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

20 CLARK GENEALOGY.
house sold it October 8, 1794, to Romanta Norton, who sold
it February 14, 1798, to Shubael Porter. The latter dying
February 10,- 1825, devised it to his son Erastus, who died
August 8, 1846, giving it in his will to his two sisters, Sukey,
wife of Samuel Dickinson, and Anna, wife of John Sweet.
The latter and their heirs conveyed it in 1871 to John Riley,
who, after using it as a barn for a few years, pulled it down
in the summer of 1880.
Sergeant John Clark died intestate, and since no children
are mentioned in the distribution of his estate, if he ever had
any they must have died young. The order for the distribu-
tion of his estate was issued April 9, 1712, and is here given
in proof of the relationship of the parties therein named.
The distribution itself is recorded at great length in the town
records of Farmington.
" Upon the motion and request of Samuel Woodruff Sen""—
of Farmington who married with Rebecca Clark one of the
sisters of Serg' John Clark late of said Farmington deceased
praying that this Court would make out an order for the dis-
tribution and division of the lands and real estate of the said
John Clark deceased to and among the bretheren and sisters
of the said deceased or their survivors respectively accord-
ing to law, which lands and real estate as by the inventory
thereof appears to amount to the sum of 162