Hannah Clarke

Hannah married Thomas Rodman on 26 Nov 1691. Thomas (son of John Rodman and Elizabeth) was born on 26 Dec 1640 in Barbados; died on 11 Jan 1728 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Samuel Rodman was born on 23 Jul 1703; died on 27 Feb 1749.

Walter married Hannah Scott in Feb 1667. Hannah (daughter of Richard Scott and Katherine Marbury) was born in 1642; died on 24 Jul 1681. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1646

Notes:

One of JTS's eleven proven "gateway ancestors."

From Wikipedia:

Jeremy Clarke (also known as Jeremiah Clarke) was an early colonial settler and President of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Born into a prominent family in England, he was a merchant who came to New England with his wife, Frances Latham, and four stepchildren, settling first at Portsmouth in 1638, but the following year joining William Coddington and others in establishing the town of Newport. Here he held a variety of civic positions until 1648 when Coddington's election as President of the colony was disputed, and Clarke was chosen to serve in that office instead. He was the father of Walter Clarke, another colonial governor of Rhode Island, and also had family connections with several other future governors of the colony.

Jeremy married Frances Latham about 1637 in England. Frances (daughter of Lewis Latham and Elizabeth) was born before 15 Feb 1610 in Kempston, Bedfordshire, England; was christened on 15 Feb 1610 in Kempston, Bedfordshire, England; died in Sep 1677 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island; was buried in Common Burying Ground, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She emigrated about 1638 with her second husband Jeremy Clarke and her four children by William Dungan.

From Wikipedia:

Frances Latham (1610-1677), was a colonial American woman who settled in Rhode Island, and is known as "the Mother of Governors." Having been widowed twice, she had three husbands, and became the ancestor of at least ten governors and three deputy/lieutenant governors, and is related by marriage to an additional six governors and one deputy governor.

Born in Bedfordshire, England, she was the daughter of Lewis Latham, a falconer for King Charles I. She was first married to William Dungan, with whom she had four children. Dungan died at an early age, and she soon married Jeremy Clarke who brought her and her Dungan children to New England where they settled in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Clarke was a prominent merchant who became the President of the colony for a year. With Clarke, Frances had seven children, the oldest of whom, Walter, later became a governor of the colony.

Jeremy Clarke died when all of his children were still minors, after which Frances married her third husband, the Reverend William Vaughan of Newport. Frances and her last husband both died at about the same time in 1677 in Newport, and Frances was buried in the Common Burying Ground there. She leaves a legacy of thousands of descendants, many of whom reached great prominence during their lives.

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Governors who are direct descendants:

Walter Clarke, her son, Rhode Island governor 1676-1677, 1686, and 1696-1698
Samuel Cranston, Rhode Island governor 1698-1729
William Greene, Jr., Rhode Island governor 1778-1785
Nehemiah R. Knight, Rhode Island governor 1817-1821
Henry Lippitt, Rhode Island governor 1875-1877
Charles W. Lippitt, Rhode Island governor 1895-1896
John R. Rogers, Washington governor, 1896-1902
John Chafee, Rhode Island governor, 1963-1969
Lincoln Chafee, Rhode Island governor, 2011-

Also John R. Rogers, Washington state governor, 1897-1901.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1 Jul 1679, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island
• Alternate death: 1680, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island

Notes:

Emigrated 1634; first at Boston, then Providence in 1638. He was a shoemaker. First associated with the Baptists, then became a Quaker.

At Anne Hutchinson's trial, it was stated that she came on 18 Sep 1634 on the Griffin and that her brother-in-law Richard Scott was in the same company. But in fact he was already in New England when the Griffin arrived, having been admitted a member of the Boston church on 28 Aug 1634.

Richard married Katherine Marbury on 7 Jun 1632 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England. Katherine (daughter of Rev. Francis Marbury and Bridget Dryden) was born about 1610; died on 2 May 1687 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One of JTS's eleven proven "gateway ancestors."

She was a brave woman. "At Boston, 16 Sept. 1658 the hangman cut off the right ear of Katherine Scott's future son-in-law Christopher Holder (who came from England two years before) for the crime of being a Quaker. Remonstrating against this barbarity, she was thrown into prison and later publicly flogged 'ten cruel stripes with a three-fold corded knotted whip.'" [Collected Papers: Armorial, Genealogical, Historical, citation details below.]

She appears to have returned very briefly to England in 1659-60.

William married Mary Weston on 10 Feb 1599 in St. Andrew's, Holborn, London, England. Mary (daughter of Jerome Weston and Mary Cave) was born before 26 Apr 1579; was christened on 26 Apr 1579 in Roxwell, Essex, England; died before 13 Jul 1614. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sergeant Falconer to Charles I.

Lewis married Elizabeth. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 26 Dec 1642

Notes:

He was a clothier.

Edward married Sarah Carter on 18 Dec 1599 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England. Sarah died before 29 Mar 1633 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England; was buried on 29 Mar 1633 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"[S]ister of Richard Carter of Brook Hall, co. Essex." [G. Andrews Moriarty, [citation details below]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 12 Feb 1611

Notes:

"Francis Marbury (sometimes spelled Merbury) (1555-1611) was a Cambridge-educated English cleric, schoolmaster and playwright. He is best known for being the father of Anne Hutchinson, considered the most famous (or infamous) English woman in colonial America." [Wikipedia]

Author of the 1579 play The Contract of Marriage of Wit and Wisdom.

Francis married Bridget Dryden in 1587. Bridget (daughter of John Dryden and Elizabeth Cope) was born after 1563 in of Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, England; died after 12 Feb 1644. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]