Notes for Stephen Hopkins CLARKE

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Notes for Stephen Hopkins CLARKE

After his father's death Stephen moved to Providence with his mother and presumably lived in his grandfather's house. The "Providence Gazette" reported his fate in the edition of Saturday, 23 January 1796:
"Since out last arrived the Ship Charlotte, Captain Almy, from Falmouth (England) after a long Passage. One of her Hands, Mr. Stephen Hopkins Clark, a promising Youth, in his 17th Year (Son of the late Dr. John Clark) was washed overboard in a Gale of Wind, and unfortunately drowned". His death was also mentioned in The New Jersey Journal of 3 February 1796.
Stephen was buried in the Esek Hopkins Burial Ground (later removed to the North Providence Cemetery) where his epitaph read " Engulphed in Ocean - buried in the wave, No friendly hand could rescue or could save..." books.google.com states that the epitaph starts "This frail monument is erected as a memorial of STEPHEN HOPKINS CLARKE, son of doctor John Clarke and Amey, his wife, who died at sea, on the 2 day of ..." From "A Collection of American Epitaphs and Inscriptions: With Occasional Notes... " by Timothy Alden...1800's? Arno Press pub. a reprint]. The N.E. Historic and Gene. Register also mentions his death [1946], possibly in Florida?

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