Ancestry of
Dick Clark

Radio and TV Host

Jerusha Marcy

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of Dick Clark — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 33 
  • Father:
  • Reuben Marcy 
  • Mother:
  • Rachel Watson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 Aug 1759 
  • Birth Location:
  • Ashford, Windham, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 31 May 1849 
  • Death Location:
  • North Settlement Cemetery, Monticello, Sullivan, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • James Clark
  • 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

• Sources for Jerusha Marcy

  • ¹ Connecticut, U.S., Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), Birth record for Jerusha Marcy.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Ashford, p. 112, Birth record for Jerusha Marcy, two entries, 19 AUG entry crossed out.
  • ³ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A022361.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/18/2022).
  • ⁵ Mansfield and Redding, Connecticut, Compiled Marriages, 1700s-1850, Marriage record for James Clark and Jerusha Marcy.
  • ⁶ U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, Widow's pension for Jerusha Clark, widow of James 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. 43, Birth records for the children of James and Jerusha (Marcy) Clark.
  • ⁸ 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.
  • ⁹ 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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