Joseph Clarke

Bef 1613 - 1684  (> 70 years)

• Name	Joseph Clarke  [1, 2]
  Birth	Bef 11 Apr 1613  [3]
  Baptism	11 Apr 1613	Banham, Norfolk, England   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	6 Jan 1684	Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [3, 4, 5]
  Person ID	I23187	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	31 Aug 2025

  
  

  Father	Thomas Clarke,   b. Bef 7 Mar 1568   d. Bef 10 May 1638 (Age < 70 years)
  Mother	Mary Canne
  Marriage	17 Oct 1602	Banham, Norfolk, England   [3]
  Family ID	F13931	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alice Fenn,   b. Abt 1619   d. 17 Mar 1711, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 92 years)
  Marriage	15 Apr 1640	Banham, Norfolk, England   [3]
  Children	+ 1. Joseph Clark,   b. 27 Jul 1642, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 11 Sep 1702, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 60 years) + 2. Benjamin Clark,   b. 9 Feb 1644, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 1 Dec 1724, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F13953	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Aug 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Not the Joseph Clark who was in Dorchester by 22 Nov 1634. The Joseph Clark of this entry arrived in 1640 and settled at Dedham.

  
  

• Sources

  [S756] Early New England Families Study Project: Accounts of New England Families from 1641 to 1700 by Alicia Crane Williams. Online database, New England Historic Genealogical Society. [S7376] The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1636-1638, volume 1, by Ian Watson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2024. [S3018] Christopher Gleason Clark, "The English Ancestry of Joseph Clarke (1613-1683) of Dedham and Medfield, Massachusetts." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 152:3, Jan 1998. [S2929] Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903. [S3012] The Biographical Sketches of Prominent Persons, and the Genealogical Records of Many Early and Other Families in Medway, Mass. 1713-1886 by Ephraim Orcutt Jameson. Millis, Massachusetts, 1886.