Capt. Daniel Clark
Interned Center Cemetery - Shaftsbury, Vermont: Section C / Lot 2 / Plot 14
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Daniel was one of 8 children (2nd son) born of James Clark (d. 1794) and his wife Thankful Woodward. Daniel's brother was Jeremiah (b.1734).

Daniel married at Plainfield, August 29, 1759, Anne Downing by whom he had 11 children (5 sons and 6 daughters): Thankful (1760-1833), Anne (b. 1761), Hester (Esther) (b. 1763), Ruth (b. 1765), Hannah (b. 1766), Daniel (b. 1768), David (b. 1770), James (b. 1772), Amos (1774-1787), George Washington (b. 1776), and Mary (b. 1778).

At the Colony of Connecticut General Assembly held at New Haven October 13 to November 4, 1774, Daniel was established Ensign of the 1st Company (Trainband) in the 11th Connecticut Militia Regiment. At the same Assembly, it enacted that the military companies in the Towns of Plainfield, Canterbury, Voluntown, and the south company in the Town of Killingly be set off from the 11th Regiment and were made and constituted a distinct and entire regiment, the 21st Regiment. The Commanding Officer of the Regiment was directed to lead the Companies to the choice of proper officers, who were to be established and commissioned as other officers by law were. At the Colony of Connecticut Special General Assembly held at New Haven, March 2 to 10, 1775, Daniel was established Lieutenant; Waterman Clift, Captain; and Joshua Bottom, Ensign of the 1st Company (Trainband) in the 21st Connecticut Militia Regiment.

On September 7, 1776, Lieutenant Daniel Clark entered service and commanded the Plainfield (Windham County) Company, Colonel John Douglas' 21st Regiment of Connecticut Militia un-der Brigadier General Gurdon Saltonstall during the 1776 Campaign around New York. This call up was in response to General George Washington's second requisition during the summer 1776 to Connecticut for assistance in establishing a large force to meet the British's threatened attack upon New York. Lieutenant Clark was discharged from this service, March 20, 1777.

Captain Daniel Clark was detached from the Plainfield (Windham County) Company, 21st Con-necticut Militia Regiment, August 24, 1777, and assigned to command a Company in Colonel Jonathan Latimer's Regiment. Colonel Latimer's Regiment was one of two large regiments of militia, composed of detachments from all the Connecticut Militia Brigades, ordered to re-enforce General Horatio Gates at Saratoga in the summer of 1777. They were assigned to Gen-eral Enoch Poor's Continental Brigade of New Hamsphire and New York Regiments in Major General Benedict Arnold's Division. Colonel Latimer's Regiment fought in both the battles against the General John Burgoyne's British Army, September 19 and October 9, 1777. In the first battle Connecticut's two Militia Regiments lost more than any two other regiments in the field. Captain Clark was mortally wounded at the Stillwater battle (Battle of Saratoga, New York), September 19, 1777.

References:
(1) "Plainfield Vital Records 1699-1852" from the Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Rec-ords, Pgs. 116-117

(2) "The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, from October, 1772, to April, 1775, In-clusive." by Charles J. Hoadly, 1887, Pgs. 325, 328, 388, and 397

(3) "The Record of Connecticut Men in the Military and Naval Service during the War of the Revolution 1775-1783." by Henry P. Johnson, 1889, Pgs. 448, 450, 474, 504 and 507 #8a There is another Daniel Clark who's name appears in the State of Vermont Rolls in the Rev-olutionary War but, it is unknown where he is buried. This second Daniel Clark's name is on the Roster of Capt. Elijah Dewey's Company as it was formed at the time of the Battle of Bennington, August 16, 1777. State of Vermont Rolls in the Revolutionary War 1775-1883 J. E. Goodrich 1904 pg. 27)

At the time of this second entry into the State of Vermont Rolls book the first Daniel Clark, who was buried in Center Shaftsbury, was already deceased.

Daniel Clark's name is also, on a Pay Roll of Capt. Joshua Hazen's Company in Col. Wood's Reg't. that appeared to Brookfield in the Alarm, Oct. 1780. He was in service 3 days and trav-eled 40 miles. State of Vermont Rolls in the Revolutionary War 1775-1883 J. E. Goodrich 1904 pg. 284)

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