‘ [510] a house of entertainment,’ being apparently the first in Camb. who received such license. His wife was Isabel; but they left no posterity.
Chester, Mrs., owned land in Camb. 1635. She was sister of Rev. Thomas Hooker, and was probably the widow Dorothy Chester, who settled at Weathersfield, Conn., and whose son, Leonard Chester, is said by Hinman to have been ‘the father and ancestor of the Chester family;’ and to have ‘died when young, under forty years of age, in 1648.’ His children at Weathersfield were John, b. 3 Aug. 1635; Dorcas, b. Nov. 1637; Stephen, b. Mar. 3 1639; Mary, b. Jan. 1641; Prudence, b. Feb. 1643; Eunice, b. Jan. 1645; Mercy, b. Feb. 1647. Hinman. Of these children, Dorcas m. Rev. Samuel Whiting of Billerica 12 Nov. 1656; Prudence m. Mr. Thomas Russell of Chs. 30 Dec. 1669; Eunice m. Richard Sprague of Chs. 25 Feb. 1672-3; Mercy d. in Chs. 15 Sept. 1669. Mary the mother, widow of Leonard, had become the wife of Richard Russell, Esq., of Chs.
Clark, John (or Clarke), owned the lot on the easterly corner of Brattle and Mason streets in 1635, which he sold to Edward Winship, and removed to Hartford, where he was a juror in 1642, and Deputy to the General Court in 1649.
2. Nicholas, sold a lot on the easterly side of Mason Street to Edward Winship, and removed to Hartford before 1639.
3. Jonas, the ‘famous’ ruling Elder of the Cambridge Church, was here in 1642, and Selectman in 1679 and 1690. He seems to have been a shipmaster in early life. The General (Court Records, under date of Oct. 18, 1654, contain a report made by ‘Mr. Jonas Clarke and Mr. Samuel Andrews, both well skilled in the mathematics, having had the command of ships upon several voyages, being appointed to take an observation at the northerly bounds of our Patent upon the sea-coast,’ etc. This report, doubtless made by two residents of Camb., is dated Oct. 29, 1653; the observation was taken Oct. 13, 1653. The residence of Elder Clark was on the southerly side of South Street near its junction with Holyoke Street. He was three times married (first, to Sarah——, who died 20 Feb. 1649-50; second, to Elizabeth Clark, 30 July 1650, who died 21 Mar. 1672-3; third, to Elizabeth Cook, 19 Aug. 1673; this last wife survived him, and became the third wife of Deac. Walter Hastings, 7 Jan. 1702-3, whom also she survived. By these several wives he had seventeen children, as follows: Thomas, b. 2 Dec. 1642, d. 20 May 1649; Sarah, b. 15 Sept. 1644, m. Samuel Green, the veteran printer, 23 Feb. 1662-3, and was living in 1705; Jonas, b. 4 Sept. 1646; Mary, b. prob. 1648, d. 15 Nov. 1649; Elizabeth, b. prob. 1651, m. (1) Mr. John Woodmancy 23 July 1672, and (2）——Monk; Thomas, b. 2 Mar. 1652-3; John, b. 30 May 1655, d. young; Timothy, b. 1657; Samuel, bap. 6 Nov. 1659; Abigail, b. 7 Ap. 1662; Mary, b. 6 Mar. 1664-5, m. (Capt John Bonner before 1687, and d. 20 Ap. 1697; John, b. 7 Aug. 1674, d. 15 Oct. 1675; John, b. 3 Nov. 1675, d. 7 Mar. 1676; Nathaniel, b. 27 Oct. 1677, d. 15 June 1686; Joseph, b. 5 May 1679, living in 1705; Hannah, b. and d. Dec. 1680; Susanna, b. 20 Oct. 1682, m. Ebenezer Hancock 14 Jan. 1702. Jonas the f. was ordained Ruling Elder of the Church 15 Nov. 1682. His associate, Elder John Stone, ordained at the same time, died within a year afterwards, and Elder Clark held the office alone until 14 Jan. 1700, when he died a. 80 years; and the office was never again filled. Judge Sewall notices his death thus: ‘Lord's-day, January 14 1699/1700. Elder Jonas Clark of Cambridge dies; a good man in a good old age, and one of my first and best Cambridge friends. He quickly follows the great patron of Ruling Elders, Tho. Danforth, Esq.’
4. Jonas, s. of Jonas (3), resided in Boston, where he d. 14 Jan. 1737-8, a. 91 years, 4 months, 10 days.
5. Thomas, s. of Jonas (3), grad. H. C. 1670, was settled at Chelmsford as successor to Rev. John Fiske, in 1677; ‘died 7 Dec. 1704, a. 52. His children were, Jonas, a Colonel and Magistrate, b. 20 Dec. 1684, d. 8 Ap. 1770; Thomas, b. 28 Sept. 1694; Elizabeth, who m. Rev. John Hancock of Lexington; Lucy, who m. Major William Tyng of Dunstable; and several who died in infancy.’ Farmer.
