Jabez Clark

"History of Middlesex County, CT" pub 1884.

Jabez Clark, Sr.

• Father: Nathaniel Clark
• Mother: Sarah Graves
• Wife: Sarah Judd, daughter of Jonathan Judd & Hannah Diggens.

Their children: Nathaniel, Ede, Jabez Jr., Hannah, Sarah, Amos, Abner, Mercy, and 2 sons Timothy who died young.

Will

• Jabez Clark of Middletown made his will on18 April 1765.
• He left his wife Sarah one-third of his movable estate and the improvement of one-third of his land during her natural life. He left her the use and improvement of half his house and barn so long as she remained unmarried.
• He left his eldest son Nathaniel the northwest part of his home lot—about 16 acres and 127 rods—with the house and barn, six and a half acres he bought from Samuel Selton, and a yoke of oxen.
• He left his second son Jabez 24 and a half acres of land and his interest in a piece of land given by his father to him and his sister Hall for taking care of him and his mother in their old age.
• He left his third and fourth sons Amos and Abner the rest of his home lot containing 32 acres and also the land he bought from Ebenezer Sears containing 18 acres.
• He left his four sons his clothing, husbandry tools and utensils.
• He left his four daughters, Edey, Hannah, Sarah, and Mary, land in the Three Mile Division and his remaining personal and movable property.
• The bequests to his children were excepted what was given to his wife and excepting her rights.
• With the consent of his wife, he gave his son Jabez all the wages and profits due him from Captain Seth Doane for his late voyage to Boston and the Carolinas, and they were not to be part of his inventory.
• Whereas his eldest daughter Edey had been particularly helpful to the family, with the consent of his wife, he gave Edey various articles of household goods, and they were not to be part of his inventory.
• He named his wife and son Nathaniel his executors.
• The will was witnessed by John Norton, John Clark, and John Hinckley.
• It was proved on 2[?] September 1765. Inventory exhibited that day by John Clark and Elisha Cornwell amounted to about 405 pounds and two shillings. An account of the distribution was exhibited on 9 [?] April 1770.8

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References

• Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Apr 17 2017, 16:31:09 UTC
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9017275
• http://sibertancestry.org/Alphabet/Harding/C/Clark/JabezClark.html cites
• 1. "Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630–1870," online database, AmericanAncestors (2011, https://www.americanancestors.org/DB414/i/12576/211/24352578) > Middletown, images 45, 96–106, 267; Chatham, images 40–41, from original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928.
• 2. "Connecticut, U.S., Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629–1934," database with images, Ancestry (2012, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2900) > CT headstone inscriptions > vol. 13, image 299 (Sarah and husband Isaac); vol. 15, image 295 (Jabez).
• 3. "Jabez Clark," webpage, Findagrave (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9017275/jabez-clark), inscription: "Here lies the Body of Mr. Jabez Clark who Died Apr 25, 1765 in the 48 year of his age." "Jabez Clark, Jr." webpage, Findagrave (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61159916/jabez-clark), inscription: "Died Dec 25 1837"; "Ruth Hinckley Clark," webpage, Findagrave (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6115717/ruth-clark), inscription: "Wife of Jabez Clark died 1816 age 88 years; "Mary Clark Wood," webpage, Findagrave (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61362147/mercy-wood); "Joel Wood," webpage, Findagrave (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61361895/joel-wood).
• 4. Caroline Judd McDowell, Philip Judd and His Descendants (Grinnell, Iowa: Grinnell Harold Press, 1923), 14–16.
• 5. History of Middlesex County, Connecticut (New York: J.B. Beers & Co., 1884), 192, 205.
• 6. Charles J. Hoadley, The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, from October 1735 to October 1743 (Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard), 541.
• 7. David D. Field, Centennial Address, with Historical Sketches of ... Middletown and its Parishes (Middletown: William B. Casey, 1853), 286.
• 8. CWP. "Connecticut, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1609–1999," Ancestry (2015: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9049) > Hartford > Probate Packets, Clark, Abiah–Clinton, 1752–1880, images 507–20 (Jabez); > Middlesex > Probate Records, vol. 5–6, 1780–1799, image 287 (Isaac Bevin).
• 9. Barbara Jean Mathews, The Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut and His Wife Alice Tomes, vol. 2, part A (Wethersfield, CT: Wells Family Association, 2015), 241–3.
• 10. Laura (McGaffey) Clarenbach and Loretta (Broadwell) Ford, "Joshua Cook (Josiah, Josiah) of Eastham, Mass.," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 126 (1972): 81–93.
• 11. "Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630–1920," Ancestry (2013: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/3032) > vol. 26 East Hampton, image 76 (Isaac Bevin), image 620 (Mercy and Joel Wood); vol. 91 Portland, image 219.
• 12. Edward C. Starr, A History of Cornwall, Connecticut (New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1926), 522.
• map: U.S. Department of the Interior, USGS TopoView (https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/viewer/#12/41.5529/-72.5686 : accessed 2 October 2021).