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Massachusetts Governor John Winthrop wrote that there were "professed Anabaptists" on the island from 1640 to 1641. Boston lawyer Thomas Lechford wrote that there was a church on the island in 1640 of which Clarke was the elder or pastor, but he understood that it had been dissolved. [ 20 ]
Clark attended the Bowdoin Square Baptist Church. On July 27, 1841, he became the first person baptised in the church. [5] Clark and his wife had two sons, George L. Clark (1850–1912) and John M. Clark Jr. (1856–1862). George L. Clark was a millionaire real estate man and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1883 and ...
It was named for John Clark, the first mate of the Mayflower, the ship that brought the Pilgrims to New England. [2] The island was initially considered for the location of the Pilgrim's settlement, but was rejected in favor of a site to the south, which became known as Plymouth, Massachusetts. [3] Today Clark's Island is a part of the town of ...
John Leverett: 1700–1701 Boston: Nehemiah Jewett 1701–1702 Rowley James Converse 1702–1705 Woburn Thomas Oakes: 1705–1707 Boston: John Burrill: 1707 Lynn: Thomas Oliver: 1708–1709 Cambridge: John Clark: 1709–1711 Boston: John Burrill 1711–1720 Lynn Elisha Cooke Jr. 1720 Timothy Lindall: 1720–1721 Boston: John Clark: 1721–1724 ...
Lost re-election to John W. Candler. Benjamin F. Butler: Republican: 5th: March 4, 1867 – March 3, 1873 First elected in 1866. Lost re-election to Charles Thompson. 6th: March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875 7th: March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1879 First elected in 1876. Retired in to run for Governor of Massachusetts. William B. Calhoun: Anti ...
John Maurice Clark was born November 30, 1884, in Northampton, Massachusetts.He studied at Amherst College, graduating in 1905, and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1910.
Lee was born on April 9, 1804, at Tremont Place in Boston, Massachusetts, and named after the Rev. John Clarke, D.D. [1] He was the son of Nathaniel Cabot Lee (1772–1806) and Mary Ann (née Cabot) Lee (1784–1809), who were first cousins.
Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor, painting by William Halsall (1882). This is a list of the passengers on board the Mayflower during its trans-Atlantic voyage of September 6 – November 9, 1620, the majority of them becoming the settlers of Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.