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RICHARD CLARKE, son of William and Hannah (Appleton) Clark, was born in Boston, Massachusetts on 1 May 1711 and he died in London, England on 27 February 1795. He married in Boston, Massachusetts on 3 May 1733 to ELIZABETH WINSLOW, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Pemberton) Winslow. Elizabeth (Winslow) Clarke died in Boston, Massachusetts on 3 September 1765.

"In the decade before the Revolution, the Richard Clarkes were one of the great families of Boston and frequently mentioned in the social notes in the newspapers" (p. 552)¹. The house of Richard Clarke and Sons was, with one exception, the largest importer of tea in Massachusetts. It refused to participate in the non-importation agreement of 1769 and continued to import tea until publicity and threats brought it around" (p. 554)².

During December 1775, Richard Clarke left Massachusetts for England to live with daughter Susannah (Clarke) Copley in London's Leicester Square. He was paid a pension of 80 to 150 pounds and was one of twenty Loyalists who dined every Thursday at Adelphi Tavern. He left his American business in control of his son-in-law Colonel Henry Bromfield and deeded his Boston real estate to Elizabeth Bromfield. Children:

Source: Notes 1 & 2: Shipton, Clifford K. Biographical Sketches of Those Who Attended Harvard College in the Classes 1726-1730 with biographical and other notes Sibley's Harvard Graduates Vol. VIII (Boston, Mass.: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1951): 550-562