UpdateElijahiv.txt

	We welcome Blanche Clark as the newest member of our group.
BClark1185@aol.com    In her first message to me she explained her
connection:   

   It was very exciting to see your research about Capt. Christopher Clark 
of Salmon Creek and Edenton, N.C.  My husband is a great-great-great 
grandson  of Christopher.  We have his family Bible (printed in London in 1766) 
but we have never been able to trace the Clark line back past Christopher.  We 
would be very interested in your sources of information.

	She provided the following updates and corrections to Doug Tucker's 
elijahiv.txt report on my webpage:

     The corrections I mentioned relate to the information about our 
Christopher Clark and his family in the May 1997 notes by Douglas.  They are:

1. Christopher Clark's first wife was Elizabeth (not Agnes "Nancy" Wright.  
Christopher did not give her maiden name in his Bible.

2. Sarah Clark was the daughter of Christopher and his first wife, Elizabeth, 
not Christopher and Hannah Turner.  She was not the "only daughter".  There 
were two others as well, both by his first wife,  They were  Elizabeth, who 
married Blake Baker and Mary who married George West.  James West Clark 
was the only child of Christopher and Hannah Turner.

3. Christopher, along with a number of other prominent eastern N.C. men, was a
Commander of Navigation of the Albemarle Sound in 1788 (Colonial Records of 
N.C,, Vol. XXIV, p 966.  I find nothing to indicate he was "North Carolina's 
Commissioner of Navigation in 1778".

4. James West Clark was Chief Clerk of the Navy Dept. during Andrew 
Jackson's first term, when John Branch, his friend and his wife's kinsman, was 
Secretary  of the  Navy.  When Jackson's Cabinet resigned (or was dissolved) 
in the wake of the Eaton affair, James W. Clark returned to Tarboro and 
retired from  public life.  He did not "spend many years in Washington as 
Chief Clerk of the Navy Dept."

5. Henry Toole Clark, the son of James W. Clark, was Governor of N.C. in 
1861-62. He was Speaker of the N.C. Senate in 1851 and, as N.C. did not have 
a Lt. Governor, was next in line of succession to the Governorship.  When Gov. 
Ellis became ill, only a short while after beginning his term of office, 
Henry T. Clark became Acting Governor (in June 1851) and, upon Ellis' death 
(July 1851), Governor.  N.C. had seceded from the Union on May 20, 1851 so 
the statement that "Gov. Clark resigned  when N.C. voted to secede from the 
Union" is incorrect.  He served out his term of office and did not seek a 
second term.
 
     Those are the only corrections I have at this time.  However, I have a 
couple of comments.  Our family records indicate that Christopher Clark was 
born "in the north of England" and we had always assumed this was correct.  
You seem to have considerable evidence this is not right and we are very 
interested in  pursuing the facts you have,
     Also, while we have documentation of a couple of voyages of Christopher 
in his sloop, William (one to Barbados), we had never heard that he was a 
"famous privateer" in the Revolutionary War.  The fact that he was "awarded"  
confiscated Loyalist property near Tarboro certainly seems to support this 
statement - as  well as making it seem unlikely that he was an "Englishman 
by birth".