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56 CLARK GENEALOGY.<br />

<strong>the</strong> family bible <strong>of</strong> Prudence <strong>Clark</strong>, wife <strong>of</strong> (30), and from<br />

gravestones.<br />

31.<br />

Sylvester^ {Abel,* <strong>John</strong>/ Mat<strong>the</strong>iv,^ <strong>John</strong>'), b. Feb. 18,<br />

1789 ; m. 1810, Hannah Hart, born Oct. 7, 1792, died Dec.<br />

24, 1869, daugliter <strong>of</strong> Asahel and Hannah (Langdon) Hart<br />

He died in Hartford, Ct., April 18, 1829. Their children<br />

were :<br />

i. Langdon, b. June 11, 1811 ; d. Dec. 24, 1813.<br />

ii. Ophelia, b. March 23, 1813 ; d. June 25, 1882.<br />

iii. Langdon, b. Sept. 8, 1815 ; d. July 13, 1843.<br />

iv. Jane Adelaide, b. July 12, 1818 ; d. Jan. 7, 1820.<br />

47. V. James W., b. Sept. 14, 1820.<br />

vi. Jane, b. March 9, 1823.<br />

48. vii. Charlotte, b. May 13, 1825.<br />

The above dates are from a veiy carefully written letter <strong>of</strong><br />

Ophelia <strong>Clark</strong> (31, ii), since deceased.<br />

33.<br />

ADAMS.<br />

Eliza Jane' (<strong>John</strong>,^ <strong>John</strong>,^ Mat<strong>the</strong>iv,'^ <strong>John</strong>'), b. Dec. 5,<br />

1797; m. Nov. 1, 1817, William Henry Adams, born May,<br />

1787 ; died March 31, 1865, son <strong>of</strong> <strong>John</strong> Adams <strong>of</strong> Bloom-<br />

field, N. Y. She died June 11, 1855.<br />

Their children were :<br />

i. <strong>John</strong> <strong>Clark</strong>, b. Aug. 29, 1818 ; graduated at Harvard<br />

college, 1839 ; d. Jan. 24,1874.<br />

ii. Eliza Jane, b. July 5, 1820; m. Oct. 15, 1846, at<br />

Clyde, N. Y., Henry Joseph Ruggles, d. Feb. 11, 1863.<br />

iii. William Henry, b. July 16, 1822 ; d. Sept. 5, 1839.<br />

iv. James Bemis, b. Jan. 12, lfe25, at Lyons, Wayne Co.,<br />

N. Y. ; graduated at Harvard college, 1847 ; studied<br />

medicine and received <strong>the</strong> degree <strong>of</strong> M.D. at <strong>the</strong> New<br />

York Medical School in 1851 ; d. Jan. 16, 1853, at<br />

Curacoa, West Indies, <strong>of</strong> yellow fever.

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