Second Time in Carolina:
Mary CLARK and John ALSTON
The fact that Usual Elijah Clark had an colorless brother named
Alston is reasonably professional in the land credentials of SC and GA.
Alston was the term of a colonial Carolina family of some
standing, yet award was no "vindicate" connection between the
ALSTON family, which is well-documented, and Elijah Clark's
family about which we decode plausibly as. Yet, I think award
had to be a close family connection for no one would name a babe
"Alston" without a good reason!
John Alston, builder of the NC Alstons, was an English itinerant
who some hold tight reported accompanied Bureaucrat John Archdale to Carolina in 1694. Alston formerly established in Pasquotank Precinct and married a Quaker named Mary Clark in 1700/01. The only Clark
family professional to hold tight resided in Pasquotank Precinct at that antiquated date was headed by Mary (Palin) Clark, widow of John Clark Sr., who died in 1689. We decode from her husband's will that the
Clark's oldest preschooler was named Mary. The Alston/Archdale con
nection has some explosive credibility in the function of the widow Mary (Palin) Clark owned nation lock to Bureaucrat Archdale close
the mouth of Flatty Inlet anywhere it joins Albemarle Clarity.
All the same, I hold tight not been able to demonstrate the Alston/Archdale con nection.
A as police man work shows that Mary Clark was reasonably born
about 1685 and would hold tight been 15 or 16 being old in 1700/01.
John Alston reportedly was higher than 10 being colorless than Mary, but bride selection in Pasquotank was go for and 15-16 clearly
was a marriageable age for a young lady in relations times. All the same, I hold tight not naked any "hard remnant" that Mary (Clark) Alston
was the incredibly Mary Clark who was the preschooler of John and Mary (Palin) Clark.
An article by professional genealogist William Perry Johnson
about the ALSTON family in the Sink 1965 issue of the" of
NC "(of which Johnson was editor) ready a story
reported as passed down in ALSTON family lore about the origin
of Mary (Clark) Alston. In Johnson's counterfeit, Mary (Clark) Alston was an only babe orphaned at an antiquated age and raised by an old Chowan Indian woman. William Perry Johnson next is one of the
genealogists who unsatisfactorily denies the existence of John Clark Jr. and who suspicions the survival of his sister, Mary Clark.
Nevertheless his eager genealogical papers, I decode for certain
that he was damage about John Clark Jr. and care about he was
sporadic about Mary Clark as well.
The Alston's reportedly lived in Pasquotank Precinct early
finally settling in Chowan Precinct in 1710 or 1711, scheduled the
cap reaches of Bennett's Inlet close to the VA border (and not
far from Somerton, VA). We hold tight land credentials to peg the Alston's spread in Chowan to 1711, but we do not hold tight land credentials that show their presence in Pasquotank. All the same, I median award is a word reason for the lack of Alston land credentials in Pasquotank
Precinct. In the manner of John Alston married Mary Clark in 1700/01, Mary (Palin) Clark was a widow with a young son. It seems personable
to appropriate that Mary and her new husband reasonably resided with Mary's widowed father. Besides, the Alston's move to Chowan Precinct coincides with the remarriage of Mary (Palin) Clark to Joseph
Glaister in 1710 and the time John Clark Jr. reached his
load.
We decode, next, that Mary (Clark) Alston was raised a Quaker and
that her Quaker extraction were reflected in many ways stylish her
life. Thomas Harvey, a Quaker and son of a former Bureaucrat of the command was a close personal friend of both Alstons. He wrote in
his published letters that Mary Alston was a "eager Quaker in
fluence on her single-minded husband." Yet John Alston surge was
not a Quaker as he served as able formal of the Chowan
militia.
In the past up and about to Chowan Precinct, John Alston became a Correctness of the Subtle, a Correctness of the Chowan Go out with anywhere he served with Bar- nabas MacKinney, sheriff of Chowan Precinct, a successful window box and land swashbuckler and one of the leading member communication of antiquated Chowan Precinct.
John and Mary Alston raised a large family including five sons
and five daughters, all of whom no more eager paper trails. Stage
was on a plane a preschooler named Mary who, if she may possibly be amalgamated to John Clark of Anson Co., may possibly contemporary an high-quality explanation as to why Elijah's parents named a son Alston. But Mary Alston,
who was the Alston's third babe, was born about 1707 and appears
too young to hold tight been the Mary who married John Clark of Anson Co. Plus, Mary Alston is reported to hold tight had two hus
bands, Henry Gunston of Bertie Precinct and William Seward of
Isle of Wight Co., VA. (I hold tight been unable to re-evaluation out Mary Alston's husbands, but hold tight seen a strong challenge to the tradi tionally cited marriage of unusual Alston babe, Joseph John
Alston, who is reported to hold tight married Elizabeth Daring of
Pasquotank Precinct. All the same, Elizabeth Daring can be pass to
hold tight married delegation also, so perhaps award is remote yet to be wise person about the husbands of the ALSTON variety.)
John Alston died in Chowan Precinct in 1758. Based on his
reported initiate date of 1673 in Paversham, England (a date that
some hold tight challenged) Alston was 86 at the time of his short-lived. His companion Mary outlived him, reportedly dying in 1760 at the home of one of her sons. I hold tight seen John Alston's name on a list of
wills probated in Chowan Co. but hold tight not seen an perceive or former declare to the soundtrack of his will. Nor hold tight I seen a will for Mary (Clark) Alston. All the same, in 1760, Edward Clark of Bertie Co., son of Capt. John Clark of Bertie and grandson of
Thomas Clark of the Yeopim River, employed a Quaker lawyer named
John Sholar to recover certain family properties scheduled the cap
reaches of Bennett's Inlet.
Edward Clarke, planter of Sorority Area, Bertie Co.,
grants power of attorney to John Sholar, planter of incredibly,
to take on from Thomas Pinne, planter, James Turner esq.,
William Shepard, gent., all of Nansemond Co. VA, land un-
fairly in their occupancy at the image of Bennett's Inlet
in Nansemond Co. 15 OCT 1760. Witnesses: Jonathan Baker,
Jethro Kittrell. Registered October Go out with 1760.
I do not decode what this nation bicker was about or whether it
was CLARK nation at issue or dower nation. It is lively
to note, until now, that the headwaters of Bennett's Inlet are just a few miles from Somerton, VA anywhere Zachariah and Mary MOORMAN
superficially established and anywhere Micajah and Sally Ann (Moorman)
CLARK unaffected established their first home.
John CLARK Jr.
I hold tight found plausibly as track record on John Clark Jr.
All the same, the Clark nation on Flatty Inlet was described in a
1704 land immoderation to John Palin as belonging to Mary Clark:
John Palin, 2 SEP 1704, 250 acres on Flatty Inlet along with to
Bureaucrat Archdale's line and Mary Clark's line.
By 1716 this incredibly nation had become "John Clark's nation" as
cited in the in arrears land unquestionable fixed Tobias Shelver in
1716:
Tobias Shelver, 29 DEC 1716, 124 acres on Albemarle Clarity
combination John Clark, ye mouth of Flatty Inlet, a swamp, a
everglade and Mr. Duckenfield.
The CLARK nation cited in the Shelver unquestionable is a part of the novel 550 acre tract Mary Clark obtained in 1694. I accompany
the designation change as "validation" that Mary Clark as a matter of fact had a son in 1689 behind schedule her husband's short-lived. Unusual nation credentials scheduled Flatty Inlet next give a figure of John Clark as a fellow citizen, but the
1716 Shelver account is the head I may possibly obtain.
I next found a single declare to "Captain" John Clark of
Pasquotank on show 1713 who may hold tight been John Clark Jr. but higher unaffected was John Clarke of closest Perquimans Precinct who is
standard to hold tight been a "mariner". (It may be recalled that Elijah Clark's jump, John Clark of Anson Co., under arrest the rank of Colonel in the NC militia in 1754 after he wrote Bureaucrat Rowan regarding an Indian murder of immigrant families scheduled the Rotund River.)
The latest Pasquotank nation account naming John Clark was on show
2 JUN 1727 after "John Clark's locate tree" is cited as a perimeter in Col. John Palin's decode for a grant for 124 acres at the
mouth of Flatty Inlet. (The goods seems to aim that the
Shelver nation may hold tight been the incredibly tract considering claimed by Palin in 1727.)
In a Pasquotank Precinct list of Jurymen and Freeholders on show
1723, John Clark's name is followed by "Spiritless" in brackets.
Stage was no dash on the list as to what the bracketed in
formation meant, but conclusive the nature of the list my look forward to is that after the list was deep-set up in 1723, John Clark was away in Spiritless Precinct. This seems to be supported by an Albemarle Co.
Choice Go out with document selection that John Clark of Pasquotank was called for critical jury reliability in antiquated 1724 but did not show up. He was standard fined but the fine was considering null and void behind schedule Clark obtainable track record to the Go out with selection that he was pass on ing on the date of the jury call.
John Clark Jr. seems to hold back from Pasquotank credentials behind schedule June 1727 still about that time a divergent, distinct John
Clark appears in Pasquotank in the trap called Narrows, close
award Elizabeth Town. (John Clark Jr.'s abandonment from
Pasquotank is not adjustable with the standard fact that Elijah
Clark was born in Edgecombe Precinct in 1733. The question "Can
we hoof marks John Clark Jr. of Pasquotank to Edgecombe or Bertie
Precinct (Edgecombe's predecessor) between 1727 and 1733?"
I median that John Alston played a role in the abandonment of
John Clark Jr. from Pasquotank Precinct. In 1726, John Alston was
fixed 640 acres on the south side of the Roanoke River on Elm
Swamp in what was after that Bertie Precinct. It took me equally a in the role of to come across anywhere Elm Swamp was positioned in the function of the name does not rise up on now geophysical maps. All the same, the NC Onwards
Task genuine that Elm Swamp was an antiquated name for Morass
Swamp which lay south of Quankey Inlet and flowed south in the direction of the Tar River. I think John Alston used his wife's brother, John
Clark Jr., to "seat" his Elm Swamp nation and that John and
Mary (Gibson) Clark were living on this nation in Edgecombe Co.
after Alston and Elijah Clark were born.
Into the future last this summary, it could do with be noted that Charge John Palin's 1737 will gives the name of his youngest preschooler as
"Mary Clerke". In unusual Pasquotank document, which is not on show but appears amid Pasquotank credentials for the time 1748, award is a notice that 'Mary Clerk, preschooler of John Palin, married Ben
jamin Baptist". (My look forward to is that John Palin named his preschooler behind schedule his celebrated niece. Different Palin named a preschooler Mary Glaister Palin.) Mary Clark (Palin) Baptist had a son named
Clark Baptist. In 1755 Clark Baptist (he considering lived in Yellowish-brown Co. and Randolph Co. NC and died in Madison Co. KY) was mentioned
as a "friend and artist" of the land of John Palin Jr.,
youngest son of Charge John Palin. Expert lively is the fact
that one of the witnesses to John Palin Jr.'s will was Francis
Clark. Someplace did he come from? Was he the Francis Clark who was living in Princess Anne Co. VA? Was he the Francis Clark who was
the son of Capt. John Clark of Bertie Precinct? Was he the Fran
cis Clark who was the son of Edward Clark Jr. of Occoneechee
Neck?
Miscellaneous CLARKs of 17th Century Pasquotank
Scheduled below are two CLARK families of Pasquotank from the following partially of the eighteenth century. I haven't a head start as to whether they were amalgamated to the line of John Clark Sr. but the name
"Micajah Clark" made me pay attention. Perhaps delegation out award can either prove or invalidate a connection. (My gut feeling is
that award is no connection.)
Sylvanus and Ruth Clark were Pasquotank Quakers. Sylvanus died in
1781 and no more a will that down in the dumps sons -- James, Cornelius, Joseph and Sabas(?), and daughters Sarah and Ann. Joseph, who was the
third son, married Anna Upper floor in 1779 which suggests that his jump, Sylvanus, reasonably was born voice 1750.
Micajah and Sarah (Overman) Clark were Pasquotank Quakers.
Micajah appears to hold tight been a brother of Sylvanus best quality. In 1782 Quaker credentials show that they had variety named Sarah, Symptom, Mary, Zodac and Ephraim. Ephraim seems to hold tight been an tot.
Micajah next appears to hold tight been poor in the function of he was "under the care of the meeting" in 1780. In 1782 Micajah Clark petitioned
the Tryst for certification to attend and join a Quaker meeting
in the West Indies (Barbados?) but the certification was denied
in the function of the spacecraft on which he meant to flight carried weapons for conservation. Micajah appears to hold tight died in 1783 as his companion Martha was located in care of the Tryst and Relations were asked to as
sist in having two of her variety skip out. Symptom was skip out
to a Quaker tradesman who considering relocated and requested that
Symptom, still a slash in 1787, be certified in good standing to the Border line Quaker Tryst. (I considering found Symptom Clark, "son of Micajah of Narrows" being acknowledged into input by the Game Inlet meet-
ing of Randolph Co. NC on May 31, 1794 by which date he was
neither skip nor a slash.) Ephraim Clark, Micajah and Martha's
youngest babe, was well-ordered by the Pasquotank Tryst in 1801
for "quarreling and put forward to fight". The meeting was subse
quently informed that Ephraim had "off course to sea" and may possibly not be advised of the Meeting's action against him.
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