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Note: The Jacob Conrad Clock Family of York Township, York County, Ontario Henry Klock Henry Klock, a Palatine German, immigrated to North America and the Mohawk Valley of New York State in 1709. Henry's son Conrad, one of the minor children at the time of Henry's death in 1743, married Anna Elizabeth Dygert. Their son Jacob Conrad Clock was born about 1754. Jacob Conrad Clock, 1754-1832 Jacob Conrad Clock married Anna Eva Staring, born about 1759, the daughter of Jacob Staring/Stauring and the granddaughter of Johan Adam Staring/Stauring, another Palatine German immigrant, 15 Feb 1774 at Herkimer, German Flatts Township, Dutch Reformed Church.
Jacob Conrad and Anna Eva Staring Clock's married life began at the very outset of the hostilities of the War of Independence. Jacob Conrad was a Lieutenant in Col. Jacob Klock's Corps. of the Continental army from which he was taken prisoner by the British and transported to Montreal in 1780. Shortly afterward, he signed up with the British in the second battalion of Kings Royal Regiment of New York under Sir John Johnson and was sent on a raid to the Mohawk Valley. Once there he deserted and returned home to his wife and children. Johnathan Hart, another member of the second battalion of the Kings Royal Regiment of New York, testified to this desertion in York township, October, 1811.
Jacob Conrad and Anna Eva Staring Clock came to York township in 1801/2 with 18 head of horned cattle, two horses, 4 sheep and 240£ York, in movable property. At this time they had thirteen children not all of whom accompanied them to Canada. They settled on lot 32, third Concession from the Bay, York township. Children of Jacob Conrad and Anna Eva Stauring Clock Catherine (George) Risenburgh Margaret (Benajah) Rouse (George) Anderson Lena Jacob Joseph Elizabeth (Jacob) Anderson Mary (Edward) Phillips John (Mary Diver) Ann (Henry) Phillips Conrad (Leanny) David (Diadema Diver) The two missing children are thought to be male, one born about 1780 or 1782 and the other about 1784 or 1786.
Life in Canada was never dull for the Clock family. John and David Clock and Henry Phillips appeared to be speculating in land in Canada and John and David Clock in the USA as well. Conrad Clock and Edward Phillips were in the York Militia during the War of 1812-14. In the Military "C" Series they can be seen joining and deserting the militia with great regularity. At one point both were in the guard house.
It was during the War of 1812-14 when the Americans invaded the Town of York that Jacob Conrad Clock and his son-in-law Edward Phillips were each charged with treason by Jacob Conrad's other sons-in-law Jacob and George Anderson and their father Elias Anderson UEL.
It was testified that Jacob Conrad Clock asserted that everything in the country belonged to the Americans and nothing to the King, with damning the King and comforting the enemy. It was also asserted that Jacob Conrad sold veal, eggs and butter to the enemy when they were in York and received from the enemy, flour and pork. In his defense Jacob asserted that the Americans were not his enemies but his friends.
That was probably true as Jacob Conrad Clock's nephews were American veterans of the War of 1812-14, having served at Sackett's Harbour, New York, from which the invading force sailed. As a parting shot Jacob Conrad was reputed to have suggested that he had given to the Americans Jacob Anderson's name and all the others who had assisted in taking down prisoners and if he had caught Elias Anderson in town he would have given him in to the Americans.
Edward Phillips was reported to have gone one step further than selling produce. It was testified that he said when the Americans came again he would have all the old Tories hanged!
Jacob Conrad Clock claimed war losses during the War of 1812-14, the witnesses being John Clock and William Stoutenburgh. He claimed 33 pounds 15 for five cows and 2 spring calves killed by the Indians the 27 Apr 1813
The following article from the Globe and Mail, dated 6 Mar 1984, describes the social climate and living conditions in the Town of York, now the city of Toronto, about 1832 when Jacob Conrad Clock died and about five years before Joseph and Isabella Shortt arrived from County Monaghan, Ireland, to locate just north of there in Markham Township. Two descendants of these families would eventually meet and marry.
In connection with the mention of "hogs wallowing in mud" in the above article, it appears that hogs were a problem. In 1801, when Jacob Conrad Clock arrived at the Town of York, the meeting of elected persons that year discussed the following:
In 1802, it appears hogs as well as fences were a topic of conversation in the minutes of the Town of York meeting:
Even as late as 1823, swine were allowed to run at large in York Township but horses were to be shut up in the Township. Fences were to be five and a half feet high at the stake and rider and the spaces between the rails were to be four inches until the height of three feet.
David (Diadema Diver)
David Clock, carpenter, son of Jacob Conrad Clock, who was born in 1797 in New York State.
He married Diadema Diver, daughter of John and Mary (Polly) Delong Diver. Diadema's baptism was at St. James Parish, 13 Mar 1816, at age 16, presumably just before her marriage which has not been found. Her sponsors were: Jacob Clock, Conrad Clock and Nancy Clock.
David and Diadema Diver Clock had the following children:
1. John, baptized at St. James Parish, 16 Jul 1818, whose sponsors were John and Mary Diver Clock.
John Clock married Elizabeth, born about 1826 in Ontario. There has been an extensive genealogy recorded on this family.
This family can be seen first in the 1851 census of York township, York County and then in the Toronto Directory in Vaughan township, York County.
The following children were born:
Selena, 1840; John Charles, 1842/3; Mary Jane, 1851; Edward, 1854/5; William Francis, 1856; Celestia, 1861; Alfred, about 1862; David, 1862
2. Conrad, baptized at St. James Parish, 10 Jul 1820, whose sponsors were Conrad and Leanny Clock.
3. Aaron, baptized at St. James Parish, born 18 Oct 1822, whose sponsors were Jacob Delong, Steven Anderson and Eliza Scarlet .
4. Jacob, baptized at St. James Parish, born 17 Oct 1823, one of whose sponsors was Jacob Delong.
This is possibly the J. G. Klock who had a boot and shoe store in St. Catherines, Ontario from about 1845 to at least 1855.
5. Daniel, baptized at St. James Parish, born 13 Oct 1825.
David and Diadema Diver Clock had other children namely: Joseph, Mary, Eliza, Margaret and Elijah, as listed in "unplaced Clocks" in HLC William's Klock/Clock Genealogy.
After David died in Toronto in 1846, Diadema and family went to Monroe County, Michigan, where her mother and father had been since 1830.
The 1880 census of Dundee, Monroe County, Michigan, records Elijah Clock, 41, born in Canada and his wife Naomi L. Clock, 25, born in Michigan. With them were sons Liberty, 7; Freeman, 5; Ellsworth, 3 and Sherman 1. In this same census in Exeter, Monroe County, Michigan Diadema Clock, age 91 was living with the family of Joseph Drewyear.
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