I don't find the names and dates as set forth by Randy CLAPP. Maybe someone can clarify. ****************************************** Hannah Strong dau . of Elder John married William Clarke. Her sister Sarah m. Thomas Clarke *********************************************** Lets try this for size and comment: Family Group Record ========================================================================================== Husband: William CLARK Capt. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Birth: 3 Jul 1656 Dorchester, Suffolk, MA Death: 9 May 1725 Lebanon, New London, CT Marriage: 15 Jul 1680 Northampton, MA. Father: William CLARK Lt. (b 1609) Mother: Sarah HOLMAN?(STRONG? I don't think so but I am open to discussion). Other spouse: Mary SMITH ========================================================================================== Wife: Hannah STRONG ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Birth: 30 May 1659 Northampton, Hampshire, MA. Death: Lebanon, New London, CT Father: John STRONG Elder. (b abt 1610) Mother: Abigail FORD ========================================================================================== Children ========================================================================================== 1 F Abigail CLARK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 M Benoni CLARK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3 F Hannah CLARK Birth: 5 May 1682 Northampton, Hampshire, MA. Death: 10 Jun 1758 Prob. Lebanon, New London, CT Burial: Prob. Lebanon. Spouse: Ebenezer HUNT (2) (of Lebanon). (m 27 May 1698) Spouse: Thomas BISSELL(LOOMISE) (m 20 Dec 1743) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4 M William CLARK Jr. Birth: 15 Feb 1685 Northampton, Hampshire, MA. Death: 28 Aug 1753 Lebanon, New London, CT Spouse: Bethia WILLIAMS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5 M Jonathan CLARK Birth: 13 May 1688 Northampton, Hampshire, MA. Death: Lebanon, Windham, CT Spouse: Hannah SMALLEY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6 M Thomas CLARK Birth: Apr 1690 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7 M Joseph CLARK Birth: 31 Dec 1691 Death: 10 Sep 1769 Lebanon, CT. Spouse: Rebecca HUNTINGTON (m 20 Jun 1717) ========================================================================================== Prepared 29 Aug 1998 by: Col. Sanford B. Hunt 6506 Oxford Ave Lubbock TX 79413-5129 ========================================================================================== FAMILY NOTES HUSBAND NOTES: William CLARK Capt. General: Capt. Clark came with his parents to Northampton, MA. Beginning with his Dad they had large families and extensively inter-married with the Strong (and later Hunt) families. Capt. Wm. dropped "e'. He bought with Josiah Dewey May 2 1700, of Owanaebo, sachem of the Mohegans, a large tract of wilderness, there called, "The Clark and Dewey Purchase". WIFE NOTES: Hannah STRONG Birth(1): Death(2): General(3): Hannah may have been born in either Windsor or Northampton, MA.,as it was in that year that most of the family removed to Northampton. Dwight says he is "of" Northampton but was a large landholder in Lebanon.---SFAA opinion. Vermont Vital Records, Lebanon Town Hall Vault #1 states Hannah died on the 31st of Jan the date Benoni was born contrary to SAVAGE who says she died 10 days after Benoni's birth. CHILD NOTES: Abigail CLARK CHILD NOTES: Benoni CLARK CHILD NOTES: Hannah CLARK Birth(4): Death(5): General: After Ebenezer died, Hannah married (2) Thomas Bissell on 20 Dec 1743. (In the Wyman corrections, Wyman says Bissell has been given as Loomis elsewhere).i.e. Thomas Loomis (1684-1765) married (2) Hannah Hunt on 20 Dec 1743. Hannah Clark Hunt was the daughter of William Clark of Northampton and Hannah (Strong) Clark Hannah Strong was the daughter of Elder John and Abigail (Ford) Strong. Thomas Loomis first wife was Elisabeth Fowler, whom he married 8 Jan 1712/13, Lebanon VR 1:170. Of the daughters not much is known except for Beulah who m. Jacob Parsons. Beulah's children are accounted for...Both the Strong (Vol. II, p. 1496) and HUNT genealogies (p.177) attribute the second marriage to " Thomas Bissell". (Without explanation).. No account of the Hunt familv would be complete without reference to the closely allied Clark(e) family~of Northamton, Massachusetts and Lebanon, Connecticut. The first of this line was William, who was born in Dorsetshire, England in 1609. Family tradition relates that he sailed from Plymouth England, March 30, 1630, aboard the Mary and John, in the company led by the Reverend Mr. Warham and Mr. Maverick. Having distinguished himself as one of the leading citizens and officials of Dorchester, William moved to Northampton, Massachusetts sometime around 1960. Here he was the first citizen to serve as deputy to the Massachusetts General Court, a position to which he~was elected fourteen times. Among his many other positions of major responsibility, he was elected Lieutenant of the town's "Train. Band" -- the first military organization of the county.. -- which explains the constant reference to him as "Lieutenant William Clarke." In Trumbull's History of Northampton, the author refers to Clarke as follows: "A man of~quiet dignity, self-contained, and a ready resource, he bore a more conspicuous part in the early history of the town than any others who lived here during the first twenty years of its existence." William Clarke, Jr., son of Lieutenant William and his first wife, Sarah(?), was born in Dorchester, Mass., July3, 1656. He married (Northampton, Mass., July 15) 1680, Hannah Strong, dau. of Elder John and Abigail (Ford) Strong, born Northampton, May 30, 1659, died there, ca January 31, 1693/4; (2) Mary Smith, Jan. 31, 1695, who was born in Milford, Conn., March 14, 1662 and died Lebanon, Conn. April 23, 1748.William died in Lebanon May 9, 1725. Early accounts of the settling of Northampton tell us that Lieutenant William Clarke, having himself settled there, persuaded Jonathan Hunt to join the colony..Apparently, the two men were acquaint-in Dorchester and Clarke believed that Hunt would be an asset to the newly-formed town. Clearly, Clark did much to facilitate Hunt's integration into the life of the community, and it is equally clear that the relationship of the two households was destined to strengthen with the passing years. As already noted , Hannah, the eldest of William Clarke, Jr.'s children, born Northampton, May 5, 1681, became the wife of Jonathan's son, Ebenezer, on May 27, 1698. Hannah bore Ebenezer eleven children (if Samuel is counted), eight of which are known to have lived and married. Their progeny settled in abundance in Lebanon North Parish (also known as Lebanon Crank, because of its crank-like configuration), which became the Town of Columbia in 1804, and in the neighmg towns of Bolton, Coventry and Vernon. Here we must digress briefly to note that Ebenezer was not the first Northampton Hunt to settle in Lebanon. His eldest sibling, Thomas, had come to Hartford a short time before the settling of Lebanon and, like William Clarke, Jr., became one of the nine proprietors who formed themselves into a church body. By this action, and by calling and settling a minister, this group made possible the legal establishment of the Town of Lebanon, according to the laws of the Colony of Connecticut. The year was 1700. Of special interest to the Hunt and Clarke descendants is the purchase on Ma%2, 1700, from Owanecho, sachem of the Mohegans, of a large tract of wilderness in Lebanon. This acquisition, kndwn as "The Clark-Dewey Purchase," after William Clarke and Josiah Dewey, who were responsible for the action, included the area destined to become the Town of Columbia in 1804. The official records of early Lebanon reveal that William Clarke,Jr. was destined to achieve prominence in the early governance of Lebanon. He served as Selectman in 1698, 1701 to 1709, 1712, 13, 15, 17, 19, 20, 22 and 23; Town Clerk from 1698 to 1703 and both Town Clerk and Treasurer from 1704 until his death. Noteworthy, also, he was selected as the first Deputy to the General Assembly in May 1705 and represented the town again in 1706 and on fourteen other occasions. He was a member of the Governor's Council in 1719 and 1721 and Speaker of the House in 1723. William was commonly known by his military title. As reported in the colonial records of Connecticut, in referring to the General Assembly, "This Assembly do establish and confirm Mr. William Clark to be Captam ... of the first company or trainband in~the town of Lebanon." Captain Clark served as a Justice of the Peace for the County of New London from 1708 through 1724, and his name appeared regularly as one of tbe justices in the records of the New London County Court. He was judge of the Probate Court, District of Windham, from May 1723 until his death, and in May 1724, he became a member of the committee appointed by the General Assembly to try all cases of eror or equity in the Colony. Although Captain Clarke's name, like that of his father, has been spelled with the "e" in the foregoing paragraphs, it appears that he tended to omit this letter. The shortened form of his name is found in the preponderance of official records, as well as in the epitaph on his' gravestone. A cursory look at the church and vital records of his descendants leads to the conclusion that most of them omitted the "E". Many familial ties occurred between the descendants of Jonathan Hunt and Lieutenant William Clarke.Two examples are given within the scope of this brief outline; namely, the marriage of Jonathan's son Ebenezer and Captain William's daughter Hannah, and --a few generations later -- the marriage of Thaddeus Hunt and Elizabeth Mosely Clark (daughter of Revolutionary War Soldier and Lawyer Joseph Clark of Lebanon, CTand Rochester, NH and Anna Hilton Burleigh of Newrnarket, NH). An apprecib1e amount of information concerning Hunt-Clark-Strong alliances will be found in Benjamin W. Dwights HISTORY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF ELDER JOHN STRONG OF NORTHAMPTON, Volumes I and II, published by Joel Munsell, Albany, NY, 1871. Included is the marriage of Lieutenant Samuel Hunt, Jr. and Esther Strong. Addendum: Earlier in the foregoing notes concerning Lieutenant William Clarke, his arrival in America is attributed to passage aboard the Mary and John, which sailed~ from Plymouth England) March 30, 1630. The authority for this assertion is not known, however, and thus it is subject to question. Those persons wishing to pursue the early history of Northampton and its foremost citizens are referred to the HISTORY OF NORTHAMTON by James Trumbull;' ANTIQUITIES, HISTORICALS AND GRADUATES OF NORTHAAPTON by Reverend Solomon Clark; LT. WILLIAM CLARKE OF NORTHHAMPTON, MASS. AND HIS DESCENDANTS by Edith M. (Clark) Nyman; DESCENDANTS OF ROBERT WATERMAN by Donald Lines Jacobus. The foregoing piece about the CLARKS was furnished by F. H. Hunt of Niantic CT from his genealogy-1997. CHILD NOTES: William CLARK Jr. Birth(6): CHILD NOTES: Jonathan CLARK CHILD NOTES: Thomas CLARK CHILD NOTES: Joseph CLARK Death(7): SOURCES 1. Dwight page 1468./ Ann Hinckley Levy says Hannah b. in Windsor, Hartford CT, d. 11 Feb. 1693 Northampton, Hampshire, MA. 2. First Settlers of New England by Savage states she died 10 days after the birth of Benoni, b. Feb 1, 1693 + 10 is 11 Feb. She probably died in Northampton because Wm. did not go to Lebanon until ca 1700.-. 3. Furnished by Sherburn Barber, Stony Brook LI NY. Dwight, page: 1469. 4. Ann Hinckley Levy/Lebanon Town Records. Ann Hinckley Levy 1992 says 1681. Vital Rec. Lebanon Town Hall Vol i page 40 gives Hannah Clark as b. 05 May 1682. Dwight says 1681.. 5. Furnished by B. Colegrove. Loomis, 1981. 6. While I have no reason not to believe this the source is not established. Received from Marilyn Randall SMDD94A on Prodigy. 11/27/91. Further confirmed by Ann Levy 02/15/92 in unrelated correspondence. PAGE: PRODIGY 11/27/91. 7. Janice K. Clark, Columbia CT., a descendant-date not documented. 031593. _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]