| Record Group: | Clark Family |
| Series: | Papers, 1745-1936 |
| Accession #: | 1992.071 |
| Series #: | PCLAR001 |
| Guide Date: | 8/1992 (JK) |
| Volume: | 1 c.f. [2 boxes] |
Content Note | Contents
Family History The
progenitor of the Clark family of Galloway Twp., Atlantic Co.,
was Thomas Clark Sr. (ca. 1689-1752), who is thought to have come
from Connecticut to Egg Harbour, Burlington Co., by 1718. Thomas
died intestate on 17 May 1752, leaving at least three sons: Thomas,
David and Elijah. He is buried beside his wife Ruth at Clark's
Landing, overlooking the Mullica River. |
| Bibliography Blake, Georgiana
C. Clark notes in "Abstracts of Early Deeds and Surveys"
by Olive Conover Rundstrom. |
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This
collection includes business papers relating to at least four generations
of the Clark family. Most of the land transactions included are
on record in the deed and survey books of the Board of Proprietors
of West New Jersey. Also included in the series are a piece of the
Thomas Clark footstone at Clark's Landing and Reuben Clark's Bible.
Folder #45 contains research materials relating to the family. |
| 1. | [Deed?], no date [fragments only]. |
| 2. | Note of James Scull to R[euben] Clark. |
| 3. | Note for wages of James Simkins due from Capt. Smith, no date [fragmented]. |
| 4. | Memorandum of account of Capt. Jebes Smith for shingles, no date [fragmented]. |
| 5. | Note that Lewis Neil and David F. Finney are executors of Washington L. Finney, dec'd, no date. |
| 6. | Draft of survey of Reuben Clark for 4.25 acres of swamp sold to the Warners, no date. |
| 7. | Survey of land of Jos. Dimsdale, Appoquaquing/Little Egg Harbour, [Gloucester Co.], no date [fragment only]. |
| 8. | Bounds
of 50 acres surveyed to Evi Smith, Sandy Point/Little Creek, [Gloucester
Co.], no date [fragments only]. |
| 9. | Bounds
of 50 acres surveyed to Evi Smith near the road from the branches
of the Nacat to Teal Creek, 20 July 1745. |
| 10. | Bounds of 24 acres and 142 acres surveyed to Hugh McCollum, October 1746 [fragments only]. |
| 11. | Voided
return of survey for 13.3 acres of David Clark in Great Egg Harbour
Twp., Gloucester Co., 8 November 1758 [fragmented]. |
| 12. | Voided
return of survey for 14 acres of David Clark in Great Egg Harbour
Twp., Gloucester Co., 8 November 1758 [fragmented]. |
| 13. | Bounds of 55.25 acres surveyed to Thomas Clark in Great Egg Harbour Twp., west of the Little Egg Harbour River, Gloucester Co., surveyed 21 May 1760 [fragmented]. |
| 14. | Order to survey 200 acres for David Clark, 6 August 1760 [fragmented]. |
| 15. | Deed
of Anna Lippincott, widow, one of the three daughters of John Ogborn,
to Thomas and David Clark, for 10 acres on Egg Harbour River, [Burlington Co.], 5 December 1761 [fragmented; original in oversized box]. |
| 16. | Bond of Thomas and David Clark to Samuel Townsend and James Wooden for board and plank to be delivered to Oyster Bay, Queens Co., [Long Island, New York], 9 May 1764 [fragmented]. |
| 17. | Deed of William Hewlings to Thomas Clark for 50 acres of unappropriated land, 8 August 1764 [fragmented--portion missing; original in oversized box]. |
| 18. | Order to survey 50 acres for Thomas Clark, 8 August 1764 [fragmented]. |
| 19. | Return of survey of 40.44 acres for David Clark in Great Egg Harbour Twp., Gloucester Co., 6 February 1765 [original in oversized box]. |
| 20. | Order to survey 238 acres for Benjamin Sharpless Jr., brother and heir of Joseph Sharpless, dec'd, 6 February 1765 [fragmented--portion missing]. |
| 21. | Bounds
of 10.22 acres surveyed to George Hawkins on the east side of Cedar
Branch, Great Egg Harbour Twp., Gloucester Co., [4 September 1765]. |
| 22. | Return of survey of 52 acres for Thomas Clark, Great Egg Harbour Twp., Gloucester Co., 23 October 1765 [fragmented--portion missing]. |
| 23. | Release
of Samuel and Jerusha Clark of Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut,
to Thomas and David Clark for all lands in Gloucester Co., West New Jersey, 6 October 1766 [fragmented]. |
| 24. | Mortgage
of Levi Garish to Mahlon Kirkbride for three lots containing 150,
62, and 100 acres surveyed to his father John Garish in Great Egg Harbour Twp., Gloucester Co., recorded 9 July 1770 [fragmented--portions missing; original in oversized box]. |
| 25. | Bill
of sale of John Garrish of Great Egg Harbour Twp., Gloucester Co.,
to Thomas Clark, for one yoke of oxen, 11 May 1773 [fragmented]. |
| 26. | Certificate of Ezekiah Lee that his father John Lee died in 1777, 6 October 1798. |
| 27. | Billfold of Reuben Clark, containing notes dated 1801-1810. |
| 28. | Lease
of Jesse Adams to Reuben Clark for timber in Galloway Twp., Gloucester
Co., for one year, 10 June 1802 [fragmented]. |
| 29. | Receipt of Evi Smith from Reuben Clark, 22 July 1802. |
| 30. | Deed
of John McCollum to Jeremiah Adams Jr., for 18.75 acres in Galloway
Twp., Gloucester Co., 15 November 1802 [original in oversized box]. |
| 31. | a)
Note of the Bank of Pennsylvania to John Diehl for $199.54, due 19/22
December 1805; b) insolvency notice of John S. Somers to Messrs. Burrows and Vansise, 4 June 1806; c) receipt of V. Horsey from Reuben Clark for notes of John Diehl, Wilmington, Delaware, 31 May 1809. |
| 32. | Mortgage of Reuben Clark to Samuel W. Harrison and Michael C. Fisher for the plantation in Galloway Twp., Gloucester Co., bequeathed to him by his father Thomas Clark, 5 February 1808 [signature removed; original in oversized box]. |
| 33. | Letter
of N. Clark to John Estel certifying the assignment of executions
of George Simkins to Reuben Clark, Millville, 3 June 1809 [signature removed]. |
| 34. | Receipt
of Daniel Lake, administrator to Richard Ireland, from Reuben Clark
for executions of Enoch Risley and Andrew Davis, 30 July 1810. |
| 35. | Mortgage of Reuben Clark to Samuel W. Harrison and Michael C. Fisher for 1,500 acres in Galloway Twp., Gloucester Co., 5 October 1810 [original in oversized box]. |
| 36. | Account of John Scull re: Wills and Clark executions, 30 January 1811. |
| 37. | Copy
of deed of Reuben Clark to Parker Clark for land in Wood (formerly
Harrison) Co., [Ohio?], 23 May 1816 [fragments only; part of signature removed; original in oversized box]. |
| 38. | Note of Benjamin Lake to Robert Leeds for balm, 5 August 1818. |
| 39. | Bible of Reuben Clark (including a family record), ca. 1820s [original in oversized box]. |
| 40. | Order of George Clark to Capt. Jackson to pay Reuben Clark his scow hire, Clark's Landing, 24 July 1820. |
| 41. | Survey of 2 acres for S. G. Wright [Reuben Clark's bill], 16 April 1825. |
| 42. | Writ of scire facias [summons] for Reuben Clark in lawsuit of James Smith, 27 March 1834. |
| 43. | Letter
of D. Somers Risley, Clerk of Atlantic County, to Walter S. Clark,
re: copy of deed, Mays Landing, 22 March 1866. |
| 44. | a)
Photograph of footstone of Thomas Clark (died 1752), Clark's Landing,
no date [3"x4.5"]; b) photograph of tombstone of Adrial Clark (died 1828), Port Republic, August 1936 [3"x4.5]; c) piece of Thomas Clark footstone [in oversized box]. |
| 45. | Research materials. |
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