Clark, John (4)
Clark, John
a Baptist minister, was born near Inverness, Scotland, Nov. 29th, 1758. Having from his early boyhood a strong propensity for a seafaring life, he was for about one year on board of a privateer, afterwards sailed as second mate to the West Indies, and arriving at Barbadoes, was impressed into the British navy. Here he deserted, and the next vessel on which he engaged being captured by the Spaniards, he was for nineteen months a prisoner of war at Havana. Soon after his exchange he was a second time impressed, and, deserting again, reached Charleston, A. C. In 1785 he taught school in the back settlements of Carolina. Revisiting England, he became acquainted with Mr. Wesley, and after his return to this country in 1789 he became an itinerant preacher in Georgia. Finally he became a Baptist, and a member of the so-called Baptized Church of Christ, or Friends of Humanity, on account of their opposition to slavery. Remaining a few months in the Florida Parishes, Louisiana, where he preached almost daily and with great acceptance, he traveled to Illinois on foot, and in 1811 revisited Louisiana, preaching wherever he had an opportunity, and travelling great distances, always on foot. He died in St. Louis Co., Mo., Oct. 11th, 1833. Sprague, Annals, 6, 490.
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Clark, John (1)
a Presbyterian minister,. received his license from the :Presbytery of New Brunswick, May 9, 1760, and was ordained and settled at the Forks of the Delaware, Oct. 13, 1762. In 1767, on account of bodily infirmity, he resigned his charge and removed to Maryland, where he became pastor of two churches in Baltimore County. In 1775 his pastoral relation was again dissolved, but he continued to preach to one of his churches until 1781. In this year lie removed to western Pennsylvania, and became pastor of, the united churches of Bethel and Lebanon, in that region. He died July 13, 1797. As a preacher, Mr. Clark was solemn and impressive. See Alexander, Princeton College in the 18th Century.
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Clark, John (2)
a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Washington County, N. Y., July 30,1797; was converted in 1817, and in 1820 entered the New York] Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church as an itinerant. Having labored within its bounds for sixteen years, he was in 1836 transferred to the Illinois Conference, and in 1841 to Texas. In 1844 he was a delegate to the General Conference of that year, and at its close was at his own request transferred to the Troy Conference. He was again transferred, in 1852, to the Rock River Conference, and stationed in Chicago, where he died of cholera, July 11, 1853. In all parts of the country he was eminently well received, and wherever he was stationed he left behind him the reputation of an able and earnest Christian minister. His frontier labors, full of toil and peril, which he met with abounding courage and energy, are amply described in Hall’s Life of Rev. John Clark (N.Y. 8vo). See also Minutes of Conferences, v. 485; Sprague, Annals, 7, 626; Methodist Quarterly, Jan. 1857, p. 148.
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Clark, John (2)
an English Baptist minister, was born at Fulbourne, Cambridge, in 1790. He was brought up on a. farm, left home at the age of twelve, went to London, and in. 1811 was. converted and baptized, and joined the Church in Little Wild Street. In 1813 he entered Stepney College. In 1817 he was ordained over the Church at Folkestone, Kent; in 1823 he was called to Long Buckby, Northampton, but removed to Uphill, Folkestone, where he gathered a small Church, and remained its pastor till. his death, May 14, 1850. See (Lond.) Baptist Hand-book, 1850, p. 368.
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Clark, John (3)
a Free-will Baptist minister, was born in Maine in 1793. His parents being in straitened circumstances, were unable to do much in the way of giving him an education. He had reached the age of thirty-eight before he was ordained to the work of the ministry, yet he preached for nearly forty years. His last residence was in Prospect, Me., where he died, Aug. 8,1871.: See Free-will Baptist Register, 1873, 83. (J. C. S.)
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Clark, John (4)
a Scotch clergyman, was tutor in the family of the lord chief baron Dundas; was licensed to preach in 1807; presented to the living at Blackford in 1815, and ordained. He died Dec. 31, 1861, aged eighty-one years. He was a man of great penetration and shrewdness of whom clever strokes of humor are related. He published An Account of the Parish. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticance, ii, 752.