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

JOHN CLARK OF FARMINGTON. 19
There was also an Ebenezer Clark, son of John Clark,
baptized August 10, 16U0, who must have died young, since
his name is not mentioned in the distribution of the estate
of John Clark, Jr., April 9, 1712, unless he belonged to some
other family, which is improbable.
2.
Jolin"^ (John'') must have been born before 1673, for he
was elected to the office of hayward Dec. 17, 1694, and on
the same day received a grant of land from the town. He
married Sarah Warner of Middletown, Conn., born March 6,
1669-70, daughter of Robert and "Elizabeth (Grant) Warner.
John died Oct. 6, 1709.
His widow 'prohahly married, October 25, 1711, Capt. Job
Ellsworth, born April 13, 1674, son of Josias and Elizabeth
(Holcomb; Ellsworth. Job died September 29, 1751, and
Sarah was living September 5, 1750, when Job executed his
will. (See Stiles' History of Windsor, 600.) John Clark
was known as Sergeant John Clark. His house, shown in
the frontispiece to this volume, was built before his father
gave him a deed of the land on which it stood, on the 8th of
April, 1702. It stood on the east side of High street, in
front of the present site of John Riley's house. On his death
it was distributed equally among his brother and sisters,
from whom, by numerous conveyances, it passed into the
hands of Matthew Clark, their only surviving brother. Here
he died, September 24, 1761, and, partly by deed and partly
by will, the house became the property and home of Matthew
Clark, Jr. He die(l without children November 1, 1792, and
devised the house to Matthew Clark, son of his nephew, Dan.
Clark. This Matthew, the great-great-grandson
of the first
John Clark, lived in New Britain, and having no use for the