Joseph Lee Clarke
(1740–1773 or later; survival bound)
BIRTH
April 28, 1740
PLACE
DEATH
1773 or later (documented survival)
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
Richard Clarke
(1711-1795)
BROTHER
William Clarke
(1732-1761)
SISTER
Hannah Clarke Bromfield
(1734-1785)
BROTHER
Edward Clarke
(1737-1770)
SISTER
Mary Clarke Barrett
(1741-1764)
BROTHER
Jonathan Clarke
(1744-1827)
SISTER
Susanna Clarke Copley
(1745-1836)
BROTHER
Isaac Winslow Clarke
(1746-1822)
SISTER
Sarah Clarke Startin
(1750-1802)
SISTER
Lucy Clarke
(1752–1775)
SISTER
Elizabeth Clarke
(b. 1736)
BROTHER
Richard Clarke Jr.
(b. 1756)
CHILDREN
Elizabeth Winslow Clarke
(1713-1765)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
NOT YET RESEARCHED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Joseph Lee Clarke was a son of Boston merchant Richard Clarke and Elizabeth Winslow. An archival family list dates his birth to 28 April 1740. In 1773 merchant Joseph Lee entrusted him with a £2,000 letter of credit for investment in London. The transaction was separate from the tea consignments that made Richard Clarke & Sons targets of Boston’s protests. This establishes Joseph’s commercial activity and survival in 1773; his later whereabouts and death remain unresolved.
EARLY LIFE
Joseph Lee Clarke was born on Apr 28, 1740. 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 Joseph Lee 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. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Joseph Lee Clarke was a son of Boston merchant Richard Clarke and Elizabeth Winslow. In 1773 merchant Joseph Lee entrusted him with a £2,000 letter of credit for investment in London. The surviving record does not establish when or how Joseph Lee Clarke died. The date entry, 1773 or later (documented survival), marks the limit of documented activity rather than a verified death date. 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.
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