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5 days ago · Meet New Jersey’s own Abraham Clark. He was a nice guy by all accounts. Smart, too. A native of Elizabethtown, New Jersey (now known simply as “Elizabeth”) and raised in what is now Roselle, Clark tutored himself in the law while working his day job as a surveyor.
Jun 27, 2024 · Of note is the New Jersey signer, Abraham Clark, the man who had sons serving in the Revolutionary Army and both had been captured. His sons were sent to the infamous British prison boat known as the hell ship “Jersey” sitting in New York Harbor, where 11,000 Americans would die.
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1 day ago · Abraham Clark had served in the Continental Congress in 1776 and was the only New Jersey delegate who supported independence from the start. The pro-Independence legislature recalled their other four delegates and sent a new delegation to join Clark. Two of his sons served in the Continental Army; both were captured and brutally tortured.
1 day ago · On November 19, 1863, following the Battle of Gettysburg, the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln made the Declaration the centerpiece of his Gettysburg Address, a brief but powerful and enduring 271-word statement dedicating what is now Gettysburg National Cemetery.
3 days ago · Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 [b] – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. [6] He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
Jun 27, 2024 · Abraham Clark of New Jersey was captured to the British prison ship Jersey, “where 11,000 Americans were left to die.” The elder Clark refused to recant. His Wikipedia slams him as a slaveholder, but says nothing of his suffering for the birth of his country.
Jun 20, 2024 · Genealogy for Dr. Abraham CLARK (1767 - 1854) family tree on Geni, with over 260 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
3 days ago · Abraham (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Jun 27, 2024 · May 1649: An Act For settling the Militia Within the Hamblets of the Tower of London. Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1911. This free content was digitised by double rekeying. Public Domain. Citation:
