A record of the descendants of John Clark, of Farmington, Conn ...

EARLY SETTLERS NAMED JOHN CLARK.
JOHN CLARK OF CAMBRIDGE.
John Gierke, as the name is spelled, took the freeman's
oath at the General Court held Nov. 6, 1632. He was one
of the forty-two men to whom land was assigned at Newtown,
now Cambridge, on the 29th of March, 1632.*
" An agree-
ment by the inhabitants of the New Town, about paling in
the neck of land. Imprimis, That every one who hath any
part therein shall hereafter keep the same in good
and suffi-
cient repair ; and if it happen to have any defect, he shall
mend the same within three days after notice given, or else
pay ten shillings a rod for every rod so repaired
for him.
Further, It is agreed that the said impaled ground shall be
divided accordhig to every man's proportion in said pales."
His share in the paling was three rods in an aggregate of 577.
Who these forty-two men were in part appears in a statement
"
by Winthrop.f The Braintree company, (which had begun
to sit down at Mount WoUaston,) by order of court, removed
to Newtown. These were Mr. Hooker's company." Others
of them came afterward. John Haynes, subsequently Gov-
ernor of Massachusetts and later of Connecticut, whose name
heads the list, did not arrive until Sept. 4, 1633,^ so that the
division may have been made at a still later date. In his
* History of Cauibridge, by Lucius R, Paige, p. 10.
f Savage's Winthrop, i, 104.
i Ibid., i, 130.