Notes for David CLARK

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Notes for David CLARK

David Clark "of Rahway" has note stolen...[see NJJ 18 June 1783]
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Advertisement from the "Jersey Journal" 13 March 1804:
"To be sold at Public Auction, on Tuesday the 10th day of March next, on the premises, a small Plantation, containing about 30 cares, late the property of David Clark, deceased, situate three miles from Elizabeth - Town, on the country road, leading to
Woodbridge, near the Wheatsheaf Tavern.- There are on said land a Dwelling-House and Barn, with a Well of excellent water near the door; also a considerable growth of Young Wood and two Apple Orchards, that bears alternately every year, producing Fruit
of an excellent quality, perhaps not inferior for cider, to any in this state. - The land is of an excellent quality for Meadow, Grazing or Tillage, and has a never-failing stream of water running through it. - As the money is not wanted, the payment
will be made only to the purchaser. - Vendue to begin at one o'clock, P.M. of said day.
EPHRAIM CLARK
JAMES M. CLARK Executors
Rahway, Feb. 27, 1804
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David Clark made his will 3 November 1802. Wife Elizabeth, son James M. Clark, father Joseph Clark, Fanny [wife of Robert Harrison], fours sons executors. Witnesses Abby Terrill, David S. Craig, Jonathan Dayton [Will 10113G, Essex County, New Jersey]
Charles H. Hughes and John Marsh conducted an extensive inventory of the estate of David Clark.
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C.C. Gardner shows him as a son of Joseph Clark. True. See David's will.
Clark & Allied Family Ancestors, Field, 1971 (N.J.St.Lib.)
"He was a warm Whig, and his property was sacrificed, and his life brought
into jeopardy often, in consequence of his patriotic exertions." - from
The Complete Works of Rev. Daniel A. Clark" [his son], page 2.
David was a Private, 2nd Regiment, Essex County, NJ in Revolutionary War.

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