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Cemetery located behind St. Peter's Presbyterian Church; Gravestone photograph available in FInd-a-Grave record.
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Author: William Phillip Clark Moravits
Isaac Clark was born March 31, 1731 at Lyme, New London County, Connecticut, a son of Thomas Clark and Rebecca Watrous. Isaac was a great-grandson of John Clark, who was the first mate on the Mayflower.
Isaac married Rebecca Cadman about 1766. Isaac was a private in the Seventeenth Regiment of the Albany County Militia.
After the Revolutionary War, Isaac and Rebecca retired to Austerlitz, Columbia County, New York, where he lived until his death in 1814. Isaac was buried at the Saint Peter Presbyterian Cemetery at Spencertown, New York. Rebecca died January 4, 1806.
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William Clark (1767-1829), son of Isaac, and his wife Clara (Pratt) Clark (1772-1866) are also buried in this cemetery