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Person Details
 
Last NameCLARK
First NameCHARLES, CAPT
Maiden 
RelationH/O MARY
Cemetery NumberBR004
Cemetery NameEAST BURIAL GROUND
Birth Day0
Birth Month 
Birth Year1784c
Death Day24
Death MonthSEP
Death Year1814
War 
Gravestone Details
Section 
Lot 
Map0099
Stone Materialmarble
Conditionfair
Shapefancy top
Carvingurn/willow
Legibilityfair
Number of Graves on Stone3
Stone Height (inches) 
Stone Width (inches) 
Exists?
Last Seen Date2009
CarverF COOLEY PROV
Notes/Misc Details
Notes"lost on passage from New York to Bristol in the upsetting of the schooner 'OliverPerry'" [letter from Clark to James DeWold, when Clark was captain of DeWolf's ì brig Nancy: (Charlestown, January 7, 1802) "My cargo…had been on the beach north of Charlestown. I found them all well, and much better than I ì expected, for the weather was very cold. They had no clothes, and no ì shelter except the sand hills and cedar trees… I sailed with 70 cargo, ì and lost 4 of them; but they are all very good and will bring
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