Ebenezer Clarke (or Clark) was born on 28 Feb 1689, in Rowley, Essex County, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was the son of John Clarke and Mary Poore.[1]
His home was actually in Ipswich, close to the Rowley border.[3] He evidently chose to attend the First Congregational Church in Rowley, where he had his daughter, Mary, baptized on 17 Oct 1714.[4]
Ebenezer Clark died on 28 Apr 1716, in Rowley.[5][6][7]
Research Notes
Note on Date of Birth: Either the Rowley Cemetery gravestone is wrong or Ebenezer was born in February of 1688, if he was "in his 29th y." - 28 years old - at the time of his death. If he had been born in February of 1689, he would have turned 27 in February of 1716, and thus been in his 28th year.
Sources
↑ "Clark, Ebenezer (Clarke), s. John and Mary, Feb. 28, 1689:" Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Rowley - Births, p. 48 (accessed 2 May 2018).
↑ "Clark, Ebenezer (Clarke), and Lidya Dresser, Oct. 14, 1713," intention also recorded: Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Rowley - Marriages, p. 269 (accessed 2 May 2018).
↑ Blodgett, Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts, p. 78.
↑ "Clark, Mary, d. Eben[e]zer, bp. Oct. 17, 1714:" Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Rowley - Births, p. 49 (accessed 2 May 2018).
↑ "Clark, Ebenezer, Apr. 28, 1716, in his 29th y.," citing the gravestone in the Rowley Burial Ground: Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Rowley - Deaths, p.453 (accessed 2 May 2018).
↑ "Clark, Ebenezer, died 28 April, 1716. In his 29th year:" Blodgett, "Record of Deaths from Gravestones in Rowley,"p. 17, no. 31.
Blodgett, George Brainard, compiler, Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts: A Genealogical Record of the Families Who Settled in Rowley before 1700 with Several Generations of Descendants, rev. ed., Amos Everett Jewett, rev., ed. and publ., Salem, MA: Newcomb & Gauss Co., Printers, 1933, repr. Markham, VA: The Apple Manor Press, 2018.
Blodgett, George Brainard, compiler, “Record of Deaths from Gravestones in Rowley, including All before the Year 1800,” Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, Vol. 15,1878, pp. 14-34, offprint
Peck, Thomas Bellows, Richard Clarke of Rowley, Massachusetts and his Descendants in the Line of Timothy Clark of Rockingham, VT.: 1638-1904], Boston, MA: Press of David Clapp & Son, 1905.
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