Eastport Sentinel - Early Settlers of Quoddy and Vicinity - In answer to a recent request in three columns we append a brief sketch of the lives of two of the early settlers of Campobello, both having afterwards engaged in business at Pennamaquan Neck (now a part of Pembroke) where Clark eventually settled. Capt. Robert WILSON who is mentioned as being one of the pioneers in the early settlement of Pembroke was not really an actual settler, but was engaged in lumbering for a number of years at that place or until his death in 1782. He was in command of a company under Gen. Wolfe at the taking of Quebecn and for his service at that time was granted five hundred acres of land on the Island of Campobello which his descendants occupy to the present day. His home was what is now known as Wilson's Beach which form part of the boundary between Dennysville and Pembroke, also is named after him. Capt. Wilson and William CLARK, who was associated with him, married sisters and both were married by Esquire David OWEN. Clark was a member of the military commanded by the former and his inseparable companion until death. The William WILSON who settled on the point near Leighton's was a son of Mrs. Clark previous to the marriage, but he was reared in the family of Capt. Wilson and always bore the name. Soon after reaching the age of manhood he married Content JOY and his mother gave him the farm, occupied by Ezra W. LEIGHTON at the present time, on which he lived and raised a large family. He afterwards sold to leighton and moved to Lubec where he died. William CLARK was one of the earliest speaking settlers at Pembroke. During the first part of his life, he was of a roving disposition, served under Wolfe at Quebec, then for a time was ship building on the Penobscot, thence to Campobello where he married Susannah WOODARD. The probable date of his marriage was 1767 or '68. They were married by Esquire David Owen, resident proprietor of the Island of Campobello. Soon after the birth of his second child, he moved to a farm inImnarkuan where he with two others, Capt. Wilson and Hataville LEIGHTON commenced building a saw mill at what is now known as Wilson's Stream, between Pembroke and Dennysville. They had built their dam and laid the foundation for their mill building, when a sad casualty put an end to the undertaking. This was the drowning of two of the members of the company - Wilson and Clark - in Cobscook Falls. In the fall of 1782, on a beautiful moonlit night, Wilson and Clark, accompanied by a young son of the former and an old man - whose name tradition fails to record - started in a large scow for the purpose of bringing a load of hay from some one of the numerous low meadows on the Edmunds shore (no. 10 then) But while proceeding through the falls, borne by the rushing waters with resistless force, one of the unwieldy sweeps used in propelling the craft, caught upon a rock and in an instant Wilson and Clark were swept into the seething waters which they battled with in vain. The son, who had seen father and uncle so suddenly thrown overboard, sprang to the frail dugout which was towing at the stern of the large craft, but was prevented by his companion from going to their rescue. The drowning men were borne up the tide past the cabin of Edmund MAHER and so near were they to the point on which it stood, that their cries were heard and answered by Mrs. Maher and her children. Her husband was away from home at the time, but they were powerless to aid them and in a few brief moments all was over. Children of Williams Clark and Susanna Woodard Clark. (cross reference: Susanna WOODARD): William Owen Denny CLARK, Mar. 1st, 1769 (claimed to be the first male child born on Campobello) m. Anna HERSEY.; Elizabeth CLARK, April 29, 1772 m. John McCULLAR of Trscott, who died in the army in the war of 1812; John CLARK, Jan. 24, 1776 m. Tamar WILDER; Hannah CLARK, Oct. 4th, 1780 m. Zena WILDER, jr.