James ClarkBorn: ca. 1708 New Jersey
Died: 1753, Elizabeth, New Jersey
Buried: Unknown
Married:
1) before 1726, wife unknown
2) ca. 1735 Anne Wood in New Jersey
Records:
1752 - Dec. 19 James wrote his will:
In the name of God this nineteenth day of December in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and fifty two. I James Clark of the Burro: of Elizabeth and County of Essex and province of East Jersey yeoman being very Sick and weak in Body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be unto God for it Calling to mind the mortality of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to Die Do make and Ordain this my last Will and Testament that is to say Principally and first of all I Give and recommend my Soul into the hands of him that gave it and for my Body I recommend it to the Earth to be Buried in a Christian like manner at the discretion of my Executors nothing doubting but at the last General Resurrection I shall receive the same by the mighty Power of God and as touching such Worldly Estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me with in this life. I Give Devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form
Imprimis it is my Will and I do Order that in the first place all my just Debts and Funeral Charges be paid and satisfied.
Item I Give and bequeath unto Anne my well beloved wife one half of all my moveable Estate together with the use of all my Lands until my Sons Come of age.
Item I give to my Eldest Son Jeremiah six acres joyning to the back side of the Home Lott and a Lot of meadow joyning to Recompense Stanberry containing Two acres and threee quarters to him, his Heirs and assigns forever.
Item I give to my Second Son Elias the remaining part of the abovesaid Lot Bounding on Isaac Hetfield, Benja. Wynans and David marsh and the said Elias at the age of twenty two years shall pay the sum of five pounds to each of my two Daughters Rachel and Mary Ann then the said Land to him his Heirs and assigns forever.
Item I give to my third son James a Lot of Land Purchased of Lewis Terrill containing six acres and a piece of meadow given me by my father to him his Heirs and assigns for ever.
Item I give to my two Daughters Rachel and Mary Ann the other half of my moveable Estate together with the Sum of twenty seven pound to be paid by my Brother Samuel to be equally Divided.
I likewise constitute appoint and ordain my loving wife and Recompense Stanberry Executors to this my last Will and Testament and do hereby utterly dis--- and revoke all and every other former Testaments Will Legacies and Executors by me any ways before this time named Willed or bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this day and year first above written.
James Clark {Seal}
Signed Sealed and Delivered in the presents of us Sarah Craig, Robert [his X mark] More, John Joline.1753 - Jan. 15 - an inventory of James' estate was made by Thomas Clark and Eliphalet Frazey which came to £211.5.4:
A Trew Inventory of the Goods Chattels &c. credits of James Clark late of Essex County in the Province of New Jersey Deceased Taken this Fifteenth day of January anno Dom: 1753 Taken by Thomas Clark Esq. & Eliphalet Frazey apprisers as follows:
To his wearing apparrill £9.16.8
To a bond from John Joline £29.4.7
To a Horse & Maire £10.0.0
To a colt & one pair of oxen £11.0.0
To 3 cows & a Two year old heifer £14.0.0
To 2 yearling calfe & 15 sheep at 7/? £7.10.0
To 2 acres of winter grane on the ground £1.18.0
To wheat and Ry[e] in the sheaf & flax in the sheaf £3.0.0
To fresh and salt hay (?) in ye barn & oats & straw £3.12.0
To 2 pick forks & a R--- & a cradle £0.?.0
Ad[d]ed £90.6 [subtotal]
To a slay and neck yoke & salt -- £3.19.0
To 3 hoge & 2 plows & a Harrow £4.1.0
To 2 sleds & 2 pair of hors gears £0.89.0
To 2 ox yoke & half a cross cut saw £1.3.0
To 2 brass kittels & a half bushel £1.83.0
To 2 iron pots & water pot & cag (?) £1.0.0
To a saw & drawing knife & pail & dish & 2 ladels £0.7.0
To 2 ceder table & frying pan and ---- Lumber £2.18.6
To weaver heads and gears & 2 pane tempels £1.2.0
To a quil wheel & spools and broad ax £0.8.6
Ad[d]ed £17.07 [subtotal]
To behive & ould --- & 2 hachets & pair of grips £0.19.6
To one ox & 3 peuters & 12 peuter plat[e]s £6.0.0
To a parsel old peutor & teakittle & tea war[e] £2.6.0
To a Looking glass & case of bottels £0.12.6
To a parsel of new fe[a]thers & candel stak [stick] & knifes & forks £4.14.6
To one fe[a]ther bed and furniture £3.20.0
[Added] £20.2.6 [subtotal]
Carried over £190.15.7
To 2 ---- & a cradel & 5 sheets £1.17.3
To 5 pillow cases & 2 blanketts & 9 coverlids £2.3.0
To a coverlid 2 blankets a rug & bed quilt £0.17.0
To a bedsted & cord & one bed & ---- of huger bed £2.4.0
To 3 barrels part full of mont (?) & 7 --- in ye chamber £4.0.0
To ? milk ---- & a ---- ---- & 20 pound tobacco £1.16.0
To 2 fe[a]ther beds & a set of goin (?) Curtain rods £4.8.6
To a halbord & safe & a tub with but[t]er £0.16.0
To hogs fat & 3 earthen pots & chain (?) £0.6.0
To taler [tallow?] & fat & bedsted and cord £0.10.6
Ad[d]ed £18.13.3
To a pair of cards a sadel & bundel & 5 pound candels £0.15.3
To 6 old books, & an old lock & pair chisels & hammer £0.11.6
To a ---- & tray & gand half yd. worsted cloth £1.11.2
To 2 pound cover & tobacco box & a pound ---- pane (?) £0.6.9
To a clevis & pin & grinding stone £0.6.5
To a ----- box & gridiron & to[a]ster & an iron oven £0.9.6
To 3 T---- & a pair of hand guns £1.4.6
To tongues & fire shovel & warming pan £0.9.6
To 4 pair of stilyards, a lantern & coffee pot £0.15.0
To a box iorn & ? chairs & a chest drawers £1.89.0
To a Table & great wheel & parsel woolen yarn £1.11.9
To a parcel of linning [linen?] yarn & gun & sword £8.9.4
Ad[d]ed £11.2.9 [subtotal]
To a ---- ---- & 2 brood house & a thousand bricks £1.8.0
To a debt from Joseph Moss £2.16.9
To a debt from John Hunt & from Jonathan ----- £2.6.0
To a debt due from David Marsh & from Joseph Conklen £1.8.0
To a debt due from John King & from Samuel Oliver £0.11.4
To a debt due from Isaac Ogden & from Abraham Marsh £1.19.6
To a debt due from John ---- & from Jacob Hampton £2.7.0
To cash to a dept due from John ---- £0.93.0
To a debt due from Joseph Cary from Sam'll Williams £0.5.1
Carried Over £179.0.8
To a debt from Tomson Taft (?) & from Leonard Meeker £00.12.11
To a debt due from Abraham Shotwel £11.8.00
To a debt due from David Mor--- from --- Oliver £0.8.7
To a pair of warping bed (?) & piece of stead £0.7.0
To a spade to a long fork £0.9.0
To a debt due from Lambert Robbeson £0.7.0
To a debt due from Joseph ---- £0.9.8
To a debt due from David Oliver £0.4.6
To a debt due from Joseph Ludlom £1.1.0
To one bond given as a legacy to Rachel & Mary Ann Clark £27.0.0
On Lemuel Clark payable December £32.3.0
To a debt due from Thomas Clark £0.2.0
To a debt due from Joseph Law £0.17.9
To a debt due from David Hetfield £0.5.9
To a debt due from David Power & to Brian Lyth (?) £0.17.6
To a debt due from John Dobbs £0.10.9
To a debt due from Ruben Clark £0.15.9
To a debt from Horace Clark £1.9.9
To a debt du from Josiah Winnance (?) £0.3.6
To a debt from Elias Winnace £0.2.6
To a debt from Isham Lawrence (?) £0.9.2
To a great gouge & rounding iron £0.2.6
Some Total £211.5.4
Taken the Day and year above written by us
Thomas Clark - Appraisor
Elizabeth Town
Anna Clark, Recom. Stanberry Executors1753 - Feb. 24 - the will was proved in Essex County, New Jersey:
Rob't. More and John Joline two of the witnesses to the within written will being sworn on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God did severally Depose that they saw James Clark the Testator within named Sign and Seal the same and heard him publish pronounce Declare the within Instrument to be his last Will and Testament and that at the doing thereof the said Testator was of sound and disposing mind and memory as far as those Deponents know and as they verily believe and that Sarah Craig the other Subscribing Witness to the said Will was present and Signed her name as Witness to the said Will together with those Deponants in the Presents of the Said Testator.
Robert [his X mark] More
John Joline
Sworn at Elizabeth Town this twenty fourth Day of February Anno Domini 1753 before me Rob't Ogden Surrogate
Anna Clark Executrix and Recompense Stanborough Executor in the within Testament named being Sworn on this holy Evangelist of Almighty God did Dispose that the within Instrument Contains the true last will and Testament of James Clark the Testator herein named so far as they know and verily believe and that they will well and truly perform the same by Paying first the Debts of the Said Deceased and then the Legacies in the said Testament ----- so far as the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said Deceased can thereunto Extend and that they will make and exhibit into the Prerogative Office at Perth Amboy a true and perfect Inventory of all and Singular the goods and Credits of the said Deceased that shall come to their knowledge or possession or to the possession of any other Person or Persons for those ---- and render a just and true account when thereunto lawfully require.
Anna Clark
Recom. Stanberry
Sworn at ElizabethTown the twenty fourth day of February A. Dom: 1753 before Rob't Ogden Surrogt.
Probate Granted by Gov'r. Belcher in the usual form the same day. Exam'd. Thos. Barstow.Child by 1st wife:
Joanna b. 12/28/1726, d. 10/12/1783 md. Peter Lyon
- Ebenezer b. 1746 md. 1) Sarah Wilcox & 2) Katie Drake, children by Sarah: Elizabeth, Mary, John, Rachel, Sally & Peter; children by Katie: Phebe, d. infancy, Phebe, Mercy, Susan
- Bethia b. 1747, d. 1812 md. John Potter 1770 children: Phoebe, Rachel, Joanna, Mary, Daniel, Benjamin & John
- David b. 1748, d. 1818 removed to Virginia
- Benjamin b. 1754, d. 1836 md. 1) Joanna Wilcox & 2) Gertrude (--?--) Rogers, children by Joanna: Betsy, Phebe, Sheba, Nancy, Noah & Peter; children by Gertrude: William & Joanna
- Phoebe b. 1756, d. 1855 md. Jonas Clark son of Jeremiah below
- Nathaniel b. 1759, d. 1838 possibly married Mercy Wilcox, possible children Jotham, Phoebe, Mary
- Joanna b. 1762 md. John Blackford
- Susan md. John Cory 1790 had daughter Phoebe
Children by 2nd wife:
Jeremiah b. ca. 1738, d. 12/3/1797 md. Agnes Oliver in 1762 - his tombstone inscription: In memory of Jeremiah Clark who died Decm. the 3, 1797 in the 60th year of his age. In his dealings he was upright and Punctual ready to his word, a good Man's friend and Enemy to none. In life respected & in death lamented.
- Jeremiah b. 1760, d. 1846 md. Margaret Ritchie, son William
- Jonas b. 1765, d. 1816 md. Phoebe Lyon above, children: Peter, Jeremiah & Polly
- James b. 1770, d. 1807 md. Rachel Cole 1784, children: Ephraim & Agnes
- Isaac b. 1783, d. 1822 md. Rachel (--?--)
- David
- Elias
- Ichabod had son John
- Sarah md. (--?--) Stewart / Steward had son Clark
- Mary Ann md (--?--) had son James
- Rachel
- Hannah
- Nancy md. (--?--) Allen
- Elizabeth / Betsy md. (--?--) Sutten
James
Mary Ann b. 1752
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