Susanah (Miller) Clark (1677 - 1721)

Born 26 Jul 1677 in Yarmouth, Plymouth Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Clark — married before 1700 (to Jul 1721) in Province of Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

Descendants

Died Jul 1721 at about age 43 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Susanah Miller was born on 26 July 1677 in Yarmouth, (then) Plymouth Colony, the daughter of John and Margaret (Winslow) Miller.^[1]

Susanna married Thomas Clark of Plymouth by 1700, probably in Plymouth as his third wife. Thomas' first wife was Susanna's older sister Rebecca.^[2]

Susanna died in Plymouth in July 1721.^[3]

Children, all born Plymouth:^[4]

1. Annah, b. 24 Jan 1700, m. Gideon Ellis.
2. Abigail, b. 9 Dec 1701, m. Nathaniel Bartlett.
3. Sarah, b. 10 Feb 1703/4, unm. in 1727

Sources

1. ↑ Robert M. Sherman and Ruth Wilder Sherman, compilers, Vital Records of Yarmouth, MA to the year 1850 (Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1975, second printing 1993), Vol. 1, p. 128.

   "Susanah Miller the daughter of the said John and Margreat Miller was born upon the 26th of July 1677."

2. ↑ New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015, Torrey’s, V1, pg 329. (By subscription) Detail: Torrey's New England Marriages before 1700, states that Susannah Miller was Thomas Clark's third wife, married by 1700, resided in Plymouth. He cites Samuel C. Clark, Records of Some of the Descendants of Thomas Clarke, Plymouth 1623 to 1697 (Boston: Daniel Clapp & Son, 1869), p. 16 (link to p. 11); MD 1:141; William Thomas Davis, Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth, Part 2, Genealogical Register (Boston: Damrell & Upham, 1899), p. 62.
3. ↑ The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Plymouth Church Records 1620-1859, CD-ROM (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 2003), p. 290.

   "[1721] Members deceased: Susanah ye wife of decon Clark in July."

4. ↑ George Ernest Bowman,"Plymouth Births, Marriages and Deaths" The Mayflower Descendant Vol. 1:141.

See also:

• Cutter, William R. Librarian of the Woburn Public Library, Miller, Cook, Clark, Hall, Crosby and Smith, NEHGR Vol. 51(Jan. 1897):33-34.