JEREMIAH CAPT. CLARKE

• Birth Notes
  • Birth: 1 Dec 1605 in England, of, Newport, Ri
    Jeremiah Clarke was christened on 1 December 1605 at East Farleigh, Kent, England.
    

• Death Notes
  • Death: 11 Jan 1651 in Newport, Newport, Ri ????
    Burial: 3 Jan 1661 Newport Cemetary, Newport, Newport, Ri   ????
    

• General Notes
  • Name: Jeremiah CLARK Capt.
    Surname: Clark
    Given Name: Jeremiah
    Suffix: Capt.
    Sex: M
    Birth: 1 Dec 1605 in England, of, Newport, Ri
    Christening: 1 Dec 1605 St. Albans, Wood Street, London, England
    Death: 11 Jan 1651 in Newport, Newport, Ri
    Burial: 3 Jan 1661 Newport Cemetary, Newport, Newport, Ri
    ************ARTICLE I FOUND RE: JEREMIAH**********
    In early preparations for his forthcoming Magna Carta Ancestry, Douglas Richardson has also traced the matrilineal line of my second royally-descended immigrant forebear, Acting Gov. Jeremiah Clarke of Rhode Island, to Sancha Blount, daughter of Sir Thomas Blount and Margaret Gresley, and granddaughter of Sir Walter Blount and the famed Sancha de Ayala, sister of a great-great-grandfather of Ferdinand I (1452-1516), generally considered the first king of United Spain, husband of Isabella of Castile and sponsor of Columbus. For more on Sancha, her Spanish ancestry and her immigrant American and presidential descendants, see National Genealogical Society Quarterly 51 (1963): 235-38, my Ancestors of American Presidents, 1st ed. (1995, hereafter AAP), pp. 365-68, and Register 152 (1998): 36-48, the latter a brilliant piece by Nathaniel L. Taylor and Todd A. Farmerie. Sancha Blount, granddaughter of Sancha de Ayala, married Edward Langford, and had a daughter Alice Langford who married John Stradling of Dauntsey and Richard Pole of Isleworth, later Sir Richard Pole, husband also of Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury and niece of Kings Edward IV and Richard III. John and Alice left a daughter, Anne Stradling, who married Sir John Danvers. From the 1895 English Danvers genealogy, plus a recent successor, and the 1878 English Chester of Chicheley genealogy, the line to Clarke is clear. Sir John Danvers and Anne Stradling had a daughter Anne, wife of Thomas Lovett and John Wyke and mother in turn of Elizabeth Lovett, wife of Anthony Cave. Mary Cave, a daughter of these last, married Sir Jerome Weston and was the mother of both Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland, Lord Treasurer under Charles II, and Mary Weston, wife of William Clerke and mother of Acting Gov. Jeremiah Clarke of Rhode Island.