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Person Details
Gravestone photograph
Photo/Image Courtesy of Rhode Island Historic Cemetery Volunteers
Last Name CLARK
First Name CHARLES, CAPT
Maiden
Relation H/O MARY
Cemetery Number BR004
Cemetery Name EAST BURIAL GROUND
Birth Day 0
Birth Month
Birth Year 1784c
Death Day 24
Death Month SEP
Death Year 1814
AGE nth Year 31
AGE Years -
AGE Months -
AGE Days -
Military Service
Gravestone Details
Section
Lot
Map 0099
Stone Material marble
Condition fair
Shape fancy top
Carving urn/willow
Legibility fair
Number of Graves on Stone 3
Stone Height (inches)
Stone Width (inches)
Exists? Yes
Last Seen Date 2009
Carver F 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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