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Cornelia
Waldron Clark
Cornelia Waldron was born in August 1730. She was the daughter of Albany mason William and Elizabeth Beekman Waldron.
She
was the wife of newcomer Patrick Clark. By 1769,
ten of their children were baptized in the Albany
Dutch church where she was a member and pewholder.
She was the matriarch of the Albany Clark family.
These
Clarks lived in Albany's first ward where Patrick
supported his family by doing odd jobs and running
errands.
In
1774, she inherited a share in her father's estate.
Cornelia Waldron Clark was alive and accounted for on the census of Albany
householders in 1790.
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Sources: The life of Cornelia/Neeltie Waldron Clark is CAP
biography number 648. This sketch is derived chiefly
from family and community-based resources.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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