Capt. Scotto Clark
Scotto Clark was born at Harwich, on Cape Cod, on 8 November 1709. He was the second son of Scotto Clarke, a Harwich miller, and his wife Mary. A Bible record kept by his son James gives the birth a year later, 8 November 1710.
On 22 March 1733 he married Thankful Crosby. She was born on 7 February 1714. They had fourteen children, all born at Harwich, eleven of them sons.
Scotto was a master mariner, and the records call him Capt. Clark. Nine of his eleven sons became whalemen. In his time whales were so plentiful off the Cape that men hunted them in open boats launched from the shore. Scotto himself commanded a whaleboat.
The sea took four of the boys. William, born in 1740, was lost at sea. So were Joshua, born in 1752, and Fessenden, born in 1754. Tully, born in 1736, was killed by a sperm whale in 1766 while his father commanded the boat.
The other sons settled on land. Barnabas moved to Westminster, Vermont, in 1797, and his brother Scotto also died there, in 1836. Elisha, Reuben, Mark, James and Roland lived out their lives. The daughters were Mercy, who married a Drew of Duxbury, Abigail, who married Col. Zenas Winslow, a justice of the peace and militia colonel, and Thankful, the youngest.
Scotto Clark died on 31 August 1795, aged eighty-five. Thankful outlived him by seven years and died on 17 December 1802.
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Cite: Heirology, "Capt. Scotto Clark (1709-1795)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/capt-scotto-clark-1709-1795-3c31f0.