Clark, John, - 1648

John Clark (c. 1612, England-May 13, 1648 in New Haven) immigrated to Boston around 1634.  He was the interpreter for the Quinnipiac delegation that negotiated the sale of Quinnipiac (New Haven) in 1638.  Clark removed there with his family the following year, living on Meadow Street.  He died young at age 36.  L. W. Hoagland, Descendants of John Clark of New Haven, Connecticut (Watsonville, CA: L.W. Hoagland, 1990), 3.