Brief Life History of John
When John Clark was born on 24 January 1776, in Pembroke, Washington, Maine, United States, his father, William Clark, was 36 and his mother, Susanah Woodward, was 39. He married Tamar Wilder on 5 April 1802, in Pembroke, Washington, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 15 December 1830, in his hometown, at the age of 54.
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- Legacy NFS Source: John B. Clark - Published information: birth-name: John Clark
- John Clark, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- John Clark in entry for Benjamin Clark, "Minnesota, Death Records and Certificates, 1900-1955"
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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.
1790
Historical Boundaries: 1790: Washington, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Washington, Maine, United States
1791
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
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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