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

14 CLAIIK GENEALOGY.
to the East on Jonathan Smith's land, and to the West on
Benjamin Judd his land, that he bonght of John Steele, Sen-
ior, that given him by the town."
Vol. I, p. 12. "Att a town meetinge in ffarmington, March
16, 1673. att the same meetinge there was Chosen for a Conimitty
to Laye out A highway for the use of the Town, from
John Clark's and so cross the end of the Lotts to the highway
that runs up to the mountain by Abraham Atidruses house:
serj. John Wadsworth, John Standly, junr, and Benjamin
Judd and John Clark."
This is the street known for many years
Back Lane, but now called High Street.
on the records as
Vol. I, p. 12. To John Clark, Junior. "One parcel of
land on which his dwelling house and barn now standeth,
containing by estimation five roods, be it a little more or a
little less, being part of his father, John Claris, his house lot,
as appeareth by a deed dated the eighth of April, in the year
one thousand seven hundred and two. A l)utting eastward
and northward on his father, John Clark, his liouse lot, and
westward on a highway and southward on James Bird, Sen.,
his land."
It appears, then, that in 1657 John Clark owned 10 acres,
reaching eastward to Poke brook, and westward near to the
site of Cephas Skinner's (formerly Manin Curtis') house,
comprising about tlie same premises now owned by Charles
L. Whitman, John Riley, and Mrs. Barney; that in or before
1665 lie sold 2i acres from the western end to William
Lewis; that in 1667 he still owned the remainder. In 1673
High street was cut through the original ten-acre lot, and in
1702 John Clark gave to his son John five roods of land from
the southwest corner of his house lot. The house of John
Clark, Sen., must then have stood between the present (1882)