Captain Jeremy CLARKE

Male 1605 - 1651  (46 years)

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  • Name Jeremy CLARKE 
    Title Captain 
    Birth 1605  East Farleigh, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    Death 1651  Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Burial Clifton Burying Ground, Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I02144  Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Father William CLARKE,   b. Abt 1575   d. Abt 10 Jun 1610 (Age 35 years) 
    Mother Mary WESTON,   b. Abt Apr 1579 
    Marriage Abt 10 Feb 1598/99  St. Andrews Holborn, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Family ID F01034  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Frances LATHAM,   b. 15 Feb 1609/10, Kempston, Bedford, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Sep 1677, Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1637  [2] 
    Children 
     1. Walter Clarke,   b. Abt 1638   d. 23 May 1714 (Age 76 years)
     2. Mary CLARKE,   b. 1641, Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Apr 1711, Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years)
     3. Jeremiah Clarke,   b. Abt 1643   d. Abt 16 Jan 1728/29, Newport, Newport Co., RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years)
     4. Latham Clarke,   b. Abt 1645   d. 1719 (Age 74 years)
     5. Weston Clarke,   b. 5 Apr 1648   d. 6 Oct 1730 (Age 82 years)
     6. Rev. James Clarke,   b. 1649   d. 1 Dec 1736 (Age 87 years)
     7. Sarah Clarke,   b. 1651   d. Aft 1706 (Age > 56 years)
    Family ID F00784  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

  • Notes 
    • His name is often spelled Jeremy. Jeremiah and Frances came to America about 1638 and settled at Newport, RI.

      He signed the Portsmouth Compact in 1639.

      Jeremy, one of the original settlers of Newport, RI, is a direct descendant of King Edward I of England and his wife Eleanor of Castile, through their daughter Joan Plantagenet, who died in 1307.

      Jeremy Clarke, son of Mary Weston, was a nephew of Sir Richard Weston, Earl of Portland and Lord Treasurer of England.

      Jeremy was a captain (according to his wife's tombstone inscription), in 1648 was President Regent of Aquidneck Island, and held other public offices. His death in 1651 was later recorded in the Quaker records.

      His son Walter Clarke later became Governor of RI, and was one of the original proprietors of the Monmouth Patent, NJ.

  • Sources 
    1. [S012422] Alden G. Beaman, Ph. D., editor, RI Genealogical Register, Vol. 17, 325.

    2. [S013457] Compiled by Alfred Rudulph Justice, Ancestry of Jeremy Clarke of Rhode Islnad and Dungan Genealogy, (Philadelphia: Franklin Publishing Co., 1922), 35.

    3. [S013457] Compiled by Alfred Rudulph Justice, Ancestry of Jeremy Clarke of Rhode Islnad and Dungan Genealogy, (Philadelphia: Franklin Publishing Co., 1922), 42.