Thomas CLARKE^[1]

1607 - 1690  (83 years)

• Name	Thomas CLARKE
  Birth	1607	England
  Gender	Male
  Death	9 Jan 1690	Ipswich, Suffolk, England
  Person ID	I30416	kirkpatrick
  Last Modified	4 Jul 2006

  
  

  Family	Mary UNKNOWN,   b. Abt 1618   d. 1690 (Age ~ 72 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1637
  Children	1. Thomas CLARKE,   b. 1638, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts d. Aft 1703 (Age 66 years)
  Family ID	F8328	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Apr 2007

  
  

• Notes

  There were four Thomas Clark's in Ipswich. Three were made freemen, 1646,1652, 1674. Three signed the protest in 1666 against the treatment of theKing's Commissioners in Boston, being called Sr., Jr., and 3d. The mostlikely father of Samuel was Thomas the tanner. Thomas the tanner, or Sgt. Thomas Sen. and his sons had the tanyard atthe foot of Summer St. for some 60 yrs. His wife's family name is notknown, but she may be Mary Sherman, daughter of Samuel Sherman. Three ofhis sons lived on his land there: John, Sgt. Thomas and Freeman.Nathaniel and Jonathan lived at Newbury. Samuel, Josiah, Jonathan andFreeman were at Portsmouth. Thomas had liberty to "sett down Tan fattsat the end of his planting lot, upon two rods reserved by the River" in1640-1. The precise location of that tannery has been searched for, butnot found. It is supected that the location of the tanyard was on thecorner of Water and Summer Streets, and the vats on the river bank. In 1682 Thomas tried to arrange with Freeman for life support of himselfand wife Mary; two years later he changed the arrangements to John. Hedied 9 Jan. 1689-90, and his wife died 27 weeks later. Other Thomas Clark's in Ipswich were: 1. Thomas the tailor, son of Sgt. Thomas 2. Thomas the cooper, whose daughter married George Hiskett on June 11,1662.

  
  

• Sources

  [S147] Carol Clark Johnson, A Genealogical History of the Clark and Worth Families and Other Puritan Settlers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, (Private - 1970).