David CLARKSON was born March 13, 1817 in Somerset County, New Jersey, the second son of Philip Clarkson and Sarah Powelson. He was baptized at the First Reformed Dutch Church of Somerville June 1, 1817.
At the age of 3, David's father removed the family to Ovid, Seneca Co., New York where David's mother died March 12th 1824, the day before David's 7th birthday. David's father remarried December 25, 1824 to Jane Sebring.
When David was 13 years old his father died. In the Spring of the following year, 1831, David left his five siblings and step-mother and journeyed to Michigan with Capt. William Dunlap and party. William and Sarah Dunlap, having adopted David, took him along to raise and as an additional laborer to help clear the wilderness. They traveled across New York State to Buffalo on the Erie Canal aboard the canal boat "Shark" and across Lake Erie on the steam boat "New York" arriving at Detroit, a town then of about 2,000 inhabitants, May 18, 1831.
William Dunlap settled on 160 acres where the town of Northville was yet to be built. In the decades to come, David labored at many jobs such as clearing land and building cabins and later houses, hauling goods by ox-team to and from Detroit, grinding grain at the local grist mill and farming. For the remainder of his life he resided in the community he helped to build and as a member of the State Pioneer Society would later write several historical sketches for the "Northville Record" telling of those early days in Northville and the Pioneers who settled there.
On the 3rd of January 1844 David was married to Sarah Ann Bradley (the daughter of Northville Pioneers Harvey Stone Bradley and Maria Rose); David and Sarah had seven children, all born in Northville. David died at Northville August 20th, 1880 and was buried at the Cady Street Cemetery. [TroyS.]
At the age of 3, David's father removed the family to Ovid, Seneca Co., New York where David's mother died March 12th 1824, the day before David's 7th birthday. David's father remarried December 25, 1824 to Jane Sebring.
When David was 13 years old his father died. In the Spring of the following year, 1831, David left his five siblings and step-mother and journeyed to Michigan with Capt. William Dunlap and party. William and Sarah Dunlap, having adopted David, took him along to raise and as an additional laborer to help clear the wilderness. They traveled across New York State to Buffalo on the Erie Canal aboard the canal boat "Shark" and across Lake Erie on the steam boat "New York" arriving at Detroit, a town then of about 2,000 inhabitants, May 18, 1831.
William Dunlap settled on 160 acres where the town of Northville was yet to be built. In the decades to come, David labored at many jobs such as clearing land and building cabins and later houses, hauling goods by ox-team to and from Detroit, grinding grain at the local grist mill and farming. For the remainder of his life he resided in the community he helped to build and as a member of the State Pioneer Society would later write several historical sketches for the "Northville Record" telling of those early days in Northville and the Pioneers who settled there.
On the 3rd of January 1844 David was married to Sarah Ann Bradley (the daughter of Northville Pioneers Harvey Stone Bradley and Maria Rose); David and Sarah had seven children, all born in Northville. David died at Northville August 20th, 1880 and was buried at the Cady Street Cemetery. [TroyS.]
David CLARKSON was born March 13, 1817 in Somerset County, New Jersey, the second son of Philip Clarkson and Sarah Powelson. He was baptized at the First Reformed Dutch Church of Somerville June 1, 1817.
At the age of 3, David's father removed the family to Ovid, Seneca Co., New York where David's mother died March 12th 1824, the day before David's 7th birthday. David's father remarried December 25, 1824 to Jane Sebring.
When David was 13 years old his father died. In the Spring of the following year, 1831, David left his five siblings and step-mother and journeyed to Michigan with Capt. William Dunlap and party. William and Sarah Dunlap, having adopted David, took him along to raise and as an additional laborer to help clear the wilderness. They traveled across New York State to Buffalo on the Erie Canal aboard the canal boat "Shark" and across Lake Erie on the steam boat "New York" arriving at Detroit, a town then of about 2,000 inhabitants, May 18, 1831.
William Dunlap settled on 160 acres where the town of Northville was yet to be built. In the decades to come, David labored at many jobs such as clearing land and building cabins and later houses, hauling goods by ox-team to and from Detroit, grinding grain at the local grist mill and farming. For the remainder of his life he resided in the community he helped to build and as a member of the State Pioneer Society would later write several historical sketches for the "Northville Record" telling of those early days in Northville and the Pioneers who settled there.
On the 3rd of January 1844 David was married to Sarah Ann Bradley (the daughter of Northville Pioneers Harvey Stone Bradley and Maria Rose); David and Sarah had seven children, all born in Northville. David died at Northville August 20th, 1880 and was buried at the Cady Street Cemetery. [TroyS.]
At the age of 3, David's father removed the family to Ovid, Seneca Co., New York where David's mother died March 12th 1824, the day before David's 7th birthday. David's father remarried December 25, 1824 to Jane Sebring.
When David was 13 years old his father died. In the Spring of the following year, 1831, David left his five siblings and step-mother and journeyed to Michigan with Capt. William Dunlap and party. William and Sarah Dunlap, having adopted David, took him along to raise and as an additional laborer to help clear the wilderness. They traveled across New York State to Buffalo on the Erie Canal aboard the canal boat "Shark" and across Lake Erie on the steam boat "New York" arriving at Detroit, a town then of about 2,000 inhabitants, May 18, 1831.
William Dunlap settled on 160 acres where the town of Northville was yet to be built. In the decades to come, David labored at many jobs such as clearing land and building cabins and later houses, hauling goods by ox-team to and from Detroit, grinding grain at the local grist mill and farming. For the remainder of his life he resided in the community he helped to build and as a member of the State Pioneer Society would later write several historical sketches for the "Northville Record" telling of those early days in Northville and the Pioneers who settled there.
On the 3rd of January 1844 David was married to Sarah Ann Bradley (the daughter of Northville Pioneers Harvey Stone Bradley and Maria Rose); David and Sarah had seven children, all born in Northville. David died at Northville August 20th, 1880 and was buried at the Cady Street Cemetery. [TroyS.]
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