Brief Life History of Robert
When Robert Clark was born on 2 November 1786, in Dutchess, New York, United States, his father, Nathan Clark, was 37 and his mother, Sarah Gifford, was 36. He had at least 3 sons and 2 daughters with Mary Polly Johns. He died about 1858, in Fairfield, Elizabethtown-Kitley, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 73, and was buried in Fairfield, Elizabethtown-Kitley, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.
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- Robert Clark, "Canada Census, 1851"
- Legacy NFS Source: Robert Clark - Individual or family possessions: birth:
- Robert Clark in entry for William Cowan Clark, "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"
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1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
1797 · Albany is Named Capital of New York
Albany became the capital of New York in 1797. Albany is the oldest continuous settlement of the original 13 colonies.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
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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