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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
AGE nth Year 31
AGE Years -
AGE Months -
AGE Days -
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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