William Clark

Other Events:

• Census: 1850, Chatham County, North Carolina

Family/Spouse: Susannah [Clark]. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 29 Dec 1763, Edgecombe County, North Carolina; Witness of a deed for his father William Clark and mother Winnifred.
• Residence: 26 Jan 1767, Edgecombe County, North Carolina
• Residence: 4 Jul 1768, Edgecombe County, North Carolina
• Residence: 18 Oct 1768, Edgecombe County, North Carolina
• Residence: 7 Nov 1768, Edgecombe County, North Carolina
• Residence: 25 Feb 1772, Edgecombe County, North Carolina; Purchased 260 acres from his father
• Occupation: Dec 1777, Chatham County, North Carolina; Sent to the North Carolina House of Commons to replace another person who was ill.
• Occupation: Abt 1778, Chatham County, North Carolina; First appears in Chatham County as a justice on the Commission of Peace and a road overseer ("from the fork opposite to William Pettys to the Horse pen Lick Springs.")
• Occupation: 1778, Chatham County, North Carolina; In the spring of 1778, elected in his own right to serve in NC's general assembly.
• Military Service: Aug 1778; 'An Aug. 1778 list of "Cloathing to be found by the different Companies in this County,!! held "Alexander Clark's Company" responsible for the collection of "5 hatts, 20 Linnen, 10 Cloth, 10 p.r Shoes [andl 10 pro Stockings" for use by the revolutionary troops.'
• Occupation: 1780, Chatham County, North Carolina; By fall of this year Alexander had become the clerk of the Superior Court for Chatham County.

Notes:

Birth:
He witnessed his parents' deed (William and Winnifred) on 29 Dec 1763, implying that he was at least 21.

Alexander married Phoebe Jefferson. Phoebe (daughter of Feild Jefferson and Mary Frances Robertson) died between 1823-1830 in Chatham County, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Will: 1762; Identified in her father's will (see her father for citation).
• NOTE_RESEARCH: 1767; Her brother John Jefferson conveyed to her a slave by consent of her guardian Henry Deloney.
• Census: 1790, Chatham County, North Carolina; Head of household
• Land: 1808, Chatham County, North Carolina; Phoebe and son William sold Alexander's (her deceased husband's) homestead on "Robertson Creek, beginning at the mouth of Turkey Creek."

Notes:

Married:
Oral history says they were married at present-day Monticello, then called Shadfield, the home of Thomas Jefferson, Phoebe's first cousin.

Other Events:

• Land: Edgecombe County, North Carolina; Owned nearly 1400 acres.
• Parents: "Identity of the father of Alexander is established through a 1784 donation of record in Chatham Co., N.C., in which William Clark, Sr., gave slaves and land to "Winny Webb Clark, Fanney Roberson Clark, William Clark, Alexander Clark, and John Clark, all the children of deceased Alexander Clark."

William married Winnifred Webb. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Feild married Mary Frances Robertson. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Mary Feild. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]