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A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature 1635-1789 by Edward C. Papenfuse, et. al.
Volume 426, Page 223
CLARKE (CLARK), JOSHUA (?-1781)
BORN probably in Queen Anne's County; a minor in 1747; only son.
NATIVE: at least second generation.
RESIDED: in Queen Anne's County; Talbot County, 1759; Queen Anne's County (later became part of Caroline County), 1768; Tuckahoe Hundred, Caroline County, 1775.
FAMILY BACKGROUND.
FATHER: Joshua Clarke (?-by 1741), of Queen Anne's County, planter.
STEPFATHERS John Baynard (?-1747), of Queen Anne's County,
a planter and Quaker; Henry Feddeman (?-1764),
of Queen Anne's County, planter.
MOTHER
Elizabeth.
HALF BROTHERS Philip Feddeman;Henry Feddeman.
STEPBROTHER Thomas Baynard (?-1753), of Talbot County, planter.
SISTERS:
Hannah, who married first, her stepbrother Thomas Baynard (?-1753), and second, Henry Thompson;
Rachel, who married (first name unknown) Dudley;
Rebecca; and
Lydia (?-by 1781), who married Henry Costin (?-by 1777).
STEPSISTERS:
Margaret Baynard (?-by 1777), who married
first, John Casson (?-ca. 1761), of Dorchester County, and second, in 1762 Matthew Driver (1740-1798);
Rachel Baynard.
NIECES
Elizabeth Baynard (1748-1809), who married second, Phile-
mon Dowries (ca. 1741-ca. 1796);
Margaret Baynard (1752-by 1788), who married Henry Downes
(ca. 1748-1816).
MARRIED by 1764 Anne (?-by 1794), daughter of Edward Oldham (1709-1773)and wife Ann Wright (?-by 1754); stepdaughter of Ann Goldsborough (1732-?); granddaughter of
John Oldham (?-1729); stepgranddaughter of Nicholas Goldsborough (ca. 1689-1766); niece of Hannah Oldham (1702-1759), who married James Edge (ca. 1710-1757), Thomas Wright (?-ca.1784), and Mary Anne Wright (?-1747), who married William Hopper (1707-1772); stepniece of Thomas Goldsborough (ca. 1728-1793). Anne subsequently married by 1785 Robert Williams.
Her sisters were
Hannah (?-1828), who married Nicholas Martin (1743-ca. 1808);
Elizabeth (?-by 1776), who married William Hopper (by 1747-1806); and
Mary (?-by 1772).
Her first cousins were William Hopper (by 1747-1806);
Mary Ann Hopper (1742-by 1792), who married second, James Bordley (?-ca. 1793);
and Samuel Turbutt Wright (1749-1810).
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: by 1759 Anne and her sister Elizabeth were living with their aunt Hannah Oldham Edge from whom they inherited the lands of their uncle James Edge (ca. 1710-1757).
CHILDREN.
SONS:
Joshua, who married in 1791 Ann, daughter of William Coursey, of Queen Anne's County, and wife Ann;
Edward Oldham (?-ca. 1808), who probably never married; and
Phillip (?-ca. 1809), who never married.
DAUGHTERS:
Ann;
Elizabeth;
Mary; and
Margaret.
PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS
AFFILIATION: Anglican.
SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: Gent., 1759; Esq., 1769.
OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: merchant.
PUBLIC CAREER.
LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Conventions, Caroline County, 3rd,
1774, 4th, 1775, 5th, 1775, 6th-8th, 1775-1776
(did not attend the 7th and 8th Conventions).
LOCAL OFFICES:
justice, Queen Anne's County, 1768-1773,
Caroline County, 1774^1777, 1778
(commissioned, but did not qualify), 1793-at least
1800;
churchwarden and vestryman, Tuckahoe
Chapel, St. John's Parish, Queen Anne's County
(later became part of Caroline County), 1769;
Committee of Correspondence, Queen Anne's
County, 1774;
justice, Orphans' Court, Caroline County, commissioned 1777.
WEALTH DURING LIFETIME.
LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: 3,986 acres in Queen Anne's, Talbot, and Dorchester counties, plus 2 lots, probably in Talbot County (918 acres from his father;
2,999 acres, plus 2 lots through his marriage, at least 2,000 acres of which were given to his wife in 1759 by her aunt, Hannah Edge, widow of James Edge;
2 acres by purchase).
SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST
ELECTION AND DEATH:
purchased 32 acres in Talbot County, 1775;
purchased 345 acres in Queen Anne's County, part of the estate of his brother-in-law Henry Costin, which Clarke was authorized to sell by virtue of a court decree, 1777;
sold 81 acres of his wife's lands in Caroline County, 1780.
WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: between January and
February 1781 in Caroline County.
PERSONAL PROPERTY:
TEV, £2,253.14.4 current money (including 31 slaves and books);
FB, £1,436.8.5.
LAND: 4,280 acres in Caroline, Talbot, and Queen
Anne's counties.
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