Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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John Clarke and Rebecca Zane




Husband John Clarke 1

           Born:  - Chadd's Ford, Delaware Co, PA
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         Father: Thomas Clarke (      -      ) 1 2 3
         Mother: Martha Stuart (      -      ) 4


       Marriage:  - Wheeling, Ohio Co, WV



Wife Rebecca Zane 1

           Born:  - Wheeling, Ohio Co, WV
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         Father: Col. Ebenezer Zane (1747-1812) 5
         Mother: Elizabeth McCulloch (      -      ) 1




Children
1 F Dorcas Clarke 1

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2 F Sarah Clarke 1

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3 F Elizabeth Clarke 1

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4 F Maria Clarke 1

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5 F Helena Louisa Clarke 1

           Born: 1818 - Belmont Co, OH 1
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         Spouse: Alexander Sullivan (1808-      ) 1
           Marr: 1837 - Bloomingdale farm, Belmont Co, OH 1


6 F Julia Rebecca Clarke 1

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7 M George Washington Clarke 1

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8 M Leander Clarke 1

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9 M John F. Clarke 1

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10 M Ebenezer Clarke 1

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General Notes: Husband - John Clarke


He was a young man during the Revolution but he held a captain's rank in the Eighth Pennsylvania, to which he had been transferred from the Thirteenth Pennsylvania. From the Eighth he was transferred in 1781 to the Fourth Pennsylvania. As the original Pennsylvania State Regiment of Foot the Eighth Regiment fought at Brandywine.

He owned a farm in Ohio near Wheeling, (West) Virginia, and owned property in the towns of Lancaster and Chillicothe, Ohio, which his wife had inherited from her father.


General Notes: Wife - Rebecca Zane


When a child she was in Fort Henry when it was attacked by the British and Indians.

"Betty" Zane was her aunt.

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Sources


1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 966.

2 Alfred Nevin, D.D., LL.D., Men of Mark of the Cumberland Valley, Pa. 1776-1876 (Philadelphia, PA: Fulton Publishing Co., 1876), Pg 171.

3 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 213.

4 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 214.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 965.


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