Ancestry of
Ken Burns

Documentary Filmmaker

Joseph Clarkson

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Ken Burns — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 82 
  • Father:
  • Gerardus Clarkson 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Flower   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Feb 1765 
  • Birth Location:
  • Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania 
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  • Death Date:
  • 25 Jan 1830 
  • Death Location:
  • Lancaster, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • St. James Episcopal Churcy Cemetery, Lancaster, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Grace Cooke
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Jul 1788 
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  • Child:

  Lydia Cook Clarkson (Ahnentafel No:41 )

• Additional marriages for Joseph Clarkson

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  • Spouse:
  • Catherine Henderson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Dec 1829

• Sources for Joseph Clarkson

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A022802.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/15/2014).
  • ³ Papers Read Before the Lancaster County Historical Society, January 4, 1907, Vol. XI, No. 1, Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Reprinted from the New Era (1907), 383-384.
  • ⁴ Lefferts, Elizabeth Morris, Descendants of Lewis Morris of Morrisania, b. 1671, d. 1746, New York: Arranged and printed by Tobias A. Wright (1907), 9.

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