William Clark (b. ca. 1700-d. before 1782) married Mary (McCallister?) about 1725 and lived in Pennsylvania before settling in Orange County, North Carolina. Descendants lived in North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, Missouri, California and elsewhere.

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Chiefly a record of the descendants of brothers Alexander Clarke and Jeremiah Clark. Alexander was born ca. 1725 and died about 1782. He married Joannah May, who was born in 1740 and died after 1838. Jeremiah was born ca. 1739 and died ca. 1780. He married Nancy Ann, who was born ca. 1743 and died 8 Nov 1836. Alexander and Joannah were the parents of nine children. Jeremiah and Nancy were the parents of seven children. Descendants of these men lived in Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, and elsewhere.

Marriages of Orange County contains abstracts of all the marriage bonds issued in Orange County from 1779 until 1868, when marriage bonds--as prerequisites for marriage--were discontinued. These marriage records were abstracted from a microfilm copy of the original marriage bonds on file at the State Archives in Raleigh and refer altogether to some 20,000 persons, including bondsmen. The data is arranged throughout in alphabetical order by the surname of the groom, and each entry includes the name of the bride, the date of the bond, the name of the bondsman, and, from 1851, the date of the actual marriage.

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John Davidson came to the North Carolina back country circa 1751 as a young man, with his sister and widowed mother. Typical of Scots-Irish settlers, they arrived with little more than basic farming tools, determined to make it on their own terms. Davidson worked hard, prospered, married well and built a plantation on the Catawba River he called Rural Hill. The Davidson's were loyal British citizens who paid their taxes and participated in colonial government. When the Crown's overbearing authority interfered, independence became paramount and Davidson and his neighbors became soldiers in the Revolutionary War. After the war Davidson managed his plantation, created shad fisheries, helped develop the local iron industry with his sons-in-law and was an early planter of cotton. His sons and grandsons, along with their slave families, continuously increased and improved the acreage and became early practitioners of scientific farming. Drawing on public documents, family papers and slave records, this history describes how a fiercely independent family grew their lands and fortunes into a lasting legacy.