CLARK.
Christopher Clark was a large land owner in Louisa, and
obtained grants within the present limits of Albemarle in
1732. He was a Quaker, and with his son Bowling was
overseer of a Friends' Meeting House, which was situated
on land he had entered near the Sugar Loaf peak of the South
West Mountain. He and Bowling also took out patents on
Totier Creek. Numerous tracts in the eastern part of the
county were owned by the Clark family. John in 1778 purchased
from Robert Nelson, of Yorktown, more than two
thousand acres on Mechunk, which were patented in 1733
by Thomas Darsie, and which Clark sold the same year to
James Quarles and Joseph Brand. As well as can be ascertained,
Christopher and his wife Penelope had five sons and
four daughters, Edward, Bowling, Micajah, John, Christopher,
Elizabeth, the wife of Joseph Anthony, who entered
two thousand and forty acres in Biscuit Run valley, and
moved to Bedford County, and a number of whose descendants
intermarried with members of the Cabell family, Sarah,
the wife of Charles Lynch, Rachel, the wife of Thomas
Moorman, and the wife of Benjamin Johnson.
The most of the family removed to Bedford, now Campbell
County. In 1754 Edward and Bowling were overseers of
the Friends' South River Meeting House, located on Lynch's
Branch of Blackwater Creek, three or four miles from Lynchburg.
Micajah married Judith, daughter of Robert Adams,
and his children it is believed were Micajah, Robert, Jacob and
William. Robert married Susan, daughter of John Henderson
Sr., and followed his relatives to Bedford; his children
were Robert, the first manufacturer of iron in Kentucky,
James, Governor of Kentucky when he died in 1839, and
Bennett, the father and grandfather of the two John Bullock
Clarks, who were both members of Congress from Missouri,
and both Generals in the Confederate army. William was
deputy sheriff for John Marks in 1786, and was empowered
by the Legislature on account of his chief's removal to sell
lands delinquent for taxes. He was also a magistrate of the
county, and died in 1800. His sons were Jacob, James and
Micajah, and his widow Elizabeth (Allen) Clark is remembered
by many as the proprietor of Clarksville, an excellent
house of entertainment near Keswick, recently the country
seat of James B. Pace, of Richmond. James was a magistrate,
married Margaret, daughter of Thomas W. Lewis, of
Locust Grove, and in 1836 with most of the Lewis family
emigrated to Missouri. Micajah became a physician, and
was for many years a successful practitioner in Richmond.
