For those of you who bought my eighth book, titled, An Influential Family of Early Potters: The Clarks of New Hampshire and Related Businesses, there will be more information about the Clark family published in my forthcoming 800-900 page, tenth book, titled, An Early Industry of Household Wares: The Red Earthenware of Salem Village, South Danvers, Peabody and Salem, Massachusetts. I'm hoping the book will be published sometime this fall, otherwise early next year.
This is some information that will be published in the new book: "An interesting connection found in the Salem Village Parsonage was that Reverend Peter Clark (1693-1768), who served as the minister from 1717-1768 was the grandfather of Captain Peter Clark (1743-1826) of Braintree, Massachusetts and Lyndeborough, New Hampshire. Captain Clark was an influential potter in both locations, although he was likely previously a trained potter in the South Danvers area. This success as a potter was partly a result of domestically produced red earthenware being a non-valuable commodity at the time. These objects also often had a shorter lifespan when compared to the imported wares due to more frequent use, among other reasons. As a result, these locally produced wares were often in high-demand and regularly produced because of the household needs in the Danvers, South Danvers (Peabody) and Salem area.
Captain Peter Clark’s parents were Peter Clark (1720-1747) and Anna Porter (Clark) (Faxon) (1722-1763); they were both born in Danvers, Massachusetts. The elder Clark was the son of Reverend Peter Clark of Salem Village. They were married in Salem, Massachusetts on October 3, 1741. They were then living in Braintree by 1743. The elder Peter Clark died in Braintree in 1747, and Anna Clark died in Braintree in 1763. Although she remarried Thomas Faxon (1710-1801) in Braintree on September 14, 1752.
The Clark family eventually influenced production in a number of locations in New England in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, especially in New Hampshire and Vermont, with lesser known businesses in Orford, New Hampshire and Brownington, Vermont. The Clark family can also be traced back to Hugh Clark (1612-1693) in Watertown, Massachusetts, who migrated to Massachusetts from London, England in 1638.
(Shown below) This is Reverend Peter Clark's probate inventory from July 1768 in Salem Village; he was born in Watertown, graduated from Harvard College in Cambridge in 1712, and became the minister of the Salem Village parsonage in 1717."
The "Mary Anne of Yarmouth" was a ship that sailed from Ipswich, England, to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1637, carrying passengers including those persecuted for their Puritan beliefs. The ship was captained by William Goose and left England in May, arriving in Boston on June 20th.
Oliver was living in Salem, Massachusetts by 1641, which is where his daughter Mary (b. 1641) was born. His first wife was Mary Leeman (1605-1666), who he married on January 29, 1626 in Norfolk, England. However, she passed away in 1666, and Oliver remarried Bridget Bishop (1632-1692), who was the first victim of the Salem Witch Trials in June of 1692.
Among the items listed in Thomas Oliver’s estate were “some few earth [enware] dishes.” These may have been imported wares from England, although there may have been some production in Salem during this period, as well as known production from the Drinker and Kettle families in Charlestown, Massachusetts."
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