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Subject: Re: [MDSTMARY-L] Maryland / Kentucky Clarks
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 17:20:39 EST

Jo:
Just about all of the Clark/Clarke researchers that I am aware of believe
that Richard Langhorne is descended from Robert Clarke, the Surveyor.

Two books published in the 80's, both claimed descent from Richard. One book
stated that it was thought that Robert Clarke, son of the Surveyor, died in
St MCo, MD in 1703 without a Will, and it is thought that he had a son Robert,
who went to Baltimore and became her ancestor. The other book had an even
less likely line of descent in which John Clarke of Charles County became the son
of Robert. And, of course most Clarke researchers

I do not know of any Clarke researcher who claims Robert Clarke, the
Surveyor, as an Ancestor, having any documentation to support that theory. The main
problem occurs when we take a good look at the Robert Clarke who married Sarah
Combs.
This was a protestant family and the Robert who married Sarah Combs c1783-5,
in the 1790's was an Elder & Trustee in the Episcopal [Church of England]
Church charged with the job of building a Chapel of Ease near where St Andrews not
sits so that Parishioners in that Eastern part of St Marys Co, did not have
to travel so far west to go to church. I do not believe there is any evidence
that any of Robert Clarke, the Surveyors children left the Church.

Then we find in a Thomas Clarke who made his Will in Calvert County, TP 7 fol
20,
married circa 1650, Sarah Kenney, dau of Hugh Kenney, Lib 1 fol 25 or 29; and
had children, Robert bc 1662 and Sarah born 1660. They lived in that part of
Calvert County that was on the South Side of the Patuxent River and just west
of Resurrection Manor. In 1695 that land reverted to St Marys County. This
Thomas was associated with a member of the Episcopal Church.

Robert Clarke, the Surveyor, was a devout Catholic and married Catholics and
raised is family as Catholics. In the mid 1650's, after the failed Severns
battle, Robert was threatened with the death penalty, but spared and shortly
thereafter moved his family to Charles County CC. After his death in 1664, his
wife Jane [Hicks] Causine Cockshut and her step-son Robert appear on a record
in CC in 1674. In circa 1688, Robert sells land in Charles Co/Prince
Georges County that had been patd by Robert the Surveyor. And in 1705 a Robert
Clarke's estate is probated in Prince Georges County with no wife listed. That
land had been in Charles County earlier.

And, like most good Clarke researchers, I do not have Chloes maiden name.
And, I would hope that you are the first to find documentation for your true
ancestry, if it is Robert, the Surveyor.

Charley




writes:


> My Clark line is the Richard Langhorn Clark, who is believed to go back to
> Robert Clark the Surveyor. I have read many Clark reports. but was
> wondering if any researcher has discovered Richard's wife's maiden name. She is
> always listed as Chloe? I thought I would ask before I started some researching
> myself. Any suggestions from St. Mary 's researchers?
>

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