Margaret Mary Clark

Brief Life History of Margaret Mary

When Margaret Mary Clark was born about 1745, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, William Clark, was 52 and her mother, Margaret Owen, was 48. She married William Marion Heaslet Sr on 6 April 1762, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She died in 1828, in Knox, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 84.

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Family Time Line

William Marion Heaslet Sr
1740–1819
Margaret Mary Clark
1745–1828
Marriage: 6 April 1762
Elizabeth Heaslet
1767–1854
Martha Heaslet
1776–1828
Mary Heaslet
1769–1860
William Marion Heaslet Jr
1773–1850
Benjamin Clark Heaslet Sr
1780–1837
Rachel Heaslet
1780–1850
George Washington Heaslet
1782–1867

Sources (3)

  • Mary Clarke Spinster, "Pennsylvania Civil Marriages, 1677-1950"
  • Mary Clarke in entry for William Haslett, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Marriage Records, 1512-1989"
  • Mary Clarke, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Marriage Records, 1512-1989"

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1776

Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.

1776

The Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. The liberty bell was first rung here to Celebrate this important document.

1788 · The First Presidential Election

The First Presidential election was held in the newly created United States of America. Under the Articles of Confederation, the executive branch of the country was not set up for an individual to help lead the nation. So, under the United States Constitution they position was put in. Because of his prominent roles during the Revolutionary War, George Washington was voted in unanimously as the First President of the United States.

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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