Bob Barnes' Response to My Request:

Transcript by AMT

THE JOSEPH CLARK FAMILY

Problem: to reconstruct the families of Joseph and Stephen Clark

Sources and Abbreviations Checked:

A: Anne Arundel Co Church Records of the 17th and 18th Centuries. By F. Edward Wright. FLP.

No References [Note by AMT....not sepcifically for Clark but many references for Isabella Clark Beale nee Ferguson's family]

B: A Collection of Maryland Church Records. By Henry C. Peden, Jr. FLP, 1997

C: Barnes; Maryland Marriages, 1801-1820

D: Memoirs of the Dead and the Tomb's Remembrancer (1806). Repr by FLP

E: Marriages and Deaths from Baltimore Newspapers, 1796-1816. Ny Robert Barnes. GPC

F: Anne Arundel Co. Marriage Licenses. See Anne Arundel Co. Marriage Records 1777-1877. Comp; by John W. Powell Anne Arundel Co. Gen Society 1991.

G: Barnes; Gleanings from Maryland Newspapers 1727-1795 4 Vol

AARP: Revolutionary Patriots of Anne Arunel CO By Henry C. Peden Jr FLP

BAPA: Records of St. Paul's [Prot Ep} Parish 2 vols By Bill and Martha Reamy

DCNI: Marriages and Deaths1800-1820 from the National Intelligencer: Washington D.C. By Frank Metcalf and George C. Marin WAshington: THe National Genealogical society, 1968. Marriages and Deaths 1821- were publishd in the Natiobnal Genealogical Soc Quarterly.

DCPR: District of Columbia Probate Records 1801-1852. By Wesley E. Pippenger, FLP, 1996.

Other Abbreviations Used:

FLP: WEstminster: Family Line Publciations

GPC: BAltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc.

Findings:

1, (N) Clark was the father of

2.Joseph d. 26 April 1798.

3. Stephen, Annapolis bookseller and stationer

2. JOSEPH CLARK, son of (n) (1) d. 26 April 1798. He was buried 27 April 1798 in St. Paul's Parish , BA Co. (BAPA 1:117). He M. on 6 Nov 1777 Isabella Ferguson (Barnes; Maryland Marriages, 1634-1777) who m. as her second husband, Joseph Keibard Beale in St. Paul's Parish on 8 Sep 1799 ( BAPA 1:132) [NOTE AMT: There is a type here it should read Thomas Keibard Beale not Joseph.]

Neither Joseph or Stephen Clark seem to have been active in AA. Co during the Rev. Was (AARP) [Note from Anne...Joseph and Stephen Clark are paid by the state of MD for various goods and services during the Revolution, predominantly as merchants. I believe this constituted their primary activity in aiding the war and themselves of course. See MD State Papers at MSA]

Joseph Clarke's obituary stated that he was an architect, and formerly grand master of teh Free Masons in Maryland (BFG 26 April 1798)

Joseph was the father of:

4. Horatio b. c1779 d. 1 Sep 1793 at Annapolis, eldest son of Joseph Clark, aged 14 years, 2 mos. (BMJ 10 Sep 1793)

5. (N) Child Buried at St. Paul's, BA Co 13 Aug 1788 (BAPA 1:46) [Note by AMT this is probably the child of another Joseph Clark living in Baltimore during Clark's lifetime see Rice aricle about cordwainer....this si because Clark still lived in Annapolis at this time and was attending St. Anne's Parish in Annapolis acting as vestryman)

6. (N) child, buried at St. Paul's BA Co. on 24 Sep 1790 [Note Seen AMT's previous noe about St. Anne's]

7. (n) son, bur. at St. Paul's, BA on 5 Nov 1791 (BAPA 1:66). [See above note***]

8. Mary S, m. William A. magee

8. MARY S. CLARK, dau of Joseph Clark. d.. in Washington DC by Oct 1831. She m, William A. Magee.

Mary S. Magee d. leaving a will dated 10 Oct 1831, proved 21 Oct 1831. She described herself as the only surviving daughter of the late Joseph Clarke, formerly of Annapolis, and widow of William A. Magee, formerly of Maryland. She left all her goods and estate, and claims against the State of Maryland (for planning, building, and erecting the State House and for building St. John's college) to her young friend Dr. Robert T. Barry of the City of Washington. Dr. Robert T. Barrry was excecutor and tjhe will was witnesssed by J.C. Hall, M.D. and John McNerhany (DC WILL Book 4:94-95 (97-98); Box 11