Thomas Clarke (4)1

Male, #10017, (circa 1703 - 1752)

Parent*Thomas Clarke (3)1 (c 1677 - 1728)
Parent*Susannah (?)1 (s 1680 - a 1733)
Thomas Clarke (4)|b. circa 1703\nd. 1752|p10017.htm|Thomas Clarke (3)|b. circa 1677\nd. 1728|p45856.htm|Susannah (?)|b. say 1680\nd. after 1733|p45857.htm|Thomas Clarke (2)|b. say 1652\nd. 1700|p45858.htm|Elizabeth Sampson|b. say 1655|p45859.htm|||||||

Birth*circa 1703 Thomas was born at Isle of Wight Co., Virginia, circa 1703.1 
 He was the son of Thomas Clarke (3) and Susannah (?).1 
Marriage*say 1723 He married Sarah Norwood say 1723.1 
Death*1752 He died at Southampton Co., Virginia, in 1752. 
Biography* Thomas Clark, son of Thomas and Susannah Clark, was born in Isle of Wight Co., Va., about 1702-5, and died in Southampton Co., Va. in 1752. He married Sarah Norwood, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Norwood of Isle of Wight Co. (for her ancestry see V.H.G. pp. 333ff). Thomas Clark's will, dated Dec. 1, 1750, and probated in Southampton Co. Feb. 13, 1752, leaves a rather large personal estate and considerable areas of land in Lunenburg Co., Va., to his wife Sarah, daughter Frances, and sons John, James, Jesse, Jordan Thomas, and Carter Clark (Southampton W.B. "A" p. 72). All the sons moved to Lunenburg Co., Va. (later Mecklenburg Co.) almost immediately after their father's death.

James Clark married Hannah --------- and died in Mecklenburg Co. in 1785, while his wife Hannah died in the same county in 1809, both their wills being extant in the Mecklenburg records. Their children were:
(1) Sarah Clark who married Abel Farrar Aug. 11, 1789;
(2) Elizabeth Clark who m. David Holmes Jan. 15, 1790;
(3) Jordan Clark;
(4) Diana Clark who married George W. Brame April 9, 1804, and had a son James H. Brame mentioned in her mother's will.

Jesse Clark died unmarried in Mecklenburg Co. in 1770, his will, dated Dec. 24, 1769, and probated March 12, 1770, leaving all his property to his brothers John, James and Carter Clark (W.B.I, p. 59).

Jordan Thomas Clark apparently died unmarried in Mecklenburg Co. in 1767, and on April 14, 1767, John, James and Carter Clark deeded to Jesse Clark a negro belonging to the estate of Jordan Thomas Clark (Mecklenburg D.B. 1, p. 459).

Carter Clark, the youngest of his brothers, was an Ensign and later a Lieutenant in the Mecklenburg Co. mil. in 1778, during the Revolution, and married Martha Farrar in Mecklenburg Co., Nov. 9, 1778. He died in Mecklenburg Co. in 1828, his will, dated Dec. 13, 1827, and probated Jan. 21, 1828, showing the following children:
(1) Frances Clark;
(2) Lucy Clark;
(3) Jesse Clark (b. 1781-2);
(4) Sarah Clark m. Martin Jones;
(5) Elizabeth O. R. Clark m. Milton Robinson;
(6) Thomas N. Clark, deceased when his father made his will, leaving a widow Wilmouth Clark, and
(7) George N. Clark.1 

Family

Sarah Norwood (say 1700 - )
Child

Charts Warren Culpepper's Ancestry Chart
Last Edited 20 Aug 2002

Citations

  1. B. C. Holtzclaw, "Clark of Surry and Isle of Wight Counties," Southern Genealogies #1, Historical Southern Families, Vol. I FTM CD191.