Thomas Clark

Thomas Clark (August 1741 – 25 December 1792) was an officer who served in the War of the Regulation in North Carolina and in the 1st North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina Line of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He was promoted to brigadier general after the war. Early life (1741–1775) Thomas Clark was born in August 1741 in Wilmington, North Carolina to Thomas Clark, a merchant, and Barbara Murray. He also had a sister, Ann, who married William Hooper. Clark went to school in England, where he learned to be a watchmaker, He practiced this trade in Boston until 1769 where he settled to Cape Fear to take care of the estate of his uncle, James Murray. In 1771, Clark participated in the War of the Regulation, first as a "provost marshal general," followed by being the aide-de-camp. He participated and subsequently wounded in the Battle of Alamance, which was a rebellion in colonial North Carolina over issues of taxation and local control.