Anna Clark

Brief Life History of Anna

When Anna Clark was born in 1720, in Caroline, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, John Clark, was 17 and her mother, Rebecca Hendrix, was 20. She married Col. John Abner Field in 1747, in Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She died in March 1804, in Paris, Bourbon, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 84.

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Family Time Line

Col. John Abner Field
1720–1774
Anna Clark
1720–1804
Marriage: 1747
Elizabeth Field
1742–
Larkin Field
1746–
John Field Jr
1746–1810
Ezekial Henry Field
1750–1782
Mary Field
1750–
Anna Field
1754–1818
Lewis Field Sr.
1763–1845

Sources (5)

  • Legacy NFS Source: Nancy Ann Clark - Published information: birth: 1728; Albemarle, Virginia, United States
  • Marriage record of Anna Rogers Clark and John Field, State of Virginia
  • Anna Rogers Clark Field, "Find A Grave Index"

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World Events (4)

1776

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

1776

Historical Boundaries: 1776: Fincastle, Virginia Colony, United States 1776: Fincastle, Virginia, United States 1776: Kentucky, Virginia, United States 1780: Fayette, Virginia, United States 1786: Bourbon, Virginia, United States 1792: Bourbon, Kentucky, United States

1786 · Shays' Rebellion

Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.

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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Jonathan Clark Will

The will of Jonathan Clark 1734 Department of Archives, Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia No. 21036. Miscellaneous Papers, File No. 13 H-20 In the name of God Amen the ninth day of Apri …

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