Adjoining photograph: left to right: Jonathan and Mary Manning Hamilton (tombs), Joseph Hamilton, fieldstone, Betsy Hamilton Clarke
While photographing Old Parsons Cemetery aka Gluke Cemetery, on Garrity Road, Lee NH, I photographed the headstone of Susan Farnham On the back of her stone is the partial memorial for Betsey Hamilton Clarke pictured on this memorial.
I have since learned that Betsey Hamilton's father and mother, Jonathan and Mary Manning Hamilton, and Betsey's infant daughter, Betsy Hamilton Clarke, are interred in Old Field Cemetery. I believe the infant, aged 4 months, would be interred next to her mother who predeceased her (Mar 1793).
Where is Betsey Clarke's headstone? Is it underground?
Is the stone in Gluke Cemetery a discarded/flawed piece of slate when it was chosen to memorialize Susan Farnham?
Was Betsey Clarke's headstone stolen from Old Field Cemetery, ultimately to be used to memorialize another?
I do know that Peter Clarke, a merchant, and Betsey Hamilton wed on 26 Feb 1792 in Berwick, MA, their marriage vows witnessed by Rev Jonathan Tompson. I know that Betsey died in 1793, age 21.
I also know that Peter remarried, and that Peter and Nancy Clarke presented a child named Betsy Hamilton Clarke for baptism on 6 May 1796 in Portsmouth, NH. Peter Clarke, son of Rev Jonas Clarke and Lucy Bowes Clarke "was on a merchant ship bound for Cadiz, Spain when a French privateer seized it a few days out of Charleston, SC. Peter was imprisoned on the Caribbean Island of Guadalupe. While imprisoned, Peter contracted a disease which was to prove fatal. He died aboard a ship bound for Newburyport, MA in 1798, at the age of 33 years."
Excerpted from: "Patriot Parson of Lexington, Massachusetts, The Reverend Jonas Clarke..." by Richard P Kollen
I continue to search.
While photographing Old Parsons Cemetery aka Gluke Cemetery, on Garrity Road, Lee NH, I photographed the headstone of Susan Farnham On the back of her stone is the partial memorial for Betsey Hamilton Clarke pictured on this memorial.
I have since learned that Betsey Hamilton's father and mother, Jonathan and Mary Manning Hamilton, and Betsey's infant daughter, Betsy Hamilton Clarke, are interred in Old Field Cemetery. I believe the infant, aged 4 months, would be interred next to her mother who predeceased her (Mar 1793).
Where is Betsey Clarke's headstone? Is it underground?
Is the stone in Gluke Cemetery a discarded/flawed piece of slate when it was chosen to memorialize Susan Farnham?
Was Betsey Clarke's headstone stolen from Old Field Cemetery, ultimately to be used to memorialize another?
I do know that Peter Clarke, a merchant, and Betsey Hamilton wed on 26 Feb 1792 in Berwick, MA, their marriage vows witnessed by Rev Jonathan Tompson. I know that Betsey died in 1793, age 21.
I also know that Peter remarried, and that Peter and Nancy Clarke presented a child named Betsy Hamilton Clarke for baptism on 6 May 1796 in Portsmouth, NH. Peter Clarke, son of Rev Jonas Clarke and Lucy Bowes Clarke "was on a merchant ship bound for Cadiz, Spain when a French privateer seized it a few days out of Charleston, SC. Peter was imprisoned on the Caribbean Island of Guadalupe. While imprisoned, Peter contracted a disease which was to prove fatal. He died aboard a ship bound for Newburyport, MA in 1798, at the age of 33 years."
Excerpted from: "Patriot Parson of Lexington, Massachusetts, The Reverend Jonas Clarke..." by Richard P Kollen
I continue to search.
Adjoining photograph: left to right: Jonathan and Mary Manning Hamilton (tombs), Joseph Hamilton, fieldstone, Betsy Hamilton Clarke
While photographing Old Parsons Cemetery aka Gluke Cemetery, on Garrity Road, Lee NH, I photographed the headstone of Susan Farnham On the back of her stone is the partial memorial for Betsey Hamilton Clarke pictured on this memorial.
I have since learned that Betsey Hamilton's father and mother, Jonathan and Mary Manning Hamilton, and Betsey's infant daughter, Betsy Hamilton Clarke, are interred in Old Field Cemetery. I believe the infant, aged 4 months, would be interred next to her mother who predeceased her (Mar 1793).
Where is Betsey Clarke's headstone? Is it underground?
Is the stone in Gluke Cemetery a discarded/flawed piece of slate when it was chosen to memorialize Susan Farnham?
Was Betsey Clarke's headstone stolen from Old Field Cemetery, ultimately to be used to memorialize another?
I do know that Peter Clarke, a merchant, and Betsey Hamilton wed on 26 Feb 1792 in Berwick, MA, their marriage vows witnessed by Rev Jonathan Tompson. I know that Betsey died in 1793, age 21.
I also know that Peter remarried, and that Peter and Nancy Clarke presented a child named Betsy Hamilton Clarke for baptism on 6 May 1796 in Portsmouth, NH. Peter Clarke, son of Rev Jonas Clarke and Lucy Bowes Clarke "was on a merchant ship bound for Cadiz, Spain when a French privateer seized it a few days out of Charleston, SC. Peter was imprisoned on the Caribbean Island of Guadalupe. While imprisoned, Peter contracted a disease which was to prove fatal. He died aboard a ship bound for Newburyport, MA in 1798, at the age of 33 years."
Excerpted from: "Patriot Parson of Lexington, Massachusetts, The Reverend Jonas Clarke..." by Richard P Kollen
I continue to search.
While photographing Old Parsons Cemetery aka Gluke Cemetery, on Garrity Road, Lee NH, I photographed the headstone of Susan Farnham On the back of her stone is the partial memorial for Betsey Hamilton Clarke pictured on this memorial.
I have since learned that Betsey Hamilton's father and mother, Jonathan and Mary Manning Hamilton, and Betsey's infant daughter, Betsy Hamilton Clarke, are interred in Old Field Cemetery. I believe the infant, aged 4 months, would be interred next to her mother who predeceased her (Mar 1793).
Where is Betsey Clarke's headstone? Is it underground?
Is the stone in Gluke Cemetery a discarded/flawed piece of slate when it was chosen to memorialize Susan Farnham?
Was Betsey Clarke's headstone stolen from Old Field Cemetery, ultimately to be used to memorialize another?
I do know that Peter Clarke, a merchant, and Betsey Hamilton wed on 26 Feb 1792 in Berwick, MA, their marriage vows witnessed by Rev Jonathan Tompson. I know that Betsey died in 1793, age 21.
I also know that Peter remarried, and that Peter and Nancy Clarke presented a child named Betsy Hamilton Clarke for baptism on 6 May 1796 in Portsmouth, NH. Peter Clarke, son of Rev Jonas Clarke and Lucy Bowes Clarke "was on a merchant ship bound for Cadiz, Spain when a French privateer seized it a few days out of Charleston, SC. Peter was imprisoned on the Caribbean Island of Guadalupe. While imprisoned, Peter contracted a disease which was to prove fatal. He died aboard a ship bound for Newburyport, MA in 1798, at the age of 33 years."
Excerpted from: "Patriot Parson of Lexington, Massachusetts, The Reverend Jonas Clarke..." by Richard P Kollen
I continue to search.
Inscription
the remaining inscription is:
Memory of
Betsey Clark
Mr. Peter Clarke
..ghter of Jonathan Hamilton Jun
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