Notes for Benjamin CLARKE

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Notes for Benjamin CLARKE

Gardner says "No true record of desc. yet discovered."
Genealogical Collections, Charles Carroll Gardner, Vol. 29, CLARK.
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There are a number of documents in library files which indicate possible descendants
of Benjamin Clarke. But we have not seen any documentation linking families
to this Benjamin, son of Richard Clarke. It should also be noted that there
were other Clark families, unrelated to Richard Clarke, who were contemporary.
See, for example, "Notes on the Ancestry of Ann Clarke Who Married John Cooper" compiled by William A. Cooper, Conshohocken, Pa. 1910. This relates to a Benjamin Clarke who m. Ann Phipps and who arrived with his son Benjamin in Amboy, East
Jersey, in March 1684.
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There are also Family Group Sheets in files in the Westfield [NJ] Public Library which speculate as to Benjamin Clarke, s/o Richard Clarke, being the father of Daniel Clark, whose Will is found in N.J. Cal. of Wills Vol. V 1771-1780), at page 92,
dated 16 April 1761, proved 8 March 1779, and who (Daniel) names sons Benjamin and Jacob. If that parentage can be established, then there are new lines from Benjamin as a son of Richard Clarke. We have not included them at this time.
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Will of his brother Thomas Clark [8 January 1709/10] mentions "a lot of 50 acres between Richard Clarke and Benjamin Clarke".
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Also: Will of William Johnson, Borough of Elizabeth, proved 1/19/1763, lists one of executors as "friend, Benjamin Clark, third", and one of witnesses as Sarah Clark [perhaps Benjamin's wife?].
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Will of Abner Tooker, Elizabeth Town, proved 2/5/1806, mentions land "formerly belonging to Benjamin Clark," but this may be a latter Benjamin Clark.
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