Elizabeth Winslow Clarke
(1713-1765)
BIRTH
1713
PLACE
NAME
Elizabeth Winslow
DEATH
September 3, 1765
PLACE
Boston, Massachusetts
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Richard Clarke
(1711-1795)
CHILDREN
William Clarke
(1732-1761)
CHILDREN
Hannah Clarke Bromfield
(1734-1785)
CHILDREN
Edward Clarke
(1737-1770)
CHILDREN
Joseph Lee Clarke
(1740–1773 or later; survival bound)
CHILDREN
Mary Clarke Barrett
(1741-1764)
CHILDREN
Jonathan Clarke
(1744-1827)
CHILDREN
Susanna Clarke Copley
(1745-1836)
CHILDREN
Sarah Clarke Startin
(1750-1802)
CHILDREN
Lucy Clarke
(1752–1775)
CHILDREN
Elizabeth Clarke
(b. 1736)
CHILDREN
Richard Clarke Jr.
(b. 1756)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
NOT YET RESEARCHED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Elizabeth Winslow Clarke was a Boston woman married to Richard Clarke in 1733. The family archive identifies her as the daughter of Edward Winslow and Elizabeth Pemberton and records her death on September 3, 1765. Their children included Susanna, who married painter John Singleton Copley. Elizabeth died before the family firm became a tea consignee targeted during the Boston Tea Party. Other family trees give conflicting birth and parentage.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Elizabeth Winslow Clarke’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Elizabeth Winslow Clarke is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Elizabeth Winslow Clarke died on Sep 3, 1765 in Boston, Massachusetts. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
The family archive identifies her as the daughter of Edward Winslow and Elizabeth Pemberton and records her death on September 3, 1765. Elizabeth Winslow Clarke died on Sep 3, 1765 in Boston, Massachusetts. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Elizabeth Winslow Clarke, Richard Clarke’s wife and Susanna Copley’s mother, distinct from her daughter Elizabeth Clarke. Editorial selections prioritize biographical coverage; five standalone biographies were not established. Family and collective biographies, primary writings, references and related studies are labelled individually. Multi-volume works and series are counted as one selection.
1. A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley — Jane Kamensky. [Related family biography of her son-in-law] Find on Amazon
2. John Singleton Copley — Jules David Prown. [Related biography of her son-in-law] Find on Amazon
3. John Singleton Copley in America — Carrie Rebora and Paul Staiti. [Related family and artistic study] Find on Amazon
4. Letters and Papers of John Singleton Copley and Henry Pelham, 1739–1776 — Massachusetts Historical Society (editor). [Related primary family correspondence] Find on Amazon
5. The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution, 1763–1776 — Arthur Meier Schlesinger. [Related political and biographical history] Find on Amazon
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