Matthew Clark and Elizabeth Wallace

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Husband Matthew Clark ¹

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           Born: 1762 - Coleraine, County Londonderry, Ireland 2
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         Father: Francis Clark (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Mary [Unk] (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 14 Sep 1818 3

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   Other Spouse: Mary Moore (Abt 1768-1817) 4 - 1787 2

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Wife Elizabeth Wallace ³

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1 M James Clark ³

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2 F Elizabeth Clark ³

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3 M Matthew Clark ³

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4 F Nancy Clark ³

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5 F Catherine Clark ³

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         Spouse: Rev. John Comin, D.D. (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - Matthew Clark

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By occupation he was a glazier and reedmaker. Dr. Adam Clark, the celebrated author of the commentary on the Bible, was a cousin and contemporary.

On account of a continuous struggle for civic and religious freedom and a desire to be separated from British rule Mr. Clark longed to migrate to America. In the spring of 1811 the family bade farewell to their old home in Coleraine and set sail for the New World, and some one commemorated the occasion thus:
On the nineteenth of May
From Lough Swillee we sailed away.
The day being fine, the sky being clear.
Down the channel we did steer.
After being out to sea about two weeks the vessel was boarded by a British man-of-war and turned back to Ireland. The offense was that the vessel had too many passengers aboard, according to British law. The owner of the vessel was an American, was tried in Dublin, found guilty and fined £3,000. While they lay at anchor there Elizabeth, who had been ill when sailing, died, and was buried on her native soil. The trial ended, they again set sail, heading for New York. When almost within sight of that harbor they were overtaken by a storm, and after being tossed about for seventy-one days entered Hampton Roads, Virginia, in distress, on Oct. 29th, five months, ten days after leaving Ireland the first time. Mr. Clark had friends in Norfolk, Virginia, dry goods merchants, Nelson & Neal, and went ashore to call on them. They visited his family and were so attracted by the twin boys James and John that they persuaded their father to let them remain and learn the business.
As the war with Great Britain was threatening, Mr. Clark decided to settle in Baltimore, Maryland. At the close of the War of 1812 the family moved to Pittsburgh, making the trip over the mountains in a Conestoga wagon. Here the Clarks associated themselves with the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, later known as the Second United Presbyterian, on Sixth street, and Matthew Clark was chosen elder. [HIC 1913, 788]

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General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Wallace

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from Allegheny Co, PA

1 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 654.

2 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 787.

3 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 788.

4 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 654, 787.