It is well to start with the family history at the founda

tion , and then follow it up through its various changes to

t 1 2 h the present ime . We will start about 9 , w en Rollo made peace with the King of France , and the Dukedom of

Normandy was confirmed . In that settlement after a thirty ’ years war , the King of France agreed to confirm Rollo s

title as Duke of Normandy , and give him his daughter in

marriage ; the Duke agreeing to do homage to the King , to ’ become a Christian and marry the King s daughter . But w hen the time came for the Duke to do homage , he refused ’ to kiss the King s foot , and no persuasion or entreaty could

induce him to perform that part of the ceremony . It was finally compromised by permitting Rollo to kiss the King ’s ’ foot by proxy , but when the courtier lifted up the King s

foot , he raised it so high that it tumbled the King out of

his chair , which created great laughter among those present . ’ Yet the King bore this indignity , well knowing that Rollo s army was too strong to meet in battle . fl From that time Normandy began to ourish , and during

the time of its first six dukes , it was one of the richest pro

vinces in the world , notwithstanding its many wars . When

& ” William the Conqueror , who was the seventh Duke , came upon the stage of action , Normandy was divided into two ’ w ho classes , the nobility , were the descendants of Rollo s

followers , and the peasants who were the descendants of the

French ; so that we find a class of cultured people , who had TH E CL H Y TON M 4 FA IL Y .

r much of the polish of Pa is , and who were far in advance of the Saxons in England . During the time of the quarrel between William the Con

or quer and King Harold , William called together his chief tains in council . Some were willing to go to war while ” others refused ; but one of his brainy men Fitzosborne

se ara tel ‘ which advised the Duke to call upon the nobility p y , ffi was done , and in a short time su cient men and means A were ready for his enterprise . man by the name of

Robert , born in Caudebec Normandy , France , accompanied

William the Conqueror to England . He was a soldier well

Skilled in arms , and after the battle of Hastings , had the Manor of Clayton given him by William the Conqueror for his laudable services in battle . He was afterwards known as Robert de Clayton and was Lord of the Manor of

Clayton , and the first Clayton spoken of in the history of

England .

& s: — He had three son John , William and Robert . John accompanied William Rufus in his war against & Malcolm ”

King of Scotland , and fell nobly in battle near Penrith , in

Cumberland . William de Clayton , the second son , succeed ed his father . He faithfully served King Stephen i n all his

I I I troubles , and on Candlemas Day , 4 , he lost his life in

battle , and was succeeded by his son Robert .

Robert had one son William de Clayton . He married

r Elizabeth Farrington , of Far ington . He had three sons

1 1 2 and died in 5 and was buried at Leyland , Lancashire .

The eldest son , Richard , was a priest of a very benevolent

character and died in Normandy . Thomas , the second son ,

t de t t died wi hout issue and Robert Clay on , the hird son , succeeded his father . He married in I I 5 1 and had four J M . Y OH N CLA TO N .

N M 5 TH E CL A Y TO FA IL Y.

— nd sons a . z William , Robert , John Thomas Three of the sons accompanied King John into Normandy in and

died without issue . John the third son succeeded his father .

He had two sons William and Thomas and died in 1 209 and

n was succeeded by his second so Thomas de Clayton .

Thomas de Clayton had three sons , John , Robert and

the . William . John , eldest son , succeeded his father He

m 1 2 6 1 2 8 0 arried in 3 and died in , having had issue two sons ,

Thomas and Ralph . He was succeeded by his second son

Ralph de Clayton who left three sons , John , Giles and

Nicholas , and he was succeeded by his eldest son , John de

a 1 6 to Clayton . This John ccompanied John of Gaunt in 35

assist the King of Navarre against the French . He also

in accompanied King Edward most of his expeditions . He

: left four sons John , William , Ralph and Robert and died

in 1 399 and was succeeded by his eldest son John de Clay

ton , who had three sons , Thomas , Robert and William , he

1 0 died in 4 4 , and was buried at Leyland , and was succeeded T by his eldest son . homas de Clayton married Dorothy

Thellwell of Thellwe ll in Cheshire with whom he received that township and village as a marriage portion and by

/ 1 1 whom he had two sons , John born in 4 9 , and William born

1 20 in 4 . (William died without issue in Thomas

Clayton died in 1 4 2 6 and was succeeded by his eldest & de 1 0 son , John de Clayton , who married , in 44 , Mary Main

waring . A ’ 6 TH E CL VTON FAMIL Y.

AN CESTRY O F MARY MAI NWAR I NG.

M ainwarin s R anul hus The g are the descendants of p , one of the companions of William the Conqueror in the

- Norman Invasion and also one of those thirty two persons , to whom that fortunate monarch gave all or most of Che

P e ure shire , of which he obtained fifteen lordships in (now

Ove rpever) which remained in the family until

His grandson , Roger , had a son named William , who was

Knt the father of Sir Ralph Mainwaring , . , who was a Judge of Chester in the reign of Richard He is the

w n A mici a first Main ari g spoken of in history . He married ,

K v liok ances daughter of Hugh y i , Earl of Chester , whose tors were as follows

After the conquest , William the Conqueror , gave to his

nephew , Hugh Lupus , the Earldom of Chester about the

1 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 year 7 . He died July 7 , , leaving a son , his heir .

II . Richard , second Earl of Chester who married but died

’ the E arldom to without issue , and . descended the nephew of

Hugh Lupus by his sister Maude .

. 1 III Randal ( ) Earl of Chester . He was Randall

M eschi nes - V C . , . , of Bayeaux , Normandy , France , and

married Lucy , a daughter of Algar , the Saxon Earl of

1 1 2 8 Marcia and died , leaving issue his son and heir .

2 IV . Randal ( ) Earl of Chester , who became a great

warrior and took King Stephen prisoner . He married u Maude , da ghter of Robert , Earl of Gloucester , a natural son of King Henry ( I ) of England and died 1 1 53 leaving two sons , Hugh and Richard and was succeeded by his eldest son . H E A Y TON F A M I L T GL Y.

B e rtred 2 . V . Hugh ( ) Earl of Chester He married , a

ve reaux daughter of Simon , Earl of E , Normandy , France ,

1 2 by whom he had ( ) Randal , ( ) Maude , who married

was David , Earl of Huntingdon , and a brother of William ,

King of Scotland , ( 3) Mabil , who married William

A lbin m y , Earl of Arundel , ( 4 ) Agnes , who married Willia

Fe rrars H awaise , Earl of Derby , ( 5 ) who married Robert

&uincy , son and heir of Sabil de &uincy , Earl of Win chester . He had another daughter not of this marriage named Amacia (Amice ) over whom a great controversy was carried on between Sir Peter Leycester and Sir Thomas Mainwaring , Sir Peter claiming that she was an illegitimate daughter and

’ Sir Thomas claiming that she was a legitimate daughter .

Finally the question was referred to the Judges of Chester , who decided that Amacia was the legitimate daughter of Hugh 5 ) Earl of Chester and the heralds quartered the

rin arms of the Earls of Chester with the M ainwa gs . Amacia married Rause ( Ralph) Mainwaring and it appears

B ertred from the manuscripts that , the wife of Hugh

C viliok E y , second , ( 5 ) arl of Chester , witnessed a deed in frank marriage with said Amacia . By this marriage there

as were two children , one of whom , the daughter , w named

B ertred after , the Countess of Chester , and a son named Ran

dal , who became the head of the Mainwaring Family of Over

1 1 pever in Cheshire about 7 5 , and from whom the Main

waring Family descended . 8 TH E CLA YTON FAMIL Y.

Garva of Marcia , also a descendant of the Earls of Normandy , and the early Saxon Kings .

B aloil Her half sister Maude was the ancestor of , King of

Scotland , also of Robert Bruce , King of Scotland and his

n - descendants , making her related to the ancient A glo Saxon

Kings , to the English Norman Kings , to the Scotch Kings , and the nobility of Normandy .

- Robert Fitzroy , her grand father , was a scholar and a

soldier , and commanded the forces of Empress Maude against

King Stephen . From the above recital it clearly shows that Mary Mainwaring who married John de Clayton was a

C viliok lineal descendant of Hugh y , Earl of Chester

through his daughter Amacia , who married Ralph Main i waring . The Mainwar ng family is very old , and the founder Ranulf received fifteen manors or lordships in

Cheshire for his services to William the Conqueror .

John de Clayton , who married Mary Mainwaring of

: Cheshire , had by her two sons , first Thomas , who was after

2 wards disinherited for disobeying his parents , ) William

1 and also three daughters . His first wife died in 44 5 and he married secondly Jane Clifton , by whom he had two sons

Robert and Richard . Robert the eldest son , by the second

1 1 wife , died in Paris in 4 7 without issue , and Richard

Clayton , the youngest son by the second wife succeeded to

the estate , but dying without issue , he was succeeded

by William de Clayton , a son of Thomas de Clayton and he dying without issue was succeeded by Robert

Clayton , third son of Thomas who was disinherited . R obert Clayton as above , married Jane Farrington , by whom he sons z— 1 8 had four Thomas , born in 4 9 ; in

1 1 0 1 06 499 ; Edward born in 5 5 ; and Richard born in 5 , and SA R AH ( M I D D L E T O N C L AYTO N ) ,

T H E M O TH ER O F J O H N M . C L AYT O N .

TH E GL A Y TON 9 FAMIL Y.

1 1 0 three daughters . He died 5 and was buried at Leyland and was succeeded by his eldest son Thomas Clayton who

I 6 1 married , in 5 3, Anne Jackson , of Bocking in Essex , and m 1 80 . had two sons , Robert and Willia , and died in 5 ’ and Robert , the eldest son , was of St . John s College Vice

Chancellor of Cambridge . He married and had one son ,

John Clayton . This John Clayton had a son , Richard , and two daughters , Dorothy and Elizabeth .

2 0 1 6 2 - He died December , 3, aged twenty seven years and was succeeded by Richard Clayton , his eldest and only son ,

who died by a fall from his horse , without issue . The family estates of Clayton and Crook went by virtue

of the settlement to Dorothy , his eldest sister , who was the T wife of George Leycester , of oft in Cheshire , Esquire .

Whereupon the Lordship of Clayton , granted by William the Conqueror , went with this Dorothy Clayton , to her hus

r . band , and was afterwa d sold This must have occurred

1 6 0 1 60 about 5 or 6 .

The line was continued by William Clayton , second son of Thomas Clayton and Anne Jackson . He had five sons

1 1 8 2 1 8 ( ) Thomas , born in 5 5 , ( ) William , born in 5 7 , ( 3)

1 88 1 8 John , born in 5 , ( 4 ) Ralph , born in 5 9 , ( 5 ) Richard ,

1 2 born in 5 9 and was succeeded by his eldest son , Thomas

Clayton , who had the estates in Fulwood in Lancashire settled upon him and his issue .

: He married and had issue Robert ; Thomas , born in

' 1 6 0 : 3 and one daughter , Annie . Robert had four sons

Thomas , William , John and Richard . Thomas , the eldest

1 6 son , had one son , Robert , born 95 , who became the

2 6 1 6 . Bishop of Clogher , and died Feb . , 7 5 He bequeathed his Lancashire estate to his nearest male heir & The Right T E 10 H CLA YTON FAMIL Y.

e The Honorable Richard Clayton , Lord Chi f Justice of ” Common Pleas in Ireland . Thomas Clayton , the second

son of Thomas , on the death of the Bishop , became the

representative of the family . He married a daughter of

1 John Atherton by whom he had five sons ( ) Thomas ,

2 ( ) John , ( 3) Richard , ( 4 ) Thomas , of whom hereafter ,

5 ) Robert and seven daughters This Thomas purchased the Lordships and estates of Worthington and Adlington

- a e and died in the ninety second year of his g . Thomas , ' the eldest son of Thomas Clayton and Ann Atherton ,

1 6 married in 97 , Martha , daughter of Joshua Horton , of

: a Chaderton , Esq . , by whom he had five sons Thom s ,

William , Richard , Edward and John and four daughters .

He died in 1 7 2 8 at Adlington in the sixty - first year

1 m of his age . Thomas , his eldest son , died in 7 35 u mar

ried .

Richard , the third son , was brought up to the bar and ’ became King s counsel , and afterwards Lord Chief Justice ffi of the Common Pleas in Ireland , which o ce he resigned in

- 1 . 7 74 , and died the same year aged sixty eight By his will

1 2 dated the sixteenth day of March , 7 7 , he devised his

Manors of Adlington and Worthington to his nephew ,

Richard Clayton .

The successor in line was John Clayton , the fifth son .

: He had four sons Richard , Robert , William and John ,

and was succeeded by his eldest son , Richard Clayton , Esq .

1 6 2 who was admitted to the Inner Temple in 7 , called

1 1 1 and made a reader in 8 . He was created a baronet May

1 1 8 2 8 . 3, 7 74 , and died in This ancient family produced

soldiers of valor and skill . preachers and monks of great

learning , and lawyers and j urists of great ability . TH E GL A Y TON FA M IL Y 11

We will now take up the family in Yorkshire , a branch of ” the family of The Manor of Clayton .

As it is well known that from 1 500 to 1 660 the History

im os of England met with so many disasters , it is next to p sible to get the family registry of the various branches dur ing that period .

We find in 1 499 that Robert Clayton Of the Manor of

Clayton had a son born named John . It is contended that this John settled in Yorkshire and was the founder of Clay

ton Hall . His eldest brother , Thomas , succeeded to the

Manor of Clayton , but did not marry until he was over sixty years old . John married and had two sons , Thomas , his heir , and Richard of Wakefield , Yorkshire . The names that follow are similar to the names of the family of the

Manor of Clayton , the dates harmonize , but the strongest

' f mil evidence of the relationship is the arms borne by the a y . The arms of the descendants of the Manor of Clayton of Lancashire and the arms of the descendants of John Clayton I t of Clayton Hall are the same . is claimed that John

Clayton ,. second son of Robert Clayton , and great grandson

of John de Clayton and Mary Mainwaring , was the founder

of Clayton Hall , in the parish of High Hoyland , in the 1 2 TH E CLA YTON FAMIL Y.

able that Thomas Clayton was born in Lancashire , namely

H is uncle . , Thomas Clayton , who was the oldest son and heir and successor to the estates in Lancashire did not

1 6 marry until 5 3, and it is more than probable that the

younger brother , having married early , lived at the family mansion until after his children were born .

John Clayton , of Clayton Hall in High Hoyland Parish ,

l had County of Yorkshire , was iving about He two

e sons , Thomas and Richard . Richard of Wak field married b Joan , daughter of Henry Bentley , y whom he had one

1 son , Daniel of Wakefield . Daniel married ( ) Dorothy , daughter of Thomas Methwold , Esq . , and had issue Richard ,

‘ 2 D . D Master of University College ; ( ) Jane , daughter of

: Thomas Leghe , by whom he had four sons Thomas ,

Robert , Ferdinando and John .

Thomas Clayton , the eldest son of John Clayton of Clay

ton Hall , Lancashire married Anguis , daughter of John Fixb Thornhill of y , County York , and died about the year

1 8 5 5 , having had issue two sons

in 1 I 1 6 8 . ( ) John Clayton of Clayton Hall , who died

1 da 1 6 1 8 r His will is dated the 3th y of April , . He ma ried a daughter of Barnby , of Barnby Hall , and had

one son , Thomas , of Clayton Hall , who married Alice ,

D unl daughter of Burdette of y , and sold Clayton Hall

& ” to Sir George Cook of Wheatly . This John is called

Richard in some of the works , but it must be a mistake .

William Clayton , of Oakenshaw , County York , and of r the Inne Temple , Barrister at Law , married Margaret ,

Cholmle 1 6 2 daughter of Jasper y of East Riding , and died 7 , having had issue eight sons and three daughters .

’ & - S ee e N eve s K . 1 86 . L nig hts, pp 7

TH E 13 CLA YTON FAMIL Y.

I ( ) John Clayton , Esq . , of the Inner Temple , Bar

1 6 2 6 1 1 2 r rister at Law in , born April 5 , 5 9 , died Ap il ,

1 6 1 . I o f 7 He married and had issue ( ) John Clayton , the Inner Temple and a Barrister at Law,born 16 2 0 ; ( 2 )

1 6 2 James Clayton , born 4 . John , the eldest son d . s . p . , D and James , the second son , became a D . . , and the issue

of that branch of the family produced many ministers and

lawyers .

2 . William , the second son of William Clayton of Oaken

s . haw , has no record

3. Thomas , the third son , settled in the City of London , and had issue fivejsons and two daughters

‘

4 . Sir Jasper Clayton married Mary Thompson . He was

ald rmmf k n e e an London and ight d at Guild Hall , July ’ 6 6 tu Faith s 1 1 6 2 1 0 . S 5 , He married at , London , May , 4 ,

Timo uth Mary , daughter of William Thompson of Castle ,

& h mber and Nort u l . The issue of this family was as follows ’ 1 ( ) Sir John , of London and Parson s Green , Fulham ,

2 2 1 6 0 Middlesex , admitted to Inner Temple , July , 5 ,

1 66 knighted 4 ; married Alice , daughter of Sir William

2 North Crey , Esq . ( ) George , of London , haberdasher ,

” d 1 6 n . c 2 bor in St Edmunds , Lombar street De ember 4 , 39 ; ’ was at Merchant Taylor s School , married Hester ,

daughter of Sir Thomas , and sister of Sir Henry

Palmer , of Wingham , Kent , Baronets ; ( 3) Mary , mar

ried Peter Nourse , of Woodeaton , Oxfordshire ; (4 ) e E Prudence ; 5 ) Reb cca married Robert Paston , arl of

Yarmouth . George and Hester ( Palmer) Clayton had issue ( I )

1 2 Jasper Clayton , admitted to the Inner Temple , July ,

1 2 68 . He was probably the Jasper Clayton , born July , 14 TH E M CLA YTON FA IL Y.

’ 1 66 5 , who was a scholar of Merchant Taylor s School ;

2 ( ) George . & Sir John and Alice ( Bowyer) Clayton had issue

I 1 66 1 8 1 ( ) John , born 5 , died November , 7 37 , studied at one of the universities (probably Cambridge) and was

6 1 6 8 2 admitted to the Inner Temple , June , was called

1 0 to the bar , and coming to Virginia in 7 5 , was appointed

Attorney - General of the Colony in 1 7 1 4 and held the ffi o ce until his death . He was also j udge of the Court

of Admiralty , frequently a member of the House of

Burgesses , presiding j ustice of James City County and

‘ Recorder of Williamsburg . One of his descendants has a large volume containing copies of many of his letters to e fl his English correspond nts . These relate chie y to the

busmess f af airs of himself and his clients , but some notices

of the family can be gathered from it . It appears that

he owned an estate called Hawkhurst , four miles from

Cranbrook e , Kent , England , which he inherited at his ’ mother s death (and which descended to his son , John ) . ’ s There are letters to my cousin , Cecil Bowyer , E q , of e ’ Denham , which contain m ssages to Mr . Bowyer s wife ,

‘ ’ ‘ ’ and to my uncle to my Lady Bowyer . There is

frequent reference to his brother , General Jasper Clayton . He sends his customary annual present of a box of tobacco

to his steward at Hawkhurst , orders plate with his arms

frames ' for on it , and two portraits , gives directions in

regard to his son , Thomas , while at Cambridge , and a

medical student in London , acknowledges a present of ‘ arrack ’ from London ‘ which was last night drunk by ’ some of the best company in Virginia , refuses and returns a present of a very costly wig from an English client TH E M CLA YTON FA IL Y. 15 because he makes a rule only to receive his fees as a law m ” yer , and see s to have a very large practice .

& is 2 The name of his wife not known ( ) Jasper , of h Fernhill , in County Bucks , was colonel of the 4 t Regi

- ment of Foot , Lieutenant Governor of Gibraltar , and a

- Lieutenant General in the British Army . He was killed

1 at the battle of Dettingen in 74 3, and buried at Wing fi ld e . , County Bucks

& 2 The following is an abstract of his will dated March 3,

1 2 1 74 , and proved in London , July 74 3, by his son ,

Jasper In the name of God , Amen . I , Jasper Clayton ,

s of Fernhill , in county Bucks , E q , Lieutenant General of his Maj esties Forces , declare this my last will and testa

ment . I give to my dearly beloved daughter , Charlotte

’ 00 and Clayton , 3, 5 over above any other sum or sums of money which her late mother Juliana or myself at any

time have given her . To her , my said daughter , Charlotte

Clayton , the whole and entire furniture of her room at

my house at Fernhill , To my dearly beloved second son ,

2 00 so - in - John Clayton , f , , 5 . To my n law , Colonel John

1 00 for Laforey , A family mourning . I give and bequeath

to my very undutiful and lost daughter , Juliana , the

reputed wife of Peter Hooper , who was my servant ,

1 nd . shilling a no more . I give to Mrs Hill , sister to. the

1 00 . late Lady, Marsham , £ to buy her a ring To my

eldest son , Jasper Clayton , his heirs and assigns forever ,

all my capital , messuage and lands at Fernhill , in the

i i n field Par sh of W g , Bucks , and I recommend him to sell

the same . As to my burial , I desire it may be in the most frugal manner and most private , thinking everything e otherwise vanity and ost ntation . To the Right Hon . 16 TH E M CLA YTON FA IL Y.

1 00 Samuel , Lord Marsham , one of my executors , £

to buy a ring . My eldest son , Jasper Clayton , Lord

Marsham , and said daughter , Charlotte Clayton , executors

2 rd 1 2 and executrix . Dated 3 March , 7 4 .

5 Not long after the death of General Clayton , his nephew ,

John Clayton , of Virginia , writes to his London merchant ” (letter book referred to above) that he has shipped to him

- a portrait of the late Attorney General , John Clayton ,

‘ which he desired to be sent to Mrs . Charlotte Clayton , ’ Fernhill , 3, Alice ; 4 , Mary ; 5 , Elizabeth . One of these

daughters married John , Lord Lovelace , and another ,

Thomas Strickland . i Will am Clayton , of Oakenshaw , in addition to the above

: 6 named , left four other sons 5 , Edward ; , Daniel , of Nor

- 8 wich , clerk ; 7 , George , slain at Bois leduc , and , Nathaniel , of London .

V G THE I R I N IA BRAN CH O F TH E CLAYTO N FAM I LY .

t - John Clayton , At orney General of Virginia , married

1 a and had issue ( ) John Cl yton , born at

1 68 t Fulham , England , 5 , and died in Glouces er County ,

1 Virginia , 7 7 3. He came to Virginia in was an emi

nent botanist , a physician , a member of some of the most learned societies of Europe , President of the Virginia

fOr l 1 Society Promoting Usefu Knowledge , 77 3 ; and author of ‘ Flora It appears that John

2 1 1 2 Clayton married Jan . , 7 3, Elizabeth Whiting of

: Gloucester County . Issue Several sons and daughters .

The eldest son was named John , another named Jasper .

H e e was clerk of the Gloucester , Committe of Safety , M . J O SH U A C L AYTO N D . ,

GO V ER N O R O F D E LA WA RE .

U . S . SE N A TO R .

18 TH E CLA YTON FAMIL Y

o Coleman , and amongtheir children was Maj r Philip Clayton

Offi I I , an cer in the Revolutionary Army . Philip Clayton I

was the grandfather of Captain Philip Slaughter , another ffi A & ” o cer in the Revolutionary rmy . He lived at Catalpa ,

Virginia . Philip Clayton II married Mildred Dixon and moved

n from Virginia to Georgia . One of their sons was amed

. V a . Augustin Smith Clayton He was born in Petersburg , ,

2 1 8 : 1 8 November 7 , 7 3 In 7 4 his family moved to Rich

r 1 0 mond County , Ga . In Februa y , 7 9 , on the occasion of

u the visit of President Washington to Augusta , Ga . A gustin

- bo w as Smith Clayton , the 7 year old y selected to make a e sp ech of welcome to the President , which so pleased Wash

i ngton that he presented the boy with a copy of Salust

&

I . duly nscribed He graduated at Franklin College , was

s n distingui hed at the bar , was a j udge of the Wester Cir

cuit and a member of Congress , where he won a national ” reputation . He was an able statesman , j urist , and man of

letters , and left his impress upon the policy and literature

of the State . He married Julia Carnes , by whom he had

Ga . nine children , among them Philip , born at Athens , ,

1 1 1 8 6th 1 1 8 . March 9 , 5 He died June , 39 , in the 5 year of

his age .

TH E GL A Y TON M FA IL Y.

TH E PEN NSYLVAN IA BRAN CH OF THE C LAYTO N I FAM LY .

William Clayton , one of the sons of Thomas Clayton of

London , and a grandson of William Clayton of Oakenshaw o i of County Y rkshire , England , ha l a patent granted to

the h overnment for him by Britis g . five hundred acres of

P a . 1 6 1 land at Chichester , , where he settled in 7 , and on

1 1 68 1 the 3th day of September , , he presided over the first court held under the proprietory government at Upland in

‘

Chester county , Pennsylvania . His son , William Clayton ,

r J . , was one of the j urors of that court . William Clayton , ’ 1 1 6 8 - 1 68 ( ) was a member of Penn s Council during 3 4 , and assisted in drafting m OSt of the lawsfor Pennsylvania Of l at that time . He was a personal friend Wi liam Penn .

w as s He a cousin of Joshua Clayton , who ettled in Del

aware , and was the ancestor of the numerous Claytons who

have been prominent in Pennsylvania , and , after a busy

1 6 1 life , died about 9 . He was a man of prominence among the &uakers and in the active part which he took in the government at that

N ew time . It appears that a company of land owners in Jersey had sent him over to this country to look after their interests and after attending to those duties , he settled in

i . Chichester , Pennsylvan a

& 1 ; P a William Clayton ( ) of Chichester , . , was the son of

Thomas Clayton , a third son of William Clayton , of Oken

Si r and shaw , and a brother of Jasper Clayton of London , é Thomas a grandson of Clayton of Clayton Hall , in York ” — d e an fl . shire . Not See Rambles Re ections of Hon 0 TH E 2 CLA YTON FAMIL Y.

2 T J . Clayton , p . 97 . The first son of Thomas Clayton ,

of Clayton Hall , died a minor . His second son was

ke n ha of William of O s w . He was known as a barrister

1 6 2 the Inner Temple . He died in 7 . The estate known as Clayton Hall ’ descended to Thomas Clayton who

1 6 6 6 . was in possession as heir in He had a son , William ,

1 6 1 who came to this country in 7 , and is the ancestor of

our family , and will be hereafter called William of ’ 2 Chichester . Thomas ( ) also had

a son John , who was a barrister of the Inner Temple . He 6 l died April , After William Clayton sett ed in

v Chichester , Pennsyl ania , his cousin , Joshua Clayton ,

- Okenshaw accom another grand son of William Clayton of ,

ani ed p William Penn to this country on his first visit . He had two sons John and Joshua who settled in Little Creek

Count i n Hundred , Kent y the State of Delaware , who m n became the ancestors of that branch of the Clayto family .

S William Clayton , with his family , arrived in the hip Kent from London in company with certain commis s10ners sent out by the proprietors of New Jersey topurchase

lands from the Indians . He left many prominent descend ants and his branch of the family occupies prominent posi

tions in Pennsylvania , Arkansas , Texas , Colorado , Illinois

. o and many other states The late Hon . Thomas J . Clayt n , President Judge of Delaware County who was admitted to

1 8 0 1 00 the bar in 5 , and died in 9 , Hon . Powell Clayton of

late Arkansas , now Ambassador to Mexico , the Henry

A rmitt Brown a distinguished lawyer and orator of Phila delphia are lineal descendants of William Clayton of

Chichester . William Clayton of Chichester was nearly

t related to Hon . John Clay on , Attorney General of Virginia . TH E 21 CLA YTON FAMIL Y.

He was a personal friend of William Penn , and it is known that Penn selected a majority of his councilors from among his relatives or personal friends , in order that he might have a majority of the council . To illustrate the language used ’ 1 68 1 in , the following quotations from Cope s History of

- a . 1 8 1 Chester County Pennsylvani pp 9 is given .

V land Province of Pennsylvania at the Cort at p ,

1 1 8 1 September 3, 6

M r . . William Clayton , Mr Rober Lucas ,

. . asse Mr Warner , Mr L y Cock , &William

. . n Mr Robert Wade , Mr Swa Swanson ,

Mr . Otto Ernst Cock , Mr . Andreas Bankson ,

ustices resent Mr . William Byles , j p .

’ ’ berz e S . Mr . John Test , jj

Cler/ke Mr . Tho . Revell , .

sh Of the j ustices , five are Engli men , four Swedes , two

of whom had been members of the former court .

The j urors in attendance appeared to have been twenty

TH E DELAWARE BRAN CH O F TH E CLAYTO N FAM I LY .

I n order that this sketch of the Clayton Family may

i i i for six be understood , it s g ven n genealogical order , gen e ratiOns by numbers after each individual name , but as certain prominent membe rs of the family have an historical

h usm interest , t eir history is intended to precede the table g the numbers there given .

Joshua Clayton ( 1 ) is spoken of by some of the authori ties as a minister of the Gospel and that he visited or settled

finally in Virginia . It will be found that there was a TH E 22 CLA YTON FAMIL Y.

Thomas Clayton in Virginia on York River who was a

1 68 0 prominent lawyer as early as , who had a large practice

m P e nns l fro London merchants . Among the archives of y

2 th 1 68 2 vania it appears that on the 5 of October , Thomas

Clayton took up land in Chester County , Pennsylvania . It must be remembered that Sir John Clayton of London was a first cousin of Joshua Clayton ( 1 ) and that his son John settled in Virginia ; and as Virginia and the three Delaware

Counties , which were parts of Pennsylvania , were in close

proximity , it required but little time to complete a trip to and from each state . There appear to be no records in the

State of Delaware showing any will or letters of admi nis tration on the estate of Joshua Clayton It is claimed that he came to this country with William Penn on his first

vi sit . It has been handed down from generation to genera tion both in Delaware and Pennsylvania that William

1 1 Clayton ( ) of Pennsylvania , and Joshua Clayton ( ) of

Delaware were cousins . The late Hon . John M . Clayton while Secretary of State under President Taylor , conversed with the Virginia branch of the Clayton Family on the sub ect j of the relationship between the two families , and after going over all the facts they decided that the Virginia Claytons and the Delaware Claytons were from the same original stock . The late Judge Clayton of Pennsylvania states in his biography of the family that William Clayton ( 1 ) and Joshua

Clayton ( 1 ) were descendants of Thomas Clayton of

H i hho land n Clayton Hall in the parish of g y Cou ty York ,

England .

Joshua Clayton ( I ) married by

2 whom he had issue , two sons , John ( ) and Joshua

24 TH E CL A Y TON FAMIL Y.

e daughter Eunice Osbourne , (wife of Jonathon Osbourn )

my now dwelling plantation , being part of a tract of land ’ ’ called Higham s Ferry , and a part of a tract of land ’ called Wilton Creek . He also left other lands and a

number of slaves to his grand - children and the following

— d — grand children are name as devisees John Cowgill ,

Clayton Cowgill , Ezekiel Cowgill , Thomas Cowgill , Sarah

Register , who was the wife of John Register of Talbot

D urbor County , Md . , Elizabeth Neal , Jean Smith , Lydia

ough and the said Eunice Osbourne .

John Clayton ( 2 ) married Grace by whom

: he had issue two sons and one daughter , to wit John Clay ton (4 ) James Clayton 5 ) and Clayton who married Caldwell by whom she had a son l John Caldwell and a daughter Sarah Caldwe l . ” 2 as John Clayton ( 1) was a prominent man in the County , a large land owner and died in 1 7 5 8 having made his last

will and Testament dated the 4th day of December A . D .

1 1 754 , probated at Dover on the 9th day of May A.D . 759

2 0 and recorded in Will Book K . page 3, etc , wherein he

constituted and appointed his son James 5 ) his Executor

and dev ised his estate to his two grand - children John Cald

well and Sarah Caldwell , his two sons John Clayton (4 ) and

James Clayton 5 ) and his widow Grace Clayton .

o . John Clayt n , Jr ( 4 ) a son of John and Grace Clayton , ff D was returned High Sheri of Kent County elaware , in

- 1 2 1 . 7 5 75 3, and was styled John Clayton , Jr He was also a Lieutenant and (perhaps a Captain ) in the Continental

1 I n Army in 7 57 , and his name appears a Caveat in the land

f 1 60 a o fice in 7 , he also appears as the Administr tor of the

1 6 1 Estate of his brother James in 7 . He appears to have YT R A C H E L M OC L E A RY CLA ON ,

T H E WI FE O F GOV ER N O R J O S H U A C L AYT O N

A N D H ER Two SO N S .

R IC R D YT . J A M E S L AWSON CLAYTO N . H A CLA ON

TH E CLA YTON FAMIL Y 25 been the first Clayton to hold public ofli ce in the State of

(1 Delaware and left an only son who . s . p .

I 1 John Clayton ( ) a son of James 5 ) and Grace Clayton ,

1 d 1 2 . 8 . 0 b 74 9 , and , . m . Mary Mason Manlove by whom

‘ he had two sons .

A 1 1 His will is dated pril , 794 , probated at Dover in Will 6 0 . Book , page 7 , etc , wherein he provided that in the event of the death of his two sons James and Edward Clayton

in their minority , his estate should be divided between

James Lawson Clayton , Richard Clayton and Thomas

Clayton , sons of his brother Dr . Joshua Clayton , to John

Clayton and Charles Clayton , sons of his brother Thomas

— s Clayton and Jame Hanson , a son of his sister Lydia

Hanson , (nee Clayton ) . He was appointed a Judge in Admiralty under the Con stitu tion 1 6 of 7 7 , and also appointed fourth Justice of the

1 Court of C . P . for Kent County , Delaware on the 5th day

1 88 of February 7 , and again appointed third Justice of the

8 1 0 . 1 2 same Court on the th day of February 79 About 7 9 , ff he was High Sheri of Kent County , Delaware , and while c acting in that apacity , compelled the Legislature of the

. 1 2 State , then in session , ( May 7 9 ) to vacate the Court

House , and they adj ourned to Duck Creek , Cross Roads ,

(now Smyrna) .

This act showed the strong character of the man . He took a deep interest in Colonial politics , in the Revolution , and in the Government afterwards . He was appointed one of the Associate Judges of the Court of C . P . of the State

1 6 . . 1 of Delaware on the th day of September A D 793,

2 which position he occupied until the time of his death 1 80 . l He was a arge land owner in Kent County , Delaware and 26 TH E CL A Y TON FAMIL Y

M urderkill resided in Hundred . He left two sons , James and Edward Manlove , whose descendants largely live in the

Southern States , none in Delaware . The portrait of Judge John Clayton appearing in this sketch was made from a miniature painted in Philadelphia

1 8 in 7 4 , and now in the possession of the family .

1 0 & 1 IV . Joshua Clayton ( ) born in 744 , married Mrs .

M c Clear Rachel y an adopted daughter of Richard Bassett , h an early Governor of the State of Delaware . Jos ua Clay ton was a practicing physician and was a surgeon in the

Revolutionary Army . He was elected Maj or of the Bohemia

B atallion 6 th 1 6 on the day of January , 7 7 , and was com missioned Colonel by General Washington j ust before the

' battle of Brandywine ; it is said that General Washington placed him on his staff in order to make a good appear

ance when receiving the sword of General Howe , whom

&

he expected to take at that place .

Colonel Dr . Joshua Clayton held many prominent positions in the army , state and nation . He was the last President

the of State of Delaware , and the first governor under the

1 8 new Constitution , and in 79 was elected to the United

States Senate . He filled each and every position with

his honor to himself , state and the nation . He was largely

& interested in the ownership of Bohemia Manor , and he and Richard Bassett owned nearly all of that ancient manor of

acres of land lying in New Castle County , Delaware

and Cecil County , Maryland . He took the yellow fever in

1 8 . 7 9 , and against the entreaties of Dr Rush , returned to

his home in Bohemia Manor , where he died leaving to sur

sons z— I vive him three James Lawson Richard ( 7 , ) Thomas YT . P R O FI L E S I LHO U E TT E O F J OH N M . CLA ON

L A Y 28 TH E C TON FAMIL Y.

1 8 1 8 and was twice after elected in 45 and in 5 3. During &achary Taylor ’s brief term as President he served as Secre tary of State and negotiated the celebrated Clayton - Bulwer ffi treaty . For three years he occupied the o ce of Chief

Justice of the State .

He was a born leader of men . No man whom Delaware has produced has measured higher I n intellectual capacity or

' b in combination of rare gifts . As a man e was tender and

true , as a lawyer and j udge he occupied the highest rank ,

and as an advocate and statesman none surpas sed him . His life was full of accomplishments and at his death on Novem

th 1 8 6 ber 9 , 5 his remains were laid at rest in the grave yard of the Presbyterian Church at Dover

Joshua Clayton , son of Thomas and Emma ( Purner)

1 8 1 8 . Clayton was born February th , 7 He was the grand son of Colonel Joshua the great grandson of Chief Justice

- Thomas , and great great grandson of Governor Joshua . After being educated at the Middletown Academy he

studied law with Albert Constable , Esq . , at Elkton , Mary

1 8 land , and was admitted to the Cecil County bar in 99 , and

1 0 1 was a member of the Maryland H Ouse of Delegates in 9 .

Mr . Clayton is an active man with much of the ability , that

has made the Clayton family famous , and as a lawyer

promises to make a successful career . TH E M CLA YTON FA IL Y. 29

G N ALOGI CAL TABL FO SI & G N ATIO NS O F E E E , R E ER , D W I O O N TH E ELA ARE FAM LY F CLAYT S.

FIRST GE NE RA T I O N :

1 Children of Joshua Clayton ( 1 first settler in Delaware

” x 2 1 8 John ( ) d 7 5 m Grace .

reache1 1 60 Joshua 3) a &uaker p d 7 .

CO ND N A N SE GE E R TI O . Children of John Clayton 2 ) and Grace his wife John (4 ) j R 1 0 1 6 1 James ( 5 ) m Grace d about May , 7 . Children of Joshua Clayton 3) and his wife

6 1 2 - 1 6 - 1 2 0 Lydia ( ) m John Cowgill 7 ,

Sarah ( 7 ) m Thomas Cowgill ,

8 - - r . 8 1 1 0 . Elizabeth ( ) m Mark Manlove, J , 9 7 3

H R D N RA T N T I GE E I O . Children of John Clayton (4 )

John Edmund ( 9 ) d . s . p .

Children of James Clayton 5 ) and Grace his wife

1 0 1 1 8 R M l r cC ea . Joshua ( ) b 744 , d 7 9 , m achel y

1 1 1 1 802 John ( ) b 74 9 , d m Mary Mason Manlove . James ( 1 2 ) d in infancy Thomas ( 1 3) d 1 7 85 111 Elizabeth Wharton of Philadel

Lydia ( 1 4 ) 111 Joseph H anson by whom She had one fl

son John .

& - 2 - 1 6 1 1 1 1 - 2 - 1 8 2 0 111 George b 3 4 7 renamed James ( 5 ) d 4 ,

8 - 1 8 - 1 1 Sarah Middleton 7 9 , a daughter of Ignatius M Middleton of Annapolis , d . ’ 30 YYI ET (3L A1 Y7 7 2AL I E4 AI LL I

A FOU RTH GE NE R T I O N .

Children of Joshua Clayton ( 1 0 ) and Rachael M cCleary

his wife :

1 6 - 1 - 1 6 - 1 - 1 8 James Lawson ( ) b 7 4 7 9 , d 3 9 33 m Elizabeth

1 2 - 1 - 1 Polk 6 7 95 . 4

1 1 1 8 6 111 Richard ( 7 ) b 7 7 4 , d 3 , first , Mary Richardson ,

second Mary Lawrenson , third Araminta Lewis .

1 (1 8 - 2 1 - 1 8 Thomas b 7 77 7 , 54 , m Jennette

ni M aco b .

1 1 Children of John Clayton ( ) and Mary Manlove , his wife

‘

' a 1 1 0 1 8 2 I n 8 . J mes ( 9 ) b . 7 , d 5 , Sarah Medford

d 2 0 1 8 1 Edwar Manlove ( ) d 9 , m Rachel H . Manlove

1 1 — 20 1 8 1 1

Children of Thomas Clayton ( 1 3) and Elizabeth Wharton his wife

2 1 Charles ( ) d . s . p .

2 2 . . John ( ) d . s p

Children of Pearse Clayton ( 1 4 ) and Hanson her husband James

1 Children of James Clayton ( 5 ) and Sarah , Middleton his

wife :

2 - 1 8 - 1 Lydia ( 4 ) b . 9 7 94 , m John Kellam of Accomac

County , Virginia and d . s . p .

John Middleton ( 2 5 ) b 1 1 - 2 4 - 1 7 96 111 Sallie Ann Fisher

- 1 2 - 1 8 2 2 daughter of Dr . James Fisher , 9 at Middle

town , Del . by the Rev . (afterward Dr . ) Samuel

r n kl 1 1 - - 1 B i c e and d 9 8 56 .

2 6 — 8 - 1 8 1 0- 6 Harriet M . ( ) b 5 7 9 m Walter Douglass

1 8 1 (1 - 2 0 - 1 8 2 6 4 who 4 . She married secondly Henry

e . W . P terson of Canada J U J DGE OH N CLAYTON .

- 1 7 4 9 18 02 .

TH E M 31 CLA YTON FA IL Y.

2 - 2 - 1 800 d 6 - 1 - 1 800 Henry ( 7 ) b 3 7 .

i h 2 8 - 1 2 - 1 80 1 - - 1 2 2 . El zabet ( ) b 9 d . s . p . 3 5 8

2 1 2 — 8 - 1 8 0 111 h Mary Ann ( 9) b 3 George T . Fis er .

0 - 1 2 - 1 0 6 - - 1 6 8 . 8 James Henry ( 3 ) b 9 9 d s . p . 7 3 .

F H N A T N FI T GE E R I O .

Children of James Lawson Clayton ( 1 6 ) and Elizabeth

: Polk , his wife

1 1 8 0 Rachel born 7 97 , d 9 , m Nathaniel Smithers ,

2 1 88 John L . ( 3 ) b 7 d m Ellen M . Clark .

1 Margaret ( 33) b 7 99 died in infancy .

1 8 02 Hester ( 34 ) b died in infancy .

‘

‘ 1 8 0 1 8 1 m ThOfI I a s C . Amelia ( 35 ) b 3 d 9 Hambley .

1 80 1 8 1 I n Anna b 5 , d 9 , Joshua Clayton

1 808 Susanna ( 37 ) b died in infancy .

& 1 James ( 38 ) b 1 8 0 died in infancy .

' Children of Richard Clayton ( 1 7 ) and Mary Richardson

his first wife .

2 1 1 8 Joshua ( 4 ) b 7 94 , d 54 , m Anna White Clayton

1 80 1 8 I n James (4 3) b 3 d 57 Emeline Lewis .

1 8 00 1 8 8 Thomas E . (44 ) b d 5 m Sarah Lawrenson .

1 1 8 t Mary (4 5 ) b 7 97 d 4 5 m firs , Richard Lawrenson ,

e secondly , Georg Lewis .

1 Children of Richard Clayton ( 7 ) and Mary Lawrenson ,

his second wife . 8 c 1 80 . Ri hard T . P . b , m Ann Templeton Jennette died unmarried

Children of Richard Clayton ( 1 7 ) and Araminta Lewis hi s

third wife :

8 1 8 1 6 1 8 h Lydia A . (4 ) b d 49 m Jos ua Clayton 32 7 7 1 6 7 CDLA I Y7 7 1 A7 I E4 AI LL I C

Children of Thomas Clayton ( 1 8 ) and Jennette Macomb

his wife :

1 802 1 888 In Joshua ( 39) b d , first , Lydia A . Clayton

m secondly , Martha E . Lockwood .

0 1 80 1 8 Elizabeth ( 4 ) b 4 d 4 7 m Nathaniel Young .

1 1 80 1 8 8 I n Jennette (4 ) b 5 d 4 Robert Frame . Children of James Clayton ( 1 7) and Sarah Medford his

wife :

1 2 - 1 - 1 8 1 0 (1 1 1 — 1 - 1 88 Henry M . ( 49) b 3 3 8 m Mary

Woodland .

0 1 8 1 - 1 - 1 8 8 1 111 John ( 5 ) b 9 d 3 4 Anna B . Colton .

1 - 2 - 1 802 8 - 6 - 1 8 8 1 Susan M . ( 5 ) b 7 3 d d . s . p .

2 - 1 - 1 80 1 1 - 1 - 1 88 1 (1 Mary A . ( 5 ) b 7 7 4 d 7 . s . p .

2 Children of Edward Manlove Clayton ( 0) and Rachel H .

Manlove his wife :

8 - 2 1 - 1 8 1 2 (1 - 1 - 1 8 8 111 Ann Rebecca ( 5 3) b 3 3 3 James W .

Dunklin .

1 0— 2 - 1 8 1 (1 1 2 - 1 - 1 8 8 Elizabeth W . ( 54 ) b 4 5 9 m Charles

E . Lavender .

- 2 1 - 1 1 Mary Louisa ( 5 5 ) b 4 8 7 unmarried .

2 Children of John M . Clayton ( 5 ) and Sarah Middleton

his wife :

- - 1 1 1 8 2 . . . James Fisher unmarried , b 7 3, d s p

- 1 - 1 1 3 85 .

m n 2 - - 1 - 2 - 1 M c l o t 8 . . 0 8 . Charles C y ( 57 ) b 3 35 , d s . p 7 49

2 6 l Children of Harriet M . Clayton ( ) and Walter Doug as

her husband .

- 1 - 1 8 1 6 8 . Margaret A . ( 5 ) b 4 7 m Joseph P Comegys

36 0 - 1 837

James Clayton ( 59) b 1 1 - 2 4- 1 8 1 7 m Ellen Stewart Sin

- - 1 clair 1 1 7 84 8 .

34 TH E CL A Y TON FAMIL Y .

8 111 Macomb (7 ) Elizabeth Porter Laws .

Mary ( 7 9) m J . Fletcher Price . 80 Elizabeth ( ) m Dr . Williams .

8 1 Joshua ( ) m Estelle Pennington .

8 2 Frances ( ) m Nathaniel J . Williams . 8 Eugene ( 3) m Anna J . Wilson . Children of Elizabeth Clayton (40 ) and Nathaniel Young

her husband : 8 Jennette ( 4 ) unmarried .

Adelaide ( 85 ) unmarried .

d 1 Chil ren of Jennette Clayton ( 4 ) and Robert Frame , her husband :

1 M ll 1 2 Robert ( 86 ) b 837 m Hetty c Co ey d 90 .

8 111 8 1 0 . Thomas C . ( 7 ) b 4 Mary Layton

1 8 Julia ( 88 ) b 44 unmarried .

Children of Joshua Clayton (4 2 ) and Anna White Clay

ton 36 ) his wife 6 See ante . No . 3 .

Children of James Clayton (4 3) and Emeline Lewis his wife

Arianna ( 89 ) m Edward Townsend .

0 George ( 9 ) died unmarried .

1 Caroline ( 9 ) m Arthur Johns .

awren Children of Thomas E . Clayton (44 ) and Sarah L

son his wife :

2 I n Emma Elizabeth (9 ) James A . Lewis .

Children of Mary Clayton ( 4 5 ) and Richard Lawrenson

her first husband :

e Eliza ( 93) m G orge Templeman .

Children of Mary Clayton (45 ) and George Lewis her

second husband : T HO M AS C LAY TON .

C H E I F J U ST loE O F D E L AWA RE .

U . S . SE N ATO R .

TH E CL A Y TON FAMIL Y 35

. Cla ton see James A ( 94 ) m Emma Elizabeth y ( foot note) .

Matilda m Dr . Swartz . e 6 Childr n of Richard T . P . Clayton (4 ) and his wife

Richard (95) married ,

6 111 a Anna ( 9 ) J mes Jamison . 8 Children of Lydia A . Clayton (4 ) and Joshua Clayton her husband :

See ante . No . 39 .

Children of Henry M . Clayton ( 49 ) and Mary E . Wood

land his wife :

1 0- 0 - 1 8 rn James W . ( 97 ) b 3 37 ) Elizabeth Hunter .

8 6 - 1 (1 - - 1 1 m Henry M . (9 ) b 9 8 4 4 7 3 90 arried first d Adelia Tracy secon ly Mary Pemberton .

1 8 0 1 8 - m John A . (99 ) b 5 d 99 Mary

1 00 1 8 8 1 0 2 Mary E . ( ) b 3 d 9 m John Thompson .

1 0 1 - 1 6 - 1 8 8 111 Sarah E . ( ) b 7 4 Henry Snow Bartlett .

0 Children of John Clayton 5 ) and Anna B . Colton his

wife :

1 0 2 1 8 1 8 . . . M c lr Anna B . ( ) b 4 7 d 99 m J G R E oy . n 1 0 1 8 2 I . . . Louisa B . ( 3) b 5 W H Gilpin

1 0 1 8 8 1 0 1 . Ella M . ( 4 ) b 5 d 9 unmarried

Children of Ann Rebecca Clayton 5 3) and James W Dunklin her husband

1 0 6 - 2 - 1 2 (1 1 - 1 1 - 1 8 00 . Edward C . ( 5 ) b 3 3 9

- - — — 1 06 1 1 0 1 8 1 20 1 02 . Mary E . ( ) b 35 d 9

' - — - - 1 86 1 0 6 1 8 . William H . ( 7 ) b 3 37 d 5 7 4

1 08 - 2 6 — 1 8 1 (1 1 - 1 - 1 88 Virgie J . ( ) b 9 4 4 5 .

- 6 - 1 8 1 0 1 0 1 . Florence E . ( 9) b 4 5

- - 1 1 0 1 1 1 8 1 8 . Charles P . ( ) b 4 7

N O T E — T m A w of Cl o w m w a s l l his Ja es . L e is (the son a ayt n o an ) the on y re a f d ffic b h i m b tiv e o n M . Cl a t n ev er a inte t e e ein i riv ate Joh y o p p o o o y , h g h s p ec retar a n d t e m a n wh o re a red t e r u d raft o f th e Cla t n - B u l er s y , h p p h o gh y o w T reaty . TH E M 36 CLA YTON FA IL Y .

h Children of Elizabeth W . Clayton 54 ) and C arles E .

Lavender her husband :

Mary Louisa ( 1 1 1 ) b 5 - 2 - 1 837

- - - - 1 1 2 1 1 8 6 1 1 8 2 . Edward C . ( ) b 5 3 39 d 9

- - - - Della ( 1 1 3) b 6 1 5 1 8 4 2 (1 1 0 2 3 1 865 .

- - 1 1 1 1 1 6 1 8 . Charles H . ( 4 ) b 4 3

8 . Children of Margaret A . Douglass 5 ) and Joseph P

Comegys her husband :

Walter Douglass ( 1 1 5 ) b 9 - 1 2 - 1 8 38 m 1 2 - 2 9 - 1 8 63 Anna

L . Bell dau of Hon . John Bell of Tennessee , issue

one child which died in infancy .

- - 1 1 6 1 1 2 8 1 8 . Walter Douglas Comegys ( ) d . s . p . 7 7

- 6 - 1 1 1 2 8 0 . Harriet Clayton ( 7 ) b 9 4 , living

- — d 2 1 8 8 . 1 1 s . . Cornelia ( 8 ) b . p 9 5 7

Children of James Clayton Douglas 5 9) and Ella Stewart Sinclair his wife

Constance Margaret ( 1 1 9) b 3- 20- 1 8 5 2 In 1 - 1 6 - 1 8 84

Francis N . Buck .

- - - - 1 20 2 1 2 2 1 1 8 2 . Clayton Douglas ( ) b 3 7 8 5 4 d . s . p . 7

E&TRACT FRO M THE FAM I LY BI BLE OF THE LATE H M ON . JO H N . C LAYTO N . My father gave me the following pedigree of the Clayton

family . Joshua Clayton came to America from England m with William Penn . He left sons o and Joshua .

Joshua left one daughter , who married a Cowgill , and the

Cowgill family in Delaware is connected with mine , being

u mes the descendants of that daughter . John left sons f

and John . James left sons Joshua , John , Thomas , James

and George . John (Senior of John ) left a son John

Edmunds Clayton who died without issue . Joshua (of TH E F A A/I L 7 CLA YTON Y . 3

James) left Thomas , James , Richard and Thomas . John

(of James) left James and Edward now dead . & Thomas (of James) died leaving two sons John and

Charles who died without issue . & James died an infant a few days after his father and

then . George was renamed James after his father . He was

2 1 6 1 1 8 born March 4 , 7 , married my mother August ,

1 79 1 and left at his death on the 2 4 th day of November

1 8 20 Lydia , wife of John Kellam , John M . Clayton ,

Harriet , wife of Walter Douglass , Elizabeth Clayton ,

Mary Ann , wife of G . T . Fisher , and James H . M . Clayton . Attest

[Signed& JOHN M . CLAYTON .

GEN ERAL C O M M ENT .

It will be found by an examination of the admission of the great number of lawyers produced by the Clayton family ; that for over three hundred years either in this country or

England , some of them have graced the bar . We will begin

1 0 Oke nshaw with 59 when William Clayton of County , York , b England , of the Inner Temple Barrister at law had een

1 6 2 admitted , and dying in 7 left a son John Clayton of the

at 1 6 2 6 Inner Temple , Barrister Law , admitted in , who died

1 6 1 in 7 , leaving a son John Clayton of the Inner Temple ,

1 0 . Barrister at Law , who died subsequent to 7 5

o 1 0 1 . Fr m 7 5 to 74 3 John Clayton , a son of Rev James

- Clayton , and great grand son of William Clayton , of Oken

shaw , was a member of the Middle Temple .

1 6 0 1 68 2 From 5 to Sir John Clayton , a son of Sir Jasper

Clayton ; 38 TH E CLA YTON FAMIL Y

1 68 2 1 o V a . From to 7 37 J hn Clayton of , a son of Sir John

Clayton ;

1 2 1 2 From 7 7 to 7 7 Richard Clayton , Lord Chief Justice of Ireland ;

1 6 2 1 8 2 From 7 to 4 Sir Richard Clayton , Baronet .

1 1 8 From 799 to 54 Thomas Clayton , late Chief Justice of

Delaware ;

1 8 6 From 1 8 1 9 to 5 John M . Clayton also late Chief Justice of Delaware ;

From 1 8 2 5 to 1 888 Joshua Clayton of Delaware ;

1 8 0 1 00 . 5 to 9 Thomas J Clayton , late J udge of Delaware i County , Pennsylvan a ;

From 1 899 to 1 904 Joshua Clayton of Maryland who is now living . This family has not been any less conspicuous in i ts num

1 0 1 ber of physicians . From 7 5 to 7 7 3 John Clayton was a

physician in Gloucester County , Virginia . From about

1 1 7 70 to 798 Dr . Joshua Clayton was a physician in Dela

1 800 ware , and from the year to the present time there have been so many physicians from this family it would take a

n book to contain their ames . They are scattered all over the United States . We find the ministry beginning about

1 1 00 and continuing until the present day . The ministers of the Gospel in this family represented the

Roman Catholic , Protestant Episcopal , Presbyterian , Metho dist and other denominations . Many of them became

&uakers during the Seventeenth century . From this array of talented men one might expect to find a man filling the

highest station in life , one who would be singled out among

BB S A REVIATIO N .

5 b . born ; . succeeded ; d . died ; d . s . p . died without m un . . issue ; m . married ; unmarried ; dau daughter .

Books and papers referred to in manuscript . ’ 1 c Playfair s British Family Antiquities Vol . VII . p . 59 & . ’ 6 6 D u da . 2 g le s Visitations of Yorkshire p . ’ ’

Co . . . Slaughter s St . Mark s Parish , Culpepper , Va pp

1 2 - 1 2 - 1 2 5 6 7 . fl Rambles and Re ections of T . J . Clayton , late President

P a 6 - - 8 - c . & . Judge of Delaware County , , pp . 39 7 9 ’

60 . Burk s Landed Gentryof England , Vol . I . p . 3

P a History of Chester County , . , by Gilbert Cope .

’ ’ e ceste r s Lamb s Biographical Dictionary . Sir Peter L y

Antiquities .

Co . Letters of Rev . John Clayton of Crofton , Wakefield ,

York , England .

1 2 1 688 . May , , Account of Va published in Miscellanea

8 1 - 2 - 0 1 - 1 2 - 2 c . 2 & . Curiosa , Vol . III . pp 93 3 3 3 7 Historical

Society of Virginia .

’ Scharf s History of Delaware , Vol . I . and II .

&uaker Record of Births , marriages and deaths of Dela

ware families . ’ I & Chalmer s Historical Dictionary , Vol . . p . 4 35 .

: . 1 2 2 Testa de Nevil a Survey of England , A D 4 7 pp . 37

396 - 397 - 4 03

Baines Lancashire and Cheshire Past and Present Vol .

1 - 0 - 602 - 0 I . Division II . pp . 5 3 5 3 6 3. Delaware Court Rec ords . 4 1 TH E CL A Y TON FAMIL Y.

1 Pennsylvania Archives , Vol . .

R eminiscenses Personal of members of the Clayton family , and special mention is made of Hon . Thomas J . Clayton ,

Dr . Thomas Clayton Frame , Dr . Joshua Clayton of Phila

delphia Joshua Clayton , Esq . , of Elkton , Md . , H . C . Con

rad , Esq . , and Miss Harriet Clayton Comegys .