Notes for Joseph CLARK

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Notes for Joseph CLARK

No spouse mentioned in his Will.
Will of Joseph Clark of Borough of Elizabeth, Essex Co., New Jersey, dated 21 Dec 1778, proved 14 Nov 1786 - Liber 28, pg. 299, file 6324G - 6327G.
Bequest to grandson John Mercereau Clark, son of my eldest son, Joseph Clark deceased.
Bequest to grandson, Joseph Clark.
Bequest to grandson, James Clark.
Bequest to granddaughter, Susannah Hatfield.
Bequest to grandaughter, Sarah Insly.
Bequest to son, David Clark, who is also named Executor.
Witnesses Ephraim Terrill, Amos Terrill, Jeremiah Clark.
C.C.Gardner, page 51: He was probably the Joseph Clark who sued John Force in the Essex County Court 1740. He lived in or near Rahway, and is said to have been aged 80 in 1776. . . . It was probably this Joseph Clark who was buried at E.T.
Nov. 17, 1779. See Sexton's Book of Elizabethtown.
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Very likely the Joseph Clark who lived near the Wheatsheaf Tavern in what is now Linden, New Jersey. In the "Map of Linden, showing property holdings of original settlers" his land is identified as lying next to that of Jonas Wood, at the intersection
of the Old Post Road [now St. George Avenue] and Wheatsheaf Road [Images of America - Linden, New Jersey, complied by Lauren Pancusak Yeats, 1997 ISBN 0-7524-0869-0, page 4]

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