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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
Clark
Given Name:
James
Variant Surname Spellings:
Clarke
Soundex Code:
C462
Birth, Christening and Other Information
Gender:
Male
Occupation(s):
Mr.
Orphan:
Unknown
Position in Parent's Family:
Unknown
Year of Immigration:
about 1659
Landowner:
Unknown
Literate:
Unknown
Convict:
Unknown
Port of Departure
City:
London
County:
Middlesex
Nation:
England
Length of Indenture
Year of Indenture:
1659
Years:
1
Year of Freedom:
about 1660
Place of Indenture
County:
York
Colony:
Virginia
Agent
Surname:
Pecke
Given name:
Charles
Master
Surname:
Pecke
Given name:
Thomas
Title:
Mr.
Research Notes
Proof of Immigrant Servant Status:
Dearest Brother: I have sent goods and 1 servant in John Chambers, Master of the "Prosperous," and in the "Charles," Sam Cooper, Master, servants & goods ... I am willing to do what I can for you and do intend to interest our father. He does not know that I have sent you a maid servant and goods this year. I told him I have sent James Clarke to serve you one year and help you till you get other servants this year and that James Clarke will do you but little for you, may something for his years service. I have got money of him for the boy. I pray you give him thanks and write to him and mother earnestly, and entreat them to supply you one more, for I find them willing, if he could get money in, and happily hereafter he may ... I have spoken to one of Mr. Gowre's men, one Mr. Thomas Solsbury, to make you his factor, for he is this year part owner of a ship, and told me he did intend her for James River ... As for the maid, I have promised her that that she should be a servant in your house for the work of a servant maid, and that she should not be sold, unless that some planter for a wife. I pray send return for her. Remember my kind love to my sister, and I pray be kind to James Clarke. 1659 Nov 18. An account of the goods and a maid servant assigned by Mr. Charles Pecke of London and confirmed by bill of loading to Mr. Thomas Pecke of James County in Va., and Mr. James Clarke now of County & Parish of York, igven to us subscribers by court order date on 17th Instant by said James Clark. (List follows of goods sent in the ship "Charles," including a maid servant, and a list of things sent June 13th, mostly clothes - Ed.) The above account is a copy of that presented to court by Mr. James Clarke, Nov. 17, 1659 and taken for Mr. Clarke on 18th said month. Wm. Hay, Tho. Ballard.
Source Citations:
Benjamin B. Weisiger, York County, Virginia Records 1659-1662 (n.p.: n.p., 1989), 18-19, quoting York County Wills, Deeds, and Orders 1657-1659, pp. 69-70.