Brief Life History of Aaron
When Captain Aaron Clark was born in 1750, in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America, his father, Abraham Clark, was 24 and his mother, Sarah Price Hatfield, was 22. He married Susannah Winans in 1770, in New York Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Washington, Pennsylvania, United States in 1790 and Canton Township, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. He died on 18 December 1811, in Woodbridge Township, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Rahway, Union, New Jersey, United States.
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Sources (7)
- Aron Clark, "United States Census, 1790"
- Military service history
- Aaron Clark, "Find A Grave Index"
Spouse and Children
1750–1811 Male
1758–1821 Female
Children (8)
1771– Female
1773–1811 Female
1776– Female
1777– Male
1778–1840 Male
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Parents and Siblings
1726–1794 Male
1728–1804 Female
Siblings (10)
1750–1811 Male
1752–1789 Male
1755–1758 Male
1757–1795 Female
1759–1778 Male
+5 More Children
World Events (6)
1776
Age 26
1781
Age 31
1783 · A Free America
Age 33
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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