Excerpt from A Record of the Descendants of John Clark, of Farminton, Conn: The Male Branches Brought Down to 1882, the Female Branches One Generation After the Clark Name Is Lost in Marriage This genealogy of the descendants of John Clark of Farmington has been compiled at the request of Dennis Woodruff Clark, Esq., of Portland, Maine, a descendant of the sixth generation. I have aimed to copy all dates from contemporary records, but whenever I have been obliged to rely on more recent testimony, or when authorities differ, I have given my authority. In collecting the very few scattered records of the early members of the family from old bibles and wills, and moss-covered gravestones, I have been constantly reminded of that valley of dry bones in Holy Writ in which the prophet was asked "Can these dry bones live?" Doubtless the reader will find the fragments dry enough and lifeless enough, but if he finds little but a carefully joined skeleton, it shall not be built up of "unrelated parts," such as critics claim to find in some now famous statues. Here, at the outset, we meet the great difficulty of the work. The family of Clark, or Clerk as the name was often spelled, was a numerous one, as are most of those named from occupations, such as Smith, Cook, Miller, Porter, and numerous others. John was one of the most common of Christian names, so that it is not wonderful that almost every old New England town had a John Clark among its early settlers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.