Alexander Clark

1742 - 1782  (~ 40 years)

• Name	Alexander Clark  [1]
  Born	Before 1742  [1]
  	He witnessed his parents' deed (William and Winnifred) on 29 Dec 1763, implying that he was at least 21.
  Gender	Male
  Residence	29 Dec 1763	Edgecombe County, North Carolina   [1]
  	Witness of a deed for his father William Clark and mother Winnifred.
  Residence	26 Jan 1767	Edgecombe County, North Carolina   [1]
  Residence	4 Jul 1768	Edgecombe County, North Carolina   [1]
  Residence	18 Oct 1768	Edgecombe County, North Carolina   [1]
  Residence	7 Nov 1768	Edgecombe County, North Carolina   [1]
  Residence	25 Feb 1772	Edgecombe County, North Carolina   [1]
  	Purchased 260 acres from his father
  Occupation	Dec 1777	Chatham County, North Carolina   [1]
  	Sent to the North Carolina House of Commons to replace another person who was ill.
  Occupation	Abt 1778	Chatham County, North Carolina   [1]
  	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   [1]
  	In the spring of 1778, elected in his own right to serve in NC's general assembly.
  Military Service	Aug 1778  [1]
  	'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   [1]
  	By fall of this year Alexander had become the clerk of the Superior Court for Chatham County.
  Died	1782	Chatham County, North Carolina, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I7818	Full
  Last Modified	4 Aug 2019

  
  

  Father	William Clark
  Mother	Winnifred Webb
  Family ID	F2871	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Phoebe Jefferson,   d. Between 1823-1830, Chatham County, North Carolina, USA
  Married	Y  [1]
  	Oral history says they were married at present-day Monticello, then called Shadfield, the home of Thomas Jefferson, Phoebe's first cousin.
  Children	+ 1. Winnifred Webb Clark   2. Frances Robertson Clark,   b. ca 1773   3. William Clark,   b. Abt 1775,   d. Between 1850-52, Chatham County, North Carolina, USA + 4. Alexander Clark,   b. Abt 1780, North Carolina, USA ,   d. 1852, Hickman County, Tennessee, USA  (Age ~ 72 years)
  Last Modified	4 Aug 2019
  Family ID	F2867	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S5709] Elizabeth Shown Mills, "A Husband for Phoebe Jefferson," The Virginia Genealogist 29 (April-June 1985): 83-104; PDF download at Elizabeth Shown Mills, Historic Pathways (https://historicpathways.com/ : accessed 3 August 2019).