1. Nicholas Clark was born about 1613 and died 2 July 1680 at Hartford, Connecticut. He married there a woman whose name is not known. She died sometime after 1669. Nicholas arrived in New England in 1632 on the Lyon. He first lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts but was at Hartford as early as 1635. He was a housewright. Nicholas and his wife had three children: Thomas, a daughter who married Alexander Douglas and a daughter who married Andrew Lester, Jr.
2. Thomas Clark was born about 1640 at Hartford, Connecticut and was buried there 9 October 1695. He married before 1666, Mary Lester, born 26 December 1647 at Gloucester, Massachusetts and died after November 1695, daughter of Andrew and Barbara (---) Lester. Thomas and Mary had eight children: John, Daniel, Joseph, Thomas, Mary, Ann, Elizabeth and Sarah.
3. Thomas Clark (Jr.) was born abt 1673 at Hartford, Connecticut and died there before December 1703. He married at Hartford on 6 April 1698, Elizabeth Burr, born there December 1675 and died at Bolton, Massachusetts 24 February 1674, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Baysey) Burr. Elizabeth remarried at Hartford on 17 August 1710, Samuel Church who died there in 1718. Thomas and Elizabeth had two children: Joseph and Ann.
4. Ann Clark was born 17 April 1702 at Hartford, Connecticut and died 21 October 1754 at Windham, Connecticut. She married about 1723 at Windham, Benjamin Cleveland, born 16 May 1701 at Woburn, Massachusetts and died 7 July 1784 at Windham. Ann and Benjamin had six children: Esther, Aaron, Anna, Benjamin, Moses, and Chloe.
"Mary Lester, Wife of Thomas Clark(e) of Hartford Connecticut," by Martin E. Hollick The American Genealogist 83 (2007):68-73.
Robert Charles Anderson The Great Migration Begins; Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (NEHGS, Boston, 1995), I:373-75.
The American Genealogist 12 (1935-6):129-131 (Clark/Cleveland article).
Do Not Use:
Families of Early Hartford, Conn. by L.B. Barbour (1977) which gives Thomas Clark the wrong wife. She is not Sarah Peck.