_Alexander CLARK ____+
| (1692 - 1730)
_John CLARK _________|
| (1718 - 1777) |
| |_Sarah VAN HORNE ____
|
|
|--Alexander CLARK
| (1743 - 1825)
| _Cornelius DORN _____+
| | (1695 - ....)
|_Anna DOORN _________|
(.... - 1801) |
|_Ann GOLDING ________
[1243]
Grand Point Anglican Cemetery is at Grand Point of Grand Lake, in New Brunswick.
From Harrison-Heitman World Tree Project:
Military Service: 24 APR 1777 Enlisted Delancey's Brigade (Loyalist), Long Island 5
Military Service: DEC 1778 Adjutant, Delancey's Brigade
Event: Moved OCT 1785 Maquapit Lake, New Brunswick
Alexander Clark was a blacksmith and farmer in Freehold Twp, Freehold Cty who enlisted as a Sergeant in Delanceys Brigade in 1777. In 1778 he was promoted to Adjutant. The Battalion served in the New York-Long Island area during the war. When he joined the Loyalists he and Mary had four children. They were reunited in New York after the war and sailed to St. John, New Brunswick in 1783. Within three years they moved upriver to Maquapit Lake where the fifth child George was born in 1787. George married Margaret Baird 3 Feb 1808 in St John and had two girls and three boys. It was second daughter Mary Ann who married William Hanselpacker and connected with the Kilburn line.
It was Alexanders great grandfather William Clarke, who in 1684, came as a servant from Montrose in northeast Scotland and settled in East Jersey near Perth Amboy. After serving four years on his master Robert Fullertons farm, he purchased a 100 acre farm near Freehold and for several generations Clarks lived on this property. Some of these Clarks married Dutch girls from both New Amersterdam and New Jersey and the genealogy of some can be traced to Holland.
Question whether it was this Alexander or another who, while married to Jane, had the following children christened at Gagetown Anglican, Gagetown, New Brunswick, 14-Aug-1791:
Walter, Alexander and Susannah.
The following christenings took place at the Maugerville Anglican Church in Sunbury County, New Brunswick. Listing them here until the information can be assigned to the correct individuals:
1790 Aug 19 Clarke / Gersham
1790 Aug 19 Clarke / George
1790 Oct 2 Earl / Cornielus
1792 Feb 15 Clarke / Alexander
1792 Jul 8 Clark / Mary / adult
1793 Feb 10 Clarke / Mary
1793 Mar 24 Clark / William Foster / adult
1793 Nov 11 Clarke / John Boon
1793 Nov 11 Clarke / Hannah
1798 May 28 Clarke / William Henry
1798 May 28 Clarke / Amelia
1799 Apr 2 Clarke / Saml. Benjm. Wallis
It MAY also be this same Alexander, who is the subject of the following article:
Alexander CLARK, grandfather of Jas. H. CLARK, planted a rose in his own garden in the Township of Oldtown, County of Monmouth, New Jersey in 1761. In 1777 he removed the root to New York. On the 24th May 1783, he came to Saint John and brought the root with him and planted it there, where it remained until 1787. He then brought it up to Queens Co. and planted it on the Maquapit Lake, Canning Parish. James H. Clark brought a root of it with him to Fredericton in 1877 and planted it on his place above Government House, and from this root over three hundred roses will be taken this season. It is known as the large double rose and throw out very sweet perfume. - `Fredericton Reporter' 18 July 1879 TIMES
And more...
On Grand Lake - ...At Jesse CLARKE's, about two miles distant from Mr. Denton's, he was shown three parchment deeds of property in New Jersey which were conveyed to his great grandfather, Alexander CLARK in 1627. Alexander Clark came to Saint John where he held the position of Master Armorer in 1783. He was buried at Grand Point. Mrs. Albert CLARK has in her possession a secretary and book case made by Alexander Clark at Jersey City in 1758. 1 August 1884 SUN
On Grand Lake - continued ... Before leaving Douglas Harbour for Newcastle (Queens Co.), the reporter visited the old burying ground at Grand Point, in which repose many of the early settlers of the place. The oldest graves are unmarked, but it is believed in the neighborhood that interment were made here more than a century ago. The ground is situated near the base of the seawall that extends into the lake a distance of near 760 yards and is shaded by oaks and elms of no
inconsiderable growth. .. `Sacred / to/ the memory of / Alexander CLARK / Who departed this life / May 20th, 1825, / Aged 80 years 8 months / Also to / Mary, his wife / Who departed this life / March 21st, 1836 / Aged 91 years, 7 months and 2 days / They were natives of / New Jersey / And came Loyalists to this / Province in 1783.' 9 August 1884 SUN
Alexander left NY 4 Jul 1783 in Unit 34, on the Grace, Wm. Oxley, Master, with 1 man, 1 woman and 1child over 10 at NY and on arrival. A second child over 10 was listed in May 1784. (Could that have been the Alexander listed as a single male in NY and on arrival, with a servant?) His claim for losses was rejected. He came to Maquapit Lake 1787. He was a carpenter and blacksmith.
Monmouth NJ Colonial Records indicate a marriage date (may have been a filing date) for Alexander Clark and Mary Hoff of 7-Nov-1763.
[642] May have also been Elizabeth. Too little known about this family.
_Ainsley Stailing HANDSPIKER ___+
| (1880 - 1961) m 1910
_Arnold (Harold) Victor HANDSPIKER _|
| (1911 - 1980) m 1931 |
| |_Dora Ethel HANDSPIKER _________+
| (.... - 1985) m 1910
|
|--Ernest Peter (Emerson?) HANDSPIKER
| (1933 - 1980)
| _George Winfred THIBAULT _______+
| |
|_Emilie-Marie THIBAULT _____________|
(1914 - 1980) m 1931 |
|_Emiline (Mary Melinda) COMEAU _+
[196] Also seen as Peter Ernest Handspiker. May also be same as Emerson.... messy.
_John HANSELPACKER ____+
| (1773 - 1845) m 1799
_John HANSELPACKER _____|
| (1808 - ....) m 1833 |
| |_Julia BALMAIN ________+
| (1783 - 1830) m 1799
|
|--Sarah HANSELPACKER
| (.... - 1868)
| _John MACDONALD _______+
| | (1777 - ....) m 1799
|_Eleanor Ann MACDONALD _|
(.... - 1885) m 1833 |
|_Sarah (Esten) EASTEN _
m 1799
[1598] Another St John H'packer. NOTE: James Harvey's daughter is named Sarah, something to bear in mind. This Sarah's death, a year after Julia's may prove key in establishing the St John H'packer family of the mid 1800's. Her funeral was held at 2 1/2 o'clock at the residence of her father on Waterloo Street, St John. The corner of Waterloo and White seems to be a prominent fixture in this family! Listed as YOUNGEST dau. of John. Died of consumption, like her sister before her.
_Sanford HARRIS ________________
|
_Douglas Wilfred HARRIS ____|
| (1912 - ....) m 1938 |
| |_Mary E. SPEIGHTS ______________
|
|
|--Rosalind M. HARRIS
|
| _James Edward "Jim" HANDSPIKER _+
| | (.... - 1955) m 1895
|_Clara Faustina HANDSPIKER _|
(1913 - 1986) m 1938 |
|_Marie Theresa SAULNIER ________+
(1875 - 1928) m 1895
[935] living - details excluded
_Joseph TRAFTON _____
| (1777 - ....)
_Joseph TRAFTON ______|
| (1815 - ....) m 1839 |
| |_Nancy BARBOUR ______
| (1787 - ....)
|
|--Sarah Allen TRAFTON
| (1860 - 1945)
| _William PINKERTON __
| |
|_Elizabeth PINKERTON _|
m 1839 |
|_Martha ? ___________