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"S'ork, England, son of 'Jliomas and Agnes (Thornell) Clayton, and of the Inner Temple, heir to the family estate, married the (laughter of Cholmely. of the East Rid- ing, county of York. He died in 1627. Chil- dren : I. John, of Okenshaw, barrister of the inner Temple, 1660, and a member of the northern circuit ; married Elizabeth Cit- terne. of Kent; he was aged seventy-four years, April 6, 1666. 2. Sir Jasper, see for- ward.

Sir Jasper Clayton, son of William Clay- ton, was of St. Edmunds, Lombard street, London ; mercer and alderman ; knighted at (Juildhall, July 5, 1660. He married, at St. Eaith's, London, May i, 1624, Mary, daugh- ter of \\"illiani Thompson, "Citizen and haberdasher," of London, of Tinmouth Castle, Northumberland. Children: i. Sir John, see forward. 2. George, of London, haberdasher, born in St. Edmunds, Lom- iKird street, December 24. 1639 ; attended Merchant Taylor's School; married Hester, daughter of Sir Thomas Palmer, baronet. 3. Alary, married Peter Nourse, of Wood- eaton, Oxfordshire. 4. Prudence.

Sir John Clayton, of London and Par- son's Green. Fulham. Middlesex county, son of Sir Jasper and Mary (lliompson) Clay- ton, was admitted to the Inner Temple, July 22, 1650. and knighted in 1664. He married Alice, daughter of Sir William Bowyer, baronet, of Denham, Bucks, Eng- land, and relict of William Buggins, Esq., of North Crey. Children: i. John, see for- ward. 2. Jasper, of Fernhill, Bucks ; col- onel of the Fourth Regiment of Foot ; lieu- tenant-governor of Gibraltar, and lieuten- ant-general in the English army, killed at the battle of Detlingen, 1743; married Juli- anna. 3. Alice. 4. Mary. 5. Eliza- beth. One of these daughters married John Lord Lovelace, and one Thomas Strickland.

John (2) Clayton, son of Sir John (i) and Alice (Bow}er) Clayton, was born in England, 1665, died in Virginia, November ^'^' '^7 VI- 11^ ^^''is educated at Cambridge University, admitted to the Inner Temple, June 6, 1682, and called to the. bar. He came to \^irginia in 1705, and was appointed attorne}--gencral of the colony in 17 14, which ofhce he held until his death. He was also judge of admiralty, and frequently member of the house of burgesses ; he was presiding justice of James City, and county clerk and recorder of Williamsburg. He

was a large land owner, the owner of an estate, "Hawkshurst," four miles from Crombrooke, county Kent, England, which estate descended to his son. Children: i. John, see forward. 2. Arthur, clerk of county in upper part of York river, Vir- ginia; died 1733. 3. Dr. Thomas, educated at Cambridge University. England ; re- turned to Virginia; married, 1728, Isabell Lewis, of Warner Llall, Gloucester county ; died October, 1739.

Dr. John (3) Clayton, son of John (2) Clayton, was born at Fulham, England, 16S5, died in Gloucester county, Virginia. December 15, 1773. He came to Vir,;inia in 1705. He was an eminent botanist, and possessed at one time at 'AVindsor," his estate in Gloucester, a large botanical gar- den of which he was justly proud. He was a trusted official of his county, holding the o^ce of clerk of Gloucester for fifty years. He was a member of many learned socie- ties in Europe, president of the Society in Virginia (1773) for Promoting Useful Knowledge, and was the author of a book on the flora of Virginia, "Flora Virgin ica." He married. January 2. 1723. Elizabeth Whiting, daughter of Henry and Anne (Beverley) Whiting, the latter named a (laughter of Colonel Peter Beverley, mem- ber of the house of burgesses from Glou- ester. and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Major Robert Peyton, who emigrated from Norfolkshire, England. Major Robert Bev- erley, father of Colonel Peter Beverley, of (iloucester county, emigrated from York- shire. England, lie was clerk of the house of burgesses, 1670 ; member of the council, 1676; chief commander against Bacon in his rebellion ; died in 1687. His wife's tombstone bears the inscription : "Here ly- eth interred Mrs. Mary Beverley, wife of Robert Beverley, the mother of nine sons and three daughters, who died ist of June, 1678. aged 41 years and 3 months, having been married to him 12 years and 2 months." Children of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton: i. John, served in the revolutionary war. second lieu- tenant in First Virginia Regiment, Octo- ber 7. 1775, first lieutenant in the First Vir- ginia Regiment. February. 1776; married Elizabeth Willis. 2. Anne, see forward.

Anne Clayton, daughter of Dr. John (3) and Elizabeth (\Miiting) Clayton, married, January 15. 1767. her first cousin, Henry Landon Davies, son of Nicholas Davies and