A record of the descendants of John Clark, of Farmington, Conn ...

JOHN CLARK OF PARMINGTON. 15
sites of tlie houses of John Riley and Mrs. Barney, and the
house of John Clark, Jun., must have been the old house
next south, pulled down in 1880. John Clark was the owner
of numerous pieces of land, by purchase, by the grant of the
town, and by the many divisions of the " Reserved Land "
among the eighty-four proprietors. His possessions were
scattered here and there northward to "a place cittuate
within the bounds of ffarmington att a place comonly called
and known by the name of Brownsons Nodd, and Lying
northward of said ffarmington on the west side of the great
River which runneth throw ffarmington meadowes, and is
nigh unto Simsbery bounds," to the south as far as the Great
Plain, and eastward and westward to the farthest boundaries
of the town.
This account of the place where he lived and the lands he
owned is about all we can gather concerning the ancestor of
a numerous race. Of his wife, or, more probably, wives,
who bore him as many children as blessed the patriarch
Jacob, we know not even the names, nor when or where they
were born or were married or died. An old family record,
taken down long since from the lips of an aged member of
the family, tells us that John Clark came from Scotland, and
that his wife was an English lady. The only other mention
I find of her is in the Record of the First Church in Farm-
ington, wherein the Rev. Samuel Hooker enrolls John Clark
and his wife as members, on the first day of March, 1680.
The record of the will of John Clark is as follows:
"The Last Will and Testament of John Clark, late of
Farmington, Sen., deceased.
" In the name of God Amen. The last Will & Testament
of John Clark, Sen"", of Farmington, in the County of Hart-
ford and Colony of Connecticut, in New England, made this