This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hAC.2ACE/1087.1 Message Board Post: My records show Dorothy clack, b 24 Aug 1714, Ware Parish, Glocester, Virginia, d May 1797 (presumably there) md Gwyn Reade, d 1762, Gloucester, Virginia with whom she resided in Kingston Parish, which later became Mathews County, Virginia. They produced Jane Reade, b 1744, who md Thomas Jones. Gwyn Reade is the grandson of Colonel George Reade, ancestor of George Washington - per Mrs. Lucille Gibson Pleasants, 1186 Crenshaw Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA ph ORegon6254 notes in the William and Mary Swen Library Archives, Williamsburg, VA. (Mss.39.4 G29 Clack Family Genealogical Notes). Dorothy Clack is a daughter (5th child) of the Reverand James Clack and his wife Jane, b abt 1680, Ware, Gloucester, Virginia. James was b. 1655, Marden, Wiltshire, England. Info: By computation from Tombstone: Rev James CLACK left England 18 Aug 1678,arrived in VA 01 Jan 1679. Served as rector of Ware Parish in Gloucester 1679-1723. >From THE WORLD OF WARE PARISH by Spotswood Hunnicutt Jones (The Dietz Press, Richmond, VA: His Clack ancestry dates back to the Vikings and it is believed a Viking invasion around A.D. 634 brought the family to England. His mother was a Spencer, a family whose lineage includes all the Saxon, Norman, Plantaganet and Tudor kings of Britain, all the Scottish kings, and French kings back to Charlemagne and beyond. He matriculated at Magdalen Colege, Oxford University on December 12, 1671 at the age of sixteen and it was from there he received the B.A. degree. He also received seminary schooling, for on September 29, 1675 he was ordained a minister of the Established Church of England, at Salisbury Cathedral. Shortly afterwards, he married Mary Rivers, who died early and without issue. (See FOOTPRINTS by Robert G. Lowrey, p.204 and Family history of the Clack and related families and William G. Stanard's "Thornton Family Genealogy" WMQ(1),4:158). He left England in August,! ! 1678, arriving in Virginia on New Year's Day in 1679. At Easter he came to Ware Church as rector, a position he held for forty-five years, until his death. His uncle was Nicholas Spencer, living in Virginia at "Nominy" in Westmoreland County. An older brother, Nicholas Clack, was also in Virginia. There is uncertainty as to the identity of his wife, Jane, who he married after he became rector of Ware Church. A family tradition persists that she was a descendant of Pocahontas, through the Bolling family, but a lack of historical documentation makes this tradition suspect. It seems more likely that Clack married into one of the prominent families of Gloucester such as Willis, Whiting or Sterling. 1. Kinfolks, Vol. 3 p 2754-8, 2763 2 Family Chronicles p 602, 609-12 3. Marr recs of Alton Barnes, Wilts., Eng.