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About Mary Ruffin
Mary “Molly” Clack was born on Sept 6, 1724 in Ware Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia, and died before 1763, probably at "Sweet Hall", King William County, Virginia; she was not mentioned in her mother's will although her husband Robert Ruffin was mentioned.
Mary was described as a very beautiful woman who had consumption for fifty years.
Family
She was the daughter of James Clack and Mary Sterling.
Married:
- to John Lightfoot of Gloucester County, Virginia in 1744, in Ware Parish. He was the son of Philip Lightfoot and Mary Armistead. Soldier: killed in battle in Cherokee Wars in 1751; (citation needed).
- the widow Mary Lightfoot remarried to Robert Ruffin on September 6, 1751 in Brunswick Co, Virginia. He was the son of John Ruffin and Patty Hamlin.
No issue by 1st marriage.
Children by 2nd marriage:
- Sterling Clack married Alice ROANE
- William H. married Margaret RITCHIE
- James B. married Mary ROANE
- Martha "Patty"" married William Buller CLAIBORNE
Links
- http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clack-9
- http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/clack/605/
- page 318 of Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Under the Editorial ..., Volume 1 edited by Lyon Gardiner Tyler Militia Soldier
- http://www.jstor.org/stable/1918735 P198 1751. Sep 6, Robert Ruffin and Mary Lightfoot, widow. Sec. Lewis Parham. Witt. Litt Tazewell
- link to the Lightfoot Family by Lyon G. Tyler in The William and Mary Quarterly vol:3 no:2 (Oct., 1894), pp. 104-111
- link to the Clack Family in The William and Mary Quarterly Vol. 19, No. 2 (Oct., 1910), pp. 109-111
- link to the Ruffin Family in The William and Mary Quarterly Vol. 18, No. 4 (Apr., 1910), pp. 251-258 Published by: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture DOI: 10.2307/1922552 Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1922552 Page Count: 8. Page 252
- https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/historic-registers/050-0067/
Comments
From Sharron Ritchie Alley Oct 2018
Mary Clack, i noticed in your notes that two women named mary, this is correct Mary Clack who married the attorney John Lightfoot and was the attorney for John Clack he was married to young Mary's mother and her name was Mary also I think her madien name was Sterling....so yes two married but not sisters, but one was her mother and young Mary and John Lightfoot married look at the book called calling all lightfoots it gives a history of the family of Lightfoots from England to their landing in VA about the 1600...this John Lightfoot and Mary Clack had no children, many say she was american Indian and isn't true her father and mother were English and John wasn't Indian either his father was an earliy settler in Va from England
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Mary Ruffin's Timeline
| 1724 |
September 6, 1724
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Ware Parish, Gloucester County, Province of Virginia, Colonial America
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| 1754 |
1754
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Sweet Hall, King William, Virginia
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1754
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Dinwiddie County, VA, United States
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1755
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MD, United States
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| 1763 |
1763
Age 38
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“Sweet Hall”, King William County, Province of Virginia, Colonial America
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| 1765 |
June 1, 1765
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Sweet Hall, King William County, VA, United States
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1765
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Sweet Hall, King William County, Virginia, British Colonial America
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1768
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Sweet Hall, King William, Virginia, United States
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