Ancestry of
John Davis Long

32nd Governor of Massachusetts

Thomas Clark

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of John Davis Long — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 72 
  • Father:
  • (probable) James Clark 
  • Mother:
  • (probable) Abigail Lothrop   
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 12 May 1727 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Crow
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 Feb 1689/1690 
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  Josiah Clark (Ahnentafel No:36 )

  Elizabeth Clark

  Rebecca Clark

  • Notes: 

  • This may have been the Thomas Clark was said to have been called "Silver Headed Tom" after surviving being scalped by Indians and afterwards wearing a silver cap. However, sources disagree with this identification with at least one stating that "Silver Headed Tom" was a son of this Thomas's uncle William Clark and his first wife Susanna Wolcott (see NYGBR 47:198-200)

• Additional marriages for Thomas Clark

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  • Spouse:
  • Rebecca Miller
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Feb 1681/1682
  • Marriage Location:
  • Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts

• Sources for Thomas Clark

  • ¹ History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, Vol. 3, Genealogical, Cambridge: John Wilson & Son (1893), 25.
  • ² Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967, FHL 7051008, Image 153, Probate record for estate of Thomas Clark.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Plymouth, Vol. 1, p. 3, Birth records for children of Thomas and Elizabeth Clarke.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Plymouth, Vol. 1, p. 2, Birth records for children of Thomas and Rebeckah Clerk.
  • ⁵ Our Country and Its People: A Descriptive and Biographical Record of Bristol County, Massachusetts, Part 2, Boston, Massachusetts: The Boston History Company, Publishers (1899), 165.
  • ⁶ The American Genealogist, 1973, Vol. 49, p. 143.
  • ⁷ The American Genealogist, 1971, Vol. 47, p. 6.
  • ⁸ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 380.
  • ⁹ Hurd, D. Hamilton, History of Essex County, Massachusetts: with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneer and Prominent Men, Vol. 1, Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis and Co. (1888), lvii.