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State of Service: SC
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Birth: Death: bef 11 Apr 1797 / Union / SC
Qualifying Service Description:
Purveyor of food, 1780, 1782
Additional References:
SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004
History of Union Co, SC
Stub Entries to Indents, Payment of Claims, SC in the Rev, Box 10, Part 1, pg 147, No. 1381
The following biography of Henry Clark was posted anonymously at findagrave.com and was excerpted from Our Campbell Ancestors, 1742-1937, traditions and history of the family of five Campbell brothers and sisters, John, James Douglas, Hester, Mary and Samuel, by Sarah E. Temple. I am not the author.
"Our Campbell Ancestors, 1742-1937"*, Appendix A, page 197, states: "Henry Clark died the 30th day of the 3rd month, 1797, aged 84.... (This would make his birth 1713. A Warren Co., O. history says he was born 1715.) He was buried by his wife, Elizabeth. Aside from the usual paragraphs found in his old will (this on file in the Probate Court of Union Co., S.C.) contains the following specific bequests: "to my son John Clark, all that tract of land containing 150 acres whereon I now live, bought of William Hendrix, provided that he shall pay or secure to be paid unto his five daughters the sum of seven pounds sterling apiece when the said legatees shall come to the age of 22 years. My personal estate to be gathered together and appraised in a properly way, divided between my two children John Clark and Hester Campbell, to be distributed among their children as they see cause; and to my grandson Heny Clark the upper tract of land of 100 acres which I bought of Charles Emanuel Theely provided that he, paying the just and full sum of 50 pounds sterling to the children of John Campbell and Hester, his wife, in good and sufficient property as they shall be agreed when they shall come to the age of 22 years. And I do hereby nominate my said son John Clark and my son-in-law John Campbell to be the executors of this my will. (signed) Henry Clark, the 22nd day of the 8th month, called August, 1793."
Note: When the Mason and Dixon Line was moved in 1765, the Friend's Colony near Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania, was brought into Cecil County, Maryland.
*"Our Campbell Ancestors, 1742-1937, traditions and history of the family of five Campbell brothers and sisters, John, James Douglas, Hester, Mary and Samuel," written and copyrighted by Sarah E. Temple in 1939. Ivan Deach, Jr., publisher, Burbank, California.
Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 01 March 2020), memorial page for Henry Clark (1713–30 Mar 1797), Find A Grave Memorial no. 151159538, citing Quaker Cemetery, Cross Keys, Union County, South Carolina, USA ; Maintained by Cece (contributor 48108674) .
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