Silence Smith

Silence Clark was christened 6 Jun 1697 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, the daughter of George Clark Jr. and Deborah Gould, and died there about 1763.

She married Samuel Buckingham on 20 May 1714, the son of Samuel Buckingham and Sarah Rogers. He was born before 21 November 1693 in Milford, and died there 29 Dec 1749.

She married Ebenezer Clark after 1750, the son of Benjamin Smith and Sarah Phippen. He was born before 31 January 1692 in Milford, and died there in June 1763. He was Anna Fowler's widower.

The 11 children of Samuel Buckingham and Silence Clark:

1. Sarah BUCKINGHAM, 1716 – 1762
2. Deborah BUCKINGHAM, 1718 – 1808
3. Abigail BUCKINGHAM, 1720 – 1805
4. Ann BUCKINGHAM, 1723 – 1776
5. Samuel BUCKINGHAM, 1725 – 1749*
6. Ebenezer BUCKINGHAM, 1727 – 1795*
7. Esther BUCKINGHAM, 1730 – 1823
8. Jared BUCKINGHAM, 1732 – 1814
9. Nathan BUCKINGHAM, 1735 – 1815*
10. Elizabeth BUCKINGHAM, 1738 – 1833
11. Enoch BUCKINGHAM, 1741 – 1814*

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References

1. page 148 of History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Volume 1 By Donald Lines Jacobus.
2. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clark-4825
3. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gold-189
4. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Buckingham-134
5. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Smith-18097
6. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15018560/samuel-buckingham
7. WikiTree contributors, "Silence (Clark) Buckingham (bef.1697-abt.1763)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clark-4825 : accessed 30 November 2024). cites
   1. Baldwin, Charles Candee, The Candee Genealogy : with notices of allied families of Allyn, Catlin, Cooke, Mallery, Newell, Norton, Pynchon, and Wadsworth (Cleveland, Ohio, Leader Printing Company, 1882), p. 97.
   2. Rev. F. W. Chapman, The Buckingham Family; or the Descendants of Thomas Buckingham, One of the First Settlers of Milford, Conn. (Hartford, CT, Press of Case, Lockwood and Brainard, 1872), p. 45.
   3. Marriage (1) to Samuel Buckingham (NEHGS; image of typescript): "CLARK... Silence, m. Sam[ue]l Buckingham, May 20, 1714, by Rev. Sam[ue]l Andrews" -- Milford VRs, p. 57; Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928; https://www.americanancestors.org/DB414/i/12578/57/139531091 (by subscription)
   4. Marriage of son Ebenezer to Abigail Andrew: Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), p. 6; preview, https://books.google.com/books?id=RJcfa0INt4IC&pg=PA6&lpg=PA6&dq=
   5. Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, as above, p. 205, p. 678; no online preview available as of July, 2021
   6. Rev. F. W. Chapman, The Buckingham Family, p. 45.
   7. Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Phippen Family and Wife of Nathan Gold of Fairfield, Connecticut, The American Genealogist (1940) Vol. 17, Page 12.