Notes for Peter Imlay CLARK

Sponsored by American History Press.

Americanhistorypress.com

"Keeping American history alive, one good book at a time!"

Notes for Peter Imlay CLARK

See 1850 New Jersey > Hunterdon > Raritan
Name: Peter T Clark
Age: 59
Estimated birth year: abt 1791
Birth Place: New Jersey
Gender: Male
Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Raritan, Hunterdon, New Jersey
Family Number: 489
Household Members:
Name Age
Caroline J Slone 38
Robert J Slone 13
Mary E Slone 11
Anna B Slone 9
William H Slone 7
Margaret J Slone 5
Charles W Slone 1
Edith Monroe 47
Peter T Clark 59
Cynthia R Clark 50
Mary Ann Williams 22
Laura Williams 2
*****
See 1860 New Jersey > Hunterdon > Flemington
*****
This needs investigating at Rutgers University Library, Special Collections:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Personal Author: Clark family.
Title: Papers, 1776-1931 (bulk 1785-1895).
Physical descrip: 118 items (7 folders).
Summary: Papers of various Clark family members.
Summary: Papers, 1785-1811, of the Rev. Joseph Clark number eleven items, among which are: a letter, 1785, calling Clark to be pastor of the Allentown Presbyterian Church (where he was already the supply pastor); excerpts (covering selected events in
1788 and 1790-1796) from the session minutes of the Allentown church; a bill of sale, 1791, for a slave named Rose (tranferred to Clark's wife by her father Peter Imlay of Monmouth County); a bill of sale, 1798, for a slave named Jack; a deed, 1800,
for property in New Brunswick; and two letters, 1811, received from his son J.F. Clark while the latter attended "Divinity College" in Andover, Massachusetts.
Summary: John F. Clark is represented by a single sermon ("A Sermon delivered at Flemington on the Fourth of July 1827 in behalf of the American Colonization Society") which is attributed to him.
Summary: Papers of Peter I. Clark number 33 items. Among them are: receipts, 1848 and 1858, for membership in the New Jersey Historical Society; letters from his brothers John F. Clark (in 1851) and William P. Clark (in 1854); letters, 1857, sent by
Clark to his wife while visiting Belvidere during the final illness of his brother "Paterson"; political writings (notes for campaign speeches?) from the late 1850s; and letters from Charles D. Deshler (in 1856) and James Bishop and others (in 1859)
concerning state politics (including references to consideration of Clark as a gubernatorial candidate by the American Party).
Summary: Among 25 items comprising the papers, 1826-1857, of William P. Clark are: an 1826 legal agreement to which Clark is a party as the agent of Garret D. Wall; an account, 1829-1832, of expenses relating to a property (probably a flour mill)
which Clark purchased with John M. Sherrerd (who was a brother of Clark's sister-in-law); a lease, 1837, for a mill in Hunterdon County owned by Clark and Sherrerd; letters, 1846, concerning Clark's spiritual life (received from a Rev. James Clark);
and letters, 1856-1857, received from Peter I. Clark.
***
Sinclair - Hun 18-18; NJC 638; Sne 211
Hun = Hunterdon Co. Bible Society, Memorial of the Jubilee, NY, 1867
NJC = NJ Constitional Convention, 1844; Proceedings (compiled by the NJ Writer's Project 1942)
Sne = Hist. of Hunterdon & SOmerset Cos. by JAmes P. Snell.
***
The following powerful address on the subject of Temperance by Peter I Clark Esq of Flemington was delivered before a crowded audience in the Presbyterian church of Allentown NJ on the 4th July last and is now published by request of the people of that
his native place ...
*****
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1863 Paper: Camden Democrat (Camden, NJ) Page: 2
"Col. Peter I. Clark, of Flemington, NJ, died at New Hartford, NY on 26th ult., in the 73rd year of his age. He was long a prominent influential man in this State, and was the able representative of old Hunterdon County in the Legislative Council, and
in the Constitutional Convention."
*****
Of Flemington, New Jersey.
Elder/trustee of Presbyterian Church in Flemington. His brother was pastor of
the church.
See: http://www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org/ledger/students/628
[accessed 11/2012]
Dates of B/D on granite monument.

| HOME | SURNAMES |

Sponsored by American History Press.

Americanhistorypress.com

"Keeping American history alive, one good book at a time!"