Doctor John (Clarke) Clark (Yale College, Class of 1749) born Jan. 7, 1728,
Lebanon, CT.; died Dec. 23, 1822; married Nov. 7, 1751, at Lebanon, Jerusha
Huntington, born Aug. 24, 1731, and died Dec. 14, 1823, daughter of Elizabeth
Edwards. Her mother, dying when she was but three, she was brought up in the
family of her uncle, Rev. Jonathan Edwards, where she and Aaron Burr, Jr., were
playmates, but she refused to see him when her cousin came to say good-bye after
his duel and disgrace, speaking of him as a traitor and murderer.
Dr. Clark graduated from Yale, 1749, studied medicine and was a physician in
Lebanon for forty years. He was medical purveyor for the Revolutionary Army, and
one of the committee to examine those who wished to be army surgeons, and was
army surgeon, 1780-81, when the French troops were quartered in Lebanon.
He was deputy to the General Assembly 1776 and 1777, was on the local committee
of safety and was one of a committee to arrest violators of the Non-Importation
Act. He received a grant of land from the government in New York, whither he
removed shortly before his death.
Rev War Vet
Lebanon, CT.; died Dec. 23, 1822; married Nov. 7, 1751, at Lebanon, Jerusha
Huntington, born Aug. 24, 1731, and died Dec. 14, 1823, daughter of Elizabeth
Edwards. Her mother, dying when she was but three, she was brought up in the
family of her uncle, Rev. Jonathan Edwards, where she and Aaron Burr, Jr., were
playmates, but she refused to see him when her cousin came to say good-bye after
his duel and disgrace, speaking of him as a traitor and murderer.
Dr. Clark graduated from Yale, 1749, studied medicine and was a physician in
Lebanon for forty years. He was medical purveyor for the Revolutionary Army, and
one of the committee to examine those who wished to be army surgeons, and was
army surgeon, 1780-81, when the French troops were quartered in Lebanon.
He was deputy to the General Assembly 1776 and 1777, was on the local committee
of safety and was one of a committee to arrest violators of the Non-Importation
Act. He received a grant of land from the government in New York, whither he
removed shortly before his death.
Rev War Vet
Doctor John (Clarke) Clark (Yale College, Class of 1749) born Jan. 7, 1728,
Lebanon, CT.; died Dec. 23, 1822; married Nov. 7, 1751, at Lebanon, Jerusha
Huntington, born Aug. 24, 1731, and died Dec. 14, 1823, daughter of Elizabeth
Edwards. Her mother, dying when she was but three, she was brought up in the
family of her uncle, Rev. Jonathan Edwards, where she and Aaron Burr, Jr., were
playmates, but she refused to see him when her cousin came to say good-bye after
his duel and disgrace, speaking of him as a traitor and murderer.
Dr. Clark graduated from Yale, 1749, studied medicine and was a physician in
Lebanon for forty years. He was medical purveyor for the Revolutionary Army, and
one of the committee to examine those who wished to be army surgeons, and was
army surgeon, 1780-81, when the French troops were quartered in Lebanon.
He was deputy to the General Assembly 1776 and 1777, was on the local committee
of safety and was one of a committee to arrest violators of the Non-Importation
Act. He received a grant of land from the government in New York, whither he
removed shortly before his death.
Rev War Vet
Lebanon, CT.; died Dec. 23, 1822; married Nov. 7, 1751, at Lebanon, Jerusha
Huntington, born Aug. 24, 1731, and died Dec. 14, 1823, daughter of Elizabeth
Edwards. Her mother, dying when she was but three, she was brought up in the
family of her uncle, Rev. Jonathan Edwards, where she and Aaron Burr, Jr., were
playmates, but she refused to see him when her cousin came to say good-bye after
his duel and disgrace, speaking of him as a traitor and murderer.
Dr. Clark graduated from Yale, 1749, studied medicine and was a physician in
Lebanon for forty years. He was medical purveyor for the Revolutionary Army, and
one of the committee to examine those who wished to be army surgeons, and was
army surgeon, 1780-81, when the French troops were quartered in Lebanon.
He was deputy to the General Assembly 1776 and 1777, was on the local committee
of safety and was one of a committee to arrest violators of the Non-Importation
Act. He received a grant of land from the government in New York, whither he
removed shortly before his death.
Rev War Vet
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