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Clark-Heinegg extractions
Genealogy Report
Information from Paul Heinegg's site:
http://www.freeafricanamericans.com
extracted by: Jen
CLARK
FAMILY
1.
Judith Clarke, the servant of Joshua Slade of York Parish, York County,
Virginia, confessed in court on 24 August 1694 that she committed the "sinn
of fornication with a Negro" [DOW 10:3, 28]. She may have been the ancestor
of
i.
____, husband of Mary who was named in the 19 September 1749 York County will of
her mother Mary Roberts [W&I 20:163]. They may have been the parents
of John Clarke, a "free Mulatto" who was living in York County on 19
May 1760 when the court ordered him bound by the churchwardens of Charles Parish
to Merritt Moore [Judgments & Orders 1759-63, 143].
ii.
James1, born say 1740, taxable with his wife in Bladen County, North
Carolina, in 1768 ("Mulatoes") [Byrd, Bladen County Tax Lists,
I:5], head of a Marlboro County, South Carolina household 7 "other
free" in 1800 [SC:59].
iii.
Cooper, born say 1743, taxable with his wife in Bladen County, North Carolina,
in 1768 ("Mulatoes") [Byrd, Bladen County Tax Lists, I:5], head
of a Marlboro County household of 2 "other free" in 1800 [SC:59].
iv.
Joseph, a "Mulato" taxable in Bladen County in 1770 and 1772 [Byrd, Bladen
County Tax Lists, I:44, 94].
v.
James2, head of Sumter County, South Carolina household of 11
"other free" in 1800 [SC:935], probably related to Azana Clark, head a
Sumter County household of 9 "other free" in 1810 [SC:215a], and Mary
Clark, head of a Sumter household of 4 "other free" in 1810 [SC:215a].
He may have been identical to James Clark, Sr., who purchased 300 acres on the
mouth of Cow Branch of Drowning Creek, Bladen County, North Carolina, jointly
with John Stack on 30 September 1755. He assigned all his rights to the
plantation he was living on to John Stack on 26 April 1757 [Philbeck, Bladen
County Land Entries, no. 1058; Campbell, Bladen County Wills, 2].
2
vi. William1, born say 1755.
3
vii. William2, born about 1760.
viii.
George1, born say 1762, married Levisay Evans, daughter of
Hannah Evans, 13 May 1795 Amherst County bond, Leonard Clark security. He
was taxable in Amherst County from 1783 to 1801. His estate was taxable on a
horse in 1804 [Personal Property Tax List 1782-1803, frames 23, 44, 97, 102,
166, 195, 225, 326, 393, 449, 515; 1804-23, frame 21]. He and William Clark
purchased land on Mill and Porridge Creeks in Amherst County from Rawley Pinn
on 18 March 1800 [DB I:161]. His widow Loisa Clark married Charles Johns
of Bedford County by 10 October 1805 Amherst County bond, Lewis Martin security,
Susannah Clark witness. Charles Johns was a "Blackman" taxable
in Bedford County in 1800 and a "Negr." taxable on 2 tithes in 1813
[Personal Property Tax List 1800A, p.13].
4
ix. Fanny, born say 1763.
5
x. James3, born say 1764.
6
xi. John1, born say 1765.
xii.
William3, born say 1770, a "Mulatto Boy" bound apprentice
in Surry County on 28 June 1774 [Orders 1764-74, 451].
xiii.
Thomas, born say 1773, married Hannah Ash, 30 June 1794 Southampton
County bond, John Clark surety. He was head of a Northampton County, North
Carolina household of 5 "other free" in 1800 [NC:431] and head of an
Anson County household of 2 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:12].
xiv.
Lemuel, born say 1774, taxable in Nottoway Parish, Southampton County, in 1797,
a "Mulatto" taxable in 1799, a "free Negro" taxable on a
horse from 1800 to 1812, taxable on 2 free male tithables in 1812 [Personal
Property Tax List 1792-1806, frames 241, 343, 443, 478, 586, 658, 723, 762, 872;
1807-21, frames 11, 94, 132, 250], head of a Southampton County household of 4
"other free" in 1810 [VA:75]. He married Mary Williams, 29
January 1795 Isle of Wight bond, David Jones surety. In 1814 he brought a
Southampton County chancery suit against Aaron Byrd and his wife over his
wife Mary's part of the estate of her father John Williams [LVA Chancery
file 1814-017].
xv.
Wilson, taxable in Nottoway Parish, Southampton County, called a
"Mulatto" in 1796, a "f.n." from 1804 to 1812 [Personal
Property Tax List 1792-1806, frames 218, 724, 873; 1807-21, frames 11, 94, 133,
250].
xvi.
John/ Jack, born about 1772, registered in Southampton County on 18 September
1798: age 26, yellow man, 5 feet 9 inches, free born [Register of Free
Negroes 1794-1832, no. 123]. He was called John Clark, Jr., a
"Mulatto" taxable in Nottoway Parish, Southampton County, in 1796,
perhaps the John Clark, "free Negro," who was taxable there in 1800
[Personal Property Tax List 1792-1806, frames 218, 443].
xvii.
Nancy, born say 1775, head of a Southampton County household of 5 "other
free" in 1810 [VA:78].
xviiii.
Edmond, a "Mulatto" ordered bound out by the churchwardens of St.
Ann's Parish in Essex County on 20 January 1772 [Orders 1770-2, 226].
2.
William1 Clark, born say 1755, was granted 72 acres on the head
branches of Pedlar River in Amherst County on 20 July 1780 [Patents E, 1780-1,
282]. He was head of an Amherst County household of 7 whites (free persons) in
1783 [VA:48] and 8 in 1785 [VA:85]. On 3 May 1785 the Amherst County court
ordered that he, George Clark and William Ampey work on the road from
Irish Creek Gap to Mill Creek, and on 6 October 1789 he, Peter Hartless,
George Clarke, Leonard Clark, James Clark and Joseph Ailstock were
ordered to work on the road from Blue Ridge at Irish Creek Gap to the three
forks of Pedlar River [Orders 1784-7, 131; 1787-90, 590]. He was taxable in
Amherst County from 1782 to 1820: with "CM" after his name in 1800,
"Blue Ridge" from 1801-3, a "man of color" in 1811, 1812,
and 1815, a "Mulatto" in 1813, a planter over the age of 45 in a list
of "Free Negroes & Mulattoes" in 1816 and 1818. He was taxable on
2 tithes in 1794, 3 from 1795-1798, 4 from 1799-1803, 3 from 1804-7, 4 from
1809-10, and 5 from 1811-12 [Personal Property Tax List 1782-1803, frames 9, 23,
44, 54, 70, 97, 136, 195, 225, 257, 326, 347, 370, 393, 419, 450, 479; 1804-23,
frames 21, 62, 103, 144, 165, 188, 209, 230, 253, 326, 403, 537, 551, 584]. He
married (second?) Nancy Williams, spinster, 3 September 1794 Amherst
County bond, Leonard Clark surety. He and George Clark purchased land in Amherst
County on Mill and Porridge Creeks from Rawley Pinn for 100 pounds on 18
March 1800 [DB I:161]. He was head of an Amherst County household of 9
"other free" in 1810 [VA:258]. He may have been the father of
i.
?Leonard, born say 1772, taxable in Amherst County from 1791 to 1807 [Personal
Property Tax List 1782-1803, frames 225, 347, 370, 419, 450; 1804-23, frames 21,
63, 144]. He married Sally Williams, 12 March 1796 Amherst County bond,
William Clarke Surety. He was head of a Rockingham County household of 5
"other free" in 1810 [VA:290].
ii.
?Jane, born say 1780, married Henry Heartless, 25 June 1798 Amherst
County bond, William Clarke surety.
iii.
?John2, born say 1780, taxable in Amherst County from 1805 to 1815:
called a "man of color" in 1811, 1812, 1815, a "Mulatto" in
1813 [Personal Property Tax List 1804-23, frames 62, 208, 230, 253, 326] and
head of an Amherst County household of 4 "other free" in 1810
[VA:299]. He married Mary Hartless, and he and Mary Clark were among
members of the Hartless family who sold land on Pedlar River on 8 August
1818. They were living in Ohio on 8 April 1823 when they sold an additional 141
acres on Pedlar River to Reuben Peters [DB R:39].
iv.
Nancy, daughter of William Clark, married James Clark in Amherst County on 20
September 1809 [Marriage Register, 217].
v.
?William4, Jr., born say 1795, a "Mulatto" taxable in
Amherst County in 1813 [Personal Property Tax List 1804-23, frame 253].
vi.
?George2, a "Mulatto" taxable in 1813, a "man of
color" taxable in Amherst County in 1815 [Personal Property Tax List
1804-23, frame 326].
vii.
?Henry, a "man of color" taxable in Amherst County in 1815 [Personal
Property Tax List 1804-23, frame 326].
3.
William2 Clark, born about 1760, married Hannah Peters, 19
March 1785 Stafford County bond, William Peters surety [Madden, We
Were Always Free, 195]. He was a "Mulatto" taxable in Culpeper
County from 1797 to 1801 [PPTL 1782-1802, frames 640, 684, 818] and a "Free
Mulatto" head of a Culpeper County household of 7 "other free" in
1810 [VA:18]. On 7 December 1816 he obtained "free papers" in Culpeper
County which were recorded later in Ross County, Ohio: William Clerke, a
Mulatto man, 50 or 60, 5'7", served in the Revolutionary War in 1780 and
1781...is a free man, who has a wife and several children, and wishes to visit
his mother in law in Frederick Co., at Charles Carter's place. On 12
December 1816 Sally Peters, "a free woman of color," made oath
in Rockingham County, Virginia, that Coleman, eighteen years old, and Nicholas,
thirteen years old, were the sons of William and Hannah Clerk and were free born
in Culpeper County [Turpin, Register of Black, Mulatto and Poor Persons,
20-21]. William (Sr.) was sixty-four years old on 22 August 1820 when he
appeared in Culpeper County court to apply for a pension for his services in the
Revolution. According to his pension records, he died on 8 December 1827 and his
children were Willis Clark, William Clark, Kitty Madden (wife of Willis
Madden), and Nicholas Clark [Madden, We Were Always Free, 191-199].
William and Hannah's children were
i.
Coleman, born about 1798 (perhaps the same person as Willis Clark).
ii.
Kitty, born about 1800, registered as a "free Negro" in Culpeper
County on 23 September 1822: a bright Mulatto Woman above the age of twenty
one years five feet two inches high. She married Willis Madden
[Madden, We Were Always Free, 64].
iii.
William5, born about 1803.
iv.
Nicholas.
4.
Fanny Clark, born say 1760, was living in Cumberland County, Virginia, on 22 May
1780 when the court ordered the churchwardens of Littleton Parish to bind her
"mulattoe" son Harry Clark to Tucker Baughan [Orders 1779-84, 118].
She was the mother of
i.
Harry, born say 1779, a "Mo" taxable in Powhatan County
from 1803 to 1814, probably married in 1813 when he was listed with 2 "free
Negroes & Mulattos" over the age of 16 in 1813 [PPTL 1787-1825, frames
254, 293, 397, 437, 456].
ii.
Peter, born say 1782, "mulatto" son of Fanny ordered bound to Tucker
Baughan on 24 May 1784 [Orders 1784-6, 22].
5.
James3 Clark, born say 1764, was head of an Amherst County household
of 9 "other free" in 1810 [VA:298]. He and his wife Anny sold land to
Henry Hartless by deed proved in Amherst County on 19 July 1802 [Orders
1801-2, 217]. He was taxable in Amherst County from 1789 to 1820: taxable on 2
tithables from 1803 to 1806, 1810 and 1811, 3 in 1812, called a "man of
color" in 1811, 1812, and 1815, a "Mulatto" in 1813, in a list of
"Free Mulattoes & Negroes with his unnamed son in 1814 and in 1816 when
he was over the age of 45, living on his own plantation, and taxable on 3
tithables [Personal Property Tax List 1782-1803, frames 166, 225, 348, 419, 584;
1804-23, frames 21, 62, 103, 144, 165, 187, 209, 230, 252, 284, 326, 403, 503,
537, 549]. He married (second) Nancy Clark in Amherst County on 20 September
1809 [Marriage Register, 217]. He was the father of
i.
Micajah, born say 1785, taxable in Amherst County from 1809 (called son of Jas.)
a "man of color" in 1811, a "Mulatto" in 1813, in a list of
"Free Mulattoes & Negroes in 1814 [Personal Property Tax List 1804-23,
frames 209, 252, 284, 328, 403]. He married Sally Duncan, on 15 November
1809 in Amherst County with the consent of Sally's parents, Ambrose and Jane
Ambrose [Marriage Register, 218, 240]. Ambrose was called Ambrose Evans
when he was head of an Amherst County household of 6 "other free" in
1810 [VA:302]. Micajah was head of an Amherst County household of 3 "other
free" in 1810 [VA:302]. He and Charles Evans were witnesses to the 7
May 1817 Amherst County marriage of Lydia Evans, daughter of Ambrose Evans,
to John Gulliver [Marriage Register, 247].
ii.
?Nelson, born about 1793, applied to the Amherst County court in April 1851 for
a certificate that he was a white man but registered as a "Free Negro"
in Amherst County on 12 July 1860: brown complexion, 67 years of age, 5 feet
11 1/2 inches high, born in Bedford [Register of Free Negroes, no.339;
McLeRoy, Strangers in Their Midst, 101, 136].
iii.
?Benjamin H., born about 1800, registered in Amherst County on 22 August 1822: a
free man of colour aged twenty two years five feet eight inches high of a bright
yellow complection grey eyes with a natural mark on his right cheek and was born
free & by occupation a waterman [Register of Free Negroes, no. 10].
iv.
?James4, born about 1801, registered on 12 July 1860: dark brown
complexion, 59 years of age ... born in Amherst [Register of Free Negroes,
no.338].
6.
John1 Clark, born say 1765, was a "Mulatto" taxable in
Nottoway Parish, Southampton County, in 1796 [Personal Property Tax List
1792-1806, frame 218]. He was surety for the Southampton County marriage bond of
(his brother?) Thomas Clark and Hannah Ash on 30 June 1794. He was head
of a Halifax County, North Carolina household of 6 "other free" in
1810 [NC:12]. Perhaps his children were
i.
Anthony, born about 1790, head of a Halifax County household of 6 "free
colored" in 1820 [NC:143] and 10 in 1830. He may have been the Anthony
Clark who was head of a Richmond City, Wayne County, Indiana, household of 12
"free colored" in 1840.
ii.
Reuben, born about 1809, described as a "child of color" when he was
ordered bound out by the 20 May 1822 Halifax County court.
Another Clark family:
1.
Rachel Clark, born say 1730, was a "Widow Woman" who was summoned by
the Craven County, North Carolina court on 10 May 1759 to bring her children to
the next court to have them bound apprentices [Minutes 1758-61, 28a]. She died
before 10 October 1767 when Edward Franck of Craven County was ordered by the
court to receive her "Molatto Orphans" in his care until they could be
indentured by the next court [Minutes 1767-75, 52a]. Her children named in the
court order were
i.
Joseph, born say 1755.
ii.
Moses, born say 1758.
iii.
?Mariah, head of a Craven County household of 2 "free colored" in 1820
[NC:77].
End of File
