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Richard Clarke

Male Est 1696 - Yes, date unknown


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Richard Clarke was born Est 1696, Amelia Co., Colonial Virginia; died Yes, date unknown.

    Richard married Lucy Booker 10 Mar 1735, Amelia Co., Virginia. Lucy was born 1700, Amelia Co., Virginia; died 1761. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 2. Hannah Clark/Clarke  Descendancy chart to this point was born Abt 1745, Charlotte County, Virginia; died Yes, date unknown.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Hannah Clark/Clarke Descendancy chart to this point (1.Richard1) was born Abt 1745, Charlotte County, Virginia; died Yes, date unknown.

    Notes:

    Name:
    Also called Nancy

    Hannah married Captain William Crawford Bibb. William (son of John of Goochland Bibb, Sr. and Susannah Bigger) was born 1 Oct 1735, Hanover Co., Virginia Colony; died 20 Mar 1796, Wilkes [now Elbert Co] Georgia. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 3. Susannah 'Elizabeth' Bibb  Descendancy chart to this point was born Abt. 1763, Prince Edward County, Virginia Colony; died Yes, date unknown, Prob. Tennessee.


Generation: 3

  1. 3.  Susannah 'Elizabeth' Bibb Descendancy chart to this point (2.Hannah2, 1.Richard1) was born Abt. 1763, Prince Edward County, Virginia Colony; died Yes, date unknown, Prob. Tennessee.

    Susannah married Captain John Scott 1781, Glouchester Co., VA. John was born Est 1760, Prince Edward, Virginia; died 1791, Franklin, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 4. William Bibb Scott  Descendancy chart to this point was born Est 1783, Prince Edward County, Virginia; died Bef 1833, Halifax Co., Virginia.
    2. 5. John W. Scott  Descendancy chart to this point was born Est 1788, Prince Edward County, Virginia; died Yes, date unknown.
    3. 6. Lucy Scott  Descendancy chart to this point was born 1785, Prince Edward County, Virginia; died Yes, date unknown, Todd Co., Kentucky.
    4. 7. Mildred Smith Scott  Descendancy chart to this point was born Est 1780, Virginia Colony; died Yes, date unknown.

    Susannah married James Richard Clarke. James was born Abt 1760; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]



Generation: 4

  1. 4.  William Bibb Scott Descendancy chart to this point (3.Susannah3, 2.Hannah2, 1.Richard1) was born Est 1783, Prince Edward County, Virginia; died Bef 1833, Halifax Co., Virginia.

    Notes:

    Elizabeth Bibb m. Captain John Scott and moved to Franklin, Tennessee


  2. 5.  John W. Scott Descendancy chart to this point (3.Susannah3, 2.Hannah2, 1.Richard1) was born Est 1788, Prince Edward County, Virginia; died Yes, date unknown.

  3. 6.  Lucy Scott Descendancy chart to this point (3.Susannah3, 2.Hannah2, 1.Richard1) was born 1785, Prince Edward County, Virginia; died Yes, date unknown, Todd Co., Kentucky.

    Notes:

    12: On July 8, 1833 in Todd County Kentucky, Mary Davenport, 14, and orphans of Ballard Davenport appeared in court and with the consent of the court shows Richard J Davenport as her Guardian.]
    [f p. 94-5]
    The affidavit of Susanna E Clarke given at Russellville in Logan County Kentucky on Monday the 5th day of August 1833
    This affiant now in the 70th year of her age saith that she intermarried with Captain John Scott of Gloucester County in the State of Virginia in the year 1781, she further saith that she had four children by said Captain Scott to wit William B Scott; Mildred S Scott, Lucy Scott who intermarried with one Branch Bibb, and John W Scott, said Mildred Scott intermarried with one Ballard Davenport, by whom she had three children, who are still alive to wit Doritha, Richard, James and Mary Ballard she herself having departed this life, and said William B Scott is also dead, but left two sons, who are still living, George B Scott, and John James Scott. This affiant knew Captain Scott whilst in the Army of the United States before she married him, she frequently afterwards heard him say that he served as an officer in the Virginia State line indeed she saw him repeatedly his commission as Lieutenant of Artillery she made him a case for his Commission before their marriage to the best of her recollection her former husband the said Captain Scott belonged during his service in the United States as before stated to Colonel Marshall's Regiment at least for a part of the time, this affiant's maiden name was Bibb, after the death of Captain Scott, she married one Richard Clarke who is also dead; she is now a widow living in Todd County in the State of Kentucky.
    S/ Susan E. Clarke
    [f p. 52: copy of a certificate dated June 22, 1783 signed by Colonel Thomas Marshall in which he certifies that "?Captain Lieutenant John Scott was received by me as a Cadet in the Regiment of State artillery about April or May 1778, that he was appointed an officer in the same Regiment about the 3rd of December 1778 and continued in service till the 6 February 1782
    1 Va.

    Hon. [?] M. Bibb
    Yellow Bank Kentucky
    [f p. 31: On August 20, 1851 in Logan County Kentucky, John W Scott, a resident of Butler County Kentucky, 55, and Lucy Bibb, 63, formerly Lucy Scott, and Branch H. Bibb, 70, her husband, filed a claim under the 1836 act stating that John W Scott and Lucy Bibb are the only surviving children and heirs at law of Elizabeth Clarke, formerly Elizabeth Scott, widow of their father Captain John Scott; that their mother's full name was Susan or Susanna Elizabeth but was more frequently called Elizabeth; that their father John Scott was a Captain or Captain Lieutenant in the Revolution; that their mother was a widow and July 1836; that she died in Todd County Kentucky on the last day of July 1836.

    Lucy married Branch Holcomb Bibb 9 Aug 1805, Charlotte County, Virginia. Branch (son of Major John Bibb, Jr. and Elizabeth 'Betsy' Holcomb) was born Abt 1774, Charlotte County, Virginia; died 1860. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 8. Henry Bibb  Descendancy chart to this point was born 1810, Charlotte County, Virginia; died Yes, date unknown.
    2. 9. Susan Bibb  Descendancy chart to this point was born 1820, Charlotte County, Virginia.
    3. 10. Mary Bibb  Descendancy chart to this point was born 1826, Charlotte County, Virginia.
    4. 11. John Bibb  Descendancy chart to this point was born 1824, Charlotte County, Virginia.
    5. 12. George Bibb  Descendancy chart to this point was born 1828, Charlotte County, Virginia.

  4. 7.  Mildred Smith Scott Descendancy chart to this point (3.Susannah3, 2.Hannah2, 1.Richard1) was born Est 1780, Virginia Colony; died Yes, date unknown.

    Mildred married Ballard Davenport 7 Dec 1803, Charlotte County, Virginia. Ballard was born Est 1777; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]