United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018Davis, Robert Scott, 1954-2002-09-12Encyclopedia article about Elijah Clarke. Among the few heroes of the Revolutionary War from Georgia, Elijah Clarke (sometimes spelled "Clark") was born in 1742, the son of John Clarke of Anson County, North Carolina. He married Hannah Harrington around 1763. As an impoverished, illiterate frontiersman, he appeared in the ceded lands, on what was then the northwestern frontier of Georgia, in 1773.GSE identifier: SS8H3text/htmlengNew Georgia EncyclopediaForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--VeteransLegislators--GeorgiaPoliticians--GeorgiaStatesmen--GeorgiaElijah Clarke (1742-1799)Text