Brief Life History of Aaron
When Aaron Clark was born on 3 April 1750, in Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, his father, Samuel Clark, was 29 and his mother, Rachel Sprague, was 33. He married CYNTHIA CLARK in 1798, in Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Cumberland Hill, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island, United States in 1750. He died on 26 May 1803, in Whitestown, Oneida, New York, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Grandview Cemetery, Whitesboro, Whitestown, Oneida, New York, United States.
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- Aaron Clark, "Rhode Island, Births and Christenings, 1600-1914"
- Aaron Clark, "Find A Grave Index"
- Aaron Clark, "Rhode Island, Births and Christenings, 1600-1914"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
New York is the 11th state.
1781 · The First Constitution
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English clerk, clark ‘clerk, cleric, writer’ (Old French clerc; see Clerc ). The original sense was ‘man in a religious order, cleric, clergyman’. As all writing and secretarial work in medieval Christian Europe was normally done by members of the clergy, the term clerk came to mean ‘scholar, secretary, recorder, or penman’ as well as ‘cleric’. As a surname, it was particularly common for one who had taken only minor holy orders. In medieval Christian Europe, clergy in minor orders were permitted to marry and so found families; thus the surname could become established.
Irish (Westmeath, Mayo): in Ireland the English surname was frequently adopted, partly by translation for Ó Cléirigh; see Cleary .
Americanized form of Dutch De Klerk or Flemish De Clerck or of variants of these names, and possibly also of French Clerc . Compare Clerk 2 and De Clark .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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