Digging Deeper in Connecticut

Tracing the Clark line is difficult because of a lack of probate records, recorded deeds, and family papers. In looking more closely at allied families: Weed, Ambler, Westcott, Hoyt, and a few other known lines, my research leads me to believe our Clark line may have come to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 or 1631, then to the Wethersfield Colony in Connecticut, and finally to the colony in Stamford, CT before their migration to Bedford and Poundridge in Westchester county, New York. Early in our American ancestry most families clustered within a Parish or Church congregation around which a community grew. Factions would have spun off from these groups, and likely would have maintained a cohesiveness bound by friendship and family ties. My focus has been to follow the group and look for bits of information to help build a Clark history.