An American Family History

The Robert Clarke Family

The first European settlements in Maryland were made in 1634 when English settlers created a permanent colony.

Robert Clarke (Clark) (b. 1610-1664) of Charles County, Maryland was comissioned as Surveyor General in 1638 and chosen as the spokesman for the Jesuits.

He married Eleanor about 1640. Eleanor and Robert's children may have included:

Neal Clarke (about 1640, married Rachel Beard)

John Clarke (1640-1686).

John Clarke (1670)
Robert Clarke (1673)
Benjamin Clarke (1676-1708, m. Judith)
Franklin (Francis) Clarke (1678)
Ann Clarke (1679)

Mary Clarke Compton (about 1644, married John Compton)

In 1651 Robert married Winifred Seybourne Greene. Winifred was the widow of Thomas Green.

Robert Clarke (1652)
Thomas Clarke (1654, married Anne Barber and Julian Mudd)

Robert married Jane Hicks Cockshoot Causine. The widow of John Cockshoot and Nicholas Causine.

Clarke's Inheritance was surveyed on January 30, 1663 for Robert Clarke. It on the north side of the Main Fresh Run at the head of Mattawoman (Creek) called Nuteing.

In 1681 Lord Baltimore granted Clarke's Purchase to John Clarke who immediately signed it over to his brother Thomas.

In 1699, John, Robert, Benjamin, and Francis Clarke sold 100 acres of Clarke's Purchase to William Harbart.

Marylandwas established with religious freedom for Catholics. The colonial economy was based on tobacco cultivated by Africans who had been enslaved.

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