Lucy Clark

Brief Life History of Lucy

When Lucy Clark was born in 1796, in Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Lot Clark, was 31 and her mother, Sibbil Barlow, was 27. She married Jarvis Gillett on 31 December 1825, in Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Holyoke, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States in 1855 and Chicopee, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States in 1860. She died on 6 August 1875, in Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Granville Center, Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States.

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Family Time Line

Jarvis Gillett
1801–1857
Lucy Clark
1796–1875
Marriage: 31 December 1825
Eveline Chloe Gillette
1824–1907
Sybil A. Gillett
1830–
Orville Harmon Gillette
1831–1916
Jane Mary Gillett
1834–1905
Chloe E. Gillett
1837–

Sources (18)

  • Mary (Lucy) Gillette in , "United States Census, 1860"
  • Lucy Clark, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
  • Lucy Gillett, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"

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World Events (7)

1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.

While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.

1808 · Concord Becomes the Capital

In 1808, Concord became the capital of New Hampshire. It was originally the Penacook Plantation given to the state by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

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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