Isaac Winslow Clarke
(1746-1822)
BIRTH
October 27, 1746
PLACE
DEATH
1822
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
Richard Clarke
(1711-1795)
MOTHER
Elizabeth Winslow Clarke
(1713-1765)
BROTHER
William Clarke
(1732-1761)
SISTER
Hannah Clarke Bromfield
(1734-1785)
BROTHER
Edward Clarke
(1737-1770)
BROTHER
Joseph Lee Clarke
(1740–1773 or later; survival bound)
SISTER
Mary Clarke Barrett
(1741-1764)
BROTHER
Jonathan Clarke
(1744-1827)
SISTER
Susanna Clarke Copley
(1745-1836)
SISTER
Sarah Clarke Startin
(1750-1802)
SISTER
Lucy Clarke
(1752–1775)
SISTER
Elizabeth Clarke
(b. 1736)
BROTHER
Richard Clarke Jr.
(b. 1756)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
NOT YET RESEARCHED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Isaac Winslow Clarke (1746–1822) was a Boston merchant in his father Richard Clarke’s firm, which received East India Company tea in 1773. Richard’s surviving letters authorized Isaac and his brother Jonathan to negotiate over the contested shipment. A Loyalist, Isaac fled to England and stayed with his sister Susanna and her husband, painter John Singleton Copley. He later served in Canada’s British commissariat, becoming deputy commissary-general at Montreal.
EARLY LIFE
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.
CAREER
DEATH
Isaac Winslow Clarke was a Boston merchant in his father Richard Clarke’s firm, which received East India Company tea in 1773. Richard’s surviving letters authorized Isaac and his brother Jonathan to negotiate over the contested shipment. A Loyalist, Isaac fled to England and stayed with his sister Susanna and her husband, painter John Singleton Copley. Isaac Winslow Clarke died in 1822. 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
100594