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- Autosomal DNA has supported that this line is connected correctly via the following examples.
1. The only match between my mother and a cousin starting with this Alexander Clark and his wife going back from there. He or she has a database of 12358 persons. (L.R.: Ancestry)
2. The only match between my mother and a cousin starting with this Alexander Clark and his wife going back from there. He or she has a database of 20289 persons starting with this Alexander Clark and his wife and their ancestors. (Kristie Cornett: Ancestry)
3. The only match between my mother and a cousin beginning with Alexander's wife's grandparents, John and Mary Stewart on back. They have a 7300 person database. (RebeccaStewart51: Ancestry)
4. The only cousin match on another tree is between my mother and this same John and Mary Stewart in another large tree of 9463 people. (btmartin8931: Ancestry)
5. The only cousin match with another cousin with Alexander's wife's father, Hiram Ralph Lafferty and his wife. This tree is 841 people strong. (B.W.: Ancestry)
I also have many cousin matches through his other children besides my William on Ancestry at 9 cM's or above. I have one cousin descended from Alexander on Gedmatch with a 12.2 cM match too.
The following was posted by Patricia Minich on Ancestry.
"Alexander Clark's grandfather, John Clark, was a brother of Jonathan Clark, grandfather of Gen. George Rogers Clark and William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition(See the Clark and Handley Families of Monroe Co., W. Va. by Bertha Lewis Clark)
Alexander Clark I, the son of James and Elizabeth (Summers) Clark, was born in 1736 in Augusta County, Virginia. In 1763, he married Sarah Lafferty, daughter of Ralph Lafferty of Cowpasture, Bath County, Virginia. In 1785 they moved to Greenbrier County, Virginia. Alexander served the cause of the American Revolution by furnishing supplies to troops. See Greenbrier Book of Public Claims, 1782, Virginia Revolutionary Ancestors, page 20, and DAF Patriot Index, 1966, page 132.
In 1785, Alexander Clark was issued a patent for 330 acres of land on Indian Creek, Greenbrier County, Virginia (now Monroe County, West Virginia. Alexander died in 1794 and his will is recorded in Greenbrier County Will Book 1, page 87, October Court 1794."
Alexander J. was possible also a private in the Continental Troops of Virginia in the American Revolution. These records state that he was born in 1740 according to the "Historical Reg. Of Virginians in the Rev., Soldiers, Saliors and Marines, 1775-1783." ed. By John H. Gwathmey. Richmond, Va. 1938. (13, 872p.): 152.
His will confirms that he is the Alexander whom died in Greenbrier, WV. It is as follows.
[Source: "Greenbrier County, West Virginia, Will Book, Volume 1, 1777-1833," Family History Library Film #595214, p. 87.]
(Posted by Patricia Minich on Ancestry)
"In the Name of god Amen this Twelfth Day of June one Thousand seven Hundred and Ninety four I Alexander Clark of greenbrier County and State of Virginia Now in the Evening of my days but of perfect mind and memory thanks be to god, I therefore calling unto mind the mortality of my Body knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and order this My last will and Testament that is to say Principally and first of all I recommend my Soul to god who gave it and for my Body I recommend it to the Earth to be Buried in a Christian like maner at the Discretion of my Executors nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of god, and as Touching such worldly Estate where it hath pleased god to bless me with in this life I give Devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form:
IMPRIMIS it is my will and I do order that in the first place all my Just Debts and funeral Charges to be paid and satisfied.
Item to my son James Clark one Cow and Calf one two year old and one year old heffer and four heads of sheep. Also Item to my sons William, Ralph, Alexander, John and Samuel Clark I leave to Each one Shilling Sterling. I allso to my Daughters Rebekah and Martha I leave to Each one Shilling Sterling.
I give and bequeath to Sarrah Clark my Beloved wife the Plantation where on I now live Which she is to sell and dispose of how and when she thinks proper and I also give and Bequeath to Sarah Clark my Beloved wife the Disposal of all my Cash my household Furniture and likewise my stock and all my worldly Estate which she is also to dispose how and when she thinks proper.
And allso I Constitute and appoint my Deerly Beloved wife and my son James to be my Executors of this my last will and Testament and I hereby utterly Disallow Revoke and Disannull all and Every other Testament made before this whether gifts grants or legacies whatsoever Ratifying and Confirming this same to be my last will and Testament and Declare the same before the under Evidences and have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above mentioned. Attest: Alexander Clark Seall
Witnesses: Samuel Clark, Mathias Kessinger, Thomas Fulton"
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1736 - 1794 (58 years)
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