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clerk. He is a member of the Congregational
Ecclesiastical Society of Newing-
ton, and shares in such movements as
appeal to him as being calculated to promote
progress and general welfare.
Mr. Osborn married, November 17,
1872, Mary Ann Clark, born August 24,
1848, daughter of Charles Wells and
Mary Ann (Craw) Clark, of East Wind-
sor. They are the parents of five chil-
dren: 1. Charles Ruben, born October
2, 1873, married Lena Bell Francis, of
Newington. 2. Newell Clark, married
Adelaide Canfield, of Newington. 3.
Sheldon, resides with his parents. 4.
Caroline Isabel, wife of Walter J. Fish,
of West Hartford. 5. Stuart Rae, mar-
ried Beatrice Metcalf.
Mrs. Osborn's ancestry is traced to Edmund
Clark, who came from England to
Lynn, Massachusetts, about 1636. He
was later in Sandwich, and about 1651
settled at Gloucester, Massachusetts,
where he was a prominent citizen, hold-
ing various important offices, and died
February 26, 1667. His widow, Agnes,
married Thomas Tenney, died February
23, 1682. Their son, Joseph Clark, born
November 16, 1650, lived in Gloucester,
where he died November 29, 1696. He
married, March 27, 1682, Hannah Diggs,
and their third son, Deacon John Clark,
born March 6, 1692, settled in Windham,
Connecticut, in 1719. He purchased a
tract of land in that part of the town
which is now Hampton, August 29, 1718,
and continued to live upon it from the
succeeding spring until his death, November
19, 1782. He became deacon of
the church there, August 17, 1737, continuing
until his death. He married, November
17, 1718, Ruth Haskell, of Glou-
cester, born December 28, 1673, died in
July, 1776, daughter of John Haskell,
granddaughter of William Haskell, the
immigrant ancestor of a very numerous
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family. He arrived in Massachusetts
about 1637, with his brothers, Roger and
Mark, and removed from Salem to Glou-
cester in 1643. David Clark, fourth son
of Deacon John Clark, was born July 14,
1724, in Hampton, lived in that town and
Norwich, and probably removed about
1754 to East Windsor, Connecticut. He
married, in Norwich, November 5, 1749,
Jane Wightman, born September 3,
1726, in Norwich, daughter of Daniel and
Catherine Wightman. They had three
children recorded in Norwich, namely
Susanna, Daniel and David. Both these
sons died in East Windsor and left numerous
descendants there. It is presumable
that Oliver Clark was also a mem-
ber of this family. Captain Oliver Clark,
born in 1765-66, probably in East Windsor,
died in that town, April 8, 1840. He
was a member of John Harmon's com-
pany, Colonel Erastus Wolcott's regiment,
and served from January to March,
1776, in the Colonial Revolutionary
forces at Boston. His military title probably
arose from service in the militia. He
married Azubah Barber, who was born
1772-73, and died March 25, 1843, in East
Windsor, daughter of Noah and Sybil
(Booth) Barber, who were married Octo-
ber 28, 1 761. Noah Barber served as ser-
geant of a train band which went from
Wapping in the town of Windsor on the
Lexington alarm of April 19, 1775. He
was also sergeant of the Eleventh Company,
Nineteenth Regiment, Connecticut
Militia. He was born in 1735, died March
13, 1822. His wife, Sybil, born in 1734,
died August 16, 181 5. Oliver and Azubah
Clark were the parents of Charles
Clark, born January, 1799, died Septem-
ber 29, 1879. He married, February 2,
1818, Chloe Sadd, born September 6,
1792, died November 23, 1873, a descendant
of a very old Windsor family. John
Sadd, a tanner, came from Earl's Colne,