JEM Genealogy
Ornes Moore Motley Echols Edwards Fackler Parsons Reynolds Smith Brown Bruce Munger Beer Kern Viele Nims Baker Bondurant Von Krogh Magnus Munthe and others
First Name:  Last Name: 
[Advanced Search]  [Surnames]
Home Search Login  
Share Print Bookmark
You are currently anonymous

Sarah Clark[1, 2, 3]

Female 1716 - 1792  (76 years)


Personal Information    |    Media    |    Notes    |    Sources    |    Event Map    |    All

  • Name Sarah Clark  [4, 5] 
    Birth 1716  , New Kent, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Death 20 Jan 1792  , Campbell, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Person ID I37122  Master
    Last Modified 24 Oct 2024 

    Father Christopher Clark,   b. 1681, Somerton, Suffolk, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 May 1754, Louisa, Louisa, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years) 
    Mother Penelope Johnston,   b. 4 Aug 1684, Saint Peter and Paul Parish, New Kent, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Aug 1760, , New Kent, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Marriage 8 Jun 1709  Saint Peter and Paul Parish, New Kent, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Family ID F8910  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Charles Lynch,   b. 1705, , County Galway, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 May 1753, Charlottesville, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years) 
    Marriage 1733  , Hanover, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. William Lynch,   b. 1733, , Henry, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1788, , Henry, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +2. Penelope Flournoy Lynch,   b. 1734, Charlottesville, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Jun 1785, Pen Park, Albemarle, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     3. Charles Lynch, Jr,   b. 1736, Chestnut Hill, Loudoun, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Oct 1796, , Campbell, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years)
     4. Christopher Lynch,   b. 1 Dec 1736, , Goochland, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1780, , Campbell, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 43 years)
     5. Sarah Lynch,   b. 1738, , Albemarle, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 May 1773, , Bedford, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 35 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     6. John Lynch,   b. 20 Jun 1740, , Albemarle, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Oct 1820, Lynchburg, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
     7. Edward Lynch,   b. 1744, , Albemarle, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1765 (Age 21 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     8. James Lynch,   b. 1745, , Grayson, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     9. George Lynch,   b. 1 Jan 1747, , , Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Jan 1821, Monroe, Amherst, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F8911  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Oct 2024 

    Family 2 John Ward,   b. 1708, , Amherst, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Nov 1816, The Mansion, Campbell, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 108 years) 
    Marriage 27 Dec 1766  , , Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Family ID F8884  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Jun 2020 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1716 - , New Kent, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 1733 - , Hanover, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 27 Dec 1766 - , , Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 20 Jan 1792 - , Campbell, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 

  • Histories
    Charles Lynch - Masters Theses Research    		Charles Lynch - Masters Theses Research

  • Notes 
    • At a time when churches not only didn’t ordain women, they usually didn’t allow them to speak, Sarah Clark Lynch was the founder and elder of Lynchburg’s South River Quaker Meeting House. She was an energetic anti-slavery advocate long before abolitionism existed outside the Quaker community and her influence led most of Virginia’s Quakers to free their slaves and many to emigrate to states without slavery.
    • At age 15, Charles Lynch ran away from his home in Galway, Ireland and stowed away on a ship bound for America. After reaching Virginia the ship’s captain sold the stowaway Charles as an indentured servant to pay for his passage. The day that his contract was purchased by Christopher Clark was the luckiest day in Charles Lynch’s life. Clark was a prominent and prosperous Quaker in Albermarle County. He took a liking to young Charles and paid for his education. In 1733 Charles and the Clarks’ daughter Sarah were married.

      With some financial assistance from his father in law, Charles Lynch became a prominent and prosperous planter as well, eventually owning thousands of acres in what is now Campbell County. Charles and Sarah Lynch had six children. Their son John became the founder of Lynchburg, and their son Charles, Jr. was a prominent patriot--a Colonel in the Virginia militia whose summary trials of Tories in what is now Altavista originated the term “Lynch’s Law.”

      Having grown up Catholic, Charles Lynch never became a Quaker. Charles, Jr. was expelled because of his military service and because he took an oath of office. But John, the founder of Lynchburg, followed in the ardent footsteps of his Quaker mother.

      After her husband’s death Sarah married John Ward (for whom Ward’s Road is named). Despite having been the founder and leader of the Quaker meeting in Lynchburg, she was expelled for marrying a non-Quaker.

      Sarah was one of the most influential women in the history of central Virginia, despite living in a time when women had few opportunities to fill leadership roles.

      Sarah Clark Lynch Ward died on January 20, 1792, two hundred twenty-eight years ago today. She is buried in the cemetery of the old Quaker Meeting House in Lynchburg, shown in the photo (cemetery in the foreground, old meeting house in the background). The cemetery and old meeting house are now owned and maintained by the Quaker Memorial Presbyterian Church.

  • Sources 
    1. [S761] Yates Publishing, Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree.
      http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=162117177&pid=185

    2. [S110] Ancestry.com, U.S., Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol I–VI, 1607-1943, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).
      https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=FLHG-QuakerGenVolVI&h=215705&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

    3. [S761] Yates Publishing, Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree.

    4. [S533] Earle S. Dennis and Jane Estelle Smith, Marriage Bonds of Bedford County, Virginia, 1755-1800 ..., (Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, MD, 2007, Original Date, 1932).

    5. [S1133] Ancestry.com, North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Book Title: Lineage Book : NSDAR : Volume 004 : 1893.

    6. [S814] Ancestry.com, U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Haverford College; Haverford, Pennsylvania; Births, Deaths, Removals, Marriages, 1757-1848; Collection: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes; Call Number: 1116/255.

    7. [S32] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.), Source number: 1032.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: LJV.

    8. [S533] Earle S. Dennis and Jane Estelle Smith, Marriage Bonds of Bedford County, Virginia, 1755-1800 ..., (Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, MD, 2007, Original Date, 1932) (Reliability: 3).
      https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/10625/dvm_LocHist000281-00039-0?pid=50&backurl=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D10625%26h%3D50%26tid%3D167141933%26pid%3D172171883281%26hid%3D1035265848686%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26_phsrc%3DPFA19%26_phstart%3Ddefault%26usePUBJs%3Dtrue&treeid=167141933&personid=172171883281&hintid=1035265848686&usePUB=true&_phsrc=PFA19&_phstart=default&usePUBJs=true


This site powered by The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding v. 14.0.5, written by Darrin Lythgoe © 2001-2024.

Maintained by John Moore. | Data Protection Policy.