Martin married Mary Clark WFT est 1797-1812. Mary (daughter of Lardner Clark and Elizabeth Bowen) was born on 24 Mar 1785 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA; died on 23 Dec 1814 in Lebanon, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Sarah ? WFT est 1750-1793. Sarah was born WFT est 1733-1756; died WFT est 1778-1844. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The following account of Lardner Clark is found in an old history:

[Putnam, A. W., History of Middle Tennessee, page 174.\

"the name of 'Lardner Clark', merchant and ordinary keeper, may be placed at the head of the list of dealers in dry-goods, thimbles, and pins for ladies, & liquor for men, and provender for horses.

"The merchant-princes of our city, and the landlords of our hotels, need not be ashamed to be called 'successors of Hon'ble Lardner Clark' for he was Justice of the Peace also. Ten horses, packed with goods from Philadelphia, travelling by slow stage through the length of Virginia, and arrived at the Bluff in the fall of the year 1786, was a sight worth looking at, and proves that Nashville was not then 'a one-horse town'.

"We doubt if the Honorable Lardner Clark, in the half-dozen years in which he was in business, imported or sold a single dress of silk of satin. Cheap, plain chintzes and calicoes, and unbleached linens and coarse woolens, constituted the choice of the stock.

"for his imported goods the Merchant was glad to receive peltries; skins of all sorts and sizes, from buffalo bulls, the monster bears down to the spotted fawns and soft, fine velvet of the beaver and hare.

"We know not who was first adorned with an elegant, stiff brocade petticoat; that was a distinction among ladies who had little of price and envy. This however, we may assert of each and all of those who were here in the year of our Lord 1783; (and for several years thereafter) they were very glad to wear moccasins and leather aprons through the day, and to sleep wrapped up in a buffalo-robe and bear skin at night."

The following account of Lardner Clark's parentage has also been published:

[Tennessee Historical Magazine, Volume 3, 1917, p 28-50; & 115-133.]

"Thomas Clark, d. May 17, 1752, m. (1) Hannah, was a settler at Clark's Landing, on Little-Egg-Harbour, then Glouchester Co. where the family was the most conspicuous of the plantation owners of South Jersey. His son, Colonel Elijah Clark, a highly esteemed and prosperous business man in the County of Glouchester married 29 April 1756, Jane Lardner, a daughter of the Lardner family of Philadelphia.."

Lardner married Elizabeth Bowen WFT est 1779-1798. Elizabeth (daughter of John Bowen, Jr. and Rachel Mathews) was born on 31 Oct 1767 in Botetourt County, Virginia; died on 30 Jun 1825 in Limestone County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Elizabeth Bowen
was born 31 October 1767 in Botetourt County, Virginia, and died 30 June 1825 in Limestone County, Alabama. She married 22 July 1784, in Nashville, Tennessee, Lardner CLARK, son of Elijah CLARK (1730-1795) and Jane LARDNER. He was born 18 November 1756 in Clarks Landing, Glouster County, New Jersey, and died 17 February 1801 in Ste. Genevieve, Louisiana. An inventory of the estate of Lardner Clark was filed in 1802. They had four children, all of whom were born on ceded lands South of the Ohio River at Nashville, Tennessee.

Elijah married Jane Lardner WFT est 1744-1776. Jane was born WFT est 1716-1739; died WFT est 1759-1827. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Will of John Bowen, is recorded in Will Book 4, Page 136, Records of Augusta County, Virginia:

"In the Name of God Amen. I John Bowen of Augusta County Colony Dominion of Virginia being very sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks and praise to God and calling to minde the mortallity of my body & knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, first of all I commit my soul to the hands of God who gave it and my body to be buried in the earth at the discretion of my executors Secondly I ordere all my just debts to be paid & as for the remains of my estate both rail & personal to be disposed of in manner & form as followeth. Item I give and bequeath unto my three sons John Moses and William Bowen all my lands and tennements and if either of them the said John Moses or William should die before they have lawful issue or come to the years of maturity his part of said lands & tennement is and shall be equally devided between my three daughters Viz Anne Rebecka & Elizabeth or the heirs of their body lawfully begotten and that if two or all shall die of my sons then the whole is to decend to be equally devided between my daughters in manner & form as afforesaid. Item I give and bequeath unto my three daughters before mentioned Anne Rebeka & Elizabeth all the remains of my personal estate to be equally devided between them except Item I give and bequeath unto my dearly & well beloved wife Rachel Bowen, the bigg sorrel mare her bed & all her close and her thirds of all my personal estate & first liberty of the dwelling house & plantation during her weedohood or natural life but if she marries she is to have only the dwelling house and one halfe of the improvement during her natural life AND LASTLY I constitute nominate and appoint Rachell my well beloved wife William Mathews & William Bowen my trusty and well beloved brothers to be Executors of this my last will and test & I doe by these presents disannul revoak and disalow all other wills & teste and this to be my last will in testimony whereof I have hereunto interchangably set my hand this twenty seventh day of July 1768.

John (his x mark) Bowen LS

"Sealed & Delivered
in the presence of us

"John Smith; Joseph Luney; Richard Mathews; Malcolm Allen

"At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County August the 17th 1768, This last will and testament of John Bowen deceased was proved by the oaths of Malcolm Allen and Richard Mathews two of the witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded and on the motion of William Mathews and William Bowen two of the Executors therein named who made oath according to law certificate for obtaining a probat thereof in due form is granted them they having with security entered into and acknowledged their bond according to law.

"Recorded in Augusta County Clerk's Office, Staunton, Virginia, in Will Book 4, Page 136."

John married Rachel Mathews WFT est 1733-1766. Rachel (daughter of John Mathews and Anne Archer) was born WFT est 1716-1744; died WFT est 1770-1831 in Davidson County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Rachel Mathews died in Davidson County, Tennessee. She married 1st, John BOWEN, Jr., son of John BOWEN, Sr., and Lily McILHANEY. John Bowen, Jr. died in 1767/8, in Augusta County, Virginia where his Will was either dated or filed 27 July 1768. After Rachel Bowen's first husband's death, she took her three daughters to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1783/4. In Nashville, she became the second wife of one Ebenezer TITUS. Ebenezer Titus died 14 September 1807. He owned a plantation on Dry Creek, in the Northern part of Davidson County, Tennessee, also on Mill Creek in the southwestern part of Davidson County. Rachel (Mathews) Bowen had six children by her first husband, and it is not known whether or not she had children by Ebenezer Titus. She had six children by her first husband.