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Capt. Roger, was father of Nehemiah, who died 1681, and of Edward of Sudbury, of Preserved of Northampton, and father-in-law of Elder Blake, of Dorchester, &c.
Thomas Clapp had a son Oliver, born at Hartford July 7, 1718. Hannah Clap, daughter of Nicholas, of Dorchester, m. Ebenezer Strong, of Northampton, Oct. 14, 1668.
Preserved Clap m. Sarah Newbury, daughter of Capt. Benjamin, of Windsor, June 11, 1668. Preserved Clap m. Mehitabel Warner, at Hatfield, 1712-13, (perhaps son of Preserved.) Most of this name in Connecticut are descendants from Preserved Clap, of North- ampton, Mass.
Nicholas Clap, of Dorchester, 1636 ; Thomas, his brother, 1638, removed to Hingham and Scituate, d. 1684. His son Thomas born at Weymouth, 1639. (See Farmer.)
Four by the name of Clap, and two by the name of Clapp, grad-
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uated at Yale College before 1843. Nine by the name of Clap and two spelled Clapp, graduated at Harvard College before 1838.
CLARK, NICHOLAS,* was the first of the name in Connecticut. He was by trade a joiner and carpenter, and in 1635 was sent to Hartford by John Talcot to build him a house, &c., at Hartford, that it might be ready for him when he should go to Hartford. Clark built a part of the house in 1635, and finished it in 1636. (Manu- script of Talcott's son.) To confirm the manuscript, Clark is found at Hartford a first settler, a soldier in the Pequot war in 1637. He drew twelve acres in the first division of land in Hartford in 1639, and thirty-nine acres in the land division in East Hartford, June 12, 1666. He was a defendant in Court Sept. 4, 1643, and in Oct., 1648, was fined twelve pence for not exposing Wm. Vincent for neg- lecting his ward. The Gen. Court in May, 1663, empowered Mr. Toppin, &c., to hear and consider the business respecting " Hamo- nassett," and report ; also the case of the horse in the possession of Nicholas Clark, &c. He left a family of children. His will, dated Jan. 28, 1679, in which he provided for his children, viz .: Thomas,
* The following is extracted from a manuscript journal or scrap book, which was kept by a son of the first John Talcott, of Hartford, which shows the first house built in Hartford in 1635, and that John Talcott moved to Hartford in 1636, and that some English settlers were in Hart- ford in 1635, and that Nicholas Clark was the first English settler there known, viz .:
" The kitchen that now stands on the north side of the house that I live in, that was the first house that my father built in Hartford in Connecticut Colony, and was done by Nicholas Clark the first winter that any Englishmen wrought or built in Hartford. which was in the year 1635.
" My father and mother and his family came to Hartford in the year 1636, and lived first in said kitchen, which was first on the west side of the chimney.
"The great barn was built in the year 1636, and underpind in the year 1637, and was the first barn that was raised in this Colony. The east end of this house that we live in, and was my father Talcott's, deceased, was built with the porch that is in the year 1638. And the chim- neys were built in the year 1638.
" The Cow House on the north side of the Cow yard, now part improved for a Corn House was finished and built in the year 1640.
"The house and barn that was in partnership between my father and my uncle Wadsworth at Farmington, was finished in the year 1642.
"The Hay Barn, standing on the north end of the great Barn next Capt. Allyn's Garden was built in the year 1644.
"The west end of that house we live in which was belonging to my honoured deceased father Talcott, was built in the year 1645.
" My uncle, Mr. Mott, sold my Hond father Talcott his house that he lived in in Brantry, in Old England, (y order) [something I can not decipher or understand,] in the year 1644. My father Talcott then living in this House in Hartford." (Furnished by a descendant.)
This kitchen stood upon a part of the ground where Dr. Bushnell's church now stands in Hartford.
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son-in-law Alexander Douglass, son-in-law Lester, of New London ; noticed his grandson Daniel, son of his son Thomas ; also, Joseph, Thomas, Jun., sons of his son Thomas, who was sole executor of his will, on which he made his mark. His will proved at Hartford, Dec. 2, 1680. Inventory, £243, 2s. Nicholas Clark, aged 31, was a passenger in the Paule, of London, Leonard Betts, master, bound for Virginia July 6, 1635. ( Somerby.)
CLARKE, JOSEPH, of Windsor, Conn., was an early settler at Windsor. His son Joseph and daughter Mary were bap. at Windsor, Sept. 30, 1638. Joseph Clark died at Windsor in 1641. His wife died in 1639. His sister died at Windsor in 1640 ; anoth- er Joseph died there in 1659.
CLARK, JOSEPH, of Saybrook, made his will at Milford, Aug. 27, 1658, being bound for a voyage to the West Indies. He gave his father Clark £15, to purchase a servant. He gave his brother John his clothes he left at home, and his cloak, left at Milford, for the use of said John's eldest son. He gave his brother Pratt's son Samuel, £5. His brother Huntington's dau'r Sarah, £5; to Mr. (Rev.) Fitch, £4. He desired his father Clark to take care of his wife, and gave her his house and land if he never returned. In- ventory taken Aug. 27, 1663, 143, 19s. 6d. Will and inventory accepted by the court, Oct. 14, 1663. John Clark, Sen., and Joseph Peck, adm'rs. There was a Joseph Clark died in 1659.
CLARK, JOHN and JAMES, were original settlers of New Ha- ven, and signed the fundamental agreement there in 1639, with 107 other settlers. John had a family of three persons, and an estate of £240 at N. H. in 1643. A John Clark of New Haven m. Sarah Smith, Feb. 1, 1661, and had children b. at N. H., Sarah, b. Dec. 24, 1662 ; John, b. Nov. 23, 1663 ; Samuel, b. Aug. 20, 1666 ; Jo- seph, b. Oct. 27, 1668 ; second Sarah, b. Oct. 21, 1671. Sarah, wife of John, died July 25, 1674; and a dau'r died Sept. 22, 1675.
CLARK, JAMES, an original settler at New Haven as above, m. Widow Wakefield, Oct. 17, 1661, probably his second wife, as he had Ebenezer, b. Nov. 29, 1651, and had a family of four per- sons in N. H. in 1643, and £50 estate.
CLARK, SAMUEL, of New Haven, had a dau'r Rebecca, died Dec. 29, 1696. Samuel's wife Hannah d. Dec. 21, 1708. Joseph, son of Joseph Clark, of N. H., d. July 17, 1711, and Lidiah, his dau'r, died at N. H. April 18, 1712, and Mr. John Clark died there March 22, 1718-19. Samuel Clark m. Hanna Tuttle, of New Ha- ven, Nov. 7, 1672. John Clarke m. Mary Walker, May 28, 1675.
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Joseph Clark m. Elizabeth Lane, May, 1693. Stephen Clark m. Sarah Hill, Nov. 26, 1702. Joseph Clarke, of New Haven, m. Ma- rah Parker, of Wallingford, Nov. 27, 1707. The last above are the New Haven Clarks; but as few births are found on the N. H. rec- ords, of births previous to 1649-50, it is difficult to trace their rela- tion or family connexion. John and James were freemen in New Haven in 1669.
CLARKE, JOSEPH, and Bray Clark were grantees of land at Dorchester, Mass., before Jan., 1636. (Hist. Dorchester.) Also John Goite or Goyt, now spelled Coit.
CLARK, MR. DANIELL, of Windsor, was early at Windsor. He was by profession a lawyer. He m. Mary Newbury, of Wind- sor, June 15, 1644, and had children born at Windsor, viz .:
1. Mary, b. April 24, 1645.
2. Josias, b. Jan. 21, 1648.
3. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 28, 1651.
4. Daniell, b. Aug. 4, 1654.
5. John, b. April 10, 1656.
6. Mary, b. Sept. 22 or 8, 1658.
7. Samuell, b. July 6, 1661.
8. Sara, b. Aug. 7, 1663.
9. Hanna, b. Aug. 29, 1665 ; died.
10. Nathaniel, b. Sept. 8, 1666.
Mr. Clark became one of the leading men of Connecticut, before and after the union 'of the two colonies. He was often placed upon important committees by the Gen. Court. He was a magistrate and frequently a member of both branches of the Gen. Assembly, and secretary of state or of the colony several years. In 1644, David Wilton with Daniell Clark, were executors of the will of Rev. Eph'm Huit, dec'd, of Windsor. In 1646, acted as a juror. In 1656, one of a committee to give safe advice to the Indians. Same year ap- pointed to write letters to the elders in the Bay, and the former coun- cil, regarding the difficulty in the Church at Hartford. In 1657, was appointed by the Gen. Court to write to the magistrates of South- ampton, to inform them of the mind of the commissioners, and anoth- er letter to the Indians. In 1657-8, appointed lieut. of the first troop of horse raised in the colony. Aug. 18, 1658, was sworn " according to ye forme of the Secretaries oath approved by this court, and or- dered to be recorded." Oct. 3, 1661, " Sec' Dan" Clark" was ordered to be put to election for a magistrate. March 13, 1662, four hundred acres of land were granted vnto ye Secry, Daniel Clarke, and John Moor, eighty acres of it to be meadow ; also land at " Ha-
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manaset," July 22, 1662. May session of the Gen. Assembly, 1663, Wm. Edwards, of Hartford, " chargeth Mr. Daniell Clark, for breach of his oath, unfaithfullnesse in ye great trust committed to him by the freemen of this corporation, to the dishonour of God, infringment of ye royall prerogatiue of our Soueraign Lord the King, contempt of ye authority cstablished in this corporation, and abuse of the mem- bers of ye same, &c. The Gen. Court, on the complaint of Mr. Edwards, found Mr. Clark "so far falty," and removed him from the office of secretary " until the next election court." May 12, 1664, the Gen. Court confirmed Mr. Daniel Clark, Captain of the troop. Oct. 13, 1664, Mr. Daniell Clark refused to take the place of an assistant, and Mr. James Richards was chosen assistant. May, 1666, Mr. Clark was appointed clerk of the county court at Hart- ford. July 26, 1666, Capt. Daniel Clark was appointed on a com- mittee by the Gen. Court, with Gov. Winthrop, Mr. Mathew Allyn, Mr. Samuel Willys, Capt. Talcot, Mr. Henry Wolcott, Lieut. John Allyn, Capt. Nubery, Mr. Wadsworth, Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Fitch. In case there was danger of invasion by the approach of an enemy, and it appeared necessary to send force to oppose them, before the Gen. Assembly could convene, such committee was impowered to order the militia, and to commission officers how to act and to pre- vent the designs of the enemy, &c. May 11, 1676, Capt. Daniel Clark was appointed by the Gen. Court, with the governor and deputy gov- ernor and assistants, with Capt. Benj. Newbury, in his absence, Capt. Daniel Clark, Mr. Richard Lord, Mr. John Wadsworth, Mr. Sam- uel Tallcott, Mr. Jehu Burr and Mr. John Bankes, for a standing council, to order, manage and dispose of all such affairs as should be necessarily attended in the interval of the sessions of the Gen. Court ; impowered to act on all such occasions, and their acts or any three of them should be in as full force as if acted or determined by the Gen. Court, the governor or deputy-governor being one of the three. (See Col. Rec.)
Mr. Clarke and Mr. Allyn, of Windsor, in 1658, were voted " to put to sale the town barn in Windsor." He was at Windsor as early as 1641. He joined the church at Windsor in June, 1643. (Row- land.) He, in behalf of the church of Windsor, complained of Ja's Eno and Michael Humphrey, for the violation of an established law of the colony, and withdrew it in 1663. He was confirmed captain of the troop in May, 1664. He, with Mr. Allin, Mr. Steel, Mr. Lord, Mr. Wadsworth, Mr. Hollister, John Deming and Robert Web- ster, were appointed, with the magistrates, a committee, by the Gen.
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Court, Feb. 26, 1656, to give their best advice to the Indians, if they agree to meet, and being met, crave the same of them. March 26, 1656, the Gen. Court ordered Mr. Wolcott to assist Mr. Clark as to all defects of training in Windsor, as far as two magistrates had power. In May, 1655, Mr. Clarke, the gov'r and dep. gov'r, were appointed by the Gen. Court to hold a court at Fairfield or Stratford. In Oct., 1663, Mr. Mathew Allyn, Capt. Ta[lcott,] Lieut. Clark, were appointed by the Gen. Court, a committee to treat with the gentleman who had come from M[anhatoes] on the controversy be- tween the corporation and the Dutch at Manhatoes, &c. (Col. Rec.) He was recorder in May, 1658. In 1662, he was chosen as a re- serve as commissioner. Hon. Worshipful Daniel Clarke made his will Aug. 31, 1709, and a codicil in July, 1710. He notices his wife and children, Elizabeth, Mary, Sarah, John, Samuel, Daniel and Josia. His son John and son-in-law Roger Wolcott, Ex's, &c. Will proved April 8, 1710.
Capt. Daniell Clark lost his first wife, and m. second, Widow Martha Wolcott, who had been the wife of Simon Wolcott, son of Henry, Sen. She m. him Oct. 17, 1661, and Simon d. Sept. 11, 1687. She was a sister of Hon. Wm. Pitkin, of Hartford. She survived Mr. Clark. His son, Nath'l Clark, about to enter the ser- vice of his country in 1690, made his will, and gave his property to his brothers and sisters. He was propounded in Windsor for a magistrate in 1649. (See Col. Rec., Windsor Rec. ) Robert and Ja's Clark, Nicholas and Thomas, of Hartford, Hon. Daniel, of Windsor, John, of Farmington, John, of Saybrook, John and James, of New Haven, Mr. John, George, Sen., George, Jun., and Thomas Clark, of Milford, were freemen in their respective towns in 1669.
CLARK, DANIEL, JUN., son of Hon. Daniel Clark, of Wind- sor, at a meeting of the council in Hartford, March 10, 1675-6, was convicted for notorious, reproachful, contemptuous speeches, and threatening Mayor Treat ; fined him £20, and committed him to prison during the pleasure of the council. And at a meeting of the council, Jan. 2, 1676(7,) Capt. Daniel Clark appeared and requested " that his son's fine" might be remitted, and stated it would be a great en- couragement for him to settle " here," in the improvement of his trade and art, for the benefit of the country, &c, Mayor Treat also interceded for him, and stated Daniel's confession, reformation, &c. The council remitted the fine, expecting his return and settlement in attendance of his art and trade. (See Meeting of the Council, Jan. 2, 1676, and March 10, 1675-6.)
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CLARK, WM., of Wethersfield, m. Susannah -, and had Mary, b. June 18, 1669 ; Susannah, b. Dec. 25, 1671 ; Wm., b. Jan. 29, 1673 ; Matthias, b. Feb. 9, 1677; Elizabeth, b. Aug. 28, 1679. His wife died, and he m. Margaret -- , and had Abigail, b. Feb. 4, 1707 ; William, was drowned April 8, 1708, aged about 33 years. The father died Dec., 1711.
CLARK, THOMAS, of Wethersfield, m. Dorothy, daughter of Stephen Hurlbut, Dec. 9, 1710, and had Phebe, b. Aug. 25, 1711, died 1712 ; Wm., b. June 19, 1713 ; Martin, b. May 9, 1715; Elisha, b. March 23, 1718 ; second Phebe, b. Jan. 27, 1720 ; Han- nah, b. Jan. 23, 1722 ; Mary, b. June 9, 1724; Thomas, b. Sept. 25, 1728. The father died April 3, 1767.
CLARK, THOMAS, JUN., of Wethersfield, m. Lois Brooks, June 17, 1756, and had Martin, b. July 20, 1757, d. 1762. Roger, b. Dec. 1, 1759; Wm., b. May 30, 1762; Rufus, b. Sept. 2, 1764 ; George, b. Dec. 1, 1766, d. 1775 ; Moses, b. Jan. 4, 1769 ; Mary, b. Feb. 15-17, 1771; Olive, b. Oct. 23, 1774; George, b. Jan., 1778.
The Clarks, of Wethersfield, might have been from some other town in the colony. There was a Thomas Clark, freeman in Hart. ford in 1669. There was also "Thomas Clerk," freeman at Mil- ford, 1669.
Clarke, Mr. John, George, Sen. and Jun., and Thomas, were all freemen in Milford in 1669. (Spelled Clarke, Clerke.)
CLARK, GEORGE, SEN., called the farmer, was one of the first planters of Milford, and in the list of free planters in Nov., 1639, and died there in 1690, one of its most respectable citizens. His wife Sarah also died there, July 19, 1689. Farmer George Clark was taxed there in 1686 on £156, 16s. Deacon George Clark taxed there on £173, same year, and George, Jun., taxed on £131, and Samuel taxed on £140, and Mr. Thomas Clark, same year, taxed at Milford on £246. George and George, Jun., Nicholas Camp, Hen- ry Botsford, Nath'l Brisco and others, in 1640, before the town was named Milford, were made free planters of the town, with liberty to vote for public officers, to carry on public affairs in the plantation. George, Sen. and Jun., were original proprietors of Milford in 1639. George Clark was often a deputy to the Gen. Court of Connecticut and New Haven. To Gen. Court of Connecticut, April, 1665, May, '66, Oct., '68. Deacon George, 1669; George, Oct., '69, May, '72, '74, '75, Oct., '75, absent. Deacon George, 1676, and other sessions. George, the farmer, deeded land to Vincent Stilson, of
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Milford, April 7, 1685. Samuel and George Clark, commissioners for Milford, May, 1669.
CLARK, GEORGE, JUN., an original proprietor and settler at Milford with George, Sen. He was by trade a carpenter. His wife was Mary, who died in 1689. Their children were Abigail, b. Jan. 9, 1653-4 ; Thomas. His daughter Hester died Oct. 19, 1661, and others. George, Jun., purchased ten acres of land at Mill Neck of Jasper Gunn, in 1647. Mr. Thomas Clark, (son of George, Sen.,) of Milford, Ensign George Clark, Col. Robert and Ensign Joseph Treat, &c., received an Indian deed of the town of Wiantinoque, (New Milford,) from Papetopo, Wempetoo and other Indians, in consideration of £60, current money, £20 in goods, at money prices, in behalf of the Milford purchasers, signed Feb. 8, 1702-3, by four- teen Indians, and witnessed by John Minor, (Interpreter, allowed by " bothe ye English and ye Indians,") and by John Durand and two Indians. Recorded by Richard Bryan, Register, Feb. 10, 1702-3, at Milford. George, the carpenter, died in 1690. The Clarks, of Milford, were of the best families of Milford ; some branch of this family settled at Washington and New Milford.
CLARK, DANIEL, of Milford, was ordered to have a house-lot next to Thomas Camfield's, in 1648, in Milford.
CLARK, DEACON JOHN, of Milford, represented Milford in the Gen. Court of Conn., in Oct., 1676, &c. He with Tho's Welch, were impowered to hold a court at Milford, 1665, with the assistant in Milford. He was a commissioner for Milford in 1666.
CLARK, MR. THOMAS, son of George, Sen., of Milford, m. Hannah Gilbert, dau'r of Wm., of New Haven, then deceased, May 20, 1663.
CLARK, WM., a servant of Mr. John Crow, was fined forty shil- lings, and corporal punishment, for drinking-the corporal punish- ment remitted upon his promise of care for the future to avoid " such occation's," Jan. 3, 1639. Wm. Clark forfeited his recognizance in court, of £10, in May, 1649, at Hartford. He resided in Hartford in 1659, and quite reduced in property.
CLARK, WM., was an original first settler of Haddam. The inventory of his estate, he being deceased, was in court at Hartford, Sept. 3, 1681, £412, 18s. He left issue, Thomas, William, John, Joseph, and dau'rs Jennor, Spencer, Hannah, and an adopted son or son-in-law, Daniel Hubbard. His son Thomas sole ex'r ; a very reputable family.
CLARK, WM., owned a tract of swamp land in Hartford, in 1642 ;
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also had land there in 1660 ; perhaps the same who settled at Had- dam.
CLARK, WM., was brought before the Gen. Court, and they con- sidered the low estate of his family ; Nov., 1659, ordered that the fine imposed upon him for trading liquors contrary to law, should be to the public treasury, 40s. per year for four years. He was in court again in 1660, and the Gen. Court, May, 1661, remitted £4 of the £8 fine before inflicted upon him. Probably the Wm. above, servant of John Crow.
CLARK, WM., of Colchester, (his father not found,) probably m. a Parsons. Had children born in Colchester, viz .: Russell, bap. 1749, was a merchant in New Haven, where he died in old age, and left Content and other children ; William, Jun., bap. 1750, settled and died at New Milford; Parsons, bap. 1752, lived at Derby and New Haven; John, bap. 1753 ; Mary Parsons, bap. Nov., 1758; Ransom, bap. 1759, supposed lived in New Haven. Parnel, bap. Sept., 1762.
CLARK, WM., son of Wm., of Colchester, settled at New Mil- ford, Conn., where he m. Miss Bostwick, a sister of the father of Charles Bostwick, dec'd, of New Haven, and had children, viz .:
1. Walter, d. in early life, unmarried, aged about 28 years.
2. Sally, who m. Gerardus or Garry Booth, of New Milford, and had chil- dren. She is yet living ; her husband deceased.
3. William, d. a young man, unmarried.
4. Parsons, formerly a merchant in New York, now resides in N. Milford, where he has a family.
5. Gerardus, graduated at Yale College in 1804, with John C. Calhoun, Dr. Chester, Henry R. Storrs, and others of that noted class. He settled in the city of New York as a lawyer, in early life, soon after he graduated, where he sus- tains a good reputation in his profession, and where he married, and now has a family.
6. Heneretta, the youngest child of William, of New Milford, m. Maj. Beebee Hine, then of New Milford, now of New Haven ; a most excellent and accom- plished lady ; no issue.
CLARK, JAMES, was an early settler at Stafford, Conn.
CLARK, NATH'L, son of Hon. Daniel, of Windsor, in 1690, en- tered the service against the Indians, and before leaving his friends, he made his will, and gave his property to his brothers and sisters.
CLARK, WM. At a meeting of the townsmen of Windsor, the above Wm. " was appointed to sitt in the great pew" in the meeting- house, May 5, 1651.
CLARK, JOSEPH, of West Hartford, had issue, bap. there, viz .: Abijah, May 4, 1729 ; Mary, Aug. 15, 1731 ; Sarah, Oct. 8, 1749.
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CLARK, MARY, of Farmington, was a sister of John Ward, of Newark, N. J. She had lived at Milford, and removed to Farming- ton, where she died. Her will, dated at Farmington, Nov. 28, 1677. She notices in her will her dau'r Mary Stevens, dau'r Re- beccah Warner, dau'r " Chittington," son-in-law Elnathan " Boch- ford," granddaughter Elizabeth Bochford, grandchild Rebecca Ste- vens, grandchild Mary Warner ; also, Abigail Standly ; also, Eliz'h Chittingdon ; also, Eliz'th Standley ; her son-in-law, John Standly, and Sarah, his wife ; her dau'r, Abigail Fletcher, and four other daughters, Rebeccah, Mary, Sarah and Hannah. She also notices the Rev. pastor, Mr. Roger Newton, and her brother, John Warde, of Newark, N. J. Nath'l Farrand had leased her land in Milford, or a part of it, which she provided for, and appointed her dau'r, Ab- igail Fletcher, sole ex'x; made her mark. Inventory of Mary Clark's estate, " sometime living in Milford, deceased, prized by vs," &c., Feb. 26, 1678, at " Milford," £273, 5s. 6d. Inventory at Farmington, Feb. 14, 1678, £32, 16s. She appears to have been twice married. Will proved 1678-9, at Hartford.
CLARK, DAVID, of Sheffield, Mass., m. Mercy Adams, of Suf. field, Ct., 1735-6.
CLARK, NATH'L, of Lyme, in 1726, (says Otis,) was a grand- son of Thomas Clark, of Plymouth, mate of the Mayflower.
CLARK, ROBERT, settled in Stratford about 1652, and free there, 1669.
CLARK, JOSEPH, will dated 1655; died same year.
CLARK, HON. HENRY, of Windsor, was an early, active and useful settler there. He was a juror at Hartford, 1641, '45 ; grand- juror in 1643, '45 and '47 ; deputy to the Gen. Court in April, 1642, March, 1643 ; a member of the court of magistrates in May, 1659, four sessions in 1660 and in May, 1661. He was one of the grantees of the old charter of Connecticut in 1662, named in it by King Cha's ; also, deputy, Aug., 1642, Sept., '44, Nov., '44. Henry Clark, with Mr. Whiting, Capt. Mason and Mr. Phen, were desired by the court, Jan., 1641, to procure some pieces of ordnance from Pisquataqua, or elsewhere, and erect some fortifications, where they thought ad- visable. (Col. Rec.) Mr. Henry Clark, and the secretary, (of Conn.,) Mr. Allyn and Mr. Phelps, were appointed by the Gen. Court, Aug. 18, 1658, " to write and indite" letters in behalf of the court to the elders, &c., to come to Hartford and assist in settling the difficulties between the church and the withdrawers at Hartford. 1 At the same Gen. Court, Mr. Matthew Allyn was appointed a com-
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mittee with Mr. Henry Clark, of Windsor, to act in the disposition of land at Massacoe, according to a previous order. He was an as- sistant, deputy, and magistrate in the colony of Conn., and one of the few important petitioners to the king for the charter of Connecticut, and one of the grantees named in said charter in 1662, and lived to act under the charter as an assistant, and otherwise serve the pub- lic. Mr. Clark was one of the two important and useful settlers of Windsor by the name of Clark. No person, it appears, was allow- ed to sign the petition to Charles II. for the charter, but the well- known and most influential men in the colony ; and of the nineteen signers to that instrument, Henry Clark, Daniell Clarke and John Clarke, were signers and grantees named in the charter, in behalf of the people of Connecticut, (spelled Clerke,) which effectually proves the high standing of the name in the colony, in its early settlement.
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