----- Original Message ----- From: Harman Clark <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 8:09 AM Subject: [NJUNION] Abraham Clark "The Signer" > Abraham Clark b. 15 Feb 1725/26, Elizabethtown, NJ, (the only child of > Thomas Clark and Elizabeth Winans) m. Sarah Hatfield, b. circa 1728, > (daughter of Isaac Hatfield and Sarah Price) d. 02 Jun 1804. Abraham died > 15 Sep 1794, buried: Rahway Cemetery, Rahway, NJ. He was a Signer of the > Declaration of Independence. He was known as Abraham Clark, Jr., to > distinguish him from his uncle Abraham. > He and sarah had ten children -- a respectable number considering > the time he spent helping people and on civic duties -- but ten is quite a > bit less than seem to be attributed to him on modern websites and message > boards. > Researchers interested in his descendants should begin with an > Article by Ann Clark Hart in The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, April > 1932, which sets forth the then known descendants of The Signer. That > article has been reprinted in "Genealogies of New Jersey Families" [Geneal. > Pub. Co. Balt. 1996] Vol. 1, page 145. While Ann Hart was not > infallible, the article is relatively well done [NPI] and her sources are > cited, including, for the ten children, the inclusion of a photostat of the > listing by Rev. Edwin F. Hatfield, in his handwriting, from a genealogical > manuscript he had prepared for publication. The list also fits with the > Wills of Abraham Clark, and of Abraham's father. > Children: > i Aaron Clark b. 1750 Wheatsheaf (Rahway), NJ, m. Susan Winans, b. circa > 1758, (daughter of Benjamin Winans) d. 26 Apr 1821, Washington Co., Pa. > Aaron died 1811/12, Washington Co., Pa. See C.C.Gardner, page 151; NYGBR > 63:96. GMNJ 7:89 at 90+ (1932). Susan: C. C. Gardner, page 151; GMNJ 7:90. > ii Thomas Clark b. 1753 m. circa 1775, Elizabeth Dixon. Thomas died 13 > May 1789, buried: Rahway Cemetery, Rahway, NJ. GMNJ 7:93; NYGBR 63:96. > Elizabeth: GMNJ 7:93. "Elizabeth Clark appears in the Census of 1790 for > Washington County, Pennsylvania (p. 248) with three sons under age, whither > she had gone with the family of John Jonas, a veteran of the Revolution. > The latter's wife, Lucy, was a daughter of Jonathan Squire and his second > wife Hannah Dixon, possibly a near relative of Elizabeth (Dixon) Clark. > About 1793-4 these families moved to Selbysport, Allegany Co., Maryland > where Elizabeth died and was buried." > iii Abraham Clark b. 1755, d. 26 Jul 1758. NYGBR 63:96. > iv Hannah Clark b. circa 1755, m. aft 11 Aug 1777, divorced 1801, Capt. > Melyn Miller, (son of Jonathan Miller and Elizabeth Dickinson) d. bef 9 May > 1795. Hannah died 08 Nov 1830. GMNJ 7:95+; NYGBR 63:96. GMNJ 9:136 adds: > "From the Sentinel of Freedom for Nov. 9, 1830: 'Mrs. Hannah Miller, eldest > daughter of Hon. Abraham Clark, died November 8th, 1830, aged 75." Also: > Act of N.J. Legislature, 1801, page 75, grants divorce between Melyne Miller > and the said Hannah -- passed at Trenton, March 3, 1801. Capt.: See Ross > Family No. 99, page 25. N.J. Genesis 9:349 (1961). > v Andrew Clark b. circa 1761, Elizabethtown, NJ. Unmarried; died before > his father. NYGBR 63:96; GMNJ 7:96. > vi Sarah Clark b. circa 1761 Elizabethtown, NJ, m. Clarkson Edgar, b. 21 > Jun 1756, (son of William Edgar and Experience Clarkson) Occ. General., d. > 21 Jul 1816, buried: Woodbridge Presbyterian Church. Sarah died 02 Oct > 1817, buried: Woodbridge Presbyterian Church. NYGBR 63:96 says she had one > child, Harrietta, who died childless. GMNJ 7:97, lists two children by Gen. > Clarkson Edgar. Clarkson: Sarah Clark was his second wife. He served in > Revolutionary War as Captain and Major, and is buried at Woodbridge. After > the war he became a General. First wife was Mary Fitz Randolph, Louise Aymar > Christian genealogy of Fitz Randolph Family, No. 105, page 32. See also > supplement page 7. > vii Cavalier Clark b. 1763, d. 04 Nov 1764. NYGBR 63:96. > viii Elizabeth Clark. Died in her 14th year. NYGBR 63:96. > ix Abraham Clark, M.D. b. 02 Oct 1767 Elizabethtown, NJ, Occ. Physician, m. > (1) in New Jersey, Hannah Perkins, (daughter of Jabez Perkins and Hannah > Lathrop) m. (2) 29 Dec 1791, in Newark, NJ, Lydia Griffith, b. Mar 1770, > (daughter of John Griffith and Elizabeth Camp) d. 19 Aug 1861. Abraham died > 28 Jul 1854, Kinderhook, N.Y. "Practiced at Rahway, later at Newark, > finally N.Y. State." C.C.Gardner, page 151; NYGBR 63:69; GMNJ 7:97. Hannah: > Her second husband, by whom she had no children, was the son of Abraham > Clark, a Signer of the Declaration of Independence. See notes as to her > children by Huntington, in Lathrop Genealogy, by Huntington, page 57. AA & C > Princess of Wales, Roberts, page 58. NEHGR 14:115 (April 1860). Lydia: "Of > Rahway"; C.C. Gardner, pg. 151. > x Abigail Clark b. 1773 Elizabethtown, NJ, m. 28 Oct 1802, Thomas Salter, > b. 04 Nov 1764, d. 06 Apr 1853. Abigail died 25 Oct 1811. NYGBR 63:96; > GMNJ 7:97-98. Thomas: GMNJ 7:97-98. He was son of Manassah and Catharine > (Wright) Salter. He had nine children by first wife, Charlotte, daughter of > Jonathan Dayton; two by Abigail Clark; and six children by his third wife, > Susan, daughter of Matthias Williamson. > > > There are a number of obituaries published in Union County in the mid > 1900s which identify the deceased as a decendant of The Signer, and I > haven't seen one yet which was correct. I am posting this, also, because > there have been recent forum list postings showing other "sons" [one with a > birth date the same year as Cavalier, above]. I don't like to burst > people's bubbles, but assume we are also seeking for accuracy, and I would > be happy to exchange data or try to answer questions. [Of course I will > probably refer most of the questions to David Kane! <G> ] > > Harman Clark [a distant cousin but not a descendant]. > > [email protected] > >