I am looking for any Family tree information including the father or grandfather of David Clark whom I can provide the following information for:
Excerpts from the book "A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BISHOP FAMILY INCLUDING THE TROTT, MARVIN, ROGERS, MATHER, TRUSDALE and CLARK FAMILIES" REMINISCENCES OF THE CLARK FAMILY BY CLARK BRADEN COMPILED IN 1906 The surname name “Clark” is corrupt spelling of the name Clerk,which originally meant a “writer”, a “scholar.” Persons were known as “John the Clerk (Clark),” William the Clerk (Clark), abbreviated into John Clark, William Clark. As there were many such persons, the surname “Clark” is one of the most common surnames of the old English names. Among the earliest English immigrants into Ireland was a family of Clarks who became tenants of Lord Nazarene near Antrim, Donegan Parish, northeastern Ireland. When the Clarks became Protestants part of them became Quakers. They were an energetic, vigorous, long lifed race. One of them pasted on a post in his kitchen more than eighty receipts for annual rent and died at the age of 105. David Clark was adopted and reared by a wealthy uncle, who was a bachelor and a Quaker; and David retained a Quaker style of dress until the close of his life. The uncle was an extensive dealer in cattle, and from early boyhood David used to accompany his uncle on his trips. When about twenty David Clark joined a secret, patriotic society whose aim was the independency of Ireland. Warned that they had been betrayed to the government, David Clark fled to the mountains, and after days of perilous adventures he escaped to America where the war of the Revolution soon began. He was a soldier, first in the New Jersey Continentals, and I think he accompanied Washington to New England, and took part in the seige of Boston. He was in the battles of Long Island, White Plains, German Town, Brandywine, and Yorktown; and may have been in the battles of Princeton, Trenton and Monmouth, and was with Washington during the winter at Valley Forge. He was Division Wagon Master in the siege of Yorktown. His last service was in the Pennsylvania Continentals, for which he received a land warrant, signed by Dr. Benjamin Franklin. He located his claim in South Beaver, Beaver Co., Pennsylvania. The Jeffers were a Welch family that settled in Chester Co., Pa., early in the history of the commonwealth and for generations were one of the leading families in Pennsylvania. Many members of the family held office in Chester and York counties. In an Indian raid all of the large family of Jeffers, except three, were massacred. The oldest son escaped with Tamor, the babe, in his arms. Samuel, a lad of fifteen, mingled undetected with the Indians until he had a chance to escape. Tamor Jeffers was sent to an uncle in North Carolina, who reared her. and when a young woman she returned to her people in Pennsylvania. After much opposition by her family she married a young Irishman named Foddis. who died before the close of the Revolution and, I think in the army. He left two sons, Robert and John Foddis. John Foddis lived in Beaver Co., and had two sons, Isaac and John Foddis, and — daughters. Isaac Foddis had a large family, and he and his wife lived to be nearly 100 years old. They were influential citizens, honored by all who knew them. The history of John Foddis and his family was one of the saddened tragedies of Western Pennsylvania. Only one of his children left children. Soon after the close of the war Tamor displeased her snobbish family by marrying the young Irish soldier, David Clark. About 1786 David Clark settled on his government land in the wilderness of Western Pennsylvania. He reared his step-sons, Robert and John Foddis. David and Tamor Clark had five children: David, Allen, John, Margaret and Elizabeth. David, son of David and Tamor Clark, was a captain in the war of 1812. His brothers, Allen and John, were soldiers in his company. After the “war David moved to Wayne Co., Ohio, and died there a few years later. Allen, son of David and Tamor Clark, moved to Wayne Co., Ohio, also. Later in life he moved to Tippecanoe Co., Ind., and died there at an advanced age. John Clark Ridpath, the eminent historian, was a grandson of Allen Clark. Margaret, daughter of David and Tamor Clark, married Frank Johnson. They lived in Wayne Co., Ohio, and had several children who were prominent in business and the professions. Elizabeth, daughter of David and Tamor Clark, was born in 1792. She was married in 1808, to James Truesdale, son of Hugh Truesdale and Mary Lytle. He was born in 1782. One of their sons, John Clark Truesdale, was an eminent preacher in the Presbyterian church. John Clark, son of David and Tamor Clark, born Jan. 19, 1786, died Jan. 10, 1860. He married Mary Truesdale in 1808. She was the daughter of Hugh Truesdale and Mary Lytle, and the sister of James Truesdale who married Elizabeth Clark, sister to John Clark. Mary Truesdale was born July 9, 1788, died Oct. 9, 1821. The children of John Clark and Mary Truesdale Clark; were Jeanette, David, John, Mary, Allen, Martha, Tamor and Gibson. Mary Truesdale Clark died of puereral fever following the birth of her son Gibson. John Clark then married Sarah Foster, daughter of David and Margaret Foster. Their children were: David, Margaret, Joseph, Martha, Scott, Elijah, Ann, Elihu and Lemuel and Samuel, twins. The first David Clark, son of John and Mary Truesdale Clark, died when twelve years old, Martha, their daughter, at eight. Margaret, the daughter of John and Sarah Foster Clark, died at ten, Samuel in infancy. Lemuel died when four years old. The rest of the children of John Clark lived to maturity. Jeanette Clark, daughter of John Clark and Mary Truesdale, married Robert Braden, and lived in Williamsfield, Ohio. They were pioneers andleaders in anti-slavery and temperance work in Ashtabula county, Ohio. They had thirteen children. Clark Braden, son of Jeanette Clark and Robert Braden, and the writer of this Clark history, was a debator, lecturer, and president of a western college. He died in California. John K. Clark, son of John Clark and Mary Truesdale, married Emily Doyle, nee Harris. They had five children: William H, Joseph H., Henry H., Travilla and Mary. Joseph H. Clark, son of John K. Clark and Emily Doyle, married Grace Annette Smith. They had three children: Elizabeth, Jay Reid and Mary Emily. Elizabeth Clark, daughter of Joseph II. Clark and Grace Annette Smith, married D. W. Renner, and they live on the farm formerly owned by her father, Joseph H. Clark, in Ashtabula Co., Ohio. This farm is just west of the artificial lake, Pymatuning, which is on the line between Ohio and Pennsylvania. Jay Reid Clark, son of Joheph H. Clark and Grace A. Smith, brother of Elizabeth Clark Renner, married and his wife not living. He owns a fine brick residence and store combined in Williamsfield, Ohio, not far from his sister Elizabeth’s home. His home is situated on the trans-continental highway, No. 322. He has two children. His daughter, Grace Clark Armstrong, and her family reside with him. His daughter has a son born about 1934-35, named John Clark Armstrong. The son of Jay Reid Clark is Harry Clark Mary Emily Clark, daughter of Joseph H. Clark and Grace A. Smith, and sister to Elizabeth Clark Renner and Jay Reid Clark, is living in a nice home in Andover, Ohio. Mary Clark, daughter of John Clark and Mary Truesdale, was born about 1813, in Beaver Co., Pennsylvania, she died in the summer of 1876, in Macon Co., Missouri. She was married May 17, 1832, in Beaver Co., Penna., to Elihu Marvin Trott, born Aug. 30, 1807, Wilkes-Barre, Penna., son of Dr. Geo. W. Trott and Sarah Rogers Marvin, he died Aug. 1877 Macon Co., Missouri. They lived for a while in Beaver Co., Penna. In 1837 they moved to Ashtabula Co, Ohio. In April 1858 they moved to Shelby County, Missouri. Their children: Sarah Elizabeth, Enoch Marvin, Mary Truesdale, John Clark, George, Martha, Lewis, Seldon Theophilus, Catherine Mather, Huntington. The family record of their children will be found in the Trott genealogy. Their daughter, Mary Truesdale Trott, married Dec. 9, 1858, Shelbyville, Mo., to Charles H. Bishop born Wayne, Me., son of Squire and Hannah Morey Bishop. The record of their family will be found in the Bishop Genealogy. Allen Clark, son of John Clark and Mary Truesdale, married Mary Young. They had four children: William, Mary, Priscilla and Stephen. Stephen Cark, son of Allen Clark and Mary Young, was a prominent attorney in Youngstown, Ohio, died in July, 1917. He married Addie Noble, she died about 1938. They left no children. Tamor Clark, daughter of John Clark and Mary Truesdale, married Thomas Milliken. They had eight children: John, Jefferson, Richard, James, Charles, Allen and Elizabeth.Elizabeth Milliken married _Cram, is now living in Warren, Ohio. Gibson Clark, son of John Clark and Mary Truesdale, was their youngest child. She died following his birth of puerperal fever. He married Julia Waters. They had four children: Truesdale, Reed, Henry Lee, Zelma. Truesdale died when young. Reed was superintendent of Ashtabula Co., schools, and of the Kent, Ohio schools, is now dead. Zelma married Hamilton, lived at Canton, Ohio, is now dead. Henry Lee is a retired railroad engineer, is now living in Ashtabula, Ohio, with his daughters, Cora Clark and Catherine Clark Peebles. David Clark born in the County of Antrim, Donnegan Parish, Ireland, Sept, 1, 1749, Died Jan. 28, 1832. Tamer, wife of David Clark, born Feb. 7, 1751, Died May 7, 1829. John Clark Born Jan. 19, 1786 Died Jan. 10, 1860. Mary, wife Born July 9, 1788 Died Oct. 9, 1821. The above records were copied from the tombstones in a cemetery marked “R. P. Church Assn.” located at New Galilee, Pa. on Little Beaver River, North Fork. These stones were all in a row and perfectly legible. The stone of David, son of John and Mary, was also beside that of his mother but I did not copy the dates on that. The above records were copied from these stones in the year 1926 by Cora J. Clark, gr-gr grand-daughter of David Clark, and gr grand-daughter of John Clark. She lives in Ashtabula, Ohio. Clark Braden, the writer of these REMINISCENCES of the CLARK FAMILY, was the son of Jeanette Clark Braden. She lived with her grandparents, David and Tamor Clark, most of her life until her marriage. She listened to the reminiscences of her grand-parents and relatives who visited them. Clark Braden put on record a part of what he remembered of such incidents as narrated by his mother, and what he learned from other sources. When David Clark and several of his fellow conspirators were hiding in the mountains, they saw a band of their pursuers on a road beneath. One of the conspirators was what the Irish call a ‘‘Fairy man,” who pretended to have a great superhuman power, the ability to strike people dead. David Clark said to him jeeringly, ‘‘Would not this be great time to assert your power and strike these fellows dead?” “I could if I had my wand,” cooly stated the imposter. As David was travelling one night in his flight, he saw the flashes of the moonbeams on the steel helmets, of the dragoons who were on his trail. He rushed into a house where a widow and her daughter were alone and entreated concealment. He was smooth faced and wore his hair long, tied in a cue. The women put a night gown on him, let his long hair down on his shoulders, and he laid down in bed between them. In a moment the dragoons ransacked the house from top to bottom, but did not molest the three women in the bed. As soon as the dragoons were out of hearing he continued his flight. When he passed Leisburne he saw the heads and quarters of the leaders of the conspirators about the gates of the town. Among other stories that he used to tell were the following: The Quakers were opposed to all war, and some were Tories. As soldiers in our Civil war treated all “peace men” as rebels and “foraged” on them when they could. In a foraging raid David Clark and his squad were surprised by a squad of British dragoons. The foragers were loaded with booty. David Clark had as many ducks as he could well carry. The rest threw away their ducks as they plunged into the woods, but with doggedness of a Clark, David clung to his ducks. As he scrambled over a great chestnut tree the bark peeled off and completely covered him as he tumbled to the ground. He lay still until the dragoons disappeared in pursuit of the rest, and then he walked into camp in triumph with all of his ducks. When Baron Stucker was about to review the Army in Valley Forge, Washington issued an order requiring all soldiers to parade in clean clothes, especially shirts. One soldier, an Irishman, had no shirt. He sometimes bought milk at a Tory farm house and noticed in the kitchen a large chest in which clothing was kept. He had learned that each night the grand-mother sat before the fire and smoked before she locked up. She was very deaf. As soon as she began to smoke the Irishman slipped in, and raising the lid of the chest seized the shirt. The lid slipped out of his hand and dropped with a bang that the old woman heard. She saw what the soldier was doing and shouted, “You villain, you will answer for that on the day of Judgement.” “Indade, Madam,” cooly retorted the Irishman, “If you will give me as long credit as that, I will take two,” and cooly grabbed another. He appeared on parade in all the glories of a clean shirt. Mother said, that when asked if he were not that Irishman her grandfather would laugh making no denial. These incidents show that in the War of the Revolution these soldiers closely resembled our soldiers in the Civil War. Sam Jeffers, brother of Tamor, was a great Indian fighter. Grandfather David was very much opposed to the marriage of his daughter Margaret to Frank Johnson. To prevent an elopement, he compelled her to work in the field with him clad in nothing except a long linen chemise. lie left her hoeing corn while he went for water. Johnson, seated on a horse, was watching the hoeing from a wood that bordered the field. As soon as the father was out of sight, he rode up to the fence, and Margaret sprang up on the horse behind him. They made all haste to a Justice of the Peace who married them, the bride clad in a single garment, linen chemise. Their children partook of the resolute character of their parents. This family lived in Wayne Co., Ohio. David Clark and his family were members of the Convenanter congregation that would not vote or hold office under our National Constitution, because it recognized and regulated slavery and the slave trade. In the same neighborhood was another Convenanter Congregation that would vote and hold office. They were identical in all matters. The preacher in the non-voting congregation was sick one Sabboth and there were no services. John Claik, on his way home, stopped and attended services in the voting congiegation. He was expelled from the non-voting for “Occasional Attendance.” Such was the religious toleration of the times. David Clark and his descendents were noted as abolitionists. The homes of John Clark and his children were depots of the under ground railroad and the stopping place af anti-slavery speakers, and of fugitive slave speakers. He and his children were among the first abolitionists in Ashtabula Co., and among the most zealous and active. John Clark was the first man in Western Pennsylvania who would not tolerate intoxicants in his home or on his farm. He made that rule when he got married in 1808, and he rigidly adhered to it till death. He was noted for his free and lavish hospitality. He gave liberally to the cause of temperance. The first temperance society in Ashtabula Co., Ohio was organized in 1811, and the meetings were held in John Clark's great barn. In his business and work, John Clark was an untiring worker, saving, careful, thrifty, but perfectly honest. He once owned 831 acres in Williamsfield. He was public spirited and liberal with the great property he had accumulated. In the Civil War Elijah Clark was a soldier. William, Clark, Wallace, George and Gibson Braden, all sons of Jeanette Clark Braden were soldiers. Edward Northway, husband of Margaret Braden, Parson Lewis, husband of Rosaline Braden, and Lorenzo Harris, husband of Lucinda Braden, were soldiers. William and Joseph Clark, sons of John K. Clark, were soldiers. Marvin Trott, son of Mary Clark Trott, and her sons-in-law, Elisha Stover and Charles H. Bishop, were soldiers. Col. Elijah Travillo, officers in the war of 1812, and for many years sheriff and leading citizen of Pittsburgh, was a cousin of John Clark. His mother was a sister of David Clark. The singer, Sankey, was a great grandson of a sister of David Clark. The grandfather of Grace Greenwood, S. J. Clark Lippincot.t, was a cousin of David Clark. The Clarks were noted for the ability of their women. Granny Tamor was a woman of great intelligence. The Truesdale’s originally came from Linconshire, England and Scotland. One of them was a captain in the army of Cromwell, who settled in Ireland, and his descendants came to America. The Revolutionary soldier, Hugh Truesdale, whose son, James Truesdale, married Elizabeth Clark; and whose daughter, Mary Truesdale, married John Clark, brother of Elizabeth Clark. Hugh Truesdale assisted in establishing American Independence while acting in the capacity of private in the Cumberland Co., Pa. Militia which was in service in 1778. Captain Charles Leiper was the Commanding Officer. This officer was killed in the battle of Crooked Billet May 4, 1778. Penna. Archives Second Series Vol. XV Page 602. (1st Gen.) Hugh Truesdale, born in County Down, Ireland in 1730, and died in Beaver Co., Penna. m in 1814. Married to Mary Lytle in 1777. Children: William, James, John, Mary.(2nd Gen.) James Truesdale, son of Hugh Truesdale and Mary Lytle, b 1782, M 1808, Elizabeth Clark b 1792, daughter of David Clark and Tamor Jeffers Clark. Children: John Clark Truesdale, Tamar Truesdale. (3rd Gen.) John Clark, son of James Truesdale and Elizabeth Clark, b June 22, 1833, died Nov. 30, 1904, was a Presbyterian minister, he married Mary Freeman, Their children: Wilton W., Northfield, Minn., Judge James E., Alexandria, Ind., Mrs. William J. Findley, Sac City, Iowa, and David Charles of Chicago.(3rd Gen.)Tamor Truesdale married James Boon. (2nd Gen.) Mary Truesdale, daughter of Hugh Truesdale and Mary Lytle, b July 9, 1788, died Oct. 9, 1821, M 1808 Beaver Co., Penna., to John Clark b Jan. 19, 1786, died Jan. 10, 1860, son of David Clark and Tamor Jeffers Clark. Children: Jeanette, David, John, Mary, Allen, Martha, Tamor, Gibson. (3rd Gen.) Mary, daughter of Mary Truesdale and John Clark, born 1813-14, Beaver Co., Penna. died 1876, Macon Co., Missouri, M May^l7, 1832, Beaver Co., Penna. to Elihu Marvin Trott born Aug. 30, 1807, WilkesBarre, Penna., died Aug. 1877, Macon Co., Missouri. He was a son of Dr. Geo. W. Trott and Sarah Rogers Marvin. Children: Sarah Elizabeth, Enoch Marvin, Mary Truesdale, John Clark, George, Martha, Lewis, Seldon Theophilus, Catherine Mather, Huntington. (4th Gen.) Mary Truesdale Trott, daughter of Mary Clark and Elihu Marvin Trott, b July 27, 1837. Ashtabula Co., Ohio, died Jan. 17, 1894, M Dec. 9, 1858 Shelbyville, Mo., to Charles H. Bishop, b Jan. 18, 1830, Wayne, Maine, died June 2, 1924, Kearney, Nebr., both are interred in Kearney, Nebr. cemetery.Children: William George, Hannah Elizabeth (Libbie), Francis Huntington (Frank), Martha Althea (Mattie) Anna Marvin, Charles Elihu, Mable Katherine, Mamie Neemes., The record of these children will be found in the Bishop Genealogy. The record of the children of Mary Clark and Elihu Marvin Trott will be found in the Trott Genealogy. John Truesdale, probably a bother of Hugh Truesdale, served as a private in Capt. William Black’s Co. Fifth Battalion Cumberland Co., Penna. Born in Ireland, 1745 died 1819, Austinburg, Mahoning Co., Ohio. This record was found in a D.A.R. Lineage Book. A descendent of his, Mrs. Lucy Z. Jacobs is a member of D.A.R. Society. John Truesdale married Hannah Robinson and they had a son, Alexander Truesdale.
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Joshua Clark
