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PIONEERS OF MASSACHUSETTS
John Clark, Springfield, had leave to burn tar in 1646. Town officer. He m. 2, (1) 1646-7, Elizabeth Stebbins; ch. John b. 6 (1) 1647, Sarah b. 27 (10) 1649, Elizabeth b. 26 (10) 1651, Lydia bur. 1 (11) 1654.
Will dated Sept. 15, prob. Sept. 30, 1684, beq. to wife; son John; daus. Sarah Barnard and Mary Morgan. Son-in-law David Morgan deposed.
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11. John (Jno) Clarke: owned 36 acres in 1647 (-9) .
BIRTH: abt 1626.
MARRIAGE: He married Elizabeth Stebbins (daughter of Rowland) 2 Mar 1647. .
DEATH: John Clark died 1684; bequeathed to wife, son John, daughters, Sarah Barnard and Mary Morgan. Son-in-law, David Morgan deposed (intentionally left out of the will.) His estate was valued at £315..
BIOGRAPHY: He had to leave Springfield to burn tar in 1646. Town officer. In 1648, John Clarke was called before the court because he had left a carrion (putrefying body of a dead beast) by the brook side which was very offensive. John Clark pled that he had buried it; but when his attention was called to it that pigs had rooted it up and upon first notice he removed it. .
John Clarke?s land adjoined Alexander Edwards and John Dibble. Occupations: farmer, teamster, agricultural laborer. Brought up salt from Enfield Falls for Pynchon; worked on ditches and at the mill trench. He rented land from Pynchon to grow corn on and he was in debt to Pynchon in 1663 at the rate of 20 pounds sterling for goods..
John Clarke served on the inquest jury to determine the cause of death of little Ebenezer Harmon who drowned in the brook. He also served on the inquest jury regarding the death of Abel Wright?s young child..
His daughter, Sarah, was found in the court records: In Feb 1670/1, Richard Barnard was discharged from prison so he could marry Sarah Clark, and then bound over to appear at the next county court where the offenders were fined forty shillings apiece as This Court: "being sensible of disorders growing more and more upon us and is special of the gross miscarriages of the said Richard and his wife Sarah doth fine them each...". .
At county court in September 1686 Richard Waite of Springfield was bound over to answer for his offense of fornication with the widow Sarah Barnard and appeared with the widow whom he had married in the interim. The court being "sensible of the growth and increase of this abominable sin and desirous to use all wayes to curb the further breakings out of such provoking sins" required the offenders be well whipped or pay a fine of five pounds. .
This same daughter, Sarah Barnard, had an experience in January 1686 that is found in the Pynchon court records: "Widow Sarah Barnard ...(said) she was much afrighted by a mans coming into her house in the night when she was in bed and lying downe on her bed whereupon she gat up and called when presently Thomas Lamb came in and speaking to him he gave no answer to said Lamb till he pulled him about to the fire and saw that it was Samuel Owen. So, Thomas Lamb run to David Morgan and called him and presently returned. Samuel Owen had not stirred. I discerned that he had been drinking and smelled of it. Thomas asked Samuel, "What will your wife say to this that you came to another woman?s bed?" Goodwife Barnard says she judged he was in drink because he came into the house in such a way and yet he never offered any abuse to her but that he lay on her bed....and she now doth freely forgive and pass by this and must say and clear him wholly further then that she judged him in drink and frightened her. Samuel Owen saith he knows not how he got or went to her house not being sensible. Owen was fined for his drunkenness and dismissed." .
CHILDREN: John Clark and Elizabeth Stebbins:.
1. John b. 1647.
2. Sarah b. 1649; md. (1) Richard Barnard; .
(2) Richard Waite.
3. Elizabeth b. 1651; d. 1654.
4. Lydia b. 1653; d. 1654.
5. Mary b. 1654; md. David Morgan.
John Harmon of Springfield, MA Associates Part 5
IV 1647 Lot Owners in Springfield.
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1626 - 1684 (58 years)
