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dians, &c. The Gentlemen of Bq/lon requefted him to go 

 [56] to Rhode-IJland Government to ask their affiftance: 

 So giving him their Letter, and about 40 .y. in Money, he 

 took leave and went home to Brijlol on a Saturday; and 

 the next Monday Morning he went over to Rhode-IJland, 

 and waited upon their Governour, 13 delivering the Letter, 

 as ordered; pray'd his Honour for a fpeedy anfwer: 14 who 

 faid, they could not give an anfwer prefently; fo he waited 

 upon them till he had their anfwer; and when he had ob- 

 tain it, he carryed it to the Bq/lon Gentlemen; who defired 

 him to Raife what Volunteers he could in Plymouth Col- 

 ony, 15 and Rhode-IJland Government, & what was wanting 

 they would make up out of their's that was already out in 

 the Eaftern Parts. The Summer being far fpent Capt. 



13 Walter Clark, eldeft fon of Jere- 

 miah of Newport, was born about 1639 I 

 was a Quaker; was freeman in 1665; 

 6 Nov., 1672, was member of a com- 

 mittee to audit the accounts between 

 the Colony and its creditors; in 1673 

 and 1674 was on the committee to fee 

 that the election was conducted in an 

 orderly manner; 2 May, 1676, was 

 chofen Governor ; for many years after- 

 ward was Deputy Governor, and then 

 Governor again in 1686, and once 

 more in 1696; died 22 May, 1714, aged 



74. He married (1) Content , 



who died March, 1666; (2) Hannah, 

 daughter of Richard Scott, who died 

 24 July, 1681 ; (3) Freeborn, daughter 

 of Roger Williams, and widow of 

 Thomas Hart, who died 10 Dec, 1709; 

 (4) Sarah, daughter of Matthew Prior, 



and widow of John Gould. [Savage's 

 Gen. Did. i : 403 ; R.-I. Col. Rec. ii : 

 147, 481, 483, 517, 541 ; iii : 30, 186. 

 312.] 



14 When the Revolution oufted An- 

 dros, the old Charter Government was 

 refumed in Rhode Ifland, but the 

 "wary Clark" — who had been Gov- 

 ernor when Andros arrived and feized 

 the State — " hefitated to accept his 

 former poft ; and for ten months Rhode 

 Wand was without an acknowledged 

 Governor." [Arnold's Hiji. R.-I. i : 

 512.] It was during thefe ten months 

 that Church "waited upon him"; 

 whence the difficulty of giving " an 

 anfwer prefently" finds ready explana- 

 tion. 



15 Plymouth Court met 14 Aug., 1689, 

 and voted their " concurrence " accord- 



