Jennette (1773-1816) — m. Alexander Stidolph; m. ??? Hilsham
others?
Mary (~1785-1861) — m. William Brittain, Jr. about 1805; m. Caleb Davis, Sr. on 2 Apr 1817
Elizabeth (11 Jun 1787-16 Oct 1852) — m. Jacob L. Sherwood, Sr. about 1805
Walter (1789-Sep 1818)
Alexander, Jr. (~1791-1843) — m. Sarah Ann Perkins on 25 Jun 1814
Susannah (1792-????)
Alexander lived in New York City. He was of Scottish descent, but I don’t know where he was born. He was mentioned as one of the city’s liquor merchants in a May 1774 listing. An 1864 book by Lorenzo Sabine, Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution, Volume 3, page 496, listed Alexander Clark as a liquor retailer on New Chappel Street, which by 1864 had become West Broadway.
I know nothing about Jane beyond dates and name. She was reportedly born in the city of New York. Some sources have claimed her surname was Drake rather than DeMille. There’s no hard evidence either way, but two of her grand-daughters and one of her great-great-grand-daughters carried the middle name DeMille.
I don’t know when they married, either. An ancestry.com account says 1783, but the same page claims Jennette as Jane’s daughter.
In 1783, Alexander and Jane were among the British loyalists evacuated from New York to New Brunswick at the end of the Revolutionary War. Alexander had a brother, Archibald, who went to New Brunswick also.
[There was another, more prominent and better documented Alexander Clark (20 Sep 1744-20 May 1825) in this movement of people. He was an armorer from Monmouth, New Jersey whose wife was Mary Hoff or Vanderhoff (19 Aug 1744-21 Mar 1836). He settled on Maquapit Lake in Queens County, New Brunswick, about 10 miles southwest of where our Alexander lived, although still within Canning Parish. There’s a Clarks Corner just north of Maquapit Lake, presumably named for his family. He and his wife are buried at Grand Point near Douglas Harbor on the lower west side of Grand Lake. There’s even a biography of him: Alexander Clark, Loyalist by Esther Clark Wright, published in 1940.]
On 8 Jun 1786, Alexander received a land grant of 200 acres, 4 miles south of Newcastle Stream (Creek) on the western side of Grand Lake in Queens County, New Brunswick. After the death of his brother Archibald, Alexander on 4 Feb 1791 petitioned to receive the 200 acres in the same area that had been granted to Archibald in 1785. I don’t know whether he got it.
On 14 Aug 1791, two children of Alexander and Jane Clark – Walter and Alexander – were christened in Waterborough, Queens County, New Brunswick, on the eastern side of Grand Lake, by Rev. Richard Clarke of the parish of Gagetown Anglican Church. Their ages were not specified. A couple of years later, on 17 Feb 1794, Rev. Clarke christened the family’s daughter Susannah in Grand Lake. It’s not clear exactly what “Grand Lake” meant as a location.
Alexander died in 1808. A court petition by Jane from that year asked that his estate below Newcastle Creek be made over to two unnamed sons, probably Walter and Alexander.
Jane died in 1837 at the home of her daughter Elizabeth and son-in-law Jacob Sherwood in Hampton, Kings County, New Brunswick. A local paper printed a short death notice naming her as Alexander’s widow and giving 1783 as the year of their arrival in New Brunswick.
Jennette first married one Alexander Stidolph, with whom she reportedly had two children, and later a Mr. Hilsham or Hilesham (1773-????). She died in 1816. Her brother Walter’s 1818 will mentioned two of her children, although not their ages or which of her husbands was Sarah’s father:
Alexander STIDOLPH ()
Sarah () — m. ??? Davis
And that’s all about Jennette.
Mary’s first husband, whom she married about 1805, was William Brittain, Jr. (~1776-~1807), son of William Brittain, Sr. and Christiana Moody. They had one child of record, named for her paternal grandmother:
Christiana (27 Jan 1808-6 Apr 1845) — m. Caleb Davis, Jr. on 31 Mar 1828
William died by November 1807, which is when his will was executed. In 1814, Mary witnessed the marriage of her brother Alexander in Kingston, Queens County. Mary married Capt. Caleb Davis, Sr. (14 Feb 1760-20 Apr 1833), a widower from either New York City or Glamorganshire, Wales, on 2 Apr 1817 in Hatfield Point, Kings County. They had four children I know of:
Walter Clark (~1817-27 Nov 1882) — m. Anne DeForest on 16 Nov 1841
Susan Amelia (~1819-????)
Sarah S. (1823-May 1857)
Margaret Isabella (1826-15 Aug 1904) — never married
Caleb died in 1833. He’s buried in Bayview Cemetery, Kings, Kings County, New Brunswick. Three of his children were later buried there as well – Walter, Isabella, and a son by his first wife, Mary Spragg.
The 1851 census listed Mary (66) and daughter Isabella (25) living with son Walter Davis (35) and his family in Springfield, Kings County, New Brunswick. Walter was a farmer, and Isabella was a dressmaker. Walter’s wife Anne died in 1855.
The 1861 census showed Mary, Walter, and Isabella still there, contradicting the findagrave.com page for Mary, which claims she died in 1851. Another report says she died in 1861. She’s almost certainly buried in Bayview Cemetery, but the location of her grave is undetermined.
Elizabeth was born in Waterbororough, Queens County on the eastern side of Grand Lake. She married Jacob L. Sherwood, Sr. (23 Mar 1779-2 Feb 1838) from Westchester, New York about 1805. They lived in Hampton, Kings County, New Brunswick. Their children:
Jane Charlotte (18 Jan 1806-15/25 Apr 1872) — m. James McCready on 27 Feb 1833
Justus (5 Apr 1807-13 Nov 1876) — m. Eliza Jane Sherwood on 7 Mar 1843
Mary (9 Aug 1809-5 Jun 1851) — m. Jonathan Titus on 25 Feb 1834
Jacob, Jr. (5 Mar 1811-5 Mar 1878) — m. Rachel Freelove Pickel on 6 Mar 1834
William (5 Jul 1813-8 May 1879) — m. Frances Caroline “Fannie” McCready about 1835
Elizabeth (18 Jun 1815-Dec 1892) — m. William McCready on 21 Apr 1834
Susannah Demille (19 Jun 1817-1 Jan 1889) — m. William Bull on 29 Aug 1850
Joseph Alexander “Joe” (25 Aug 1819-12 Dec 1886) — m. Charlotte Hicks on 8 Feb 1849
Sarah Elizabeth (23 May 1821-23 Aug 1868) — m. Humphrey S. Smith
Rachel (17 Jan 1823-11 Jun 1847)
Deborah (20 Sep 1825-18 Oct 1825)
John Walter Clark (19 Oct 1827-8 Jul 1878) — m. Hannah Brown on 9 Oct 1857
Charles Miles (19 Mar 1830-8 Jun 1835)
Elizabeth’s mother Jane was living with them at the time of her death in 1837. Jacob died the following year.
The 1851 census showed Elizabeth (64) living with son Joseph (33) and family in Hampton, along with her youngest surviving son, John (23). Elizabeth died in 1852. Her place of burial is unknown.
Some of Elizabeth’s descendants moved to Ontario and Michigan. Son William named one of his sons Charles Miles Sherwood, after his brother who died young.
Walter was baptized along with brother Alexander on 14 Aug 1791. He died, unmarried, in September 1818, aged about 28 or 29. His will, dated 2 Jan 1818, valued his possessions at £18, of which one third was left to his mother, and the remainder divided into four sections for sister Mary, sister Elizabeth, brother Alexander, and the son and daughter of his late sister Jennette, implying that all his other siblings had died without descendants. His brother-in-law Caleb Davis, Sr. was one of the executors.
Alexander has his own entry in the family tree.
Susannah was born in 1792, and baptized on 17 Feb 1794. After that, nothing. Since she wasn’t mentioned in brother Walter’s will, she probably died before 1818.
Mary’s daughter Christiana married her stepbrother Caleb Davis, Jr. (11 Aug 1800-12 Jan 1874) on 31 Mar 1828. Their reported children:
Mary Jane (10 Jan 1829-14 Jun 1917) — m. Charles P. Hamm in 185x
Jemima Margaret (16 May 1831-????)
Charlotte Ann (1 Feb 1834-21 Aug 1920) — m. Joseph O. Dunham on 18 May 1854
M. Adeline (17 May 1837-20 Apr 1924) — never married
Dimock Delancy (13 Oct 1839-1892) — m. Charlotte A. Cunard in 186x
Maria Pamela (23 Apr 1842-14 Mar 1931) — m. James Edward Fanjoy on 27 Sep 1881
Christiana (7 Mar 1845-21 Jan 1847)
Christiana died in 1845.
Caleb remarried. In 1871, he was living in Salisbury, Westmorland County, New Brunswick with a wife named Margaret and two children too young to be Christiana’s. He died in 1874.
In 1861, daughter Adeline was living George Davis (born about 1818) in St. John. I don’t know who his parents were, but he listed Adeline as his cousin. Christiana’s son Dimock was probably raised by his uncle Walter Clark Davis, and reportedly died in Aroostook County, Maine in 1892.
Mary’s son Walter married Anne DeForest (1819-14 Apr 1855) on 16 Nov 1841 in Kings County. The children of Walter and Anne:
Miles Frederick (1843-????)
Olivia (1845-3 Apr 1847)
Eliza Letitia (5 Jun 1845-2 Apr 1926) — m. John Raymond Sherwood (1st cousin) on 30 Dec 1874
Caleb DeForest (25 Jul 1849-1919) — m. Margaret Olive Case
Annette (1850-????)
Susan Amelia (21 Mar 1852-1 May 1907) — m. Charles Titus White on 9 Jul 1879
George (1854-????)
They lived in Springfield Parish, Kings County, New Brunswick. Walter was a church deacon. Walter’s mother Mary and his unmarried sister Isabella both lived with him. In 1851 there was also an unexplained child named Daniel Davis (born ~1839) living there, apparently not Walter’s son; probably he was Christiana’s son Dimock.
Anne died after George was born. Walter’s mother Mary Clark Davis died in the 1860s. By 1881, only son Caleb, plus his wife Olive and their first child, were still with Walter. Walter died the following year. He’s buried with Anne and their daughter Olivia in Bayview Cemetery, Hatfield Point, Kings County. His sister Isabella died in 1904, and is buried there also, as is his daughter Susan Amelia, who was named for Walter’s younger sister.
Elizabeth’s son Joseph Sherwood married Charlotte Hicks (13 Dec 1822-15 Jul 1907) from England on 8 Feb 1849. Known children:
William Alfred (29 Dec 1849-2 Apr 1902) — m. Elizabeth Ann Cowan about 1875
Emma Mary (30 Jun 1853-3 Sep 1906) — never married
Frederick Myles (~1858-3 Mar 1893) — m. Sophia Mary Fowler on 23 Jan 1883; poss. m. Mary ??? about 1890
Ada Leila (17 Apr 1860-6 Apr 1939) — m. Charles Edwin Putnam on 23 Jan 1883
Helena Bertha (24 Aug 1864-9 Jan 1955) — never married
Sarah Lillian “Sadie” (4 Sep 1868-15 Mar 1898) — m. George Elmer Richardson on 30 Apr 1894
In 1851 they were living in Hampton, Kings County, New Brunswick with Joseph’s mother and younger brother John. From 1861 on, they were living in Wakefield, Carleton County, New Brunswick.
Joseph died in 1886, and is buried in Jacksontown Cemetery, Jacksontown, Carleton County. The 1891 census showed Charlotte in Wakefield, Carleton, New Brunswick with unmarried daughter Emma, widowed son Frederick, and a girl named Bessie E. Sherwood (8 Aug 1888-19xx) who was probably Frederick’s daughter.
For the 1901 census, Charlotte’s household still included daughter Emma, and Bessie, now listed as a daughter rather than a grand-daughter. Frederick had died, but the eldest son, William, was there in his place. Charlotte died in 1907, and is buried with Joseph and son Frederick. I can’t trace Bessie.
https://preserve.lib.unb.ca/wayback/20141205151334/http://atlanticportal.hil.unb.ca//acva/en/winslow/context/nb_loyalists.php -- History of loyalist emigration to New Brunswick
http://www.rubycusack.com/Queries-1998.html -- Includes query about Mary’s second husband
http://uelac.org/Loyalist-Trails/2011/Loyalist-Trails-2011.php?issue=201111 -- Names six children!
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clark-39013 -- Names the same six, prob. same source as above
http://www.jedh.com/src/genealogy/hpkr/d0000/g0000098.html -- Names three children of Alexander and Jane; some confusion with other Alexander Clark
https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/elizabeth-clark_20350859 -- Elizabeth and her children
https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/christiana-brittain_48908665 -- Mary’s daughter Christiana
http://sites.rootsweb.com/~nbqueens/gageangbapt-ce.htm -- 1791 and 1794 baptisms
http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/clark/22114/ -- Inquiry about Alexander and Jane; cites 1808 death
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVBF-JFRJ -- 1817 wedding #2 of Mary
https://archives.gnb.ca/Search/MC3706/Details.aspx?culture=en-CA&abstract=7651 -- 1818 will of Walter
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVBF-J8XJ -- 1828 wedding of Mary’s daughter Christiana
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117261449/caleb-davis -- 1833 grave of Mary’s second husband
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVBF-JJFK -- 1834 wedding of Elizabeth’s daughter Mary
http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/clark/24884/ -- 1837 death of Jane, mentions her husband and their 1783 arrival; also has data for the other Alexander Clark
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVBF-JV2T -- 1849 wedding of Elizabeth’s son Joseph, I think
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVBF-JVL9 -- 1850 wedding of Elizabeth’s daughter Susannah
http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/e/e092/e002293222.jpg -- 1851 census, Mary and son Walter
http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/e/e092/e002293058.jpg -- 1851 census, Elizabeth and son Joseph
http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/e/e092/e002293044.jpg -- 1851 census, Elizabeth’s daughter Susannah (“Susan”) Bull
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133122247/mary-clark-davis -- 1851 false grave of Mary
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144550822 -- 1851 grave of Elizabeth’s daughter Mary
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVBF-J26G -- 1857 wedding of Elizabeth’s son John
http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/1861/jpg/4108518_00379.jpg -- 1861 census, Mary and children (Walter on previous page)
http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/1861/jpg/4108533_00431.jpg -- 1861 census, Elizabeth’s son Joseph Sherwood
http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/1861/jpg/4108531_00014.jpg -- 1861 census, Mary’s grand-daughter Adeline Davis
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49051386 -- 1868 grave of Elizabeth’s daughter Sarah
http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/1871/jpg/4396654_00226.jpg -- 1871 census, Mary’s children Walter and Isabella Davis
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111435158 -- 1872 grave of Elizabeth’s daughter Jane
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVBF-VSQZ -- 1874 wedding of Mary’s grand-daughter Letitia Davis
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JFQ2-9YK -- 1875 death of Elizabeth’s daughter-in-law Rachel, I think
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NWHR-GP8 -- 1876 death of Elizabeth’s son Justus
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JF6K-12Q -- 1878 death of Elizabeth’s son Jacob, I think
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVBF-VSVY -- 1879 wedding of Mary’s grand-daughter Susan Amelia Davis
http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/e/e326/e008130972.jpg -- 1881 census, Mary’s children Walter and Isabella
http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/e/e326/e008132656.jpg -- 1881 census, Elizabeth’s son Joseph Sherwood
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVBF-VQCT -- 1883 wedding of Elizabeth’s grandson Fred M. Sherwood
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94629252 -- 1886 grave of Elizabeth’s son Joseph
http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1891&op=img&id=30953_148100-00164 -- 1891 census, widow and son of Elizabeth’s son Joseph
http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1891&op=img&id=30953_148099-00633 -- 1891 census, Elizabeth’s grandson William A. Sherwood
http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1891&op=img&id=30953_148100-00015 -- 1891 census, Elizabeth’s grand-daughter Ada Sherwood
http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1891&op=img&id=30953_148106-00268 -- 1891 census, Mary’s grand-daughter Pamelia Davis Fanjoy
http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1891&op=img&id=30953_148106-00612 -- 1891 census, Mary’s grandson Dimock Davis
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94629133 -- 1893 grave of Elizabeth’s grandson Fred Miles Sherwood
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FSL7-LYQ -- 1898 death of Elizabeth’s grand-daughter Sarah
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/173792696/sadie-l.-richardson -- 1898 grave of Elizabeth’s grand-daughter Sarah
http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/1901/z/z001/jpg/z000024564.jpg -- 1901 census, widow and son of Elizabeth’s son Joseph
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95559941 -- 1902 grave of Elizabeth’s grandson William Sherwood
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/116288148 -- 1907 grave of Mary’s grand-daughter Susan Amelia Davis White
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHFY-B7S -- 1920 census, Mary’s grand-daughter Eliza Letitia Davis Sherwood
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XGZ2-BFM -- 1924 death of Mary’s grand-daughter Adeline Davis
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N3PS-D84 -- 1926 death of Mary’s grand-daughter Eliza Letitia Davis Sherwood
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XG8Z-NVZ -- 1931 death of Mary’s grand-daughter Pamelia Davis Fanjoy
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XG8Q-BBM -- 1935 death of Elizabeth’s grandson Charles Miles Sherwood
https://geneal4real.wordpress.com/tag/new-brunswick-canada/ -- Lists Alexander Clark and wife Mary Hoff, plus kids
http://www.jedh.com/src/genealogy/hpkr2/f908.htm -- Same guy, with dates and parents
https://www.worldcat.org/title/alexander-clark-loyalist-a-contribution-to-the-history-of-new-brunswick/oclc/18932338 -- Book about that guy
http://www.jedh.com/src/genealogy/hpkr/d0001/g0000075.html -- Son of that guy
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clark-18374 -- That guy again
http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/clark/24884/ -- 1836 death of Mary Hoff Clark
