Linda Clark
dcclark@bellsouth.net>From "Pioneers Of Wiregrass Georgia" Volume 4 Page 48
JACOB CLARK 1747-1837
Jacob Clark, a Revolutionary War pensioner of Camden County,
Georgia was born in North Carolina in 1747. His wife was Sarah
Stephens, born in North Carolina in 1769. They were married in 1783.
They had eleven known children:
1) John, b 17 ? married Mary Pollie Plunkett
2) William, married unknown
3) Vicy, married Richard Nobles
4) Martha, m __________Weeks
5) Jacob Jr. b 1793 m Euridice Nobles, Sept. 26, 1833
6) James b 1796 married Vicy Barco, Jan 24, 1822
7) Elizabeth,b 1780 married Silas Weeks
8) Cader C., married Lucretia Williams
9) Richard , born 1808 married Ann Elizabeth Palmer
10) Mary, born 1812 married ________Canaway
11) David, born 1817 married Ellen or Nellie Palmer 2 March
1 1836 Glynn Co. Ga
Jacob Clark enlisted at Wilmington, North Carolina in 1777,
serving as a private in the 1st Regiment, North Caroina line, in Captain
John Walker's comapny, and later under Captain Brown. He was in the
battles of Germantown, Brandywine and other engagements. He was captured
in the battle of Charleston, South Carolina in 1780 and was confined in
prison at St. Augustine, Florida and kept there until the end of the war
in 1783. He was then released and got as far back as Camden County,
Georgia where he was taken sick. Family tradition is that he was married
in Camden County but this lacks confirmation.
In 1789, Jacob Clark applied for a headright of of land in
Camden County, Georgia stating his family consisted of himself, wife and
two children. His pension papers stated that he head earned his livehood
by making canoes, shoes and that he also did carpenter work and farming.
His pension application was executed in Camden COunty, Georgia, August
1826 and was granted the next month. He died at his home in Camden
County, Georgia on 6 May 1837.
On October 16, 1838, his widow applied for a widow's pension
and it was granted. She was residing at the time in Camden County.
Georgia. Later she moved with some of the children to Columbia, County,
Florida where she died.
Source of Information:
Pioneers Of Wiregrass Georgia Volume 4 Page 48
Other family information is that there was another child of Jacob and
Sarah Clark . Her name was Sarah Clark and she was born 1803, married
William Eugene Campbell.
That William H. Clark ( listed as #2 above) b abt 1807 married
Olympia Poincy on 30 June 1834 in Camden County, Georgia.
Cader Clark (listed above as #8) was born April 22, 1827 and married
Lucretia Williams 6 January 1831.