Christopher+ Clark 
Christopher+ was born in 1681 in Somerton, Suffolk, VA. Christopher+'s father was Micajah Clark and his mother was Sallie Ann Moorman. His paternal grandfather was Michael+ Clark and his paternal grandmother is Margaret+ X; his maternal grandparents were Zachariah Moorman and Mary Ann Candler. He was an only child. He died at the age of 73 on May 28th, 1754 in Louisa Co., VA.General Notes
SOURCES: LDS FHL AF # 8J3K-8D (familysearch.org)
AWTP:
"ReVeal - Davis Family Tree Jan 2005" Kacy Davis kacyd@@onramp113.org
"Moss, Earls and a lot more" George Moss georgemoss46@@yahoo.com (who generously provides the following (excerpted here) narrative at AWTP):
" 'Christopher Clark was a man of strong intellect, fine education, great ability and of prominence in Virginia.He was a tobacco planter and a wealthy man of that time.
"The Descendants of Christopher and Micajah Clark," by Mrs. Vick Wells, typed ms in DAR Library,pp. 1-18, gives complete history & genealogy of this family line. Capt Chris Clark, first known ancestor, was "Gentleman", indication that he was related by blood to a noble house of England. He was Captain of a Company of Troopers in the French and Indian Wars (he lefttrooping arms to his son Bolling). Cabels and Their Kin," p. 70; "Irvines and their Kin"]. He was Cpt of Militia in Hanover Co, VA, 1727 [2nd Supplement to Genealogical Register of Society of Colonial Wars 1911, p. 330]. He had been Church or England; it is thought that through his association with Moormans he was a Quaker.
"It is thought (Bryan Mss) that Capt Chris. Clark was a brother of John Clark, the father of Gen. George Rogers Clark, the famous explorer & soldier and Capt. William Clark, Governor of Missouri Territory and partnering the Lewis and Clark Expedition. John Clark and Capt. Chris Clark were neighbors in Albemarle Co, VA at the time of George Rogers Clark's birth; later Capt. Chris. Clark moved to Caroline co, VA.
He served w/ Col Robert Lewis, Thomas Meriwether and others as Justices of the First Court of Louisa co, VA 1742. He was law partner of Nicholas Meriwether and together they purchased large blocks of land. Land offices at Richmond show many thousands of acres patented by Capt. Christopher Clark 1705-1742. Will of Nicholas Meriwether of Hanover Co leaves a lot to son-in-law Robert Lewis and children, Nov 1744, in _KKNB GOOCHLAND CO, VA WILLS AND DEEDS 1742-1749, abstracted and compiled byBenjamin B. Weisiger III, pp 8-9.
1738 [Journals of the Council ofVA 1737=1765] "To Christopher and Charles Lynch 3,000 acres Nov 9 1738 on Tatier Creek adjoing Maj. John Bolling's to extend northwardtoward Hardware River." [VA Mag. Vol 4, p. 228, cited in "Descendants of C. & M. Clark," p. 8]. If land adjoins.' "
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.1553 in Stevenage, Herefordshire, England
- b.BET 1572 AND 1573 in Tripole, Cambridgeshire, England
- b.~ 1553 in Fowlmire, Cambridge, England
- b.BET 1602 AND 1603 in England
- b.1572 in England
- b.1629 in Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England d.05 Aug 1678 in VA/Alternate death information given
- b.~ 1603 in England
- b.1659 in Isle Wight, of Hampshire, England d.1706 in VA
- b.1633 in Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England
- b.1681 in Somerton, Suffolk, VA d.28 May 1754 in Louisa Co., VA
- b.1620 in Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England d.1671 in Nasemond, City of Suffolk, VA
- b.1662 in Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England d.> 1690 in VA
- b.~ 1610 in Callan Castle, Ireland
- b.~ 1636 in Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England d.Jan 1680 in Nasemond, City of Suffolk, VA or Barbados
- b.~ 1612 d. in Callan Castle, Ireland
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They had a daughter named Agnes+.
