John CLARKE

1645 - 1705  (60 years)

• Name	John CLARKE  [1]
  	Married Mary Benjamin, Aug. 16, 1695. He lived afterwards at Barnstable, then at Yarmouth, where he taught a school, being a well-educated man. "Mr. John Clarke was a schoolmaster in Yarmouth in 1701, and besides his salary he was furnished with a horse, the school being movable from one village to another." --Freeman's Hist. of Cape Cod, Vol. 11., p. 206. The Plymouth Records say that John Clarke, in 1681, testified that he was then about 30 years old; but whether this was the son of Thomas Clarke, the pilgrim, is a question. he died at yarmouth, Aug. 16, 175, aged 60. [1]
  Birth	1645	Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	16 Aug 1705  [1]
  Person ID	I11673	Main Tree
  Last Modified	30 Apr 2021

  
  

  Father	Thomas CLARKE,   b. 31 Mar 1605, Ratcliffe, Stepney, England d. 24 Mar 1696/7, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts (Age 91 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Susanna RING
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	Bef Jul 1631	Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts   [2]
  Family ID	F09475	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary BENJAMIN,   b. Apr 1670
  Marriage	16 Aug 1695  [1]
  Children	1. John CLARKE,   b. 16 Nov 1697, Plymouth, Massachusetts d. 20 Jun 1712, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age 14 years)  [Birth]   2. Lancelot CLARK,   b. 30 Dec 1703, Yarmouth, Massachusetts d. Aft 1775 (Age 72 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F35673	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Apr 2020

  
  

• Sources

  [S8784] Rev. William W. Johnson, Clarke-Clark Genealogy, Records of the Descendants of Thomas Clarke Plymouth, 1623-1697. [S3601] Leonard H. Smith Jr., Cape Cod Library of Local History and Genealogy Vol. 1.