When Alfred Clarke was born in December 1782, in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, his father, Merrit Clark, was 37 and his mother, Lydia Rogers Masters, was 25. He married Grace Bridgen on 20 June 1821, in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 2 March 1869, in Orange, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
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The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
Connecticut became a state on January 9, 1788. In 1650, before it was a state, the boundary of Connecticut ran north from the westside of Greenwich Bay and the coast of the Pacific Ocean. During the 1600s, Westmoreland County was in Connecticut when the boundaries were changed Westmoreland County went to Pennsylvania.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English and Irish: variant of Clark .
History: This name was brought independently to New England by many bearers from the 17th century onward. Nicholas Clarke was one of the founders of Hartford, CT (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker) in 1635.
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