Ancestry of
Marcus Morton
16th and 18th Governor of Massachusetts
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- 2nd Great-grandfather of Marcus Morton — 5th Generation
- Ahnentafel No:
- 18
- Father:
- (probable) James Clark
- Mother:
- (probable) Abigail Lothrop
- Birth Date:
- Birth Location:
- Christening Date:
- Christening Location:
- 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
- Marriage Location:
- Children:
Josiah Clark
Elizabeth Clark
Rebecca Clark (Ahnentafel No:9 )
- 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)
Thomas Clark
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Additional marriages for Thomas Clark
- Spouse:
- Rebecca Miller
- Marriage Date:
- 15 Feb 1681/1682
- Marriage Location:
- Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts
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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.