Ancestry of
Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts

Dorothy Clark

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Bill Weld — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 189 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Clark 
  • Mother:
  • Dorothy Bradstreet   
  • Birth Date:
  • 21 Jan 1721/1722 
  • Birth Location:
  • York, York Co., Maine 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 17 Jul 1775 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elijah Porter
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 6 Oct 1744 
  • Marriage Location:
  • York, York Co., Maine 
  • Child:

  Thomas Porter (Ahnentafel No:94 )

• Sources for Dorothy Clark

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Topsfield, Vol. 1, p. 89, Birth record for son Thomas Porter.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1960, Vol. 114, p. 227, Marriage intention for Elijah Porter and Dorothy Clark.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1955, Vol. 109, p. 304, Birth record for Dorothy Clarke.
  • ⁴ Porter, Joseph W., A Genealogy of the Descendants of Richard Porter, Who Settled at Weymouth, Mass., 1635, and Allied Families, Bangor: Burr and Robinson, Printers (1878), 250-251.
  • ⁵ Watson, Marston, Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Volume 1, Governor Thomas Dudley and Descendants . . ., 2nd Ed., Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2004), 69, 229.

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