|
David Shanet Clark, M.Ed.,
July, 2006; Decatur, Georgia:
"I am apparently a fourteenth generation
American,
and my direct ancestors came from England
to Virginia in 1611. I have WWII, Civil War and Revolutionary
War ancestors, as well.
The Pilot, John Clark, who was captured at Jamestown, Va., and held by the Spanish
for four years, was hired to pilot the 'Mayflower' to Plymouth, Massachusetts, he
is my probable ancestor, as I understand
it.
I know of no other person who had land and property granted to him at both Plymouth Colony and Jamestown Virginia
- and he is probably my direct great grandfather to the fourteenth generation.
John Clark was a navigator and
a Quaker and he did not sign The Mayflower Compact, however he piloted the ship, the Mayflower, to the New World and an island
in Cape Cod Bay is named for John Clark, who explored it in 1620.
Ancestry:
14. D. Shanet Clark, M.Ed.,
Cabell Co., W.Va., b. 1962, m. 1997;
Author of this table, Historian, Teacher.
Dekalb County Historical
Preservation Commission.
13. D. S. Clark 1922-
Author's father, Pacific Theater WWII.
1st Lieut.,
M.D. in W.Va. and Virginia.
12. Elmer Sylvan Clark 1899-1971
C & O Railroad Tunnel Labor Foreman,
Raconteur in The Great Depression,
Episcopalian. Virginian. Town of Orange.
11. Frederick W. Clark
1875-1944
C & O Rail Tunnel Foreman,
Post Civil War and Great Depression.
Virginian. Town of Unionville.
10. Franklin W. Clark C.S.A. 1847-1929
Confederate Wise Artillery, Deacon.
Post War Virginia Depression.
Virginian. Unionville and Orange.
9. James Towles Clark 1813-1913
Victorian, Orange, Virginia 'Union'
Church.
Virginian. Clark's Mountain, Orange County.
8. William Clark Rev. 1766-1834
Revolutionary
Rider, Surveyor, Clark's Mtn.
Virginian. Rapidan River, Orange County.
7. John Clark 1741-1831
Revolutionary
Supplier. Orange County, Va.
"The Old Man of All the Mountain."
Virginian. Orange County.
6.
William Clark 1711-1790
Left Spotsylvania County for Clark's Mtn.
Orange County. Virginian. Taliaferro association.
5. Edward Clark 1648-1736
m. 1662, m. 1681, m. 1699.
Patented Clarks' Mountain, Virginia.
4. Micajah Clark c. 1629-1699
Many generations are named for Micajah Clark,
who was in Virginia from Barbados
by 1671.
3. Michael Clark 1610-1678 d. West Indies.
Born in England, thrived in Barbados.
2.
Edward Clark 1590-1630.
Son of John, Father of Michael.
Resided in England.
1. John Clark, the Pilot
1572-1624.
Grants in Jamestown and Plymouth Colony.
Ransomed from Madrid Spain by James I.
Pilot of the
Mayflower.
Participated in the 1611 Jamestown voyage.
> 1. John Clark
preceded in England
by
(15th) William Clark b. 1553, Stefenage, Herts.
and
(16th) Sir Thomas Clark b. 1527, Hertsfordshire.
Notes:
Apparently I am a fourteenth generation American.
I can trace back sixteen generations to the early
sixteenth century in central England,
during Henry VII's reign.
The generation averages out to twenty five years.
The Pilot John Clark, whose testimony to the Spanish Inquisition about the strategic condition of the North American
English Colonial Coast can be read in numerous journals, and the man who was ransomed for the Virginia Company by King James
I;
the Pilot, John Clark 1572-1624 (1)
had a number of children,
Susannah, Edward, Katherine, Thomas.
These were his heirs, in both Virginia and Plymouth.
John Clark's son, Edward Clark, 1590-1630 (2)
remained
in England, and Edward was the father of Michael Clark 1610-1678 (3).
Michael Clark is well documented in Barbados,
and re-settled in Virginia after arriving in the formative year of 1670 into Charleston, South Carolina.
Michael
was the father of Micajah 1629-1699 (4)
who was born in Barbados and moved to South Carolina and then into Henrico County,
Virginia.
Micajah was the father of Edward Clark 1648-1736 (5)
the founder of the Clark's Mountain Clan.
This Micajah was also the father of Captain Christopher Clark, founder of another prominent frontier family.
Edward Clark, Christopher Clark's brother, was the associate (probable kinfolk) of Richard Taliafero, and as an
overseer developed land in the new County of Orange, Virginia in 1736 at Clark's Mountain. Some of these Clarks were surveyors,
marking the James River and Greenbrier River valleys for the first time.
The Clarks' Mountain Clarks have been
in central Virginia on the Rapidan River since 1736. Edward was the father of William Clark (6) 1711-1792 who had revolutionary
associations.
William was the father of (7 )John Clark, The Old Man of All the Mountain (1741-1831) the master
of Clarks' Mountain, with its long views.
John Clark was the father of William Clark (8) 1766-1834 a revolutionary
veteran.
Wm. Clark was the father of James Towles Clark (9) a Victorian methodist who lived 1813-1913.
James Clark was the father of Franklin W. Clark (10) 1847-1929 a Confederate Veteran.
Franklin was the father
of Frederick W. Clark (11) 1875-1944 a railroad tunnel foreman.
He was the father of (12) 1899-1971 Elmer Sylvan
Clark,
my grandfather, who lived in Orange and Unionville,
at the foot of Clarks' Mountain near Charlottesville,
Virginia.
(some dates and links are best estimates and/or contested)
NAME: CLARK, CLARKE, CLERK or CLERKE;
Literate, but less than aristocratic, Englishmen were originally clerks, lay church officials who wrote for the English courts,
the sheriffs and the bishops. By the 16th century we know of a Sir Thomas Clarke in this line.
The Latin Cleric or Clericus
or Clerq goes back, with the underground church, before Augustine's arrival from Rome in the seventh century.
Stone
inscriptions in Christian graveyards in Britain show an unbroken British Druidic Christian Church from the first century contact
in Wales to the seventh century, but little written text and no bishops' names have survived.
Clericus was
the original Clark, writing, maintaining a literated culture and scholarly dignity even in the face of Saxon pagan tyranny
and the Norman conquest.
This Post should also clarify certain other historical families:
WAUGH, HOSSLEY,
BOLLING, MOORMAN, CANDLER,
WILLOUGHBY & JAMES.
The Georgia Family of Larkin Clark descend from
Edward Clark (5).
This branch founded Elberton, Ga and then participated in Revolutionary Land Lots.
George Rogers Clark and William Clark:
There are only traces of a connection of my Colonial Virginia Clark family to
the family of George Rogers Clark and William Clark (of Lewis and Clark).
George Rogers Clark referred to a cousin of
my line, Marston Green Clark, as a "cousin" (Bodley, Frankort) in a letter, and the Marston Green name and other
names are consistent across the two frontier family lines, but William and George Rogers Clark settled in the "west"
Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Missouri, and I have found no solid link to old Micajah Clark and the family at Clarks' Mountain.
|
Resume and Curriculum Vitae:
David Shanet Clark, M.Ed.
DeKalb County, Ga.
Historic Preservation Commissioner
Civics
and History Teacher, Tucker High School
Degrees:
M.Ed., Masters of Education, Social Sciences
Georgia
State University, 2006
B.A., Summa Cum Laude, History
Georgia State University, Atlanta 2002
Minor
in Political Science
Areas of Research Interest:
U.S. Political History
American Architectural Culture
Victorian and Federal Era America
Geography
Awards:
Law Day "Liberty Bell Award"
DeKalb
County Bar Association, May 2007
E.I. Woodruff Fellowship
Southern History, Georgia State University, 2003-2004.
GSU History Department and Middle East Center:
Graduate Assistant, 2003-2004.
Egyptian Graphics Project:
Forming a Database and Gallery of Egyptian History and Culture.
Thomas Malone History Scholarship, GSU, 2002
Dean’s Key and Faculty Scholar, GSU, 2001-2002
Honors History Student of the Year,
Georgia Perimeter
College GPC DeKalb College, 2001
United States Senate Youth Scholarship
William Randolph Hearst Scholarship
Marshall University
99th Percentile – Graduate Records Exam,
Verbal Test, 2006 (GRE 760/610)
99th Percentile – College Level Equivalency Exam,
CLEP, English Literature, 2001
Praxis II
Social Studies 195/200
Georgia Teaching Certificate, Social Science
Certified College Board Advanced Placement
European History Teacher, Oglethorpe University, 2007
Georgia Alliance of Preservation Commissions
Annual
Convention, Elberton, Ga., 2007
Conference Presentations:
“Seceding from Secession:
Geographic Factors in the History of West Virginia”
Presented at:
The Georgia Interdisciplinary Conference;
UGA Athens, GA, February 21, 2004
The Florida Historians’ Conference;
LCCC Lake City, Florida,
March 3, 2004
The Organization of American Historians’
Southern Regional Conference;
GSU Atlanta,
July 17, 2004
Bertholdi Graduate History Conference,
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va., April 2005.
New England Historical Association,
Cambridge, Massachusetts,
Regis College, April 2005.
Additional
Archival and Special Collections Research:
“Executive Order 12036:
President Carter Restructures the
Intelligence Community”
Jimmy Carter Library, Atlanta. 2005. Online.
“The 1947 Georgia Governors’
Controversy:
The Talmadge Tapes”
Pullen Library Special Collections. 2005.
Teaching Experience:
Tucker High School, Tucker, Ga.
Social Studies Teacher 2006 - 2007
Welfare to Work Adult Literacy Program,
Program Teacher, Fayette County, KY, 1992 - 1995
High School At-Risk Dropout Prevention
Program Teacher,
Lexington KY, 1992-1995
Professional Associations:
DeKalb County Historic Preservation Commission
Member,
2006-2007
Organization of American Historians
National Council for History Education
National Trust for Historic
Preservation
Department of Education Grant Review Contractor:
"Teaching American History" Grant Proposal
Judge 2007
"Safe and Drug Free Schools" Grant Proposal Judge 2007
|
