLARK families in Woodstock on-line, or with people on these Lists. As I've mentioned in past years on the Lists, James CLARK is one of my "concrete-block walls."   A quick summary is that he "appeared" in Little Compton, RI, in ~1827, and married in nearby Westport, MA, in 1829.   He fathered a daughter there in 1836, and "disappeared" during the 1840's. He might have been the James CLARK who got on a ship in New Bedford, MA, in 1844 - and "deserted" that ship in Australia.    He also might have been the James CLARK who was on a small ship in the St. Lawrence River in ~1825.    I am only guessing he was born between 1790 and 1800 because his wife, the widow, Mrs. Rhoda LAVARE, was born in 1800 in Westport.  --  If this was all the same man,  he was "a travelin' man."      :o( This is a long story, so I'll try to summarize my thoughts.    James' daughter, Mary Anna CLARK, grew up to marry John DEXTER, who was born in Killingly, CT.    I don't know how they met, or where they married;  they might have married in Stonington.    John and Mary lived on the DEXTER farm in Killingly.   They had 3 daughters, but 2 died as children;   the surviving daughter grew up to become, Mrs. Clara YOUNG, in Killingly. Abner and Clara also lost a young daughter, and had a surviving son, Earle YOUNG. To get back to James and Rhoda CLARK in Westport, MA,  the family also included Rhoda's 3 LAVARE (young) children from her first marriage.    But, James seems to have only lived with Rhoda from 1829 to 1844, and only knew his daughter, Mary, until she was about 8 yrs. old.      I have no knowledge as to whether James and Rhoda visited CLARK relatives.   This is mostly because I don't know where he was born or who his parents were, etc. But, Mary CLARK had to have had some way to "meet"  John DEXTER.    And one possibility is that her father did come from a family in Woodstock, CT, and she had visited that family - and traveled through Danielson and Killingly. Also, both Mary CLARK and her half-sister, with LAVARE name, married in Stonington, CT,  and I've always been curious whether they had a relative in Stonington - possibly a CLARK. So, one question comes up this morning.   I looked through the archives of the Windham Co. List for a few minutes, and I saw mention that families did visit back and forth between Killingly and Woodstock.    And I wondered whether the families in that part of the state did - visit each other on a regular basis. Betty          (near Lowell, MA) (FYI:   My grandmother mentioned a William CLARK on her marriage record in MA in 1911.   I have no information on him.) (FYI:   In the 1890's, after John and Mary DEXTER had moved to Melrose, MA, they had to travel back to Putnam, CT, to take care of a "court case."    I don't know the connection between them and the other family involved. (mentioned in archives)    ) (FYI:   As I've mentioned many times in the past,  John and Mary DEXTER took in a little girl in ~1890 and adopter her in 1892.   They changed her name to Mary Anna Clark DEXTER.    She was my grandmother.    In 1899, Mrs. DEXTER died, and my grandmother was re-orphaned.   She spent from Age 10 to 20 in "Homes" in Downtown Boston.)     (My "educated guess" is that their married daughter, Mrs. Clara (DEXTER) YOUNG in Killingly had a prenancy outside of her marriage during the summer of 1888.   And, thus the DEXTER's were my grandmother's grandparents.) * So, because of his long and complicated story  (aka "family mystery" set in stone),  I cannot prove that James CLARK was an ancestor of mine.    But, it would be nice to find out if he was possibly part of the CLARK family in Woodstock, CT, in the 1790's. (I can also mention John DEXTER's only sibling, Mrs. Abby CROSBY, in Brooklyn, CT.    She seems to have remained in contact with her brother until his death in MA in 1905.   And, she possibly knew of his adopted daughter.    His birth-daughter, Clara, "denied" any knowledge of her parents adopting a girl - until her dying day.) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GENCONNECTICUT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message