Ancestry of
Dick Clark

Radio and TV Host

James Clark

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Dick Clark — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 32 
  • Father:
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Dec 1751 
  • Birth Location:
  • Mansfield, Windham (now Tolland), Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 Dec 1816 
  • Death Location:
  • Mansfield, Windham (now Tolland), Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Clark Cemetery, Chaplin, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Jerusha Marcy
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 May 1780 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Mansfield, Windham (now Tolland), Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Salla Clark

  James Edward Clark

  Candace Clark

  Lorinda Clark

  Rachael Clark

  Mathew Marcy Clark

  Reuben C. Clark (Ahnentafel No:16 )

  Elijah Clark

  Luther Clark

  Lucius Clark

  Lucius Watson Clark

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

• Sources for James Clark

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A022361.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/18/2022).
  • ³ Mansfield and Redding, Connecticut, Compiled Marriages, 1700s-1850, Marriage record for James Clark and Jerusha Marcy.
  • ⁴ Portrait and Biographical Record of Seneca and Schuyler Counties, New York: Containing Portraits and . . ., New York and Chicago: Chapman Publishing Co. (1895), 301.
  • ⁵ U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, Widow's pension for Jerusha Clark, widow of James Clark.
  • ⁶ Dimock, Susan W., Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths from the Records of the Town and Churches in Mansfield, Connecticut, 1703-1850, New York: The Baker and Taylor Company (1898), p. 43, Birth records for the children of James and Jerusha (Marcy) Clark.
  • ⁷ Dimock, Susan W., Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths from the Records of the Town and Churches in Mansfield, Connecticut, 1703-1850, New York: The Baker and Taylor Company (1898), p. 222, Marriage record for James Clark and Jerusha Marcy.
  • ⁸ Dunham, Samuel, An Historical Discourse Delivered at West Brookfield, Mass., on Occasion of the One Hundred and Fiftieth . . ., Springfield, Massachusetts: Samuel Bowles and Company, Printers (1867), 66.

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