Notes for James CLARK

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Notes for James CLARK

Charles Carroll Gardner, page 65: "James 3 Clark, son of Thomas and Hannah Clark, was born 1708. He moved out to Connecticut Farms, and is buried there in the old cemetery beside the church there. His first wife was Mary ---, born about 1713, who
died Feb. 12, 1772. He md. 2. Anna, who was living in 1796. The will of James Clark, of Essex County yeoman, dated Apr. 7, 1796 and probated Dec. 6, 1796, names wife Anna. To son [pg.67] Noah he gave 300 acres adjoining where he lives, and other
lands, to son John "my homestead plantation bounded e. by Rahway River; s. by land given to Robert French by his father, and by land formerly John Stites, n. by Phillip Denman, w. by road." To daughters Phebe Marsh, and Mary Meeker, he gave 100 Ł
each. He provided that his grandson James Clark (son of son John) was to have the homestead at his father's death, and that on his (James's) decease, it was to go to his eldest son. The will also mentions a grand daughter, Mary Willis, perhaps a
married daughter of one of the testators daughters. James Clark died Dec. 1, 1796. In 1740 he and Jotham Clark and several other Conn. Farms men were witnesses in case of Thomas Bayley, vs. Henry Baker, in the Essex County Court. On 13 Sept. 1726,
James Hamton, gave to his "son-in-law" (step-son?) James Clark, a tract of land on the west side of Rahway River at the mouth of Pope's Brook. The will of James 3 Clark names grandsons Benjamin and James Marsh, likely the sons of deceased daughter
Sarah [Clark] Marsh, or of daughter Phebe."
[will listed under "Clarke" at NJSA]]
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Orphan's Court, Essex County, NJ, Book A, p. 194 refers to an apparent action of Samuel Meeker and Mary Meeker, his wife, against Noah Clark and John Clark, executors of the will of James Clark. Also see pp. 198, 200, 205-06, 213, and 217-18 regarding
this case. In summary, the executors came up short on cash after the estate was settled, but were allowed 100 pounds [$250] credit for the sale of a Negro man, leaving a balance due to Mary Meeker to be paid in 20 pound annual installments. At the time
Mary Meeker was living with her son.
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From Ann Clark Hart's biography of Abraham Clark:
In the year 1726, there was recorded in Essex
County a conveyance of about fifty acres of land from
James Hampton to James Clark of Elizabethtown :
In consideration of love good-will and affection towards my
son-in-law James Clark of Elizabethtown, yeoman, on ye west
side of Rahway river beginning at ye mouth of a brook called
Paper Brook, thenee north up said river as ye river runs, 10
chains; thenee west 50 chains; thenee south 10 chainsj thenee
50 chains, to mouth of said brook; bounded east by said river, north
by land of said Hampton, west by Silas Pearce; on south,
part by said brook and part by high-way. Acknowledged May
17, 1731. (Book B, page 171.)
[This James Clark seems young to have acquired such land]
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Connecticut Farms is now Union, New Jersey.

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