Sarah Clarke Startin
(1750-1802)
BIRTH
April 9, 1750
PLACE
NAME
Sarah Clarke
DEATH
1802
PLACE
FAMILY
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)
BROTHER
Isaac Winslow Clarke
(1746-1822)
SISTER
Lucy Clarke
(1752–1775)
SISTER
Elizabeth Clarke
(b. 1736)
BROTHER
Richard Clarke Jr.
(b. 1756)
CHILDREN
Richard Clarke
(1711-1795)
CHILDREN
Elizabeth Winslow Clarke
(1713-1765)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Sarah Clarke Startin was born in Boston in 1750 to merchant Richard Clarke and Elizabeth Winslow. She married Charles Startin in 1771 and was the sister of Susanna Clarke, wife of painter John Singleton Copley. Copley’s unfinished portrait of Sarah, painted about 1783, stayed in his family and is now at Wellesley’s Davis Museum. Sarah’s place in the transatlantic family is documented in correspondence; her death year remains unconfirmed.
EARLY LIFE
Sarah Clarke Startin was born on Apr 9, 1750. 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 Sarah Clarke Startin 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
Copley’s unfinished portrait of Sarah, painted about 1783, stayed in his family and is now at Wellesley’s Davis Museum. Sarah’s place in the transatlantic family is documented in correspondence; her death year remains unconfirmed. Sarah Clarke Startin died in 1802. 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
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