Isaac Winslow Clarke
BIRTH
Oct 27, 1746
DEATH
FAMILY
FATHER:
Richard Clarke
(1711-1795)
MOTHER:
Elizabeth Winslow Clarke
(1713-1765)
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Clarke, Isaac Winslow
(1746-1822)
Isaac Winslow Clarke was a Boston merchant in the firm of Richard Clarke & Sons and one of the East India Company tea consignees targeted during the Boston Tea Party crisis. A Loyalist, he left Massachusetts for Canada during the Revolution, became commissary-general of Lower Canada, and remained connected to the British imperial establishment until his death in 1822.
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SISTER
Hannah Clarke
SISTER
Elizabeth Clarke
(1736-?)
SISTER
Mary Clarke Barrett
(1741-1764)
SISTER
Sarah Clarke Startin
(1750-1802)
BROTHER
William Clarke
(1732-1761)
BROTHER
Edward Clarke
(1737-1770)
BROTHER
Jonathan Clarke
(1744-1827)
SISTER
Lucy Clarke
(1752-?)
SISTER
Hannah Clarke Bromfield
(1734-1785)
BROTHER
Joseph Lee Clarke
(1740-?)
SISTER
Sussanna Farnum Clarke Copley
(1745-1836)
BROTHER
Richard Clarke Jr
(1756-?)
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Isaac Winslow Clarke was born on Oct 27, 1746. 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.
The available biographical record identifies Isaac Winslow Clarke with work or public activity as a merchant. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.