THE CLAY FAMILY QUARTERLY Volume 2 Number 3 ' July 1967 CONTENTS Editor's Notes 38 Clay Family Bibliography "Genealogy of Joseph Peck and Some Related Families" 39 "A History of the Middle New River Settlements and Contiguous Territory" 42 "Adventures of Purse and Person" 42 "History of Kentucky and Kentuckians" 43 Public Records Census: Alabama 1830 46 Marriages: Alabama and Virginia 47 Probate Records and/or Will Books: Alabama 48 Death Records and/or Cemetery Inscriptions: Alabama and Mississippi 49 Bible and Other Family Records: Thomas Hart Clay Bible 50 Association Member Lineages Combined lineage of D.~S. Tomkies and Mrs John A. Brandau 52 Combined lineage of Mrs. E. C. Engelbrecht, Mrs Sam F. Lindsay, Mrs. Ruby Shaw and Mrs Thomas Perry, Jr. 59 Requests for Information: 4 thru 11 60 New Members 62 A publication of the Clay Family Association, G. R. Clay, Editor. Address: P. 0. Box 35254, Houston, Texas 77035 THE CLAY FAMILY QUARTERLY Volume 2 Number 3 July 1967 THE EDITOR'S NOTES The twenty-four pages of this issue make it the largest issue yet published. There are, however, too many blank spaces (sorry about that), but your editor can only publish the data available. The long lists of individuals without dates, name of spouse and issue can make boring reading, but if they offer a clue to a forebears identity they will have served their purpose. If you have data on any of the individuals listed please send it to the editor for inclusion in the Clay Family Register. As requested, we are supplying the following information on the purchase of copies of r'Genealogy of Joseph Peck and Some Related Families". The book is available from the author, George Braden Roberts, 2853 Ontario Road, NW, Apt. 522, Washington, D. C. 20009, price $10.00. The editor's copy has been placed in the Houston Public Library. Again we are Indebted to Robert Young Clay, our most prolific contributor of data, for information on the book Adventures of Purse and Person", much of the Virginia marriages data and information regarding the Thomas Hart Clay Bible. Such cooperation is sincerely appreciated by the editor and will be appreciated by future generations of Clays. The cemetery records furnished by Mrs Mantel Clay are among the most difficult to obtain. We appreciate her efforts and take this opportunity to again ask that you furnish any such records you presently have or can obtain. As we have written to several of you,it is the editor's fondest hope that one day The Clay Family Quarterly will be the most complete source book available on all of the branches of the Clay family. This would be an impossible goal without the assistance of the members of the association and their willingnes to share their Clay data. Writing about the family of Henry Clay, the statesman, editor Calvin Colton wrote, "The descendants of the original Virginia stock, numerous and widely dispersed, many of which still reside in Virginia and Kentucky, have branched so extensively^that their common origin is scarcely recognized among themselves. The Works of Henry Clay" G. P. Putnam, New York 1904. Colonel James Edmond Saunders, himself a Clay descendant, writing about the Clay family in his "Early Settlers of Alabama" wrote the following in 1899: " people who are poor and have no pride in the past or hope in the future seldom keep their family records carefully." We would only question his use of the word poor in this connection and would rephrase the statement —people, rich or poor, who have no pride . Perhaps, together we can correct both statements. CLAY FAMILY GENEALOGY . "Genealogy of Joseph Peck and Some Related Families" by George Braden Roberts, privately printed, 1955, Washington, D. C. A copy of this book, previously mentioned in volume 1 number 1 has been acquired from the author, who has given permission to use material in this publication. Much of the Clay family lineage as presented in this work has been taken from previously reviewed books. References, in parenthesis, are to previous issues of the quarterly. John Clay 2-1 (v 1 P 17) Charles 3-4 do John 4-3 1668-1722 do Anne 5-1 Hannah 5-3 \ Charles 5-4 Mary 5-5 Judith 5-6 John 5-2 John 6-1 Anna 6-3b Mary 6-3a Caleb 6-3 Jordan 7-1 (five others, names unknown) Thomas 4-4 (v 1 P 17) Charles 5-7 do Jesse 6-6 do Edward 7-7 William 7-8 John 7-9 Daniel 7-10 Anderson 7-11 Frances 7-13 Dolly 7-14 (daughter) 7-12 m Wells Charles 4-6 (v 1 P 23 Henry 5-24 1726-1751 do Mary 6- Thomas 5-19 1715-1788 do Thomas 6-45 1738- James C. 7-129 Charles 5-20 Sarah 6-50 Judith 6-51 John 6-52 Augustine 6-54 Charles 6-53 Charles 7-133 Augustine 7-134- William 5-21 1718- (vip 23) Ezekiel 6-55a Pierce 6-56 (vip 34) William M. 1783-1857 7-135 John 7-136 Patsy 7-137 James 5-22 (vip 23) James 6-60 do Nancy 6-67 do (dau. 5-22. Ed.) Jeremiah 6-61 (v 2 p 15 Eleaser 7-150 Eleaser 6-66 Mary 7-156 Alice 7-157 Margaret 7-158 James 7-159 William 7-160 Nancy 7-161 Eleazer 7-162 Robert 0. 7-163 Morgan 7-164 Nahala 7-165 Wade H. 7-166 Angeline 7-167 Henry 1673-1760 4-5 (v 1 p 17, v 2 p 32) Charles 1716-1789 5-15 v 1 p 18) Mathew 6-39 v 1 p 7, 20) Mary 7-105 Amanda 7-106 Mathew 7-107 Henry 1713-1764 5-14 (v 1 p 17) m Lucy Green John 1753-1835 6-29 Joshua 1782-1849 7-88 Henry 6-22b do Samuel 7-52 Henry 7-59 Marston 6-27 do Marston 7-77 Henry M. 7-78 John M. 7-79 Diana 7-80 Samuel 7-81 Elizabeth 7-82 Lucinda 7-84 James W. 7-85 Charles 7-86 Barnett 7-87 Abia 6-26 (v 1 p 17, 46) Samuel 7-76 Charles 6-23 Brittain 7-61 Charles 7-62 Temperence 7-63 Patience 7-64 Prudence 7-65 Tabitha 7-66 Clarissa 7-67 (v 1 p 17) Cleopatra 7-68 Hannibal 7-69 Thomas 6-25 1746- do John 7-70 Stephen 7-71 Henry 7-72 John 7-73 Marston 7-74 Elizabeth 7-75 William Mitchell 5-13 1710-1774 do Nancy 6-22 David 6-20a 1740-1777 Obediah 6-55 1737-1815 (v 1 p 11, 35) Levi 7-185 Olln 7-186 -1825 Mitchell 8-272 Woodson 8-273 John 8-274 Charles Carlus 8-275 Polly W. 8-277 Eliza 8-277a Martha 8-277b Thomas 7-187 Betsy 7-188 Polly 7-189 m Blanks Rutledge William 6-18 Patsy 7-15 Bettle 7-16 Hannah 7-17 Judith 7-18 Millie 7-19 Meridith 7-20 John 7-20 Ezekiel 7-22 Meridith 6-21 1742-1800 Booker 7-37 Lucinda 7-37 America 7-39 Lloyd 7-40 (Floyd Ed.) Richard 7-41 Jackson 7-42 Amanda 7-43 Charlotte 7-44 Judith 7-45 Jeringu 7-46 (Jermyn Ed.) Lextridge 7-47 Mitchell 6-20 1735-1811 m Phoebe Belcher William 7-23 Bartley 7-24 Ezekiel 7-25 Tabitha 7-26 Rebecca 7-27 m George Pearls Naomi 7-28 m Joseph Hare Patience 7-29 m George Chapman Obedience 7-30 m John French Sarah 7-31 m John Peters Mary 7-32 * m William Stewart Henry 7-33 Charles 7-34 David 7-35 (v 1 p 35) Mitchell 7-36 "A History of the Middle New River Settlements and Contiguous Territory" David E. Johnston 1906 Huntington, W. Va. This history contains a sketch on Mitchell Clay 6-20 and his family, including a narration of an Indian attack, in which two of the children, Bartley 7-24 and Tabitha 7-26, were massacred and a third child Ezekiel 7-25 was captured to be later burned at the stake. Mitchell's fourteen children are listed as above (in the Peck genealogy). "Adventures of Purse and Person- Virginia 1607-1625" Edited by Lash Jester in collaboration with Martha Woodroof Hiden 1956 Princeton University Press The sketch on Clay, p. 135-138, gives the lineage as follows, pointing out the variance from Mary Rogers Clay's genealogy (v. 1, p. 17) as being due to later revealed data. The data proving descent of Charles 3-4 is the best we have seen. John Clay 2-1 m. 1 Ann 2 Elizabeth William 3-2 -1663 m. Emlin Charles 3-4 1645-1686 m. Hannah Wilson Mary 4-1 Elizabeth 4-2 John 4-3 Thomas 4-4 -1726 Charles 5-7 m. Mary James 5-8 John 5-9 -1782 Dorothy 5-10 Phoebe 5-11 Hannah 5-12 Henry 4-5 1672-1760 m. Mary Mitchell William 5-13 Henry 5-14 Charles 5-15 -1789 John 5-16 m. Mary_ John 6-42 m. Elizabeth Hudson Henry 7-117 1777-1852 Amey 5-17 m. _Williamson Mary 5-18 m. "Watkins Charles 4-6 -1754 m. Sarah Thomas 5-19 Charles 5-20 William 5-21 James 5-22 Judith 5-23 Henry 5-24 Judith 4-7 "History of Kentucky•and Kentuckians" E. Polk Johnson Lewis Publishing Co. Chicago, 1912 The following Clay lineages were taken from sketches on some of the persons (*) in the several volumes of this work.