daughter of Deacon John Sanderson and Lydia Hagar

m John Clark on 14 May 1793
Children:
- Alice Clark (17 Mar 1794-21 Dec 1848) m Rev Thomas Worcester
- John Clark (14 Mar 1796-28 Jan 1851) m Priscilla Sparhawk Hodges
- Catharine Clark (5 Oct 1797-18 Oct 1798)
- Mary Clark (26 Aug 1799-6 Sept 1810)
- Calvin Clark (16 Apr 1801-) m1 Mary Hancock Perkins, m2 Harriet Nason Wetherbee
- Lydia Clark (29 Apr 1803-) m Nathaniel Hobart (-1840)
- Catharine Clark (25 May 1805-) m Sampson Reed
- Martha Clark (17 Jun 1808-) m Timothy Harrington Carter
- Luther Clark (30 Jul 1810-) m Selina Cranch Minot

Obituary published in the New Jersalem Magazine (May 1862)

Died in Waltham, April 2d, Mrs Lydia Clark. Mrs Clark was born in the same town, where she has always resided, January 8, 1769 and consequently lacked six days of being ninety-three years and three months old at the time of her death. She was the oldest member of hte Boston Society of the New Church, and we believe the oldest resident of her native town. She well remembered the battle of Lexington, the adjoining town to Waltham, which took place when she was six years old.

Mrs Clark became a member of the Boston Society July 5th 1835 at the same time with her husband, the late Mr John Clark, and her youngest son. Five of her children had joined the some society previously. The five surviving children and eleven of her grandchildren, including all who are old enough to join it, are now members of the New Church; and all of her descendants, fifty-one in number, are within its pale and under its influence.

Mrs Clark has been a diligent reader of Swedenborg, and of the periodicals of the church, and especially of the sacred scriptures, and was a constant attendant at the service of the church as long as her health permitted. She depended much on being present at the Communion, at the quarterly meetings of the society in Boston. The last of these occasions which she attended was that in October, 1861.

She retained her mental and bodily faculties to a remarkable degree till a few weeks before her death, when they gradually failed her, of which she was herself fully sensible. As she approached the close of her life, her state became more and more like that of a little child, till she passed quietly and peacefully away.

Source:
- Records of the descendants of Hugh Clark: of Watertown, Mass. 1640-1866 By John Clark (1866)
∼~ LYDIA (SANDERSON) CLARK ~
or (Born: 03 Mar 1769)
Age 93 yrs abt 3 Mths

Religion: Swedenborgian, New Jerusalem Church, Boston, Suffolk, MA: Membership: 05 Jul 1835, from Waltham, MA

Father: Deacon John Sanderson, Selectman of Waltham, Middlesex, MA (1779 -1796), (Born: 18 May 1743, Waltham, Middlesex, MA)
married (06 Nov 1764):

Mother: Lydia Hagar (Born: 06 Nov 1746, Waltham, Middlesex, MA - January 3, 1805, Waltham, Middlesex, MA)
D/o Joseph Hagar & Grace Bigelow

Married (14 May 1793): Captain John Clark (Born: 1767, MA -Died: 10 May 1850, Waltham, Middlesex, MA) S/o John Clarke & Alice Greenwood, of Newton and Waltham, MA

Children (09):
1. Alice Clark (B: 17 Mar 1794 – 21/24 May or 21 Dec 1848) Religion: Swedenborgian, New Jerusalem Church, Boston, Suffolk, MA: Membership: 21 Apr 1821, of Boston, Suffolk, MA. married (08 May 1821, age 26): Rev. Dr. Thomas Worcester (B: 15 Apr 1795, Thornton, NH - Died: 14 Aug 1878, Waltham, Middlesex, MA);
2. John Clark (B: 14 Mar 1796) married: Priscilla Sparhawk Hodges, Salem, MA, D/o Captain Jonathan & Elizabeth (Ropes) Hodges;
3. Catharine Clark (B: 05 Oct 1797 - 18 Oct 1798);
4. Mary Clark (B: 26 Aug 1799 - 06 Sep 1810);
5. Calvin Clark (B: 16 Apr 1801, Waltham, Middlesex, MA - 20 Mar 1890, Lancaster, Worcester, MA) Religion: Swedenborgian, New Jerusalem Church, Boston, Suffolk, MA: Membership: 19 Jun 1825, of Waltham, MA. married: Mary Hancock Perkins (Died: 16 Aug 1852, Waltham, MA) D/o William Perkins & Nabby Butler Crane, second married: Harriet Nason Wetherbee, of Harvard, Worcester, MA, D/o Ezra Wetherbee & Sally Puffer;
6. Lydia Clark (B: 1804, Waltham, MA - 11 Apr 1886, age 82, Waltham, Middlesex, MA; Burial: Mt. Auburn, Cambridge, Middlesex, MA) Religion: Swedenborgian, New Jerusalem Church, Boston, Suffolk, MA: Membership: 08 Apr 1827, of Waltham, MA. married (1827): Nathaniel Hobart;
7. Catharine Clark (B: 25 May 1805) Religion: Swedenborgian, New Jerusalem Church, Boston, Suffolk, MA: Membership: 08 Apr 1827, of Boston, Suffolk, MA. married (25 Dec 1832): Rev. Sampson Reed;
8. Martha Clark (Carter) (Born: 17 Jun 1808, Wrentham, Middlesex, MA - 01 Sep 1870, Lancaster, Worcester, MA) Religion: Swedenborgian, New Jerusalem Church, Boston, Suffolk, MA: Membership: 08 Apr 1827, from Newtonville, MA, married (30 Jul 1833): Timothy Harrington Carter, Publisher, Founder, Old Corner Book Store, Boston, Suffolk, MA (Born: 23 Dec 1798, Lancaster, Worcester, MA - Died: 1894) Religion: Swedenborgian, New Jerusalem Church, Boston, Suffolk, MA: Membership: 21 Jan 1821, from Newtonville, Suffolk, MA S/o Oliver Carter, MA & Emily Harrington, of Lancaster, MA;
9. Luther Clark married (17 Jun 1843, Dorchester, MA) Religion: Swedenborgian, New Jerusalem Church, Boston, Suffolk, MA: Membership: 05 Jul 1835, Cambridge, Middlesex, MA. married: Selina Cranch Minot (Born: Abt 1814, Dorchester, Suffolk, MA) Religion: Swedenborgian, New Jerusalem Church, Boston, Suffolk, MA: Membership: 07 Jan 1838, Waltham, Middlesex, MA. D/o John Minot & Thomazine Elizabeth (nee Bond) Minot Wilkins